We're updating our service terms with effect from 1 February 2026. It’s our responsibility to keep you informed, so we want to be as clear and transparent as possible about what's changing and why. Our goal with these updates is to increase clarity, ensure a seamless user experience, and better reflect how our platform has grown.

We've taken the time to review our terms and make them easier to understand. Below, we've highlighted the most important changes. You can always view the full updated terms here:

To better reflect the content of the terms, the ‘User Terms of Service’ are now referred to as ‘User Terms’, and the ‘Business Terms of Service’ are now referred to as ‘Subscription Terms’. User Terms apply to all users. For those on a paid subscription, Subscription Terms also apply.

For users who sign up with a Business Domain Email, we've introduced new provisions to clarify the relationship between you and your company.

What This Means for You: If you use an email address with an organisational domain suffix, a “Business Domain Email” (e.g. the email address is provided by a business, charity, organisation, etc., with a subscription to Land App), the organisation providing the email address will have certain rights over your account. This includes the ability to reset your password and request a summary of users with Land App accounts using their email domain, even if you are a free user not yet added to the Business’s Organisation on Land App.

Intellectual property (including any content you create) developed using a Business Domain Email can be transferred to the Business with two weeks' notice.

How We’re Helping: We've built in a protective measure for you. If your organisation takes control of your intellectual property, you can request to keep “Mirrored IPR” for your personal use, allowing you to retain a copy of the work you created in your own personal account (on a separate email domain).

We've updated our terms to be more specific about how you can use and export maps and licensed data from The Land App.

New Restrictions: To ensure compliance with our data partners, the terms explicitly prohibit creating or publishing any screenshots or screengrabs that contain licensed data. You are also restricted from cropping or amending maps exported from our services.

Attribution Requirements: When you use any licensed data outside of our platform, you must include an attribution statement crediting Land App and its third-party licensors. We've specified the format for this to make it simple and clear. This format is as follows: "© Land App [YEAR]" plus specific Third Party Licensor acknowledgements

We’ve made several updates to clarify how we may handle and share your data, particularly regarding third-party services and licensors.

Sharing with Third-Party Licensors: The terms highlight that we may need to share some of your information (such as your name, organisation, and contact details) with certain third-party data licensors. This is to ensure we comply with our own licensing agreements. We will only share the minimum amount of information required and are committed to protecting your personal data in line with our Privacy Policy.

Sharing with Third-Parties with your consent: We’ve added a clause that allows you to authorise us to share your information with other organisations when you specifically instruct us to, for example, when sharing data with a third-party when using our Nature Reporting tool. You're always in control and can stop this sharing at any time, either by withdrawing consent within the Nature Reporting tool or by notifying us in writing.

We've refined our definitions and clauses around intellectual property to provide greater clarity for our users and protect the integrity of the data on our platform.

Expanded "User Generated Content": The definition of "User Generated Content" has been expanded to include more specific examples of the work you do within the app, such as using a drawing tool on a map or creating a field boundary. This ensures it's clear what content belongs to you.

Clarified "Analytics Data": We've provided a more detailed definition of "Analytics Data" to include metadata created within the Services. It also clarifies that we automatically own the intellectual property rights in any aggregated, anonymised data we generate, which helps us improve and train our services for everyone.

Protection of Your Content: The new terms make explicit that we will not sell your "User Generated Content" or "External Content" under any circumstances. We will only access or store your content to provide our services, ensure compliance, or enhance the platform (for example, by using it for training purposes and to train our models).

Geographic License Scope: The updated terms now specify that your license to use the Services and Licensed Data is valid "in the country that you are resident in." This provides a clear geographic scope for your usage rights.

We've also made a number of small but important updates to our terms for added clarity. These include:

Account Inactivity: The period after which we may terminate your account for inactivity has been shortened from five years to two years for free accounts. This change helps us manage our resources more efficiently and maintain a clean database. Don't worry, if you have an active subscription (Standard or Professional) and you created this account under our old terms, this period remains five years.

New Appendix for UK Habitat Classification: We’ve added an appendix that contains the licensing terms for the UK Habitat Classification data. This appendix details what you can and can't do with this specific data and clarifies the required attribution, so you know exactly how to use it correctly for your projects.

We understand that updates to terms and conditions can be complex. We've done our best to summarise the key points here and hope this gives you a clear understanding of the changes. Please note, these aren’t the full terms. If you would like to read the User and Subscription terms in their entirety, you can do so at the links below.

Read the full User Terms here.

Read the full Subscription Terms here.

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