Terms of Use | Columbia Outdoor

Columbia Outdoor — Terms of Use

Version: November 10, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") cover your use of the Columbia Outdoor website and its software tools: the deck and patio cover calculators, estimates, Material List Generator, Construction Plans, 3D Visualization, and the emails and links they send (together, the "Tools"). By clicking I Agree, creating an account, or using the Tools, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Tools.

These Terms are not the Estimate Terms and Conditions. If you hire Columbia Outdoor to build a project, the Estimate Terms and Conditions attached to your accepted estimate cover that work. Our Privacy Policy covers how we handle your information.

1. Use at Your Own Risk

  • The Tools give planning information only. You use them at your own risk.
  • The Tools are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
  • We are not responsible for errors in the Tools or their results, including errors in prices, quantities, dimensions, drawings, or descriptions, or for any decision you make based on them.
  • Prices, materials, codes, and product availability change. Results may be out of date when you see them.

2. Estimates and Results Must Be Verified

  • A calculator price is an estimate, not a quote, bid, or offer. No price is binding until Columbia Outdoor or your contractor confirms the project in person and you accept a written estimate.
  • All estimates require verification before acceptance, including a site visit, measurements, soil and site conditions, access, and local code requirements.
  • Material lists are a guide. Check every quantity, size, and product against your plans, your site, and your supplier before you order.
  • Plans, drawings, and 3D views are for planning and illustration only. They are not engineered or stamped, and they are not for construction or permit submittal unless reviewed by a licensed engineer or approved by your building department.
  • Building codes vary by city and county. You are responsible for permits, inspections, and code compliance unless your accepted estimate says Columbia Outdoor will handle them.
  • Nothing in the Tools is engineering, architectural, legal, or financial advice.

3. Acceptable Use

You may use the Tools to:

  • Price and plan a deck, patio cover, or other outdoor project for your own property.
  • Share your own estimate, material list, or plans with members of your household, your lender, insurer, HOA, building department, or the contractor you are considering for that project.
  • Contractors: price and plan projects for your own customers, and send them their estimate and plans through the Tools, using your own professional judgment.
  • Save, print, and email your own results for the project they were created for.

4. Prohibited Use

You may not:

  • Use bots, scrapers, crawlers, scripts, or other automated means to access the Tools, run estimates, create accounts, or collect prices or other content.
  • Copy, reverse engineer, decompile, or try to work out the Tools' pricing, formulas, rules, or software, except where the law does not allow this restriction.
  • Use the Tools, their results, or their content to build, train, or improve a competing product or service, or any artificial intelligence or machine learning model.
  • Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Tools or their results, or offer them as a service to others.
  • Present a result as a binding bid, warranty, or engineered or stamped plan from Columbia Outdoor, or remove or change Columbia Outdoor names, notices, or disclaimers on any result.
  • Enter false information, or another person's information without their permission.
  • Interfere with the Tools' security or operation, get around access limits, or access accounts or estimates that aren't yours.
  • Use the Tools for any unlawful, fraudulent, or harmful purpose.

We may suspend or close accounts, block access, and delete content that breaks these Terms, without notice.

5. Intellectual Property

  • The Tools and everything in them — software, pricing models, calculation rules, drawings and drawing styles, 3D models, text, photos, graphics, logos, and the Columbia Outdoor name — belong to Columbia Outdoor or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other laws.
  • We give you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Tools as these Terms allow. All other rights are reserved.
  • You may use the results the Tools create for you (your estimate, material list, and plans) for the project they were created for. This does not give you any rights in the Tools themselves or in how the results are made.
  • You keep ownership of the information you enter. You give Columbia Outdoor permission to store and use it to provide the Tools, to contact you about your project as described in the Privacy Policy, and, without your name or contact details, to improve our pricing and Tools.
  • Project photos on this site are Columbia Outdoor's and may not be used without written permission.

6. Accounts

  • Keep your account information accurate and your password private. You are responsible for activity on your account.
  • Contractor accounts: you are responsible for your own bids, contracts, licensing, insurance, workmanship, and code compliance. Columbia Outdoor is not a party to your agreements with your customers.

7. Limitation of Liability

  • To the fullest extent the law allows, Columbia Outdoor and its owners, employees, and contractors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost savings, material costs, delays, or rework, arising from your use of or reliance on the Tools, even if we were told such damages were possible.
  • To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim about the Tools is limited to the greater of the amount you paid Columbia Outdoor for the Tools in the 12 months before the claim, or $100.
  • Some places don't allow some of these limits. Where they don't, the limits apply as far as the law allows.

8. Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold harmless Columbia Outdoor from claims, losses, and costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your misuse of the Tools, your breach of these Terms, or, for contractors, your work and agreements with your customers.

9. Changes

We may change the Tools at any time, including adding, changing, or removing features, and may change these Terms. The version date at the top shows the latest version. When we make an important change, we will ask you to agree again before you use the Tools.

10. General

  • These Terms are governed by Washington law. Disputes go first to good-faith negotiation, then mediation (Clark County preferred), then to the courts or binding arbitration with venue in Cowlitz County, Washington.
  • If any part of these Terms is found invalid, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a part of these Terms is not a waiver.
  • These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and (for construction work) your accepted estimate and its Terms and Conditions are the full agreement about the Tools.

11. Contact

Columbia Outdoor · Woodland, WA · (360) 787-8062 · WA Contractor Lic. #COLUMOL813QN · support@columbiaoutdoor.com