1. Agreement

These Terms are a binding agreement between you and Depth Development, LLC, a Utah limited liability company ("Depth," "we," "us," or "our"), governing depth.blue and related applications, profiles, records, cards, features, content, and services (collectively, the "Service"). By creating an account, checking the acceptance box, accessing, or using the Service, you represent that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Safety Disclaimer. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you may bind it, and "you" includes that organization. You may not use the Service if prohibited by law.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to contract to create an account. The Service is not directed to children under 13. Do not create an account for another person without authority. You must provide accurate information, protect your credentials, promptly update material changes, and notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity through your account to the extent permitted by law.

5. No Safety, Medical, or Professional Advice

Timers, goals, O2/CO2 tables, voice prompts, and pressure or lung-volume illustrations are general tools. Defaults, suggested values, and phase labels are not a personalized training prescription, a safe breath-hold limit, or an instruction to continue. These tools do not measure oxygen or carbon dioxide, monitor your condition, summon help, or replace a dive computer. Pressure and lung-volume models simplify real conditions and must not be used for decompression, gas planning, or medical decisions. Browser suspension, device failure, interruptions, and unavailable or delayed audio can affect operation. Never continue a breath hold while waiting for a timer or sound.

The Service does not provide medical diagnosis or advice, fitness-to-dive screening, coaching, instruction, certification, supervision, rescue, emergency monitoring, dive planning, legal advice, or professional safety advice. Content is general information and may be incomplete, delayed, inaccurate, or unsuitable for you. Depth does not verify that an athlete, buddy, instructor, record, dive, depth, time, location, condition, or technique is safe or authentic.

Never freedive alone. Obtain appropriate medical clearance and training, use qualified in-person safety support, follow recognized safety protocols, inspect equipment and conditions, and make conservative independent decisions. Do not use the Service during an emergency or while a device would distract from safety. Contact local emergency services immediately when needed.

6. User Content and Visibility

Records and certification details are user-submitted. Derived personal bests and comparisons can change after edits, deletions, settings changes, or conversions; they are not official competition results or federation rankings. An email-verified badge confirms email verification only, not identity, credentials, fitness, or achievement. Stored certificates and Depth Cards are not independently authenticated credentials, medical clearance, insurance, or evidence of event eligibility.

You retain ownership of content you submit, including profile information, photos, records, logs, notes, locations, links, and media ("User Content"). You grant Depth a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt for technical formatting, display, and distribute User Content only as needed to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Service according to your settings and these Terms. The license ends when content is deleted, subject to reasonable backups, legal retention, prior authorized public use, and technical limitations.

You control the visibility settings offered by the Service. Your profile name, username, and uploaded profile and hero images remain public even when your profile is private. Certifications and their evidence are not displayed to other users. See the Privacy Policy for the scope of private information and retention after deletion. Public information may be indexed, copied, screenshotted, embedded, redistributed, or accessed by anyone, and changing it later may not remove third-party copies. Do not publish sensitive locations, routines, health details, or content you lack rights or permission to share. You represent that your User Content is accurate where accuracy matters, lawful, noninfringing, and does not violate another person's privacy or publicity rights.

7. Acceptable Use

Nothing in these Terms restricts lawful, honest reviews, reports to regulators or authorities, or other legally protected disclosures.

You may not misuse the Service; impersonate others; falsify credentials or records; encourage unsafe conduct; harass, threaten, exploit, or defraud; upload malware; probe or bypass security; scrape or access the Service by unauthorized automated means; overload infrastructure; reverse engineer except where law permits; violate privacy or intellectual-property rights; use another person's data outside their authorization; or use Service output to make automated eligibility, medical, employment, insurance, or other high-impact decisions.

We may investigate, remove content, restrict visibility, suspend or terminate access, preserve evidence, or cooperate with lawful authorities when we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect users, the public, Depth, or the Service.

8. Third Parties, Connections, and Sharing

Connections are not background checks or a promise of qualified buddy support. Connecting does not grant access to otherwise private profile fields. Your connection comparisons and team groupings are owner-only features. Blocking restricts supported account interactions; it does not prevent access to information available anonymously, through another account, or in copies held elsewhere.

The Service may link to or interoperate with athletes, organizations, events, media hosts, websites, and software not controlled by Depth. Their content, safety, availability, and practices are their responsibility. Connections, follows, profile references, or API access do not constitute endorsement, verification, supervision, or a safety relationship. Anyone using another person's information must have appropriate authority and a lawful purpose. The API information page describes planned functionality; it does not grant access or promise release dates. Any future API may require separate terms.

9. Service Changes and Availability

Profile and card URLs and QR codes depend on the current username, account status, and sharing settings. They can stop working or change destinations. Usernames are not permanent identifiers and may become available to someone else. Check the current destination before relying on or distributing a code, and replace old printed or saved links after changes.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features; set usage limits; correct records; or make maintenance and security changes. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, preservation of content, compatibility, accuracy, or any particular result. Maintain independent copies of information you need. We may offer beta or experimental features that are especially subject to error and change.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Released Parties from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, and reasonable legal costs arising from your User Content, your unlawful or unsafe conduct, your misuse of the Service or another person's information, or your material breach of these Terms. This obligation does not require indemnification for a Released Party's own gross negligence, reckless conduct, intentional misconduct, or nonwaivable liability.

13. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service and request account deletion. We may suspend or terminate access for breach, risk, legal requirements, discontinuation, or prolonged inactivity, using reasonable notice when practicable. Sections that by nature should survive—including ownership, public-content consequences, disclaimers, release, liability limits, indemnity, dispute terms, and records required by law—survive termination.

14. Utah Law and Courts

These Terms are governed by Utah law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where the law of your residence mandatorily applies. You and Depth consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts located in Utah for disputes arising from these Terms or the Service. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking emergency injunctive relief or using an eligible small-claims court. Mandatory rights and venue protections that apply to consumers remain unaffected.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service or law changes. The effective date and version above identify the current text. We may also notify you through the Service or by email, and may require renewed acceptance for material changes. Changes apply prospectively from the stated effective date. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance where law permits; if you disagree, stop using the Service and request account deletion.

16. General Terms and Contact

Depth and its licensors retain rights in the Service software, design, branding, and content other than User Content. Subject to these Terms, you may use the Service for its intended purposes. No ownership of Depth trademarks or software is transferred. Third-party components remain subject to their applicable licenses.

Report suspected copyright infringement, impersonation, or privacy violations through the contact page or support@depth.blue. Include the affected URLs, the work or right involved, why you believe it is violated, your authority to report it, and contact details sufficient for a response. Provide accurate information and only necessary personal details. We may request further information and disclose details needed to investigate or respond to a complaint. We may disable disputed material and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. You may use the same contact to request review of a moderation decision.

These Terms and incorporated policies are the entire agreement about the Service and supersede prior discussions. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remainder remains effective. A failure to enforce is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; Depth may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, sale, or transfer of the Service. Headings are for convenience.

Send legal notices or questions to Depth Development, LLC through the contact page or support@depth.blue. The contact form is not monitored for emergencies.

1. Scope and Controller

Depth Development, LLC, a Utah limited liability company, controls the personal information described here. This Policy applies to visitors, account holders, athletes, and people who contact us. It does not govern third-party sites, embedded media, organizations, events, or applications that receive information at your direction.

2. Information You Provide

We collect account information such as name, display name, username, email address, and password hash; profile information such as biography, city or country, social links, profile and hero images, and connections, connection requests, blocks, and private team labels; certification names and evidence files or links; performance information such as dive dates, disciplines, depth, time, distance, temperature, equipment, quality, notes, derived personal bests, evidence, and media links; location information such as dive site, city, region, country, latitude, and longitude; visibility and appearance choices; and messages you submit to us.

Do not submit medical details or information about another person unless you have authority and a lawful reason to do so. Before uploading certification evidence, remove unnecessary birth dates, signatures, credential numbers, and other sensitive details. A certificate is stored for your reference; uploading it does not mean Depth has authenticated it.

3. Information Collected Automatically

The training timer runs in your browser; its timer state and table settings are not automatically submitted as completed workout or dive records. Page requests and any risk acknowledgment are processed separately. Optional voice prompts use your browser or operating system's speech service, which may use a remote provider depending on the selected voice. Generated timing and phase text is passed to that service; this feature does not record your microphone. We do not currently collect wearable sensor measurements or automatically track your device location; dive coordinates are information you enter.

We collect technical and activity information needed to operate and secure the Service, including session identifiers, timestamps, requested pages, authentication and audit events, device or browser information, and network information. Application records use one-way hashes of network and browser information for session security, notice acceptance, safety acknowledgments, rate limiting, and contact submissions. Server and hosting logs may separately process ordinary request information for security and operations.

Necessary cookies and limited browser session storage maintain sessions, security protections, notice acceptance, and preferences. See the Cookie Policy.

4. Sources

We receive information directly from you, automatically from your browser or device, from other users when they connect with or reference you. Public information and links may come from third-party media or websites you choose to associate with your profile.

5. Why We Use Information

We use personal information to create and verify accounts; authenticate users; provide profiles, dive logs, personal bests, connections, cards, visibility controls, and training tools; store and display content as you direct; send transactional and security communications; respond to support, privacy, and legal requests; prevent abuse and protect users and the Service; debug, maintain, measure, and improve features; enforce agreements; comply with law; and establish or defend legal claims.

Depending on where you live, our legal bases may include performing our contract with you, your consent, compliance with law, and legitimate interests such as securing and improving the Service. You may withdraw consent where processing relies on consent, without affecting earlier lawful processing.

6. Public and Private Information

Profiles begin with the private visibility setting. A private profile hides your bio, location, links, and performance records from other visitors. Your profile name, username, and uploaded profile and hero images remain public even with that setting. Certifications and their uploaded evidence are visible only to you through the application; authorized operators and service providers may access stored information for the purposes described in this Policy. A public profile also displays your bio, location, links, and dive entries you have marked public. Public information may be visible worldwide, returned through authorized Service interfaces, indexed by search engines, and copied by others. Depth cannot control third-party copies made while information was public. Review visibility before publishing—especially exact dive locations, routines, performance details, media, and travel details.

Your connection comparisons and team groupings are visible only to you through the application. Connection requests and relationship status may be shown to the affected participants as needed to handle the relationship. Connecting does not reveal otherwise private fields. Blocking does not hide content that anyone can view without signing in or recall existing copies. Restricted information is made available only through the Service's permission model, but no security or access control is infallible.

7. How We Disclose Information

We disclose information: to the public or connected users according to your choices; to vendors that provide hosting, storage, email delivery, security, maintenance, and other processing under our instructions; when necessary to comply with law, lawful process, or government requests; to protect rights, safety, and the integrity of the Service; in a financing, merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or transfer of assets, subject to appropriate safeguards; and with your direction or consent.

We may disclose information reasonably needed to investigate or resolve a content, rights, or impersonation complaint, including to the affected user or rights holder. Links and media URLs may cause your browser to communicate with the third-party destination when you open them. We do not currently sell personal information for money or use it for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising. If that changes, we will update this Policy and provide legally required choices before the new practice begins.

8. Sensitive Information

Dive coordinates and precise locations may reveal sensitive routines. Performance information and free-text notes may suggest physical characteristics or health-related facts, although Depth is not a healthcare provider and the Service is not a medical record system. We use these fields to provide athlete-requested features and visibility controls, and we do not use them to determine medical fitness. Enter and publish them only if you are comfortable doing so.

9. Retention

We retain account and content information while your account is active and as reasonably needed to provide the Service. We retain security, consent, safety acknowledgment, audit, transaction, and legal records as needed for fraud prevention, dispute resolution, enforcement, and legal compliance. Contact messages are retained as needed to respond and maintain business records. Verification codes and sessions expire under operational limits. Cookie-notice and training-risk receipts are valid for up to one year from acceptance, or until their applicable notice version changes. Scheduled cleanup removes acceptance records older than one year that are not linked to an account. Account-linked acceptance and safety records may be retained longer for the purposes above.

When a profile or hero image is replaced, or account deletion is completed, Depth stops serving the old image through its application URL. Removing URL access is separate from removing the stored file: unreferenced uploads may remain temporarily until scheduled cleanup. New image responses instruct browsers not to store copies, but previously cached, downloaded, or independently copied images may persist.

After deletion, information may remain temporarily in backups or be retained where required for security, legal obligations, legal claims, or documentation of consent. Public information copied by others is outside our control. We may retain aggregated or deidentified information that cannot reasonably identify you. We delete or deidentify information when it is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes.

10. Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed for the nature of the information, including password protection, email verification, access restrictions, safeguards against automated abuse, and checks on uploaded files. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, or unauthorized access will never occur. Use a unique password and promptly report suspected compromise.

11. Your Choices and Rights

You can edit supported profile and log fields and change available visibility settings in the Service. You may request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a portable copy of personal information, and may object to or restrict certain processing where applicable. You may also opt out of any future sale, targeted advertising, or qualifying profiling if applicable. We currently do not engage in those activities.

Submit a request through the contact page or support@depth.blue, including if you cannot access your account. To request review of a denied request, reply to our response or email that address with the request reference. Where applicable, you may also complain to your privacy regulator. We may verify that you are the account holder or are authorized to act on their behalf, limit or deny a request where law permits, and explain an appeal process where required. Authorized agents may submit requests where applicable, subject to verification. We will not unlawfully discriminate or retaliate because you exercise a privacy right. Privacy rights cannot be waived where applicable law makes them nonwaivable.

12. U.S. State Privacy Notices

Depending on your residence and whether a law applies to Depth, you may have rights to confirm processing; access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of information; and opt out of sale, targeted advertising, or certain profiling. The categories collected, purposes, sources, and recipient categories are described in Sections 2–8. We do not offer financial incentives for personal information. California residents may also request the categories of information collected, disclosed, sold, or shared and the recipient categories, subject to applicable thresholds and exceptions.

13. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and account registration is limited to adults age 18 or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If you believe a child provided information, contact us so we can investigate and delete it as appropriate. Parents and guardians should not submit a child's information or create an account for a child.

14. International Use

Depth is operated from the United States. If you use the Service elsewhere, information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States and other locations where service providers operate. Local law may provide additional rights or require transfer safeguards. Contact us if you wish to exercise applicable rights.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy as the Service, vendors, or law changes. The effective date and version above identify the current text. We may provide additional notice through the Service or email and request a new acknowledgment when a change is material. The version in effect when you register is recorded with your acceptance.

16. Contact

Depth Development, LLC is responsible for this Policy. Submit privacy questions, rights requests, appeals, or data-protection concerns through the contact page or support@depth.blue. Do not include passwords, unnecessary medical information, or emergency requests.