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Far — AI Features Disclosure

DRAFT — requires review by qualified counsel before publication. Published at /legal/ai; the two-sentence short form below is shown inline the first time a user invokes an AI feature.

Short form (first-use inline notice): "Far's AI features send a summary of this trip — title, location, dates, route stats, forecast, and gear names — to our AI provider (Groq, US) to generate a response. AI answers can be wrong; verify anything safety-critical. [Learn more]"

Which features use AI

  • Far AI assistant — answers questions about your own trips. It looks up the specific data it needs to answer each question (trip details, itinerary, weather, gear kit, nearby camps and permits, trail hazards, gear-catalog search) rather than sending everything on every question.
  • Trip plan generation — drafts an itinerary from your route and trail data.
  • Gear parsing — turns pasted gear lists into inventory items and estimates weights.
  • Gear check — reviews a trip's kit for gaps against conditions.
  • Alert and permit summaries — condenses official park feeds for your trip area.
  • Trip summaries — narrative recap of a trip's stats.
  • Parts of the gear catalog were AI-seeded; those rows are marked and shown as estimates ("~") until verified against manufacturer data.

What is sent, and to whom

When — and only when — you invoke one of these features, Far sends the relevant trip context to Groq, Inc. (US), which runs the language model (currently [llama-3.3-70b-versatile]). For most features this is a fixed text summary: trip title, location name, dates, route distance and elevation, cached forecast numbers, gear item names, weights and categories, and for alert/permit features the official feed text for your trip area. The Far AI assistant instead looks up only what a given question needs (it may check your itinerary, weather, gear kit, nearby camps and permits, trail hazards, or search the gear catalog, one at a time, as it works out an answer) rather than sending a fixed summary every time. Your email, account identifiers, photos, and raw route coordinates are not included. Nothing is sent to any AI provider in the background — only on your action.

Per Groq's published data-handling policy (confirmed 2026-07-24, console.groq.com/docs/your-data): API inputs and outputs are not retained by default and are not used to train models. Far stores your Far AI assistant chat history so you can pick it up again later — see the AI chat history entry in the Data Retention & Deletion Policy — and a count of questions asked to enforce the free-plan allowance.

Limits you should know

  • AI output is generated, not retrieved: it can be incorrect, outdated, or invented, even when it sounds specific and confident.
  • The assistant is instructed to answer only from your actual trip data and to say when data is missing — but instructions reduce, not eliminate, errors.
  • AI-estimated gear weights are displayed with a "~" and an edit prompt until you confirm them; catalog rows seeded by AI are treated the same way until verified.
  • AI content is not professional advice — not medical, safety, legal, or guiding advice. Verify permits, closures, water, and weather with official sources (see the Safety Disclaimer).

Your choices

AI features are optional; every planning feature in Far works without them. Free-plan accounts get 5 lifetime assistant questions; Pro removes the cap. If you never invoke an AI feature, no data is ever sent to an AI provider.