Effective date: 1 June 2026 · Last updated: 1 June 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("you") and Apex Crypto VOF, a vennootschap onder firma organised under the laws of the Netherlands, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 96603577 and trading as Bivvy ("we", "us", "our"), and govern your use of the Bivvy mobile application and any related services (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
You may only use the Service if you are at least:
If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction (in the Netherlands, 18) you must have the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Wild camping involves real-world physical risk; we strongly recommend that minors use the Service only under adult supervision. You also confirm that you are not barred from using the Service under any applicable law, that you are not located in a country subject to a comprehensive embargo by your country of residence, and that you are not on any government list of restricted parties.
Bivvy is a community-powered map of free, wild, and informal camping spots. The Service lets you browse a map, submit new spots, check in at a spot you are physically near, leave reviews, save spots, organise them into collections, follow other users, and participate in short-lived per-spot public chat threads. The core Service is offered free of charge. Optional paid features ("Bivvy Pro") and one-time purchases (e.g. continent map packs, tip-jar contributions) are governed by §11. We do not show advertising on the map and have no current plan to introduce advertising anywhere in the Service.
To use most features you need to register with a valid email address, a chosen username, and a password (minimum 12 characters), or to sign in with Apple or Google. Your username is your only public identifier — keep it appropriate.
You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us at support@bivvy-app.com as soon as you become aware of any unauthorised use.
You may not create multiple accounts to evade rate limits, bans, or moderation actions, or to manipulate community signals such as ratings, leaderboards, or check-in counts. We may suspend duplicate or sock-puppet accounts without notice.
You may delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete account. On deletion:
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use. This licence does not give you any right to reverse engineer the Service (except as expressly permitted by mandatory law); scrape, mass-download, or systematically harvest content; build a competing product or service from the content of the Service; sell, sublicense, or lease any portion of the Service; remove or obscure any proprietary notices; or use the Service in a way that violates any applicable law including export-control and sanctions law.
"Your Content" means everything you submit to the Service: spot submissions, photos, reviews, ratings, check-ins, chat messages, collections, content reports, and any other content you create or upload.
You retain all rights you have in Your Content. We do not claim ownership of it.
By submitting Your Content you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify (e.g. to generate thumbnails, transcode formats, or translate), publish, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute Your Content for the purposes of operating, securing, and promoting the Service (including editorial selections, the marketing site, and App Store / Play Store listings). The licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account is deleted, except that spot submissions, reviews, and chat messages remain in the Service attributed to "deleted" (see §3.4); content other users have already saved or screenshotted may continue to exist outside our control; and backups continue to contain Your Content until they age out.
By submitting Your Content you confirm that you created it yourself or have all the rights and permissions needed to upload it and to grant the licence in §5.3; you are not infringing anyone else's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights; the content does not violate any law; photographs do not depict identifiable third parties without their consent (or where consent is not required under local law, do not portray them in a way they would reasonably object to); and spot submissions on private land are made with the landowner's permission.
You may not submit, post, or share any content that:
We are a hosting service provider within the meaning of Article 3(g)(iii) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the "Digital Services Act" or "DSA"). We are not a very large online platform. We may, but are not obliged to, monitor, review, or moderate Your Content; we are not liable for Your Content under Article 6 DSA where we do not have actual knowledge of its illegality and act expeditiously to remove it once notified. When we take a moderation action against Your Content or your account we will provide a clear and specific statement of reasons under Article 17 DSA — including the facts and circumstances, the legal or contractual ground relied on, and the means of redress (see §9). We make an annual transparency report available under Article 24 DSA on request.
Wild camping is legal, partially regulated, restricted, or banned depending on country, region, time of year, and the exact piece of land. It is your sole responsibility to know and comply with the laws and access rights that apply where you camp. Inclusion of a location in Bivvy is not a statement that camping there is legal, safe, or permitted.
Spots in Bivvy are submitted by users. We do not independently inspect, survey, or verify them. A spot may be on private land where the landowner does not permit camping; be in a protected nature area, military zone, or other restricted area; have closed, changed access, or become unsafe since it was submitted; contain hazards; or be marked with incorrect amenities.
You assume all risk associated with your decisions to travel to, camp at, or otherwise use any spot or information obtained through the Service. We are not your guide, your safety officer, or your legal advisor. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we have no liability for your decisions or their consequences. This §6.3 does not purport to exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by our own intent or gross negligence, or any other liability that cannot be excluded under mandatory consumer-protection law.
Bivvy is not an emergency service. Do not rely on the Service in a life-threatening situation. Always carry the means to summon real emergency services (112 across the EU; 911 in the US; 999 in the UK; local equivalents elsewhere).
By using the Service you agree to leave no trace, respect wildlife and livestock, observe seasonal fire bans, and depart immediately if asked to do so by a landowner, ranger, or police officer.
When you tap "Check in" the Service reads your device GPS once to verify you are within 250 metres of the spot. We do this so that check-ins reflect real-world presence. We do not run background location tracking and we never store your GPS reading other than as the lat/lon associated with the check-in record. You may not falsify your location to record a check-in elsewhere; doing so is a material breach of these Terms.
Per-spot chat threads are public and short-lived: messages disappear automatically 24 hours after posting. Anything you post can be seen and reported by any other signed-in user. You may follow other users; following is one-way and does not require approval. You may block any user from your view of the chat at any time. Rate limits apply to chat, photo upload, login, registration, and reporting. Do not attempt to circumvent them.
Anyone may notify us of allegedly illegal content by emailing support@bivvy-app.com with (1) an explanation of why the content is illegal; (2) the exact in-app or URL location of the content; (3) their name and email address (not required for content allegedly involving offences mentioned in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU); and (4) a statement of good faith. We will acknowledge complete notices without delay, take a decision diligently, and notify the notifier of our decision and the means of redress.
If you believe content in the Service infringes your intellectual property rights, include in addition to the items in §9.1 (1) identification of the work allegedly infringed and (2) a statement, made under penalty of perjury (for users in the United States: under the DMCA), that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised and that the information in the notice is accurate. For users in the United States, our designated agent for DMCA notices is Apex Crypto VOF, support@bivvy-app.com.
When we restrict or remove your content, restrict your visibility, suspend or terminate your account, or otherwise take a moderation action, we will provide you with a statement of reasons explaining the action taken and its scope; the facts and circumstances we relied on; whether automated means were used; the legal or contractual ground; and the redress available to you.
If you believe a moderation action against you was incorrect, you may appeal by emailing support@bivvy-app.com within 6 months of receiving the statement of reasons. We will review under human oversight and notify you of the reasoned decision typically within 14 days.
You may refer a dispute about a moderation decision to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body. We will provide the name and contact details of an appropriate body on request and will engage in good faith with the body's procedure, although the body's decision is not binding on us.
We process notices from entities awarded trusted-flagger status under DSA Article 22 with priority and without undue delay.
The Service itself — source code, UI design, the name "Bivvy", the Bivvy logo, server infrastructure, and original written content created by us — is owned by Apex Crypto VOF and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Map data is sourced from open data, principally OpenStreetMap contributors, and is available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Tile rendering is provided by CARTO and (for the Bivvy Pro satellite / terrain overlays) Stadia Maps. Nothing in this section limits any rights you have under EU or Dutch copyright exceptions.
Some features may be available only through a paid subscription ("Bivvy Pro") or a one-time in-app purchase. Prices are shown in the app inclusive of VAT where applicable.
Purchases are processed by Apple Inc. or Google LLC through the App Store or Play Store; their terms apply to the payment itself. Subscription state is verified for us by RevenueCat, Inc.. We do not see or store your payment-card data.
Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in the relevant App Store or Play Store account settings. Cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period to avoid the next renewal.
Where we offer a free trial, the duration and terms are disclosed at the point of purchase. If you do not cancel before the end of the trial, your paid subscription begins automatically.
Beyond the statutory right of withdrawal, refunds are governed by the App Store / Play Store policies. We will support a refund request you make to Apple or Google where we agree it is justified.
We may change subscription prices by giving at least 30 days' notice in the app and (where your email is deliverable) by email. Price increases take effect at your next renewal.
Tip-jar in-app purchases are non-refundable one-time contributions made voluntarily to support development. The right of withdrawal in §11.5 still applies to consumers in the EEA; tip-jar IAPs grant no entitlement, so there is no "use" to extinguish the right.
The Service relies on third-party providers (see our Privacy Policy for the full list) and may contain links to external websites or open external mapping apps for navigation. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of third-party services. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time (see §3.4).
We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Service if you materially breach these Terms; we are required to do so by law or a court order; continued provision of the Service would expose us or other users to legal, security, or safety risk; or we discontinue the Service in your country. Where possible we will give reasonable notice and a chance to remedy the breach. Where we suspend or terminate your account on grounds of a serious breach of these Terms or of law, we will provide a statement of reasons under §9.3.
If we terminate a Bivvy Pro subscription for reasons not attributable to you (for example, we discontinue the feature), we will refund the pro-rata unused portion of the current billing period.
On termination, your licence to use the Service ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including §§ 5.3, 6, 9, 10, 14–19) will survive.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, free of viruses, or that any defect will be corrected. We do not warrant that any spot, route, or piece of information in the Service is accurate, complete, current, or legal in your jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights — including, in the Netherlands, the right to conformity of digital content under Articles 7:50aa–7:50ag BW — are not affected by this section.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; intent (opzet) or gross negligence (grove schuld) on our part or that of our managers; or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by mandatory law.
Subject to §15.1, we are not liable for any indirect, consequential, or special damages, including loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, business interruption, loss of data, or any cost of substitute services.
Subject to §15.1, our total aggregate liability for direct damages arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, is limited to the greater of the total fees you have paid to us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the liability; or EUR 500.
If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction where consumer-protection law sets a different standard, the limitations in §§ 15.2 and 15.3 apply only to the extent permitted by that law. Nothing in these Terms displaces your statutory consumer rights.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Apex Crypto VOF, its directors, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any third-party claim arising out of or in connection with Your Content; your use or misuse of the Service; your breach of these Terms; or your violation of any law or the rights of any third party. This indemnity does not apply where the claim is caused by our gross negligence or intent, or where, under applicable law, the indemnity cannot lawfully be enforced against a consumer.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make a material change we will (a) update the date at the top, (b) notify you in the app and, where the change is significant and your email is deliverable, by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, and (c) where required by law, ask for your renewed consent. If you do not accept the updated Terms you must stop using the Service.
These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, excluding its rules on conflict of laws and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
The courts of Den Haag, the Netherlands (Rechtbank Den Haag) have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute, except that (a) if you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live; the mandatory consumer-protection laws of the country where you have your habitual residence apply to the extent they offer you greater protection than these Terms (Article 6 Rome I; Article 17 Brussels I bis); and (b) for consumer disputes the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform is available at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
Before starting any formal proceedings, please contact us at support@bivvy-app.com so we can try to resolve the dispute informally.
Entire agreement. These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms presented at the point of a paid purchase) constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be replaced — only to the extent permitted — with an enforceable provision that comes closest to its intent.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of it.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any of your rights under them. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to the notice requirements in our Privacy Policy.
No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship between you and us.
Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
Notices. Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your account or posted in the app. Notices to us must be sent to support@bivvy-app.com (with a copy by post to the address below for any legal claim).
Language. These Terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, the English version controls in the event of conflict, except where Dutch consumer law mandates the Dutch language version (Articles 6:230s and 6:230v BW where applicable).
If you obtained the app from the Apple App Store, additional terms apply between you and Apple Inc.: these Terms are between you and Apex Crypto VOF only, not with Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Service; in the event of any failure of the app to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any); we, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the Service, including product-liability claims and claims under consumer-protection law; we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any third-party intellectual-property infringement claim; you represent that you are not located in any country subject to a US Government embargo, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties; Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce these Terms against you.
Apex Crypto VOF, trading as Bivvy
Katwijkerbroek 75, 2223 XN Katwijk, the Netherlands
KvK no.: 96603577
VAT (BTW) no.: NL867679542B01
Email: support@bivvy-app.com