Terms of Service

Last updated July 3, 2026. Short, because the deal is simple.

Using Perch means you accept these terms. If you don't accept them, don't use the site. The spirit of the deal: we publish honest, measured information about places to work from; you use it in good faith and, if you contribute, you contribute honestly.

Scores are informational, not a guarantee

A Perch Score is a measurement of a moment: the Wi-Fi, noise and seating that a real person recorded at a real time, processed by a public, versioned methodology. Rooms change. Networks have bad days. A score, a "verified" tag, or any other signal on this site is information to weigh, not a promise about what you'll find when you walk in. Decisions you make on it (where to work, meet, or spend) are yours.

Your submissions

• Submit only genuine readings from places you actually visited. No fabricated data, no readings for venues you have a stake in without saying so, no defamation dressed up as a note.
• You keep ownership of what you submit. You grant Perch a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish, adapt (e.g. compute scores from), and redistribute it as part of the service, credited to your contributor name.
• Community readings arrive as "pending" and are reviewed before they touch a score. We may decline or remove any submission that smells wrong; the methodology page explains what gets a reading rejected.
• Don't submit photos of identifiable people without their OK, anything you don't have the right to share, or anything illegal.

Acceptable use

• No fake reviews or coordinated manipulation of scores, in either direction. Venues cannot buy a point; they also cannot torpedo a rival.
• No scraping the site into a competing dataset. The underlying map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors under its own license; our readings and scores are ours and our contributors'.
• No abusing the submission, account, or email systems (spam, flooding, probing).

Accounts

Accounts are optional and passwordless. You're responsible for access to your own email inbox, which is effectively your key. We may suspend accounts that violate these terms; contributors keep credit for readings already published unless they ask for removal.

Liability, in plain words

The service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent the law allows, Perch and its operator are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site, and our total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you paid us to use it, which is currently zero dollars. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.

Housekeeping

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest stands. We may update these terms; material changes get a note on this page and continued use means acceptance. Questions: hello@perch.coffee.