Terms of Service

etymolt is a clearance signal, not legal advice. We aggregate live public-domain trademark registries (USPTO, EUIPO, UKIPO, WIPO Madrid), domain availability, and social-handle status into a single verdict you can act on. We are not a law firm, do not issue legal opinions, and our verdicts are not a substitute for counsel review on high-stakes filings.

Every response from our API carries a disclaimer field. You must surface it verbatim in any UI or downstream tool that exposes our verdicts to an end user.

To use the API beyond the unauthenticated free tier, you need an account. You agree to:

• Provide accurate registration information
• Keep your API key confidential (we hash, then never see plaintext after issuance)
• Not share your account with anyone outside your organization
• Notify us within 24 hours of any suspected compromise

You may NOT:

• Scrape or attempt to enumerate our trademark / verdict corpus
• Resell raw verdict data outside the agreed integration
• Use the API to harass, defame, or fraudulently impersonate any person or entity
• Submit candidate names you do not have the right to query
• Reverse-engineer the scoring engine for the purpose of building a competing product
• Exceed rate limits via concurrent IP rotation or other circumvention

• Free (anonymous): 5 verdicts per IP, no signup required.
• Free (signed-in): 10 additional verdicts on account creation.
• Pay-as-you-go: $1.00 per verdict. $10 buys 10 verdicts. No subscription; balance does not expire.
• Platform: custom contracts. Per-call wholesale. Talk to us.

Stripe handles all billing. Pay-as-you-go top-ups are non-refundable once consumed; unused balance is refundable on request within 14 days of purchase. Platform contracts follow their own refund terms.

We target 99.5% monthly uptime on the v3 API. Status: https://api.etymolt.com/v3/status.

We do NOT guarantee specific latency or data freshness. The disclaimer field describes coverage status per jurisdiction at the moment of each verdict.

We own the engine, the calibration corpus, and the API surface. You own your candidate names and your downstream usage. Public-domain registry data (USPTO, etc.) remains in the public domain.

You grant us a license to use the candidate names you submit for the sole purpose of (a) returning your verdict and (b) anonymized service improvement (aggregated metrics, not the names themselves).

The service is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that verdicts will be error-free, that registries will be fully covered, or that the service will be uninterrupted. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or related to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim.

You agree to indemnify us against any third-party claim arising from your use of the service, including any claim that a candidate name you submitted infringes a third-party right. We agree to indemnify you against any claim that the API itself infringes a third-party copyright or trade secret.

You may terminate your account at any time by emailing support@etymolt.com. We may terminate or suspend your account for material breach of these terms after written notice and a 14-day cure period (except for security or abuse, where we may suspend immediately).

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts of Delaware. Both parties waive the right to a jury trial.

EU customers: nothing in these terms limits your mandatory consumer-protection rights under EU law.

Material changes to these terms will be notified 30 days in advance via email to account holders.

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