Legal
Version: 2026-09-14
Effective Date: September 14, 2026 (supersedes the version effective September 13, 2026)
Last Updated: September 14, 2026
These Terms are published identically at landcode.co/legal/terms and arborcode.app/terms, and landcode.app/terms sends you to this page. They are one agreement with LandCode, LLC, not separate terms per product or per site. If the version string above differs between those pages, they are out of sync; the most recent version governs.
By accessing or using CanopyCode™, SheetCode™, ArborCode™, or the LandCode™ code research service, any of our websites (including landcode.co, arborcode.app, and landcode.app), or any related services (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Services. These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you and LandCode, LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company ("LandCode," "we," "us," or "our").
The Services are intended for professional and commercial use only by landscape architects, civil engineers, consulting arborists, and related professionals.
You must be at least 18, have legal capacity to contract, and use the Services for lawful business purposes.
A limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use CanopyCode and SheetCode for your internal business purposes. Your purchase grants a license to use the software, not ownership.
Sold per seat: install on multiple computers you own/control, with one active session at a time per license. Concurrent use requires additional licenses.
ArborCode is provided as a hosted subscription service, accessed via web browser and our mobile apps. Subject to these Terms and your active plan, LandCode grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use ArborCode for the number of authorized users (seats) in your plan. Each user requires their own seat; credentials may not be shared between individuals.
We sometimes make a product, or a feature within a product, available as a beta, preview, early-access, or otherwise pre-release version, whether or not a fee is charged. Anything offered in that state is identified as such where it is offered. This section applies to every product covered by these Terms, not to any single one of them, and applies in addition to the rest of these Terms.
Pre-release software may change without notice, may be incomplete or unstable, and may produce incorrect, missing, or unavailable results. No service level, uptime, availability, or support commitment applies to pre-release access, and we may modify, suspend, or withdraw it at any time. Where access is invite-only, it is granted at our discretion and may be withdrawn at our discretion. Do not rely on pre-release output as the sole basis for any submittal, filing, or professional deliverable.
During beta or other pre-release access, the content and data you store in the product may be lost, corrupted, or reset, whether through a bug, a migration, or a reset. We take reasonable care and keep backups, but you must export and keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose, and you accept that risk as part of pre-release access.
You may not:
Violation may result in immediate termination.
A LandCode seat (a paid seat, a seat on a Team plan, or a seat included with a CanopyCode or ArborCode subscription) is a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right for one named person to use the LandCode code research service, subject to these Terms and the limits stated for the plan.
A seat is for the projects you work on. You may use what LandCode returns (cited provisions, verified quotes, research records, presets, and printed records) in your own work product for a project on which you or your firm provide professional services, including projects for your clients. A seat includes site reports for the projects you work on, within the fair-use allowance stated at purchase (about 20 a month). More than that, or reports you sell, requires the firm plan under Section 4.7.
A seat does not permit selling the research record itself. If the deliverable you sell to a client is, in substance, LandCode’s output (for example a zoning report, a due-diligence report, a zoning verification or non-conforming-use letter, or a screening report compiled from LandCode records), you need the firm plan under Section 4.7. Operating a seat at the volume of a reporting business is a use outside the seat; we may notify you and ask you to move to the firm plan, and we may suspend the seat if that use continues.
“Unlimited” on a seat means unlimited for one person’s ordinary professional use. It does not cover shared, scripted, or automated use.
The firm plan is a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license for a firm to use the LandCode code research service, through the number of named logins in its plan, to prepare reports and other deliverables that the firm sells to its own clients, and to include LandCode output in them. The firm plan carries no fixed cap on the number of reports; its monthly price is set by the volume tier chosen at purchase. Each login is one named person.
The license transfers no ownership of LandCode content, permits no sublicensing, and does not permit redistribution of the code corpus, its indexes, or the code text as such. Deliverables that include LandCode output must keep the citations and as-of dates LandCode supplies for the provisions they rely on, and may not present LandCode output as a determination of compliance or as legal advice.
The firm, not LandCode, is the author of its deliverables and is solely responsible to its clients for them. LandCode is not a party to the firm’s engagements, owes no duty to the firm’s clients, and Sections 15 through 18 apply to every deliverable that includes LandCode output.
Provide accurate information, safeguard your credentials, and notify us of unauthorized use. We may suspend or terminate access for misuse, fraud, or violation of these Terms.
Payments are processed securely through Stripe; LandCode does not store complete card information. By submitting payment you agree to Stripe's applicable terms.
Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing term (annual or monthly) unless canceled before renewal. We provide a renewal reminder before charging.
We may change subscription prices. For existing subscribers, a price change takes effect at your next renewal, and we will provide at least 30 days' advance notice so you may cancel before it applies.
When you accept client card payments through ArborCode's Stripe integration, ArborCode retains a platform fee of 0.5% of each card payment processed through the Service. This is in addition to Stripe's own processing fees, charged by Stripe under your Stripe account terms. The remainder is deposited directly into your connected Stripe account; ArborCode does not hold your funds.
LandCode seats and Team plans are billed monthly and renew each month under Section 6.3. You may cancel at any time; the plan stays active to the end of the month you have paid for and does not renew. A Site report is a one-time purchase, delivered on completion. A firm plan is billed monthly at the volume tier agreed at purchase.
ArborCode offers a Free plan ("start free, no credit card") that you may use on an ongoing basis, subject to usage limits described at sign-up. This is a free tier, not a time-limited trial.
SheetCode is currently offered in beta, and Section 4.4 applies to it whether or not you pay for a license. Anyone may use the free 30-day beta: download it, open AutoCAD or Civil 3D, and enter your email address to start. No license key and no payment card are required. After 30 days, continued use requires a paid license at the price in Section 6.1, which carries the money-back guarantee in Section 8.1.
CanopyCode is sold with the 30-day money-back guarantee in Section 8.1 in place of a trial. LandCode may also offer a free trial of a desktop plugin to select users at its discretion (one per user or organization), for the period stated when it is offered.
A LandCode Free account includes 10 questions in total (once per person, not per month) together with the Reader, the Map, and the Notebook. Every question you ask counts toward the 10, including a question the service cannot answer. It is a free tier, not a time-limited trial. One free account per person.
We offer a one-time, 30-day money-back guarantee on initial purchases of CanopyCode Professional licenses, of SheetCode licenses, of ArborCode paid self-serve plans (Basic, Pro, and Premium), and of LandCode seats and Team plans (the first payment only).
Enterprise agreements ($25,000/year and above) and custom ArborCode Organization agreements are not eligible for the 30-day guarantee; those are evaluated pre-purchase and are firm for their term once executed.
Requests must be made within 30 days of purchase; no refunds or prorated refunds after 30 days; previously refunded customers are not eligible for additional refunds.
Contact [email protected]; approved refunds are typically processed in 5 to 10 business days. Your content in ArborCode remains exportable through the refund window before access is removed. Upon refund, your license/subscription is revoked (uninstall desktop software; ArborCode access ends).
Seat and Team plans: the one-time 30-day money-back guarantee in Section 8.1 applies to the first payment of a new seat or Team plan; request it within 30 days at [email protected]. Later monthly payments are not refunded or prorated; cancel before renewal instead.
Site report: delivered on completion. If we cannot produce the report for the address you entered, we refund the purchase in full, regardless of Section 8.3. Otherwise the purchase is final, because the record is delivered in full as soon as it is produced.
Firm plan: as agreed at purchase. The 30-day guarantee does not apply.
9.1 Your ownership. You own the tree data, photos, projects, reports, files, and client information you create or upload in ArborCode ("Your Content"). LandCode claims no ownership of Your Content.
9.2 License to operate the Service. You grant LandCode a limited, worldwide license to host, store, copy, back up, process, transmit, and display Your Content solely to provide and maintain the Service for you and your authorized users. We do not sell Your Content, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. (If AI features are introduced, Your Content may be sent to an AI provider for inference only, under terms that do not train on it, with notice as described in the ArborCode Privacy Policy.)
9.3 Export and deletion. You may export Your Content at any time using the in-app export tools. On account closure or a deletion request, Your Content is deleted per the retention schedule in the ArborCode Privacy Policy, published at arborcode.app. To request account and data deletion, email [email protected].
9.4 Client/third-party data. If you upload information about your clients or third parties, you represent that you have the right to do so; you are the controller of that data and LandCode processes it on your behalf.
9.5 Backups. We maintain reasonable backups, but you are responsible for keeping your own copies of critical deliverables.
9.6 Organizations, administrators, and crew data. Where ArborCode is used through an organization account, the organization that holds the subscription is our customer for that workspace, and the workspace’s content is Your Content under this Section 9. The organization’s Owner and Admin accounts can see everything in the organization’s projects, including, for each record, which member captured it, where, and when, and, while a member is collecting in the field, that member’s current position, in each case as the ArborCode Privacy Policy describes. By joining an organization you acknowledge this. The organization, not LandCode, is responsible for giving its personnel any notice and obtaining any consent that employment, privacy, or electronic-monitoring laws require for that visibility, and for using it lawfully. LandCode processes this data on the organization’s behalf, as this Section 9 provides for client and third-party data.
9A.1 Your ownership. You own the questions you ask, your Ask history, your Notebook, and your projects and site details (“Your LandCode Content”). LandCode claims no ownership of them. You may keep, print, and export the research records the service produces for you, and use them as Sections 4.6 and 4.7 allow.
9A.2 License to operate the Service. You grant LandCode a limited, worldwide license to host, store, process, transmit, and display Your LandCode Content solely to provide and maintain the service for you. Your question text and the code provisions retrieved for it are sent to our AI provider to generate an answer, under terms that do not permit the provider to train on them. We do not sell Your LandCode Content, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models.
9A.3 The law, and our work on it. The code text we serve is public law, republished from the jurisdictions’ own sources; LandCode claims no copyright in the text of the law itself. The selection, structure, indexes, verified tables, citations, presets, records, and software are LandCode’s work and remain LandCode’s under Section 14. You receive the rights stated in Sections 4.6 and 4.7 and no others.
9A.4 Usage records. We keep records of use (which questions were asked, which model answered, an estimated cost, and a hashed network address) to run, secure, and bill the service, as described in the privacy policy published at landcode.app/privacy.
9A.5 Export and deletion. You can print or export records from the app at any time. To request account and data deletion, email [email protected]; deletion follows the retention terms in the landcode.app privacy policy.
ArborCode is provided on an "as available" basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation and may perform maintenance or modify features. We are not liable for unavailability, sync delays, or loss from service interruptions, subject to Section 15. The LandCode code research service is likewise provided on an “as available” basis and, while in early access, under Section 4.4.
Your active license/subscription includes updates and feature releases during the term. Support is provided via [email protected]; response times are not guaranteed.
The ArborCode mobile apps are licensed, not sold, and are subject to the applicable app-store terms. The following apply to apps obtained through the Apple App Store (the "Licensed Application" terms Apple requires):
All software, documentation, trademarks, logos, and related materials are the exclusive property of LandCode, LLC. You retain ownership of all drawings, data, outputs, and Your Content you create using the Services; LandCode claims no ownership of your work product. LandCode code research output is the exception: cited provisions, verified quotes, tables, presets, and research records are licensed to you under Sections 4.6, 4.7, and 9A, not transferred to you, although your own work product that includes them remains yours. Any feedback you provide may be used by LandCode without compensation or attribution.
CanopyCode, SheetCode, ArborCode, and the LandCode code research service are professional assistance tools only. You remain solely responsible for verifying all calculations and outputs, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and the professional accuracy and suitability of deliverables. LandCode does not guarantee that software output (including CAD exports, reports, appraisals, or cited code provisions) will meet jurisdiction-specific requirements.
The LandCode code research service finds and cites code provisions. It does not tell you what your project is required to do. Nothing it returns is legal advice, a legal opinion, a code interpretation, a determination of compliance, or a substitute for the judgment of a licensed professional or an attorney. Use of the Services does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not create a professional engagement of any kind.
Only the adopting jurisdiction and its officials can interpret their own code or determine what it requires. Where a citation and the official published source disagree, the official source governs.
Nothing the LandCode code research service returns constitutes the practice of law, and LandCode does not practice law in any jurisdiction. Any research-assistant, agent, or conversational feature we offer, whatever it is called, is a research tool that locates and cites sources. It is not your attorney, your engineer, or your planner, and it does not replace one. You are responsible for deciding whether your use of the output requires review by a licensed professional.
The same applies to output delivered to software rather than to a person, including through an API, a connector, a plugin, or an AI-agent interface: it identifies and cites provisions, and it is not a determination.
Codes change constantly. Jurisdictions amend, repeal, and republish them without notice, and staff interpretations change with them. Accordingly:
You must independently verify every provision against the official published source of the adopting jurisdiction before relying on it for any design, submittal, filing, opinion, or sealed or otherwise certified work. You retain sole professional responsibility for that work.
A LandCode site report, printed record, checklist, preset, or similar output is a research record: it assembles, for the address, district, or use you specified, the provisions LandCode located, quoted verbatim, and cited, with the date each provision’s source carries and the date the record was produced.
A research record is not a zoning determination, a zoning verification letter, a certificate of compliance, a non-conforming-use determination, a lender-accepted zoning report, a signed or sealed opinion, or legal advice, and it is not addressed to any lender, insurer, or other third party. LandCode does not sign, certify, or stand behind any conclusion drawn from a record; the professional who uses it does.
A record describes our copy of the code on the date it states, and Section 15.3 applies to every provision in it. A record is only as accurate as the address, district, or use you entered and the boundary data used to locate it; confirm the jurisdiction and district it names before relying on it.
The Services may show data layers drawn from third-party public sources, such as flood zones, wetlands, jurisdiction boundaries, zoning maps, and parcel records, and may add others. Each layer is shown with its source and its date. Layers are informational: they pre-fill and filter, they are not the code, and they are not a determination of anything. The publishing agency’s own maps and records govern where they differ. Third-party data carries its own license terms, noted with the layer, and you agree to comply with them.
You may not use any layer describing the demographics, crime, income, or similar characteristics of an area to make, support, or influence a decision about the sale, rental, financing, insurance, or appraisal of housing, or any other decision, in a way that the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, or any state or local anti-discrimination law prohibits.
Where the Services display real-estate listings, they are shown for information with the listing broker’s attribution. LandCode is not a real-estate broker, does not represent buyers or sellers, and takes no fee tied to a transaction.
Where we offer programmatic access to LandCode (an API, an MCP server, a plugin, or another connector), it is part of the Services and subject to these Terms. Access keys are personal to the account or plan that holds them and may not be shared. Use is metered and limited to the plan you hold. Every response identifies the version of our copy it was served from, and the response, not any cached copy, is the record.
You may not use programmatic access to copy, mirror, or bulk-download the code corpus; to redistribute the code text, tables, or citations; or to build a competing service. Section 15.2 applies to every response, including responses consumed by software or by an AI agent. While programmatic access is in early access, we may change or withdraw it under Section 4.4.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY, OR CURRENCY for any output, calculation, report, drawing, search result, or cited code provision. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or virus-free operation.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, LandCode shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost time, lost business opportunity, lost or corrupted data, business interruption, project delay, redesign or resubmittal costs, regulatory penalties, and the cost of substitute goods or services, whether or not we were advised that such damages were possible.
Our total aggregate liability for all claims shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim. Where you have paid nothing in that period, including free plans, trials, and beta or other pre-release access, our total aggregate liability shall not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless LandCode and its affiliates from claims arising out of your use of the Services, violation of these Terms, violation of third-party rights, or content/data processed using the Services.
You may cancel at any time (effective at the end of the current term). LandCode may suspend or terminate access immediately for violations, non-payment, fraud, or abuse. Upon termination: uninstall desktop software; for ArborCode, your access ends and Your Content is handled per the ArborCode Privacy Policy retention schedule (export beforehand using the in-app tools). Data embedded in your local project files remains yours.
Governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-law principles; exclusive jurisdiction in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming.
We may update these Terms periodically. We give notice of material changes by posting them on this page, in the “What changed” section at the top, together with an updated version identifier and effective date. That posted notice is the notice required by this section. We may also send email, and where a product asks you to accept these Terms when you sign in or sign up, we may ask you to accept the updated version there, but we do not rely on email as the method of notice.
Check this page for the current version. Continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Services and contact us about your account.
LandCode, LLC, Wyoming, USA