Terms of use
Last updated: 6 August 2026.
This is a translation, provided for convenience. The French version is the authoritative one: if the two ever disagree, the French text prevails.
This text is short and blunt: Spoor is a beta run by one person, not a commercial service with a legal department. Using the service means accepting what follows.
1. The service
Spoor is a location-aware field notebook, open to sign-ups. It is provided free of charge during the beta. Access is personal: your account is yours, do not share it.
2. Your account
Creating an account requires an email address that you must confirm by clicking the link you receive. That confirmation is not a formality: it is what stops anyone opening an account in someone else's name, and what guarantees a password reset link reaches you and nobody else.
- Sign up with your own address. An unconfirmed registration is deleted after seven days, and the holder of the address is told about the attempt.
- Your password is your responsibility. It is stored nowhere in plain text: nobody, not even the publisher, can remind you of it — it can only be replaced.
- One account per person, and it is not transferable.
3. What the service does not promise
The service is provided as is, with no guarantee of availability, continuity or freedom from defects. It may be interrupted, changed or shut down. Data may be lost following a failure, despite the backups in place.
The practical consequence, and the one thing to take away from this page: do not make Spoor the sole keeper of irreplaceable work. Keep your original photos elsewhere. Ask for an export from time to time.
If the service shuts down, you will be told by email and your data will be returned to you in a readable format before anything is deleted.
4. Your data belongs to you
You keep every right over what you enter and over the photos you upload. None of it is exploited, published, resold or transferred. The service merely hosts it in order to give it back to you. See the privacy policy for the detail.
5. What is expected of you
- Only upload what you have the right to upload. Your photos, your notes, your observations.
- Use it as a field notebook. Storage is shared across every beta account: a few photos per visit, not a full backup of your memory cards. A quota will be introduced before this becomes an issue, and you will be told about it.
- No automated use. Scraping, bots, or any load likely to get in other users' way: no.
- Respect for wildlife. Spoor exists to help you know a patch of ground better, not to make it easier to disturb sensitive species or to break the law.
- Respect for the licences of the mapping and natural-history data shown in the app, if you reuse it elsewhere.
An account plainly in breach of these rules may be suspended. You will be told, and your data will be given back to you.
6. Free of charge, and what could change
The beta is free and will not turn into a paid service midway. In time, some convenience features may fall under a paid plan intended to cover hosting. Two things will stay free whatever happens: read access to what you have entered and getting your data back.
7. Closing your account
You can ask for your account to be deleted at any time, with no justification and no waiting period. Everything is then deleted — remember to ask for your export first.
8. Governing law
French law. If there is a difficulty, write to me first: spoor@victorprouff.fr. This sort of thing is better settled by an email than by a court.