User Content Policy

User Content means any content you create, upload, import, or submit through Finding Horizons, including:

• Text notes, descriptions, and reviews attached to saved places or trips
• URLs and links imported from social media or other platforms
• Photos, screenshots, and PDF documents you upload
• Pasted booking confirmation or itinerary text
• Hidden Gems you create — the place name, category, coordinates, description, tips, and photo
• Batch imports — a shared social-media collection link or a set of screenshots you submit for import
• Experience posts, blogs, and public collection descriptions (when these features launch)

A Hidden Gem you create starts as personal — visible only to you. Sharing it to the community is a separate, explicit action. Community-visible gems show the place information you wrote (never your private notes), and may be featured or verified through community mechanisms. Anonymized, aggregated signals from community places (e.g. "this spot is loved by travellers") may inform recommendations for other users; these never identify you.

You retain full ownership of User Content you create. Finding Horizons does not claim ownership of your notes, photos, or imported content.

By submitting User Content to Finding Horizons, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, process, display, and where applicable distribute that content within the Service, consistent with your privacy settings.

This licence is limited to operating and improving the Service and is not a licence to sell or monetize your content independently. The licence terminates when you delete the content or your account (subject to backup retention periods).

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have the necessary rights and permissions to submit the content
• The content does not infringe any third party's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights
• Imported content from third-party platforms (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) is used within the bounds of those platforms' terms
• You have the right to share any pasted booking or personal document content with our systems

You must not upload or submit:

• Content that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights
• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — violations will be reported to law enforcement
• Malware, scripts, or code designed to harm the Service or other users
• Private information about other individuals without their consent (doxxing)
• Content that violates our Community Guidelines

By default, your saved places, trips, and collections are private — visible only to you. When you choose to share a collection or make content public, it may be visible to other users or the public depending on the sharing setting you select.

You control who can see your content. Check your privacy settings before sharing.

We reserve the right to remove content that violates these Terms or our Community Guidelines. Removal may occur without notice in cases of serious violations (illegal content, harmful material). For other violations, we may issue a warning first.

You can delete your own content at any time. Deletion removes it from the Service within a reasonable time, subject to backup retention periods described in the Privacy Policy.

If you believe content on Finding Horizons infringes your copyright, contact us at legal@findinghorizons.ca with:

• Identification of the copyrighted work
• Location of the infringing content (URL or description)
• Your contact information
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized
• A statement of accuracy and authorization under penalty of perjury

See also our Copyright & IP Policy.