GISLens Report Terms and Conditions

Version 2.0 · Revised October 20, 2026

These terms govern Property Constraint Screening GIS Reports, maps, exhibits, findings and related explanations provided by Mike Young, operating as GISLens (“GISLens”). “You” means the individual or organization accepting the services.

Purpose: Your report organizes identified public records and mapped information to highlight potential property constraints, information gaps and questions for further investigation. It is a desktop screening, not a field investigation or professional certification.

AI can make mistakes: Reports are produced using artificial intelligence and automated tools under Mike Young’s direction and review. Maps, calculations, references and written findings may contain errors or omissions, including errors that review does not detect. Independently verify information material to a property, financial, design or development decision.

Important liability provisions: Section 10 limits certain damages and total recoverable liability, including claims involving AI errors, subject to applicable law and the exceptions stated there.

1. Agreement and acceptance

You accept these terms by actively agreeing to them on the GISLens order form, or through another documented acceptance process after receiving access to them. Merely viewing this page or downloading a sample does not constitute acceptance. If ordering for an organization, you confirm your authority to accept on its behalf.

Your order identifies the property, contact information and any questions or intended use you provide. GISLens reviews the submission and confirms acceptance of the work. Any material scope issue will be discussed with you.

A specific written provision accepted by both parties controls a conflicting general provision. Any change to Section 10 must expressly identify that section and be accepted by both parties.

2. Report scope and deliverables

The standard service is a Property Constraint Screening GIS Report delivered as a PDF containing these 14 exhibits:

Property Overview
Zoning and Future Land Use
Wetlands and Surface Water
Flood Hazards
Terrain and Slope
Water Supply and Wastewater Screening
Soil Wetness and Drainage
Building Soil Conditions With and Without Basements
Clearing and Erosion
Wildlife and Habitat
Local Policies and Special Constraints
Ground Hazards
Surrounding Land Use Compatibility
Actions and Next Steps

Exhibits present available mapping or other evidence, findings, limitations and appropriate follow-up questions. An exhibit may include several maps or continuation pages. The number and presentation of maps depend on relevant information and available data.

The service does not include field visits, surveying, sampling, testing, engineering, professional soil evaluation, wetland delineation, title opinions, permit applications, an environmental site assessment or other regulated professional services.

Recommendations identify further work to consider. GISLens does not perform, arrange or pay for outside professional or agency services unless separately agreed and lawfully within the provider’s qualifications.

3. Fixed price and payment

The standard 14-exhibit report costs $720. No payment is collected with the order form. When the report is ready for delivery, GISLens sends an invoice. The completed PDF is delivered after payment.

The fee pays for the agreed screening work and deliverable, whether findings are favorable, unfavorable or inconclusive. It does not purchase a particular result or confirmation that a property can be developed.

GISLens will obtain your written agreement before adding charges or materially changing the scope. Website price changes do not change an accepted order’s price.

4. Data gaps, timing and cancellations

Data availability varies by location. An exhibit may identify missing, inaccessible, outdated or unsuitable information and recommend how to resolve the gap. Missing data is not evidence that a condition is absent.

If essential information prevents meaningful completion of the agreed service, GISLens will explain the issue and seek agreement on a revised scope, an appropriate fee adjustment or cancellation. Unsupported analysis will not be represented as completed or clear of constraints.

Delivery timing is confirmed separately. Estimated dates are not guaranteed unless expressly agreed in writing. GISLens will communicate material delays. A purchase, financing or permitting deadline is not accepted merely because you mention it.

If you cancel before work begins, no fee is due. If you cancel after work begins and no separate cancellation terms were agreed, charges are limited to documented work performed and nonrecoverable costs you authorized, up to the agreed fee. Unused prepayments, if any, will be refunded. Rights required by law remain available.

5. Public data, mapping and AI-generated content

Source limitations: GISLens relies on identified public datasets, government records, imagery and other third-party or client-provided information. Sources can contain omissions, outdated conditions, inaccurate boundaries, positional errors, incorrect classifications and conflicting information. Government publication does not guarantee accuracy.

Mapping limitations: Boundaries, acreages, distances, elevations and feature locations are approximate representations of the cited data. They are not surveyed or certified measurements. Detailed graphics and decimal places do not establish corresponding real-world precision. Overlapping mapped areas must not be treated as separate acres and added together.

AI use: GISLens uses ChatGPT, other AI tools and automation for substantial portions of research, document review, processing, GIS analysis, mapping and report drafting. Reports are produced under Mike Young’s direction, oversight, review and intervention.

AI can make mistakes: AI and automated tools can produce inaccurate facts, incorrect calculations, mapping or processing errors, omissions, misinterpretations, unsupported conclusions and fabricated or mismatched references. Confident wording and professional presentation do not establish accuracy. AI output is not itself an authoritative source or agency determination.

Review is not a guarantee: GISLens reviews deliverables within the agreed desktop screening scope. Review does not constitute field verification or a comprehensive independent audit of every source, calculation or statement, and may not detect every human or AI error.

No error-free warranty: GISLens does not warrant that the report is complete, error-free or sufficient for a particular transaction, design, approval or development decision. Except for express commitments in the accepted agreement and obligations that cannot lawfully be excluded, no additional warranty is made.

Responsibility and liability: GISLens will exercise reasonable care in performing the agreed work, including its use of AI and automated tools. AI errors are subject to the same correction process and liability limitations as other errors. An error is not treated as a third-party source error merely because an outside AI tool generated it.

To the extent permitted by law, GISLens is not liable for loss caused solely by a third-party or client-provided source error that it neither knew of nor reasonably should have discovered through reasonable care within the agreed scope. This does not excuse GISLens’s own failure to exercise reasonable care or concealment of a known error. Section 10’s exceptions apply.

Reports reflect the sources and review dates identified in them. Access dates do not establish the age of the underlying information. No continuing monitoring or update service is included unless separately agreed.

6. Screening limits and independent verification

All findings are screening findings for further investigation. The completed report is not a final determination of site conditions, legal rights, regulatory requirements, development feasibility or the ability to resolve a concern.

Do not use the report as the sole basis for purchasing, financing, designing, clearing, building or seeking permits. Obtain independent source confirmation and appropriate professional or agency review before relying on information material to your decision.

Wetlands and water: Inventory maps do not establish field boundaries, regulatory jurisdiction, buffers or permission to disturb land.
Flooding and drainage: Mapped flood classifications do not rule out local flooding, ponding, high groundwater or drainage problems.
Soils and septic: Published soil information and ratings do not establish onsite conditions, foundation suitability, septic approval, system location or performance. Published Soil Data — Further Investigation Required By Licensed or Certified Professional.
Wildlife and habitat: Records do not establish species presence, absence, occupied habitat or regulatory clearance.
Planning and zoning: Published designations do not establish an approved home count, development entitlement, vested rights, future rezoning or satisfaction of approval conditions.
Ownership, access and utilities: Mapped parcels, roads and service areas do not establish title, legal access, easement rights, connection eligibility or utility capacity.
Ground conditions: Regional geology and hazard models do not replace site-specific geological or geotechnical investigation.

A favorable rating or lack of a mapped feature is not confirmation that land is suitable, buildable, safe or free of constraints. A reported concern also does not by itself establish that development is impossible. Further investigation may confirm, modify or rule out a finding.

You are responsible for your decisions and for arranging verification outside the agreed screening scope. GISLens does not act as your surveyor, engineer, attorney, permitting authority or transaction adviser under this agreement. These terms do not authorize services requiring qualifications the provider does not hold.

7. Information you provide

Provide accurate property identification and, to the best of your knowledge, accurate supporting information. Notify GISLens promptly if the wrong parcel is shown or relevant information changes. Your plans and questions are optional but may help focus the review.

Where an intended sale boundary is unavailable, the report identifies the screening boundary used. A full parent parcel may include land outside the intended sale. Confirm sale inclusion through survey, title and transaction records.

Share only information needed for screening and documents you are entitled to provide. Do not submit passwords, financial account details or confidential or sensitive personal information. Ordering does not authorize property entry, permit applications or formal submissions on your behalf.

9. Questions, errors and corrections

One clarification round about the delivered report is included. If you identify a possible error, contact GISLens with the property, report date and affected finding or exhibit. Avoid relying on disputed information until it is clarified, and notify recipients whose use may be affected.

GISLens will review reported concerns and correct confirmed errors in its own work without an additional correction fee, including errors introduced through AI or automation. Corrections may clarify a limitation or withdraw an unsupported finding; they cannot guarantee repair of missing or inaccurate source data.

New information, changed plans, additional analysis or later conditions may require separately agreed work. A revised report supersedes affected earlier findings to the extent stated in the revision.

The correction process does not waive otherwise available remedies or impose a shortened legal claim deadline. Enforceable limitations in Section 10 remain applicable.

10. Limits on liability and allocation of risk

(a) Excluded damages. To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to subsection (c), GISLens will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising from the engagement, including lost profits, loss of financing or lost business opportunities to the extent they qualify as those types of damages.

(b) Aggregate liability cap. To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to subsection (c), the total aggregate liability of Mike Young, operating as GISLens, to you for all claims arising from or relating to the affected engagement shall not exceed the greater of US $1,000 or the total fees paid or payable to GISLens for that engagement.

This limit applies to breach of contract, breach of warranty, ordinary negligence, errors or omissions and other legal theories to which a contractual limit may lawfully apply. It expressly includes claims involving AI-generated or AI-assisted content, automated processing and human work: inaccurate facts, mapping errors, incorrect calculations, omissions, misinterpretations, unsupported references and unsupported conclusions.

The cap is a combined limit for the engagement, not a separate limit for each exhibit, error, revision or claim. The affected engagement includes the accepted report scope and associated revisions and explanations. A different cap applies only if both parties expressly agree in writing under Section 1.

(c) Exceptions. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury, or any liability, statutory remedy or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Required refunds of unused prepayments are not reduced by this section. These exceptions apply to every liability restriction in these terms.

(d) Basis of the agreement. Fees reflect a limited desktop screening service and this allocation of risk, not the property’s value or potential transaction or development costs. Request any different scope or liability allocation before accepting the engagement. GISLens may decline work it cannot reasonably undertake. This section does not prevent a claim from being brought or guarantee that a court will enforce a limitation.

11. Applicable law and changes

North Carolina law governs these terms, subject to mandatory laws applicable to the transaction, services, customer or property. This choice does not override applicable licensing requirements or nonwaivable protections. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

The version accepted for an order applies to that engagement. Later website changes do not apply retroactively. Material changes to an existing engagement require both parties’ agreement. Corrections do not retroactively impose new liability terms.

12. Questions

For questions about these terms, report scope or a possible error, contact GISLens. Ask for clarification before acting on information you believe may be incomplete or incorrect.