This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is incorporated by reference into the CrimeLayer Terms of Service. Violating this AUP is grounds for immediate suspension or termination of your account, without refund.
Prohibited Uses
1. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Decisions
You may NOT use CrimeLayer data, directly or indirectly, as an input to:
- Credit decisions about a specific person or business
- Employment screening, background checks, or hiring decisions
- Tenant screening, rental application evaluation, or eviction decisions
- Insurance underwriting decisions about a specific individual or household
- Any automated decisioning system that produces adverse effects on individuals
CrimeLayer provides aggregate, area-wide public-safety statistics. It is not "consumer information" within the meaning of FCRA and must not be treated or resold as if it were.
2. Fair Housing Act Violations
You may NOT:
- Use CrimeLayer data to discriminate against protected classes in housing decisions
- Present CrimeLayer scores as a "good neighborhood" or "bad neighborhood" signal without the accompanying methodology context
- Automate property listing approval/rejection based on CrimeLayer scores
- Use CrimeLayer data to steer renters or buyers away from specific neighborhoods
3. Harassment, Doxxing, and Individual Targeting
You may NOT use the Service to:
- Identify, locate, or surveil specific individuals
- Build services that target victims of crime
- Publicly shame individuals or communities
- Aggregate data about specific addresses in ways that could enable harassment
4. Resale and Competing Services
You may NOT:
- Resell raw CrimeLayer data as a standalone data product
- Use CrimeLayer as a data source for a competing crime-data API
- Store and redistribute large subsets of CrimeLayer data without enrichment
Integrating CrimeLayer data as a feature of your own differentiated product or service is permitted — that is the intended use case.
5. Technical Abuse
You may NOT:
- Exceed your plan's rate limits through scripted retries or parallelism
- Share API keys across multiple unrelated customers
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service
- Probe for security vulnerabilities outside of a responsible disclosure process (see /security)
- Scrape the CrimeLayer website in lieu of using the documented API
Permitted Uses (examples)
The Service is intended for:
- Adding neighborhood safety context to property listings on real estate platforms
- Displaying aggregate safety information on location-based directories (daycares, schools, coworking spaces, retail finders)
- Informing insurance product design at an aggregate market level
- Building internal market-selection tools for investors, operators, and corporate teams
- Research and journalism (with appropriate attribution)
Reporting Violations
If you believe another CrimeLayer customer is violating this AUP, report it to [email protected]. Reports are reviewed confidentially.
Enforcement
CrimeLayer reserves the right to investigate violations, suspend accounts immediately when evidence of a violation is present, and terminate accounts permanently for repeated or severe violations. We may also cooperate with law enforcement where legally required.
Contact
Questions about this AUP: [email protected]