Terms of use
1. What this is. I built CampFromTheCouch as a hobby project: an informational tool that checks public campsite and activity availability and lets you know when something opens up. It's not a booking service, a travel agency, or an arm of any park agency or reservation provider, and it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Every alert is best-effort: it runs in my spare time and on a hobby budget, not as a staffed, guaranteed operation.
2. NO WARRANTY. I don't guarantee that an alert will fire, that it will arrive, or that it will arrive in time to matter. Availability can change in seconds, and a site an alert calls open may already be gone by the time you see it. Delivery rides on third-party channels I don't control (Discord, ntfy, your browser's push service, and your email provider), so a message can be delayed, dropped, or blocked between here and you, with no guarantee any one of them works at any given moment. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTY THAT IT WILL BE AVAILABLE, ACCURATE, TIMELY, OR ERROR-FREE.
3. NO LIABILITY. Using CampFromTheCouch doesn't make me responsible for what happens with your trip. I'm not liable for booking outcomes (a site going to someone else, a watch that didn't fire, availability that turned out to be wrong or already gone), for weather-based decisions, or for the cost of a trip, a booking, or anything else tied to relying on this service. The weather pages are informational, not a warning system; any call about whether to go, what to pack, or when to turn back is yours to make, and for anything that matters you should check an authoritative source like yr.no, SpotWX, or Environment Canada, all linked right from the weather page. You always book directly on the official reservation site, under its own terms, with your own account; I never touch your booking, your payment, or your park account. If a site costs you money, or the weather does something an alert didn't warn you about, that's not something I can be asked to make right.
4. Where the data comes from. None of the underlying data is mine. Campsite and activity availability comes from each park or reservation system's own public systems; I just check it more often than a person could. Weather and air-quality data comes from MET Norway (Locationforecast, NLOD 2.0 / CC BY 4.0) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (HRDPS, AQHI, and station observations), delivered in part via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0); park locations are © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the map backdrop is © Natural Resources Canada. Full attribution and license links live on the weather page's own "Sources & licensing" panel.
5. Using it fairly. Don't script or automate against CampFromTheCouch itself, try to overload it, work around its rate limits, resell access, or use it to disrupt any reservation system. Watches and checks are for planning your own real trips. I poll the reservation systems politely (shared checks, jitter, per-host caps and backoff) and expect the same courtesy back.
6. Accounts can be closed. An account abusing the service or the systems it reads from can be paused, throttled, or closed outright, permanently in the worst cases. Repeat abuse already runs through an automatic escalation ladder: a short block first, then longer ones, then a permanent suspension. It exists to protect the free service for everyone else, not to be heavy-handed about honest use.
7. Changes to these terms. This page may change as the service changes. The page itself is the notice: whatever's posted here, dated above, is what's current. Anything major will usually also show up on the news page, but this page is the source of truth.
8. Privacy & managing your notifications. What little CampFromTheCouch stores, and why, is on the Privacy page. Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe, and every channel (Discord, ntfy, push, email) can be added, tested, or removed anytime from Settings. Unsubscribing from email pauses your watches too, since email is the fallback of last resort for the other channels; you can turn everything back on from Settings whenever you're ready.
9. The plain-spoken part. This is a hobby project, run by one person, in spare time, for free. It's not a business, this page isn't legal advice, and it hasn't been reviewed by a lawyer. That may happen someday, but for now it's meant to say plainly what I actually mean: I built this because I got tired of missing trips, I'll do my best to keep it useful and honest, and I'm not on the hook for your trip if something goes sideways. Questions? See About or the FAQ.