Terms of Service

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 84% 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. Subscription cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period.

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. 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

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. Limitation of liability

Growable Ground LLC is not liable for any damages arising from the use of or reliance on information provided by the Service, including but not limited to crop failure, property damage, or financial loss. The Service is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

11. Governing law

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

12. 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.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: info@growableground.com