Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of floridaspringsfinder.com, published by Florida Springs Finder. By using the site you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

What this site is

floridaspringsfinder.com is an independent editorial guide to Florida’s freshwater springs. It is free to read. It is not an official source, a booking service, a reservation system, or a government publication, and it is not affiliated with any park, forest, refuge, or private spring operator.

Accuracy, and the limits of it

Entry fees, opening hours, seasonal closures, capacity limits, tubing and shuttle operations, camping availability, dive rules, and pet policies all change frequently — sometimes daily, and usually without public notice. We check our information against official and operator sources and date each spring page accordingly, but we cannot warrant that any detail is current at the moment you read it.

Confirm with the park or operator before you travel. We are not responsible for a wasted trip, a closed gate, a fee that has risen, or a spring that reached capacity before you arrived.

Assumption of risk

Nothing on this site is a safety certification, an instructional guide, or professional advice. Springs are natural environments with genuine hazards. Cave and cavern diving requires specific certification and equipment; exceeding your training in an overhead environment can kill you. Swimming, tubing, snorkelling, and paddling carry their own risks, particularly for children and weak swimmers. You use the information here at your own risk and are solely responsible for your own safety and that of anyone in your care.

Rankings and editorial independence

Scores, rankings, and verdicts are our editorial opinion, formed from the criteria set out in our Editorial & Affiliate Disclosure. They are opinion, not statements of fact, and no ranking position is or has ever been for sale.

Intellectual property

The written content, rankings, comparison tables, methodology, and site design are the property of Florida Springs Finder and are protected by copyright. You may quote short extracts with clear attribution and a link back. You may not republish substantial portions, scrape the site in bulk, or reproduce it as your own work.

Photographs are used either with permission or under open licences. Where an image comes from a source such as Wikimedia Commons, the photographer and licence are credited on the page where it appears, and those images remain subject to their own licence terms rather than to ours.

Acceptable use

Do not use the site in any way that damages it, disrupts it, or interferes with anyone else’s use of it. Do not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of it. Automated scraping, bulk downloading, and republication of our data are not permitted.

Links to other sites

We link out to parks, forests, refuges, outfitters, booking platforms, and retailers. Some of those links are affiliate links. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, their availability, their pricing, or their handling of your data.

Advertising

This site carries third-party advertising. Advertisements are selected and served by our advertising partners, not by us, and an advertisement appearing here is not an endorsement.

Disclaimer of warranties

The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Florida Springs Finder is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of this site or from reliance on anything published here — including personal injury or death arising from any activity at a spring. Some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties or liabilities, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Changes

We may update these terms. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the revised terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Contact

Questions about these terms: kyle.eagleconcrete@gmail.com.