Legal notice
Last updated: 19 October 2026
This translation is provided for convenience. In case of discrepancy, the French version prevails.
1. Publisher
The Hikez mobile app (formerly Summit Journal) and the hikez.app website are published by:
Teddy Verneuil EI, auto-entrepreneur (micro-entrepreneur) (French sole-trader status)
14 bis rue Magellan, 69005 Lyon, France
SIRET: 792 687 576 00043
VAT not applicable, article 293 B du Code général des impôts (French General Tax Code).
- Contact: support@hikez.app
- Reports and moderation: moderation@hikez.app
- Publication director: Teddy Verneuil
2. Hosting
hikez.app website
Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
https://www.cloudflare.com
Content published from the app (accounts, hikes, tracks, photos)
Supabase, Inc. (https://supabase.com). The data is stored on servers located in
London (United Kingdom, AWS region eu-west-2).
3. Intellectual property
The Hikez app and the hikez.app website belong to Teddy Verneuil, unless stated otherwise: texts, images, logo, icons, design, structure and source code. Third-party trademarks, data and fonts remain the property of their authors (see “Credits and licences” below).
Any reproduction, modification, adaptation or publication, in whole or in part, is prohibited without prior written permission.
Content published by users remains their property (see the terms of use, article 5).
4. Personal data
The privacy policy describes how data is processed. To exercise your rights, write to support@hikez.app.
5. Cookies
The hikez.app website sets no cookies and uses no audience measurement, advertising or tracking tools.
6. Liability
The information on the website and in the app is provided for guidance only.
Hikez is a hiking aid. It is neither a certified navigation instrument nor mountain safety equipment (see the terms of use, article 9).
7. Links
The website and the app may link to third-party websites. The publisher is not responsible for their content.
8. Governing law
French law applies. In the event of a dispute, and failing an amicable settlement, the French courts have jurisdiction. Consumers may bring proceedings before the court of their place of residence.
Credits and licences
1. Maps and geographic data
| Source | Use in Hikez | Licence and attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Maps (MapKit) | Standard and satellite maps, terrain and 3D flyover | © Apple Inc. |
| IGN: Plan IGN v2 and aerial photography | Maps of France, online and offline | © IGN, Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0 |
| OpenStreetMap | Offline maps outside France, summit detection | © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 licence |
| OpenMapTiles and OpenFreeMap | Schema and style of the OpenStreetMap maps | © OpenMapTiles, OpenFreeMap |
| Terrain Tiles (AWS Open Data) | Terrain shading on the OpenStreetMap maps | Sources: SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1, EU-DEM (Copernicus) |
| Thunderforest | “Outdoor” base map | © Thunderforest, data © OpenStreetMap contributors |
| OpenWeather | Weather for hikes (Hikez Pro) | © OpenWeather |
2. Libraries
| Component | Licence |
|---|---|
| Supabase Swift (supabase-swift) | MIT |
| TelemetryDeck SwiftSDK | MIT |
| swift-crypto, swift-asn1, swift-http-types (Apple) | Apache 2.0 |
| swift-clocks, swift-concurrency-extras, swift-issue-reporting, xctest-dynamic-overlay (Point-Free) | MIT |
The app also uses the frameworks provided by Apple in iOS: SwiftUI, SwiftData, MapKit, CoreLocation, CoreMotion, AVFoundation, HealthKit, CloudKit, StoreKit, WidgetKit, ActivityKit, Charts and AuthenticationServices.
3. Fonts
Open Sauce One, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
4. Photos
Photos on the hikez.app website and in the App Store screenshots: Teddy Verneuil, all rights reserved. The usernames and hikes shown in the screenshots are fictitious.
Are you the author of a component listed here, or do you have a question? support@hikez.app
