Terms and Conditions for frostdates.com

Effective Date: 7 October 2025

Welcome to frostdates.com!

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of frostdates.com's Website, located at frostdates.com, and built and maintained by Veg Plotter Ltd, UK (the owner).

By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use frostdates.com if you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

1. Description of Service

frostdates.com provides users with estimated first and last frost dates and predicted USDA Plant Hardiness Zones ("the Data") for informational purposes. The Data is generated based on publicly available climate information and predictive models for a location provided by the user.

2. Permitted Use and Restrictions

• Non-Commercial Use: The service is provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Data or the service for any commercial purpose, such as reselling the Data, integrating it into a paid service, or using it for commercial-scale agricultural planning without our express written permission.
• Usage Limits: To ensure the stability and availability of our service for all users, we enforce limits on the number of lookups a user can perform.
  • The current limit is 10 lookups per user per hour.
  • We reserve the right to change this usage limit at any time, without prior notice, based on system load, operational costs, or to prevent abuse of the service.
• Prohibited Actions: You agree not to:
  • Access the service through automated means (such as scraping, bots, or spiders).
  • Attempt to circumvent the usage limits.
  • Reverse-engineer or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying algorithms of the service.
  • Use the service in any way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the website or interfere with any other party's use of the service.

3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

The Data provided on this website is an estimate and is for informational and planning purposes only.

• No Guarantee of Accuracy: Frost dates and growing zones are subject to significant variation due to microclimates, elevation changes, annual weather fluctuations, and other unpredictable environmental factors. The Data provided should not be considered a guarantee of future weather conditions.
• "As Is" Service: The service and the Data are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied.
• Limitation of Liability: frostdates.com and its owner(s) shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including but not limited to crop loss, financial loss, or any other damages arising from the use of, or reliance on, the information provided by this website. You use the Data at your own risk.

4. Privacy and Data Collection

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We have designed our service to collect the minimum amount of information necessary.

• Location Information: To provide the service, you must enter a location (e.g., a city, postcode, or coordinates). This information is used only to generate the requested Data and is not stored long-term in association with your session.
• IP Addresses: We temporarily log the IP address of users to enforce our usage limits (as described in Section 2) and to protect the service from abuse. These logs are retained for a short period (~ 1 hour) and are then deleted. We do not use your IP address for tracking or any other purpose.
• Cookies and Third-Party Services: This website does not directly set its own tracking or analytical cookies and we aim to be entirely cookie free, that said... If you see that we are using any third party service that uses cookies please let us know by emailing us at info@vegplotter.com

5. Intellectual Property

The content, layout, design, data, and graphics on this website are protected by intellectual property laws and are owned by frostdates.com unless otherwise stated.

6. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. We will post the updated terms on this page. By continuing to access or use our service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms.

7. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact us at: info@vegplotter.com