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, CSVs, or custom exports 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 safety score as a predictive model when it is based on historical reporting.
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 [email protected] 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 without refund. We may also share documentation with the relevant regulator or civil rights authority.