Data Terms & Attribution

What This Covers

These terms govern use of the Greenville Development Map and the underlying dataset it displays (the "Dataset"): building permit, planning, and development records compiled, normalized, classified, geocoded, and enriched by Pemberton Data Solutions, LLC ("we," "us"). They supplement our site-wide Terms of Service; where the two conflict, these terms control for the Dataset.

The underlying permit records are public records published by the issuing jurisdictions. The Dataset is not the raw records: it is our original compilation: cross-jurisdiction normalization, classification, deduplication, geocoding, aggregation, and enrichment. That compilation, and the map product built on it, are the property of Pemberton Data Solutions, LLC.

Permitted Use (Free)

• Browsing, searching, and filtering the map for personal, journalistic, academic, or internal business purposes.
• Quoting or screenshotting individual records, charts, or map views, with attribution (below).
• Linking to the map, to individual permits (/map?permit=…), or to our stories.
• Embedding the map widget where we provide an embed for that purpose.

Attribution

If you publish, present, or redistribute anything derived from the Dataset (an article, a report, a social post, a slide), credit it as:

"Source: Pemberton Data Solutions, pembertondata.com/map"

with a link where the medium supports one.

Prohibited Without a License

• Bulk access. Programmatically downloading, scraping, or harvesting the Dataset or the map's data endpoints (including any /data/… URL this site serves), in whole or in substantial part.
• Hotlinking. Loading the map's data files from your own site, app, tool, or model. The data endpoints exist solely to serve this site's pages.
• Resale or redistribution. Selling, licensing, syndicating, or otherwise redistributing the Dataset or any substantial extract, whether raw or repackaged.
• Competitive replication. Using the Dataset to build or train a product or service that substitutes for the map or our data feeds.
• Misrepresentation. Presenting the Dataset, or derivatives of it, as your own compilation.

We monitor access patterns, and technical controls enforce parts of these terms. If you want the data at volume, licensed properly, with contact fields and enrichment we don't publish here. That exists, and it's inexpensive relative to building it yourself: see data inquiries.

Licensed Data Feeds

We offer paid subscriptions that deliver what the free map deliberately withholds: contact names, scored and tiered lead feeds, parcel and ownership enrichment, and scheduled exports for your territory. See plans & pricing, order directly with the order builder, start at the data inquiry form, or email [email protected].

Ordering Online: License, Billing, and Refunds

Placing an order through the order builder means agreeing to these terms; the checkbox and typed name on the order form are that agreement, recorded with your order. The essentials, in plain words:

• The workbook is licensed to your company, for your company's own business development. Use it in your own outreach, CRM, and planning as much as you like. Don't resell it, redistribute it, publish it, or share it outside your company. The license is what you bought, and the file is how it's delivered.
• Reach out by hand, not by machine. The builders and companies in these files are yours to call and email. That's what the contact columns are for. What you may not do is load the numbers into an autodialer, send prerecorded or AI voice calls, or run a bulk text campaign against them. Most contractor numbers are personal mobiles, and the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act reaches those with statutory damages per call or text and no business-to-business exemption.
• You are not buying homeowners. Individuals are removed before your file is built. Under S.C. Code § 30-2-50 an individual's personal information taken from public records may not be used to solicit them, so the names you receive are businesses and people named in a trade capacity: the contractor of record, or a party acting for a company. The one carve-out runs the other way: the vacant-land individual owner list is for mail outreach only, and it is released separately, after a signed certification and a review of your first letter.
• Billing is upfront, in one invoice, with no auto-renewal. Placing an order does not charge you: we send an invoice, within one business day, and your term starts when it is paid. Whatever term you choose, whether one-time, monthly, quarterly, or annual, you pay once, at the start, for the whole term. We never keep a card on file and never charge you again on our own. When your term ends, buying again is your decision, every time.
• Refunds. If your first delivery doesn't match what the order form described, tell us within 7 days and we'll correct the file or refund that delivery, your choice. Once a delivery is out and as described, payment for it is final. It's data, and it can't be returned. The undelivered remainder of a prepaid term is refundable on request, minus deliveries already made.
• If something is wrong, tell us before you tell your bank. Email [email protected] and you will hear back within one business day. The remedies above are real and we would rather use them: a corrected file, a refunded delivery, or an added one. A card dispute opened without contacting us first reaches the same person by a slower road, and it is answered with the record every order carries anyway, which is the terms you accepted, the name you signed, the time you signed it, the delivery log and the file itself. Nothing about that record is a surprise to you: it is the receipt for what you bought.
• Delivery, and what happens if we are late. Each file arrives by email within 72 hours of your invoice being paid (bank transfers count from when the transfer clears), and usually much sooner. Term deliveries follow monthly or quarterly from your first delivery. If we miss the 72-hour window on any delivery, that delivery is free: we refund it, or add a delivery to the end of your term, whichever you prefer.

Accuracy and Warranty

The Dataset is compiled from public sources that vary in quality, format, and publishing cadence. We normalize and check it, but we do not warrant completeness, accuracy, or timeliness, and the issuing jurisdiction's records are the authoritative source for any permit. The Dataset is provided "as is"; do not use it as the sole basis for legal, financial, or construction decisions. Found an error? Report a data issue.

Privacy Choices in the Dataset

We deliberately withhold or aggregate certain fields on the free map. Most residential detail is aggregated to neighborhood-level cells and most contact names are withheld at the server. Do not attempt to reverse these protections.

Enforcement and Changes

We may block, rate-limit, or revoke access that violates these terms, and we may update these terms by posting a revised version here with a new "Last updated" date. Governing law and venue follow our Terms of Service (South Carolina; Greenville County courts).

Contact

Pemberton Data Solutions, LLC
Greenville, South Carolina
Email: [email protected]