Crab Keeper Terms of Use

Last updated: September 8, 2026

These terms cover crabkeeper.com and the Crab Keeper iOS and Android apps (com.crabkeeper.app), made by Andrew Dall at emaration.site. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them.

The app is advisory

Crab Keeper helps you plan a trip. It is not legal advice, not a substitute for a gauge, and not a substitute for current state fishery regulations or shellfish safety notices. Rules are copied by USPS state from that state's fishery agency (Oregon ODFW, Washington WDFW, California CDFW, and the other coastal agencies in Licenses) with the date they were retrieved — they are not a live legal feed. Closures move. A Washington bag is not legal in Oregon, a Maryland bushel is not legal in North Carolina, a Pennsylvania 4-inch Delaware Estuary crab is not a Delaware 5-inch crab, and inland states have no marine crab season in this app. Measure. Where the state says females or egg-bearers go back, they go back. European green crab do not go back. You are responsible for what you keep. Verify with that state's agency before every trip.

Your account

• You must be 13 or older.
• Use a real email you control. We use it to reset access and to delete the account if you ask.
• Don’t impersonate a shop, an agency, or another person.
• Email/password is how the iOS and Android apps sign in. Google sign-in is website-only.

What you post

You keep ownership of your photos and notes. You give us a license to host them so the app can show them. Public spots, public catch logs, and comments can be seen by other users. Secret spots stay secret. Don’t post anyone’s personal information. Don’t post illegal harvest. We may remove content that breaks these terms or the law.

The free app and Pro

The store apps are free. Map, tides, spots, shops, harvest guides, and the catch log are included. Some features (camera identify, aerial overlay, offline bay packs) are Pro and invite-only. There is no in-app purchase in this version. We do not sell subscriptions outside Apple or Google.

Shops

Bait-shop listings are independent of expert tips. “Sponsored” means paid placement when that flag is on. Claiming a listing does not make it yours until we confirm.

Acceptable use

• Don’t scrape, overload, or reverse-engineer the service.
• Don’t use the camera identify output as a keep/release decision without a gauge and the current rules.
• Don’t treat the map as a nautical chart for navigation.

The service can change

Tides, closures, and tiles come from upstreams we don’t control. We can change or stop features. The app is provided as-is. Oregon law applies, excluding conflict-of-law rules.

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