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Terms of Service

These terms cover the Free Beta of StoneReason’s XRPC API. They are deliberately short and specific to what this deployment actually does.

1. Who these terms are between

[REVIEW] The legal entity offering this service, its registered name, its company number and its registered address are not stated here, because inventing them would be worse than omitting them. An operator must supply them before this document is relied upon.

“You” means the person or organization that created an account.

2. What is being offered

Access to an API that reads public blockchain data and watches for payments to addresses you control. What is available is listed on Products and generated from the running deployment rather than described here, so that this document cannot promise something the service does not do.

3. This is a Free Beta

• Nothing is priced. There is no charge, no card, and no commitment about what pricing will be if it is ever introduced.
• There is no service level agreement. No availability is promised, measured or compensated. The status page reports what was observed.
• The service may change or stop. Capabilities may be added or withdrawn. Where something is withdrawn, the documentation stops claiming it rather than leaving a page that is no longer true.
• Your data may be removed with the Beta. Do not build anything on the assumption that state here is durable.

4. Your account

• You are responsible for what your API keys do. A key is a credential; treat it like one.
• Do not share an account. Add members to an organization instead, so actions are attributable.
• Tell us promptly if a key or a password is exposed. Revoking a key is immediate and is the first thing to do.

5. Acceptable use

The Acceptable Use Policy is part of these terms. In short: do not attack the service, do not use it to attack anybody else, and do not use it for activity that is illegal where you are.

6. What StoneReason does not do

• It never holds a private key, a seed or a passphrase. There is no method that accepts one and no custody of any kind.
• It does not hold your money. Payments arrive at addresses you control.
• It does not give financial, legal or tax advice. Data from a blockchain is data, not advice.
• It does not guarantee a blockchain’s behaviour. What a chain does is the chain’s. This service reports what it observed and how strongly, and refuses when it cannot.

7. Liability

[REVIEW] The limitation of liability, the warranty disclaimer and their interaction with consumer protection law where you are located require legal review and a decision about governing law. No limitation is asserted here, because asserting one that has not been reviewed would be both unenforceable and dishonest.

What can be said plainly now: this is a free beta service provided as-is, with no warranty of accuracy, availability or fitness for any purpose.

8. Ending it

You may close your account at any time from the dashboard. We may suspend or close an account that breaches the Acceptable Use Policy or that is damaging the service for others; where that happens you will be told which, unless telling you would itself be a problem.

9. Governing law and disputes

[REVIEW] Not stated. Governing law and jurisdiction follow from the legal entity in section 1, which is not yet fixed.

10. Changes to these terms

Material changes will be published on this page and noted in the changelog before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that is acceptance.

11. Contact

General: beta@stonereason.com. Security: security@stonereason.com and security.txt.

Last updated: the date of the most recent deployment. This page is part of the site build, so it changes when the build does.