Terms of Use, Disclaimer & Privacy Policy

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE, DISCLAIMER AND PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE

Last updated: April 2023

This website is © 2023 randymajors.org Research Hub LLC. All rights reserved. This website may alternatively be referred to as randymajors.org, randymajors.org Research Hub, randymajors.com or randymajors.com Research Hub; all references refer to the same entity. You may not re-use, alter, or reverse engineer any source code without author’s express written permission.

This website operates as a research hub for publicly available data, and therefore this website is free of charge. Advertising revenue helps offset the significant development and operating costs of this website. If you prefer not to see ads, you may become a monthly contributor to get access to ad-free fullscreen versions of all of the map and search tools on this website. The use of ad-blockers or similar technologies is against the Terms of Use of this website.

ACCEPTABLE USES: You may link to this website, including linking to custom maps you have created that are hosted on this website. Also, you may print or share screenshots and brief excerpts from this website, provided that all attribution and copyright notices are left intact (including Google’s) and that your use also adheres to Google’s Geo guidelines. All such uses must include a source attribution link back to this website.

PROHIBITED USES: Neither this website nor its maps are allowed to be embedded or iframed in another website, nor is there an API to programmatically interact with the map tools. Also, automation of the tools on this website IS NOT ALLOWED (including, but not limited to, the use of automated scripting/querying/scraping tools). Also, the owner of this website does not consent to the content on this website being used or downloaded by any third parties for the purposes of developing, training or operating artificial intelligence or other machine learning systems (“Artificial Intelligence Purposes”), except as authorized by the owner in writing (including written electronic communication). Absent such consent, users of this website, including any third parties accessing the website through automated systems, are prohibited from using any of the content on the website for Artificial Intelligence Purposes. Users or automated systems that fail to respect these choices will be considered to have breached these Terms of Use.

This website has no affiliation with Google LLC. Google Maps™ mapping service, Google™ search, Google EarthEngine™ analytics platform and Google Custom Search™ service are trademarks of Google LLC. These and all other product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. The use of any trade name or trademark is for identification and reference purposes only and does not imply any association with the trademark holder or their product or service brand. Use of these names, logos, and brands does not imply endorsement.

DISCLAIMER: All tools and content on this website are offered for entertainment purposes only. The tools and content on this website are provided “As Is”, “With All Faults” and “As Available.” WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE TOOLS AND CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE, THEIR SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. This website makes no guarantees about the continuity of service and the website and/or website functionality may be discontinued or significantly altered at any time without notice; if you are a monthly contributor you may, at this website’s discretion, receive a refund of no more than one month’s contribution. Monthly contributors can save maps and drawings to their account; after 30 days of cancelling or failing to complete a monthly contribution payment, any Saved Maps or Saved Drawings will be deleted from your account and cannot be recovered. The tools and content were not prepared for, nor are they suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes, or any purpose beyond entertainment. Your use of all tools and content on this website (including, without limitation, any reliance by you on any results, information, graphics or other data provided through the tools and content on this website) is at your sole risk. Users of this information should review or consult the primary data and information sources to ascertain the usability of the information. Some of the materials on this website contain links to other sources on the internet. Such links are provided as citations and aids, and are not intended to be referrals or endorsements.

PRIVACY POLICY:

If you have provided your e-mail address by subscribing to website updates, by becoming a monthly contributor to this website, by signing into this website, by sending a message through a contact form, or by leaving a comment on a post, then this website stores your e-mail address. This website only uses your e-mail address to send you website updates, and you may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of each e-mail. We will not sell, rent or otherwise provide third-parties with your e-mail address, except if ever required by law.

If you are a monthly contributor to this website, then your password is stored on this website’s servers in an unreadable encrypted format; this website does not have access to your password. Credit card or other payment information is NOT stored by this website. This is made possible by tokenization, whereby your actual credit card number or other payment information is stored on the payment gateway, which includes Stripe for credit card processing, Google Pay, or Apple Pay. Your use of these payment gateways means you accept the terms and conditions of the respective payment gateway.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to this website is used to create reports about the use of this website, and your IP address and user-agent are shared with Google along with performance and security metrics to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics, and to detect and address abuse. Here is Google’s privacy policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this site, please contact us at helpdesk@randymajors.org

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