Landlord Atlas Commercial License Terms

Version 1.1, September 29, 2026. These terms govern the Production License. They apply to the dataset release current at purchase and to every release delivered during the term. Prices, and the free state sample, are on the data license page.

1. Who is agreeing

The license is granted by Landlord Atlas LLC, a Michigan limited liability company ("Landlord Atlas," "we"). The licensee is the organization named on the order, or, if none is named, the organization the buyer works for ("you"). Paying the invoice is your acceptance of these terms. The person buying confirms they are authorized to accept them for the organization.

2. What is licensed

The Landlord Atlas dataset as published at landlordatlas.com: the selection, field structure, summaries, verification dates, notes and compilation. The statutes themselves are public law and belong to no one. Every release published during the term is included. The current release is delivered from the licensed feed under /data/current/ with your license key, together with the public machine-readable changelog.

3. What you may do

For the term, on a non-exclusive basis, you may:

• use the dataset inside your organization;
• show the data, and content derived from it, to your customers and the public on websites and in products your organization operates, rewritten in your own words where you like;
• surface the data through AI or assistant features of those products, provided each answer carries the statute citation and the verified date of the record it relies on and presents it as legal information, not legal advice;
• keep copies for backup and development.

4. What you may not do

• Redistribute the dataset, or a substantial part of it, as a dataset, file download, API or feed, whether or not modified.
• Sell, sublicense, rent or lend the dataset, or serve it to third parties as data.
• Build or help build a competing data product from it.
• Remove citations, verified dates or the _meta block from records you pass to your own systems, or describe anything built on the data as offering guaranteed compliance.
• Share your license key outside your organization, or transfer the license to another organization. Affiliates under common ownership that operate the same products are covered; unrelated companies are not.

5. Attribution

Name Landlord Atlas and link to landlordatlas.com, or to the page a fact appears on, once on each page or screen where the data is displayed. Placement and styling are yours; existence is not optional. Reduced attribution is available only under a custom license.

6. What we commit to

• Every record states the date it was last verified against the official source.
• The statute pages the dataset cites are checked each week for changes to their text. A detected change is read against the enacted text before any record moves, and the change is published in the changelog.
• Enacted changes are flagged with their signed and effective dates before they take effect, and the affected records are updated within fourteen days of the effective date.
• Corrections are published in the changelog in the release that makes them.
• The licensed feed is served from our production hosting with commercially reasonable efforts to keep it available. We do not promise a numeric uptime.
• Email support at [email protected], answered within one business day.

We do not promise that the dataset covers every law that exists, and nothing here is legal advice.

7. Term, renewal and ending

• The term is 12 months from the date your license key is issued.
• The license does not renew automatically. We write to the email on the order about thirty days before the term ends; a renewal is a new purchase at the price then published.
• You may cancel a first purchase within 30 days for a full refund. After that, fees are not refundable.
• We may end the license on written notice if you breach section 4 and, where the breach can be cured, do not cure it within thirty days of our notice. A breach of the redistribution rules may be ended immediately.
• When the license ends, your key stops working, and you remove any live feed or dynamic display of the data within thirty days. Articles and pages you already wrote from the data may stay published; where they continue to show our figures, the attribution in section 5 continues too, unless you re-source those figures.

8. Fees

The fee is the price published on the data license page at purchase, paid by invoice before the license key is issued. Taxes that apply to you are yours. Custom licenses are invoiced separately under their own proposal.

9. Warranty and disclaimer

Landlord Atlas is not a law firm. The dataset provides general information about state landlord-tenant statutes for informational purposes only. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Use of the data does not create an attorney-client relationship.

We warrant one thing: that the verification process described in section 6 is actually performed. Otherwise the dataset is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Laws change between verification passes, and you are responsible for confirming against the cited statutes before relying on any figure in a way that carries legal consequences.

10. Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages, or for lost profits, however arising. Our total liability under this license is limited to the fees you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim. You are responsible for what you publish; we do not indemnify your editorial use. We will defend you against a claim that the dataset compilation itself infringes a third party's intellectual property, provided you tell us promptly and let us control the defense.

11. General

These terms and the license page at purchase are the whole agreement for the production license. Michigan law governs, and the courts located in Michigan have jurisdiction. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. We may publish a new version of these terms; the version in force when you bought keeps governing that purchase. Notices to us go to [email protected]; notices to you go to the email on the order.

Questions before buying: [email protected].

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