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Terms of Service
Last updated: October 12, 2026
1. What Permitame is
Permitame ("we", "us") provides building permit information to you and to AI applications you connect, drawn from published government sources. Answers include their sources, the date they were last reviewed and a verification status.
2. Not legal or professional advice
Permitame is informational only. It is not legal advice, does not replace the building department, and does not guarantee that a permit is or is not required. Permit rules change and local officials decide how they apply. Always confirm requirements with the building department that has jurisdiction before starting work. You are responsible for decisions you make using Permitame, including decisions made by AI applications acting for you.
3. Accuracy
We check each answer against the wording of its published sources and monitor those sources for changes, but sources can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and AI applications can misstate what Permitame returns. We do not warrant that information is accurate, complete or current. Please report errors to our support address.
4. Accounts
You need an account to use Permitame. Keep your sign-in email, connected apps and API keys secure; you are responsible for activity under your account. One account is for one person or one company and its employees.
5. Plans, billing and cancellation
Paid plans are billed monthly in advance through Stripe and renew until cancelled. You can change or cancel your plan anytime from your account page; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Fees are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice; changes apply from your next billing period. Only lookups that return information count toward a monthly limit.
6. Fair use
Plans described as unlimited are subject to fair use: use by one person or company in their own work, at up to 30 lookups per minute. Accounts exceeding 2,000 lookups in a month may be reviewed, and we may contact you about a plan that fits your use. You may not:
- resell, sublicense or redistribute Permitame data, or use it to build a competing product or dataset;
- share an account or API key outside your company;
- bulk download, scrape or systematically extract the data, or try to get around limits;
- interfere with the service or use it unlawfully.
We may suspend or end accounts that break these rules.
7. Public officials
We may give free access to verified government staff at our discretion. We may end free access at any time.
8. Intellectual property
Government sources remain public. Our selection, organization and presentation of the information, and the service itself, belong to us.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
Permitame is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for fines, penalties, rework or lost profits arising from your use of Permitame, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
11. Changes and termination
We may update these terms; we'll post the new version here and, for material changes, notify account holders by email. You may stop using Permitame at any time.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA.