Terms of use

Lateral Maps is a product of NieuwArk LLC. These terms are the agreement between you and NieuwArk LLC for the website at lateralmaps.com, the waitlist on that site, and the app at app.lateralmaps.com. "We" and "us" mean NieuwArk LLC. If you do not agree, do not use the site or the app.

The service

Lateral Maps is a web app for recording irrigation heads, valves and backflow by zone, so you can find them later and hand someone a clean as-built. The app is live and still being built. Features can change, pause or be removed while that work continues. The marketing site describes the product. It is not a promise that a particular feature is finished.

The waitlist

Joining the waitlist means we may email you about Lateral Maps. It does not reserve a price, a launch date or an account. We may never email you, and we may stop keeping the list. A second signup with the same email does not create a second place in line.

You agree that the information you submit is accurate enough for us to write to you, and that the email address is yours or one you are allowed to use.

Accounts and invitations

App access is by invitation. A company account owner sends an invitation by email. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping access to your email. Tell the account owner if an invitation was sent to the wrong person.

The account owner decides who on that company's account can see the maps they control. We are not a party to the agreement between a contractor and a customer.

Acceptable use

Do not:

• Break the law, or help someone else break it, with the site or the app.
• Upload anything you do not have the right to store or share.
• Attempt to access an account, a map or a waitlist row that is not yours.
• Probe, scan or overload the site or the app, except through ordinary use.
• Send malware, or use the waitlist form to deliver ads or scripts.
• Pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent your affiliation.

We may refuse a waitlist signup, close an account, or remove content that breaks these terms. If we close an account you rely on for work, we will tell the account email when we reasonably can.

Your maps and other content

You keep ownership of the maps, photos, notes and other content you submit. You give us a license to host, back up, display and transmit that content solely so we can operate Lateral Maps for you and for the people you share a record with. The license ends when the content is deleted, except for copies we are required to keep for a legal process, and except for residual copies in backups that age out on their own.

You are responsible for having the right to record a property and to share that record with a customer or a crew. Do not put someone else's private information on a map unless you have a reason to and the right to.

Our intellectual property

The Lateral Maps name, the logo, the mark and the design of this website belong to us. You may not copy the logo, retype the wordmark, or use our name in a way that suggests we endorse you. These terms do not grant you a trademark license.

You may link to the public pages of lateralmaps.com. Please use the logo files we publish if you need the mark, and follow the clear-space and color rules that come with them.

Not a survey, and not a utility locate

Lateral Maps is a practical field record. It is not a licensed land survey, not an engineered as-built, and not a substitute for calling 811, or your local one-call center, before you dig.

Pins can be wrong. GPS on a phone can be off by more than the width of a trench. Photos and notes are only as complete as what someone entered. You are responsible for verifying a location before you excavate, repair or rely on a record for a decision that affects safety or property.

Disclaimers

The website, the waitlist and the app are provided as is and as available. We disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, accurate or error free, to the fullest extent the law allows.

Some places do not allow these disclaimers. In those places, they apply only as far as the law allows.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or the cost of substitute service, arising out of these terms or the service, even if we have been told those damages are possible.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim relating to the website, the waitlist or the app is limited to the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred U.S. dollars if you have not paid us.

These limits do not apply where the law does not allow them, including liability for our gross negligence or willful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, where those exceptions exist.

Indemnity

If someone brings a claim against us because of content you submitted, your use of the service, or your breach of these terms, you will indemnify us against the damages, losses and reasonable attorneys' fees that result, to the extent the claim was caused by you. We will tell you about the claim when we reasonably can.

Changes

We may change these terms. We will update the date at the top when we do. If a change is material, we will note it on the homepage or email the waitlist. If you keep using the service after the new terms are posted, you are agreeing to them. If you do not agree, stop using the service and emailprivacy@lateralmaps.comto delete your waitlist row.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The state and federal courts located in Texas are the exclusive venue for a dispute that is not required to be heard somewhere else. You and we consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

Other terms

If a court holds one part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a term once is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them if we transfer the product. These terms are the whole agreement between you and us about the website, the waitlist and the app. They do not create a partnership, a joint venture or an agency.

The privacy policy explains how we handle information. If it conflicts with these terms about a privacy question, the privacy policy controls that question.

How to reach us

Emailprivacy@lateralmaps.comfor privacy and legal requests. Emailhello@lateralmaps.comfor general questions.