🗿 Rushmore

Terms of Service

Effective May 20, 2026 · Last updated May 20, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Cody Simons, an individual (“we”, “us”, “Rushmore”), governing your use of the Rushmore iOS app and any related services (the “Service”). By downloading, installing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

Please also read our Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms.

1. Who can use Rushmore

• You must be at least 13 years old to use Rushmore (or the minimum digital-consent age in your country — 16 in much of the EU/UK).
• If you're using the app on behalf of a business or organization, you represent that you're authorized to bind that entity to these Terms.
• You must not be located in, or a national of, a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist-supporting” country, and you must not be on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

2. Your account

• You can use Rushmore as a guest (no account, fully on-device) or by signing in with Apple.
• If you sign in with Apple, you're responsible for keeping your Apple ID secure. We rely on Apple to authenticate you.
• You can have one account at a time. Don't create accounts using someone else's identity.
• You can delete your account at any time by emailing hello@rushmore.app; see the Privacy Policy for details on what happens to your data.

3. Your content (Rushmores, hot takes, profile)

You own what you create. The Rushmores you build, the hot takes you write, your display name, and your avatar emoji belong to you.

By posting a Rushmore to the public Trending feed, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute that Rushmore within the Service so other users can see it, react to it, comment on it, and remix it. This license lasts as long as the Rushmore is public, and ends when you delete it (subject to caches and backups that expire within 30 days). We won't sell your content to third parties or use it for advertising.

You also grant other users a license to view, like, comment on, and create derivative “remix” Rushmores from your public Rushmore, all within the app. (That's the whole point of the Trending tab.)

You're solely responsible for the content you post. We don't pre-screen content but we can remove anything that violates these Terms.

4. Acceptable use

Don't use Rushmore to:

• Post anything illegal, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, or that incites violence against an individual or group.
• Impersonate someone else, including by setting a misleading display name or by claiming to be a public figure you're not.
• Post sexually explicit content, content sexualizing minors, or content that exploits or endangers anyone.
• Post other people's private information (doxxing).
• Post spam, scams, or commercial advertisements.
• Violate someone else's intellectual property rights — for example, by uploading copyrighted images you don't have rights to. (The portraits the app auto-fetches from Wikipedia are public; if you add a custom portrait, make sure you have the right to use it.)
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise try to extract the source code of the app, except to the extent that law expressly permits despite this limitation.
• Interfere with the Service — for example, by overloading it with automated requests, probing for vulnerabilities, or attempting to access another user's account.
• Use the Service to train any machine-learning model.

Violation of any of these may result in content removal, account suspension, or permanent account termination at our discretion.

5. Hot takes and rankings about public people

Rushmore is, by design, an app where users rank real public figures and write short opinions (“hot takes”) about them. Hot takes and rankings are the opinions of the user who posted them, not statements of fact, and not our opinions or endorsements.

If you believe a hot take or Rushmore about you (or someone you represent) is defamatory or otherwise unlawful, please email hello@rushmore.app with the specifics and we'll review it promptly.

6. Wikipedia portraits and third-party content

The portrait photos that appear in the app are fetched from Wikipedia, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, and are subject to Wikipedia's content licenses (typically CC BY-SA or public domain). We don't own them. If you want to know the license of a specific portrait, look it up on Wikipedia.

If you choose to share a Rushmore image (via the Share button or Save to Photos), that image is a composite that includes Wikipedia-sourced portraits. Your use of that image is subject to whatever license applies to the underlying portrait — for personal social-media sharing this is generally fine; commercial use may require attribution or different rights.

7. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, email hello@rushmore.app with: (a) your contact information; (b) a description and URL of the content you claim infringes; (c) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you're the rights holder or authorized to act for them; and (d) your signature (electronic is fine).

We'll remove infringing content promptly. Repeat infringers' accounts will be terminated.

8. Termination

• You can terminate at any time by deleting the app or by emailing us to delete your account.
• We can terminate or suspend your access if you violate these Terms or if running your account is creating disproportionate risk or cost for us. We'll try to give you notice when reasonable.
• Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination (ownership, disclaimers, limitations of liability, governing law, etc.) will survive.

9. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL CODY SIMONS, OR ANY AFFILIATES, BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR USE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM (typically zero, since the app is free), OR (B) USD $50.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages — in those places, the above limits apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Cody Simons and any affiliates from any claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms.

12. Apple-specific terms

You acknowledge and agree to the following with respect to the Apple App Store:

• These Terms are between you and Cody Simons only, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content.
• Your license to use Rushmore is limited to a non-transferable license to use the app on any Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the Service.
• Apple is not responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law. If the Service fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) you paid for it; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party has relating to the Service, including but not limited to product-liability claims, claims that the Service fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer-protection or similar legislation.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the Service or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, Cody Simons (not Apple) is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo, and you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that isn't resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts located in California, and you and we consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts. (If you're a consumer in the EU/UK, this section doesn't override mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live.)

You and we both waive any right to a jury trial. Class-action and class-arbitration claims are not permitted; disputes must be brought in your or our individual capacity.

If any provision of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

14. Changes to these Terms

If we change these Terms materially, we'll update the effective date above and surface the change in the app the next time you open it. Continued use after a change means you accept the new Terms.

15. Contact

Questions, content reports, copyright complaints, account deletion: hello@rushmore.app

Rushmore is built by Cody Simons. There is no parent company.

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