Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 17 years old to use Vestige. By using the Service you confirm that you are.

2. The Service

Vestige is a map-based tracker for the golf courses you have played in England. The core experience — logging rounds, completing counties, and comparing with friends — is, and will remain, free. We do not show advertising.

The Service currently covers England only. Scotland and Wales are shown as “coming soon”. We may add, change, or remove features over time.

The app is distributed on the United Kingdom App Store only, and is intended for use in the United Kingdom. We make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available in any other territory, and we may add or remove territories at any time. Using the Service from outside the United Kingdom is at your own initiative and you are responsible for compliance with local law.

3. Vestige Pro (optional paid membership)

Vestige Pro is an optional paid membership that adds extra features on top of the free Service. The free core described in section 2 stays free whether or not you subscribe — Pro only ever adds to it.

Plans and billing. Pro is offered as an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or annual) and as a one-time lifetime purchase. All payment is handled by Apple through your App Store account; we never see or store your payment details. The price is always shown in the app before you buy and may vary by region.

Auto-renewal and cancellation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your App Store account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel at any time in your App Store account settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your device). Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep Pro until the end of the period you have already paid for. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Free trials and introductory offers. Where a free trial or introductory offer applies, it converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

Lifetime and founding-member pricing. The lifetime option is a one-time purchase that grants Pro for as long as we operate the Service. We may offer reduced pricing or free periods to particular groups (for example, founding members who joined during the beta); eligibility for such offers is determined by us.

Refunds. Because purchases are made through Apple, refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s terms, not by us. You can request a refund from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

If Pro ends. If your subscription lapses or is refunded, you lose access to Pro features but never to the free core of the Service or to any of your data.

Changes to Pro. We may change Pro’s price or what it includes over time. Price changes to an existing subscription follow Apple’s notice and consent rules; material reductions to what Pro includes are treated as material changes under section 13.

4. Your account

You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for keeping your login credentials secure. You are responsible for activity that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at support@pinehollow.studio if you believe your account has been compromised.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• break the law, or infringe anyone else’s rights, using the Service;
• upload content that is unlawful, abusive, harassing, hateful, obscene, or that you do not have the right to share;
• impersonate others or misrepresent your identity;
• attempt to game leaderboards or other features through false records (see section 8);
• scrape, harvest, or bulk-extract data from the Service, or use it to build a competing dataset;
• interfere with, probe, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service or its infrastructure.

6. Your content

You keep ownership of the photos, notes, lists, and other content you create (“Your Content”). By submitting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, and display it solely to operate and provide the Service to you and the people you choose to share it with. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies retained as required by law or already irreversibly anonymised.

You are responsible for Your Content. We have no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour. We may remove content that breaches these Terms, our Community Guidelines, or the law, and we operate moderation and reporting tools, including the ability to block other users and report problems from within the app.

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal data, including the aggregated, anonymised insights we provide to golf clubs and your right to opt out. By using the Service you acknowledge that policy.

8. Integrity and fair play

We trust the rounds you log. To keep public leaderboards fair, we use automated, behind-the-scenes checks for unrealistic logging patterns. Where appropriate, we may hide an account from public leaderboards, contact the user, or restrict or suspend an account. We will act proportionately and, where we can, transparently with the affected user.

9. Editorial decisions

Course tiers, curated lists, and what counts as a “course” or a “played” course are editorial decisions made by Vestige. They are not user-configurable, and we make the final call.

10. Intellectual property

The Service, the Vestige and Vestige Golf names and branding, the app software, and the underlying course and county dataset are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from the Service except as the law expressly permits.

11. Third-party services

The Service relies on third parties including Apple, Google, Supabase, Mapbox, and Sentry. Your use of features provided through them may also be subject to their terms. We are not responsible for third-party services.

12. App Store terms

You obtain Vestige through the Apple App Store, and your use is also subject to Apple’s terms. Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement applies to the extent it is not inconsistent with these Terms. You acknowledge that Apple is not responsible for the Service or for support, and is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms entitled to enforce them.

13. Availability and changes

We work to keep the Service available, but we provide it “as is” and do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue parts of the Service, and we may update these Terms. If we make a material change to these Terms, we will give you notice in the app or by email before it takes effect; continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the change.

14. Disclaimers and liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided without warranties of any kind. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law (including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud). Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of £100 and the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer under the laws of England and Wales.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time (Settings → Account → Delete account). We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or to protect the Service or other users. On termination, your right to use the Service ends; sections that by their nature should survive (ownership, disclaimers, liability, governing law) will survive.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.

17. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any beta or supplemental terms we present to you in the app, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not waived it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms to anyone else; we may transfer ours to a successor of the business, with your protections intact.

18. Contact

Pinehollow Studios Limited (company number 17212889) · 82A James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 7DE, United Kingdom · support@pinehollow.studio