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Data contribution terms

Version 1, 9 November 2026. These terms are between Lane Up (“we”, “us”), the service provider that runs this site, and the organisation that sends us lane availability data (“you”). Contact: operators@laneup.au.

  1. Accepting. You accept these terms by confirming in writing (email is fine) before we issue your first key or start reading your feed. We record the version you accepted and when.
  2. What you send. Lane availability for pools you operate or are authorised to report on: times, lanes free and closures. Don't include personal information about swimmers or staff.
  3. Your authority. You confirm you have the right to send this data and grant the licence below, including under any contract with a booking or software provider that holds it.
  4. Licence. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, use, adapt, combine, display, publish and share the data, and to let others do so, in any form, including in free and paid products and services. You also let us use your name to credit you (“Data provided by …”). You keep any rights you have in the data. The licence continues for data we received before you stopped (see clause 10).
  5. Our use, including commercially. Sending data is free and we don't pay for it. We may offer the data, or products built on it, to others free or for a fee, on terms we choose. At the moment it's free for personal and non-commercial use with attribution, and other uses need our permission. We'll tell you before we introduce any fee for sending data, and you can stop instead.
  6. Accuracy. You send data in good faith and keep it current as best you can. The site tells swimmers to check with the pool before they go. Neither of us guarantees the data is accurate, complete or available.
  7. Liability. To the extent the law allows, neither of us is liable to the other for any loss, including indirect or consequential loss, arising from the data or the service. Nothing in these terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law that can't be excluded.
  8. Credentials. Keep your API keys and private keys secret and tell us straight away if one may have leaked. We'll revoke it.
  9. Suspension. We may hold, stop showing or remove data that looks wrong, and suspend access if a domain stops verifying, these terms are breached or the service is misused.
  10. Stopping. Either of us can stop at any time. Email operators@laneup.au and we'll stop accepting your data and go back to the public information on your website, or remove the pool if you ask. Past data we've already received may be kept and used under clause 4, for example to show when lanes tend to be free.
  11. Privacy. We collect the name and email of your contact person, and log each submission (time, key id, IP address, outcome). We use these only to run, secure and improve the service and to contact you, keep logs for 90 days, and don't sell them. Ask us at operators@laneup.au to see or correct what we hold.
  12. Changes. We may update these terms. We'll email you at least 30 days before a change takes effect. If you keep sending data after that, you accept the new version; if not, you can stop.
  13. Law. These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction.