Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") govern your use of the services provided by Seeking Data Labs ("we", "us", "our"). Please read them carefully. They are incorporated together with ourPrivacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

This document is provided in good faith for transparency; it is not legal advice, and you should have it reviewed by qualified counsel before relying on it.

1. Who we are, what this covers, and acceptance

The provider of the services is:

• Seeking Data Labs (trading name)
• [registered legal entity & address, to be completed]
• Contact: [email protected]

These Terms cover:

• the data API and platform, the public catalog, the data API (free tier, paid tiers, and x402 pay-per-call), MCP server access, dashboards, and related site features; and
• our research and consultancy engagements (the specific scope, fees, and deliverables of which are set out in a separate engagement letter that prevails over these Terms for that work).

You accept these Terms by creating an account, by using the API (including by making an x402 payment, which itself constitutes acceptance for anonymous agents), or by signing an engagement. If you use the service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2. The data is provided "as is", and is not advice

The data, metrics, provenance envelopes, research, dashboards, and consultancy deliverables are provided on an "AS IS" and"AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by law, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or uninterrupted availability. Data may be delayed, estimated, derived, or contain errors, and sources may change or become unavailable.

Nothing we provide is financial, investment, trading, tax, legal, or other professional advice, and nothing is a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any asset. Crypto and trading carry substantial risk, including the risk of total loss. Any decision you make using our data or research is your sole responsibility. Our consultancy deliverables are professional opinion and analysis, not a guarantee of any outcome and not regulated investment advice.

3. Acceptable use, plans, and rate limits

We offer a free tier (with an API key), paid tiers, and x402 per-call access. You agree not to:

• use the service for any unlawful purpose or in breach of these Terms;
• attempt to break, bypass, or probe our authentication, WAF, tier gating, or rate limits, or otherwise gain unauthorised access;
• scrape or automate access in a way designed to evade tiers, quotas, or pricing;
• resell or redistribute the raw data feed except as your licence expressly permits (see section 5);
• use the API to build a substantially substitutable competing dataset or service;
• overload, disrupt, or impair the infrastructure, or interfere with other users; or
• reverse-engineer the paid tiers to obtain paid functionality for free.

Rate limits, quotas, and per-metric tier gating apply and may change; a request beyond your plan may return an upgrade prompt. To protect the service, we process your IP address and email transiently for login rate-limiting and abuse prevention (see the Privacy Policy). We may throttle, suspend, or revoke API keys for abuse or breach.

4. Payment, USDC on Solana (pay-per-call and subscriptions)

We accept payment only in USDC on Solana. There isno card, bank, or other fiat payment path. Two mechanisms exist:

• x402 pay-per-call. Priced endpoints cost a stated amount in USDC (for example, on the order of $0.01 per latest read and $0.02 per series read, amounts are configurable and may change). Payment is made per call via the x402 HTTP-402 handshake, signed by your wallet and settled on-chain by a third-party facilitator. We never custody your funds or your signing keys.
• Subscription top-up. A paid tier (currently 9, 29, or 99 USDC) is activated by sending USDC to our published deposit address with the transaction memo set to your account id. When the transfer confirms, the tier activates for a fixed 30-day period. The subscription does not auto-renew and there is no recurring charge: to continue past 30 days you send another top-up. We keep a payments ledger of your transactions.

On-chain payments are final and irreversible by nature, and the memo (your account id) is written to the public, permanent Solana ledger (see the Privacy Policy). Because each API response is digital data delivered immediately on demand, payments arenon-refundable, and, where you are an EU/EEA consumer, by beginning that delivery you acknowledge you lose the statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for the content supplied. This is subject to two carve-outs: (a) any mandatory consumer-protection right that applies notwithstanding the above; and (b) the documented missing-memo case, a deposit that arrives without a resolvable memo cannot be matched to an account, activates nothing, and is refunded to the sending wallet, minus the network fee. Where we fail to deliver a paid response due to our own fault, we provide a good-faith retry or credit.

Prices are exclusive of any applicable VAT or other taxes unless stated. You are responsible for your own taxes and for the tax treatment of your crypto payments.

5. Intellectual property and your licence to the data

We own or license the platform, software, catalog structure and taxonomy, methodology, provenance envelopes, and site content. Subject to your compliance with these Terms and your tier, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the data returned to you for your own internal or product purposes.

• You may use and display derived insights and results built from the data.
• You may not bulk-redistribute or resell the raw data feed, or make it available so as to substitute for a subscription, except as a written agreement permits.
• Underlying facts (for example public or open-government data) are not owned by us; our licence covers our compilation, curation, and delivery of that data, not the public-domain facts themselves.

For consultancy, ownership of bespoke deliverables versus our pre-existing tools and methods is set out in the relevant engagement letter (typically: our tools and methods remain ours; deliverables are licensed or assigned to the client as agreed).

6. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by Swiss law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost or missed trading gains, trading losses, lost data, or business interruption, arising from your use of or reliance on the data, API, research, or consultancy.

To the same extent, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the services is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid to us in the three (3) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b)[a small fixed cap, e.g. CHF 100, to be confirmed].

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including, under Swiss law (Art. 100 of the Code of Obligations), liability for unlawful intent or gross negligence, liability for death or personal injury, and any mandatory consumer liability under Swiss or EU/EEA law. The "not financial advice / use at your own risk" statement in section 2 is a core basis on which this limitation is given.

7. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless against third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs to the extent they arise from your misuse of the service, your breach of these Terms, your violation of law or of a third party's rights (including intellectual-property or data-protection rights), or your downstream use or redistribution of the data (for example presenting it as advice to your own customers). This indemnity is limited to matters attributable to your fault; where you are a consumer, it applies only to the extent permitted by mandatory law.

8. Availability, changes, suspension, and termination

We provide no uptime guarantee unless a separate service-level agreement is signed. We may modify, add, deprecate, or discontinue endpoints, metrics, pricing, and tiers, giving reasonable notice of materially adverse changes where practicable.

We may suspend or terminate your access for breach, abuse, non-payment, or legal reasons. You may stop using the service and close your account at any time. On termination: your API keys are revoked and your licence ends; sections that by their nature should survive (intellectual property, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law, accrued payment obligations, and legally required data retention) continue in force. Account data handling on closure follows the Privacy Policy.

9. Third-party dependencies and matters outside our control

Parts of the service depend on third parties we do not control. We are not liable for the performance, availability, or acts of the Solana network (including congestion, forks, downtime, priority fees, or finality), the x402 facilitator, wallet software, Google sign-in, or Cloudflare and Azure infrastructure. Once broadcast, an on-chain transaction is outside our control and irreversible; we are not responsible for wallet mistakes such as a wrong amount, wrong network, or lost keys.

10. Governing law, jurisdiction, and language

These Terms are governed by the substantive law of Switzerland, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The place of jurisdiction for disputes is our registered seat in[canton, to be completed], Switzerland.

This is subject to any mandatory protective rights of consumers: an EU/EEA (or Swiss) consumer may bring or defend proceedings in their home forum and keeps the mandatory consumer protections of their country of residence, which this choice of law and jurisdiction does not override.

The controlling language of these Terms is English; any translation is for convenience only. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect, and the invalid provision is replaced by the closest lawful equivalent to the parties' intent.

11. Contact

Seeking Data Labs,[email protected].[registered legal entity & address, to be completed]