These terms are an agreement between you and Erica Rhodes ("we"). By using the sites you agree to them and to the Privacy Policy. Creating a workspace account requires you to accept them expressly.
Quicksand Check offers free tools that summarize public information about land, permitting, and interconnection for solar, wind, and storage projects, including the land report, the project planner, the map, the land tools, and the permit workspace. Features may change or stop at any time.
Public data screens. Flood zones, wetlands, critical habitat, historic sites, transmission lines, elevation, and county data come from government and public sources at a single point, as of the date shown. They may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong, and a point check does not describe a whole property. The national wetland map is not a wetland delineation; the flood map is not an elevation certificate; the transmission map is not a utility study and may not show lines built since it was last updated.
Parcel and soil data. Texas parcel acreage and legal descriptions come from county appraisal-district records compiled by the Texas Geographic Information Office. They are tax records: they may be outdated, may not match the deed or a survey, and not every county is included. Farmland ratings come from the USDA soil survey and describe the soil, not how the land is used or zoned.
Survey locations are not legal descriptions. The "Public Land Survey location" is where a point falls in the federal survey grid according to Bureau of Land Management data. It is not a legal description, not a survey, and must not be used in any deed, lease, easement, option, or other conveyance. Only the recorded deed and a licensed surveyor define a property.
Rules, fees, and deadlines. Summaries of state siting rules, permits, interconnection steps, fees, and application windows are general information. Some are marked as checked against live sources on a stated date; others are from our notes and are marked that way. Rules change. Confirm with the agency or grid operator before acting, especially before any deadline.
AI features. The document reader, county lookup, and CIA reader use an AI model to extract information. AI output can be wrong or incomplete. Check it against the source document.
Filled forms. Fields the workspace fills into application forms come from what you enter or upload. You are responsible for reviewing every form before filing it.
No professional relationship. Using the sites does not create an attorney-client, surveyor-client, engineer-client, or any other professional relationship.
You agree to use the sites lawfully; to provide accurate information for a workspace account and keep your password confidential; to upload only content you have the right to upload and to share with our service providers (see the Privacy Policy); not to attempt to access other users' accounts or data, probe or disrupt the service, or bypass security; and not to use automated means to send excessive requests to the sites or to the public data services they rely on.
You keep ownership of the projects and documents you put in the workspace. You give us permission to store, process, and display them only as needed to provide the service to you, including sending them to service providers when you use a feature that requires it. You can delete them at any time.
The sites display and link to information and services from government agencies, grid operators, and other third parties, including base maps from USGS The National Map and transmission-line data hosted on Esri's ArcGIS Online. We do not control them and are not responsible for their accuracy, availability, or terms. Their own terms and policies apply when you use them.
The sites and all information in them are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the sites will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of these may not apply to you.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, missed deadlines, permit denials, project costs, or loss of data, arising from your use of or reliance on the sites. Our total liability for any claim relating to the sites is limited to one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you.
You can stop using the sites at any time and ask us to delete your workspace account. We may suspend or end access for anyone who violates these terms or harms the service, and we may discontinue the service. If we discontinue the workspace, we will give reasonable notice where possible so you can download your documents.
We may update these terms. We will post the new version with a new effective date. Continuing to use the sites after a change means you accept it; for material changes affecting workspace accounts we will also email account holders.
These terms are governed by the laws of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.
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