Transect reads public geospatial data and produces a ranked hypothesis about where to hunt an area: focus areas, access routes, sites, a day plan and a printable map.
It is a decision-support tool. Every output is model output — a starting point for scouting, to be ground-truthed on foot. It is not a survey, not a guide service, and not a substitute for knowing the country you are hunting.
Transect is not a legal, regulatory or safety authority.
The plan reports hunting zones, tenure, closures, road gates and season windows because they change where you may legally hunt. Those readings come from government data that can be out of date, incomplete, or wrong for your area.
Before you hunt, confirm with the governing authority: season dates and hours, zone boundaries, tag and licence validity, party rules, land tenure and access permission, and any closure, fire ban or emergency order. If Transect and the authority disagree, the authority is right.
Transect must not be relied on for navigation, for emergency routing, or as a substitute for a map, compass, GPS or communication device. Remote hunting country is dangerous independently of anything on a screen.
Transect is built to say when it does not know. A plan reports which data sources actually covered your area, which were degraded or missing, and what a jurisdiction cannot answer at all — for example, Ontario does not publish a machine-readable stand inventory, so no plan there carries stand species or canopy closure.
Those notices are not decoration; they are the boundary of what the plan is claiming.
You keep everything you write: plan names, notes, drawn boundaries, the ground you choose. You may use the plans you generate for your own hunting — printing them, loading them into OnX or a Garmin, and sharing them with the people you hunt with.
The engine, the model and the software are proprietary. Using the service does not grant a licence to the code or the model. You may not resell plans, scrape the service, or use it to build a competing product.
Transect reads public data published by governments and open projects, and that data carries its own licences. The credits shown in the app and carried inside every exported GPX and KML are part of those obligations and must not be stripped from a file you pass on. Geometry in an export that derives from OpenStreetMap is ODbL 1.0 — that applies to the exported data, not to the engine.
The service is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind. No warranty is given that the ground a plan ranks holds game, that a route is passable, or that a legal, tenure, boundary, closure or season reading is current or correct.
What is limited. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the copyright holder is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for economic loss — a wasted trip, fuel, an unfilled tag, time off work. Where such liability cannot be excluded it is limited to what you paid for the service in the previous twelve months.
What is not limited, deliberately. Under the Civil Code of Québec, article 1474, liability for bodily or moral injury may not be excluded or limited in any way. These terms do not attempt to. A clause that tried would be void, and a document that says something it cannot mean is worse than one that admits the limit.
Where responsibility sits. Every decision made in the field is yours — whether to walk a route, cross water, hunt a piece of ground, or be somewhere at a given hour. Transect ranks and explains; it does not know the conditions on the day, and it is not present when you decide.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, and the courts of Québec have jurisdiction.
These terms can change. Material changes will be shown before they take effect, and the version you accepted is recorded against your account.
An account can be closed for abuse, scraping, resale, or attempting to bypass the seat cap.