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Terms of Use

Effective date: November 9, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of https://www.zrankings.com and everything on it (the "Service"), operated by ZRankings LLC ("ZRankings", "we", "us"). By accessing the Service, by any means, including through software, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not access the Service. Our Privacy Policy is part of these Terms.

1. Our content and data

ZRankings has built its rankings, scores, ratings, measurements and analyses over more than 13 years. That includes our resort rankings and Pure Awesomeness Factor, climate and snow scores, lidar-measured ski run statistics and elevation profiles, run pages, snow totals, forecasts, lodging analyses, maps, text, graphics and the selection and arrangement of all of it (together, "ZRankings Content"). ZRankings Content is owned by ZRankings LLC or its licensors and is protected by copyright, including copyright in compilations, and by other intellectual property and unfair-competition laws. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

2. What you may do

You may view the Service in a web browser for your own personal, non-commercial use, share links to it, and quote brief excerpts with clear attribution to ZRankings and a link to the page you quoted.

3. What is prohibited

Unless we have agreed otherwise in a signed written license, you may not, and may not allow or help anyone else to:

  • Scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, mine, index in bulk, or otherwise extract ZRankings Content by any automated or systematic means, including bots, scripts, headless browsers, browser extensions, proxies, rotating IP addresses or third-party scraping services. This includes our ski run pages, run statistics and profiles, rankings, scores, snow and forecast data, and lodging pages.
  • Copy, download, store, compile or reproduce ZRankings Content in bulk, or build a database, dataset, index or archive from it.
  • Republish, redistribute, sell, license or otherwise commercially use ZRankings Content, or use it to create, train, fine-tune, benchmark or improve any product, service, dataset or machine-learning model, except as permitted in Section 4.
  • Circumvent, disable or interfere with any rate limit, bot protection, challenge, robots.txt instruction or other technical measure, or disguise the identity or purpose of any software accessing the Service (for example, by spoofing a browser or search-engine user agent).
  • Access the Service in a way that places an unreasonable load on our systems.

Any access or use that violates this Section is unauthorized.

4. Search engines and AI assistants

We permit search engines and AI assistants that identify themselves honestly, are verified by our network providers, and follow our robots.txt to access the Service only to show search results and answers to their users, with attribution to ZRankings and a link back to the source page. This permission does not extend to bulk export, resale, or building a competing dataset or service, and we may withdraw it from any operator at any time. For data licensing or an API, contact us.

5. Enforcement

We monitor traffic to the Service and log, identify and block automated access that violates these Terms. Violations of these Terms are a breach of a binding agreement with ZRankings LLC and an unauthorized use of the Service and of ZRankings Content. We will pursue all remedies available to us, including injunctive relief, damages, and recovery of our costs and attorneys' fees where permitted, against anyone who scrapes or misuses the Service and against the individuals, companies and other parties that operate, direct, fund or benefit from that activity. Those remedies include claims for breach of contract, copyright infringement, and violations of computer-access, anti-circumvention and unfair-competition laws where they apply. We may also report violations to hosting, network and cloud providers.

6. Affiliate links

Some links on the Service, including lodging and booking links, are affiliate links. If you book through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This does not affect our rankings or analyses.

7. No warranties

The Service and ZRankings Content are provided "as is" and "as available". Snow totals, forecasts, conditions, measurements, prices and other information can be incomplete, delayed or wrong; check with resorts and providers before relying on them, especially for safety decisions. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied.

8. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, ZRankings LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service.

9. Changes and general terms

We may update these Terms at any time by posting a new version on this page; continued use of the Service after a change means you accept it. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which ZRankings LLC is organized.

Questions or licensing requests: contact us.