Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of terms

These Terms are a binding agreement between you and CONTEXTFORCE LLC, a California limited liability company (“Forty Pirates”, “we”, “us”), covering the Forty Pirates app, the website at fortypirates.com, and related services (the Service). By using the Service you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

2. Description of the Service

Forty Pirates reads publicly available travel content and turns it into real places you can save, organize into trips, map, share, and act on. It is an information tool — not a travel agency, tour operator, booking agent, or source of professional travel, medical, legal, or safety advice. We may change or discontinue any part of it at any time.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 to use the Service, or at least 16 in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland — or your country's age of digital consent if that is lower. If you are under the age of majority where you live, your parent or guardian must agree to these Terms with you. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement.

4. Your account

Keep your registration details accurate and your credentials confidential. You are responsible for everything done under your account, and you must not share, sell, or transfer it. Tell us at support@contextforce.com immediately if you suspect unauthorized use.

5. Artificial intelligence disclaimer

The Service uses third-party AI models to extract places, write descriptions, and build itineraries.

• Accuracy — AI output can be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. Hours, prices, closures, addresses, and entry requirements change constantly. We warrant nothing about the accuracy or completeness of AI-generated content or place data.
• No professional advice — the Service is for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for a travel agent, or for legal, medical, visa, or safety advice.
• Your responsibility — confirm anything that matters with the venue or an official source before you travel or book.

6. Travel risk and physical safety

• Assumption of risk — travel carries inherent risk, including bodily injury, illness, and property damage. You assume all risk associated with visiting any place shown in the Service.
• No vetting — we do not inspect, vet, or endorse any place, venue, route, or business, and its appearance here is not a recommendation to visit.
• Your decisions — you are solely responsible for your own safety and travel decisions, including insurance, visas, permits, vaccinations, and compliance with local law.

7. Third-party services and content

• What we rely on — the Service displays and links to content from video platforms, social networks, mapping providers, booking partners, and creators, and depends on third parties for AI processing, content extraction, and hosting. The categories are listed in our Privacy Policy.
• No control — we do not control third-party content or services and are not responsible for their accuracy or legality, or for the acts or products of any third party. Follow a link out and that party's terms govern.

8. Affiliate links and bookings

• Not a party to your booking — reservations, payments, changes, cancellations, and refunds are between you and the booking provider under their terms. Take any problem to them.
• Indicative only — prices and availability shown here may be out of date by the time you reach the partner's site.

9. Your content

• You own it — trips, lists, notes, images, and storefronts you create remain yours (Your Content).
• Licence to us — you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, and display Your Content solely to operate, secure, and improve the Service, including showing it to people you share it with. For content you publish publicly, that extends to displaying and promoting it. The licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies already shared and residual backups.
• Links you submit — when you import from a social platform or website, you represent that you are entitled to access that content. We extract only publicly available information from those links.
• Shared collections — share a trip or list and the recipient can see the places, descriptions, and notes in it.
• Your warranty — you confirm you hold the rights needed to grant the licence above.

10. Creators and takedowns

We surface publicly available creator content and attribute it to its source. Rights holders who object can write to support@contextforce.com identifying the work, the material, their contact details, and a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized. We review promptly, remove where appropriate, and terminate repeat infringers.

11. Prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

• Use the Service unlawfully, fraudulently, or harmfully.
• Upload infringing, defamatory, harassing, hateful, obscene, or privacy-violating content.
• Harass, abuse, or harm another person or group.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract data from the Service, or resell or redistribute it.
• Use automated scripts to collect information from or interact with the Service.
• Reverse engineer or decompile the Service, except where law forbids that restriction.
• Breach our security, access another user's account, or overload our infrastructure.
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
• Use the Service to train a competing model or build a competing product from its data.
• Remove or falsify attribution, or strip or substitute our affiliate codes.

12. Subscriptions and payments

The Service is currently free. If we introduce paid features:

• In-app purchases — processed by Apple through the App Store under Apple's terms. Your payment method is charged on confirmation of purchase.
• Auto-renewal — subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel at any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.
• Refunds — we do not handle payments or refunds directly. Refund requests go to Apple Support, not to us.
• Notice — we will publish pricing before any charge.

13. Account deletion and termination

• Deleting your account — go to Profile → Delete account, or email us from your registered address. This is permanent and cannot be reversed.
• Subscriptions are separate — deleting your account does not cancel an Apple subscription. Cancel that through your Apple ID first, or Apple will keep charging you.
• Suspension by us — we may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if the law requires it, or if your use endangers the Service or its users.
• Survival — sections 9 and 14–17 and 19 survive termination.

14. Intellectual property

The Service — its software, design, content, the Forty Pirates name and logo, and our curated catalog — belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Apart from Your Content and a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use the Service personally and non-commercially, no rights are granted to you.

15. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY CONTENT — INCLUDING AI-GENERATED CONTENT AND PLACE DATA — WILL BE ACCURATE. Some jurisdictions disallow such exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

16. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR TRAVEL COSTS, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE — INCLUDING RELIANCE ON PLACE DATA, AI-GENERATED CONTENT, OR ANY THIRD-PARTY BOOKING. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF US$100 OR WHAT YOU PAID US IN THE PRECEDING SIX MONTHS.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

17. Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify Forty Pirates and its officers, employees, and agents against any claim, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

18. Apple App Store terms

This section applies to the iOS app and controls where it conflicts with the rest.

• These Terms are between you and Forty Pirates only, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Your licence is limited to Apple-branded devices you own or control, per the App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support.
• If the app fails to conform to any warranty, Apple will refund the purchase price; Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for any claim relating to the app, including product liability, regulatory compliance, consumer protection, or intellectual property claims.
• You are not located in an embargoed or “terrorist supporting” country, and not on any US Government prohibited-party list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and disputes go to the state and federal courts located in California. Please try support@contextforce.com first — most disputes resolve informally. If you are a consumer, nothing here removes the mandatory protections of your home country.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may modify these Terms at any time. We will revise the date above and give notice by posting the new Terms here or in the app before material changes take effect. Continued use means you accept them. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us; if any provision is unenforceable the rest stands, and not enforcing one is not a waiver.

21. Contact us

Questions about these Terms, and legal or takedown notices, go to support@contextforce.com.