Terms of service

These terms govern your use of seecrime.com — the website, the map application, the reports it generates, and the /api/v1 developer API. By creating an account or using the service you agree to them.

The service is operated by P4 Security Solutions LLC ("we", "us"), the billing entity of P4 Companies.

What the data is, and what it is not

• Coverage varies by city. Some cities publish an incident's occurrence date; others publish the date it was reported. Some publish no arrest or time information at all. Where we know a field is not published, we show it as unavailable rather than as a zero — but the underlying gaps are the publisher's, not ours.
• Data is delayed. Cities publish on their own cadence, and some feeds stall or freeze upstream. A quiet map may mean a quiet week or a stalled feed.
• Nothing here is a safety guarantee. A risk score is a statement about what was reported in an area over a window of time. It is not a prediction, it is not advice about whether any place or person is safe, and it is never a statement about a person or a specific property. The score carries that notice with it, on the map and in the API response.

Acceptable use

You agree not to use seecrime.com, its data, or its API:

• To make, inform, or support any decision about housing, tenancy, employment, credit, insurance, or eligibility for any benefit or service concerning an identifiable person. This prohibition applies wherever you are and whatever law governs you. It is not conditional on any particular statute: seecrime.com is not a consumer reporting, credit reporting, or tenant screening agency; nothing it produces is a consumer report, credit report, investigative report, or background check; and it must not be used as one. Among the laws this restriction reflects are the United States Fair Credit Reporting Act, state and provincial consumer- and credit-reporting legislation, and fair housing, human rights and anti-discrimination law — but the restriction binds you under these terms regardless of which of them applies to you.
• To harass, stalk, intimidate, or target any person or group.
• To discriminate against any person or group, including on the basis of a protected characteristic.
• To re-identify individuals from incident records, or to combine our data with other sources for that purpose.
• To scrape the site outside the documented API, to evade rate limits, or to resell the raw data as your own product.
• For any unlawful purpose, or to break any city portal's own terms.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules.

Your account

• You are responsible for what happens under your credentials. Use a password you do not use elsewhere, and tell us promptly if you believe it has been exposed.
• Organisation accounts: the owner and administrators control membership and can see organisation-scoped content, including datasets members upload.
• You must be old enough to form a contract where you live, and at least 13.

Paid plans

Paid tiers are described on the pricing page. Fees, seat counts, and included features are those stated at the time you subscribe. Enterprise terms may be set out in a separate written agreement, which controls where it conflicts with these terms.

The API

API keys are issued to an organisation and must not be shared outside it. Keys are rate limited; the limits and the response contract are documented at /developers. We may change the API, and we publish a payload revision date so you can detect a change. Treat a key like a password — anyone holding it can read your organisation's quota.

Our content and yours

• The underlying public records are the publishing agencies'. Our compilation, classification, scoring, interface, and written analysis are ours.
• Data you upload stays yours. You grant us only the licence needed to store it, geocode it, and display it back to your organisation. We do not use it to train models and we do not sell it.

Availability

We aim to keep the service running and the data current, and we publish live coverage state at /status. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, and scheduled work or an upstream outage may interrupt it.

Disclaimer and liability

The service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent the law allows, including any warranty that the data is accurate, complete, or fit for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Changes and governing law

We may update these terms; we will change the “last updated” date and, for material changes, notify account holders. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Nothing in this paragraph removes a protection that the mandatory consumer law of your own country or province gives you and that cannot be waived by agreement.

Contact

P4 Security Solutions LLC, 2801 Finley Rd, Suite 103, Downers Grove, IL 60515 · 312-502-1702 · Contact us.