Landowner trust center
Five questions.Straight answers.
Nobody opens their gate because of a feature list. They open it once they know what happens if something goes wrong, who can see where they live, and when the money arrives. Those answers are on this page, including the one we can't give you yet.
01 · Liability
What happens if someone gets hurt on my place?
This is the first question, every time, and it deserves a real answer rather than a reassuring one.
Every state has a recreational-use statute that limits what a landowner owes to someone using their land for recreation. The bargain is explicit: open your ground to the public for free, and the law stops treating you as though you had invited a customer onto a business premises.
The catch is equally explicit. In most states that protection weakens or disappears the moment you charge a fee. Some states carve out hunting lease payments and preserve immunity anyway. Some set a dollar threshold above which it lapses. The rest simply remove it. Which of those applies to you is not a detail — it is the whole question — and it is decided by your state, not by us.
Where immunity does survive, it covers ordinary negligence and nothing more. Willful or wanton conduct is outside it everywhere.
So here is our commitment, plainly: if charging a fee forfeits your immunity in your state, then insurance is not a nice-to-have — it is the thing standing between you and a claim. No hunter reaches your gate through us until it is in place for your region.
None of this is legal advice, and we are not your lawyer. Get a written answer for your state before you accept money for access.
02 · Insurance
Who is insured, and for what?
Where this stands today — including the part that isn't finished yet.
Current status
Not bound yet. No region opens until it is.
Placing landowner liability and hunter coverage runs through a broker to a carrier, and that takes weeks, not days. It is the single item most likely to move our launch date, and we would rather move the date than open a gate without it.
We have committed to a hard rule internally and we will hold to it publicly: nobody steps onto a property through HunterPass until coverage is in place for that region. If you are reading this before 1 November 2026, treat insurance as a commitment being tested, not a policy you can lean on today.
When it is bound, this section will say what the policy covers, who is named, what the limits are, and what it excludes — in that order, on this page, without a phone call.
What already applies
- A signed waiver and assumption of risk from every hunter, versioned and attached to the specific hunt.
- A written access agreement between you and the club, outfitter, or hunter — not a verbal understanding.
- Verified identity, license, and hunter education before any access is granted.
- A club's own liability policy, where a club holds the lease. Serious lease programs already require this.
03 · Location privacy
Who can see where my property is?
Location is the most sensitive thing you hand a platform, and the easiest thing for a platform to leak by accident. So the rule is set at the engineering layer, not left as a preference you have to find.
| Who | Region | Boundary | Exact location & access |
|---|---|---|---|
| The public web | Approximate only | Never | Never |
| A signed-in hunter browsing | Approximate only | Never | Never |
| A hunter with a pending request | Approximate only | Never | Never |
| A hunter you approved | Yes | Yes | For the booked dates |
| The club or outfitter holding your lease | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HunterPass staff | Yes | Yes | Support and safety only, logged |
Approximate region in public
Listings, search results, social creative, and anything a crawler can reach show a region, never a pin. There is no zoom level that resolves to your gate.
Precise data unlocks on approval
Exact location, parking, gate codes, and access directions are released to a specific approved hunter for specific dates — released to them, not published.
You can see who looked
Access to precise property data is recorded. If you ever want to know who was given your gate code and when, that is a question with an answer.
04 · Control
Can I say no to a specific hunter?
Yes — without a reason, without a penalty, and without a conversation. That is the whole point of a vetted network rather than an open marketplace.
Decline anyone, any time
No explanation required and no effect on your standing. A request is a request.
Set the terms before anyone asks
Dates, hours, party size, weapons, vehicles, dogs, guests, and which stands are in play — all decided in advance so most conversations never need to happen.
Your rules ride on the booking
Property-specific rules are attached to the hunt itself, so a hunter reads them at the moment they book rather than on a sheet from August.
Remove access mid-season
Weather, calving, a fire ban, a family weekend, or a hunter who behaved badly — you can close dates or revoke access without calling anyone.
What we check before you ever see a request
Nobody reaches your gate unverified.
Verification happens once, at the platform, and costs the hunter $49 — enough to cover a real background check rather than a token document scan. It is done before a request can be sent, not after someone is already standing in your field.
- Government identity, matched to the account
- A background check — the reason the fee is what it is
- A current hunting license for the state
- Hunter-education certification where the state requires it
- Species tags and stamps for what they are hunting
- A signed waiver and assumption of risk, versioned
- Standing on the network — prior incidents, if any
Where a club holds your lease, the club vets its own members on top of this. Two layers, not one — which is the argument for clubs rather than an open marketplace in the first place.
05 · Money
When do I actually get paid?
Chasing money is the quiet reason most landowners give up on paid access. Here is exactly when funds move, what is deducted, and what lands in your account.
You connect a payout account
Once, at setupStripe Connect handles identity verification and bank details. We never hold your bank credentials, and the tax paperwork — including 1099 reporting — runs off the same record instead of being reconstructed in January.
The hunter pays when they book
At bookingFunds are captured up front, not promised. For a lease, the club's installment schedule is billed automatically on the dates the lease says — which is usually what the club is worst at.
The hunt happens
On the dates bookedAccess is gated on a signed waiver and a verified license. If either is missing, nobody is granted access and nobody is charged.
Funds settle to you
On a schedule you can plan aroundPayouts run on a fixed cycle after the hunt completes, with the platform fee already deducted — 2.5% on a facilitated lease, 8% on day access. No invoice to chase, no check in the mail.
Records are already done
Year-roundEvery booking, waiver, payment, and payout is on one ledger. When your accountant asks what the ground earned, the answer is a page, not an afternoon.
What it costs you
- Subscription
- $0
- There isn't one, and there won't be.
- Listing your ground
- $0
- Photos, boundaries, terms, calendar.
- Lease facilitation
- 2.5%
- On a lease we help place, bill, and settle.
- Day access
- 8%
- On per-day access booked through the platform.
Just as important
What we will not do with your ground.
Anyone can list what their software does. These are the things we have committed never to do with your ground — hold us to them.
We will not publish your location
Not on a map, not in a listing, not in an ad, not in a press photo. Approximate region is the maximum public resolution, permanently.
We will not send you strangers
Every hunter is identity-verified and license-checked before they can request access, and you approve each one. There is no instant-book path onto private ground.
We will not sell your data
Your acreage, your income, your harvest records, and your contact details are not a product. No data brokerage, no list sales, no partner sharing.
We will not open a region before it's ready
No insurance, no legal pack, no compliance answer for your state means no access — even if the map would look better with another pin on it.
We will not take the relationship
If you already have a club, they stay your club. We are the system underneath the arrangement, not a broker inserting itself into it.
The rest of the paperwork
Obligations that come with charging for access.
These do not go away because a platform is involved. They do get easier to satisfy when the records already exist.
Income is taxable
Lease and access income is reportable, and Stripe Connect issues 1099s off the same record that paid you. No January reconstruction.
Harvest reporting
Most states require deer and turkey harvest reports. Captured at check-out, they are already filed in your records rather than chased in February.
CWD and carcass rules
Carcass-movement and baiting rules vary by state and unit and change annually. The current rule for your unit rides on the booking.
Outfitter registration
If a guided hunt happens on your ground, someone has to be registered — Colorado requires a bond, first aid, and liability cover. We check status before assignment.
Still asked
The rest of it
Does charging for hunting access cost me my recreational-use immunity?
In many states, yes — and that is the single most important thing on this page. Every state has a recreational-use statute that limits a landowner's liability to people using their land for recreation, and in most of them that protection weakens or disappears once the landowner charges a fee. A few states carve out hunting lease payments specifically; others set a dollar threshold. It is genuinely state-by-state, it is the question we put to counsel first for every launch state, and it is why insurance is a gate we hold ourselves to rather than a feature we advertise.
Is insurance in place today?
Not yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Placing landowner liability and hunter coverage through a broker with a carrier is the single item most likely to move our launch date, and we have committed publicly that no region opens until it is bound. If you are reading this before 1 November 2026, treat coverage as a commitment we are being held to, not a policy you can rely on today.
Will my exact location show up on a public map?
No. Public and marketing surfaces never show exact coordinates, gate codes, or access directions — only an approximate region. Precise location is released to a specific hunter after you approve that specific access, and it is released to them, not published. This is a standing rule in our brand and engineering guidelines, not a setting you have to remember to switch on.
Can I still hunt my own ground?
Always, and without asking anyone. The only thing we ask is that you book yourself the days you will be out, so daily capacity stays accurate for anyone else who has access. That is a one-tap action from your dashboard, and it is the same mechanism that stops a club member and a paying day hunter from arriving at the same stand.
What if a hunter damages something or breaks a rule?
You report it against the specific booking, which means the person, the date, the stand, and the signed agreement are already attached — there is no reconstructing who was where. Depending on severity that ends in a deposit deduction, a suspension from your property, or removal from the platform. A verified identity is what makes any of that enforceable; an anonymous account is not.
Do I have to accept a lease, or can I keep it day-by-day?
Either. A seasonal or annual lease to a club is the lowest-effort arrangement and the most predictable income. Day access earns more per day and keeps your calendar flexible, at the cost of more decisions. Plenty of landowners do both — a club lease on one tract, day access on another.
What does HunterPass cost me as a landowner?
There is no subscription and no listing fee. We take 2.5% on a lease we help place and settle, and 8% on day access booked through the platform. Both come out of the payout rather than being invoiced to you.
No listing, no commitment
Start with a conversation about your ground.
Tell us the acreage, the state, and what's on it. If we can't serve your region yet, we'll say so on the first call rather than adding you to a list.
Landowners are contacted within 24 hours by a person. Nothing on this page is legal advice — get a written answer for your state before you accept money for access.