These terms are the agreement between you and Baker Ventures LLC ("we," "us"), a Utah limited liability company, covering your use of the Hatch Window mobile app ("the app"). By installing or using the app, you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't use the app — deleting it ends the agreement, and there is no account to close.
How your data is handled is covered by the separate Privacy Policy, which is in the app under Settings → Privacy.
Hatch Window helps you decide when and where to go. It does not know what the fish are doing. This is the same thing the app already tells you next to every window, ranking and outlook it shows, and these terms repeat it rather than restate it differently, so the two can never drift apart:
Solunar theory (moon-based fishing windows) is a traditional angling heuristic, not a scientifically validated predictor of fish activity.
Ranking is this app's own heuristic, not a guarantee.
As a term of this agreement:
Again in the app's own words, printed in Settings and at the foot of every spot:
This app is not fishing-regulation or licensing advice. Always check current state regulations and carry a valid license.
Seasons, closures, bag and size limits, gear and bait restrictions, special-regulation water, tribal and private water, invasive-species rules, and licence requirements are all set by state and local authorities, and they change. Checking them before you fish is your responsibility, not the app's — the app does not track them and does not warn you when you are about to break one.
Safety is yours too. Streamflow numbers are a data feed, not a safety assessment. Wading decisions, water levels, weather, and your own limits are your call. Do not use this app as a reason to get into water you shouldn't be in.
The app fetches two public feeds directly, over HTTPS, sending only the site number or coordinates needed to answer the request:
We don't control either service, don't warrant its data, and can't promise it will be available. When a feed is down, stale, or returns nothing, the app says so rather than inventing a number — but an honestly-reported gap is still a gap, and the absence of data is not a statement about the river.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use one copy of Hatch Window on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial fishing. That licence is all you get: we keep ownership of the app itself — its code, design, name, the curated spot list, and the hatch chart — and nothing here transfers any of that to you. The hatch chart and spot list are our own editorial work; don't scrape or republish them.
Everything you add — your custom spots, your catch and outing log, your settings — belongs to you, and we cannot see it. There is no account and no server of ours; it all lives in a local database on your own device.
Use Hatch Window to plan your own fishing. Don't:
Hatch Window is free, and every feature ships unlocked. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase, no paywall, and no advertising: v1 deliberately gates nothing, no purchase screen is reachable, and the app contains no payment SDK, so nothing in this version can take a payment or obligates you to pay for anything.
A paid tier may exist in a future version. If one ships, it will be billed and managed by the Apple App Store or Google Play under their own subscription terms, with pricing shown to you before you buy, and these terms will be updated first.
The app is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any time, window, ranking, hatch suggestion, flow reading, or weather value will be correct, current, or available, or that a third-party data feed will keep working.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Baker Ventures LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any lost data, wasted trip, missed fish, citation, fine, property damage, injury, or death arising from or relating to your use of the app, including any decision you make about when, where, or whether to fish or to enter water. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for it (which, for this version, is nothing) or US$50.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law — including liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, in which case they apply to you only as far as that jurisdiction permits, and you may have rights under your local consumer-protection law that these terms cannot take away.
You can end this agreement at any time by deleting the app; that also deletes your data from the device. We may stop offering, updating, or supporting Hatch Window at any time, and may suspend or terminate your licence if you breach these terms. The sections on your data, no warranty, limitation of liability, and governing law survive termination.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Where mandatory consumer-protection law of your place of residence applies, it applies in addition to this. This clause is about this agreement — the fishing regulations that bind you are the ones where you fish, not Utah's.
We may update these terms. When we do, we'll change the "Last updated" date above and describe what changed. Material changes will be surfaced in the app. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Questions about these terms: rsb.baker+hatchwindow@gmail.com · Baker Ventures LLC, Utah, USA.