Using what is on this site

Read it, link to it, quote it. What is not allowed is copying the dataset wholesale and publishing it as your own.

Crawling and indexing are welcome

Nothing here restricts search engines. Google, Bing and any other crawler that follows robots.txt may crawl, index, cache and show this site in results, including the structured data and the JSON index the finder uses. That is what the site is for.

Linking, quoting, personal use

Link to any page. Quote a fact and say where it came from. Use what you find here to plan a day out, write an article, or settle an argument. If you are a school, a council or a lifeguard service and you want to use a figure, take it and credit the page.

Bulk extraction and republication

You may not systematically copy this site or any substantial part of it, by crawler, script or by hand, in order to republish it, sell it, or build a competing directory from it. The JSON index exists so the search on this site works; it is not an open data feed and downloading it does not make the contents yours.

The underlying sources are public and named on How we know this. Anyone is free to go to those sources and do the work again. What took the work is the measuring, the checking and the deciding what not to publish, and that part is ours.

Also welcome

Assistants and answer engines may crawl this site, read it and cite it, on the same terms as any search engine. If you are building one: the facts here carry their source and their count, which is exactly what you need to answer a question honestly. Cite the beach page and link to it, and we are both doing our job.

The one thing that is not on offer is the dataset itself. Reproducing the directory wholesale, as a bulk copy rather than as an answer to somebody's question, is the same bulk extraction described above whether a person or a model does it.

What we promise, and what we do not

Every fact here comes from a named source and carries a count of how many people reported it and the years they span. That is a good deal better than a guess, and it is still not a guarantee. Conditions change, councils change their rules, and a beach moves. Nothing here is safety advice; for that, read the flags and ask the lifeguard.

If you want to use more than a quote

Ask. hello@rightbeaches.com. The answer is often yes, and it is a much shorter conversation than the alternative.