Chasing Light: Terms & Attribution

Last updated 31 August 2026 · Chasing Light is made by Josh Beames Photography

1. The agreement

These terms cover the Chasing Light app and the member features it shares with chasingperspectives.com. By creating an account, starting a trial or using the app you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

2. Your account

One account works across the app and the website. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in details private and for what happens under your account. You can browse as a guest, but purchases, saved spots and community features need an account so they can stay attached to you.

You can delete your account at any time, from your profile in the app or by emailing us. Deleting it removes your profile and login, your posts and comments, your bucket list, your saved spots and alerts, your course progress, and every device signed in. Bookings and payments have to be kept as a financial record, so they stay on as anonymous transactions with your name, email and phone removed. Deleting your account does not cancel an Apple subscription; cancel that through your Apple ID.

3. Subscriptions, trials and purchases

• Chaser Pro is a paid subscription with a free trial. You will not be charged before the trial ends, and we remind you in the app before any charge. Cancel any time before the trial ends and you pay nothing.
• Subscriptions purchased inside the iOS app are billed and managed through your Apple ID; subscriptions purchased on the website are billed by card through our payment provider (Stripe). Manage or cancel in the same place you subscribed.
• It renews until you stop it. Chaser Pro renews automatically at the end of each billing period, monthly or yearly depending on the plan you chose, at the price shown when you subscribed. For purchases made in the app, payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation, and your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. It keeps renewing unless you turn auto-renew off at least 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel it in Settings on your device, under your Apple ID, then Subscriptions.
• If you take a free trial, any unused part of it ends when you buy a subscription. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are already in.
• One-time purchases are tied to your account and remain yours on any device you sign in to.
• Prices are shown in the app before you pay. Consumer guarantees under Australian Consumer Law are not excluded by these terms.

4. Forecasts are guidance, not guarantees

Chasing Light brings together live space weather, meteorology, satellite imagery and our own scoring models to help you decide where to point a camera. Nature does not follow forecasts. Aurora, cloud, golden hour and storm predictions can be wrong, late or incomplete, and data feeds can drop out.

Please chase safely. Night driving, remote locations, coastlines and severe weather carry real risk. Never rely on this app as a safety tool or a severe weather warning service. Follow official warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology and local authorities, and make your own judgement in the field. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for decisions made, or losses suffered, in reliance on forecasts shown in the app.

5. The community

• Photos and posts you share remain yours. By posting you give us a non-exclusive licence to display that content inside the community and, where you have opted in, on our other channels.
• Be decent. No harassment, spam, stolen images or scraping. Saving or reusing another member's photos without their permission is not allowed, and the app disables image saving out of respect for members' work.
• There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive members. Every post and comment can be reported from the post itself, and you can block any member, which hides them from you and you from them without telling them. Reports are reviewed and acted on, and photos are checked automatically before they appear.
• We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these rules.

6. Copyright, our work and the brand

© Josh Beames Photography. All rights reserved.

The content

• All photographs, location guides, handbooks, course material, session replays, text and design in the app are the intellectual property of Josh Beames Photography unless credited otherwise.
• Purchases unlock content for your personal use. They do not transfer ownership, and content may not be re-shared, re-sold, extracted or republished.
• Your own photographs stay yours. Nothing here takes ownership of anything you shoot, write or upload. What we may do with what you post is set out in section 5.

The app itself

Chasing Light is not a repackaged weather feed. The public data behind it is credited in full below, and we are glad to credit it. What the app does with that data is ours: the models, the scoring, the thresholds, the tuning, and the way a result is presented. That includes the Golden Hour Index, the Stargazing Score, the aurora visibility model, the storm sounding and chase scoring, our own night-sky brightness bake, the night planner and the camera settings engine. So are the software and its source code, the interface and its artwork, the medal designs, and the wording throughout the app.

Put plainly, you may not:

• copy, adapt, translate or build a derivative version of the app or any part of it;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, or otherwise try to work out its source code, models, formulas, thresholds or scoring, except where that right cannot be excluded by law;
• scrape, harvest or bulk-extract its content, imagery, forecasts, scores or other outputs, by hand or by automation;
• use the app, its outputs or its content to build, train, fine-tune or benchmark another product, model or dataset, including machine learning systems;
• rent, resell, sublicense or redistribute the app, or access to it.

The methods behind the forecasting are confidential. Being given access to the app is not permission to reproduce how it works.

The names

Chasing Perspectives® is a registered trade mark of Josh Beames Photography. Chasing Light, The Chase, Chaser Pro and Chasing Admin are products and services of that brand, and the copyright in them, in everything they contain and in the software behind them, belongs to Josh Beames Photography. The aurora and mountain marks are brand assets of the same.

They are not free to use. You may not use the names, the marks, the wording or the visual identity for your own app, product, service, listing or promotion, you may not use anything confusingly similar to them, and you may not present your work in a way that suggests we made it, supplied it or endorsed it.

7. Data sources & attribution

The forecasting in Chasing Light is built on excellent public and licensed data. Credit where it is due:

Open-source software

Chasing Light ships with open-source software, including Capacitor (MIT), Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause), MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause), MapLibre Native (BSD-2-Clause), Turf (ISC), three.js (MIT), PDF.js (Apache 2.0), qrcode-generator (MIT), the Supabase client (MIT) and Work Sans / Square Peg typefaces (SIL Open Font License). Our thanks to their maintainers.

8. The boring but important rest

• We may update the app, its features and these terms; material changes will be flagged in the app. Continued use after a change means you accept it.
• If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still stands.
• These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia.

What we collect, and who it is shared with, is set out separately in our Privacy Policy.

Questions, takedown requests or licensing enquiries: hello@chasingperspectives.com.