Effective: September 14, 2026
Last reviewed: September 14, 2026
These Terms of Use govern Hook the Horizon at hookthehorizon.blog and Hook the Horizon editorial tools, applications, submissions, accounts, and features that link to these terms. Hook the Horizon is published by Northern Lantern House LLC.
1. Acceptance and informational use
By using a service governed by these terms, you agree to them to the extent permitted by law. Content and tools are general fishing education and decision support. They do not create legal permission, regulatory approval, guide services, navigation certification, safety clearance, or other professional services. See Disclaimers & Disclosures.
2. Applications and field tools
Field Ops and related species, presentation, tackle, knot, hatch, rig, water, and planning tools may organize information and generate bounded field recommendations. They do not create a license, access right, regulation, emergency warning, navigation product, live conditions service, or guarantee that a particular water, route, product, species, or presentation is appropriate for your circumstances.
3. Acceptable use and system protection
You may not use the site or applications to harm, interfere with, or obtain unauthorized access to systems, data, accounts, or other users. Prohibited conduct includes:
- automated scraping, harvesting, crawling, or bulk extraction without written permission, particularly where it degrades service or circumvents access controls;
- high-volume bots, automated requests, credential stuffing, denial-of-service activity, or attempts to evade rate limits;
- malware, malicious uploads, SQL or database injection, cross-site scripting, code injection, or attempts to alter, probe, exploit, or compromise the service;
- unauthorized penetration or security testing;
- bypassing authentication, entitlement, license, paywall, download, or other access controls;
- reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or extracting restricted source code, protected datasets, product logic, or application logic except to the extent a right cannot lawfully be restricted;
- using protected content or paid product material as machine-learning training data without written permission; or
- impersonation, infringement, unlawful submissions, or interference with another person’s use of the service.
Access may be limited or suspended when reasonably necessary to protect users, the service, intellectual property, security, conservation interests, or legal rights.
4. Copyright, intellectual property, and brand use
Unless a separate license says otherwise, writing, photography, illustrations, diagrams, knot and species material, layouts, software, tools, datasets, product files, and other original material are owned by Northern Lantern House LLC or used with permission. You may link to the work and quote reasonable short excerpts with attribution where law permits. You may not republish substantial portions, mirror the site, redistribute protected files, copy a tool or dataset into a competing service, remove ownership notices, or use Hook the Horizon or Northern Lantern House marks in a way that falsely implies affiliation or endorsement.
5. User submissions
You keep ownership of material you submit. You grant Northern Lantern House LLC a non-exclusive license to use it as reasonably necessary to receive, respond, moderate, investigate, correct, secure, and improve the service, subject to the Privacy Policy. Do not submit exact sensitive coordinates, private-access credentials, or confidential information a feature does not need.
6. Accounts and credentials
If an account, license key, secure link, or other credential is issued, keep it reasonably secure. Paid credentials may not be shared except where the applicable product license expressly permits it.
7. External links and third-party services
Agencies, maps, retailers, manufacturers, land managers, weather services, payment services, embeds, and other third parties operate under their own terms and privacy practices. Northern Lantern House LLC does not control them.
8. Purchases
Purchases from Hook the Horizon are governed by the Terms of Sale. If these Terms of Use conflict with the Terms of Sale regarding a purchase, delivery, license, refund, or paid entitlement, the Terms of Sale control for that issue.
9. Accessibility
Hook the Horizon aims for WCAG 2.2 Level AA across primary reading paths, navigation, forms, checkout, and tools. Work includes keyboard access, meaningful structure, visible focus, adequate contrast, responsive reflow, useful text alternatives, and respect for reduced-motion preferences.
Third-party services may not meet the same standard. Report a barrier through the Hook Us page with the page or tool, what you were trying to do, and relevant device or assistive-technology information. Where reasonably possible, essential information or a primary function will be provided in another usable form while a barrier is addressed.
10. Availability, changes, and data continuity
The site and applications are not promised to be uninterrupted, error-free, permanent, or available on every device. Features may be maintained, revised, corrected, limited, or retired. Keep independent copies of consequential field notes and records you cannot afford to lose.
11. Liability and non-waivable rights
The site and tools are provided as is and as available to the fullest extent permitted by law. Liability is limited as described in Disclaimers & Disclosures. Nothing here waives a right or liability that applicable law does not allow to be waived or limited.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Montana, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, subject to mandatory consumer protection or other non-waivable law that applies to you.
13. Changes
These terms may be updated as the service changes. Material revisions are reflected in the effective or last-reviewed date. Continued use after revised terms take effect constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
14. Contact
Use the Hook Us page or email hello@northernlanternhouse.com.