Effective: October 31, 2026

Terms of Use

These terms explain how to use IrriDex, a community site for documenting irrigation equipment, locations, and systems. By creating an account or contributing material, you agree to these terms. You can browse publicly available parts of the site without an account.

1. Operator and contact

IrriDex is an independently operated community project. Contact the site administrator through Send Feedback about these terms, moderation decisions, or other questions. See the Privacy Policy for data protection contacts and rights.

2. Accounts and access

Some features require an account approved by moderators. You must provide truthful application information, protect your sign-in credentials, and not share access to someone else's account. You must meet the legal age requirements applicable to your use of the service; minors should have appropriate parent or guardian permission where required. Accounts or features may be limited for safety or violations.

3. Community conduct

• Do not harass, threaten, impersonate, defraud, or dox anyone.
• Do not upload malware, exploit site vulnerabilities, bypass permissions or rate limits, or disrupt other users.
• Do not post passwords, private contact details, medical information, or other sensitive information about another person without an appropriate legal basis and permission.
• Do not falsify locations, ownership, product identifications, attribution, or photographic evidence.
• Respect moderators and other members. Concerns can be raised through feedback or available appeal processes.

3a. Community forums

Forum discussions are publicly readable, including by visitors who are not signed in. Approved members may post in open categories. Information Bulletin is reserved for staff announcements. Do not publish private information, copyrighted material without permission, or detailed instructions for unlawful activity. Reports can be sent to moderators, and content may be hidden or locked for safety and community standards. Forum subscriptions may generate account notifications when new replies are posted.

4. Mapping, privacy, and physical access

Map entries may represent homes, facilities, or privately owned irrigation equipment. Public map visibility is not permission to visit, enter, dig, operate, dismantle, photograph restricted areas, or remove equipment. Observe property rights, safety rules, and applicable laws. Avoid publishing information that exposes a person's private life or creates a safety risk; use available visibility controls and request removal of problematic material.

5. Contributions and intellectual property

You retain any rights you hold in original photographs, descriptions, and other content that you submit. By making material available on IrriDex, you grant the operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, reproduce, resize, display, and distribute that material within the site, and to maintain backups, for the purpose of providing and operating IrriDex. This license lasts while the content is hosted and for reasonable backup and legal retention periods. You must have the rights and permissions needed to upload the content. Product names and trademarks belong to their owners and do not imply endorsement.

6. Content moderation and correction

Moderators may edit, reclassify, restrict visibility, or remove material that is inaccurate, inappropriate, unsafe, infringing, or contrary to these terms. Accounts may be suspended or removed for serious or repeated misuse. You may ask the team to review a decision using the site's feedback and appeals functions, where available.

7. Availability and accuracy

IrriDex is a community-maintained reference. Entries, map imagery, product details, and location accuracy may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect. Do not rely on IrriDex as the sole source for excavation, utility location, safety decisions, irrigation system operation, or property access. The service may experience outages, changes, or feature removal.

8. Liability

To the extent allowed by applicable law, IrriDex is provided without guarantees of uninterrupted availability or error-free information. Nothing in these terms excludes rights or liabilities that cannot legally be excluded, including mandatory consumer protections or liability for fraud or intentional misconduct.

9. Account age and supervision

IrriDex account applicants must be at least 13. People aged 13–17 need permission from a parent or legal guardian and human moderator review. These conditions do not replace additional verification or permission required by the law of the person's jurisdiction. Members 18 and older can apply without a parental-permission requirement where they have legal capacity under applicable local law; all applications remain subject to manual approval. IrriDex does not knowingly permit accounts for children under 13.

Do not publish your precise home location, school, current location, or another child's private details. A guardian's permission does not allow sharing someone else's private information. For accounts identified as under 18, new map contributions are limited to Private visibility. Forum discussion posts are public to visitors, so avoid personal information. The IrriDex team may restrict public content while handling a privacy or safety concern.

10. Changes

Material changes will be identified on the website or through an appropriate notice. Continued account use after a notified change may indicate acceptance where the law allows. If a change requires express agreement, we will request it.

11. Questions

Use Send Feedback to contact the operator. For privacy matters see Privacy Policy and Cookie Preferences.