Terms of service

Draft notice

These terms are a working draft prepared from drnz's internal compliance documentation. They have not been reviewed by an attorney and create no rights or obligations. The operating entity is referred to as [ENTITY]; drnz is used as a trade name.

Acceptance and eligibility

Once these terms take effect, creating an account, applying to fly, or submitting a service request will constitute agreement to them. You must be at least 18. Accounts may be held on a waitlist before activation, and pilot access requires an application approved by drnz at its sole discretion.

Definitions

A pilot is an independent drone operator with a current FAA Part 107 certificate whose application drnz approved. A requester submits a drone-service request; a client receives the deliverable. A job is a site, an analysis domain, and a time window. Raw imagery is unprocessed capture; adjudicated findings are outputs a human reviewed; derived data is de-identified findings, labels, and annotations that identify no person, parcel owner, or client.

What the platform is (and is not)

drnz is a software and coordination platform. drnz never connects to, commands, or controls any aircraft. Airspace, weather, flyability, and checklist surfaces are heads-up reference only: not flight instructions, not air-traffic services, and never a substitute for preflight obligations under 14 CFR 107.49. The go or no-go decision for every flight belongs to the pilot.

Roles

Pilots plan, execute, and deliver jobs. Requesters submit requests that enter an open queue for an available pilot to claim. Clients receive deliverables. A pilot may also bring their own job, skipping the queue.

Pilots are independent operators

Pilots are independent contractors, not employees or agents of drnz. On every flight the pilot is the operator of record, solely responsible for Part 107 compliance, airworthiness, airspace authorizations, and every operational decision.

Pilot obligations

• Maintain a valid Part 107 certificate and 24-month recurrent-training currency.
• Keep the pilot-application attestations true and re-attest when their text is updated: imagery privacy (Fla. Stat. 934.50), critical-infrastructure and PreK-12 school restrictions (Fla. Stat. 330.41), no weaponized aircraft, and local permits before operating.
• Maintain aviation liability insurance. Engagements are quoted against a $1,000,000 combined single limit floor; aircraft recorded below it are flagged for review.
• Hold any local permits required where you fly, such as Orlando's drone permit or DeFuniak Springs' police registration.
• Keep application, fleet, and insurance records accurate and current.

Aircraft requirements

Every aircraft on a job needs current FAA registration (recorded by FA-code or N-number with expiration), Remote ID compliance under 14 CFR Part 89 (standard, a broadcast module recorded by serial, or FRIA-only operation), and accurate intake specifications.

Jobs and acceptance of work

Jobs move through a fixed lifecycle: open, claimed, planned, en route, flying, review, done. Claiming a queued job is acceptance of its capture specification and window. drnz does not guarantee any volume of work. [Counsel: marketplace versus agency posture.]

Fees and payment

[Placeholder. No fee or payout model is in effect. Client pricing currently lives in per-engagement statements of work.]

Deliverables and intellectual property

Clients own their deliverables and site imagery on delivery. Pilots license capture to drnz for processing and delivery. drnz keeps a perpetual license to de-identified derived data (findings, labels, annotations) to improve its models; derived data never includes identifiable people, plates, or interiors and is not traceable to a client. The platform, its software, and its models remain drnz's property.

Imagery privacy

Florida law (Fla. Stat. 934.50) prohibits drone imaging of private property or people with intent to surveil where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists, absent written consent. Capture is limited to the job's site polygon and cropped to it before analysis; over-fence, through-window, and person- or plate-subject imagery is prohibited; only human-adjudicated findings leave the pipeline. Requesters and clients are responsible for the property-owner consents a job requires.

Data retention and purge

Unless a contract states otherwise, raw and derived job imagery is purged within 30 days of delivery. Adjudicated findings and deliverables are retained as the record of the engagement. Clients may request earlier purging.

Service-specific disclaimers

• Stormwater and land: screening information for the owner's maintenance program; not a survey, not a map of record, not an engineering determination. Certified measurements come only through a contracted Florida-licensed PE or PSM.
• Wildlife: candidate-habitat screening and triage flags, never a licensed determination; no output satisfies any FWC permitting requirement.
• Property: an informational risk-screening report, not a home inspection under Ch. 468 Part XV, Fla. Stat.; not a consumer report and may not be used to determine any consumer's eligibility for credit, insurance, or employment.
• Community and HOA: documentation of association assets, never surveillance or monitoring of residents.
• Medical: [placeholder; vertical not live, HIPAA terms required first].

Prohibited uses

No weaponized aircraft. No surveillance of people. No imaging of identifiable people, plates, or interiors as subjects. No overflight of critical infrastructure or PreK-12 schools except as authorized (Fla. Stat. 330.41; violations include third-degree felonies). No work intended to violate Fla. Stat. 934.50, no misrepresented credentials, and no circumventing consent, cropping, or adjudication controls.

Suspension and termination

drnz may reject applications, keep accounts waitlisted, and suspend or terminate access for lapsed certificates, attestations, or insurance, or for prohibited use. You may close your account at any time; the property, privacy, and liability sections survive.

Disclaimers of warranty

The platform is provided as is and as available, with all warranties disclaimed. Reference data may be incomplete or out of date and never substitutes for the pilot's own preflight familiarization and judgment.

Limitation of liability

[Counsel: cap structure and carve-outs.] drnz is not liable for the conduct of flight operations, which it does not perform, direct, or control.

Indemnification

Pilots indemnify drnz [ENTITY] for claims arising from their flight operations, regulatory violations, inaccurate or lapsed records, and breach of these terms. [Counsel: reciprocal and client indemnities.]

Governing law and disputes

Florida law governs. [Counsel: venue, arbitration versus courts, class waiver, fee shifting.]

Changes to these terms

drnz may update these terms by posting a new version with a new date. Material changes may require re-acceptance or re-attestation before continued pilot access.

Contact

[ENTITY] · [contact email] · drnz.ai