PK Spot - Terms of Service

Last Updated: 29th of October 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to PK Spot ("we," "us," "our," "the Website"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of our website and services. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

2. Operator

This Website is operated by Lukas Bühler. Full legal and contact information is provided on our Impressum page.

3. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, clicking "Agree and continue," or otherwise accessing or using the Website, you confirm your acceptance of these Terms and agree to be a party to this binding contract.

4. User Accounts and Community Guidelines

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. Your use of the Website must be lawful and align with the following guidelines.

A. User Responsibilities: You agree to use the Website in a lawful manner and not to post content that is illegal, offensive, or infringes on the rights of others.

B. Community Guidelines (Code of Conduct): We are a community built on the parkour spirit of respect, mutual support, and creative expression. By using PK Spot, you agree to:

Be Respectful: We do not tolerate harassment, bullying, intimidation, or hateful conduct. You may not post content that promotes or condones violence, discrimination, or hatred based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
Post Constructively: You agree not to post spam, deceptive content, or misinformation. Do not engage in trolling or post content intended to provoke or derail a conversation.
Protect Privacy: Do not post other people's private or personally identifiable information without their explicit permission.

A breach of these Community Guidelines is considered a breach of these Terms and may result in content removal, account suspension, or permanent termination, as stated in Section 9.

5. User-Generated Content and License Grant

You retain ownership of the content you create and post, including spots, images, and comments ("User Content"). However, to operate and protect the PK Spot service, you must grant us certain rights.

A. License Grant to PK Spot: By submitting, posting, or displaying User Content on the Website, you grant PK Spot a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as making your content work better with our service), display, and distribute your User Content. This license allows us to operate the Website and does not grant us the right to sell your individual photos or data to third parties.

B. Your Representations and Warranties: You represent and warrant that you own your User Content or have obtained all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to grant us the rights described in these Terms. You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting it.

6. Community Data & Public License

In the spirit of open data, PK Spot makes its collection of spot data (names, coordinates, descriptions) available to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License.

Based on the rights granted to us by our users in Section 5, we may also make contributed media (images, videos) available under this same license in the future. This model ensures the data is shared openly while being protected from use in other commercial projects.

7. Copyright & Takedown Policy

PK Spot respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been - copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible on this Website, please notify us. Your notice must include:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed.
Identification of the material on our services that you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it.
Your contact information, including address, telephone number, and email.
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Please send all infringement notices to the contact email provided on our Impressum page. We will respond to all valid notices and remove infringing content in accordance with applicable law.

8. Assumption of Risk and Responsibility

You understand and acknowledge that physical activities like Parkour and Freerunning involve inherent risks. The level of risk is dependent on many factors, including your own skill, training, judgment, and the physical environment.

Personal Safety: By choosing to practice at a location found on this Website, you voluntarily accept full responsibility for all risks involved. You are responsible for assessing your own abilities, judging the safety of any location or obstacle, and making responsible decisions to ensure your own well-being. Therefore, you agree that the operator of this Website shall not be held liable for any personal injury or other damages you may sustain.
Legal and Property Respect: Spots listed on this Website are user-generated. We do not verify the legal status or property rights of any location. It is your full responsibility to determine if a location is public or private, to obtain permission where required, and to comply with all local laws, regulations, and signage. You agree that the operator shall not be held liable for any legal consequences that may arise from your actions, including but not limited to trespassing.

9. Termination of Use

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Website at any time, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Website will immediately cease.

10. Intellectual Property

Excluding User Content, all materials on this Website, including text, graphics, logos, and software, are the property of the operator and are protected by intellectual property laws. For information regarding the website's underlying source code, see Section 12.

11. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

Subject to Section 6, the Website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the operator disclaims all warranties, express or implied, and will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Website.

12. Modifications to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will provide notice of significant changes by posting the new Terms on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. For registered users, we may also provide notice via email or a banner on the Website. Your continued use of the Website after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.

13. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Switzerland, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any legal action or proceeding arising under these Terms will be brought exclusively in the courts located in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.

14. Open-Source Software

We believe in transparency and community collaboration. The source code for this Website is open-source and available on GitHub. The code is licensed under the MIT License.

Please note that the MIT License governs the use, copying, modification, and distribution of the source code itself. Your use of this live website and its services is governed exclusively by these Terms of Service.