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Terms of Service

Last updated: 13 July 2026

These terms are a contract between you and Ranmont Ltd (“Ranmont”, “we”, “us”), the company behind Nightjar. They cover two things: the licence to use the Nightjar app and its map packs (our end-user licence agreement, or “EULA”), and the rules for using our website and waitlist. Please read them. By downloading, unlocking, or using Nightjar, or by using our website, you agree to them.

Nothing here takes away rights the law gives you as a consumer. Where UK or your local consumer law gives you a stronger right than these terms, that stronger right wins.

1. Who you’re dealing with

Nightjar is built and sold by Ranmont Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales.

• Company number: 17319397
• Registered office: 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
• Contact: hello@nightjarmaps.com

We are the licensor of the Nightjar software and map packs. Depending on how you bought Nightjar, the seller of your purchase may be our Merchant of Record rather than us. See section 4.

2. What these terms cover, and the documents that go with them

These Terms of Service include:

• the licence for the Nightjar app and any map packs you buy (sections 5 to 11); and
• the website and waitlist terms (section 16).

They work alongside:

• our Refund & Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these terms;
• our Privacy Notice, which explains how we handle personal data (we are the data controller; we operate under UK GDPR and PECR);
• the open-data licences and attributions that come with each map pack (section 9); and
• if you bought through our Merchant of Record, that reseller’s own buyer terms, which govern the payment transaction (section 4).

If there’s a conflict between these terms and the Refund & Cancellation Policy on a refund question, the Refund & Cancellation Policy wins.

3. Who can buy and use Nightjar

Nightjar is intended for people who can form a legally binding contract. By buying or using it you confirm you are at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, and that you have the legal capacity to agree to these terms. Nightjar is not directed at children.

Nightjar runs on macOS on Apple Silicon. It’s your responsibility to check the current system requirements on our website before you buy. A fault that comes only from running Nightjar on hardware or an OS it doesn’t support isn’t something we can be responsible for.

4. How buying works, and our Merchant of Record

We sell Nightjar through a third-party Merchant of Record (“MoR”), Lemon Squeezy (Lemon Squeezy, LLC). This is normal for small software companies and it matters to who you’re contracting with:

• For the sale itself (taking your payment, charging the right tax for your country, issuing your receipt or invoice, and handling the first line of refunds), the MoR is the seller of record. Your purchase is a contract between you and the MoR, on the MoR’s own buyer terms, which apply in addition to these terms.
• For the licence to use Nightjar (everything in sections 5 to 11), your contract is with Ranmont Ltd on these terms.

So the MoR sells you the licence as our authorised reseller; we grant and stand behind the licence. Where the MoR’s buyer terms and these terms both speak to a payment, tax, or checkout question, the MoR’s terms govern that transaction. For everything about using the software, these terms govern.

We may change our MoR, add other resellers, or sell directly in future. If we sell to you directly, references to “the MoR” simply fall away and Ranmont is your seller as well as your licensor; the rest of these terms are unaffected.

5. The licence we give you

When your purchase is complete you receive a licence key (an “entitlement”). It’s a bearer key: whoever holds it can unlock the corresponding features, so keep it private, like a password. There are no user accounts, so the key is your proof of purchase. Store it somewhere safe.

Subject to these terms and to your having paid, Ranmont grants you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use:

• the Nightjar app, unlocked to its full features; and
• each map pack you have bought,

for both personal and commercial use, on devices you own or control, up to 2 Macs used by you (the licence holder).

A note on commercial use and watermarks. You’re welcome to use Nightjar and its map packs commercially. Maps, images, and other output you produce may carry a Nightjar watermark and the required open-data attributions (see section 9). You must not remove, hide, or alter that watermark or those attributions. Keeping them in place is a condition of your licence, including for commercial work.

The free or demo download may be used to try Nightjar before you buy, with reduced features, on the same basis.

You own this copy in the sense that it’s yours to use as described, but you do not own the software or the map packs themselves. All intellectual property in Nightjar, its design, and its code stays with Ranmont and our licensors (section 15).

6. What you may not do

The licence is generous for ordinary use, but there are limits. You may not:

• resell, rent, lend, sublicense, or redistribute the app, any map pack, or your licence key, or share the key so that people who haven’t bought Nightjar can unlock it;
• copy the app or map packs except as needed for your own permitted use and normal backups;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, or try to derive its source code or defeat the licensing, except to the exact extent the law says you may (for example, to achieve interoperability, or where this restriction can’t lawfully be imposed on you);
• remove, hide, or alter any attribution, copyright notice, or licence text in the app or the map packs (this includes the open-data attributions covered in section 9);
• use Nightjar to break the law or to infringe anyone else’s rights; or
• extract or re-publish the map-pack data as a standalone dataset in a way that isn’t permitted by the underlying open-data licences (section 9). The pack is licensed to you for use inside Nightjar, not as a data product to redistribute.

Breaking these limits is a serious breach and may end your licence (section 14).

7. Map packs, and how they’re delivered

Map packs are downloadable files covering specific regions, bought one at a time. Once you’ve bought and downloaded a pack, it’s yours to use offline, indefinitely, under this licence. It doesn’t expire and doesn’t need to phone home.

Because delivery is a download, please keep your own copy safe. We’ll help you re-download a pack you’ve bought where we reasonably can, but we don’t guarantee to host every past pack forever.

8. Updates and new versions

• App updates. We may release updates that fix bugs, improve performance, or add features. Update checks are off unless you turn them on, and you choose whether to install. We don’t promise any particular update, feature, or support period unless we’ve said so in writing.
• Map packs are a point-in-time snapshot. Each pack is built from open data as it stood when the pack was made. When you buy a pack, you’re buying that snapshot, not a subscription to keep it up to date. The pack you download stays usable offline, indefinitely.
• Updates are at our discretion and aren’t part of your purchase. The world changes, so we may rebuild packs from fresher open data from time to time. But we don’t promise to refresh any particular region, on any schedule, or at all, and a refreshed build isn’t included in what you’ve already paid for. Where we do offer a refreshed build, it may be made available as a new purchase. Nothing we release ever disables or expires a pack you already own.
• We may stop selling the app or a particular pack, or retire a pack, at any time. That doesn’t affect your right to keep using what you’ve already bought.

9. Map packs are built from open data, and that comes with obligations

Nightjar’s map packs are built from open data, including:

• OpenStreetMap, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL);
• Overture Maps;
• Wikidata;
• OpenMapTiles; and
• Copernicus DEM (elevation).

These open licences govern the underlying data, and some of them pass obligations on to you, most importantly attribution. In practice:

• The required credits (for example, “© OpenStreetMap contributors”) are built into Nightjar and the packs. You must keep them intact, so don’t remove or obscure the attribution shown in the app, in exports, or in the pack files.
• If you share, publish, or build on map images, exports, or data produced with Nightjar, you may have your own attribution and share-alike duties under ODbL and the other licences. Those duties are between you and the open-data licensors, and it’s your responsibility to meet them.

We point you to the full attributions and licence texts inside the app and on our attribution page. If you’re planning to use Nightjar’s output commercially or publicly, please read them.

10. Your content stays yours

Anything you create or import in Nightjar, such as your pins, notes, photos, videos, tracks, imported CSV/GPX/KML, and settings, is yours. Nightjar is offline and sends us nothing, so:

• we don’t collect, access, host, or claim any rights over your content; and
• you’re responsible for backing it up and for having the right to use anything you import.

See the Privacy Notice for the full picture.

11. Your statutory rights as a consumer

If you’re a consumer, the law gives you rights that these terms cannot take away or water down. In the UK, under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, digital content you buy must be:

• of satisfactory quality;
• fit for any particular purpose you told us about before buying; and
• as described.

If Nightjar or a map pack doesn’t meet these standards, you’re entitled to remedies such as a repair or replacement, and in some cases a price reduction or refund. See the Refund & Cancellation Policy.

If you’re in the EU/EEA, you have equivalent rights under your national law implementing EU consumer-protection rules (including the Digital Content Directive and the Consumer Rights Directive), and those apply to you too.

Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights. Where anything below looks like it limits them, read it as limited only to the extent the law allows.

12. The promises we make about Nightjar

We build Nightjar carefully and want it to work well for you. We warrant that, when you use it as intended on a supported Mac, it will materially perform as described on our website and in the app at the time you bought it.

Beyond that, and beyond your statutory rights in section 11, Nightjar is provided “as is”. Because it works offline with large open datasets on hardware and configurations we can’t test exhaustively, we don’t promise that it will be error-free or uninterrupted, that every map detail is complete or accurate, or that it will fit a purpose you haven’t told us about. Please don’t rely on Nightjar as your sole tool for navigation or for any safety-critical, emergency, legal, or surveying purpose.

This section doesn’t cut down section 11 or anything else the law won’t let us exclude.

13. Our responsibility to you, and its limits

We’re responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for loss that isn’t foreseeable, or for loss caused by events outside our reasonable control.

We never limit or exclude, and nothing in these terms limits or excludes, our liability for:

• death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• your statutory rights as a consumer, including under the Consumer Rights Act 2015; or
• anything else that can’t lawfully be limited or excluded.

Subject to that, and because Nightjar is a low-cost consumer product:

• we’re not liable for business losses. Nightjar is licensed for the use in section 5, so if you use it for a business purpose we’re not liable for lost profits, lost business, lost data of a business, or business interruption; and
• our total liability to you arising out of or in connection with these terms and your use of Nightjar is limited to the total amount you paid for the app and the map pack(s) the claim relates to, except for the items listed above, which are never capped.

This is a fair allocation of risk for a one-time, low-cost purchase, and it doesn’t touch the protections the law reserves for you.

14. Suspension and ending the licence

• You can stop using Nightjar at any time; just delete it. If you’re within a cancellation or refund window, see the Refund & Cancellation Policy.
• We may suspend or end your licence if you materially break these terms (for example, by redistributing the app or your key, or by trying to defeat the licensing) and don’t put it right after we’ve asked. If we do, you must stop using Nightjar and the map packs.
• Ending the licence doesn’t affect rights or duties that built up beforehand, and sections that by their nature should survive (such as 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 18) carry on.
• If we end your licence for a reason that isn’t your fault (for example, we stop offering Nightjar entirely), we’ll act reasonably and your consumer rights are unaffected.

15. Intellectual property

Nightjar, including its software, name, logo, design, and original content, is owned by Ranmont Ltd and, where relevant, our licensors, and is protected by intellectual-property law. The underlying map data is owned by the open-data projects and their contributors under the licences in section 9. These terms give you a licence to use Nightjar; they don’t transfer any ownership to you. Please don’t use our name or logo in a way that suggests we endorse you without our permission.

16. Using our website and waitlist

Our website and waitlist are there to tell you about Nightjar and let you register interest. When you use them:

• give accurate information (for example, a real email address for the waitlist);
• don’t try to break, overload, probe, or gain unauthorised access to the site or the systems behind it, and don’t introduce malicious code;
• don’t scrape, copy, or reuse our content beyond normal personal use, or use it to build a competing product; and
• don’t use the site or waitlist unlawfully or to harass or harm others.

You can leave the waitlist at any time using the unsubscribe link or by emailing us. We may change, suspend, or withdraw the website or waitlist at any time. Website content is provided for general information and comes with no warranty that it’s complete or error-free.

17. Events outside our control

We’re not liable for failing to do, or being delayed in doing, something under these terms if it’s caused by an event outside our reasonable control (for example, outages at our hosting or Merchant-of-Record providers, or interruptions to the open-data sources we rely on). Your statutory rights are unaffected.

18. The law that applies, and where you can go to court

These terms and any dispute about them are governed by the law of England and Wales.

• If you’re a consumer resident in the UK, you can bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, and you also keep the benefit of any mandatory protections of the law where you live, and the right to bring proceedings in your home jurisdiction where the law gives you that right.
• If you’re a consumer resident in the EU/EEA or elsewhere, nothing in these terms deprives you of the mandatory consumer protections of your own country, and you keep any right you have to bring proceedings there.

In short: we’ve chosen English law, but we’re not using it to strip away the local protections you’re entitled to.

19. Complaints and dispute resolution

Please talk to us first. Most things are quickest to sort out by email at support@nightjarmaps.com, and we’ll do our best to put things right. If your purchase was handled by our Merchant of Record, you can also raise payment or refund issues directly with Lemon Squeezy. If you’re an EU/EEA consumer, none of this affects your right to contact your national consumer-protection authority.

20. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example to reflect a change of Merchant of Record, new features, or changes in the law. When we do, we’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top and publish the new version on this page. For changes that materially affect you, we’ll make reasonable efforts to flag them (for example, a notice on our website or, if you’re on the waitlist or have contacted us, by email).

The terms that apply to a purchase are the ones in force when you bought. Continuing to use Nightjar or our website after a change means you accept the updated terms for your ongoing use.

21. A few legal odds and ends

• Whole agreement. These terms, together with the Refund & Cancellation Policy, the Privacy Notice, the open-data licences, and (where relevant) the MoR’s buyer terms, are the whole agreement between us about Nightjar.
• Transferring these terms. You can’t transfer them to someone else without our consent. We may transfer them to another company (for example, if our business is reorganised), but never in a way that reduces your rights.
• Severability. If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• No waiver. If we don’t enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• No third-party rights. These terms don’t give anyone other than you and us rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

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