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Data API Terms
Last updated . Operated by Phulax LLC (“we”). These terms add to the site's Terms of Use. By making an API key you agree to both. Contact: maptheblock@gmail.com.
What the API is
The API returns public figures that government agencies and other open publishers release, as we have compiled them for Map the Block. Each response names the source, period and licence. We don't add scores, grades or rankings.
What you may do
- Free and Developer plans: personal projects, research, teaching, journalism, non-profit work, internal tools and prototypes.
- Pro and Business plans: all of the above, plus use inside a commercial product or service.
- Store and show the data you receive, with the credit below.
What you may not do
- Screen people. No tenant, employment, credit, insurance, licensing or similar decisions about a specific person, and no use as or for a consumer report. We are not a consumer reporting agency, and the data is not suited to that use.
- Discriminate. No use that rates, steers or markets housing, lending, insurance or services by race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, national origin or any other protected characteristic.
- Target people or groups for harassment or harm.
- Share or sell your key, get around plan limits with several free accounts, or resell the raw API as your own data service.
Credit
Where you show the data, add: “Data via Map the Block (maptheblock.com), from official public sources.” Parks hours, phones, fees and camping fields that come from OpenStreetMap are under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0) and need “© OpenStreetMap contributors”; data you build from those fields stays under the ODbL.
Accuracy
Figures are shown as their sources publish them. Sources have gaps, delays and errors, and we can make mistakes combining them. Crime figures are incidents reported by police agencies and depend on how many agencies report. The API is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, including accuracy, completeness, availability or fitness for a purpose.
Plans, billing and limits
- Paid plans are monthly subscriptions billed by Stripe. Prices are on the Data API page and may change with 30 days' notice by email.
- Cancel any time in the Stripe receipt link or by email. Your plan runs to the end of the paid month, then drops to Free. Payments are non-refundable except where the law requires.
- Calls over the monthly or per-minute limit are refused until the limit resets. We may slow or suspend keys that hurt the service for others.
- We may change, add or remove datasets and endpoints. We'll try to give notice of changes that break existing calls.
Your account and keys
Keep keys secret. You're responsible for calls made with your keys. We store only a fingerprint of each key and count calls per account; we don't log the places you look up with your account.
Ending access
We may suspend or end access for use that breaks these terms. You may stop using the API and revoke your keys at any time.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Phulax LLC is not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from use of the API or reliance on its data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.