GeoVivé Docs

Version 1.0 · effective 1 October 2026 · updated 26 September 2026

1. Definitions

• App: the website or service you register, identified by its app ID and verified domain.
• Layer list: the file on your verified domain that describes your layers, as set out in the AppConnect requirements.
• Your data: the layers, sources, labels, fields and other content your layer list points to.
• Connection: your app's approved ability to send users to GeoVivé with your layers shown.
• Term: the one-year period a connection runs for.
• Validation report: the PDF GeoVivé sends with the results of its connection checks.

2. The connection

Once your app passes GeoVivé's checks, and you accept these terms and pay the fee, GeoVivé will show your layers to users who arrive through your app's links or open maps your app created, for the term. GeoVivé decides how the map and its panels look; your layers appear in the AppConnect section with your credits.

3. Term and renewal

• Each connection runs for one year from the day it goes live (or sandbox, if approved to sandbox first).
• To continue, you renew before the term ends by paying that year's fee and accepting the terms version current at renewal. Renewing early adds a year to the current end date.
• GeoVivé will email your contact at least 30 days and again 7 days before the term ends.
• If the term ends without renewal, the connection stops: your links open GeoVivé without your layers. You can renew for 90 days; after that GeoVivé disconnects the app as described in section 10.

4. Fees

• The fee for each term is shown at checkout and on your validation report. It's paid in advance for the year and isn't refundable, except where section 10 or the law says otherwise.
• Promotional codes may reduce the fee, including to zero, as stated with the code.
• Fees exclude taxes, which are added where required. Payments are processed by GeoVivé's payment provider; GeoVivé doesn't store card details.
• GeoVivé may change fees for future terms with at least 30 days' notice before your renewal.

5. Your data

• You keep all rights to your data. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership to GeoVivé.
• You give GeoVivé a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license for the term to fetch, simplify, cache (for relay layers, up to the cache time you set, and no more than 7 days) and display your data, only to your users and only in GeoVivé, as needed to run the connection. The license also covers reviewing your data for these terms: automated checks, AI review on Amazon Bedrock in GeoVivé's AWS account (text values only; not used to train models), and human review, as described on the Trust & Security page.
• GeoVivé won't sell your data, list it for other users or apps, offer it for download, or use it to build its own layers or train models.
• For direct layers, GeoVivé keeps no copy; users' browsers load the data from your source.
• When the connection ends, GeoVivé deletes cached copies of your relay layers within 7 days.

6. Your responsibilities

You confirm, at signup and at each renewal, that:

• you control the verified domain and the layer list;
• you have the right to display each source through GeoVivé in the way your layer list sets out, including relay caching where you chose relay;
• your attribution and license text is accurate and satisfies your sources' terms;
• your data doesn't include personal information about individuals, isn't unlawful, and doesn't mislead users about what it shows; and
• your contact details stay current.

You're responsible for your data and for claims arising from it, and you'll cover GeoVivé's reasonable costs if a third party brings a claim because your data broke these promises.

7. Checks, findings and suspension

• GeoVivé checks your domain, layer list and sources at signup, when your list changes, and on a schedule. Results are sent as validation reports.
• New and changed layers are approved before they're shown. Most are checked and approved automatically within minutes. A layer whose checks find something a person must judge (for example, values that look like personal information) is held for review, which takes up to 5 business days. Until a change is approved, the previously approved version of that layer keeps showing; a new layer isn't shown until it's approved. GeoVivé may decline to show a layer that breaks section 6 and will tell you why.
• Findings. GeoVivé tells your contact what it detects so you can fix it in your own systems: personal information and offensive content immediately; misleading content, data quality and licensing in a weekly digest. Remediation is your responsibility; GeoVivé reports and may hold the affected layer.
• Findings GeoVivé keeps. If a layer appears to involve criminal activity, a security threat, or targeting of people or protected sites, GeoVivé holds the layer and tells you only that it's under review. GeoVivé may preserve evidence (including a sample of the layer's values) in a restricted store for up to two years, and may share it with law enforcement or other authorities where the law requires or allows, to protect users, the public and the platform.
• GeoVivé may move your app back to sandbox, or suspend it, if checks fail, your domain token is removed, your sources break, or GeoVivé reasonably believes your data breaks section 6. GeoVivé will tell your contact why and what to fix.
• A suspension because checks failed doesn't extend or refund the term.

8. GeoVivé's responsibilities

• Keep your data within the limits of section 5, and protect it with reasonable security.
• Show your attribution and license text with your layers.
• Give at least 30 days' notice of changes to AppConnect that need changes to your layer list, except for urgent security fixes.
• GeoVivé aims to keep the service available but doesn't promise a specific uptime.

9. Users and privacy

Maps your users make in GeoVivé belong to those users, not to you or GeoVivé. Your app can't read them unless a user links their account with your app and consents. GeoVivé handles user information under its privacy notice.

10. Ending the connection

• You can disconnect at any time from your AppConnect page, either immediately or at the end of the current term, or by emailing admin@geovive.link. Fees already paid aren't refunded.
• What disconnecting does. Whoever ends the connection, and when a term lapses for 90 days without renewal, GeoVivé: (a) stops showing your layers straight away; (b) deletes its display, relay and review copies of your data; (c) stops checks, reminders and notices; (d) sends your contact a disconnection certificate listing what was deleted and what is kept, with an export of your app's settings and history.
• Reconnecting. For 90 days after disconnecting you can reconnect from your AppConnect page; the checks run again and a new term starts after payment. After 90 days GeoVivé deletes the app's reports and history and keeps only a minimal closed record, so your app ID stays reserved for your account.
• What's kept. Payment records as the law requires, and any evidence preserved under section 7 for up to two years. Maps your users created belong to them and stay in their accounts.
• GeoVivé can end it with 30 days' notice for any reason, and will refund the unused part of the current term's fee.
• GeoVivé can end it at once, without refund, for a serious breach of section 6 that isn't fixed within 14 days of notice, or immediately where the law requires it.
• Sections 5 (deletion), 6 (claims), 11 and 12 continue after the connection ends.

11. Warranties and liability

• GeoVivé is provided “as is”. Map layers are for display and planning, and users should check official sources before acting on them.
• Neither side is liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits or lost data.
• Each side's total liability under these terms is limited to the fees paid for the current term, except for your obligations in section 6 and where the law doesn't allow a limit.

12. Changes and general

• GeoVivé may publish new versions of these terms. New versions apply from your next renewal, or sooner only if you accept them.
• Each validation report and live notice states the terms version it relates to.
• These terms are the whole agreement about AppConnect. If part is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Neither side may transfer the connection without the other's consent, except as part of selling its business.
• Notices go to the contact email on your app record and to GeoVivé's contact address.