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Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: March 27, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) governs your use of the LocalCode platform and all related services (“Service”) operated by LocalCode, LLC. This AUP is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Use.

The purpose of this AUP is to ensure the Service remains a reliable, accurate, and professional resource for legal, land use, and legislative research work. Violations of this AUP may result in immediate suspension or termination of access.

1. Permitted Uses

The Service is designed for professional and institutional use. The following are examples of clearly permitted uses:

  • Legal research, including preparation of briefs, opinions, due diligence memoranda, and client advisories
  • Land use and entitlement analysis, including zoning review, variance analysis, and code compliance research
  • Site selection analysis and regulatory due diligence
  • Integration of LocalCode data into professional platforms and software products pursuant to an API access agreement
  • Academic research and educational use by law schools, universities, and policy institutions
  • Citation of specific code sections and legislative chain data in legal and professional documents
  • Municipal government internal research and legislative tracking

2. Prohibited Uses

The following uses are prohibited and may result in immediate termination of access:

Legal and compliance violations

  • Any use that violates applicable federal, state, or local law or regulation
  • Using the Service to facilitate unauthorized practice of law or misrepresent qualifications to clients
  • Using Service outputs to create or publish misleading statements about current law or code provisions

Unauthorized access and misuse

  • Sharing account credentials with individuals not covered by your access grant
  • Circumventing, disabling, or attempting to bypass rate limits, authentication controls, or access restrictions
  • Using automated scrapers, bots, or crawlers to extract data from the Service beyond authorized API access
  • Attempting to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract proprietary data structures, classification systems, or chain-linkage logic
  • Probing, scanning, or testing the Service for vulnerabilities without prior written authorization

Unauthorized redistribution

  • Reselling, sublicensing, or redistributing LocalCode data products or outputs as a standalone data product without a written data licensing agreement
  • Publishing or distributing bulk exports of legislative chain data in ways that replicate or compete with the Service
  • Incorporating LocalCode data into AI training datasets, language model fine-tuning, or machine learning pipelines without a separate written agreement

Interference and abuse

  • Sending excessive requests that degrade Service performance for other users
  • Introducing malicious code, exploits, or payloads of any kind
  • Using the Service to harass, defame, or harm any individual or entity
  • Misrepresenting your identity, organization, or use case in connection with an access application or account

3. Data Accuracy and Professional Responsibility

LocalCode data is derived from publicly available government sources and processed with care. However:

  • Data may contain errors, omissions, or may not reflect the most recent legislative updates.
  • You are responsible for independently verifying any data before relying on it in legal, regulatory, or transactional contexts.
  • LocalCode is not a substitute for consulting primary sources, including official municipal code publications and the originating ordinance documents.
  • You must not represent LocalCode data to clients or courts as definitively authoritative without independent verification.

4. API Use

If you are granted API access, you must additionally comply with any API-specific rate limits, field-level restrictions, and data use terms communicated to you at the time of access. API usage that exceeds approved volumes or use cases is a violation of this AUP regardless of whether a technical block is triggered.

5. Reporting Violations

If you become aware of any use of the Service that violates this AUP, or if you discover a potential security vulnerability in the Service, please report it promptly to legal@localcode.ai. We take reports seriously and will investigate and respond in a timely manner.

6. Enforcement

LocalCode reserves the right to investigate any suspected violation of this AUP. Upon confirming a violation, we may, at our sole discretion:

  • Issue a warning
  • Throttle or restrict access
  • Suspend access temporarily or permanently
  • Terminate your account and all access rights
  • Report violations to appropriate authorities or seek legal remedies

We will generally provide notice before taking enforcement action unless the violation is severe, ongoing, or a security risk.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via notice on the Service or by email. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated AUP.

8. Contact

Questions about this Acceptable Use Policy should be directed to:
LocalCode, LLC
legal@localcode.ai