Terms of Service
Welcome to ResizeEarth! These terms govern your use of our interactive map tool and educational resources. By using our service, you agree to these terms.
Quick Summary - Your Rights and Responsibilities
✅ You Can:
- • Use the tool for free, no registration required
- • Use it for educational and commercial purposes
- • Share links and screenshots
- • Integrate it into presentations and curriculum
- • Provide feedback and suggestions
❌ Please Don't:
- • Use automated tools to scrape our data
- • Attempt to hack or break the service
- • Redistribute our data without attribution
- • Use the service for illegal activities
- • Create competing services using our resources
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using ResizeEarth ("the Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree with these terms, please don't use the Service.
These terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Service, including educators, students, researchers, and the general public.
2. Description of Service
ResizeEarth is an interactive web application that allows users to:
- • Compare the real sizes of countries using different map projections
- • Drag countries around the map to see size relationships
- • Switch between Web Mercator and Equal Earth projections
- • Access educational content about map projections and cartography
- • View country information including area, population, and demographics
- • Learn about geographic distortions caused by different projection methods
The Service is provided free of charge for educational and informational purposes.
3. Acceptable Use Policy
Permitted Uses
You are encouraged to use ResizeEarth for:
- • Educational purposes: Teaching geography, cartography, and spatial awareness
- • Research and analysis: Academic research, journalism, and data visualization
- • Commercial presentations: Business presentations, reports, and marketing materials
- • Personal learning: Exploring geography and understanding map projections
- • Content creation: Blog posts, articles, and educational materials (with attribution)
- • Social sharing: Sharing interesting comparisons and geographic insights
Prohibited Uses
You may not use the Service to:
- • Violate any applicable laws or regulations
- • Infringe upon intellectual property rights
- • Transmit malicious code, viruses, or harmful software
- • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems
- • Use automated scraping or data harvesting tools
- • Overload our servers with excessive requests
- • Impersonate others or provide false information
- • Engage in harassment, abuse, or threatening behavior
- • Create derivative works that compete with our Service
- • Remove or obscure copyright notices or attribution
4. Data Accuracy and Educational Use
Important Disclaimers
While we strive for accuracy, geographic and demographic data is provided for educational purposes and may not reflect the most current information. Data sources include Natural Earth and other reputable geographic databases.
Boundary representations may not reflect current political situations or disputed territories. The Service is not intended for official, legal, or governmental decision-making.
5. Intellectual Property
Our Content
The ResizeEarth application, including its design, functionality, educational content, and user interface, is owned by ResizeEarth and protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.
You may use screenshots and share content from the Service with proper attribution, but you may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works without permission.
Third-Party Data
Geographic data is sourced from Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap, and other open data projects. These datasets have their own licensing terms:
- • Natural Earth: Public domain, no restrictions
- • OpenStreetMap: Open Database License (ODbL)
- • Country boundaries: Various open data licenses
6. Privacy and Data
Your privacy is important to us. Please review our Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, and protect your information.
In summary: we collect minimal data, don't require user accounts, and don't share personal information with third parties for commercial purposes.
7. Disclaimers and Limitations
Service Availability
ResizeEarth is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. While we strive to maintain high availability, we cannot guarantee uninterrupted access to the Service.
Data Accuracy
Geographic and demographic data is provided for educational purposes. We make no warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of this information.
Educational Purpose
This Service is designed for educational and informational use. It should not be used for official decision-making, legal purposes, or situations where precise geographic data is critical.
8. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, ResizeEarth shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from your use of the Service.
In no event shall our aggregate liability exceed the amount you paid to use the Service (which is zero, as the Service is free).
9. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ResizeEarth and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or debt, and expenses (including attorney's fees) arising from your use of the Service or violation of these terms.
10. Termination
We may terminate or suspend your access to the Service immediately, without prior notice, for any breach of these Terms of Service.
You may stop using the Service at any time. Upon termination, your right to use the Service will cease immediately.
Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including disclaimers, limitations of liability, and indemnification) shall survive termination of these terms.
11. Changes to Terms
We reserve the right to modify or replace these Terms of Service at any time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by:
- • Updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page
- • Posting a notice on our main website
- • Sending notification through other reasonable means
Your continued use of the Service after any changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.
12. Governing Law
These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction where ResizeEarth is operated, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
Any disputes arising under or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that jurisdiction.
13. Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Service is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. The invalid provision will be replaced with a valid provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision.
14. Contact Information
If you have questions about these Terms of Service or need to report violations, you can contact us through:
🤝 Thank You
Thank you for using ResizeEarth responsibly. These terms help us provide a valuable educational resource while protecting both users and the service. We appreciate your compliance and feedback as we continue to improve geographic education.