Sharing on Tentsite — the terms

Updated: 3 November 2026

Tentsite is run by Muskeg Labs, in Canada. Questions: [email protected].

These terms apply when you share something on Tentsite — a campsite report, its photos, a hazard report — and when you vote on or report a problem with someone else's. Reading reports, using maps and planning trips doesn't need an account or these terms.

A report is your answers about a campsite, your notes, its photos, where each photo was taken, and the day you were there. A hazard report is what you saw, where and when, and up to two photos.

You promise that:

you were there, and what you share is what you found, as best you know it;
you took the photos, or have the right to share them;
they show the site, not people who could be recognised;
nothing you share breaks the law or someone else's rights.

Who owns it

You keep the copyright in your reports and photos.

You give Tentsite a licence to use them: worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free and sublicensable, commercial use included — to store, copy, adapt (crop, resize, remove a photo's hidden data, correct an answer), publish, show, combine with other reports, and pass on under the same terms to Tentsite's partners. This lasts after you delete your account.

How it's shown

Without your name or email. No one but Tentsite knows who shared what.
Other people see the month and year of your visit. Partners of Tentsite (a park, an outfitter) may be given the exact date, never who you are. At a remote site, an exact date can sometimes narrow down who was there.
Photos stay in Tentsite's app and website, shown through links that expire; they are never offered for download in bulk.
There is no public dataset. Any other use — a partner, a researcher — is Tentsite's decision, case by case, under the licence above.

Moderation

Every report and hazard is checked by a moderator before anyone else sees it. A moderator may correct an answer (your own words are kept beside the correction), return a report to you with a reason, refuse it, or take a published one down at any time. A hazard may be marked gone when it's cleared.

Your choices

What you share isn't removed on request: what stays published is a moderator's decision.
Delete your account in the app (Maps & data → Account) or by email. Your account and email go at once. What you shared — reports, hazards and photos, published or waiting — stays, without your name, under the licence above.

If Tentsite shuts down

The reports will be released openly, so the work of everyone who shared them isn't lost. Their photos go with them only if Tentsite decides so then.

Safety

Reports and hazards are other campers' observations, at a moment in time. Sites, water, trails and portages change. Tentsite doesn't check what's reported on the ground and can't promise it's accurate or current: decide for yourself whether a site, route or crossing is safe, and carry what the park advises.

No warranty

Tentsite is free and provided as it is. As far as the law allows, Tentsite isn't liable for loss or harm from using it or relying on what others share.

Changes

If these terms change, the app asks you to agree to the new ones before you share again. What you shared before stays under the terms you agreed to then.

The law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and of Canada.