Terms of Service
Terms & Conditions
Last Updated: September 25, 2026 · Effective Immediately
Welcome to What Elevation (whatelevation.com). By accessing or using our website, tools, APIs, and educational materials, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
1. Permitted Use & License
What Elevation grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use our website strictly for personal, recreational, informational, educational, and internal business evaluation purposes. You agree not to:
- Attempt to circumvent, scrape, reverse-engineer, or disrupt our website or underlying infrastructure.
- Use automated bots, scripts, or crawlers that place excessive load on our bandwidth or third-party API providers.
- Frame, mirror, or repackage the tool as a proprietary paid software without prior written permission.
2. Elevation Accuracy & Safety Disclaimer
All elevation, coordinate, and geographical data provided on What Elevation is derived from satellite digital elevation models (DEM) and device geolocation. This data represents an estimate and may contain inaccuracies.
This service is NOT certified for safety-critical operations, including but not limited to:
- Aviation altimetry or flight path navigation.
- Marine navigation or nautical depth soundings.
- Official architectural, structural, or legal land surveying.
- Extreme mountaineering emergency decisions where exact altitude is required for survival.
Users are solely responsible for verifying critical terrain data against certified topographic surveys, calibrated altimeters, or professional local authorities.
3. Geolocation & Device Capabilities
The accuracy of location detection is governed by your device hardware, operating system settings, cellular/Wi-Fi signal strength, and environmental conditions. What Elevation cannot guarantee that your exact physical position will be accurately recognized if location permissions are denied, satellite reception is obstructed, or your device operates through VPNs or proxy networks.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
All text, code, graphics, interactive widgets, logos, designs, typography implementations, and compilations on What Elevation are the exclusive intellectual property of What Elevation and are protected by applicable copyright, trademark, and unfair competition laws. Third-party data sets (such as Copernicus DEM, Open-Meteo, and OpenStreetMap) remain the property of their respective holders and are utilized under appropriate open-access terms.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability
What Elevation is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, What Elevation, its developers, operators, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages resulting from:
- Your reliance on elevation readings or map visualizations.
- Interruption, downtime, or termination of website availability.
- Decisions made based on information presented on the site.
6. Governing Law & Modifications
We reserve the right to revise or update these Terms and Conditions at our sole discretion. Any changes will become effective immediately upon posting to this URL. Your continued use of the website following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.
7. Questions Regarding These Terms
If you require clarification on these Terms and Conditions, please submit your inquiry via: