Terms of Use

1. The website’s role

OcalaLandClearing.net is an independent publisher and service-request website serving the Ocala, Florida market. It may receive, organize, or qualify a request and share request information with one or more third-party service providers when a provider may fit the location, scope, and timing.

The website does not represent that it owns land-clearing equipment, employs a field crew, holds a provider’s credentials or insurance, or performs the requested work. A third-party provider confirms its identity, coverage, availability, capabilities, price, credentials, insurance, scope, and service terms directly with you.

The website may receive compensation when a provider receives, accepts, or works a request.

2. Informational content is not professional advice

Service explanations, checklists, permit-routing pages, research, cost data, links, and other content are general information. They are not legal, engineering, surveying, geotechnical, permitting, environmental, agricultural, arboricultural, utility-locating, burning, wildlife, or safety advice.

A general page cannot determine what an individual parcel, tree, road, utility, wetland, burrow, drainage feature, construction plan, or agency requires. Confirm time-sensitive and site-specific requirements with the responsible agency and qualified professionals before authorizing work.

Use of the website does not create an attorney-client, engineer-client, contractor-client, consultant-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship with OcalaLandClearing.net.

3. Service requests do not create a contract for work

Submitting a call or form:

• does not guarantee provider contact, coverage, availability, acceptance, timing, price, or completion;
• does not create a contract for land-clearing or related services;
• does not authorize anyone to enter a property or begin work;
• does not represent that a permit, locate, survey, approval, credential, or insurance has been verified;
• does not make OcalaLandClearing.net a party to a later provider agreement.

Any service agreement is solely between you and the provider that offers or performs the work. Review the provider’s written scope, exclusions, price, change-order terms, schedule, credentials, insurance, warranty, safety practices, and dispute terms before approving work.

4. Request information and permission to route it

When you submit a request, you represent that the information is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you are authorized to provide it. You authorize the website to process and share the request information as described in the Privacy Policy for the purpose of responding to or routing the requested service.

Do not submit sensitive personal information that is unnecessary for the request. Do not submit another person’s information without authority.

5. Property, boundary, and authorization responsibilities

You are responsible for accurately identifying the property and your authority to request work. Before a provider begins, confirm ownership or authorization, work boundaries, easements, shared access, tenant or occupant rights, and trees or features to preserve.

A fence, mowed line, address, or visual assumption is not necessarily a legal boundary. Use a survey or other responsible source when boundary accuracy matters. The website does not verify ownership, parcel lines, site plans, or authority to clear.

6. Permits, notices, locates, and pre-work duties

Different laws and approvals assign duties to different people or entities. These Terms do not make the property owner categorically responsible for every permit or utility locate, and a private contract cannot erase a statutory duty.

Before work, you and the provider should identify in writing who will:

• determine jurisdiction;
• prepare, sign, submit, pay for, post, maintain, and close each application, permit, notice, or authorization;
• provide surveys, plans, professional documentation, or owner authorization;
• schedule inspections;
• identify private utilities and facilities;
• coordinate wildlife, wetland, stormwater, burn, right-of-way, building, septic, well, or other reviews;
• stop work when an approval, marking, condition, or site fact requires it.

Under Florida’s underground-facility law, the excavating party has the Sunshine 811 notice duty for qualifying excavation. The service agreement should identify the excavating party for each phase and who will initiate and maintain the ticket. Public utility markings may not identify privately owned facilities.

OcalaLandClearing.net does not file or hold permits, request locates, control burning, direct field safety, or accept responsibility for a provider’s compliance unless a separate written agreement expressly states otherwise.

7. Your acceptable-use obligations

You agree not to:

• submit false, misleading, fraudulent, unlawful, or unauthorized requests;
• use the website to harass, threaten, impersonate, or collect information about another person;
• interfere with site operation, security, forms, rate limits, or infrastructure;
• introduce malicious code, automated abuse, scraping that disrupts the service, or attempts to gain unauthorized access;
• copy or republish substantial protected content or datasets in violation of applicable rights or stated licenses;
• use the website to arrange work on property you are not authorized to control;
• rely on the website as a substitute for emergency services, professional advice, permits, locates, or field safety procedures.

The website may reject, limit, block, or remove requests or access that appear abusive, unlawful, unsafe, outside scope, or inconsistent with these Terms.

8. Provider independence and no endorsement guarantee

Third-party providers are independent. The website may route a request based on location, stated scope, and available information, but routing is not a guarantee or warranty of a provider’s qualifications, conduct, pricing, financial condition, licensing status, insurance, safety practices, or work quality.

You are responsible for evaluating the provider and deciding whether to enter a service agreement. Verify any credential, license, registration, insurance, permit capability, reference, or claim directly with the provider and responsible issuer.

9. Prices, estimates, research, and availability

Any cost ranges, public bid data, publisher comparisons, production explanations, or scope examples on the website are informational. They are not a quote or promise for a specific Ocala property.

Actual price and availability depend on the provider and the property, including work limits, vegetation, trees, stumps, roots, debris, access, utilities, ground conditions, wetlands, wildlife, permits, timing, finish, hauling, material, risk, and other conditions.

A provider’s estimate or proposal controls only according to that provider’s written terms. OcalaLandClearing.net does not set or guarantee the provider’s price.

10. Accuracy, dates, and corrections

The website aims to use responsible sources and visible review dates, but laws, agency guidance, forms, fees, contact information, datasets, external pages, and site conditions can change. Content may contain errors or become outdated.

You must verify time-sensitive or consequential information with the responsible source. A visible “last reviewed” date states when the page was checked; it is not a guarantee that nothing changed afterward.

Material corrections may be reported through the contact page under the Editorial and Source Standards.

11. External links and third-party services

The website links to government agencies, research, providers, and other external resources for convenience and source transparency. OcalaLandClearing.net does not control external content, availability, security, accessibility, privacy practices, or transactions.

Use third-party sites and services under their own terms and policies.

12. Intellectual property and permitted use

Unless a page or downloadable file states a different license, the website’s original text, design, branding, compilation, and other protected material may be used only for personal, noncommercial reference and ordinary linking. You may not reproduce, sell, rebrand, or publish substantial portions as your own without permission.

Facts, government materials, and third-party sources remain subject to their own status and rights. Citation guidance or an express dataset license on a research page controls for that asset.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website and its content are provided “as is” and “as available.” OcalaLandClearing.net disclaims warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, noninfringement, accuracy, uninterrupted availability, security, provider performance, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

Nothing on the website guarantees search ranking, lead volume, provider response, project acceptance, permit approval, price, schedule, safety, or result.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. In that event, the exclusion applies only to the maximum extent permitted.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, OcalaLandClearing.net and the people or entities operating it will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, loss of profits, loss of data, property damage, personal injury, project delay, provider conduct, permit or locate issues, or costs arising from use of or reliance on the website, a routed request, external content, or services arranged with a third party.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any aggregate liability arising from the website will not exceed the amount you paid directly to OcalaLandClearing.net for use of the website during the twelve months before the claim. Most users pay the website nothing, in which case that amount is zero.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

15. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless OcalaLandClearing.net and the people or entities operating it from claims, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from your unlawful or unauthorized use of the website, false request information, lack of authority over a property or submitted information, violation of these Terms, or violation of another person’s rights.

This section does not make you responsible for conduct that the law does not permit the website to shift to you.

16. Changes, suspension, and termination

The website, content, forms, routing practices, and these Terms may change. The updated date will be shown when these Terms materially change. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised Terms to the extent permitted by law.

The website may suspend or end access, remove content, reject requests, or discontinue features without guaranteeing notice or continued availability.

17. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where applicable law requires otherwise. Any dispute that must be filed in court will be brought in a court with lawful jurisdiction in Florida, subject to any nonwaivable right or required venue.

18. Severability and no waiver

If a provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or removed only to the extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

19. Entire terms

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement governing use of the website, except for a separate written agreement expressly signed by the party operating the website. A provider’s service agreement is separate and is not part of these Terms.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be submitted through the contact page. Privacy questions are addressed in the Privacy Policy.