Terms of Use

Effective October 12, 2026

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of CSRA Business Weather, including the website at csraweather.com and csraweather.web.app and everything published on it (the “Site”). The Site is operated by Peak Employment Solutions, a Georgia business located at 308 Eighth Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901 (“we,” “us,” or “our”), and is sponsored by Peak Augusta. By using the Site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

What the Site is

CSRA Business Weather is a public information service that presents hiring, investment, layoff, wage, housing and business-news information for the Central Savannah River Area (the Augusta, Georgia metro and nearby counties) using a weather metaphor. The barometer reading is calculated from public data using the scoring rules printed on the page. It is an informational summary, not a forecast of any particular business, industry, person or outcome.

Information only, not advice

Nothing on the Site is legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, employment or human-resources advice, and nothing on the Site creates a professional relationship between you and us. You are responsible for your own decisions. Please read our Disclaimer, which forms part of these terms.

Use of the Site

You may use the Site for your own lawful personal or business purposes. You agree not to use it to break any law; to interfere with or disrupt the Site or its servers; to attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Site, its hosting accounts or its data; to scrape or copy the Site at a volume or frequency that burdens it; to introduce malware; to submit false, misleading or abusive information through any form, including any survey; or to present our content in a way that suggests we endorse you, your products or your services without our written permission.

Our content and your permitted sharing

The Site’s design, text, scoring method, charts, graphics, logos and compilation are owned by or licensed to Peak Employment Solutions and protected by copyright and other laws (see Copyright). You may quote short excerpts and share links to the Site, with credit to “CSRA Business Weather (csraweather.com),” for news, commentary, education and internal business use. Any other reproduction, republication, resale or commercial use requires our prior written permission. Government statistics we cite remain the work of the agencies that publish them, and headlines on the business wire remain the property of their publishers.

Third-party links and sources

The business wire and other sections link to websites we do not own or control, including news outlets, government agencies and employers. We list headlines and link to the original page; we do not copy their articles. A link is not an endorsement, and we are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability or privacy practices of any third-party site. Some content on the Site, such as local weather, is loaded live from a third party (for example, the National Weather Service), and its availability is outside our control.

Automated and AI-assisted updates

Parts of the Site are refreshed on a schedule with the help of automated software, including an artificial-intelligence assistant that gathers public headlines and data and drafts updates under written instructions. We design these processes to list only items found at their original sources and to show source and date for each reading. Automated processes can still make mistakes, misread a source, or lag behind events. If you see an error, please tell us at mike@peaktcs.com and we will review and correct it promptly.

Surveys and submissions

When the CSRA Hiring Intentions Survey is open, your responses are governed by these terms and our Privacy Policy. By submitting, you confirm that you are answering for a business located in or serving the CSRA, that you are authorized to answer for it, that your answers are accurate to the best of your knowledge, and that you agree your answers may be included in combined results. We publish results only in combined form and only after at least ten employers have responded in a survey round. Individual answers are never published. The free-text answer is for our review only and is never published. Providing a company name and email address is optional and is used only to send you the results. Please do not include confidential information or personal information about other people in the free-text answer. We may limit or reject submissions that look automated, repeated or abusive.

Disclaimer of warranties

THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PEAK EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS, ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, SPONSORS AND AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR YOUR RELIANCE ON ITS CONTENT. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these limits may not apply to you.

Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold harmless Peak Employment Solutions and its owners, officers, employees and contractors from claims, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your misuse of the Site or your violation of these terms or of any law or third-party right.

Changes, suspension and termination

We may change the Site, its scoring method, its data sources and these terms at any time. When we change these terms we will update the effective date above. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms. We may suspend or end access to the Site, or to any feature of it, at any time and for any reason.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising from the Site or these terms will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in or serving Richmond County, Georgia, and you consent to the jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

General

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Copyright notice, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Site.

Contact

Peak Employment Solutions, 308 Eighth Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901. Email: mike@peaktcs.com.