TERMS OF USE
GroundRove Terms of Use
1. GroundRove is a reference and planning tool
GroundRove is an informational reference and planning tool. It is not intended to validate, certify, survey, prove, or guarantee the accuracy of any location, mineral deposit, mine, geologic unit, land-management boundary, property boundary, mining-claim boundary, road, trail, water feature, access route, collecting area, or other mapped or searched feature.
GroundRove uses publicly available and publicly distributed source data and transforms portions of that data into compact offline map and search products. GroundRove does not independently verify the truth, completeness, age, legal status, field condition, coordinate precision, or positional accuracy of those source records. Public datasets can contain errors, stale information, generalized geometry, approximate points, incomplete records, missing features, mismatched names, outdated status, or locations that differ materially from conditions on the ground.
2. Do not use GroundRove to make authoritative legal, surveying, access, or safety determinations
Do not use GroundRove to:
- survey or establish property, land-management, or mining-claim boundaries;
- stake, monument, file, or precisely plot a mining claim or other legal interest;
- determine ownership or legal title;
- determine whether land is public, private, open, closed, claimed, unclaimed, or legally accessible;
- determine whether a mining claim is valid, enforceable, current, accurately located, or controlling at a displayed location;
- determine whether collecting, prospecting, digging, driving, parking, camping, or entering an area is lawful;
- prove that a mineral deposit, specimen locality, mine, geologic unit, road, trail, water source, or other feature exists at the displayed location;
- determine whether a mine, prospect, adit, shaft, road, trail, or other field feature is currently present, maintained, accessible, stable, or safe;
- navigate where an inaccurate map, missing road, wrong coordinate, or stale condition could create a safety risk; or
- replace current official records, surveyed coordinates, posted signs, landowner permission, agency guidance, legal research, emergency information, or field verification.
3. Coordinates and GPS accuracy
Coordinates shown by GroundRove are reference coordinates only. Even when a source provides precise-looking decimal coordinates, that does not mean the underlying record was surveyed or is accurate to that precision. GPS positions from the phone also have measurement error and can be affected by terrain, sky view, hardware, atmosphere, multipath, and Android location behavior.
4. Public-source data and licenses
Depending on the installed GroundRove state/data pack and feature, GroundRove uses or derives information from public source families including OpenStreetMap/Protomaps; USGS GNIS; Colorado Department of Transportation; BLM Surface Management Agency data for Colorado and Arizona; BLM MLRS Mining Claims — Not Closed; USGS MRDS; USGS MAS/MILS; USGS SGMC for Colorado geology; USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map (CNGM), Earth's surface geology, for Arizona geology; and Colorado Geological Survey mineral, mine, district, and locality sources.
Source coverage changes over time. Listing a source does not mean every GroundRove build or installation contains every source, nor does it make the source authoritative for a particular legal, surveying, navigation, ownership, access, collecting-permission, claim-validity, or field-safety purpose.
Full source attributions, license links, and source-specific notices are permanently available in GroundRove under Offline Data > Safety & privacy > Data sources & licenses and on the Data Sources page.
5. Geology data
GroundRove's queryable Colorado geology is a fixed local research snapshot derived from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC). GroundRove's queryable Arizona geology is a fixed local research snapshot derived from the USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map (CNGM), Earth's surface geology. Both are interpretive geologic mapping assembled from source mapping at particular scales; Arizona CNGM source scales vary.
Geologic contacts and unit polygons are not surveyed parcel, access, hazard, ownership, or mining-claim boundaries. GroundRove's local spatial-query results show which installed mapped polygons intersect a selected area or radius; they do not prove the rock exposed at a specific spot, the presence of a collectible mineral, safe access, ownership, legal permission to enter, or permission to collect.
6. Land and mining-claim data
BLM Surface Management Agency mapping in Colorado and Arizona is management/status context, not a parcel survey, title record, ownership determination, access determination, or legal boundary. GroundRove's transformed offline layers do not establish legal title, parcel ownership, legal access, surveyed boundaries, collecting permission, road access, or a right to enter land.
GroundRove's Colorado and Arizona mining-claim overlays use BLM MLRS records selected from a Mining Claims — Not Closed dataset. “Not Closed” is the BLM source-dataset classification; it is not a GroundRove determination that a claim is valid, enforceable, current, accurately surveyed, open to entry, or controlling at the displayed location. GroundRove's claim overlay is not a surveyed claim-boundary product. A missing rendered claim is not proof that no claim exists.
7. Mineral, mine, district, and locality data
Mineral, mine, district, commodity, and locality records are research evidence only. A record does not prove that a collectible specimen or economic deposit exists at the displayed point today. Historic mine locations and status may be approximate, generalized, incomplete, outdated, or wrong. District boundaries are broad and subjective. A displayed representative point may stand for an area rather than an exact occurrence.
8. Colorado and Arizona mine/workings data
GroundRove's Colorado Historic Mines & Workings and mine-related research evidence include historic USGS MAS/MILS records and Colorado Geological Survey sources, including the CGS / U.S. Forest Service abandoned-mine inventory. These records are research/reference data, not current mine-condition or mine-safety reports. A Colorado mine record does not establish ownership, access, legal entry, collecting permission, an exact opening location, or current conditions.
In Arizona, GroundRove derives the Historic Mines & Workings display from USGS MRDS records whose source status is “Past Producer.” This is a research/display classification, not a current mine-condition, mine-safety, ownership, access, or legal-status determination. An Arizona mine record does not establish ownership, access, legal entry, collecting permission, an exact opening location, or current conditions.
9. Mine entry and approach
GroundRove does not verify whether a mine, prospect, shaft, adit, tunnel, opening, or other working currently exists or where an opening is physically located. GroundRove does not verify whether approaching or entering a working is lawful, permitted, or safe. It does not assess structural stability, ground collapse, hidden or open shafts, air quality, oxygen deficiency, ventilation, toxic or explosive gases, contamination, explosives, water, flooding, electrical or mechanical hazards, wildlife, falling material, or other hazards.
10. Basemap and place-search data
OpenStreetMap/Protomaps basemaps and USGS GNIS place locations are reference data in Colorado and Arizona. They can contain missing, stale, generalized, or incorrect roads, tracks, labels, locations, and access context. A mapped road or trail does not establish that it is public, open, drivable, maintained, safe, or lawful to use. A GNIS or other place location does not establish ownership, access, a surveyed entrance or trailhead, road condition, or collecting permission. Colorado CDOT enrichment is also reference data and does not establish current road conditions, legal access, or safe passage.
11. User responsibility and field risk
Outdoor recreation, rockhounding, prospecting, hiking, driving, navigation, field research, and approaching historic mining areas involve risks that GroundRove and its source data cannot identify, evaluate, or control. Users are responsible for evaluating current weather, terrain, roads and trails, closures, ownership, access permissions, land status, mining-claim records, mine hazards, route suitability, equipment, communications, emergency planning, and their own capabilities before acting.
Before acting on GroundRove information, verify important facts with the current responsible agency, county, landowner, official BLM/USGS/CGS/CDOT source as appropriate, current official mining-claim and land records, surveyed or professionally verified coordinates when precision matters, posted signs and closures, and direct field observation. For safety-critical navigation, use a navigation product and source appropriate to that purpose and carry appropriate backup navigation.
12. No professional advice
GroundRove is not professional surveying, legal, engineering, geotechnical, mine-safety, emergency, or safety-critical navigation advice. Use GroundRove as a reference only. Decisions and field activities remain the user's responsibility and are undertaken at the user's own risk, subject to applicable law.
13. Account, trial, purchase, cancellation, refund, and offline-access terms
A GroundRove account is required to use the Android app. GroundRove is sold as a one-time lifetime purchase, not a recurring subscription. Saving a payment method on the GroundRove website prepares the trial but does not start the trial clock. The 7-day trial begins when you first activate GroundRove in the Android app. Unless you cancel the scheduled purchase before the trial ends, Stripe automatically charges $55 once for lifetime GroundRove access. Canceling the scheduled purchase does not end the trial early; trial access continues until the original trial end time.
If the scheduled payment fails, no lifetime purchase is completed and paid access is not activated. After a successful $55 purchase, you have 7 days to request a 100% refund of the original GroundRove purchase. Refunds, reversals, and payment disputes can suspend or remove the server-side lifetime entitlement, and a dispute that is resolved in favor of the payment can restore it. See the Refund Policy and Privacy Policy for details.
GroundRove lifetime access uses signed, installation-specific offline licenses. A valid signed lifetime license has no expiration time on that installation and is checked locally. Because of that offline design, a later server-side refund, dispute, entitlement revocation, or account deletion does not remotely erase an already-issued signed lifetime license from an installation. Signing out, clearing GroundRove app data, or uninstalling the app removes the local GroundRove account/license state on that installation.
GroundRove sends transactional emails for certain trial, purchase, cancellation, payment-failure, refund, and dispute events. GroundRove currently does not send a separate pre-charge reminder immediately before the scheduled $55 lifetime purchase.
14. Acknowledgment
By continuing to use GroundRove, you acknowledge that GroundRove is a reference tool with these limitations; that displayed information may be incomplete, outdated, approximate, or wrong; and that you are responsible for independently verifying legal status, permissions, current conditions, and safety before acting on GroundRove information.
The app records a local acknowledgment state when you choose “I understand — continue.” That local state is not a server-verified or tamper-proof legal receipt.
15. Disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability
GroundRove is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Gaea Solutions LLC does not warrant that GroundRove or its data will be error-free, complete, uninterrupted, current, or suitable for any particular field, legal, navigation, or safety purpose.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Gaea Solutions LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or similar damages arising from or related to use of, inability to use, or reliance on GroundRove or its data. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
16. Changes
GroundRove may update these Terms and the in-app Safety & data limitations notice as supported states, datasets, features, account/payment systems, or legal and safety requirements change. When the in-app disclosure changes, GroundRove may require a new acknowledgment before continued use.
17. Contact
GroundRove is operated by Gaea Solutions LLC under the GroundRove trade name. For support or questions about these Terms, contact contact@groundrove.com.