Terms of Use

Sea Glass Map is free. Browsing needs no account; dropping spots, commenting and saving do. You must be at least 16 to create one, and the details you give must be your own and true.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at hello@seaglassmap.com if you think someone else is using it.

The photos you upload and the words you write remain yours. You are not signing them over to us.

What you do give us is permission to use them for the one thing you published them for: showing them on Sea Glass Map. Concretely, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to store, display, resize and distribute your content on the site and in the links that unfurl when someone shares a spot. The licence ends when you delete the content — except in copies already cached or shared by others, which we cannot reach.

By posting, you confirm the content is yours to post: your own photo, or one you have the right to publish, and nothing that infringes someone else's rights.

• • Spots that do not exist, or that you invented to mislead.
• • A location that exposes someone's home or private property, including your own.
• • Spots on land where the public may not go, or where collecting is forbidden — protected shores, nature reserves, archaeological sites.
• • Anything illegal, hateful, harassing, or that is not yours to publish.
• • Advertising, spam, or scraped content.

We can remove content and close accounts that break these rules, and we do not have to warn you first if the content is clearly harmful. If we remove something of yours, write to us and we will explain.

This is the part that actually matters. Every spot on Sea Glass Map is posted by a member. We do not visit the beaches, we do not verify the coordinates, and we cannot tell you whether a shore is safe today.

Tides come in. Cliffs fall. Access changes. Rules about taking things from a beach differ from one country — sometimes one beach — to the next, and they are yours to check, not ours. Use your judgement, look up the tide, tell someone where you are going, and treat what you read here as a tip from a fellow collector, not as a guarantee.

You go to the beach at your own risk.

Sea glass is finished by the sea, slowly. Take a few pieces, leave the beach as you found it, and respect the places that ask to be left alone. Nobody will enforce this. It is simply the difference between a hobby that lasts and one that empties the shore.

We keep the site running as well as we reasonably can, but it is offered as it is: free, and without a guarantee that it will be available, accurate, or unchanged tomorrow. We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop the service — in which case we will give account holders reasonable notice and a way to take their content with them.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for what happens to you as a result of using the site — including at a beach you found on it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and if you are a consumer, your statutory rights are untouched by anything on this page.

If a spot is dangerous, a photo is stolen, or something is simply wrong, tell us at hello@seaglassmap.com. Say what and where, and we will look at it. Copyright owners should identify the work and the page it appears on.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer protections of the country you live in — if you are in the European Union, those still apply to you, and you can bring a claim before your local courts.

If we change these terms, the date at the top moves and account holders are told by email when the change matters. Our privacy practices are set out separately, in the Privacy Policy, and who exactly stands behind the site is in the Legal Notice.