Last updated on January 1, 2026. These terms bind every visitor who uses this website.
Return to the HomepageThese Terms of Service set the working rules between you, the reader and user of this website, and Back Country Landscape LLC, which the text below calls the Company, the office, or we. By reading, loading, or otherwise using this Site you agree to be bound by the rules on this page, by the way they are explained, and by the small set of reasonable duties they place on everyone who steps through the front door.
If you do not agree with any part of these terms, the cleanest choice is simply to leave the Site and to reach the Company by direct mail or by phone if you still wish to ask a question about outdoor work. Merely viewing the pages is a light act, but even that light act brings these terms into force from the moment the first page finishes loading on your screen.
These terms work together with the Privacy Policy of the Company, which tells you plainly what personal information is gathered and how it is used. Reading both pages before you send a route note is the fair and sensible order of business, and both pages control your visit in their own quiet way.
Nothing on this Site is a legally binding offer to build land, to draw a plan, or to run a maintenance season at the prices and fine details shown here. The pages paint a picture of the work the Company knows how to do; the actual binding agreement, if any, is the signed proposal described further below.
By continuing past this point you confirm that you are old enough to enter into a binding agreement where your local law sets such an age, and that you speak for yourself and not on behalf of some person who has not read and accepted these rules.
The Company works in the professional, scientific, and technical services sector, in the field of computer systems design and related services, including the design of computer-integrated systems for land. In everyday words, it designs the planning systems and terrain data tools that carry outdoor work from a raw acre to a finished place, and it can also build and maintain that place.
The office of the Company sits at 3475 E 1200 S, Heber City - 84032-4108, United States (US). Its working mail route is request@backcountry.lat and its field phone line is +18025513158.
The pages of this Site were prepared by the developer and builder named BackCountry. The developer assembled the design, the layout, and the code behind the pages. In these terms the words the Company and the office reach across both the operator and the developer whenever a duty is described, because when this Site runs they act as one quiet team and both answer to the promises made on this page.
The service names shown across the Site, such as terrain and grading plan systems, irrigation scheduling platforms, native plant selection tools, crew route planning boards, seasonal maintenance calendars, and client property portals, are the honest working descriptions of what the Company builds, and they are used in these terms with their everyday plain meaning.
Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, an agency, an employer relationship, or a joint venture between you and the Company, and no reading of this page should ever convince you that the Company answers for the actions of a total stranger who merely shares your postal district.
The Site is offered for lawful, light use. You are welcome to read it, to study its service descriptions, to compare its material with a competitor, and to share a link to one of its pages with a neighbor who owns ground.
You may not use the Site to do any of the following things. You may not try to break into a private part of the Company systems or to pull down a service by flooding it. You may not harvest the address cards, names, or mail routes of other visitors in order to build a list for your own trade. You may not post a message that carries hate, a threat, an attack on a single person, or material that plainly breaks the law of your own home.
You may not run an automated scraper that drains the pages faster than a human eye could turn them, and you may not reuse the Site content in a way that fools a search engine or another visitor into thinking your own page is the office map room.
You may not frame the Site inside another page so that its address bar and its true maker identity are hidden, and you may not mirror the whole set of pages onto a stranger server as if they were your own.
A breach of these light rules is taken seriously. The Company may refuse service, close an account that was used for mischief, hand a matter to the proper authority where the law asks, and put the pages back in order at the cost of whoever broke them. Most days none of this is ever needed, and it is written here only so that the honest line is drawn before the trouble, not after it.
Most of this Site reads like a catalogue of the work the Company knows how to carry out, and it is worth being exact about what that catalogue does and does not promise.
Terrain and grading plan systems turn raw land notes into finished sheets that show slopes, drain lines, and cut and fill. Irrigation scheduling platforms split a bed into duty zones and lay out a watering order. Native plant selection tools match a palette of plants to the actual grade and soil. Crew route planning boards order the daily work. Seasonal maintenance calendars carry a yard across the year. Client property portals give an owner a running picture of their land.
These six systems are the honest field of the Company, and each one is a real service it can deliver, not a slogan painted on for show.
At the same time, the words on these pages are a general tour, not a custom contract. Your own ground has its own fall, its own soil, its own frost window, and its own hidden surprise under a top layer of grass. No page on this Site can promise how your exact acre will behave until the Company has stood on it and read it, which is exactly why the terrain walk exists.
Where a plan, a sheet number, or a calendar figure is shown on these pages as an example, it is a sample drawn for illustration and never a guarantee that your property will produce the same number, the same drain mark, or the same planting result. The work of the Company is honest and skilled, but every square of land writes its own story, and the match between the picture on a page and your own story is only settled by the walk and the survey.
The most reliable first step is a route inquiry. Send the Company a note through the contact form, drop a mail at request@backcountry.lat, or ring the switch line, and a real person answers with a real read of whether your idea fits the working calendar.
A phone call alone is free and carries no duty. Explaining your plan by phone does not sign you up for anything, does not start a bill, and does not lock you to the Company. You may ring, ask six questions, and walk away with nothing more than a fuller mind.
A terrain walk is the next step up in seriousness. On the walk the crew stands on the actual ground, reads the fall and the wet spots, and talks through options with you in person. The walk itself may be offered at no charge or at a modest fee, and that point will be made plain and agreed to before any date is set, never sprung on you after the fact.
Booking a walk slot depends on the working season and the open days the calendar still carries. The Company stands by its promise of honest schedule talk: if a preferred week is already full, it says so straight and offers the next real open window rather than a hopeful maybe that never arrives.
Agreeing to a walk is not the same as agreeing to a build. The walk simply lets both sides look at the ground and grow the picture. The binding story of price and scope is written in the formal proposal dealt with in the very next section.
When the Company has read enough of a property to talk figures, it writes the numbers down in one of two honest forms.
A rough estimate is a ballpark figure shared early so that you know whether an idea is worth pursuing. A rough estimate is not a fixed price. It is a wide and honest arrow pointing at a probable range, and it is clearly labeled as such so that no one mistakes a glance for a promise.
A formal proposal is the real agreement. It carries the full scope of the job, the specific sheet set or the season of work, the price in plain numbers, the payment how, and the timeline. The job is bound only when both you and the Company sign that proposal or when you give a clear written go-ahead for it to begin.
Until a formal proposal is accepted, no ground is moved, no deposit is taken, and no obligation exists on either side. The Company will not begin a build on a handshake alone, because a written job protects both the owner and the office from a misremembered term halfway through the season.
Any change to the scope that appears after the proposal is signed is handled the same good way: the office writes the change, the price change, if any, and the fresh date, and the change binds only once you agree to it plainly. A change you never agreed to is a change the Company does not build and does not charge for.
The working product of the Company is often a plan, a sheet, or a calendar, and it deserves a careful paragraph about what those papers are and what they are not.
A delivered plan or sheet is a professional drawing based on the survey, the soil notes, and the agreed scope at the moment the plan is set. It is prepared with care and checked against the field truth the crew collected, and it is meant to guide the work it describes.
A plan is offered for its stated purpose only. It is not a survey for a title office, it is not an engineering stamp for a public works filing unless a separate paid scope says so, and it is not a guaranteed promise that hidden rock, a buried water line, or a surprise fill pocket does not sit under the grass where no ground reading could see it.
When the ground tells a different story than the sheet expected, the plan may need a small honest bend, and that bend is a genuine part of how land work behaves. The office flags such a find early and works out the fresh approach and any price effect with you before the changed course is cut into the earth.
Title to the physical delivered files, such as the sheets and the calendar drawings, passes to you on full payment of the formal proposal. The working methods, the software logic, and the internal route tools the Company uses to produce those files stay the property of the Company, as the intellectual property section states in greater detail below. You buy the fruit, and the office keeps the orchard and its secret recipes.
Walking a property is a working visit, and a working visit calls for a shared sense of what is safe for everyone on the ground.
Before any walk or any build start, you agree to tell the Company about known hazards on your land. That list includes a buried fuel line, a live electric service run close under a stone, a steep cut that has shifted, a standing wireless tower anchor, a deep unmarked pit, an aggressive animal loose on the lot, and any other danger a careful owner would want a visiting crew to know about before they set foot out there.
The Company sends its crew out with the ordinary safety gear its trade demands and expects each member to behave with calm senses on uneven ground. You agree to keep your own family, pets, and helpers clear of the working area during the active job and to follow any obvious direction from the crew about standing clear of moving soil and running equipment.
Utility marking is a two-party duty. Where the law requires a locate call before digging, the Company makes that call. Where that duty falls on a property owner for private lines not on the public map, the owner agrees to settle it and to say plainly that it is settled.
A walk done on a wet, icy, or unstable stretch is walked slowly and cautiously. If the crew judges that a corner cannot be read safely on a given day, it will say so and come back for the safer corner rather than push a moment of poor judgment for the sake of finishing the lap.
By inviting the Company onto your land you confirm that you hold the right to invite a working crew there, that you will not set the crew on a neighbor lot by mistake, and that you will flag any change to the ground between the day you described it and the day the crew arrives at the gate.
Dates are set in good faith and the Company does its honest best to keep them, because a route board that lies to a crew is a route board that rots the trust of everyone holding it.
Weather is the great honest excuse in outdoor work. A day of hard rain, frozen ground, or wind that makes a treatment unsafe may call for a move. When the Company moves a date for weather, it offers the next sensible window without penalty, and a move caused by the sky costs no one a fee.
Cancelling by you is allowed with good manners. For a walk or a light visit, a notice given a few days ahead is usually enough. For a build slot that reserves a real place on a busy season, the formal proposal sets its own cancellation terms in plain numbers, and those numbers control. If your own agreement says a later cancel forfeits a deposit, that is written on the agreement you sign, not found here for the first time.
Cancelling by the Company happens only for a genuine cause such as unsafe ground, a materials shortage that cannot be worked around, or a booking error, and the office explains the reason plainly and returns any deposit it holds for a job it cannot perform.
A no-show where crew travels to an empty property is treated as a cancelled visit, and the agreed notice rule for such a no-show is the one from your signed agreement. The Company does not invent a fine after the fact that was never written down ahead of time.
The shared aim of this whole section is simple: keep the calendar honest, keep each other informed the moment a plan shifts, and never let a surprise freeze a working relationship that started in such good order.
Money changes hands the clear and written way, and every figure is put in plain numbers before the work binds.
For a walk or a small service, payment is usually due on or just after the work is done, unless the formal proposal says otherwise.
For a larger build, the formal proposal commonly sets a deposit to hold the slot and the materials, with the balance due at agreed milestones as the ground moves, or in full as the walkthrough closes. Every one of those moments and every figure appears in the paper you sign ahead of the start.
You agree to pay by the method named in the formal proposal and to keep a billing contact current so that no invoice goes looking for a home at a wrong address. Late payment is treated with a first nudge and a fair grace window, not with a door slam, but an invoice that stays unpaid past its honest term may slow or pause the next scheduled visit until the account is set right.
Should extra work appear that no sheet could have predicted, such as a surprise culvert or a buried stump that must come out, the office shows you the fresh cost before it proceeds, gets your clear yes, and adds the agreed number to the running account. You never owe for a surprise you never approved.
Full and final settlement closes the working record, hands over the finished files where the plan terms promise them, and closes the door on the active job while the friendly door of the office stays open for the warranty questions the next section mentions.
Everything written, drawn, colored, and coded on this Site belongs to the Company or to the developer BackCountry, and it is protected by the ordinary laws of copyright and related right.
That protection covers the copy on every page, the visual arrangement, the distinct map room look of the design, the exact wording of the service descriptions, and the underlying layout of the files themselves. It does not cover an idea in the abstract, such as the general notion that a landscape company can use a map to plan its season; ideas of that plain kind are free for all.
You may view the Site on your own screen and keep a private copy for personal reference. You may quote a short and fair passage with a clean credit, just as news does. What you may not do is copy whole pages, lift the design for your own competing map room, resell the text, or pass off the Company material as your own work.
Deliverable files that you buy through a formal proposal become yours under the rules of the plans section, and that gift is a real benefit that survives this copyright line. What does not pass are the internal tools and the working logic that let the office produce such files quickly and well.
If you believe some part of the Site copies your own protected work unfairly, write to the office with a plain description and the office will look into the matter honestly and answer within a fair stretch rather than hiding from the question.
Property owners often share photos, sketches, and soil notes to help the office understand a lot before the walk. Such material is welcome and useful, and it earns its own short set of rules.
Just by sending material, you confirm that it is yours to send or that you hold the right to share it, and that it does not break the privacy of a third party who did not agree to be in the frame.
The Company uses your shared material for the narrow purpose of understanding and preparing the work it is discussing with you. It does not publish your yard photo in an advertisement or on a social page without asking you first in plain words and hearing your yes, unless the formal proposal already carries a written release for that photo.
If a photo happened to catch a visitor face, a neighbor home number, or some other private detail, the office keeps that detail inside the job file and does not trade it sideways for its own gain.
Should the office ever like your finished yard so much that it asks to photograph the result for its portfolio, that request is a separate and easy yes or no that belongs entirely to you. A no costs you nothing and changes no term of any agreement you hold; it simply keeps that particular shot off the Company gallery, and the office will honor it without a grudge and without a stiff shoulder.
This section draws a line that most people never even approach, but it draws it anyway so that the map room stays a civil place for everyone who walks through it.
Keep your messages to the office straight and true. Do not invent a crisis that does not exist to hurry a place in the queue, do not swear at the crew when the weather moves a date, and do not describe your ground with a hazard list that quietly leaves out the live line the crew only finds by digging into it.
Be fair in public talk. A genuine complaint shared with friends or left on a review is protected speech and is fully welcome. What is not welcome is a false story told on purpose to damage the Company name, or a post that twists a honestly written quote until it means the opposite of what it said.
Respect the working clock. Calls during the stated business hours get the fastest and fullest answer, while a note left at midnight is answered when the office opens, not by a crew member dragged out of bed to talk grading in the dark.
A property owner who deals with the office in a fair and honest spirit will always find the office returning that same spirit. The Company would far rather bend a schedule or soften a fee for a straightforward client than stiffen a rule against a trickster, and this section is simply the quiet record of that leaning.
The Site, like nearly every well-made page, leans on a few outside building blocks to run smoothly.
Fonts, map tiles, security checks, and hosting helpers each do a small job behind the pages. These helpers are selected with care and kept to a lean hold, and none of them sneaks your personal details into a stranger ledger for its own trade, as the Privacy Policy explains in its own words.
The Site may also point toward helpful outside pages, such as an extension office guide to a local plant or a maker manual for a valve. A link of that kind is a courtesy signpost, not a promise about that outside party or its record keeping.
Once you step onto an outside page, your visit is ruled by the terms and privacy notice of that outside owner, and the Company cannot answer for what happens past its own door. Pausing to read that neighbor notice before handing over a detail is a habit the office can only cheer on.
A broken helper or a slow outside service is repaired as soon as the office can reach a technician, but no single outsider failure is grounds to hold the Company to a loss you suffered that had no honest connection to the pages the office promised you. The Site gives you its own working parts honestly; the outside world keeps its own clock.
The Company promises to work carefully and to stand behind its finished jobs in the plain ways your signed agreement describes. But it is honest, not reckless, about the edges of a warranty, and this section draws those edges in the open.
The Site itself is given as is and as available. The Company keeps the pages accurate and up to date with its honest best effort, yet it cannot swear that a single sentence on this catalogue is the newest possible truth at the very minute you read it, that a service band picture matches the view from every phone, or that the Site will run without a single blip on every machine and network on earth.
About the ground, the Company is doubly careful to promise nothing on faith. Because no page, photo, or drawing can foresee rock under a thin topsoil, a retired well that no one mapped, or a frost pocket that hides in a low fold, no general warranty is given that any outcome shown in a sample will appear on your own lot. What is given is honest professional practice, careful survey, and a ready hand to adjust a plan when the ground speaks its own truth.
Living plants are a joy and also a risk. A specific plant guarantee, if any, appears in the formal proposal for that planting, since it depends entirely on the species, the young stock, the watering the owner carries out, and the weather of the first two seasons. Where a proposal is silent on a planted guarantee, no survival promise beyond the ordinary care of the first establishment weeks is offered.
By reading this section you are not giving up any protection that your own law refuses to let you waive. The line is drawn only at the honest edge where imagination, soil, and weather stop being something any map room can truthfully promise, and it stops well short of taking real rights away from you.
This section puts a fair and honest cap on what the Company can ever owe you, and that cap is written so that no one walks in with a dream of gold and a bill that never ends.
To the fullest reach the law allows, the Company, its crew, its helpers, and the developer BackCountry are not liable for another kind of loss that no fixed price could fairly carry, such as a lost profit on a season you hoped for, a missed rental on a property you were whispering about selling, or a knock-on hurt to some separate plan that was never part of the paper you signed.
For the Site itself, the greatest care is taken, yet a quick look at a map page is not a place where a large sum should ever hang. To the extent the law permits, the whole, total liability of the Company arising from your use of the Site is capped at a small, fair sum in ordinary dollars, so that a reading visit never turns into a lottery ticket in reverse.
For a real build or a maintenance job, liability is governed by the formal proposal you sign, and that paper carries its own honest limit in keeping with the size and risk of the work it describes. Nothing in that limit hides a job done without care; it simply refuses to float an open-ended number over every accident, weather swing, and surprise under the sod that five careful seasons cannot erase.
Nothing in this section removes liability that the law plainly will not let a company shed, and it does not touch another forms of harm for which a waiver would be unlawful where you live. The honest center of the whole cap is fairness: both sides take their own sensible risk in a real outdoor job, and neither side looks to the other to insure the whole weather of the world.
In fair exchange for the careful work the Company brings to your ground, you agree to hold the Company harmless in the narrow set of cases described here.
You agree to cover the Company if your own action pulls it into a real legal trouble that started with you. That covers the untrue information you planted about your property, the hazard you failed to mention that hurt a crew, the neighbor lot you sent a working crew onto by mistake, and the third party whose photo you shared without the right to share it.
This promise reaches to reasonable legal costs and to an agreed judgment or a settlement, but only where the claim truly grew from your own act and not from a mistake or a neglect of the Company. You are asked to protect the office from your own trouble, never to bankroll its own failures, and that line is held firmly in the office reading of this section too.
When a claim of this kind rises, the Company tells you early, lets you know what is happening, and does not quietly settle a matter in a corner in a way that gives away rights you still hold. Your duty to protect the Company never becomes a blank check to decide everything over your head.
Most working seasons this section never sees the light of a court. It is written so that if two people bring their own separate troubles onto the same piece of ground, each one keeps responsibility for the trouble that began on their own side of the fence line, and neither carries the other load unfairly.
The office of the Company works from the United States (US), and the everyday law that governs these terms, where your own household law does not demand otherwise, is the law of the state of Utah, in the country of the United States.
Before any formal legal step, both sides agree to try a fair, sincere effort to settle a disagreement by direct talk. Send a written note describing the matter, give the other side a genuine window to respond, and let an honest conversation have its full chance before a lawyer is engaged. Most disagreements on a garden bench never travel further than this quiet table.
If talk cannot settle a real dispute over your use of the Site, the ordinary courts that serve the state of Utah carry the matter forward under its laws, subject to the limits of liability written above and to any rule of your own home that rightly pulls the case to where you live.
You are not asked to give up a right to a trial by jury if you live where that right cannot be waived, and you are not asked to sign away any protection that the law of your household refuses to let go. This section only sets the fair default seat for a disagreement that genuinely belongs to the Company home room, and it does so out in the open rather than hidden in a corner of the filing cabinet.
A claim over this Site must be raised within the shortest window the law of the governing seat will allow from the day the cause appears, so that no ancient grudge plants itself years after the honest memory of the season has faded to a fair recollection. Beyond that lawful window the matter rests, and both sides can close the map and go home.
These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any formal proposal that you sign, form the whole written story between you and the Company about your use of the Site and any work that follows from it.
If some single clause of these terms is found by a proper authority to be unenforceable where you live, that one clause is trimmed to the smallest honest reach that the law will still allow, and every other clause keeps its full working force. A broken brick does not topple the whole wall; it gets reset and the wall stays standing.
Where these terms and a signed formal proposal ever disagree about a point that belongs to the real work, the formal proposal wins, because it is the newer and more exact paper drawn for your own ground, while these terms paint the general frame for everyone who reads the Site.
A heading in these terms is a friendly signpost and not a narrow act of law; the words that sit under each heading tell the true story, and a heading never shortens or widens the rule its own section writes.
These terms, read whole, are meant to stand as one fair frame. A person who picks out a single favorable line and ignores the balancing duty next to it asks the frame to wobble, and the fair reading is always the whole reading rather than the lucky pick.
Tools change, seasons turn, and a set of terms that never grew would soon be telling a story older than the office it serves. When these terms are updated, the office takes care to keep the change fair and to keep you in the know.
A clear date sits at the head of this page and is moved forward on every revision, so a returning reader can tell at a glance whether the house rules have shifted since the last visit.
For a genuine step backward that would tighten a right you already hold, the office will reach you ahead of the change where it holds a current reach route, and it will ask for a fresh signal rather than quietly assuming your old yes still covers a heavier line. Silence or a refusal in that case stops the heavier rule from applying to work you already agreed to before the change.
Each substantive change to these terms is summed up in one fresh sentence added under this heading, so that the history of the rule book does not need a legend teller to be followed. The most recent change stands as the live rule.
This paragraph is the keeper of the load bearing wall: no change may ever sell out the core promise that the Company does not trade personal information for cash, because that wall, once moved, could not be honestly set back without a story no office should want to tell. Some beams are not for turning, and this note glues that one in place.
The trail of any agreement runs back, in the end, to a real desk, and the Company desk is easy to reach for any question these terms leave open.
For a general question, a worry, or a request under the Privacy Policy rights, write to request@backcountry.lat. For a matter that feels time sensitive, ring the field line at +18025513158. For a written note that must sit on a real desk or be served in a proper manner, send it to the base address below.
A notice to the Company is effective when it reaches the desk through one of the routes above, and a notice to you is effective when it reaches the email or the phone you last gave the office. Keeping that contact current is a small duty that keeps the whole route board honest and keeps no message wandering to a wrong house.
This whole set of terms is offered with a plain and friendly spirit. The Company would rather share a trail with a good neighbor for twenty seasons than win a single sharp argument in a year, and every careful line on this page is drawn in service of that long and easy walk together rather than in fear of any short one.
Thank you for reading the Terms of Service of Back Country Landscape LLC. From the front door of the Site you may now follow the homepage link back to the map room, or step on over to the contact page and start your own route story with the Company in plain, open words.