Peak Press

Section one

Terms of use and sale

Peak Press (“we”, “us”) operates this website and sells 3D-printed relief models and print-ready model files. By using the site you agree to what follows. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

The design studio is free, and the sale happens on Etsy

You can design as many models as you like here without paying or creating an account. When you are ready to order, the studio gives you a design code and sends you to our shop on Etsy. The purchase itself is a transaction between you and us through Etsy, and Etsy’s own terms, payment handling, shipping and returns policies apply to it alongside ours. Prices shown here are a guide; the price you pay is the one on the listing at checkout.

What you may do with a model file

If you buy a model file rather than a printed object, you are buying a licence to use it, not the copyright in it. You may print it as many times as you like for yourself, and give a printed copy to somebody as a gift. You may not resell, share, re-upload or redistribute the file itself, and you may not sell prints made from it, without our written permission. If you want to sell prints, write to us — we would rather talk about it than find out later.

Your hike, and anything else you upload

If you add a GPX track, it is read inside your own browser and used to draw a line on your model. It is not uploaded to us and we never receive a copy — see the privacy section, which explains this in more detail. If you email a track to us so that we can print it for you, you keep ownership of it, and you give us permission to use it for the single purpose of making your model. You are responsible for having the right to share anything you send us.

Models are not maps, and are not for navigation

What the models are made of

Models are printed in PLA, a rigid plastic. They are display objects, not toys, and are not suitable for children under three: small parts can break off and be swallowed. PLA softens in sustained heat, so do not leave a model in a parked car, on a radiator, or in direct sun behind glass. Colours are chosen to read clearly at the size the model prints and are not a claim about what the real ground looks like on any given day.

Handmade means small differences

Every model is printed to order on filament machines. Layer lines, slight colour variation between runs, and small differences from the on-screen preview are normal and are not faults. The preview is an honest representation of the geometry we will print; it is not a photograph of your finished object.

No warranty beyond what the law gives you

The website and the studio are provided as they are. We do not promise that the site will be available without interruption, that the terrain services it depends on will be reachable, or that it is free of errors. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Nothing here takes away rights you have as a consumer that cannot be taken away by agreement. In particular, nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Limit of what we can owe you

Other than the paragraph above, and to the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you arising out of the site or anything you buy through it is limited to the amount you actually paid us for the item concerned. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

These terms can change

We may update this page. The date at the top says when it last changed, and the version in force is the one published when you place an order. These terms are governed by the law of the State of Maine, USA.

Section two

Privacy

The short version: this site has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics and no advertising trackers. We do not know who you are, and we have not built anything that could tell us. What follows is the long version, written from what the code actually does.

What stays on your device

The studio saves a few things in your browser’s local storage so it behaves sensibly between visits. These never leave your computer and we cannot read them:

• whether you prefer feet or metres;
• a cache of peak names and heights for map squares you have already looked at, so the same area does not have to be fetched twice;
• a couple of service addresses the studio discovered for itself, cached so it does not have to ask again next time.

You can clear all of it at any time by clearing site data for this website in your browser. Nothing breaks if you do; the studio simply looks things up again.

Your GPX track never reaches us

When you add a hike, the file is read by JavaScript running in your browser and turned into a line on the model. There is no upload: the file is not sent to our servers (we do not run any), and it is not sent to anybody else. The finished model file is likewise assembled in your browser and saved straight to your downloads. If you choose to email a track to us instead, we receive it as an ordinary email and keep it only as long as it takes to make your model.

Companies that see your IP address because they serve part of the page

Peak Press is a static website with no server of its own, so the maps and terrain come directly from the organisations that publish them. When your browser asks them for data, they necessarily see your IP address, and their own privacy policies govern what they do with it. We have no business relationship with most of them and receive nothing back. They are:

• Netlify, which hosts this website.
• Google Fonts, for the typefaces.
• Cloudflare (cdnjs), jsDelivr and unpkg, which serve the mapping and 3D libraries the studio runs on.
• OpenStreetMap — Nominatim for place search and Overpass for water and peak data — and OpenFreeMap for map tiles.
• Esri, for the satellite imagery shown on the map.
• The elevation services listed under data and credits: the U.S. Geological Survey, Amazon Web Services (which hosts the Copernicus and ArcticDEM archives), and the national mapping agencies of France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Japan.
• Wikidata, for peak names in some regions.

If you would rather not contact any of them, do not use the studio; the rest of the site still works.

If you write to us

Our email address is handled by Google (Gmail). If you email us we keep the message, and your address, for as long as we need it to answer you and to keep a record of the order. We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not send marketing email.

If you buy something

Orders are taken through Etsy, which collects your name, address and payment details under its own privacy policy. We see what any seller sees: what you ordered and where to send it. We never see your card details.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them — which is straightforward, as we do not knowingly collect anything from anybody.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, the EU, California or anywhere else with data protection law, you have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. In practice we hold nothing unless you have emailed us or bought something, in which case it is the email and the order. Write to the address below and we will answer.

We do not sell or share personal information, and we never have.

Section three

Accessibility

We want this site to be usable by as many people as possible, and we treat that as part of building it rather than as something bolted on afterwards. We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA.

What we have done

• Every piece of text on the site has been measured against its background and meets the 4.5:1 contrast ratio (3:1 for large text).
• Everything you can click, you can reach with the Tab key, and there is a clear visible outline showing where you are.
• Every control — including the sliders in the studio — has a name a screen reader can announce.
• Every photograph has a written description.
• A “skip to content” link is the first thing a keyboard user reaches.
• If your system is set to reduce motion, the site stops animating.

Where we know it falls short

The design studio shows a 3D model of a mountain and a map you drag around. Those are visual by their nature, and we have not found a way to convey a landform in text that would let somebody design a model without seeing it. The model’s key facts — the place, the ground it covers, its height range and every setting — are given in text beside it, but choosing a view is still a sighted task.

Section four

Data and credits

Peak Press does not survey anything. Every model is built from elevation and map data published by national agencies and open projects, and several of those licences require that they be credited wherever their data appears. This is that credit, in full.

United States — elevation and hydrography

USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) and the National Hydrography Dataset, U.S. Geological Survey. Public domain.

Worldwide — elevation

Copernicus DEM © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

The Arctic

ArcticDEM © Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota, licensed CC BY 4.0.

France

RGE ALTI® © IGN France, under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).

Spain

Modelo Digital del Terreno (PNOA-LiDAR) © Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España, licensed CC BY 4.0.

Italy

TINITALY/01 © Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), licensed CC BY 4.0.

Switzerland and the Alps

swissALTI^Regio © swisstopo, incorporating RGE ALTI © IGN France, TINITALY © INGV, DGM © geoland.at and DGM1 © Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung.

Japan

Elevation tiles © Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI).

Map data, place search, water and peaks

© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Map tiles by OpenFreeMap using OpenMapTiles. Some peak names from Wikidata (CC0).

Satellite imagery on the map

Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community. Shown for reference while you frame a model; imagery is not reproduced in the printed object.

Trademarks that are not ours

Etsy is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. Bambu Lab and Bambu Studio are trademarks of Shenzhen Tuozhu Technology Co., Ltd. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by either company, or by any of the agencies listed above; we name them only to say truthfully where our data comes from and which software our files are known to open in. Place names, mountain names and the names of parks and ski areas are used descriptively to say what a model shows.

Section five

Contact

Peak Press — Sabattus, Maine, United States
hello.peakpress@gmail.com
Our shop on Etsy

For anything about an order, Etsy’s messages reach us fastest. For accessibility, a privacy question, or a permission request, email is best.