Terms of Service

What you are buying

A Painted Course print is a golf course drawn from its survey in OpenStreetMap, with every numbered hole measured along the line its mappers drew from tee to green, printed on the paper or canvas you choose, or sent to you as a Digital File. You choose the course, the sheet and the words; the drawing and every yard figure are worked out from the survey, and the print is drawn from the same survey and settings you saw in the studio.

A course print is drawn from data by our code, not made by an image generator and not traced from aerial photographs.

The View is different, and says so: it's a digital painting of a photograph you send, made by OpenAI's image model, enlarged for print by Claid, and printed by the same labs. Send only a photograph you took or have the right to use. You keep the rights in your photograph; you give us permission to send it to those two services to make your painting and your print, and nothing more. The painting can differ from the photograph in its detail, and it leaves out people and signs on purpose.

Painted Aerial is a digital painting too, made by the same model from our own Aerial drawing of your course, and every hole stays where the survey puts it. The trees and shadows in it are the model's reading of our drawing, so they can differ from the ground itself. Every word and yard on it is set by us, over the painting, at print size.

You must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live, to order.

Clubs and course names

A course's name is used on the print to say which course it is. No club or golf body has made or approved the print, and we never set a club's logo or crest on it. A hole in one, a score or a name you add is your own words, and we don't check them.

The map data

The drawing is a Produced Work from OpenStreetMap, which its contributors make available under the Open Database License. Every print carries the credit the licence asks for, with the date the data was read, and you agree not to remove it from a Digital File. The data is the work of volunteers: it can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and a print shows it as it was on that date.

Made to order

Every print is drawn and printed for one course and one set of choices. Nothing is held in stock and nothing can be resold, so please check the course, the words, the yards and the options before you pay. Your order goes to the print lab after payment, so a print can't be cancelled or returned once it's under way, except where the fault is ours or the law says otherwise. The shipping and returns page sets out what we do when something goes wrong.

If something arrives wrong

If your print arrives damaged, defective, or not what you ordered, write to us within 30 days of delivery with a photograph and we'll remake it or refund you. That is our own promise, and it sits on top of your statutory rights, which nothing here reduces.

Your print, your rights

Your purchase licenses the print for personal use: hang it, give it, photograph it. It doesn't transfer our copyright in the drawing or the software, and it doesn't license commercial use or resale. A club that wants prints for its members or its shop can write to us and ask.

The Digital File

A Digital File is the print-ready JPEG of your course, sent as a download link on the page after you pay and by email, instead of being printed. Nothing is shipped. Your purchase licenses the file for personal use: print it as often as you like for yourself, frame it, and give the prints you make as gifts. It doesn't license resale, commercial use or merchandise, or passing the file on for other people to print. If the file is faulty or isn't the course you set, write to us within 30 days and we'll fix it or refund you.

Gift codes

A gift code pays for one print or one Digital File on this site, up to the amount it was bought for. Shipping is paid separately, at checkout. It works once: if the item costs less than the code, the difference doesn't carry over and can't be used later. Codes don't expire and have no cash value, and they work only on this site.

The code is emailed to the person who bought it, to pass on. Anyone who has the code can use it, so keep it as you would a gift card; we can't replace a code someone else has already used. A code can't make a course printable that OpenStreetMap doesn't hold enough of. The names and message on a gift note are the buyer's own words, and we don't check or edit them.

Fair use of the site

Please don't scrape the site, resell access to it, or use it to produce anything unlawful, including names or lines that use someone else's trademark to suggest they made the print, or that impersonate a real person. We may decline or refund any order at our discretion.

The honest limits

Each yard figure is the length of a hole's surveyed line, measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid and rounded to the nearest yard. It is not the club's card: a mapper's line may start at a different tee, bend where the hole bends, or end at a different part of the green, so a figure can differ from the card by more than a few yards, and our example course shows three holes that do. The print is drawn north up (The Hole turned tee to green) on a flat projection, and the carries are to the nearest edge of each hazard as mapped. A print is a picture of a course, not a yardage book for competition, and it should not be relied on for a rules decision or anything that matters.

The site and everything on it are provided as they are, without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim arising out of an order or these terms will not exceed what you paid for the order it concerns, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here limits liability that the law does not allow us to limit.

Prices and payment

Prices are shown before you pay, and Stripe's checkout page shows the full total, including any shipping, before you confirm. Stripe charges your card; we never see or store your card details. Our print lab prints and ships each order, and shipping is charged at what it costs to send, with nothing added. Import duties, where they apply, are the recipient's responsibility.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and disputes will be heard there, except where consumer-protection law where you live gives you the right to bring proceedings in your own country. Before filing anything, please write to us so we can try to settle it directly.

Changes

We may update these terms. The date at the top always says when. Orders are governed by the terms in force when you placed them.

Reach us

Write to support@painted.app about anything here, or by post to PaintedApp, LLC, 1327 SE Tacoma St #394, Portland, OR 97202, United States. How we handle your details is in the privacy notice.