Terms of Use

Effective date: November 14, 2026. By using The Spread, you agree to these terms.

• Agreement
• Your account
• Predictions and estimates
• Assumption of risk, release, and waiver
• Hunting and other laws
• Your conduct, reporting, and blocking
• Your content and wildlife data
• The app is provided as-is
• Limitation of liability
• Indemnification
• Apple App Store terms
• General terms

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and The Spread L.L.C, an Alabama limited liability company, 8409 McKee Rd N, Irvington, AL 36544 (“The Spread,” “we,” or “us”). They apply to usethespread.com and the The Spread app. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle information and is part of your agreement with us.

The Spread is for users age 18 and older. The app is not for anyone under 18. By using The Spread, you confirm that you are 18 or older. Accounts found to belong to users under 18 may be removed. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

2. Your account

You must provide a valid email to sign in. You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping access to that email secure. You may not impersonate someone else, use another person’s account, or share a screen name in a way that is misleading.

We may suspend or close an account that violates these terms, that is used to harm others, or that we reasonably believe creates legal or safety risk.

Account backup is on by default for signed-in accounts. In Settings → Your data you can turn it off any time, or use Delete my account backup, which deletes only the private cloud copy of your hunts, spots, and hunt photos. It does not close your account. Turning backup off or deleting the backup stops future hunts from being used for wildlife data; wildlife records already created stay anonymous. To delete your whole account, go to Settings → Account and choose Delete account, or email brandon@usethespread.com and tell us the email on the account. When you delete your account, messages you sent in private chats and shared threads stay visible to the other person, attributed to “Deleted user.” The message text you wrote stays; photos and exact locations are removed. An email request is completed within 30 days, as described in the Privacy Policy.

3. Predictions and estimates are not advice

The app may show predictions, scores, and comparisons based on your past hunts and on weather or other conditions. That includes, for example, language like “your highest probability for success is X,” “Success probability,” “Best pick,” “Best spot,” “Best window,” Outlook ratings and scores, Patterns, Statistics, and any similar forecast or odd.

All predictions, forecasts, odds, weather, tide, moon, and Statistics in the app are estimates for informational and entertainment use only. They are not a guarantee of success, game, or conditions. They are not safety advice, navigation advice, legal advice, or a substitute for your own eyes, training, equipment, licenses, or judgment in the field.

Weather and related conditions can be wrong, incomplete, delayed, or can change after you look at them. Tide, moon, and other condition information, if shown, can also be wrong or incomplete. A high score or a “best” label does not mean it is safe to go, legal to hunt, or a good idea in that place or at that time. You must check current conditions, local rules, and your own situation before you go, and you must keep checking them while you are out.

4. Assumption of risk, release, and waiver

5. Hunting and other laws are your responsibility

You are solely responsible for knowing and following all federal, state, and local laws that apply to you, including hunting seasons, bag limits, licensing and permitting, legal methods, land access and trespass, boating rules, firearm and archery rules, and any other outdoor or wildlife law. The Spread does not tell you whether a hunt is legal, and nothing in the app is legal advice or official season information. Logging or sharing a hunt does not make it lawful. You are solely responsible for legal violations arising from your activity.

6. Your conduct, reporting, and blocking

You agree to use The Spread in a lawful, respectful way. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive users.

You may not:

• Harass, bully, threaten, impersonate, or harm other people.
• Post or send content that is illegal, sexually explicit or exploitative, hateful, or that incites violence.
• Share someone else’s exact hunt location, personal information, or private messages without their permission.
• Use the app to trespass, poach, or otherwise break the law.
• Try to break into the service, scrape it in an abusive way, interfere with other users, or reverse engineer the app except as the law allows.
• Upload malware or content you do not have the right to share.

Reporting. You can report a message, comment, post, or direct message from that item in the app. You may include a short reason. Reporting a direct message shares that one message with us so we can review it. You can also email brandon@usethespread.com.

Blocking. You can block a person from a message, post, or conversation. Blocked people are listed in Settings → Blocked users, and you can unblock them there. If you block someone, you will not see their posts or comments, and they cannot send you direct messages or friend requests.

Review and enforcement. We aim to review reports within 24 hours. We may remove content, suspend an account, or permanently ban an account that violates these rules or that we reasonably believe is harmful. A banned account cannot post new messages or shares. We may also remove a chat photo. Repeated or serious violations can lead to a permanent ban. We may keep a report and related material as needed to review it and to prevent abuse.

7. Your content and wildlife data

You own the hunts, photos, comments, messages, and other content you create. You are responsible for it. You grant The Spread L.L.C a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, store, display, and transmit that content as needed to operate the service — for example, to show a hunt to the friends you shared it with, or to show a post in a room you posted to. This license lasts for as long as the content remains on the service, and for a reasonable time after you delete it so we can complete deletion and backups.

When account backup is on, you also grant The Spread L.L.C a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to collect, create, keep, and use de-identified, aggregated hunt and animal data from every backed-up hunt. That use is automatic. There is no separate opt-out switch. The only way to stop new hunts from being used this way is to turn backup off or delete your account backup. Turning backup off or deleting the backup stops future hunts from being used; wildlife records already created stay anonymous and are kept, including records from hunts you later delete. Hunts already backed up when wildlife records begin are included. A hunt you share is stored on our servers and may also be used in the same de-identified way. That wildlife information may include species, counts, drake and hen counts, dates and times, weather, moon, tide if logged, success, hunt type, and a location rounded to about one mile. It does not include your name, email, photos, exact GPS, spot names, field comments, or anything else that identifies you, and it is not tied to your account. We may use this data for conservation, wildlife research, and environmental or disaster impact analysis, share it in this de-identified form with researchers or agencies, and publish aggregated statistics such as totals by state or flyway. We do not sell it. We keep those anonymous wildlife records even if you later delete your account. Hunts that stay only on your device are not used for this. The Privacy Policy explains this in more detail, including how location is rounded and how wildlife records are kept separate from your account.

Who owns what. You keep ownership of your own content — your hunt logs, photos, comments, and posts. When you back up or share a hunt, you grant The Spread L.L.C a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to create de-identified wildlife and harvest records from it. Those de-identified records, the totals and statistics made from them, the owner dashboard, and any compilations, databases, or reports derived from them are the exclusive property of The Spread L.L.C. They contain no personal information. We may use them, keep them, and share them in aggregate or de-identified form for conservation and research. We never sell your personal information.

You represent that you have the rights needed to grant this license, and that your content does not infringe someone else’s rights.

The Spread name, logo, and the app itself are owned by The Spread L.L.C. You may not copy or reuse them except as needed to use the service, or with our written permission. Tester agreements and any NDA you accept remain in effect according to their own terms.

8. The app is provided as-is

To the fullest extent Alabama law allows, The Spread is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components; that hunts, weather, maps, predictions, or other data will be accurate, complete, or current; or that the app is suitable for safety, navigation, or legal compliance. Some states do not allow certain warranty disclaimers. If that applies to you, some of this section may not apply, and you may have rights that these terms cannot change.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent Alabama law allows, The Spread L.L.C and its members, managers, officers, employees, agents, contractors, and successors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of use, even if we were told they were possible.

To the fullest extent Alabama law allows, The Spread L.L.C is not liable for injury, death, property damage, or legal violations arising from your use of the app, your reliance on any prediction, forecast, odd, weather, tide, moon, map, Statistics, or other information, or your hunting, boating, or other outdoor activity.

To the fullest extent Alabama law allows, our total liability for any claim arising out of or related to the app or these terms is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the app in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) fifty U.S. dollars ($50). This limit does not apply to liability for our own willful or wanton misconduct, or to any liability that Alabama law does not allow us to limit.

10. Indemnification

To the fullest extent Alabama law allows, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless The Spread L.L.C and its members, managers, officers, employees, agents, contractors, and successors from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the app; (b) your hunting, boating, or other outdoor activity; (c) your content; (d) your violation of these terms or of any law; (e) your infringement of someone else’s rights; or (f) your failure to follow safety practices or hunting laws. We may assume the exclusive defense of any matter at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with us.

11. Apple App Store terms

If you download The Spread from the Apple App Store, the following also applies. In this section, “Apple” means Apple Inc. and its subsidiaries.

Agreement is with us, not Apple. These terms are an agreement between you and The Spread L.L.C only, not with Apple. Apple is not a party to this agreement and is not responsible for the app or its content.

License. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use The Spread on any Apple-branded products you own or control, and as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. The app may also be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing, volume purchasing, or similar Apple programs, as those Usage Rules allow.

Maintenance and support. The Spread L.L.C, not Apple, is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services.

Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed in these terms. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price you paid for the app, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to any warranty are our sole responsibility.

Product claims. The Spread L.L.C, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the app or your possession and use of it, including: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.

Intellectual property claims. If a third party claims that the app, or your possession and use of it, infringes that party’s intellectual property rights, The Spread L.L.C, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.

Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You must also comply with applicable third-party terms when using the app, such as your wireless data agreement.

Third-party beneficiary. You and we acknowledge that Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. Upon your acceptance of these terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

Questions, complaints, or claims about the app: brandon@usethespread.com, The Spread L.L.C, 8409 McKee Rd N, Irvington, AL 36544.

12. General terms

Support. For support, questions, or complaints, email brandon@usethespread.com.

Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, not including conflict-of-law rules. You and The Spread L.L.C agree that the state and federal courts for Mobile County, Alabama have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes, except that we may seek injunctive relief in any court to protect our intellectual property or the service.

Changes. We may update these terms by posting a new version with a new date. If a change is material, we may also note it in the app or by email. If you keep using the app after an update, you accept the revised terms. If you do not agree, stop using the app and request deletion of your account.

Miscellaneous. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the unenforceable part will be modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable. These terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the app, and they supersede prior agreements on that subject, except for a tester NDA or other written agreement you signed with us, which remains in effect. You may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, sale, or reorganization. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. A waiver must be in writing.

Questions: brandon@usethespread.com
The Spread L.L.C
8409 McKee Rd N
Irvington, AL 36544