Use it well.
KEEP is free to use for cavers and their organizations. These terms spell out what's expected. Not a contract loophole hunt.
Accounts.
Requests are reviewed manually. One human per account. Keep your credentials to yourself. Tell us if you think an account has been compromised.
What you put in.
You keep ownership of the records, documents, and media you upload. By uploading, you grant KEEP the rights needed to host, index, display to authorized members, and back up that content. You're responsible for having the right to share what you upload. Don't upload material you don't have permission to distribute.
Cave locations & access control.
Respect access levels. Don't share protected coordinates or sensitive site information outside the platform without the owning group's permission. Don't scrape or bulk-export data you can see only because of elevated trust. Intentional misuse gets your access revoked.
Acceptable use.
No harassment, no unlawful content, no attempts to break access controls, no mass automated queries, no reselling access. Don't upload malware, infringing content, or personal information about third parties without consent. If you find a security issue, please report it via our contact form rather than exploiting it.
Availability.
KEEP is operated on a best-effort basis by a small team. It's provided as-is without warranties. There may be downtime, occasional bugs, and the rare tough decision to remove content that creates risk for cavers or caves.
Closing your account.
You can close your account at any time. When you do, your personal data (name, email, profile, session history) is scrubbed from KEEP. Your contributed cave records, claims, uploads, and community edits are unlinked from your identity but remain in the platform — that content belongs to the grotto or region, not to you individually, and removing it would damage the community record others depend on.
Before closing the account you can export every record, document, and file you've contributed. You can also contact us through the contact form if you want specific items reviewed for removal on legal grounds (defamation, copyright, personal safety) — those are handled case by case.
Changes & suspension.
We may update these terms as the platform evolves. Significant changes will be posted here and noted in the changelog. We may suspend accounts that violate these terms or put others at risk.
Contact.
Questions or disputes: please use our contact form.