Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, accessing, or otherwise using Ground Goat — including the website at groundgoat.com, our mobile application, and any related APIs, exports, embeds, downloads, or printed reports (together, the "Service") — you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Description of Service

Ground Goat aggregates, normalizes, and enriches information about farmland sales — auction listings, private treaty offerings, sale results, comparable transactions, parcel boundaries, soil and topography data, and related insights. The data presented through the Service is compiled and enriched at significant cost from public records, partner feeds, our own data-collection systems, and proprietary processing.

3. License Grant

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and timely payment of any applicable fees, Ground Goat grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own internal evaluation of farmland transactions and investment decisions. No other rights or licenses are granted, expressly or by implication.

4. Account Use Is Personal

Each Ground Goat account is intended for use by a single individual. You may not share your login credentials, access tokens, biometric or session data with any other person. If your subscription is purchased by an employer or organization, the named user remains the only person permitted to use the credentials. Allowing a person who has not paid for their own Ground Goat access to view, search, or otherwise interact with the Service through your account — including by screen-share, screen-recording, remote-desktop session, or any indirect means — is a material breach of these Terms.

5. Prohibited Uses of Ground Goat Data

You will not, and will not permit or assist any third party to:

• Scrape, crawl, or harvest data from the Service through any automated means. This includes bots, headless browsers, scripts, scraping frameworks, autonomous AI agents, training pipelines, or any tool designed to retrieve content faster or more comprehensively than a human user reasonably would. Scripted use of the human interface to bypass this restriction is treated as scraping.
• Use the Service or data obtained from it to train, fine-tune, evaluate, retrieve-augment, embed, or otherwise improve any artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, or generative model, whether for your own use or for the benefit of any third party.
• Republish, redistribute, syndicate, sell, license, sublicense, or otherwise make available our data — in whole or in any meaningful part — in printed, digital, embedded, or feed form, or in any way that lets a person who has not paid for their own Ground Goat subscription view, search, or analyze the data.
• Use the Service on behalf of, or to deliver insights to, a client, employer, prospect, customer, lender, broker, or other third party, or as part of a paid consulting, brokerage, or expert-witness engagement, unless every individual who will receive Ground Goat-derived information independently maintains their own paid Ground Goat subscription that covers such use.
• Build, market, or operate any product or service that competes with Ground Goat using data, structure, methodology, or insights derived from the Service.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, model weights, data schemas, or underlying algorithms of the Service, or attempt to circumvent any technical, contractual, or rate-limiting control.
• Bulk-export, cache, archive, or warehouse data from the Service beyond what is reasonably necessary for your immediate, on-screen review of an active listing or comparable. Storing extracts of our data on your own servers, databases, file shares, or any system intended for later retrieval is prohibited.
• Display Ground Goat data on any map, dashboard, embed, report, or other interface visible to people who have not paid for their own access in a way that lets those viewers see, copy, search, or reconstruct any non-trivial portion of our parcel boundaries, ownership records, sale data, or comparables. Sharing a single screenshot or printout of one specific listing for your own review is permitted; anything broader is not.

6. Data Ownership

All content delivered through the Service — including the underlying data, the database structure, normalization layer, comparables algorithms, polygon data, satellite renderings, soil overlays, NASS-derived metrics, owner-name data, parcel-overlay tiles, and our compilations of public records — is owned by Ground Goat or licensed to Ground Goat by third parties. The selection, arrangement, and enrichment of public-record data is itself protected as a database compilation under applicable law. No rights are transferred to you under these Terms.

7. Acceptable Use of the Network

You will not interfere with or disrupt the Service, attempt to access any account other than your own, probe for vulnerabilities, or send traffic intended to overload our servers. You will not use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable export, sanction, or trade-control law.

8. Subscription and Billing

Some features require a paid subscription. All subscriptions are billed annually and begin with a 30-day free trial. By subscribing, you authorize Ground Goat to charge your payment method when the trial ends and at the start of each annual billing period thereafter. Subscriptions automatically renew at the then-current rate unless cancelled before the renewal date. You may cancel anytime; your access continues until the end of the current paid period. Refunds are not customary except where required by law.

• Basic State subscriptions at $99/year per state
• Premium State subscriptions at $500/year per state
• Management Firm subscriptions at $2,400/year for up to 3 users, plus $9.99/month per additional user (billed annually) for users 4–10
• All plans include a 30-day free trial and are billed annually

9. Information Accuracy

Ground Goat compiles data from many sources and applies significant enrichment. Despite our best efforts, the data may contain errors, omissions, lag, or interpretive judgments. You should independently verify any information before making a financial or transactional decision. Ground Goat makes no warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or fitness for any specific transaction. You assume all risk for decisions made on the basis of information provided through the Service.

10. Images and Property Content

Property images displayed on the Service may not always be representative of the actual parcel. Where no image is available from the original source, a stock or rendered placeholder may be used. Always refer to the original listing source for definitive property images and details before relying on any image for a decision.

11. Termination and Consequences of Breach

Ground Goat may suspend or terminate your account immediately, without prior notice, refund, or liability, if we determine in our sole discretion that you have violated these Terms — particularly Sections 4 and 5. Upon any termination for breach related to data use, you must:

• immediately stop accessing the Service;
• delete all data, exports, screenshots, derivative datasets, and any models trained or fine-tuned on Ground Goat data that remain in your possession or under your control; and
• certify the deletion to us in writing on request.

In addition to termination, Ground Goat reserves all legal and equitable remedies, including monetary damages, injunctive relief, and recovery of reasonable attorneys' fees. The parties acknowledge that misuse of Ground Goat data causes irreparable harm and that injunctive relief is an appropriate remedy.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ground Goat, its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to your use of the Service. Ground Goat's total cumulative liability for direct claims arising from these Terms or the Service will not exceed the fees you actually paid Ground Goat in the twelve months preceding the claim.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Ground Goat and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and affiliates from any claim, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) your use or misuse of the Service, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or third-party right, or (d) any data, content, or material you supply to the Service.

14. Modifications

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Material changes will be communicated via the Service or by email. Continued use of the Service after a change constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

15. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. The state and federal courts located in Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from or related to these Terms, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

16. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at: info@groundgoat.com