Terms of Use
Last updated: May 2026
About FindSpot
FindSpot is a free fieldwork and recording platform for UK metal detectorists. It includes FieldGuide™, a proprietary landscape intelligence engine, permission management, find recording, and club and rally tools.
FindSpot is provided free of charge. No account is required. Your finds, permissions and landowner details are stored locally on your own device and never transmitted to our servers.
Ownership
FindSpot and FieldGuide™ are proprietary technologies. The following assets remain the intellectual property of FindSpot.
FindSpot owns
- The FindSpot application and branding
- The FieldGuide engine and scoring methods
- The Club Day and Rally Dig system and workflows
- Website content and design
- Generated landscape interpretation
- Report layouts and templates
- Agreement templates
- Export formats and classifications
- Workflow and interface design
You own
- Your finds and find records
- Your photographs
- Your permission details
- Your notes and session records
- All locally stored content you create
- Any imported content
Use of FindSpot does not grant rights to reproduce, copy or recreate any proprietary systems, methods or outputs.
Restrictions
Without written permission from FindSpot, you may not:
- Reverse engineer or decompile any part of FindSpot or FieldGuide
- Copy, scrape or reproduce FieldGuide outputs or hotspot analysis
- Reproduce report layouts or agreement templates commercially
- Recreate FieldGuide methods or classification systems
- Copy or recreate the Club Day or Rally Dig system, QR join flow or organiser workflows
- Use FindSpot outputs to train or build competing systems
- Copy workflows, interface design or export formats for competing tools
FieldGuide
FieldGuide™ uses proprietary methods to support landscape interpretation. It combines terrain, LiDAR, satellite imagery, historic mapping, environmental data, hydrology and archaeological context to help identify areas of likely past activity.
FindSpot does not claim ownership of any third-party source datasets. The selection, combination, sequencing, transformation, weighting, scoring, classification and generated interpretation of those datasets within FieldGuide remain the intellectual property of FindSpot.
FieldGuide outputs are provided for field research support only. They highlight areas of potential, not guaranteed finds.
Club Day and Rally Dig
FindSpot's Club Day and Rally Dig system — including the QR code join flow, organiser dashboard, member session export, and combined find import — is a proprietary workflow developed by FindSpot.
The design, structure and mechanics of this system are protected. You may not copy, recreate or commercialise this workflow or any part of it without written permission.
Club and rally listings submitted to FindSpot are published for community benefit. FindSpot reserves the right to approve, edit or remove listings. Listing data is not sold or shared beyond the FindSpot platform.
Report Use
Generated FindSpot reports — including field visit reports, find cards and permission agreements — may be shared freely for personal detecting records, landowner communications, club reporting and heritage recording purposes.
Commercial reproduction of report layouts or generated interpretation without written permission is not permitted.
Data and Privacy
FindSpot is local-first. Your find spots, permissions and landowner details are stored on your device only and are never uploaded to our servers.
Club and rally dig data is only transmitted when you choose to send it, using the in-app export feature. See our Privacy page for full details.
Contact
Questions about these terms or intellectual property matters can be directed via the contact form or via the FindSpot app.