Terms of service

For Beacon CRE pilots, licences, subscriptions and one-time county reports. Last updated 10 November 2026.

These terms are between you (the organisation that orders a pilot, licence or subscription, and the people it invites) and Simply Stats LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company doing business as Beacon CRE ("we", "us"), 226 Tyndale Court, Waxhaw, NC 28173. You can reach us at hello@beaconcarolinas.com. A signed order form or accepted invoice can add to these terms; where they differ, the order form wins.

1. Pilots

• A founding pilot gives you every feature of the Founding Partner Licence for one county or region for 60 days from the day your workspace opens.
• Founding pilots carry no fee: there's nothing to invoice or pay, and no purchase order is needed. They are offered to the first three economic development offices that start one.
• In return, you agree to give us feedback during the pilot and let us name your organisation as a reference (you can ask us to stop at any time).
• A pilot ends on its own and nothing is charged. It never turns into a paid licence or subscription unless you sign one.

2. Licences and subscriptions

• The Founding Partner Licence is $12,000 a year for one county (regional pricing is quoted per region), invoiced yearly in advance, net 30. The price is locked for three years from the start date.
• Team ($4,800 a year) and Pro ($1,490 a year) are yearly subscriptions. When online payment is live they are paid by card or ACH through Stripe and renew each year until you cancel.
• Export credits are counted per licence year: one credit for each started block of 100 rows. Unused credits don't carry over.
• A County Growth and Demographics Report is a one-time purchase of one county's PDF report, paid by card (including Apple Pay and Google Pay) through Stripe Checkout. It isn't a subscription and never renews.

3. Cancelling

• You can cancel any licence or subscription at any time by emailing us or from the workspace's Billing page. It stays active until the end of the period you've paid for and then stops; it won't renew.
• Licence and subscription fees already paid aren't refunded, except where the law requires it, or where we end the service early without cause, in which case we refund the unused part of the period.
• One-time County Growth and Demographics Report refund: not useful? Email hello@beaconcarolinas.com within 14 days of buying it and we'll refund the full price to your card. No questions asked, and you don't need to return or delete anything. This promise is for the one-time county report only; licences and subscriptions follow the paragraph above.
• We may suspend an account that isn't paid 30 days after the due date, or that breaks section 4, after telling you and giving you a reasonable chance to fix it.

4. How you may use Beacon CRE

• You may use the map, reports, charts and exports inside your organisation and in your own publications, presentations and website, with the attribution shown on them.
• You may not resell, sublicense or redistribute exported data in bulk, or offer it as a data feed.
• You may not use sales or property data to solicit property owners, or for any purpose a county's terms forbid. Exports ask you to confirm this each time.
• Don't share sign-in links, probe or overload the service, or try to get around limits or access controls.

5. Where the data comes from

• Beacon CRE is built from public sources: federal agencies (such as the Census Bureau, BLS, HUD and FEMA), the states, counties and OpenStreetMap. Each layer, its publisher, licence and refresh date is listed on the data sources page.
• Third-party data can contain errors, gaps and delays, and publishers change it without notice. We don't control it and don't warrant that it is accurate, complete or current.
• Nothing in Beacon CRE is a legal record, survey, title search, appraisal, or investment, legal or tax advice. Grades, scores and forecasts are informational estimates.
• Each publisher's own licence and attribution terms still apply to its data. Some county data is display-only and never exported.
• Spot a mistake? Use "Report a problem" on any property card or email us, and we'll check it.

6. No warranty

We work hard to keep Beacon CRE accurate and available, but the service and all data are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the extent the law allows.

7. Limit of liability

To the extent the law allows, neither of us is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits or revenue, and our total liability for any claim about Beacon CRE is limited to the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

8. Public bodies

If you are a government entity, these terms apply only as far as the laws that govern you allow, and nothing here waives any immunity you have. We understand that our correspondence and invoices may be public records.

9. Privacy

How we handle personal information is in our privacy notice.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes go to the state or federal courts located in North Carolina, unless the law that governs a public body requires otherwise.

11. Changes

We may update these terms. We'll email account owners at least 30 days before a change that affects them; a paid period keeps the terms that applied when it started until it renews. The date at the top shows the latest version.