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Terms of Use

Version 0.2 · Effective 7 September 2026

Plain-language draft. These terms say what we mean and are written to be read. They have not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. When a reviewed version replaces them, the app will ask you to accept again if anything important changes.

The one thing that matters most. GF Compass tells you what is known about a place, who said it and how old it is. It cannot see into a kitchen. Confirm with the restaurant before you order, every time.

1. Who we are, what these terms cover
2. What GF Compass is, and is not
3. What you agree to
4. Reports you send
5. Acceptable use
6. Data sources and third-party content
7. Restaurants
8. Our content
9. Availability and changes to the service
10. No warranty
11. Limitation of liability
12. Your responsibility for what you send
13. App stores
14. Changes to these terms
15. Governing law and disputes
16. Contact

1. Who we are, what these terms cover

GF Compass (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is operated by an individual in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. These terms cover the GF Compass mobile app, the website gfcompass.ca and the service behind them. By installing or using the app you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

2. What GF Compass is, and is not

GF Compass is an information tool. It shows places to eat together with gluten-free information collected from public map data, restaurant websites and menus, and reports from other people. Every piece of information shows its source and its date.

GF Compass is not:

• a guarantee that any food, dish or kitchen is free of gluten or of any other allergen;
• medical, dietary or allergy advice, or a substitute for advice from a health professional;
• a substitute for asking the restaurant yourself;
• a certification, audit or inspection of any restaurant.

The words “dedicated”, “separate prep” and “gluten-free options” describe what a source has said about a place. They do not describe what will happen when you order. The app cannot know what happened in any kitchen.

3. What you agree to

• You will confirm with the restaurant before you order. The decision to eat somewhere is yours.
• You understand that information can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, and that menus, staff, suppliers and owners change without notice.
• If you have celiac disease or another medical condition, you will follow the advice of your health professional, not the app.
• You are at least 13 years old, or you use the app with a parent or guardian.
• You use the app for your own personal, non-commercial purposes.

4. Reports you send

You can send reports, confirmations and corrections about a place. When you do:

• A person reviews each report before anything is published. We may decline, edit for clarity, or remove any report, at any time, without giving a reason.
• Published reports do not carry your name. Do not include personal information about yourself or anyone else in a report.
• You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to store, use, publish, adapt and combine your report with other information, including in future versions of the app. You keep any rights you have in what you wrote.
• You confirm that a report is honest and based on your own experience or on the restaurant's own materials. If you own or work at the restaurant, say so in the report; those reports are welcome and are handled differently.
• You can ask us to remove a report you sent by writing to [email protected].

5. Acceptable use

You must not:

• send false, misleading, abusive or defamatory reports, or use the app to harass a restaurant or a person;
• use automated tools to scrape, harvest or bulk-download the data through the app or its interfaces, beyond ordinary personal use;
• interfere with the service, overload it, or try to bypass its rate limits or security;
• copy, modify or reverse engineer the app, except where the law allows this despite these terms;
• use the app or its data in a way that breaks the law or the licences of the data sources listed in section 6.

We may block an install that breaks these rules, without notice.

6. Data sources and third-party content

• Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License (ODbL).
• Places from Overture Maps, under the CDLA-Permissive 2.0 licence.
• Map tiles from MapTiler.
• Some listings from Yelp, shown with Yelp's attribution and under Yelp's terms. Yelp does not endorse GF Compass.
• Short quotations from restaurants' own websites and menus, reproduced to show what the restaurant said, with a link to the source. The restaurant keeps its rights in that material.

Their terms apply to their data. Opening a website, a phone number or directions from the app hands you to a service with its own terms and privacy policy.

7. Restaurants

If you own or run a place shown in the app, you can ask us to correct or remove information about it, or tell us about your kitchen practices, at [email protected]. We do not charge restaurants and we do not accept payment for how a place is shown.

8. Our content

The GF Compass name, icon, design, and the way the information is organised and presented belong to us. Do not use them to suggest that we endorse a restaurant, product or service. Open-source components used by the app are listed in the app under “Open-source licences” and keep their own licences.

9. Availability and changes to the service

The app is currently in private testing. We may change, suspend or stop the app or any part of it at any time. Information may be added, corrected or removed at any time. We do not promise that the app will be available, uninterrupted, error-free or up to date.

10. No warranty

The app and everything in it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without any warranty or condition of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability, and without any warranty that any food is free of gluten or any other allergen.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, illness, injury or damage of any kind, whether direct or indirect, arising from your use of the app, your reliance on any information in it, or your decision to eat anywhere, including information contributed by other users or taken from restaurants' own materials. Where liability cannot be excluded by law, it is limited to fifty Canadian dollars (CAD $50) or the amount you paid us for the app in the previous twelve months, whichever is greater.

Some laws, including consumer protection laws in Canada, do not allow some of these exclusions or limits. Nothing in these terms takes away rights that you have under those laws and that cannot be excluded.

12. Your responsibility for what you send

If a report you send breaks section 4 or 5, or your use of the app breaks the law, you agree to cover the reasonable costs we incur as a result, including reasonable legal costs, of any claim brought against us because of it.

13. App stores

If you installed the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play, these terms are between you and us, not with Apple or Google. Apple and Google have no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app and are not responsible for it, for any claim relating to it, or for its content. They may enforce these terms against you as third-party beneficiaries. You must also follow the terms of the store you used.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The current version, with its date, is always at gfcompass.ca/terms. If the acknowledgement you accepted in the app changes in substance, the app will ask you to read and accept it again before you continue.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Manitoba and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Any dispute will be heard by the courts of Manitoba, and you agree to their jurisdiction. If you have a problem, please write to us first; most things can be sorted out that way.

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a part of these terms, that is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the app.

16. Contact

[email protected] · GF Compass, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.