Terms

The deal, in plain English. Using smoothst means you accept it.

Before launch: the operator details need filling in. smoothst is operated by [your name or company], contact [contact email].

Skating is dangerous and this app does not make it safe. Everything here is information posted by other people. Nobody has inspected any of it. Use your own judgement, every single time, and wear a helmet.

What smoothst is

A map of ground that other skaters have said is good to roll on, plus the places, jams and shops that go with it. It is built from OpenStreetMap data and from what users add.

What smoothst is not

Not a safety check. A spot being listed does not mean it is safe. Surfaces change, ground gets wet, bollards appear, glass turns up. A rating is one person's opinion on one day.
Not permission. A spot being on the map does not mean you are allowed to be there. Plenty are private property, and some are only skateable because nobody has objected yet. Getting moved on, or worse, is on you.
Not a route you should follow blindly. The route planner avoids main roads and fast traffic by design, but it does not know about roadworks, a closed gate, or a crossing that is horrible at rush hour. Look where you are going.
Not accurate by guarantee. Opening hours, phone numbers and shop details come from OpenStreetMap and may be out of date.

Your account

You need to be 13 or over.
One person, one account. Do not impersonate anyone.
You are responsible for what you post.

What you post

You keep ownership of what you add. By posting it you give us permission to show it in the app and to keep showing it — otherwise a map would fall apart every time somebody left.

Do not post:

Spots that are not real, or ratings for ground you have not actually skated.
Anyone's home, or anything that would put a person at risk.
Abuse, harassment, or anything illegal.
Somebody else's photos without their say-so.

We can remove anything and close accounts that abuse the map. Bad ratings poison it for everyone, which is why proof-of-presence exists.

Shops and businesses

Shop and rink listings come from OpenStreetMap and start out owned by nobody. If a listing is yours you can claim it and control what it says. Claiming does not transfer the ratings skaters have left — those belong to the people who wrote them and stay as they are.

Points

Points are a scoreboard, not money. They have no cash value, cannot be transferred or sold, and can be adjusted or removed if they were earned by gaming the system. Any discount a partner shop offers is between you and that shop.

The risk is yours

Skating injures people. It will not stop doing that because you read an app. Concrete does not care how good you are. By using smoothst you accept that the risk of skating is yours and you take it knowingly.

You agree specifically that:

Nobody has inspected anything. No surface, spot, route or park in this app has been surveyed for safety by us or by anyone acting for us. Surface grades come from OpenStreetMap contributors and from other users, and describe how ground was said to feel on some day in the past. Ground changes. Yours to check, every time.
A route is a suggestion, not an instruction. The planner avoids main roads and anything over 30 mph by design, but it does not know about roadworks, ice, a closed gate, a crossing that is lethal at five o'clock, or whatever happened there this morning. Look where you are going. You are responsible for every decision you make on wheels, including whether to follow a line on a map.
Being listed is not permission. Plenty of spots are private property. Some are only skateable because nobody has complained yet. Trespass, damage, and being moved on are between you and whoever owns the ground.
Speed is not a competition here, and must not become one. Leaderboards rank contribution — spots added, ground surveyed, ratings left. They do not rank speed, and we will not publish anything that rewards riding fast on a public road. Racing strangers on open streets is your own bad idea and your own liability.
Other people wrote most of this. Ratings, photos, descriptions and jam listings come from users. We do not verify them and cannot be responsible for them being wrong, out of date, or posted in bad faith.

smoothst is provided as-is and as-available, with no warranty of accuracy, availability, or fitness for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for injury, loss or damage arising from using it, from relying on anything in it, or from going anywhere it shows you.

What we cannot and do not exclude. Nothing above limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 are unaffected, and nothing here is intended to reduce them. Any term that turns out to be unenforceable is severed, and the rest stands.

Written to be read, not to hide behind. If a clause above is unclear, that is a fault worth telling us about — a term nobody can understand is not a term that protects anybody.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.