{
  "version": "0.1-draft",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-07-10",
  "url": "https://api.orcatrace.dev/terms.txt",
  "contact": "jcislo918@gmail.com",
  "machineSummary": {
    "informationalOnly": true,
    "notAdvice": true,
    "collectsPersonalData": false,
    "inputRetention": "request params (market slug, lookback, horizon) not linked to a person; settlement facts (payer, tx hash) may be logged for accounting and refund reconciliation",
    "payment": "x402 per-call, USDC on Base Mainnet (eip155:8453)",
    "pricing": "published machine-readably at /discovery and /openapi.json — no price table duplicated in terms (drift-proof)",
    "chargedForErrors": false,
    "refundGuarantee": "the proxied-compute routes (resolving, whales, research) settle early but refund automatically on non-delivery; the DB-read routes settle only after computing (never charged for an error)",
    "dataFreshness": "feed items carry createdAt provenance; the Intelligence Digest is not served when stale (503); resolving/whales/research computed on demand from live sources",
    "warranty": "AS-IS",
    "liabilityCap": "fees paid in prior 30 days"
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "acceptance",
      "title": "Parties & Acceptance",
      "summary": "Using the Service, including having a deployed agent call the API, accepts these Terms. Under UETA/E-SIGN electronic-agent rules, deploying an agent is the principal's acceptance; each request and payment binds you."
    },
    {
      "id": "service",
      "title": "Service Description — Informational Only",
      "summary": "OrcaTrace sells Polymarket prediction-market intelligence: a unified signal feed (quality-gated repricings with order-book microstructure, tracked-whale entries with hold-to-resolution calibration, predetermined-outcome signals), a 4-hourly Intelligence Digest, a verifiable free whale track record, markets-resolving-soon analysis, and on-demand single-market deep research. Output is aggregated, computed, and partly LLM-synthesized from public and third-party sources and is for information only, not investment, financial, trading, betting, legal, or business advice. Whale calibration measures entries held to resolution, not trader P&L."
    },
    {
      "id": "data-sources",
      "title": "Data Sources & Freshness",
      "summary": "Underlying data is derived from Polymarket and other public/third-party sources. Feed items carry a createdAt provenance timestamp; the Intelligence Digest reflects the most recent 4-hourly synthesis and is not served when stale (the paid digest route returns 503). Resolving, whales, and research are computed on demand from live sources. All data may be incomplete, delayed, revised, or stale; market end dates are event-level and Polymarket-scheduled. OrcaTrace does not warrant completeness or accuracy."
    },
    {
      "id": "payment",
      "title": "Payment Terms",
      "summary": "Paid endpoints are priced per call in USD and settled as USDC via x402 on Base Mainnet. Current per-call prices are the machine-readable ones at /discovery and /openapi.json (the binding source) — no price table is duplicated here to avoid drift. Free endpoints require no payment. The DB-read paid routes are compute-first / settle-after (not charged for errors). No bundles, subscriptions, or API keys."
    },
    {
      "id": "refunds",
      "title": "Refund Policy — Guarantee on the Proxied-Compute Routes",
      "summary": "The DB-read paid routes settle only after computing a billable answer, so charge-without-delivery should not occur. The three proxied-compute routes (resolving, whales, research) settle early — charged before the compute backend runs — and carry a guarantee: if OrcaTrace charged you but could not deliver a successful result (backend unavailable, errored, or undeliverable), the payment is automatically refunded (enqueued at failure, issued off-edge). Otherwise all sales are final."
    },
    {
      "id": "privacy",
      "title": "Privacy",
      "summary": "Request parameters (market slug, lookback window, resolution horizon) are processed to produce the response and are not linked to a person. Payment settlement facts (payer address, tx hash) may be logged for accounting and refund reconciliation. OrcaTrace does not collect owner, registrant, or end-user personal data. Whale wallet addresses shown are public on-chain identifiers."
    },
    {
      "id": "acceptable-use",
      "title": "Acceptable Use",
      "summary": "No unlawful use. No circumventing rate limits or payment. Free endpoints are rate-limited; abusive traffic may be throttled or blocked. Underlying third-party data (Polymarket and others) remains subject to the source providers' own terms."
    },
    {
      "id": "warranty",
      "title": "AS-IS / No Warranty",
      "summary": "The Service and data are provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE with no warranties. Data may be delayed, wrong, incomplete, or stale. No uptime, latency, or continuity guarantee and no SLA."
    },
    {
      "id": "liability",
      "title": "Limitation of Liability",
      "summary": "No liability for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for decisions made in reliance on the Service. Total aggregate liability is capped at fees paid to OrcaTrace in the prior 30 days."
    },
    {
      "id": "governing-law",
      "title": "Governing Law & Disputes",
      "summary": "Governed by the laws of the operator's country of establishment (Poland) and applicable EU law; disputes go before the competent courts there, subject to mandatory consumer-protection rights."
    },
    {
      "id": "changes",
      "title": "Changes to Terms",
      "summary": "We may update these Terms; the version, effective date, and canonical URL will be revised and published. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance."
    }
  ]
}