Terms of service

PlanWild is free, made by one person, and provided as it is. What you put in stays yours.

It helps you plan a trip. It is not a safety service, and nobody is watching a brief — that's the paragraph to read even if you read nothing else here.

Be decent to the other people on your trips. Anything else, write to support@planwild.net.

You, and Mark Onofrio LLC, the United States company that builds and runs PlanWild. Below, “PlanWild” means the site at planwild.net and everything on it.

Using PlanWild means agreeing to these terms and to the privacy policy, which says what PlanWild does with what you put in.

A gear and trip planner for a crew. You keep a gear library, build pack lists, put a list on a trip, and see what the crew is carrying three of and what nobody has. On a casual trip it's a bringing list instead of weights. An organizer can publish a read-only brief for the people at home.

It's free. There's nothing to buy and no advertising. One person builds it in his own time, which means it goes down sometimes, changes without notice, and comes with no support guarantee. Said plainly here rather than buried in a warranty clause.

This is the most important thing on the page.

• Weights, distances, climb and high points are worked out from what you typed and what your GPX file said. Either can be wrong, and PlanWild checks them against nothing.
• Weather comes from the US National Weather Service. It can be stale, unavailable or wrong, and it covers the United States only. A forecast is cached for up to an hour, and when the service doesn't answer, the last one that came back is shown instead, however old it is. Check the forecast at the source before you go.
• A brief is a page somebody can read. Nobody is watching it. No alarm goes off if you're late, nobody is notified, and nothing is sent anywhere. It is not an emergency service, and no one at PlanWild will know you didn't come back.

A brief tells your family when to expect you and suggests they contact local authorities if they don't hear from you. That is the whole of what it does. Leave a real plan with a real person, carry whatever emergency communication the trip calls for, and make your own decisions out there — the ones that matter are yours, not a planner's.

You need to be 13 or older. One account per person, and you're responsible for what happens under yours.

PlanWild is built for and offered in the United States. Use it from anywhere you like — just know that's where it lives and where the rules it follows come from.

On a family trip, add a child as a name on the list rather than giving them an account of their own.

Sign-in is handled by Clerk, so PlanWild never sees your password. Keep your email address accurate — it's how invites find you. If you think someone else has got into your account, write to support@planwild.net.

Your gear, your lists, your trips, your routes, your notes and your messages are yours. Nothing here takes ownership of any of it.

You give PlanWild only the permission it needs to run: to store what you put in, show it back to you, show it to the people on a trip you joined, and put what you chose onto a brief you or your organizer published. That's the whole license. There's no broad right to use your content for anything else, and nothing here lets PlanWild publish it somewhere you didn't.

Most arguments about a tool like this start here, so, plainly:

• Putting a list on a trip shows everyone on that trip what's on it, with weights. Not what you paid, not your links, not your notes.
• Marking gear lendable shows it — its name, category and weight — to whoever you chose, everyone on your trips or only friends, so they can ask to borrow it. They see it even when it's on no list.
• Publishing a brief makes a page anyone holding the link can read without an account. You can turn it off. You can't un-read it for someone who already opened or saved it.
• Sending an invite puts that person's email address into PlanWild and sends them a message.
• An organizer's join link works for whoever holds it, so forwarding one hands on the ability to join.
• An emailed invite is narrower: it only works for an account signed in with the address it was sent to.

The full version, field by field, is in the privacy policy.

Don't:

• put up anything illegal, or anything you don't have the right to upload;
• harass, threaten or abuse anyone on a trip;
• use invites to send mail somebody doesn't want;
• go looking for other people's brief or join links, or try to guess one;
• scrape the site, or hammer it with automated requests.

PlanWild doesn't read what people write as a matter of course. But content that breaks this can be removed, and an account that breaks this can be closed.

Write to support@planwild.net if there's something here that shouldn't be: someone being abusive, a brief that names you and shouldn't, or something of yours that somebody else uploaded. Say what it is, where it is — a link helps — and why. A person reads it, and answers. An account that repeatedly infringes someone else's copyright gets closed.

The Feedback control files a bug report, a suggestion or a request where Mark reads it, along with the page you were on. He may read it, keep it and act on it; there's no obligation to and no payment for it. A report stays after your account goes, with your name removed and the text intact, so please don't put anything private in one.

You can delete your account whenever you want, from the account menu in PlanWild. If anything gets in the way, write to privacy@planwild.net and Mark will do it. What happens to your trips is worth reading before you do: a trip you organized passes to whoever has been on it longest, its join link and brief are turned off, and a trip with nobody else on it is deleted. The caveat in the privacy policy applies here too — confirm it happened rather than assuming.

Mark can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and can stop running PlanWild. If it's shutting down, he'll give what notice he can, at the address on your account.

PlanWild is provided as it is, with no promise that it will be available, accurate or uninterrupted, and no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.

That's the one lawyer-shaped sentence on this page, and it means: one person is giving away a tool for free and can't promise it works. Some states don't allow some of those exclusions, so parts of it may not apply to you.

As far as the law allows, Mark isn't liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for what happens on a trip you planned with PlanWild — the decisions out there are yours. Total liability for anything to do with PlanWild is capped at $100, which is more than PlanWild has ever charged anyone.

What that doesn't cover, because it can't: death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, and anything else the law where you live says can't be limited. Those keep whatever protection the law gives you.

These will change as PlanWild does. A material change gets notice before it takes effect, and applies from then on rather than backwards. The date at the top says when they last changed. If you don't like a change, delete your account.

Not settled yet, and this page isn't going to pretend otherwise. A governing law and a place for disputes are two of the things a lawyer's review has to fix, and both will be named here when they are.

Nothing in these terms takes away a right the law where you live gives you as a consumer. There's no arbitration clause here and no class-action waiver, which is deliberate.

support@planwild.net for anything about these terms or about using PlanWild. privacy@planwild.net for what PlanWild holds about you. security@planwild.net for a security problem.

Mark Onofrio LLC, United States. These terms took effect on September 17, 2026.