HaltooTerms of use
Version of 15 September 2026.
This is a translation, provided so that you can read these terms. Haltoo is published from France and these terms are governed by French law. Where the two versions differ, the French version is the one that applies.
1. Purpose
Haltoo is a mobile app that shows, on a map, places useful to touring cyclists: drinking water, food, places to sleep, repairs, shelter, bike parking, transport, and information about the state of the route.
These terms govern the use of the app and of this website. Using them means accepting them. Creating an account requires explicit acceptance.
2. What the service is
Haltoo is a collaborative database, not a guidebook. Most of its content is published by its users, or taken from OpenStreetMap. The publisher does not check whether it is true before it appears.
The publisher therefore acts as a host within the meaning of article 6 of French Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy: it stores content supplied by third parties, and promptly removes any manifestly unlawful content reported to it (§7).
3. Warning — the information is indicative
What you see is indicative, dated and fallible. A place may be gone, a fountain shut off, a shop closed down, a detour lifted. It is published by people passing through, without verification, and nobody guarantees that it is still accurate by the time you read it.
Local rules always take precedence, and they change. Municipal and prefectural orders, rules governing protected areas, signs on site, private property: it is up to you to check on the ground what applies where you are.
This matters particularly for bivouac spots. In France there is no legal distinction between a bivouac and wild camping: the practice is tolerated where it is not forbidden, and it is forbidden in many places — state forests, nature reserves, listed sites, and much of the coastline. A spot appearing on the map does not mean it is permitted, that it is safe, or that it still is either. The publisher does not itself publish any bivouac spot; those on the map were added by users, on their own responsibility.
This warning is here to tell you about a real risk, not to disclaim the publisher's liability: mandatory legal provisions, in consumer law in particular, apply regardless.
4. Access and accounts
- Browsing is open and requires no account.
- Contributing requires an account, created through Google sign-in or through an email address with a verification code.
- A pseudonym is assigned to you automatically; you can change it. It must remain compliant with §6.
- Creating an account is restricted to people aged 15 or over.
- You are responsible for how your account is used.
- You can delete your account at any time, from within the app. See the privacy policy for what deletion covers.
- The number of contributions per account per day is capped, to prevent automated submissions.
5. Licensing of your contributions
Haltoo's places database is published under the Open Database License (ODbL).
By adding or correcting a place, you release that contribution under this licence. In practice: anyone will be able to reuse, modify and redistribute it, including commercially, provided they credit the source and share the result on the same terms. This licence is irrevocable: once a place is published, you can no longer withdraw it from the commons, even by deleting your account.
This is not really a choice: some of the places come from OpenStreetMap, whose licence is the ODbL, and share-alike propagates to the database that mixes them with contributions. It is also what keeps the map from being empty.
What this covers: the position, type, features and description of places.
Your reviews and photos are not covered
Reviews, ratings and photos remain yours and are not part of the database published under the ODbL. You can take them down at any time.
By publishing them, you grant the publisher, free of charge, on a non-exclusive basis and worldwide, three separate rights:
- To display them in the app and on the website, for as long as they are published.
- To analyse them, in order to produce aggregate statistics about places and routes — for example how welcoming a place is, the condition of facilities, or the stops people liked along a route — and to improve the service, in particular to estimate how reliable and up to date the information is. These results may be published, or passed on to third parties such as local authorities or tourist offices, including for a fee.
- To quote short excerpts from your reviews in these results and in the documents that present them — reports, publications, presentations —, in any medium and on the same terms. This right covers the text of reviews only: your photos are never shown outside the app and the website without your consent.
The statistics are anonymous. They are about places, never about people, and identify no contributor.
Each excerpt is presented as a cyclist's review, with the month and year it was published — for example “review by a cyclist, July 2027” —, but without your pseudonym: the source is stated, the author is not named, which you accept by publishing. It is reproduced without altering its meaning: it may be shortened, with cuts marked, and anything that could identify a person — you or someone else — is removed. Since your review remains public in the app, an excerpt can nonetheless be traced back to it there.
Taking a piece of content down ends its display, its use in any new analysis and any new quotation. Results and documents already circulated are neither redone nor recalled. Deleting your account, on the other hand, does not erase your content: it makes it anonymous (see the privacy policy).
These rights also benefit anyone who takes over the running of the service, in particular a company set up for that purpose.
Content published before 15 September 2026: it was licensed for display only. Accepting this version extends the analysis and quotation rights to the content you had already published; otherwise, it remains under the display right alone.
You warrant that you hold the rights to what you publish — in particular to photographs, which must be your own.
See the Data page for sources, licences and the public export →
6. What you must not publish
The following are prohibited, among others:
- abusive, hateful, discriminatory, harassing or threatening content, and content inciting violence;
- sexual content, or content unsuitable for a general audience;
- unlawful content, or content encouraging unlawful practices;
- other people's personal data — name, address, number plate, or the identifiable face of someone who has not agreed to it;
- places on private property without the owner's agreement, and more generally any place whose being visited would cause a nuisance to others;
- knowingly false information, particularly about drinking water or the safety of the route;
- advertising, solicitation, and content unrelated to the purpose of the service;
- protected content to which you do not hold the rights;
- automated use of the app, bulk extraction, and any attempt to disrupt its operation. The database is published under the ODbL, so it can simply be downloaded: there is no reason to scrape it.
7. Reporting and moderation
Every place, review and photo has a “Report” button in the app. The reasons on offer cover problems on the ground — the place no longer exists, overnight stays forbidden, private land — as much as inappropriate content.
A report can also be sent without an account, to contact@haltoo.com. That is the channel open to local authorities, managers of natural areas and landowners who want a place removed. Please state which place is concerned, and why.
The publisher reviews reports and promptly removes manifestly unlawful content. It may also, without notice: correct or remove content that breaches these terms, and suspend or delete an account in the event of a serious or repeated breach.
A user can block another user from within the app: the blocked person's contributions then stop being shown to them.
Contributions are not reviewed beforehand: a place that is added appears immediately. Edit history is kept, which makes it possible to undo an abusive change.
8. Intellectual property
The app, its code, its interface and its graphic elements belong to the publisher and are not covered by the ODbL — that licence applies to the database, not to the software that displays it.
Trade marks mentioned belong to their respective holders. In particular, “La Vélodyssée®” is a registered trade mark of which the publisher is neither the holder nor a partner; it is mentioned descriptively only, to name the route.
9. Free of charge, and availability
The service is free. It is provided as is, with no guarantee of availability: it may be interrupted, for maintenance among other reasons, or discontinued. Should it stop for good, the places database will remain available under the ODbL (see Data).
An optional subscription may be offered in future, covering convenience features only. Browsing places, like everything to do with safety and getting out of trouble, will remain free.
10. Liability
The publisher takes reasonable steps to keep the service working and to remove manifestly unlawful content from it. It does not guarantee the accuracy, currency or lawfulness of information published by users or taken from third-party sources; it is up to you to check it on the ground (§3).
Nothing in these terms excludes the publisher's liability where the law forbids that exclusion.
11. Changes to these terms
These terms may change. The applicable version is the one published on this page; its date appears at the top. Any substantial change is signalled in the app: to keep contributing, you must accept the new version. Browsing the map, which requires no account, remains subject to the version in force.
12. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by French law.
In the event of a dispute, first send a complaint to contact@haltoo.com. As the service is provided free of charge, it falls outside the scope of French consumer mediation, which presupposes a contract for consideration: no mediator is therefore appointed. Failing an amicable resolution, you may bring the matter before the competent court.