Questions and answers

A symbolic adoption: your name is linked, in our registry, to one real glacier from the Randolph Glacier Inventory or one Antarctic iceberg tracked by the US National Ice Center. You receive a certificate with its real coordinates and a page that shows it from space. You do not own the ice and the adoption gives no legal rights over it.

Yes. Every piece is an entry in a scientific list. Positions, areas and elevations come from those lists, and the pictures are real satellite images with their date and source.

No. We use their public data and credit it. We are an independent registry.

274,531 glaciers and the 33 icebergs on the current official list. A glacier has one adopter at a time. An iceberg has two parent places and any number of guardians.

A certificate (PDF and image) with a unique ID and a QR code anyone can check, a crew card, the farewell pack when the day comes, a named page in My ice, and, if you wish, your first name on the piece's page.

A named page for one glacier and one iceberg, a card you can share, alerts when something big happens and, if you choose, a monthly digest. It has no certificate.

Parents are two per iceberg and exclusive. Guardians are shared by anyone. Both receive a certificate with a unique ID. Parents appear first on the page.

Yes. You can give your piece a nickname, which appears on the certificate, and you can hide your first name from public pages at any time.

Enter its ID at adoptice.com/verify or scan the QR code. You will see whether it is valid, which piece it is for and the adopter's first name only.

From Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites where they cover the area, and from NASA satellites for the polar regions. We choose a clear recent image, crop it and never edit its colours.

Clouds, polar night and satellite schedules sometimes leave no clear image. The page then shows the latest clear one with its date, and updates when a new one exists.

We call it the farewell. When an iceberg stays off the official list for eight weeks we say goodbye, issue a certificate of passing to each adopter and keep a memorial page.

A verified glacier is $12.99, an iceberg guardian $7.99, an iceberg parent from $29.99. Everything is on the pricing page. The price includes any tax.

14 days, no questions asked. Write to us or use the contact form.

Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy, our payment partner and the official seller. We never see your card details.

Choose a piece, add the recipient's name and email, write a message and pick a day. On that day they receive an email with a link to claim it, with no account needed first. You get a printable gift card at once.

Yes, for a small fee ($2.99) or free once a year with the Crew Pass. The new person receives their own certificate and the old one is marked as replaced.

A subscription that sends you a postcard whenever one of your pieces has news, unlocks the printables for all your pieces and includes one free transfer a year.

From Crew Pass in your account, which opens the secure billing page. You keep the benefits until the end of the period you paid for.

There is no password: we email you a link that works once. On the Privacy page of your account you can download your data or ask us to delete your account. Certificates stay verifiable, but your name is replaced by "a former member".