Acceptable Use Policy

Safety Atlas publishes derivative crime and safety data sourced from FBI UCR + NIBRS. The data is powerful in the wrong hands; this policy describes the uses we will not support.

You may NOT use Safety Atlas to

• Discriminate in housing, lending, insurance underwriting, or employment in violation of the Fair Housing Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, or comparable state laws. Crime-data overlays on protected-class characteristics are a known redlining vector — do not be that buyer.
• Insurance redlining — denying coverage or quoting unaffordable premiums on a neighborhood basis without an actuarially-justified, individualized risk assessment.
• Harass identified individuals, properties, or neighborhoods using our scores.
• Defame a named person or business by attributing crime data inaccurately. Always cite the methodology page.
• Resell the data, PDFs, Excel feeds, or API responses outside your licensed organisation without the Enterprise / White-label tier.
• Train ML models on our derivative work without a separate written license. The FBI source data is in the public domain; our scoring, formulas, and PDFs are not.
• Misrepresent the methodology — for example, presenting our adjusted_score as a predictive model when it is a derivative-of-historical-reporting score.

You SHOULD

• Always cite the methodology page when sharing scores with clients ("Safety Atlas, 2026, methodology v1.0").
• Pair our score with local context — talk to your client about the limits of FBI reporting before letting it determine a decision.
• Use the adjusted score (not the raw score) when comparing cities of different population sizes.
• Use FBI UCR / NIBRS data, full stop, when you need the underlying source — we'll happily point you to crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov.

Reporting abuse

If you see anyone using Safety Atlas to discriminate, redline, harass, or misrepresent: email research@safetyatlas.us with subject "Abuse report". We revoke licenses for documented misuse and assist regulators / civil rights organisations on legitimate inquiries.

Termination

Violation of this policy is a material breach of the Terms of Service. We may revoke the license and any active API keys without refund. We may also share documentation with the relevant regulator or civil rights authority.