Summit

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 26, 2026

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Fuse Interactive LLC ("Summit," "we," "our," or "us") operates the Summit mobile application (the "App"). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and the choices you have. By using Summit, you agree to the practices described here.

If you have any questions, you can reach us at contact@summitapp.live.

1. Who We Are

Fuse Interactive LLC is the data controller for information collected through the Summit app and the summitapp.live website. We are a limited liability company based in the United States.

Summit is available in most countries. It is not currently offered in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or China. Wherever you use it, your information is stored and processed in the United States (Section 13). Section 15 explains the privacy rights you have wherever you live, with the additional rights that apply in the United States; Section 14 covers the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.

2. Where This Privacy Policy Applies

This Policy applies to:

• The Summit mobile application on iOS and Android;
• The summitapp.live website, including this page;
• Any other service we operate that links to this Policy.

It does not apply to a resort's own website, a webcam provider's player, or any other third-party service you reach by tapping a link in Summit. Those are governed by their own policies.

3. Information We Collect

Information You Provide to Us

• Account information. Your email address (verified with a one-time code) and your date of birth. Your email is held in our authentication system and is never shown to other users. Your date of birth is used for two things only: to confirm you meet the minimum age in Section 16, and to check that you are 18 or over before you can use the Lounge (Section 7). It is stored apart from your profile, can be read only by you, and is never shown to other users. Because the Lounge's age check depends on it, it cannot be changed in the app once it is set; if yours is wrong, email contact@summitapp.live.
• Profile information. Your handle, display name, profile photo, banner, whether you ski or snowboard or both, which ski passes you hold (Epic, Ikon or Indy) if you choose to say, your home mountain, and your bio. All of this is visible to other users. Your handle and display name are checked against a list of reserved names and a profanity filter when you set or change them. We also keep a private record of your previous handles and when you changed them, so we can limit how often a handle changes; it is never shown to other users.
• Content you create. Photos and videos you post, the caption on each, which mountain and which place on it you filed the post under, the star ratings and written reviews you leave on mountains, runs, lifts and bars, comments, reactions, the mountains on your Been and Want to go lists, and the people and mountains you follow.
• Lounge trips. If you are 18 or over and post a trip to the Lounge: the mountain, the dates you will be there, your ride type and level, the kinds of terrain you are into, and a short note. We also record when you tap "I'm interested" on someone else's trip. Links and phone numbers are not allowed in a trip's note.
• Crews. The name, mountain and dates of a crew you create, who you invite to it, and whether each person accepted.
• Messages. The direct and group messages you send and receive in Summit, including any post or Lounge trip you share into a conversation. Group conversations are joined by invitation, so we also record who invited whom to a group and whether each invitation was accepted or declined.
• Reports and appeals. Anything you submit when you report a person, post, comment, rating, conversation or Lounge trip, or when you appeal a moderation decision. When you report a conversation, the last ten messages in it are copied into the report so it still makes sense if the content is later deleted.

Information Collected Automatically

• Location. Only with your permission, and used in several distinct ways that are described separately in Section 5. In short: working out which mountain you are standing on happens on your phone; sharing your position with another person happens only if you switch it on for that person.
• Recorded ski days. If you record a day, your phone writes a GPS track to its own storage. That track is not uploaded to us. Section 6 explains exactly what does and does not leave your phone.
• Usage information. The actions you take that our servers necessarily see — creating a post, leaving a rating, sending a message, following someone, saving a mountain, marking notifications read. We also record five product events, so we can see where people get stuck signing up and which part of the app actually leads to a post: the app being opened (and whether you were signed in), signup starting, each signup screen being reached, a signup completing (and how long it took), and a post going up (which mountain it was filed under, whether it was a video, and which button in the app it was started from). Each event also records your platform (iOS, Android or web) and the app's version number. Beyond that, nothing about what you post, rate, write or look at is in them, and none of them contains your location.
• Device and technical information. A push-notification token and the platform it belongs to (iOS or Android), so we can send you notifications. Our hosting provider also records standard server logs, including the IP address a request came from.
• When you visit summitapp.live. The website has no sign-up form, no cookies and no analytics. Our website host, Vercel, records standard server logs, including the IP address a request came from. The animated map on the home page is loaded from Mapbox, and two animation libraries are loaded from jsDelivr, so both see your IP address when you open that page. The site also remembers, in your own browser and only for that visit, that you have already seen its opening animation; that never leaves your browser.
• Capture time from your photos. When you post a photo, your phone reads the time the photo was taken from the file's own metadata, so the post can show the weather at that moment. We store the resulting snow, temperature and conditions values and the capture date. We do not read or store any other metadata from your photos, including any location recorded by your camera.

Information We Do Not Collect

We think this list matters as much as the one above. Summit does not collect:

• Your phone number;
• Your device's contact list;
• Government identification or payment information;
• Your gender or sexual orientation;
• Any health or fitness data from Apple Health, Google Fit or any similar service;
• Advertising identifiers, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

There is no third-party analytics software, crash-reporting software, advertising software or marketing software in the Summit app. The five product events above are recorded in our own database, not sent to anyone else, and are deleted with your account. If that changes, we will update this Policy and tell you before it takes effect.

Two of those events happen before you have an account, because the first two questions in signup come before one exists. Until you finish signing up those records are attached to a randomly generated identifier for your copy of the app and to nothing about you; when you finish, they are attached to your account, which is also what lets them be deleted with it. If you never finish, all we hold is that a copy of the app reached a particular screen.

4. How We Use Your Information

• To run the service. Create and maintain your account; show your profile, posts and ratings to other users; build your feed; deliver messages and notifications; show a mountain's conditions, lifts, cameras and trail map; run the Logbook, ride groups, crews, the Lounge and leaderboards.
• To keep Summit safe. Check uploaded images for explicit content, act on reports, enforce our Terms of Service, check that you are 18 or over before you can use the Lounge, prevent abuse and fake accounts, and stop a banned user from simply signing up again.
• To improve the service. Fix bugs and decide what to build next, based on what the service records in the course of operating. We do not build behavioural profiles of you and we do not use your data to personalise advertising, because we do not run advertising.
• To communicate with you. Send notifications about reactions, comments, follows, messages, ride requests, location shares, crew and group invitations, people joining your crew or group, and someone showing interest in your Lounge trip; answer your support emails; and tell you about material changes to the service or to this Policy.
• To comply with the law. Respond to lawful requests from law enforcement, courts and regulators, defend legal claims, and meet our record-keeping obligations.

5. Location

Summit is a map-first app and location is the part of it most worth explaining in detail. There are four separate things going on, and they are genuinely separate.

a. Working out which mountain you are on

Several features need to know which ski area you are standing on — offering to file a post at the mountain you are at, offering to record a day, and the Nearby feed. The comparison between your position and the mountains around you happens on your phone, against a list of ski areas that ships inside the app. Your position is not sent to us in order to answer that question.

Summit never asks for location permission just because you opened a screen. The map asks only when you tap the locate button, and the location-sharing switch asks only when you turn it on, because tapping those things is the request.

b. Sharing your position with another person

This is off by default and nothing turns it on but you.

• It is one-way and per-person. You switch on "Share my location with X" on that person's profile. They do not get your location because they share theirs with you, and sharing with one friend shares with nobody else.
• It only works between mutual follows — you each follow the other.
• While it is on, your phone uploads your position when you have moved about 50 metres, or about once a minute if you are standing still, and never more than once every 15 seconds. It only uploads while the app is open and in the foreground.
• We store one row per person: your latest position only. Each upload overwrites the one before it. We do not keep a history of where you have been.
• Another person can read your position only while all of the following are true, and this is enforced by the database on every single read rather than by the app: you currently share with them; you each follow the other; neither of you has blocked the other; you have not paused sharing; and your stored position is less than 12 hours old. If any one of those stops being true, their access stops at their next read, with no clean-up step required.
• Turning it off. Switching off that person's switch stops it for them. "Pause all location sharing" in Settings goes dark to everyone at once while leaving you able to see whoever still shares with you. Pausing also blanks the stored coordinates on our server, so there is nothing left to read.
• When you stop sharing with the last person on your list, your stored position is blanked.
• We tell someone when you start sharing with them, because that is the point of the feature. We deliberately do not tell them when you stop or pause, and the app says only that someone is "not sharing or paused" without saying which.

c. Ride groups

If you join a ride group, you share your location with everyone in that group until you leave it or it ends — including members you do not follow, because the person who invited you may have invited others. The app tells you exactly who that will be, by name, before you accept. A group ends at the next local midnight where it was created, and when it ends the sharing ends with it.

d. Find

If you can already see someone's location, you can open Find, which draws an arrow pointing at them. While you have that screen open, their phone uploads its position roughly every 3 seconds or 10 metres instead of the ordinary rate, because at skiing speed a slower rate would leave the arrow far behind.

• The person being found always sees a banner saying you are finding them, over every screen in the app, with a Pause button on it. There is no way to find someone silently.
• Their phone independently re-checks that you are still allowed to see them before it speeds up.
• The signal that you are looking is sent over a live connection and is not written to any table. Only the person being found can listen on it, and only someone who is currently permitted to see their location can announce on it.
• Find also looks up the nearest named run, lift or place to the person you are finding. To do that, their coordinates are sent to Mapbox in the lookup request. See the table in Section 8.

What this adds up to

If you never turn on location sharing and never join a ride group, your position is never stored on our servers at all. If you do, we hold one row with your latest position, it is readable only by the specific people you chose while the conditions above hold, and it expires out of their reach after 12 hours.

6. Recorded Ski Days and Your Track

When you record a day, your phone writes each GPS fix to a file in the app's own storage, one line at a time. That track is never uploaded to us. It stays on your phone until you delete the day, or delete the app. Recording currently runs only while the app is in the foreground.

Four things derived from a recorded day can leave your phone, each only in a specific circumstance:

A recorded day is private. It never becomes a post on its own, and nothing about it is shown to anyone unless you do one of the four things above.

7. Your Privacy Settings

Two controls change who can see what:

• Private account. Switching this on in Settings means only people who follow you can see your posts, your ratings, your Been and Want to go lists, your leaderboard rows, and the lists of who follows you and who you follow. Following a private account becomes a request you approve or delete. Your profile itself — handle, display name, photo, bio, home mountain, and the follower and following counts — remains visible to everyone. This is the same model Instagram uses, and we would rather state it plainly than let you assume otherwise. One consequence worth knowing: if you follow someone, that follow is shown on their lists only to people who can see both of you.
• Blocking. Blocking someone hides your posts, ratings and Lounge trips from them and theirs from you, in both directions, and prevents them messaging you. A block does not remove either of you from a crew or a group conversation you are both already in; either of you can leave it.

8. How We Share Your Information

With Other Users

Visible to other users, subject to your privacy settings in Section 7: your handle, display name, profile photo and banner, bio, ride type, the passes you hold, home mountain, follower and following counts, your posts and their captions and the mountain and place each is filed under, your star ratings and written reviews, your Been and Want to go lists, your comments and reactions, and your rows on a mountain's leaderboard.

Visible to every Lounge user (everyone 18 or over), whatever your privacy settings: your Lounge trips, and to a trip's author, your interest in it.

Visible only to the people you have chosen: your position (Section 5), your messages, and the crews you are on.

Never visible to other users: your email address, your date of birth, and your GPS tracks.

With Service Providers

We use the following third parties to operate Summit. They process information on our behalf, for the purposes described, and nothing in this table involves selling your data.

For Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with a subpoena, court order or other legal obligation; to cooperate with law enforcement; to investigate or prevent fraud, abuse or harm; to protect the rights, safety or property of Summit, our users or the public; or to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

In Connection with a Business Transaction

If Fuse Interactive LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, restructuring or bankruptcy, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you by email or in the app before your information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

What We Don't Do

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not run advertising on Summit, and we do not allow anyone to target you using your information. We do not publish or sell GPS tracks, aggregated or otherwise.

9. Posts, Ratings and What Happens When You Delete Something

Deleting a post, rating or comment removes it from the app. A message cannot be unsent: once sent, it stays in the conversation, visible to the people you sent it to, for as long as you keep your account. Deleting your account deletes every message you have sent, including from other people's conversations.

Photos and videos you post are stored in a public storage bucket, which is how other users' phones load them. Their addresses are not guessable. When you delete a post, its files are deleted from storage, so an address someone had saved stops working. When moderation removes a post, its files are moved out of public storage at the same moment, into private storage only Summit staff can reach, so that a mistaken removal can be reversed on appeal (Section 10). If that clean-up cannot run at once, it is retried automatically until it succeeds.

10. Content Moderation and Automated Decision-Making

Every photo you post, and the poster frame of every video, is checked automatically for explicit, violent or hateful content. We do this to keep Summit usable and to meet the App Store's requirements for apps with user-generated content.

How it works, and what it means for you

1. You see your post the moment you share it, and the check runs immediately — in practice in a little over a second. Nobody else sees it until it has passed. If our checking system is unavailable, a post that has waited an hour without any verdict is shown anyway, so that an outage on our side cannot hide everything posted to Summit; staff are alerted well before that point, and the check still runs on that post as soon as the system is back. A post the check has objected to is never shown this way.
2. A copy of the image is sent to AWS Rekognition, which returns labels describing what it contains.
3. Clearly explicit content is removed automatically with no human involved. Everything else that the system is unsure about is held back from other users and flagged for a person at Summit to look at, through the private Discord channel described in Section 8. A removed post stays visible to you, marked as removed; its files are kept in private storage for 90 days so an appeal can restore it, and are then deleted.
4. Until a verdict exists, a post is recorded as not yet reviewed, and a scheduled job re-asks for anything still unreviewed after five minutes. "Passed" and "never checked" are deliberately different states in our database.

A video is judged on its poster frame — the still your phone already made. One frame is not the whole clip and we do not pretend otherwise; a video with no usable still goes to a person instead of through the automated check.

Reports go to the same place. When you report something, the report and the details listed for Discord in Section 8 are posted to the same private staff channel, so a person can act on it within the 24 hours our Terms of Service promise. Lounge trips have no image to check; instead, a trip's note cannot contain links or phone numbers.

Reported content is kept for review even if it is deleted. If you delete a post after someone has reported it, it disappears from Summit as usual, but its photo or video is kept in private storage, which only Summit staff can reach, so the report can still be reviewed. It is deleted 90 days later.

Profile photos and banners are checked the same way. Each time you set a profile photo or a banner, it goes through the same automated check as a post, and the same rules decide what is removed. If yours is removed, your profile goes back to having none, we tell you in the app, and you can choose another. The file is kept in private storage, which only Summit staff can reach, for 90 days so that a mistaken removal can be reversed on appeal, and is then deleted. Photos and banners set before we started checking them were checked once as well.

What we deliberately do not act on. Alcohol, swimwear, tobacco and rude gestures are not grounds for removal. Après is part of this sport and a hot tub in April is normal here. We look for nudity, violence and hate symbols, and nothing else.

Your right to human review

If you believe an automated decision was wrong — your post was removed and you disagree, or your account was restricted — email appeals@summitapp.live. A person will review it and we will explain the outcome. Where the law gives you a right not to be subject to a decision made solely by automated means, this is how you exercise it.

11. Photos, Faces and Biometric Information

Photos posted to Summit often contain faces, and the moderation check in Section 10 analyses those photos.

• AWS Rekognition may detect faces as part of producing a moderation label. It does not retain the image after the analysis call completes.
• Summit does not collect, derive, store or use facial geometry, face templates or any other biometric identifier. We do not use face recognition to identify you, to match you against any database, or to link you across photos or sessions.

If you live somewhere with a specific biometric privacy law — Illinois under BIPA or Texas under CUBI, for example — the processing described above happens solely to decide whether an image is appropriate, and nothing derived from a face is retained beyond making that decision.

12. How Long We Retain Your Information

We keep information for as long as your account is active, and for the periods below otherwise. Where the honest answer is "until you delete it," we have said that rather than invent a window.

13. How We Store and Secure Your Information

Your information is stored on servers operated by Supabase in the United States. We use encrypted connections, access controls and authentication safeguards, and the rules governing who may read what are enforced in the database itself rather than only in the app — which is why, for example, a block or a pause cuts off access to your location at the next read rather than relying on an app to behave.

If you use Summit outside the United States, your information is transferred to the United States and stored and processed there. Data protection law in the United States may differ from the law where you live. We apply the protections described in this Policy wherever you are.

No system is perfectly secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information sent over the internet. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your information, we will notify you as required by law.

14. If You Are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland

Summit is not currently offered in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland. If you use it there anyway, for example while travelling, this section applies to you.

Legal Bases

Your Rights

You have the right to access your personal data; to have inaccurate data corrected; to have your data erased; to restrict or object to our processing of it; to receive it in a portable form; to withdraw consent at any time; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing — see Section 10 for how to ask a person to review one. Email contact@summitapp.live to exercise any of these.

International Transfers

We are based in the United States and our infrastructure is in the United States, so your information is transferred there. Where that transfer is from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, it is made on the basis of the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, together with the UK Addendum where the UK GDPR applies.

Complaints

You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. We would rather you came to us first at contact@summitapp.live, but that right is yours regardless.

15. Your Privacy Rights

Wherever You Live

Wherever you live, you can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it. You can also delete your account yourself at any time in Settings, which deletes your information as described in Section 12. Email contact@summitapp.live with the subject line "Privacy Request" and tell us what you are asking for. We will respond within the time required by the law where you live. If your local law gives you further rights, tell us which ones you are exercising.

If You Live in the United States

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Iowa, Tennessee, Indiana, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Minnesota, Maryland, Nebraska, Kentucky, Rhode Island or another state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law, you may have the following rights:

• To know what personal information we have collected about you and request a copy of it.
• To delete your personal information, subject to narrow exceptions such as where we must keep it by law or to defend a legal claim.
• To correct inaccurate personal information.
• To opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of. We say so here because the law requires us to address it either way.
• To limit use of sensitive personal information. The only category of sensitive information we handle is your precise location, and we use it solely to run the features described in Section 5. You can switch those off.
• Not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.
• To appeal. If we deny a request, reply to our refusal with the subject line "Privacy Request Appeal." If you are still not satisfied, you may contact your state's attorney general.

How to Exercise Your Rights

Email contact@summitapp.live with the subject line "Privacy Request" and tell us which right you are exercising. We may need to confirm details associated with your account before we act, and we will respond within the time your state's law requires.

California "Shine the Light"

California residents may ask about disclosures of personal information to third parties for those parties' own direct-marketing purposes. We make none, so we have nothing to report under this section.

16. Minimum Age

Summit is for people aged 16 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16, and we ask for your date of birth during signup to check.

We chose 16 rather than 13 deliberately. The central feature of this app is sharing your real-time position on a mountain with other people, and we would rather not operate that for children. Setting the floor at 16 also means every user is at or above the highest age of digital consent set by any EU member state under Article 8 of the GDPR, so we never have to process a child's data on the basis of a parent's consent.

The Lounge is for people aged 18 and over. It is the one part of Summit built for meeting riders you don't know, so the date of birth you gave us is checked on our server before you can see or post a trip, and the riders the Lounge suggests are 18 or over too.

If we learn that someone under 16 has created an account, we will delete it and the information attached to it. If you believe someone under 16 is using Summit, contact us at contact@summitapp.live or use the reporting tools in the app.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy. If the changes are material, we will tell you by email, in the app, or by another reasonable means before they take effect. The "Last Updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision. Continuing to use Summit after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Policy.

18. Contact Us

Fuse Interactive LLC
Email (general and privacy requests): contact@summitapp.live
Email (moderation appeals): appeals@summitapp.live
Website: https://summitapp.live
Help, and how to delete your account: summitapp.live/support

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