Terms of service

What OutPath is

OutPath is an app for publishing photos taken outdoors on a shared map, recording walks and rides, planning routes and rating places. Its website, outpathapp.com, also lets you create an account, look at the map and delete your account. You accept these terms when you create an account, and a later version of them in the notice the app shows when they change; browsing as a guest is covered by them too.

The service is provided by Monika Mirek. The provider's full details, including the postal address, are in the legal notice: https://outpathapp.com/legal-notice/. For any question about these terms or the service, write to support@outpathapp.com.

Points of contact

For users of OutPath - questions about your account, the app or Premium, and complaints - the address is support@outpathapp.com. It is our single point of contact for users under Article 12 of the Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065).

Notices of illegal content go to report@outpathapp.com. The same address is the single point of contact for the authorities of EU Member States, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services under Article 11 of that Regulation.

You can write to us in Polish, English or German. Every message is read and answered by a person.

Technical requirements

You need a phone with Android 7.0 or newer. Publishing a photo needs the camera and your location (GPS); recording an activity needs your location. Creating an account, signing in, sending photos, syncing activities and loading the online map need an internet connection. A downloaded offline region - its map and route planning - works without one, and what you record offline is sent once you are back online. Offline regions need free storage on the phone.

Buying Premium needs Google Play. The watch app needs a watch with Wear OS 3 or newer, paired with a phone that has OutPath. Health Connect features need Android 9 or newer; Health Connect is built into Android 14 and newer and is a separate app from Google Play on older versions. The website works in any current web browser.

Risks and software on your device

Using any service over the internet carries risks, and OutPath is no exception: emails, messages or websites that pretend to be OutPath to get your password (phishing), malicious software on your phone, unwanted messages (spam), and someone getting into your account because its password is weak or also used elsewhere. We never ask for your password in an email or any other message; we only send a link to reset it when you ask for one in the app. Use a password you do not use anywhere else, install OutPath only from Google Play and keep your phone's system up to date. If you think someone else is using your account, reset your password with "Forgot your password?" on the sign-in screen and write to support@outpathapp.com.

The app includes software from other companies, each for its own purpose: Google Play services, to find your location and to connect to the watch app; RevenueCat, to handle subscriptions bought through Google Play; hCaptcha, which shows a check in a window of the app to protect sign-in and sign-up from bots; MapLibre, which draws the map, and BRouter, which plans routes on your phone; the Health Connect library, to exchange data with Health Connect if you connect it; and, if you do not have Premium, Google AdMob with Google's consent form and the mediation networks it works with, to show ads. What data leaves your phone through them is described in the privacy policy, under "Who processes data for us" and "Advertising". The app also keeps on your phone your settings, your sign-in session, downloaded offline regions and what you have recorded but not yet sent; uninstalling the app removes them.

Account

OutPath is for people aged 16 and over. To publish, you need an account. You create it in the app, with an email address or a Google account, or on the website. When you create it, you tick a box to confirm that you accept these terms and the privacy policy and that you are at least 16; we record which version of the terms you accepted, when, and whether in the app or on the website. You are responsible for your password and for what happens on your account. Without an account you can browse as a guest, but you cannot add anything.

The contract for the service is concluded when you create an account and runs for an indefinite period. You can end it at any time by deleting your account, at the very bottom of Settings or on the website at https://outpathapp.com/delete-account/. Deletion is immediate and irreversible. Browsing as a guest is covered by these terms for as long as you use OutPath without an account.

Your content

Your photos and texts remain yours. By publishing them you grant us a free, non-exclusive licence to store them and show them in the app - solely so that the app can display them to other users. The licence ends when you delete the content.

Publish only photos you took yourself and texts you have the rights to.

What is not allowed

Publishing unlawful, offensive, hateful or pornographic content.

Publishing a photo in which another person can be recognised without their consent - unless they are only a detail of a larger scene, such as a crowd or a landscape.

Publishing photos taken by someone else without their permission.

Impersonating other people.

Creating accounts automatically, getting around the limits or the automatic checks described below - for example by faking your location - or manipulating the ranking, including rating places you have not visited.

Automatic checks before publishing

OutPath is a map of places people have actually been to, so a photo goes through automatic checks before it is published. No person takes part in these checks.

The app lets you take a photo only on the spot, with the camera it opens; it offers no way to add pictures from the gallery or from other apps. It also checks whether your phone's position comes from an app that fakes location (mock location); a photo taken with such a position does not pass.

The app looks up the spot where you took the photo in OpenStreetMap data through Nominatim (reverse geocoding). A spot the map marks as built up - a building, a road or railway, a town or village, a hotel or a sports ground, for example - does not pass.

Our server also checks that the spot lies in a country OutPath serves, is not in the centre of a large city and could have been reached since your previous photo, and it limits how many new places one account can create in a day.

A free account can publish a limited number of photos a week - see "Free account and Premium".

A photo that does not pass is not published, and the app tells you so. Nothing else happens: nothing is removed from your account and nothing counts against you. If you think a check got it wrong, write to support@outpathapp.com.

Reporting content

If you are signed in, you can report a photo that someone else published: open the photo, tap the menu with three dots at the top of the screen and choose "Report". You pick a reason and can add a short description.

Comments, place names and profiles - and any content at all if you browse as a guest or do not use the app - can be reported by email to report@outpathapp.com or through https://outpathapp.com/report-content/. Tell us why you believe the content is illegal, where exactly it is, your name and email address, and confirm that you believe in good faith that your notice is accurate and complete. This is the notice-and-action mechanism required by Article 16 of the Digital Services Act.

We confirm that your notice has reached us, deal with it without undue delay and tell you what we decided and how you can challenge the decision.

You can also block another user, from their profile or from the menu on their photo. After that neither of you sees the other's photos, and they are not told.

Moderation decisions and appeals

You can delete your own posts at any time. We act when content or an account breaks the law or these terms. Depending on how serious the breach is, we may remove the content, hide it from other users (you still see it) or block the account, for a period or for good - the last for serious or repeated breaches, in particular publishing manifestly illegal content.

Decisions on reports and on these measures are always taken by a person, not by software. Software only runs the automatic checks before publishing described above.

When we remove or hide your content or block your account, we tell you what we did and for how long, the facts behind the decision, the law or the rule of these terms it rests on, whether automated means were involved and how you can challenge it.

If you disagree with a decision - as the author of the content or as the person who reported it - write to report@outpathapp.com within six months. A person looks at the case again and tells you the outcome and the reasons. If the decision turns out to be wrong, we reverse it without undue delay. You can also go to court at any time, or turn to an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under Article 21 of the Digital Services Act. Under Article 53 of the Digital Services Act you can also complain to the Digital Services Coordinator in Poland - from 6 November 2026 the President of the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE, uke.gov.pl).

The order of photos in the feed

Photos in the feed are not simply ordered newest first. The order depends on how long ago the photo was taken (which counts most), the number of likes, whether you follow the author, the distance from the area you last looked at on the map, and whether you have already been shown the photo. We also make sure one person's photos do not fill the whole screen.

Nobody pays for a higher place. The order is calculated on your phone, and we do not build any profile from it. We describe these rules as Article 27 of the Digital Services Act requires.

Routes and safety

Routes are planned from OpenStreetMap data. They may be out of date, lead through dangerous or closed terrain, and they do not take account of the weather, mountain conditions or your fitness.

A planned route is a suggestion, not a guarantee that it can be walked. You are responsible for your own safety. In the mountains check official warnings and carry a backup map - and in an emergency call 112, or in the Polish mountains also 601 100 300.

Calorie estimates - from your heart rate when there are enough readings, otherwise from your weight, speed and climb - and activity statistics are approximations based on general formulas. They are not medical measurements and are not suitable for making health decisions.

Free account and Premium

A free account can publish 5 photos in any 7 days. This limit may change: we may raise it, lower it or reserve publishing for Premium. The app shows the limit that applies to you, and a change never removes photos you have already published.

A free account can also download one offline map region. Deleting that region from your phone uses up the free allowance for good - the app warns you before you delete it - and after that further regions need Premium. Guests cannot download regions.

The core of Premium is your photos on the map without a limit: the weekly photo limit does not apply to you. Included in the price are also fresh photos - a map filter for photos from the last 7 or 30 days or from this season; alerts from your places - a notification when someone adds a new photo at a place you follow; offline maps for up to 10 regions on your phone at once; the whole trip - every saved activity opened in full and the Statistics screen with totals by week, month and year; no ads; and also the app's colour palettes and gear weight - the weight of your pack, entered at the start of an activity and counted in its calories. The Premium screen describes each of them before you buy.

Subscription

Premium is a subscription paid monthly or yearly that renews automatically until you cancel it. It is sold through Google Play, which takes the payment and shows you the price, including tax, before you buy. You can cancel at any time in Google Play; Premium then stays active until the end of the period you have paid for.

The app may show messages from us, for example how many Founder Plan seats are left. They are for information only: they do not change these terms, and what you buy and at what price is what Google Play shows you before you pay.

Refunds follow Google Play's rules: within 48 hours of a purchase you can ask Google Play for a refund directly; after that, write to support@outpathapp.com and we decide case by case. This does not limit your statutory rights as a consumer.

As a consumer you have 14 days to withdraw from a contract concluded at a distance, without giving a reason. If, at your express request, Premium starts before that period ends, the law may limit or exclude this right. If Premium does not work as agreed, you also have the rights described under "Complaints".

An account that has never had a paid Premium subscription can apply a creator code, on the Premium screen or through a creator's link. With it, Google Play sells Premium through its creator offer: 15% off the first year - the first year of the yearly plan or the first 12 months of the monthly plan - and the regular price after that; before you pay, Google Play shows the price with the code, how long the discount lasts and the price after it. One code per account: until you buy, you can remove the code or replace it with another; after the purchase it stays, and no other code can be used on the account. We may switch a code off, for example when our cooperation with its creator ends; a switched-off code can no longer be applied, and a discount already bought is not affected. The creator whose code you use earns a commission from us on your payments in that first year; your price does not change because of it. The creator learns only how many subscriptions and payments their code brought and their amounts, never who bought.

Deleting your account in the app does not cancel the subscription - that has to be done separately in Google Play.

Founder Plan

The Founder Plan is a yearly Premium plan for OutPath's first subscribers. It is available only to the first 500 buyers and only until 22:00 Polish time, which is also Swiss time, on the Sunday 90 days after OutPath's public launch on Google Play, whichever comes first. At that moment it disappears from the app and the website and is closed automatically in Google Play, so it can no longer be bought. The app and the website show how many seats are taken and how many are left, and how much time remains; these numbers, and the messages the app shows as the seats run out, come from our server's count of actual purchases. The Founder Plan is offered only once: once it closes, it does not come back, and its deadline is never extended.

It can end earlier, never later. Apart from the seats running out, we stop selling it early only with the emergency switch: if selling it would break the law, a decision of an authority or Google Play's rules, or because of a serious technical fault or security problem. A technical break does not extend the deadline. Closing the plan changes nothing for those who have already bought it.

Its price stays the same for as long as the subscription keeps renewing without a break. If it ends - because you cancelled it and let it run out, or because a payment could not be collected - the Founder price ends with it. You can buy the Founder Plan again only while it is still on sale; after that, only the regular Premium price is available.

Founders also get a vote on which feature we build next and a Founding member badge on their profile and next to their name on their photos. The badge stays even after the subscription ends, unless the purchase is refunded, and you can hide it in Settings.

Complaints

If OutPath or Premium does not work as it should, you can make a complaint. Write to support@outpathapp.com, or by post to the address in the legal notice. Give the email address or @username of your account, describe the problem and when it happened, and say what you would like us to do.

We reply within 14 days of receiving your complaint, by email or the way you contacted us.

Payments themselves - a charge or a refund - are handled by Google Play; we help as far as we can.

This procedure does not limit your statutory rights as a consumer, including your rights when the service does not conform to the contract. You can also turn to free out-of-court help: in Poland, for example, a municipal or county consumer ombudsman (rzecznik konsumentów) or the Trade Inspection (Inspekcja Handlowa); elsewhere in the EU, the European Consumer Centre in your country.

Liability

The app is provided as is. We do not guarantee that it will be available without interruption or that map data is correct. This does not limit your rights under mandatory consumer protection law.

Map data and licences

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL licence, prepared as map tiles by Protomaps. Routes are calculated by BRouter from the same data. This is shown on the map and links to the full licence text.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms for important reasons: a change in the law or a decision of an authority, a change in how OutPath works or what it offers, or the need to protect users and the service from abuse.

When we change them, the app shows everyone who is signed in a notice with a link to the new terms and the date the change takes effect. We show the notice of a significant change at least 14 days before it takes effect. A change takes effect immediately only when the law requires it or security does. You can accept the new terms in the notice.

If you do not accept a change, you can end the contract before the change takes effect by deleting your account, at the very bottom of Settings or at https://outpathapp.com/delete-account/; a subscription is cancelled separately in Google Play. Once a change has taken effect, you can go on using your account after you accept the new terms in the notice; until then you can sign out or delete your account. A change never raises the price of a period you have already paid for.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Polish law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the law of the country where you live.