Terms of use

These terms are the agreement between you and Land Police when you use www.landpolice.com, the Land Police platform or its API. By creating an account, paying for a service or using the platform, you accept them. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.

LAND POLICE, LLC (“Land Police”, “we”), 101 Peninsular Highway, York Village, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Phone +232 72 832 321. Email legalteam@landpolice.com.

1. What Land Police does

Land Police helps people check land before they buy, lend or build: certificate search and verification, due-diligence reports, a marketplace, escrow, dispute mediation, survey tools and registry tools for councils, chiefdoms and government. We use official records where we can obtain them, survey data, documents supplied to us and satellite imagery. We are not the land registry. A Land Police certificate or report is not a title deed, does not transfer ownership and does not replace registration, an official search at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, or advice from a lawyer. Details are in the certificate & search terms.

2. Your account

• You must be at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract. Give us accurate details and keep them up to date.
• Keep your password secret and use it only for your own account. Tell us at once at legalteam@landpolice.com if you think someone else has used it. You can sign out of every device from My account.
• One person per account. Organisations get one account per staff member through their plan's user seats.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, is used for fraud, or that we are required by law to close. Where it is safe and lawful we tell you why and how to challenge the decision (see complaints).

3. Professional users

Lawyers, surveyors, banks, developers, chiefdom authorities, councils and government users get wider access only after we check their licence, appointment or authority. You must tell us within 7 days if that status ends or changes. Professional access may only be used for your clients' or your institution's genuine land matters, never to build a database of owners or to contact owners for marketing.

4. Acceptable use

You must not:

• upload or rely on forged, altered or stolen documents, or impersonate anyone;
• list land you are not entitled to sell or lease, or misstate its size, boundaries, tenure or disputes;
• use the service to launder money, evade sanctions, or hide who really owns or pays for land;
• harass, threaten or pressure landowners, families, tenants or other users;
• copy, scrape or resell register data, or use automated tools except our published API under its key and rate limits;
• try to get around security, access data you are not allowed to see, or test our systems without permission (report weaknesses as set out on Policies & legal);
• upload malware, or use the service in any way that breaks the law of Sierra Leone, including the Cyber Security and Crime Act 2021.

We report suspected fraud and money laundering to the authorities where the law requires or allows it.

5. Information you give us

You keep ownership of documents and information you upload. You allow us to store, process and show them as needed to provide the service, keep the register accurate and prevent fraud. Land records you add (for example a survey, transfer or customary allocation) may stay in the register after you leave, because the register must remain complete; our privacy notice explains how your personal details are then removed.

6. Our content

The platform, its software, maps, scores, reports and the Land Police name and seal belong to Land Police or its licensors. You may use reports and certificates you have paid for for your own land matters and share them with your lawyer, lender, family or the authorities. You may not republish or sell them.

7. Prices and payment

Prices are shown before you pay and include everything we charge. Plans paid by card renew automatically each month or year, at the price you agreed to, until you cancel; you can cancel online at any time in My account → Subscription. Payment, renewal, cancellation and refunds are covered by payments, subscriptions & refunds. Marketplace and escrow transactions are also covered by marketplace & escrow rules.

8. Accuracy and our responsibility

• We take reasonable care to keep records accurate, explain how each score or finding was reached and correct errors promptly. Land records in Sierra Leone are incomplete, and some information comes from third parties, so we cannot promise that every record is complete or correct.
• Automated tools (document reading, risk and valuation models) assist our staff and our users; they do not make final legal decisions. A valuation is an estimate, not a formal valuation by a licensed valuer.
• If we are at fault, our total liability to you for a paid service is limited to the larger of the amount you paid us for that service in the 12 months before the claim, or US$500. For escrow money we hold, our liability is the amount held. We are not liable for losses we could not reasonably have foreseen, or for decisions you make without the official checks and legal advice these terms recommend.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for death or injury caused by negligence, or any right you have under the Consumer Protection Act 2020 or other law that cannot be excluded.

9. Service availability

We aim to keep the platform available at all times but may pause it for maintenance or security. We tell you in advance about planned maintenance that affects paid services where we can. If a paid service is unavailable for more than 72 hours in a row through our fault, we extend your subscription by the time lost or refund it in proportion.

10. Ending the agreement

You can close your account at any time from My account → Privacy & your data. We may end these terms if you seriously or repeatedly break them. Sections 5 (records), 6, 8 and 12 continue after the agreement ends.

11. Changes

We may update these terms to reflect changes in the law or our services. For changes that reduce your rights we give at least 30 days' notice by email and in the platform; you can cancel before they take effect and receive a proportional refund of any prepaid subscription. The version and date are shown below.

12. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Sierra Leone. Please raise any problem with us first through our complaints process. If it isn't resolved, either side may propose mediation, and the courts of Sierra Leone have jurisdiction. If you live outside Sierra Leone, you keep any protection that the law where you live gives you and that cannot be excluded.

13. Copyright complaints

We respect copyright and expect users to do the same. If you believe something on Land Police (for example a listing's text or photos, or a document a user uploaded) infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated copyright agent: Legal team, LAND POLICE, LLC, 101 Peninsular Highway, York Village, Freetown, Sierra Leone; legalteam@landpolice.com; +232 72 832 321. Include:

• your physical or electronic signature, and your name, address, phone and email;
• the copyrighted work you say is infringed, and where on Land Police the material is (the page address, listing or certificate number);
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.

We remove or disable access to the material promptly and tell the user who posted it. If you posted it and believe it was removed by mistake, you can send a counter-notice with the same details, the material's former location, a statement under penalty of perjury that it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts where you live (or, outside the United States, any court where we may be found). We may then restore it after 10 to 14 working days unless the person who complained tells us they have started a court case. We close the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe. Sending a false notice or counter-notice can make you liable for damages.

14. Contact

LAND POLICE, LLC (“Land Police”, “we”), 101 Peninsular Highway, York Village, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Phone +232 72 832 321. Email legalteam@landpolice.com.

Version 1.3 · in force from 11 November 2026