FHP Notifier is a free, real-time traffic incident tracking application for Florida. It pulls live data directly from the Florida Highway Patrol ("FHP") as published by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles ("FLHSMV") at trafficincidents.flhsmv.gov, and updates every 90 seconds, showing active incidents statewide on an interactive map. The app is available on iOS, Android, and Web with no ads, no subscription, and no account required.
FHP Notifier is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or operated by the Florida Highway Patrol, the FLHSMV, or any government authority.
The information provided through FHP Notifier is intended for general informational purposes only. The Services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations including HIPAA, FISMA, or GLBA. If your use of the Services would be subject to such laws, you may not use the Services. Persons who choose to access the Services from locations outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws.
All incident data presented within FHP Notifier is sourced exclusively from the FLHSMV public data feed. Ryan Watern does not independently generate, verify, modify, or editorialize incident data beyond automated formatting for display purposes.
Location descriptions and address formatting are processed programmatically and are provided on a best-efforts basis. Data may be subject to delay, omission, or technical error, and Ryan Watern makes no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or reliability of any incident data displayed in the application.
FHP Notifier is strictly a general informational reference and is not designed, tested, or approved for operational or safety-critical use. THE APPLICATION IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES. It must not be used as a primary or sole source of information for emergency response, law enforcement decision-making, navigation safety, legal proceedings, or any other safety-critical purpose. In the event of an emergency, immediately contact 911 or appropriate emergency services. Ryan Watern expressly disclaims all responsibility for any harm arising from emergency or safety-critical use of this application.
All original source code, application architecture, and non-data creative assets comprising FHP Notifier are the exclusive intellectual property of Ryan Watern, protected under applicable copyright law including 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Ryan Watern grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the application for your personal, non-commercial use only. No part of the application may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, distributed, sold, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express prior written permission.
Incident data displayed within the application is public information sourced from FLHSMV and is not claimed by Ryan Watern. Such data constitutes government records not subject to copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
If you directly send any question, comment, suggestion, idea, or feedback about the Services, you assign to Ryan Watern all intellectual property rights in such Submission. Ryan Watern shall own these Submissions and be entitled to their unrestricted use for any lawful purpose without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
By using the Services, you represent and warrant that:
You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make them available. You agree not to:
FHP Notifier integrates the following third-party mapping services, determined by user platform:
Your use of these mapping services is subject to the respective terms of service and privacy policies of those providers. Ryan Watern is not responsible for the accuracy, availability, or content of mapping data provided by third-party services.
FHP Notifier may deliver push notifications via Firebase Cloud Messaging ("FCM"), a service operated by Google LLC. Notification delivery is subject to device settings, network availability, operating system permissions, and FCM service availability, and is not guaranteed. You may opt in to and out of push notifications at any time through the in-application settings. Ryan Watern is not liable for missed, delayed, or undelivered notifications.
If you access the Services via the app, Ryan Watern grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the app on wireless electronic devices owned or controlled by you, in accordance with these Terms. You shall not decompile, reverse engineer, or attempt to derive the source code; make any modification or derivative work; violate applicable laws; remove any proprietary notice; or use the app for revenue-generating or commercial purposes.
If you obtained the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, the license is limited to a non-transferable license to use the application on a device utilizing the applicable operating system. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo and are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Ryan Watern reserves the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the Services for violations of these Terms; take appropriate legal action against violators; refuse, restrict access to, or limit the availability of any contributions; remove files and content that are excessive in size or burdensome to systems; and otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect rights and property and facilitate proper functioning.
Ryan Watern cares about data privacy and security. The app's Privacy Policy governs how information is handled and is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Services are hosted in the United States. By using the Services, you consent to have your data transferred to and processed in the United States. FHP Notifier does not collect, solicit, or store personally identifiable information from any user, and does not require account creation or identity verification.
FHP Notifier is intended for general audiences aged 18 and older. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use the Services. As the app does not collect personally identifiable information, its limited data practices are structured to fall outside the scope of data collection regulated by COPPA, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506, and corresponding regulations at 16 C.F.R. Part 312. If you have questions, please contact [email protected].
These Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. RYAN WATERN RESERVES THE RIGHT TO, IN HIS SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION.
Ryan Watern reserves the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at his sole discretion without notice. Ryan Watern cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. The Services may experience hardware, software, or other problems resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RYAN WATERN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. RYAN WATERN MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES' CONTENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, RYAN WATERN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, FHP NOTIFIER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES ARISING FROM RELIANCE ON ANY DATA DISPLAYED WITHIN THE APPLICATION, LOSS OF DATA, LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, OR INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ryan Watern from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (1) use of the Services; (2) breach of these Terms; (3) any breach of your representations and warranties; (4) your violation of the rights of a third party; or (5) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Services.
Ryan Watern will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services. Although routine backups are performed, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. Ryan Watern shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data.
Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online interactions constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications provided to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES.
These Terms and your use of the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, the parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any Dispute informally for at least ninety (90) days before initiating arbitration. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice from one party to the other.
If the parties are unable to resolve a Dispute through informal negotiations, the Dispute will be finally and exclusively resolved by binding arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the AAA. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WITHOUT THIS PROVISION, YOU WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY TRIAL. The arbitration shall take place in Pasco County, Florida. If a Dispute proceeds in court, it shall be in the state and federal courts located in Pinellas County, Florida. In no event shall any Dispute be commenced more than one (1) year after the cause of action arose.
Any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the parties individually. No arbitration shall be joined with any other proceeding; there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis.
The following Disputes are not subject to the above provisions: (a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect intellectual property rights; (b) any Dispute related to theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and (c) any claim for injunctive relief.
There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. Ryan Watern reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.
Ryan Watern reserves the right to revise these Terms of Service at any time. When changes are made, the Effective Date at the top of this document will be updated accordingly. Your continued use of FHP Notifier following the posting of revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must discontinue use of the application.
These Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by Ryan Watern on the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and Ryan Watern. If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from these Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship created between you and Ryan Watern as a result of these Terms or use of the Services.
For questions, concerns, or inquiries regarding these Terms of Service, please contact: Ryan Watern at [email protected]