Terms of Service

Welcome to CampsiteScan. These terms are a plain-English agreement between you and CampsiteScan ("we", "us") covering your use of campsitescan.com and its alert service. By creating an account, you agree to them.

1. What CampsiteScan does

CampsiteScan watches campground reservation systems for openings that match your dates and location, and alerts you by email, text message, or both when one appears. We are a notification service only:

• We do not book campsites for you. Booking happens on the official reservation site, under their terms and prices.
• We cannot guarantee that an opening will still be available when you click through. Cancellations get rebooked fast — that's the whole point.
• We check availability on a regular cycle (currently about every five minutes). Timing may vary and checks may occasionally be delayed or missed due to maintenance or outages of the upstream reservation systems.

CampsiteScan is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ReserveCalifornia, California State Parks, or any park operator or reservation provider. All park names belong to their owners.

2. Your account

• You need an account with a valid email address or a verified U.S. mobile number. An account you open with an email address (or Google) gets alerts by email; an account you open with a mobile number gets alerts by text message. Each email address and number can belong to only one account. Keep your contact details current — alerts sent to a dead address or number are alerts you'll never see.
• You're responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your email and phone secure, since sign-in codes are sent there.
• One account per person.
• You must be at least 18 to create an account.

3. Price

• CampsiteScan is free to use right now. If that changes, we'll tell account holders by email before anything is charged.

4. Fair use

Don't abuse the service. That includes attempting to scrape, resell, or redistribute our alerts or data; probing or disrupting the service; using it for anything unlawful; or circumventing account limits. We may suspend or close accounts that do.

5. Disclaimers

CampsiteScan is provided "as is" and "as available." We work hard to keep it accurate and running, but we make no warranties — express or implied — about availability, accuracy, or fitness for a particular purpose. Upstream reservation systems change, block, rate-limit, and break without warning, and campsite data comes from them.

6. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim related to the service is limited to the amount you paid us (which is nothing while the service is free). We are not liable for indirect or consequential damages — including a missed campsite, a changed trip, or anything you book (or don't book) based on an alert.

7. Ending or changing the service

We may update, suspend, or discontinue features of the service. We may update these terms; material changes will be announced by email or on the site, and continued use after that means you accept them.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA. Any disputes will be handled in the courts located in Los Angeles County, California.

9. Text (SMS) alerts

If you sign up with a U.S. mobile number, or add and verify one on your Account page, you can receive text alerts — a short text the moment a watched site opens up. CampsiteScan doesn't charge extra for text alerts.

• Message frequency varies with how many sites you're watching and how often they open up — there's no fixed number of texts per week.
• Msg & data rates may apply.
• Reply STOP to any CampsiteScan text to opt out of SMS at any time. Texts are how a phone account gets its alerts, so replying STOP stops them. Reply HELP for help.
• To switch between text and email alerts, open a new account the other way and delete the old one on its Account page.
• You don't have to receive texts: you can sign up with an email address and get alerts by email.
• Wireless carriers aren't liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
• See our Privacy Policy for how we handle your phone number.

10. Contact

CampsiteScan is operated by Sunsets Over Sunrise LLC. Questions about these terms? Use the contact form — a person reads every one of these.