Using Homer Pulse means you've read these terms and they apply to you. They're meant to be readable; if anything's unclear, email hello@homerpulse.com and we'll explain.
What this is
Homer Pulse is a community-maintained directory, events calendar, and AI-assisted local guide (the "Ask Pulse" chat and the Trip Planner) for Homer, Alaska. It's free for visitors to use. We do our best to keep the information accurate, but businesses change hours, events get cancelled, and the world moves faster than we can update a website. Always confirm directly with a business or organizer before showing up. See the "No warranty" section below.
Acceptable use
Don't use Homer Pulse to:
- Scrape the directory at volume for commercial repurposing
- Submit false reports about a business you don't like
- Post events that don't exist, or use the events calendar for spam, advertising, or political messaging unrelated to a real community event
- Try to compromise the site, its admin tools, or other users' accounts
- Abuse the AI features — scripted or automated access, attempts to bypass usage limits, or prompts designed to make the assistant ignore its instructions or misrepresent businesses
We may remove submissions and block accounts that abuse the service. We try to be fair about this — if you think we got it wrong, email and we'll talk.
Things you submit
When you submit a business listing, event, correction, or feedback, you're giving Homer Pulse permission to publish it on the site (after admin review). You confirm you have the right to share the information — don't submit confidential business details or someone else's copyrighted text.
We may edit submissions for clarity, format, and accuracy before they appear. We may decline to publish a submission for any reason. Approved submissions become part of the site's directory; if you later want them removed, see the Privacy page for how to request that.
Account terms
Accounts are optional and free. Signing up lets you save businesses and events, build and keep trip plans, track your submissions, and manage email preferences. You're responsible for keeping your password reasonable and not sharing your login. We won't ask for your password — if anyone claiming to be from Homer Pulse asks for it, they're not us.
Homer Pulse accounts are for people 13 or older. If you're under 13, browse away — the site works without an account — but don't sign up.
Business owners can additionally claim their listing and, once approved, edit its details through the partner portal. Claiming a listing you don't own or represent is a fast way to lose your account.
AI features (Ask Pulse + Trip Planner)
The chat and trip planner generate answers with a large language model, grounded in our directory. LLMs are useful and also confidently wrong sometimes — they can misstate hours, mix up businesses, or invent details despite our guardrails. Treat AI answers like advice from a well-read friend, not gospel: confirm hours and availability with the business before you drive out.
Partner businesses support the site financially, and the assistant may highlight them when they're a relevant match. That never overrides accuracy — a closed restaurant is closed no matter who pays us — and partner status is disclosed on listings. See /partners for how partnerships work.
AI features have usage limits (shown in the interface) to keep costs sane for a free community site. Signed-in accounts get daily and monthly allowances; visitors without an account get a small number of free chat questions per day, verified by a quick in-browser bot check and counted as described in the privacy policy. Working around these limits (automation, rotating identities, or otherwise) is a misuse of the service. Your messages are processed as described in the privacy policy.
Connecting your Facebook Page (partners)
If you claim your business and connect your Facebook Page from your business dashboard, you authorize Homer Pulse to read posts and basic page details from that page for one purpose: detecting operational status updates — temporary closures, schedule changes, weather closings — and showing them on your public listing. We only read; we never post, message, or manage your page, and we never touch your ads.
The status updates we detect surface publicly on your Homer Pulse listing, with a link back to the original Facebook post. You can disconnect at any time from your business dashboard; disconnecting immediately revokes our access and removes the Facebook-sourced updates from your listing. See the privacy policy and data deletion page for the specifics.
No warranty
Homer Pulse is provided as-is. We make no guarantees that the information is accurate, current, complete, or fit for any particular purpose. This applies doubly to AI-generated answers and trip plans, which can be wrong in fluent, convincing ways. Don't use Homer Pulse for safety-critical decisions — tide predictions, weather alerts, and business status can be wrong or out of date. Confirm directly with the relevant source.
Specifically: the National Weather Service alerts shown on the site are pulled from NWS's public API and are best-effort. They may be delayed, missing, or stale. For any actual safety situation, check weather.gov, local radio, or other primary sources.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent allowed by law, Homer Pulse and its operators aren't liable for damages arising from your use of the site, including losses from acting on information you found here. Reasonable people will understand that a free community website isn't the same as professional advice — please act accordingly.
Changes
If we change these terms, we update this page and the date at the top. Continued use after a change means you accept the new terms. Material changes get a note on the homepage for a week.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alaska, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If there's a dispute that we can't resolve directly, it goes to the state or federal courts located in Alaska.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Email hello@homerpulse.com.