These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Bolted, including the Bolted iPhone app, website, APIs, push notifications, Live Activities, subscription features, support, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is operated by Hitt Foundry LLC ("Bolted," "we," "us," or "our").
Please read these Terms carefully. By downloading, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. Privacy Policy
Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we disclose it, and the choices and rights that may be available to you.
2. Eligibility and Minimum Age
You may use the Service only if you can form a binding contract with us and are not barred from using the Service under applicable law. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. The Service is not directed to children under 13, and you may not use the Service if you are under 13. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.
Because Bolted can process device location and notification data, a parent or legal guardian should supervise use by minors. If you believe a child under 13 has provided information to us, contact us at support@hittfoundry.com so we can take appropriate action.
3. What Bolted Does
Bolted provides a live lightning map and configurable lightning awareness tools. Depending on your settings, device capabilities, app version, subscription status, and network availability, Bolted may allow you to view recent lightning strike activity, create saved watch zones, receive push notifications for lightning detected near watch zones or your current location, receive "all clear" messages after a period without qualifying detected lightning, display lock screen or Dynamic Island Live Activities, and view related strike summaries.
4. Not an Emergency, Safety, or Weather Authority
Bolted is an informational lightning-awareness tool. It is not an emergency alert system, public warning system, official weather service, meteorological authority, lightning detector, safety device, or substitute for your own judgment, professional advice, official forecasts, National Weather Service alerts, emergency management instructions, venue safety procedures, or local law enforcement and public safety directions.
Lightning is dangerous, fast-moving, and unpredictable. Data can be delayed, missing, inaccurate, incomplete, unavailable, or interpreted incorrectly. Notifications can be delayed or fail because of device settings, operating-system limits, network conditions, third-party providers, server issues, location permissions, battery settings, or other factors outside our control. An absence of strikes, an "all clear" message, a countdown reaching zero, or a lack of notification does not mean that conditions are safe.
You are solely responsible for deciding whether to begin, continue, delay, cancel, shelter, evacuate, or resume any activity. Do not rely on Bolted for life-safety decisions, emergency response, aviation, marine operations, outdoor event management, construction safety, utilities, critical infrastructure, or any other use where inaccurate, delayed, or unavailable information could lead to death, personal injury, property damage, or environmental harm.
5. Your Responsibilities
You are responsible for your device, operating system, network connection, permissions, notification settings, location settings, subscription status, and compliance with laws that apply to your use of the Service. You are also responsible for the names, locations, radii, notification settings, and other information you configure in the Service.
6. Accounts, Anonymous Credentials, and Security
Bolted may not require a traditional username and password. To operate the Service, we may create or use anonymous app credentials, device identifiers, app account tokens, push notification tokens, Live Activity tokens, StoreKit or App Store subscription identifiers, and related authentication material. You must not share, misuse, attempt to extract, or attempt to bypass these credentials or any entitlement, rate limit, security control, or subscription check.
7. Location, Watch Zones, Notifications, and App Data
Bolted may process information needed to provide the Service, such as watch zone names, coordinates, radii, distance-unit preferences, notification frequency settings, mute settings, current-location settings, device location when you enable location-based features, push tokens, Live Activity tokens, app version and build information, diagnostics you choose to send to support, subscription entitlement information, and usage or analytics events.
You control many Service behaviors through app permissions and app settings. If you disable location access, background location, notifications, Live Activities, cellular data, or other permissions, some features may not work. If you enable current-location push alerts, Bolted may update your device location after meaningful movement to keep those alerts accurate. If you create saved watch zones, Bolted may store those zones so it can monitor them and restore them across installs where supported.
8. Subscriptions, Purchases, and Pro Features
Bolted may offer paid subscription plans, including monthly or annual Bolted Pro plans. Pro features may include, without limitation, Live Activities, all-clear notifications, current-location push alerts, strike histograms, custom radii, or other features described in the app at the time of purchase.
Purchases made through the Apple App Store are processed by Apple and are subject to Apple's payment, refund, cancellation, family sharing, subscription, and media services terms. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple account settings. We do not control Apple's billing systems and, except where required by law or Apple's policies, we are not responsible for App Store refunds, billing errors, payment failures, taxes, currency conversion, bank fees, or changes to Apple's terms.
We may add, remove, modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue free or Pro features at any time, subject to applicable law. We may also change prices prospectively, with notice where required.
9. License to Use the Service
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the Service for your own lawful purposes. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, reverse engineer, decompile, attempt to derive source code from, interfere with, or create derivative works from the Service except to the extent applicable law expressly prohibits that restriction.
10. Acceptable Use
You agree not to misuse the Service. Prohibited conduct includes attempting to overload, disrupt, scrape, crawl, probe, scan, or compromise the Service; bypassing subscriptions, entitlements, access controls, rate limits, or security features; submitting false, unlawful, infringing, or harmful information; using the Service to harass or track another person without authorization; reselling or redistributing Service data; using the Service for public-safety or mission-critical operations; or using the Service in violation of law, sanctions, export controls, or third-party rights.
11. Third-Party Services and Data
The Service may depend on third-party services and data providers, including lightning data sources, map providers, location services, cloud hosting providers, analytics providers, payment processors, Apple services such as APNs, StoreKit, Maps, Live Activities, and iCloud Keychain, and other infrastructure providers. We do not control third-party services or data and are not responsible for their accuracy, availability, security, terms, policies, or performance. If any data provider requires additional attribution, disclaimer, or usage terms, those terms also apply to your use of the Service.
12. No Affiliation With Weather or Platform Authorities
Bolted is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or a service of the National Weather Service, NOAA, any emergency management agency, Apple Inc., or any map, data, or platform provider, unless we expressly state otherwise.
13. Intellectual Property
The Service, including its software, design, logos, icons, text, graphics, data presentation, and other content, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property and other laws. Except for the limited license above, these Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in the Service or our intellectual property.
14. Feedback and Support
If you send us feedback, suggestions, ideas, bug reports, diagnostics, or other communications, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or compensation to you. Support is provided at our discretion and is not guaranteed to be available or to resolve any particular issue.
15. Changes, Suspension, and Termination
We may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue all or part of the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk or possible legal exposure for us or others, misused the Service, or if continued operation is no longer commercially, technically, or legally practical. You may stop using the Service at any time.
16. Force Majeure
We will not be responsible or liable for any delay, failure, interruption, outage, data loss, or performance issue caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, severe weather, lightning, fire, flood, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, labor disputes, internet or telecommunications failures, cloud provider outages, third-party service failures, cyberattacks, power failures, or App Store, Apple, device, operating system, or network limitations.
17. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, reliability, quiet enjoyment, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, current, complete, or free of harmful components.
We do not warrant that lightning data, maps, locations, alerts, notifications, all-clear messages, Live Activities, countdowns, subscription checks, or any other Service output will be accurate, timely, complete, available, or suitable for any particular use.
18. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Bolted, Hitt Foundry LLC, and our owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or enhanced damages; loss of profits, revenues, goodwill, data, use, or business opportunity; personal injury; property damage; evacuation, sheltering, cancellation, delay, or operational costs; or damages arising from inaccurate, delayed, missing, or unavailable lightning information or notifications, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or (b) 100 U.S. dollars. Nothing in these Terms limits liability to the extent that limitation is prohibited by law, including for our gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud where such liability cannot legally be limited.
19. Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Bolted, Hitt Foundry LLC, and our owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to your use or misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law or third-party rights, your watch zones or other configured information, or any decision or action taken in reliance on the Service.
20. Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and Class Action Waiver
Please contact us first at support@hittfoundry.com so we can try to resolve any dispute informally. If a dispute cannot be resolved informally within 30 days after written notice, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, you and we agree that disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. If the AAA is unavailable or declines to administer the arbitration, the parties will select another neutral arbitration provider or a court of competent jurisdiction will appoint one.
Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies. Either party may also seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for unauthorized use or misuse of intellectual property, security systems, or the Service. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration agreement.
You and we waive any right to a jury trial and agree that disputes will be brought only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative proceeding, except to the extent a waiver of a non-individual claim, such as a claim under the California Private Attorneys General Act, is prohibited by applicable law. If a court finds that any part of this class, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative waiver is unenforceable, that claim or request for relief must proceed in court and not in arbitration, and the remainder of this arbitration agreement will continue to apply to all arbitrable claims.
You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing support@hittfoundry.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms and stating that you opt out of arbitration.
21. Claims Time Limit
To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be brought within one year after the claim arises, or it is permanently barred. This time limit does not apply where prohibited by law.
22. Governing Law and Venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of New Jersey, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except to the extent local law gives you non-waivable rights. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in New Jersey, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
23. Apple Terms
If you downloaded Bolted from the Apple App Store, these Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content, has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Service, and is not responsible for any claims relating to the Service, including product liability claims, legal or regulatory compliance claims, consumer protection claims, or intellectual property claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary. Your use of the Service must also comply with Apple's applicable terms and policies.
24. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by posting the updated Terms, updating the effective date, or using another reasonable method. Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective means you accept the updated Terms.
25. Miscellaneous
These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede prior or contemporaneous agreements about the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive.
26. Contact
Questions about these Terms or the Service can be sent to support@hittfoundry.com.