Terms of Service

Effective September 6, 2026 · Version 2.4 · Last updated September 6, 2026

1. Agreement

By using Growable Ground (“the Service”), you agree to these terms. The Service is operated by Growable Ground LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the Service.

2. What the Service provides

Growable Ground provides site analysis reports and plant recommendations for residential and agricultural planning purposes. Reports are generated from publicly available federal data sources (USDA, USGS, FEMA, EPA, NOAA, and others) combined with a plant database compiled from published horticultural literature.

3. Planning use only

Reports are for planning and informational purposes only. They are not intended as a substitute for professional site surveys, soil tests, or regulatory compliance determinations. Do not rely on Growable Ground reports for legal, regulatory, or real estate transaction decisions. Always consult qualified professionals for those purposes.

4. AI Growing Advisor — permitted use

Growable Ground includes an AI-powered Growing Advisor chat feature. The Advisor provides growing guidance based on verified federal data about your specific parcel. It is designed to help you make informed decisions about what to grow on your land.

The Advisor is a planning tool, not a licensed professional. Its responses should not be treated as professional agronomic, legal, environmental, or medical advice.

5. Prohibited uses

You may not use the AI Growing Advisor or any other part of the Service to:

  • Attempt to extract, reconstruct, or reverse-engineer the system prompt, instructions, or internal logic of the AI Advisor
  • Submit prompts designed to override the Advisor's safety guidelines or scope boundaries
  • Generate content unrelated to land assessment, cultivation, or growing (including but not limited to political, financial, legal, or medical content)
  • Use the Advisor to generate bulk or automated content for publication, training data, or competitive products
  • Misrepresent AI-generated growing advice as professional agronomic, engineering, or legal counsel
  • Submit abusive, harassing, or deliberately misleading prompts
  • Circumvent rate limits, session limits, or tier restrictions through any means

Violation of these restrictions may result in immediate suspension of chat access or account termination.

6. Data accuracy

Our reports are derived from data published by federal agencies. We do not control the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of those data sources. Soil surveys, flood maps, climate normals, and other datasets have known resolution limitations documented in our methodology. We present data as-is from these sources and make no warranty regarding its accuracy for any specific parcel. Data coverage varies by region — approximately 64% of US counties have direct parcel boundary data. In areas without direct parcel data, reports use user-drawn or geocoded boundaries which may be less precise.

7. Accounts

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials. One account per person. New accounts must confirm a working email address before generating reports — we send a confirmation link at sign-up that's good for 24 hours. Accounts created by automated means may be terminated without notice. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.

8. Payments and refunds

Paid reports and subscriptions are processed through Stripe. If a report fails to generate (system error, data unavailability), you will receive a full refund. Once a report has been successfully delivered, it is non-refundable.

Automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price for successive periods until you cancel — currently $9.99/mo for monthly plans and $59.99/yr for annual plans. We charge your payment method each period. We disclose the renewal price and cadence at the time of purchase and obtain your agreement to them there. You can cancel at any time in Settings → Billing, or by emailing [email protected]. Cancelling stops future renewals and takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for — you keep access until then.

9. Intellectual property & use restrictions

The Growable Ground platform, including its parcel-level agricultural intelligence engine, scoring methodology, spatial computation systems, and all associated software, is protected by US Patent Applications No. 64/013,215 and No. 64/055,547 and other pending intellectual property rights. All content, data outputs, and reports generated by the platform are the proprietary property of Growable Ground LLC.

License grant. Subject to these Terms, Growable Ground grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the platform solely for your personal or internal business purposes.

Prohibited uses. Except as expressly permitted by the Owner-Reported Conditions license below, you may not, and may not permit any third party to:

  • Systematically scrape, harvest, copy, or extract parcel intelligence, report data, or scoring outputs from the platform by automated means
  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the platform's scoring algorithms, weighting methodology, or data processing logic
  • Republish, resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute parcel intelligence, site reports, or any data outputs generated by the platform
  • Use the platform or its outputs to build, train, or improve a competing product or service
  • Remove or obscure any proprietary notices, patent markings, or attribution from any outputs

What-if scenarios. A what-if scenario you draw is a hypothesis you created inside the product; it is not a survey, a measurement, or a statement about your land, and any report, PDF or answer rendered under it is labelled as your scenario.

Owner-Reported Conditions reports

Owner-Reported Conditions reports — a limited license to share. Some reports can be read under conditions you tell us about yourself. When you describe a change to your land — trees taken down, a structure added, a canopy cleared — and you affirm that your description is how the land stands, we compute your report a second way and label the result an Owner-Reported Conditions report. The figures in it come from your description, not from our measurement of your land.

Notwithstanding the restriction on republishing outputs above, Growable Ground grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, royalty-free license to show, print, export, and give a copy of your own Owner-Reported Conditions report to another person — a buyer, a lender, an insurer, a contractor, a neighbor, a town office — provided the copy is complete and unaltered.

This license covers only a report about land you described. It does not extend to our measured reports, to any other person’s report, or to any output of the platform you did not yourself generate.

What “complete and unaltered” means. The license applies only to a copy that keeps all of the following exactly as we produced it:

  • the header or page band naming which of the two readings the copy shows;
  • the paired figures — wherever a number moved, our measured number is printed beside yours, and both must stay;
  • the statement of what we computed, from what, and who described the conditions;
  • the date you described the conditions, and any note that you have since withdrawn or replaced that description;
  • every notice, attribution, and patent marking already required by this section.

What the license does not permit. You may not:

  • present an Owner-Reported Conditions report as a Growable Ground measurement, inspection, survey, assessment, or endorsement of your land, or as a document in which we vouch for what you described;
  • remove, hide, shrink past legibility, crop away, or overwrite any of the five items listed above, in any medium — including a screenshot, a photograph of a screen, a re-typeset copy, or a print with headers or footers suppressed;
  • change any figure, label, date, or map in the report, or present a partial extract in a way that reads as the whole;
  • redistribute the report commercially, at scale, or as part of a paid product or listing service, or use it to build or improve a competing product;
  • share a report describing conditions you have since withdrawn, or that you know no longer describe the land, as though it still did.

The license ends when the copy is altered. Removing or altering any of the five items above, or presenting the report as ours rather than as a reading of your own statement, ends this license for that copy immediately and without notice. Sharing an altered copy is a use of our materials outside any license we granted, and the restrictions and remedies in this section apply to it in full.

A shared copy cannot be recalled. A printed or exported copy leaves our systems. If you later change or withdraw what you described, we have no way to reach a copy already in someone else’s hands.

What you tell us when you affirm. Each time you affirm a description of your land, you are making these statements to us, and we record the exact words you affirmed, the version of those words, and the moment you affirmed them:

  • that your description is accurate — that the change you drew and the heights you set describe the land as it stands, to the best of your own knowledge, on the date shown;
  • that you may describe this land — that you own it, occupy it, manage it, or otherwise have the standing to describe its condition; and where your description reaches beyond your own boundary (a neighboring tree line, for example), that you are describing what you can see from your own land and are not speaking for its owner;
  • that you understand what we then produce — that we compute the report from your description together with public data, that we have not been to your land and have no way to check what you told us, and that every figure your description moved is marked as coming from you.

If a description stops being accurate, withdraw it. A description you know to be inaccurate is a breach of these terms, and any Owner-Reported Conditions report built on one falls outside the license above.

What this document is. Growable Ground produced the figures in an Owner-Reported Conditions report by taking the conditions you reported to us on the date shown and computing our usual report from them, together with public federal and state data. We did not measure the conditions you described, we did not visit your land, and we have no way to check what we were told. Where a figure moved, both readings are printed together — yours first, then ours.

This is not a certificate, an inspection, a survey, or an assessment. It is a reading of one person’s description of their own land, computed by us and labeled as such.

A plain-English summary of these paragraphs — which is a summary and not the terms — is at What you can do with an Owner-Reported Conditions report. Where the two differ, the paragraphs above govern.

Data sources. The platform integrates federal public data (USDA, NOAA, USGS, FEMA, EPA, USFWS) pursuant to applicable federal open data policies. Growable Ground's proprietary contribution is the integration architecture, scoring engine, and parcel-level intelligence layer — not the underlying federal datasets.

Violation of these restrictions may result in immediate account termination and may give rise to legal liability.

10. Assumption of risk — environmental and contamination data

Growable Ground's contamination, soil-safety, flood, and environmental layers are informational screening estimates derived from third-party public data. They are not measurements of your specific soil or site, and they are not a substitute for a physical soil test, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, a licensed survey, or advice from a qualified professional.

Federal databases are incomplete and may contain errors or omissions. The absence of a documented site near a location is not evidence that its soil is safe. Before growing food, test your soil for lead and arsenic.

You understand and voluntarily assume all risk arising from any decision you make in reliance on this information, including decisions about growing, consuming, or selling food. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Growable Ground LLC disclaims all liability for those decisions and their outcomes.

11. Warranty disclaimer and limitation of liability

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Growable Ground LLC's total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or (b) US $100.

Growable Ground LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including crop failure, property damage, or lost profits, arising from the use of or reliance on information provided by the Service.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you. In that case, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

12. User content and copyright (DMCA)

Your content. You may submit content to us — messages, feedback, screenshots, garden plans. You keep ownership of what you submit. You grant Growable Ground LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display (to you and our staff), and use that content to operate and improve the Service. You represent that you have the right to submit it and that it does not infringe anyone's rights.

Acceptable use. Do not submit content that is unlawful, infringing, abusive, or that you do not have the right to share.

Copyright complaints. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, our notice-and-takedown and counter-notification procedures, and our Designated Agent's contact information, are on our DMCA page. We respond expeditiously to properly submitted notices and terminate repeat infringers.

13. Embeddable widget (partner terms)

The Growable Ground “What Grows Here” widget is provided free for use on your website, as-is and without warranty of any kind. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to embed the widget, unmodified, on sites you own or operate, provided you keep the “Powered by Growable Ground” attribution and link intact and do not alter, reframe, or misrepresent its results.

Your visitors' data. The widget reads an address or ZIP code your visitor enters to return a public hardiness zone and a starting plant list. It does not create accounts and returns no personal information. Your visitors' use of it is covered by our Privacy Policy. If you pre-fill or otherwise collect addresses yourself, that collection is your responsibility under your own privacy notice, not ours.

We may modify, rate-limit, revoke a partner code, or discontinue the widget at any time; if we discontinue it or you stop meeting these terms, please remove the embed from your site. Growable Ground LLC is not liable for any loss arising from your use of the widget or your visitors' reliance on it. Do not use it for any unlawful purpose.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Any disputes shall be resolved in the courts of Massachusetts.

15. Changes

We may update these terms. Material changes will be communicated to registered users by email. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]

See also: Privacy Policy · DMCA · Accessibility