Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Nomadic mobile application, the website at nomadic.guide, and related services (collectively, "Nomadic"). Nomadic is operated by Brickworks LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Brickworks," "we," "us," or "our").

By creating an account or using Nomadic, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

01 · Who can use Nomadic

You must be at least 17 years old to create an account. Nomadic enforces this minimum at the database level and through an in-app age gate at sign-up. If you are between 17 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you represent that a parent or guardian has reviewed these Terms with you.

02 · Your account

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity on your account. We use Apple and Google as identity providers; their terms also apply. You may also create an account with an email address and password. In that case, Supabase Auth handles email confirmation and password recovery on our behalf. You are responsible for keeping your email inbox and password secure. Password recovery links expire and can be reissued from the sign-in screen at any time.

You agree to provide accurate information and to update it when it changes. You may close your account at any time from settings — see Section 16 for the deletion grace window. We may suspend or close your account if you violate these Terms or our Community Guidelines.

03 · License

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Nomadic for personal, non-commercial purposes — other than market and skill listings explicitly facilitated by the platform. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, scrape at scale, or build a competing product from Nomadic data.

04 · Your content

You retain ownership of the photos, descriptions, waypoints, beacons, market items, skill listings, and other content you submit ("User Content"). You grant Brickworks a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for technical adaptation and our brand banner pipeline), display, and distribute your User Content within Nomadic and in marketing materials about Nomadic.

You represent that your User Content does not infringe anyone's rights and that you have permission to share it. You are solely responsible for your User Content.

05 · Acceptable use

You may not:

Harass, threaten, dox, impersonate, or stalk other users
Post content that is illegal, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or that violates privacy
Share another person's location, contact info, or identifying details without consent
Submit false safety reports, false hazard reports, false beacons, false convoy announcements, false gathering listings, or false missing-pet alerts
Game the merit, vouch, pin, or referral systems
Use automated tools to scrape, harvest, or bulk-download Nomadic content
Use Nomadic to commit crimes, evade law enforcement, or facilitate fraud
Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit Nomadic data outside what these Terms permit
Misrepresent your identity or community status to gain access to audience-scoped features (see Section 7)
Attempt to circumvent AI safety guardrails, extract system prompts, or jailbreak Scout (see Section 9)

We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts at our sole discretion.

06 · Waypoint accuracy — please read

This is the most important section of these Terms.

Nomadic surfaces information about campsites, water sources, dog-friendly venues, road conditions, and other waypoints from three sources: public datasets (federal, state, OpenStreetMap), community-contributed reports, and third-party data partners. We do not independently verify the accuracy of any waypoint. Conditions on the ground change constantly — gates close, roads wash out, water becomes unsafe, businesses move, regulations update, ownership transfers.

You agree that:

You will treat all waypoint data, status flags, dog-friendly tags, water-safety reports, road descriptions, and amenity information as starting points for your own research, never as authoritative guidance.
You will independently verify critical information before acting on it — by calling the operator, checking official sources, scouting in person, or asking someone who has been there recently.
You assume all risk associated with traveling to, camping at, drinking water from, swimming at, hiking near, or otherwise relying on any waypoint surfaced by Nomadic.
You will use your own judgment in the field. Cell coverage, weather, wildlife, terrain, vehicle reliability, and your own preparation are your responsibility.
Pet hazard reports, dog-water-safety reports, lost-pet alerts, and pet-friendly tags are crowdsourced and may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong. You are solely responsible for the safety of your animals.

Nomadic is a tool. Not a guide. Not a guarantee. Always do your own research.

This is doubly true when you are using offline maps or offline waypoint snapshots. By design, offline data reflects the world as of your last download. Water-safety reports, gate closures, hazard reports, road-surface changes, and pet-friendly status flags may have been updated since you cached them. Refresh when you next have signal, and cross-check critical information against local sources on arrival.

07 · Safety features — read this carefully too

Nomadic offers several safety-oriented features: SOS, the deadman switch, missed-checkin alerts, trusted-contact notifications, the mutual aid mesh, beacons, arrival pings, lost-pet alerts, and Wi-Fi sharing. These are supplemental tools, not emergency services.

You acknowledge and agree:

Nomadic is not a substitute for emergency services. In any life-threatening situation, call 911, the Coast Guard, search-and-rescue, or local emergency services first. Nomadic features should never delay an emergency call.
All safety features depend on cellular or Wi-Fi connectivity. In areas without coverage — exactly the places overlanders and nomads frequent — none of these features will work. We make no guarantee any alert, ping, or beacon will be delivered, received, acknowledged, or acted upon.
The deadman switch is a server-side overdue-check cron, not background sensing. It only fires if your device successfully reaches our servers to record the check-in in the first place AND fails to update before the cadence you configure expires. It does not track your location in the background.
The mutual aid mesh is a community network, not a paid service. Responders are other Nomadic users who have opted in. We do not background-check, train, vet, or supervise mesh responders. We do not guarantee any responder will see your alert, choose to respond, arrive in time, or be helpful when they do.
Safety crew alerts are delivered in-app (Dispatches inbox + push notification) to your reciprocal crew members. SMS delivery via third-party carriers (Twilio) is implemented in the backend but is not surfaced in the current version of the app; we may activate it in a future version without further notice. Either way, delivery depends on your crew members' devices being reachable and notifications being enabled. We cannot and do not guarantee delivery through any channel.
Trusted contact SMS may fail or be delayed. We use third-party SMS providers (Twilio) and depend on the recipient's carrier. You must independently verify your trusted contacts have working notifications and have agreed in advance to be available.
Identity-verification and the female-verified network reduce, but do not eliminate, fraud risk. We use ID verification and community vouches as imperfect signals. You must continue to use your own judgment when meeting any user from the network in person.
The deadman switch will not save your life. It is a slow alert system that may give your contacts a head start, nothing more.

Convoy. When you post a convoy, you are announcing a planned route — origin, destination, and optionally a departure date — so that other users traveling in the same direction can find and request to join you. Your origin coordinates and destination are visible to other Nomadic users within the convoy discovery radius. Other users may message or request to join your convoy. You are solely responsible for evaluating anyone who reaches out, and for your own safety if you choose to travel together. Nomadic does not background-check, vet, or screen convoy participants and does not guarantee any participant is who they claim to be.

Travel Party events. Travel Party groups, events, and RSVPs are social coordination tools, not managed gatherings. Nomadic does not host, organize, insure, chaperone, or vet any Travel Party event. Hosts are ordinary users and act in their own capacity, not as agents of Brickworks LLC. RSVPs represent social intent, not a commitment — attendance is not guaranteed and is not our responsibility.

Gatherings. Gatherings are user-created group meetup events. The same limitations as Travel Party events apply: gatherings are not hosted, organized, or insured by Nomadic. Attendance is voluntary. Nomadic is not responsible for anything that happens at or as a result of a gathering.

Audience-scoped broadcasts and the Ally Pact. When you create a beacon, check-in, gathering, or arrival ping, you can choose an audience scope: standard, inclusive (friendly to LGBTQ+ travelers), or strict (limited to LGBTQ+ travelers and their allies). These scopes depend on self-attestation — Nomadic does not independently verify identity claims beyond requiring a separate, versioned Ally Pact acceptance for users who elect to appear as allies. You agree to self-attest honestly. Misrepresenting yourself to gain access to a strict-scoped broadcast is a violation of Section 5 and may result in removal, account suspension, or termination.

Come Join. If you broadcast an occupancy as Come Join, the broadcast is a specialized beacon tied to your check-in. Audience filters (trusted only, dog health flags) narrow who receives the broadcast but do not independently vet recipients beyond those filters.

You waive any claim against Brickworks LLC arising from a failure of any safety feature to deliver, work, or produce a desired outcome, except to the extent such waiver is prohibited by law.

08 · Field Tools — sensor-based utilities

Nomadic includes a set of consumer-grade utilities we call the Field Tools: Level, Solar Arc, Compass, Altimeter, Storm Watch, and any future tools added to this kit. They read your phone's built-in sensors (accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, barometer, GPS) and — in the case of Storm Watch — publicly available weather forecasts from Open-Meteo and, for US locations, severe-weather alerts from the National Weather Service.

The Field Tools are field helpers, not safety instruments. Before you use any of them, we ask you to read and accept a separate Field Tools Acknowledgment within the app. Continued use of any Field Tool after that acknowledgment confirms your agreement to this Section.

You acknowledge and agree:

Not a substitute for certified instruments. The Field Tools are not substitutes for professional levels, surveying compasses, marine or aviation instruments, barometric altimeters used for IFR flight or mountaineering navigation, weather radar, strike-detection networks, or National Weather Service briefings. Use certified equipment when the stakes require it.
Consumer-grade sensors drift and fail. The accuracy of any Field Tool depends on the quality and calibration of your phone's sensors, which are not built for safety-critical work. Readings can be noisy, biased, or simply wrong, especially in vehicles, near metal, at high latitudes, at altitude, or in the presence of electromagnetic interference.
Storm Watch lightning zones are model forecasts, not strike data. The lightning-bolt indicators represent locations where weather-model output predicts thunderstorm conditions. They do not detect individual lightning strikes. Actual strikes can occur outside a marked zone, and a marked zone is not a guarantee of strikes. Storm Watch is not a strike-detection network and must not be used as one.
Storm Watch depends on connectivity. When offline, Storm Watch shows the most recent cached reading with its age clearly labeled — that reading may be significantly out of date. You must not rely on a cached Storm Watch reading for any weather-critical decision.
NOAA severe-weather alerts are US-only and unofficial here. These are unofficial presentations of National Weather Service output and may be delayed or missing. Always confirm any critical alert directly with the National Weather Service or your local authorities.
Never rely on a Field Tool for safety-of-life decisions. You agree not to use any Field Tool as your primary input for any decision where a wrong reading could lead to serious injury, death, or property damage. That includes decisions about crossing water, ice, or exposed terrain; sheltering from lightning; aviation or marine navigation; and structural decisions involving vehicle leveling that must support body weight.
Cross-check against authoritative sources. For any Field Tool readout that informs a decision that matters, verify against certified instruments, official forecasts, emergency services, or your own direct observation.
Waiver of claims. You waive any claim against Brickworks LLC arising from a Field Tool reading being inaccurate, delayed, unavailable, or otherwise imperfect, and from any decision you or anyone else makes in reliance on a Field Tool reading, except to the extent such waiver is prohibited by law. The general disclaimers and liability limits in Sections 17 and 18 apply to the Field Tools without modification.

We may add new Field Tools over time. Any new tool added to this kit is governed by this Section. If a new tool's risks are materially different from those described here, we will update this Section and the Field Tools Acknowledgment and ask you to re-accept before using the new tool.

09 · AI-assisted features (Scout)

Parts of Nomadic are generated by AI. We call these features collectively "Scout." They include place-context readings ("About where you are"), waypoint-name suggestions, and the "Ask Scout" helper. Scout uses a third-party AI model (currently Anthropic's Claude). When we change providers or models, we will update our Privacy Policy; we may not update this Section every time.

You acknowledge:

AI output can be wrong. Scout can hallucinate, misattribute history, confuse similar place names, conflate neighboring indigenous territories, and present speculation as fact. We cache readings at approximately a 5-kilometer cell resolution, which means a reading may be generated before you arrive and served to you later. Treat every Scout reading as a starting point for your own research, not as authoritative.
Not professional advice. Scout output is not legal, medical, financial, tribal, scientific, survey, engineering, navigation, or emergency advice. Don't use it for decisions that require a licensed professional.
Indigenous territory readings. When Scout identifies indigenous territories, the underlying source is Native Land Digital. Native Land's mappings are educational and subject to their own stated limitations. Where we present a Scout-written expansion on that data, the expansion is automated and may contain errors. The FLAG action on any place-context reading routes to our moderation queue.
Your prompts. When you use Ask Scout or similar free-form AI features, your prompt is sent to the AI model provider for response generation. We retain the prompt in our logs for service improvement and abuse detection. We do not use your prompts to train third-party foundation models; the providers we use contractually commit to the same. See the Privacy Policy for retention specifics.
Don't prompt-inject. You agree not to attempt to circumvent safety guardrails, extract our system prompts, jailbreak Scout, or use AI features to generate content that violates Section 5 (Acceptable use) or the Community Guidelines.

Nomadic may rate-limit, degrade, or disable AI features at any time to manage cost, provider availability, or abuse.

10 · Maker's market and skills board

The maker's market lets travelers post items for sale; the skills board lets travelers offer services. Nomadic is not a party to any transaction between users.

We do not process payment. Money changes hands off-platform.
We do not provide escrow, refunds, dispute resolution, warranty, or insurance.
We do not vet sellers, items, or buyers. We do not certify quality, authenticity, or safety.
All transactions are at your own risk. You are responsible for verifying the other party, the goods or services, and the terms of your transaction.

Nomadic surfaces map data from Mapbox, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), and various federal datasets (NPS, USFS, BLM, USACE, FWS, Recreation.gov). Some waypoint descriptions may also reflect publicly licensed third-party datasets aggregated alongside traveler-contributed updates. Routes you build in Nomadic, or follow from another user's contribution, are suggestions; the actual road, trail, or path is your responsibility to evaluate.

Turn-by-turn navigation is handed off to third-party apps (Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze) you have installed. Their terms apply.

We do not warrant the accuracy, currency, or completeness of any third-party data.

12 · Subscriptions

Nomad Pass is an optional paid subscription that unlocks creation tools and pro features. Subscriptions are billed by Apple or Google and renew automatically until canceled. You can cancel from your device's subscription settings at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

Promotional entitlements (including the three-month invite reward) are not refundable, are not transferable, and may be revoked for violations of these Terms.

We may change subscription pricing for future billing periods with reasonable notice.

Safety features remain available to all users regardless of subscription status. We will not place SOS, beacons, trusted contacts, the mutual aid mesh, the deadman switch, or lost-pet alerts behind a paywall.

13 · Merit, status, and contribution-earned access

Nomadic uses a merit-and-status system to surface trust between travelers. Merit is awarded for meaningful contributions: adding accurate waypoints, helping with repairs, responding to beacons, hosting verified gatherings, vouching for travelers who later get verified. Daily caps prevent grinding. Some signals are passive (appreciation received); most require something the community confirms.

Active merit and decay. Each merit grant lands at full weight for 30 days, then eases off over the next 60 days, with a total lifespan of 90 days. Your active merit is the running sum of those weighted grants. A separate lifetime merit number records the cumulative total and does not decay; it serves as a permanent record of contribution.

Status tiers. Tiers (Flint, Slate, Copper, Iron, Obsidian) are derived from your active merit and are two-way. Active merit rises as you contribute and decays as time passes since your last grant, so holding a tier means continuing to show up. Reaching Copper grants a Trusted Account designation. Drops are never instant: we warn you five days before your Pass would pause, then give you a 25-day grace window, then transition you to a paused state that you can lift any time by contributing again.

Free Pass while you hold Iron or Obsidian. Holding Iron (750 active merit) or Obsidian (2,500) unlocks Nomad Pass at no cost for as long as you maintain that tier. There is no card on file, no recurring charge, and no commitment beyond continuing to contribute. If your active merit drops below your tier floor and you do not recover during the grace window, your contribution-earned Pass pauses; contributing again brings it back.

Founder Pass. Travelers who join during the founder season and bring ten qualified invitees onto the platform receive a 24-month Founder Pass: a free Nomad Pass for 24 months from the date the tenth qualified invitee joins. If, during that 24-month window, the traveler holds Obsidian on their own active merit on at least 95% of days, Nomadic grants a lifetime Nomad Pass entitlement at the end of the window. The lifetime entitlement is non-transferable, has no cash value, cannot be sold, gifted, or assigned, and is not refundable. If the 24 months elapse without the traveler meeting the earn-through threshold, the Founder Pass simply expires and the traveler returns to the normal contribution-earned model described above.

Trust flags. Trusted Account and female-verified flags are independent of the status tier and are one-way: they do not decay with merit. Only administrative review removes them, typically as part of a confirmed community report.

Audit and abuse. All merit accrual is recorded in an internal audit log. We monitor for abuse: coordinated vouching, sock-puppet inviting, false reports, false beacons, fabricated waypoints, manipulated appreciation, and any other pattern designed to inflate merit dishonestly. If we determine in good faith that you have abused the merit system, we may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice:

Reset your status to Flint and your active and lifetime merit to zero.
Revoke the Founder Pass, the lifetime Nomad Pass, and any other promotional or earned entitlement.
Reverse pin or status awards retroactively.
Suspend or terminate your account under Sections 5 and 16.

Merit reset and Pass revocation are administrative actions and are not appealable through the standard dispute process in Section 20 (Governing law and disputes), though you may contact team@nomadic.guide to request review. We will not reset status or revoke the Pass for routine moderation actions, occasional missteps, or low-quality contributions made in good faith. Only deliberate abuse.

Discontinuation. If Brickworks LLC ceases operating Nomadic, all entitlements (paid, contribution-earned, and earned-through lifetime) terminate with the platform. We will give reasonable notice if this ever happens and, to the extent practical, will provide a way to export your User Content.

No retroactive removal of contributions. Resetting your status does not delete the User Content you contributed (waypoints, photos, field notes, market items). Those remain subject to the rest of these Terms and our moderation policy.

14 · Intellectual property

The Nomadic name, logo, design system, and software are owned by Brickworks LLC. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

If you believe content on Nomadic infringes your copyright, send a DMCA notice to team@nomadic.guide with the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3).

15 · Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what information we collect and how we use it. By using Nomadic you consent to that processing.

16 · Termination and account deletion

You may delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account. Deletion is not immediate: your profile is hidden and your last-seen point is cleared as soon as you confirm, and the account enters a 30-day grace period. You can sign back in at any point during that window to cancel and restore your account in one tap. After the 30-day grace window expires, the account and its associated data are permanently removed (subject to the limited exceptions in the Privacy Policy).

We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, for any violation of these Terms or the Community Guidelines, or if we discontinue the service. On termination, your right to use Nomadic ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive (license, indemnity, disclaimers, liability limits, dispute resolution) survive termination.

17 · Disclaimer of warranties

NOMADIC IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BRICKWORKS LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT NOMADIC WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT WAYPOINT DATA WILL BE ACCURATE; THAT SAFETY FEATURES WILL DELIVER ANY ALERT; OR THAT THE PLATFORM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

The Field Tools are disclaimed separately in Section 8 above; the disclaimers in this Section 17 apply in addition to those in Section 8.

18 · Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BRICKWORKS LLC AND ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES — INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, PROPERTY, OR PERSONAL INJURY — ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF NOMADIC, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO NOMADIC WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100), OR (B) THE TOTAL FEES YOU PAID TO BRICKWORKS LLC IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THESE LIMITATIONS; IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

19 · Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Brickworks LLC and its officers, members, employees, contractors, and agents from any claim, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from: (a) your use of Nomadic; (b) your User Content; (c) your interactions with other users — including any in-person meeting, transaction, response to a safety alert, convoy coordination, or gathering participation; (d) your violation of these Terms or the Community Guidelines; or (e) your violation of any third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.

20 · Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

Before filing any formal claim, you agree to first contact us at team@nomadic.guide and try to resolve the dispute informally. We commit to the same. If we cannot resolve it within 30 days, either party may proceed.

Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Arbitration will take place in the county of your residence or by video conference. You and Brickworks LLC waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class action. Either party may bring claims in small-claims court if they qualify.

21 · Updates to the app and these Terms

We deliver Nomadic through the Apple App Store and Google Play. We may also push incremental fixes and feature updates over the air using Expo's EAS Update service, which delivers JavaScript bundle updates without requiring you to reinstall from the store. Over-the-air updates contain only the JavaScript portion of the app — they cannot change native permissions, native modules, or anything else gated by the app store review process.

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated through the app and require you to accept the new version before continuing to use Nomadic. Continued use after acceptance constitutes agreement.

22 · Contact

Brickworks LLC

Email: team@nomadic.guide