Last Updated: 12 January, 2026
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It serves as a binding agreement between Scenic and its users and is referenced at the point of registration and account creation.
If you have any questions about these terms and conditions, you can contact us through the contact information provided in these terms.
You must be at least 18 years old to use the Platform. By using the Platform, you represent and warrant that you meet this requirement.
These Terms of Use (or "Terms") govern your access to and use of the Scenic mobile application (the "App", “Platform”) and associated services provided by Hangzhou Jingzang Network Technology Co., Ltd., 杭州景藏网络科技有限公司, Scenic ("Company", "we", "our" or "us") within the jurisdiction of the People’s Republic of China ("China"). By accessing or using the App within China, you agree to be bound by these Terms. These terms govern the use of the Scenic mobile application and related services (collectively, the “Service”). They define acceptable use, Scenic service content, user accounts, user responsibilities, limitations of liability, intellectual property rights, route and content submission terms, and dispute resolution procedures. They serve as a binding agreement between Scenic and its users and are referenced at the point of registration and account creation.
By accepting or using our Services, you confirm that you can form a binding contract with Scenic, that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. Your access to and use of our Services is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, the terms of which can be found directly on the App, or where the App is made available for download, on your mobile device’s applicable app store, and are incorporated herein by reference. By using the Services, you consent to the Terms of the Privacy Policy.
You can accept the Terms by accessing or using our Services. You understand and agree that we will treat your access or use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.
You should print or save a local copy of the Terms for your records.
We agree to provide you with the Scenic Service, which includes access to a suite of products, features, technologies, applications, and tools designed to support the purpose and mission of Scenic:
To transform journeys into immersive adventures by connecting travellers to picturesque routes and inspiring shared experiences.
You must exercise your own judgment regarding the content displayed on the Scenic platform and assume all risks arising from relying on or using such content. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you are solely responsible for any damages or losses resulting from the aforementioned content.
1. Personalised Opportunities to Discover, Explore, Create, Connect, Experience, and Share
We design our platform to help you discover scenic journeys, explore meaningful places, create and document travel experiences, connect with fellow travellers, and share what inspires you, whether that’s a weekend escape or a once-in-a-lifetime expedition. From community stories to curated feeds, Scenic surfaces content that aligns with your interests and travel behaviours.
2. Scenic Route Suggestions
Scenic uses a combination of user insights, environmental data, and proprietary recommendation systems to offer route suggestions that prioritise aesthetic, cultural, historic, and sensory value, not just speed. These suggestions may be personalised based on your location, travel history, and preferences.
3. Navigation Assistance
Our core navigation system offers real-time guidance along scenic routes, helping users reach their destinations in a way that prioritises discovery and quality of experience. This includes features like photo prompts, immersive route previews, and route-based audio guidance (where available).
4. Route Sharing
Users can share completed routes or planned journeys with others. Shared routes can include media, commentary, and Waymarks, helping friends or the wider community relive or follow the same journey.
5. User-Submitted Content
Scenic thrives on user-generated contributions, including route submissions, adventures, reviews, photos, and videos. This content helps enrich the platform and contributes to a living archive of scenic exploration. You maintain ownership of your content, while granting us limited rights to display and distribute it as outlined in our Terms. Any content you post on the Scenic platform does not represent the views, positions, or policies of Scenic, and you are solely responsible for the content you post.
6. Social Journey Coordination Tools
Scenic enables users to travel together via Team Routes, real-time location sharing, and collaborative planning tools. These features help users coordinate scenic experiences with friends, family, and community teams while retaining privacy controls.
7. Fostering a Positive, Inclusive, and Safe Environment
We are committed to cultivating a platform where users feel welcome, heard, and safe. Our tools, policies, and moderation systems aim to reduce misuse and surface meaningful, constructive engagement.
8. Developing and Using Technologies That Serve Our Community
To scale Scenic and offer innovative features, we invest in tools that make our services smarter, more intuitive, and more adaptive, including AI-powered and algorithm-based route recommendations, computer vision for route media, and content moderation systems that ensure quality and safety.
9. Providing Consistent and Seamless Experiences Across All Our Products
Whether you're using Scenic on mobile or viewing our official website, we strive to ensure a consistent and responsive experience. Your preferences, saved content, and history stay connected regardless of which device you use to log in.
10. Ensuring Access to Our Service
We maintain infrastructure, partnerships, and localised support to provide access to Scenic across different regions and network conditions. We may occasionally adapt our features to meet regulatory or technical requirements specific to your location.
11. Research and Innovation
We use aggregated data, community feedback, and emerging technologies to improve our services and imagine what travel experiences can become. Innovation is at the core of Scenic’s roadmap, from the introduction of new ways to discover hidden places to the integration of AI companions and future-forward journey planning tools.
1. Account Management
To access or use some of our Services, you must create an account. When creating this account, you must provide accurate and current information. It is important that you maintain and promptly update your details and any other information you provide to us to ensure that it remains current and complete.
Please keep your account password confidential and do not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect that any third party knows your password or has accessed your account, you must immediately notify us at safety@scenicnav.com.
You agree to be solely responsible (to us and others) for the activity that occurs under your account.
If you violate any laws, regulations, or the terms of this agreement during registration or use of your Scenic account, Scenic reserves the right to refuse registration; if already registered, Scenic reserves the right to require the user to correct the behaviour within a specified period, or take measures such as temporary suspension, permanent suspension, or account cancellation. We reserve the right to disable your user account at any time, including if you fail to comply with any provision of these terms, or if the activity occurring in your account (which we, in our sole discretion, deem harmful or potentially harmful to the service, or infringes or violates any third-party rights, or violates any applicable laws or regulations).
If you no longer wish to use our Services and wish to delete your account, please contact us at support@scenicnav.com. We will provide you with further assistance and guide you through the process. Once you choose to delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate it or retrieve any content or information you have added.
2. User Conduct
Your access to and use of the Services is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations. You may not:
- access or use the Services if you do not have full capacity and legal authority to agree to these Terms, or have not been authorised by your parent or legal guardian to use the Services;
- make unauthorised reproductions, modification, adaptation, translation, reverse engineering, disassembly, decompilation, or creation of any derivative works of the Services or any content therein, including any files, forms, or documents (or any part thereof), or determining or attempting to determine any source code, algorithms, methods, or techniques contained in the Services or any derivative works thereof;
- distribute, license, transfer, or sell the Services or any derivative works thereof, in whole or in part;
- market, rent, or lease the Services on a fee-based or paid basis, or use the Services for advertising or any commercial solicitation;
- use the Services for any commercial or unauthorised purpose, including disseminating or facilitating any commercial advertising, solicitation, or spam, without our express written consent;
- interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services, disrupt our website or any network connected to the Services, or bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;
- incorporate the Service or any portion of it into any other program or product. In such cases, we reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, or restrict access to the Service in our sole discretion;
- use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service;
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity, including creating the impression that any content you upload, post, transmit, distribute, or otherwise make available originates from the Service;
- threaten or harass others, or promote pornography, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
- use or attempt to use another person's account, service, or system without Scenic's authorisation, or create a false identity on the Service;
- use the Service in a manner that could create a conflict of interest or undermine the purpose of the Service, such as by exchanging reviews with other users or writing or soliciting false reviews;
- use the Service to upload, transmit, distribute, store, or otherwise make available: files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other malicious or technologically harmful material;
- any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other prohibited form of solicitation;
- any third party's private information, including addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, personal identification numbers and characteristics (e.g., National Insurance number, ID or passport number), or credit card numbers;
- any material that infringes or may infringe any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property right or right of privacy of another;
- any material that is defamatory, obscene, offensive, pornographic, hateful, or inflammatory;
- any material that constitutes, encourages, or provides instructions for criminal conduct, dangerous activities, or self-harm;
- any material that is intentionally provocative or irritating, especially malicious attacks and bullying, or that is intended to harass, harm, intimidate, distress, embarrass, or upset anyone;
- any material that contains threats of any kind, including threats of physical violence;
- any racist or discriminatory material, including discrimination based on race, religion, age, gender, disability, or sexual orientation;
- any answers, responses, comments, opinions, analysis, or suggestions that you do not have the appropriate permission or are not qualified to provide; or
- any material that Scenic, in its sole discretion, deems objectionable, restricts or inhibits any other person from using the Services, or that may expose Scenic, the Services, or its users to any harm or liability of any kind.
In addition to the above, your access to and use of the Service must always comply with our Community Guidelines and must not violate any local, national, or international law or regulation.
We reserve the right to remove or disable access to content at any time, for any reason or no reason, at our sole discretion, without prior notice. We may remove or disable access to content for reasons that include being objectionable, violating these Terms or our Community Policies, or otherwise damaging to the Service or our users. Our automated systems analyse your content (including emails) to provide you with personalised product features, such as customised search results.
At Scenic, we believe that the safety of children and minors online is of the highest importance. While many platforms in the social media and navigation space set minimum age limits of 12+ or 14+, we hold a stricter view: the risks associated with route creation, location sharing, and posting travel content are not appropriate for individuals under the age of 18.
This policy outlines our commitment to safeguarding children, the standards we apply, and the responsibilities of all users in protecting minors on Scenic.
Minimum Age Requirement
- Scenic is designed for use by individuals 18 years of age or older.
- Users under 18 may not create an account, post content, or use any features of the Scenic Service.
- By creating an account, you confirm that you meet this minimum age requirement.
Prohibition on Content & Media Involving Minors
To protect children from the risks of location-based exposure, we prohibit:
- Uploading or posting identifiable images or videos of minors.
- Sharing routes, echos or posts that include personal details of minors.
- Associating children’s likenesses with geotagged locations.
This restriction applies even if the child is your own or a family member. Scenic prioritises safety over exposure.
Risks We Are Guarding Against
We acknowledge and actively mitigate the specific risks technology can pose to children, including:
- Location targeting: Linking a child’s face with frequented places (e.g., school, home, or activity locations).
- Unintended exposure: Public sharing of posts, echos, routes, or team trips that include minors.
- Exploitation: The malicious use of personal data, imagery, or geolocation information involving children.
Responsibility of Parents and Guardians
Parents and guardians should be aware of the risks associated with allowing minors to appear in online travel content. Scenic strongly advises against using our platform to showcase children, even indirectly.
If you are a parent or guardian managing a Scenic account, you must ensure that:
- Children under 18 do not use the account.
- No images, videos, or identifying information of children are uploaded.
- Privacy and visibility settings are carefully reviewed to prevent unintentional exposure.
Enforcement
- Accounts found to be created by minors will be suspended or permanently removed.
- Content featuring minors that violates this policy will be deleted without prior notice.
- Repeated violations may result in the removal of your account.
Our Commitment
- Scenic will continue to review and update this policy to reflect evolving threats and best practices.
- We work to ensure our platform’s moderation systems, both automated and human, flag and prevent content that puts minors at risk.
- We are prepared to cooperate with regulators and child safety organisations globally to ensure compliance with the highest safety standards.
Reporting
If you see content on Scenic that involves minors or you believe a minor is using the platform, please report it immediately using the in-app reporting feature or by contacting childsafety@scenicnav.com.
Scenic respects the intellectual property (”IP) rights of others and expects all users of our Service to do the same. As a condition of your access to and use of the Services, you agree to the terms of the Intellectual Property Policy.
User Intellectual Property Rights
You warrant that all content you publish or upload through the Scenic platform (including but not limited to text, images, videos, audio, etc.) is original or that you have obtained the necessary legal authorisation. All user-generated content is the intellectual property of the user. By uploading content, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, modify, distribute, and display that content within the application. We may remove any content at our sole discretion. You are solely responsible for the content you upload and publish through the Scenic platform. If the content you send or disseminate is illegal, violates regulations, or infringes upon the rights of others, Scenic has the right to independently judge and take measures such as deletion. You shall bear full responsibility for any disputes arising from the infringement of others' intellectual property rights. If your actions cause losses to Scenic, Scenic has the right to demand compensation from you in accordance with the law.
User-Generated Content
Scenic allows you and other users to create, upload, share, and publish content through the Service, including but not limited to:
- Routes and Waymarks
- Photos, videos, and audio recordings
- Echos, and captions
- Posts
- Comments, ratings, and feedback
You retain ownership of your User-Generated Content (“UGC”). However, by submitting UGC to Scenic, you grant Scenic a worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform, and display such content in connection with operating, improving, and promoting the Scenic Service.
This includes, for example:
- Displaying your route on the Scenic app
- Using uploaded photos in route previews or marketing highlights
- Allowing other users to navigate, share, or experience your content
You represent and warrant that your UGC does not:
- Infringe on the intellectual property or other rights of third parties
- Violate Scenic’s Community Guidelines, Child Safety Policy, or other policies
- Contain harmful, misleading, unlawful, or exploitative material
You are responsible for your UGC, including ensuring you have all necessary rights to upload and share it on Scenic.
Scenic Content
All content, features, and technologies made available through Scenic are the property of Scenic or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and other intellectual property laws.
This includes, but is not limited to:
- The Scenic app, software, and underlying code
- Proprietary map layers, navigation systems, and route data analytics
- Scenic’s trademarks, brand elements, logos, and symbols
- In-app experiences, UI/UX design, and visual identity
- Scenic-produced editorial, guides, events, and campaigns
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Scenic grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Scenic Service for personal, non-commercial purposes.
You may not:
- Copy, modify, or create derivative works of Scenic’s Content
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract Scenic’s source code, maps, or databases
- Sell, lease, or distribute Scenic Content without explicit written permission
- Use Scenic’s trademarks or brand identity without authorisation
Content Moderation & Removal
Scenic may, at its discretion, remove, restrict, or disable access to any content (whether Scenic Content or UGC) that violates these Terms, applicable law, or poses risks to users or the community. Scenic also reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts engaged in repeated or severe violations.
Reporting Content
If you believe content on Scenic infringes your intellectual property rights or violates Scenic’s policies, you may report it through our Intellectual Property Policy or in-app reporting tools. Scenic will review and take appropriate action, which may include removal, suspension, or escalation to authorities.
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use of the App.
The App may include both free and premium features. Users may choose to access additional features through in-app purchases or subscription plans. All payments are processed through authorised third-party providers and are subject to their terms.
Subscription fees, pricing, and renewal terms will be clearly disclosed. We reserve the right to change pricing at our discretion with reasonable notice.
Scenic may integrate with third-party platforms and services, such as map APIs, weather data providers, or social media networks. By using these integrations, you agree to comply with the third-party service’s terms.
We are not responsible for the functionality, availability, or privacy practices of these third-party services. Your use of these services is at your own risk.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China. Any dispute shall be submitted to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) for arbitration in accordance with the CIETAC Arbitration Rules in effect at the time of applying for arbitration. The arbitral award shall be final and binding on both parties.
We amend these Terms from time to time, for instance, when we update the functionality of our Services, when we combine multiple apps or services operated by us or our affiliates into a single combined service or app, or when there are regulatory changes. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to generally notify all users of any material changes to these Terms, such as through a notice on our Platform; however, you should look at these Terms regularly to check for such changes. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms, which reflects the effective date of such Terms. Your continued access or use of the Services after the date of the new Terms constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. If you do not agree to the new Terms, you must stop accessing or using the Services.
For questions about these Terms, please contact us at: terms@scenicnav.com or call our hotline at 400-822-5665 / Weiye Dexin AI Industrial Park, Puyan Street, Binjiang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
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