Terms of service

1. The service

Anteproof is an information publication. Recoilix LLC, a Delaware limited liability company operating from North Carolina ("Recoilix", "we", "us"), publishes probability forecasts about open-source projects, packages and related organisations, timestamps each forecast before the outcome is known, and scores every forecast in public against what happened. The service consists of the website at anteproof.com, the REST API and MCP server at api.anteproof.com, the weekly digest, and the account features described on the account page (together, the "Service"). These terms, the privacy policy and the refund and cancellation policy form the agreement between you and Recoilix. By creating an account, using an API key, or otherwise using the Service you accept them. If you use the Service for an organisation, you confirm you may bind it.

2. Forecasts are information, not advice

Every forecast is a general, impersonal statement published on a schedule to everyone at once. It is a statistical estimate of the chance that a stated event occurs, produced by a fixed rule and a documented model, and scored later. A forecast is not:

• advice of any kind — not investment, financial, trading, legal, security, engineering or professional advice — and it is not tailored to you, your situation or your portfolio;
• a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, adopt, remove, trade or take any action in respect of any security, asset, token, contract, market position, package or project;
• a rating, certification, endorsement or warranty of any project or package. We never describe a package as "safe"; the Service reports what a project has done and what we expect it to do;
• a claim that the Service beats, predicts or outperforms any market, index or other forecaster.

We do not trade, take positions in, or accept payment from the subjects of forecasts. We are not a registered investment adviser, broker, rating agency or auditor. You are solely responsible for any decision you make, and you should not rely on a forecast without your own judgement and, where appropriate, professional advice. The published calibration record shows how past forecasts scored; it is not a promise about future ones.

3. Accounts

Reading the public log needs no account. The watchlist, API keys and paid plans do. Sign-in is provided by our identity provider (email code or Google). You must be at least 16, give accurate information, and keep your sign-in method and API keys confidential. Everything done through your account or your keys is your responsibility until you tell us the account or key is compromised. One person, one account; a team or organisation may hold accounts for its members. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

4. Acceptable use

You may use the Service for your own information, research, engineering and internal business purposes, including inside tools and agents you run. You may not:

• resell, sublicense, rent, syndicate or bulk-redistribute forecasts, scores or API responses, or offer a service whose substantial value is the Service's data, without a written agreement with us;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the website, or access the API by means other than a key issued to you;
• share API keys between accounts, pool keys, or evade quotas, metering or access controls;
• overload, probe, reverse-engineer or interfere with the Service or its infrastructure, or with other users;
• present a forecast as advice, a rating or a certification, remove a forecast's timestamp, question wording or receipt when reproducing it, or misattribute it;
• use the Service to break the law or infringe anyone's rights, or in any high-risk setting where an error could cause injury or serious loss.

5. API and MCP terms

• Keys. API keys are issued to an account, shown once, and may be revoked by you or by us at any time. You are responsible for their storage and use.
• Quotas. Each plan carries a monthly call allowance, per account and across all keys and sign-ins: Free 1,000 calls, Pro 20,000 calls, resetting on the first of each calendar month (UTC). At the allowance the API answers with HTTP 429 and does not bill silently. Allowances, plan features and prices are those shown on the account page and in the developer docs at the time of use; we may change them with notice under section 10.
• Fair use. There is no separate per-second limit today; we may throttle or block traffic that degrades the Service for others.
• Licence. Subject to these terms we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to call the API and MCP server and to use the responses within your account's purposes. Responses may be cached and stored for your own use while you hold a plan and for reasonable archival afterwards.
• Attribution. Where you display a forecast to third parties, keep its question wording, probability, timestamp and a link to the question page, and attribute it to Anteproof.
• Changes. Endpoints, tools and response fields may be added; existing fields may be deprecated with at least 30 days' notice on the docs page where practicable. Beta or "preview" features may change without notice.

6. Subscriptions and billing

• Plans. Every new account starts on a 14-day Pro trial; no payment method is needed. When the trial ends the account continues on the Free plan unless a Pro subscription is started. Pro is billed in advance, monthly or yearly, at the price shown at checkout.
• Merchant of record. Purchases are made through Stripe, which acts as merchant of record: Stripe sells the subscription to you, collects payment, determines and remits applicable sales tax or VAT, and issues the invoice or receipt. Your purchase is also subject to Stripe's terms shown at checkout.
• Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price until cancelled. We will give at least 30 days' notice by email before a price increase takes effect on a renewal.
• Failed payment. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries; if it still fails the subscription lapses and the account returns to the Free plan.
• Taxes. Prices are shown exclusive of tax unless the checkout states otherwise; tax is calculated by the merchant of record at checkout.

7. Cancellation and refunds

You can cancel at any time from the billing portal linked on the account page. Access to Pro continues to the end of the paid period and no further charge is made. Refunds are handled under the refund and cancellation policy, which forms part of these terms. Statutory rights you have as a consumer under the law of your country are not affected.

8. Content and data rights

• Our content. Forecasts, scores, question wordings, the calibration record, text, design and software are owned by Recoilix or its licensors and protected by copyright and database rights. Apart from the licences in these terms, no rights are granted.
• Derived data only. The Service publishes derived scores and forecasts. We do not republish the raw content of the third-party sources we read (for example, code, commit contents, issue text, release notes or market data); such content stays with its owners and their terms.
• Quoting. You may quote individual forecasts and calibration figures, with attribution and a link to the question or calibration page, in commentary, research and reporting.
• Your content. You keep the rights to anything you submit (for example, a lock file or SBOM uploaded to check dependencies). You grant us a licence to process it to provide the Service to you. We do not use your submissions to train models or to publish anything that identifies you.
• Feedback. Suggestions you send us may be used without obligation.
• Public record. The forecast log and the calibration record, including every miss and every failed gate evaluation, are published so that anyone can check the track record. We do not remove forecasts from the record.

9. Coverage and provenance policy

Projects, packages and organisations are added to the Service by our own selection and on customer request. On request we track only entities whose maintaining organisation is established in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom or another allied jurisdiction as we determine, and we may decline or remove any entity at our discretion. A tracked entity's presence in the Service is not an endorsement, and its absence is not a judgement.

10. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the Service available and the forecast schedule regular, but we do not guarantee uptime, continuity of any question family, or that any particular entity will keep being forecast. We may change, suspend or retire features, families or plans. We will give at least 30 days' notice by email or on the Service of a change that materially reduces what a paid plan includes; if you do not accept it you may cancel and, for the unused part of a prepaid period, request a pro-rated refund.

11. No warranty of accuracy

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that forecasts will be accurate, calibrated, complete, timely or free of error, that data sources will be correct or continuous, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or secure. Forecasts can be, and some will be, wrong; the calibration record exists to show how often.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows: (a) neither Recoilix nor its members, officers, contractors or suppliers is liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity, or for any loss arising from reliance on a forecast or from a decision made with the Service, however caused and under any theory of liability; and (b) our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim and 50 US dollars. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or a consumer's non-waivable statutory rights.

13. Indemnity

If you use the Service for a business, you will defend and indemnify Recoilix against third-party claims, and the reasonable costs of them, arising from your breach of these terms or your use of the Service in violation of law or of another's rights.

14. Termination

You may close your account at any time from the account page or by emailing us. We may suspend or terminate access immediately for a material breach, for abuse or security reasons, or where required by law, and otherwise on 30 days' notice. On termination your licences end and your keys stop working; sections 2, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16 survive. Personal data is handled as described in the privacy policy.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Subject to the next sentence, the state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and each party consents to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of any mandatory law of the country where you live and may bring proceedings there. Before starting proceedings, each party will try to resolve the dispute by contacting the other in writing and discussing it in good faith for 30 days.

16. General

• These terms, the privacy policy and the refund policy are the entire agreement about the Service and replace earlier versions. A separate written agreement (for example a pilot agreement with a data processing addendum) prevails over these terms where they conflict.
• We may update these terms. We will post the new version here with its effective date and notify account holders by email at least 14 days before a material change takes effect; continued use after that date is acceptance. Changes required by law may take effect sooner.
• If a provision is unenforceable it is limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stands. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to a successor of the business. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events outside its reasonable control.
• Notices to you go to your account email. Notices to us go to the address in section 17.

17. Contact

Recoilix LLC, doing business as Anteproof. Legal notices: [email protected]. Billing and everything else: [email protected]. Post: Recoilix LLC, 4030 Wake Forest Road STE 349, Raleigh, NC 27609, United States. Company details and the index of legal documents are on the legal page; personal data is covered by the privacy policy.