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Terms of Use and Safety Notices for PathCraft

As of: 18 April 2026
Contact: kontakt@SuGreenX.eu

1. Provider and Scope

PathCraft is provided, and the contractual partner for the use of PathCraft, by:

Christian Techmer
Mühlbachstr. 29
88697 Bermatingen
Germany
Email: kontakt@SuGreenX.eu
VAT identification number pursuant to Section 27a of the German VAT Act: DE460849192

  1. These Terms of Use govern the use of the PathCraft app, including the core functions provided within the app, optional feature unlocks, trial access, credits, entitlements, consent dialogs, and integrated third-party functions.
  2. In addition, the Privacy Notice for PathCraft and, for separately activated AI, speech, or translation functions, the Terms and Privacy Notice for External AI, Speech, and Translation Services apply.
  3. To the extent the app is obtained through an app store or purchases are processed through an app store, the terms of the respective store may apply in addition. Mandatory statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.
  4. PathCraft is intended for users who use the app at their own responsibility for lawful purposes. Any use contrary to applicable law or contrary to these terms is not permitted.

2. Nature of the App and Description of Services

  1. PathCraft is a digital leisure, planning, communication, and assistance tool.
  2. In particular, the app may be used to display maps, play back and plan routes, use imported GPX or KML files, display POI information, and, optionally, use external AI, speech, translation, weather, video, or feature-unlock functions.
  3. According to the described system architecture, the core use of the app is largely designed to operate locally. Many contents and settings remain on the user's device or—if iCloud synchronisation is enabled—in the private iCloud area of the Apple account used by the user.
  4. Certain functions depend on third-party platforms or the operator backend. These may include, in particular, Apple Maps or MapKit, Apple Weather or WeatherKit, Sign in with Apple, the App Store, optional Google Street View functions, optional YouTube functions, user-selected external AI, speech, or translation services, as well as optional operator functions for trial access, entitlements, credits, or consent records.
  5. There is no claim to a specific third-party integration, to an unchanged operation of individual external services at all times, or to the permanent availability of every optional additional function, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.
  6. The app operator has no general duty to individually pre-check, continuously monitor in real time, or substantively verify imported files, user content, routes, attachments, translations, or AI outputs, unless such a duty is expressly required by law.

3. Route Playback; No Navigation

  1. The route playback shown in PathCraft serves solely as a non-binding assistance feature for orientation along a route imported by the user or created within the app.
  2. PathCraft is not an officially approved product, not a product reviewed under safety law, and not a product intended as navigation that complies with traffic-law standards or approvals. In particular, the app is not provided as navigation approved for road traffic use.
  3. The app does not replace navigation in the legal or technical sense, official signage, traffic rules, closure information, weather warnings, emergency information, nature conservation rules, access restrictions, or the user's own safe assessment of the situation on site.
  4. For imported GPX or KML files, routes created within the app, and walking or cycling routes suggested by Apple Maps or comparable services, the following applies: they are merely route suggestions or playback aids. In particular, no assurance is given that a route is current, complete, legally permissible, safe, walkable, rideable, barrier-free, free of closures, or compatible with local traffic, access, conservation, ownership, or usage rules.
  5. The actual conditions on site, official or local signage, orders by authorities, ownership situations, protected-area rules, weather and hazard conditions, and the user's own decision are always decisive.
  6. Route playback must not be used as the sole basis for safety, traffic, rescue, emergency, or other consequential decisions.
  7. The app must not be used in a manner that endangers the user or third parties, unlawfully impairs attention, or violates traffic, safety, or other legal requirements.

4. Maps, Weather, Street View, YouTube, and Other Third-Party Sources

  1. Map display, place or address search, geocoding, map object resolution, Look Around, route calculation, and comparable map functions may depend wholly or partly on Apple services.
  2. Weather functions may depend on Apple Weather, WeatherKit, or connected weather data sources.
  3. To the extent PathCraft offers a credit-based weather function, the currently described setup may consume one credit per weather location per calendar month. In order to calculate usage correctly, recognise weather locations already billed within the same month, prevent misuse, and keep the credit balance traceable, a pseudonymous software or installation ID may be used together with a month and location reference. Details are set out in the privacy notice.
  4. Optional Street View functions or Street View metadata may depend on Google services and may require a Google API key supplied by the user.
  5. Optional YouTube functions are not a mandatory part of the core app. To the extent the app offers optional YouTube search or video opening, such access only takes place after explicit activation by the user and usually by passing a target URL or search parameters to the external service. YouTube is not required for maps, GPX, routes, or local content.
  6. Third-party sources may be incomplete, delayed, regionally restricted, technically disrupted, or inaccurate and may be subject to their own contractual, licence, and privacy terms.

5. AI, Speech, and Translation Functions

  1. PathCraft may provide optional AI, speech, transcription, text-to-speech, or translation functions or technical interfaces for them.
  2. Such functions serve solely to assist with communication, understanding, orientation, information preparation, or operation. They do not replace professional review and do not make independent legally binding, medical, emergency-related, or other safety-critical decisions for the user.
  3. Outputs from such functions may be incomplete, inaccurate, misleading, biased, out of context, or linguistically or legally unsuitable. The user must independently verify the results before using them.
  4. The app operator does not owe the factual accuracy, completeness, usability, or legal suitability of individual AI, speech, or translation outputs.

6. Duties and Responsibility of the User

  1. The user is responsible for ensuring that they have all necessary rights, permissions, and legal bases to import files, routes, images, attachments, audio, conversation content, API keys, or other content into the app, store it locally, transfer it to third parties, or otherwise use it through the app.
  2. Before and during use, the user must independently check the actual situation. This applies in particular to terrain, weather, visibility, closures, construction sites, water levels, traffic, private property, protected areas, animals, rescue situations, and all local rules or prohibitions.
  3. If the user uses live translation, audio transcription, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, conversation history, or similar functions, the user is solely responsible for informing affected conversation partners in advance and obtaining any consents, permissions, or other legal bases required under the applicable law.
  4. The user is responsible for complying with the terms, age requirements, territorial restrictions, tariff requirements, and privacy documents of the third-party providers selected by the user.
  5. If iCloud sync is enabled or the same Apple account is used on multiple devices, routes, files, histories, and other app contents may become visible on those devices. The user is responsible for determining which devices and persons have access to the Apple account or to those devices.
  6. The user must adequately protect their devices, credentials, and, where applicable, API keys stored by the user.

7. User-Supplied API Keys and External Services

  1. Certain functions may require or support an API key of an external service that is supplied by the user (BYOK, Bring Your Own Key).
  2. To the extent the user uses their own API key and the app transmits the request directly to the selected third-party provider, the app operator essentially provides the technical interface, local management logic, and the limited operator functions described in the legal texts.
  3. The subsequent processing by the selected third-party provider is governed by that provider's own contractual, usage, and privacy documents.
  4. The enabling of certain BYOK functions may depend on separate consent, permission, or notice dialogs. For security, misuse-prevention, or evidentiary reasons, the app operator may make use of such functions conditional on such confirmations.

8. Trials, Purchases, Entitlements, and Credits

  1. PathCraft may offer optional trials, in-app purchases, tip or support purchases, credits, usage-based services, and server-side entitlements.
  2. Whether a service is provided free of charge, on a trial basis, as a one-time purchase, on a subscription term, on a usage basis, or otherwise is determined by the description shown in the respective purchase, trial, or unlock dialog.
  3. To the extent purchases are processed via the App Store, payment processing, cancellation, refunds, and store-side contract handling are additionally governed by the terms of the respective store. Statutory rights of the user remain unaffected.
  4. Entitlements, feature unlocks, and credits may be technically managed, verified, restored, synchronised, or protected against misuse on the server side.
  5. To the extent usage-based services are offered, use may be limited or tracked by credits, quotas, usage levels, or comparable entitlement logic.
  6. For credit-based weather queries, the current usage logic may provide that one credit covers one weather location for one calendar month. The description of the respective function shown in the app is decisive. The required proof of consumption does not serve to continuously monitor the user's actual movements and does not serve to substantively control the weather data.
  7. There is no entitlement to free restoration, goodwill credit, or manual correction outside mandatory statutory claims unless this has been expressly promised.

9. Right to Use the App

  1. The user receives a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use PathCraft for their own lawful purposes within the scope of these terms and the technical purpose of the app.
  2. To the extent permitted by law, the user is prohibited from copying, selling, renting, sublicensing, decompiling, circumventing security measures, misusing automation, or using the app or parts of it in a way that violates the rights of third parties or the security of the service.
  3. Mandatory statutory rights, in particular legally permitted acts for interoperability or error correction, remain unaffected.

10. Availability, Further Development, and Changes

  1. The app and individual functions may be updated, adjusted, restricted, or discontinued for error correction, security, compatibility, further development, legal adaptation, or in response to changes made by third-party platforms.
  2. To the extent a paid digital product is permanently provided to the user, changes will be made within the statutory framework applicable to digital products. Mandatory statutory rights of the user remain unaffected.
  3. The app operator is entitled to block or restrict functions if this is required for security reasons, to prevent misuse, to comply with legal obligations, or because of serious violations of these terms.

11. Liability

  1. The app operator shall be liable without limitation in cases of intent and gross negligence, for damage arising from injury to life, body, or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and to the extent the app operator has exceptionally assumed an express guarantee.
  2. In the event of slightly negligent breach of a material contractual obligation, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. Material contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose compliance the user may regularly rely.
  3. In all other respects, the liability of the app operator for slight negligence is excluded.
  4. The above liability rules apply accordingly to the legal representatives, employees, and vicarious agents of the app operator.
  5. Mandatory statutory defect rights of the user in relation to paid digital products remain unaffected. Mandatory data protection, consumer protection, or other statutory claims also remain unaffected.
  6. Irrespective of the app operator's liability, safety-related decisions, the selection and use of real routes and areas, and the actual use of routes, translations, AI outputs, or other notices remain the responsibility of the user.

12. Term and Termination

  1. The user may stop using the app at any time by no longer using it and, if desired, deleting locally stored content.
  2. To the extent server-side authorisations for optional functions exist, the app operator may block or terminate them in whole or in part if there is good cause. Good cause exists in particular in cases of serious misuse, significant security risks, criminal or unlawful use, deception regarding authorisations, or a sustained disruption of service operations.
  3. Statutory payment, record-keeping, or retention obligations that have already arisen remain unaffected by termination.

13. Governing Law and Final Provisions

  1. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. In relation to consumers, this choice of law applies only to the extent that it does not deprive the consumer of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the state of the consumer's habitual residence.
  2. Should individual provisions of these terms be or become wholly or partly invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. The statutory provisions shall apply in place of the invalid provision.
  3. Changes to these terms will be communicated to the user in an appropriate manner. Mandatory statutory limits on amendments to contracts remain unaffected with respect to services already provided for consideration.

14. Contact and Provider Information

Christian Techmer
Mühlbachstr. 29
88697 Bermatingen
Germany
Email: kontakt@SuGreenX.eu
VAT identification number pursuant to Section 27a of the German VAT Act: DE460849192