Terms of Service, Scoped API License & Risk Disclosure

1. Impersonal Quantitative Publisher — Not Investment, Legal, or Tax Advice

1.1 Automated Software Publisher Only. ForexNewsRadar operates solely as an automated publisher of standardized macroeconomic release metrics and market-microstructure software telemetry. All outputs — including directional labels (BUY, SELL, CLEAR, PRE_NEWS, VETO), standardized surprise scores (σ / surprise_z), impulse tiers (weak through extreme), and boolean flags (safe_to_trade, prop_safe_to_trade) — are mathematically derived from public economic calendar releases (Actual vs Forecast) and distributed uniformly and impersonally to every user and API client.

1.2 Zero Fiduciary Duty or Suitability Assessment. ForexNewsRadar is not a registered investment adviser, commodity trading advisor (CTA), commodity pool operator (CPO), broker-dealer, financial planner, or fiduciary in any jurisdiction. Nothing displayed on the Website or returned by the API constitutes a personal recommendation, solicitation, endorsement, or instruction to buy, sell, hold, or abstain from any foreign exchange pair, spot metal, futures contract, CFD, or derivative. The Platform has no knowledge of — and never evaluates — your net worth, risk tolerance, leverage, jurisdiction, tax status, or trading objectives.

2. High-Risk Leveraged Foreign Exchange, CFD & Precious Metals Disclosure

2.1 Substantial Risk of Capital Loss. Trading leveraged spot foreign exchange, contracts for difference (CFDs), and spot precious metals (XAU/USD, XAG/USD) carries an extreme level of risk and may result in the rapid loss of some or all of your invested capital — or losses exceeding margin deposits where negative-balance protection does not apply. Never trade with funds you cannot afford to lose completely.

2.2 Macroeconomic Volatility & Data Revisions. Tier-1 macroeconomic releases (CPI, NFP, central bank rate decisions, press conferences, and flash PMI/GDP prints) routinely cause liquidity vacuums, multi-pip slippage, rejected stop orders, wide bid/ask spreads, and instantaneous two-way whipsaws. Statistical agencies and upstream calendar feeds may publish delayed, erroneous, or subsequently revised figures. Historical archives, First-Print Tape recaps, and interactive replay tools (Simulate CPI Shock) are illustrative only; past or simulated macro reactions never guarantee future market behavior.

3. Proprietary Trading Firm Compliance, Broker Execution & Nominative Trademarks

3.1 Auxiliary Timing Aid Only. Indicators labeled Prop Safe, PRE_NEWS (T-5m), prop_safe_to_trade, prop_window_remaining_sec, and post-release shields (Whipsaw, Collision, Foreign Noise, Toxic Window) are provided strictly as general informational heuristics modeled around common industry news-trading windows.

3.2 Sole Trader Responsibility for Account Rules. Proprietary trading evaluation providers and liquidity venues unilaterally define, interpret, and amend their own restricted-event calendars, pre/post-release blackout durations (e.g., 2-minute, 5-minute, or 10-minute bans), swing vs. intraday account tiers, maximum daily drawdown formulas, and execution slippage thresholds without notice to ForexNewsRadar. You are 100% responsible for verifying the exact rules of your specific evaluation or funded agreement before placing, modifying, or holding any order or pending stop/limit. ForexNewsRadar accepts zero liability for failed challenges, forfeited evaluation fees, breached funded accounts, profit deductions, or payout denials.

3.3 Non-Affiliation. Any references to third-party platforms, evaluation firms, or charting software (including FTMO, FundingPips, The5ers, MetaTrader 5 / MQL5, or similar marks) are strictly nominative fair use to describe compatibility scenarios. ForexNewsRadar is independent and is neither endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with any third-party prop firm or brokerage.

4. Automated Execution: MetaTrader 5 EAs, Python Scripts & Autonomous AI Agents

4.1 Full Assumption of Algorithmic & Agentic Risk. If you connect ForexNewsRadar JSON endpoints, ?compact=1 payloads, Copy for Agent prompts, /llms.txt, or /openapi.json to automated trading software — including MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisors (WebRequest), Python/REST execution bots, webhook routers, or autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents — you do so entirely at your own risk.

4.2 Mandatory Client-Side Fail-Safes. Real-time internet telemetry can experience latency, packet loss, DNS/CDN routing delays, upstream calendar outages, HTTP 429 rate limiting, or stale states. Third-party AI models may misinterpret JSON fields, hallucinate parameters, or invert symbols. You covenant to implement independent, local fail-closed circuit breakers inside your own execution code, including: (a) verifying radar_health.stale === false and release age_seconds; (b) defaulting to stand-aside / no-new-risk on any HTTP non-200 response or timeout; and (c) enforcing hard broker-side stop-loss and position-size caps.

5. Scoped API Key License, Anti-Redistribution & Immediate Revocation

5.1 Personal Non-Transferable Grant. Subject to timely payment and continuous compliance with this Agreement, ForexNewsRadar grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license for a single individual trader or single proprietary trading desk operator to use one FNR_API_KEY across up to two (2) concurrent browser sessions and your own private trading servers/terminals within your unlocked instrument scopes and rate limits (30 req/min anonymous; 240 req/min authenticated).

5.2 Strict Prohibition on Signal Piracy & Group Sharing. You shall not, directly or indirectly:

• Resell, rent, lease, lend, publish, or share your FNR_API_KEY or session cookies via “group-buy” pools, shared-credential clubs, or credential marketplaces;
• Rebroadcast, mirror, forward, stream, or screenshot live locked-pair verdicts, JSON payloads, or VETO alerts into any public or private chat channel, instant-messaging group, community server, social feed, copy-trading master account, or commercial signal service;
• Build, train, fine-tune, or populate any competing macroeconomic feed, calendar API, or commercial dataset using Platform outputs; or
• Circumvent HTTP 402 Payment Required gates, RateLimiterDO protections, authentication headers, or automated security controls.

5.3 Breach Kill-Switch Without Refund. Automated telemetry monitors anomalous fan-out, credential leakage, and scraping signatures. Any violation of Section 5.2 constitutes a material breach entitling ForexNewsRadar to immediately and permanently revoke your FNR_API_KEY and active entitlements without prior notice and without any refund or credit.

6. Immediate Digital Delivery, On-Chain USDT (TRC-20) Finality & Zero-Refund Policy

6.1 Non-Custodial Blockchain Settlement & Express Waiver of Withdrawal Rights. Paid single-pair and 18-pair passes are settled via non-custodial on-chain USDT transfers on the TRON (TRC-20) network and activate digital API credentials immediately upon blockchain confirmation. By initiating a checkout transaction, you: (a) expressly request immediate performance and provisioning of digital API content prior to the expiration of any statutory cooling-off or withdrawal period; and (b) acknowledge that your right of withdrawal/cancellation is extinguished the moment your FNR_API_KEY or scope extension is issued. All sales are final. ForexNewsRadar provides no refunds, partial credits, scope swaps, or reversals under any circumstances (remember that EUR/USD live telemetry and the interactive demo are provided free of charge so you can evaluate the Platform before purchasing).

6.2 Sender Responsibility for Network, Token Contract & Exchange Fees. Each invoice reserves a unique micro-USDT amount valid within its stated settlement window (including the 90-minute centralized-exchange batching grace period). You are solely responsible for: (a) transmitting exclusively canonical USDT on the TRON (TRC-20) network; (b) adding any withdrawal fee charged by your exchange (e.g., Binance, Bybit, OKX) so the exact invoiced net amount arrives on-chain; and (c) verifying the full destination address before signing. Digital assets sent on unsupported chains (ERC-20, BEP-20, Polygon, Solana, Arbitrum, etc.), non-USDT tokens, or transfers sent to incorrect addresses cannot be recovered by ForexNewsRadar.

6.3 Sanctions & Lawful Funds Representation. By remitting cryptocurrency, you represent and warrant that the funds are lawfully Yours, are free of liens or illicit origin, and that neither you nor your originating wallet/institution is designated on any sanctions list maintained by OFAC, the United Nations, the European Union, HM Treasury, or equivalent authorities.

7. Managed ECN Account Inquiries ($50k+ · LPOA) — Non-Solicitation & Jurisdictional Carve-Out

7.1 Informational Expression of Interest Only — Zero Custody. Any reference on the Website to Managed ECN Accounts or Limited Power of Attorney (LPOA) Mandates describes a private, bilateral, non-custodial execution arrangement in which qualified counterparties retain 100% ownership and sole withdrawal authority over funds held in their own segregated brokerage sub-account. ForexNewsRadar never accepts, holds, pools, or custodies client capital.

7.2 Not a Public Offer; Restricted Jurisdictions Excluded. Submitting the inquiry form merely requests a private informational mandate sheet and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, fund interest, or regulated collective investment scheme. Such arrangements are strictly unavailable to “U.S. Persons” (as defined under Regulation S of the U.S. Securities Act and CFTC regulations), retail consumers in jurisdictions prohibiting cross-border execution mandates, or residents of any sanctioned territory. Any mandate, if ever entered into, is governed exclusively by separate, definitive bilateral agreements following independent counterparty qualification.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties (“AS IS”), Indemnification & Hard Liability Cap

8.1 “AS IS” & “AS AVAILABLE” Provision. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, FOREXNEWSRADAR, ITS OPERATORS, LICENSORS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS PROVIDE THE WEBSITE, TELEMETRY, AND API STRICTLY “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND — EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY — INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR TRADING PURPOSE, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, UPTIME, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

8.2 Exclusion of Trading Losses & Consequential Damages. IN NO EVENT SHALL FOREXNEWSRADAR OR ITS OPERATORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY TRADING LOSSES, MARGIN CALLS, LIQUIDATIONS, SLIPPAGE, LOST PROFITS, FAILED PROP-FIRM EVALUATIONS, LOSS OF DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

8.3 Hard Monetary Liability Cap. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF FOREXNEWSRADAR FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING UNDER OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF: (A) THE NET AMOUNT OF USDT ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU DIRECTLY TO FOREXNEWSRADAR FOR API ACCESS DURING THE THIRTY (30) CALENDAR DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM; OR (B) TWENTY-NINE U.S. DOLLARS ($29.00 / 29 USDT) — AND ZERO DOLLARS ($0.00) FOR USERS OF THE FREE TIER.

8.4 Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ForexNewsRadar and its operators from and against any and all third-party claims, regulatory inquiries, damages, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from: (a) your trading activities or automated bot/agent execution; (b) any dispute between you and a broker, liquidity venue, prop firm, or third party; or (c) your breach of this Agreement or applicable law.

9. Data Minimalism, Zero-Plaintext Token Architecture & Privacy Notice

9.1 Minimalist Technical Collection. ForexNewsRadar is engineered around cryptographic data minimalism:

• API Keys: Plaintext FNR_API_KEY values are never stored in our database; only irreversible SHA-256 token digests and entitlement scopes are persisted. Self-serve key recovery re-derives active keys deterministically in volatile Worker memory solely to dispatch your email.
• Checkout & Inquiries: We store your provided email address, selected plan scope, public TRON transaction hash (tx_hash), and optional mandate inquiry notes strictly to deliver credentials, send receipts, and respond to requests.
• Security & Edge Telemetry: Cloudflare edge infrastructure processes transient IP addresses, User-Agent headers, and hashed browser session slots (<= 2 concurrent web devices per token; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Strict session cookie) exclusively for abuse prevention, DDoS mitigation, and rate limiting. All web typography is self-hosted on first-party infrastructure.
• Campaign Attribution: Website pages may load standard conversion measurement tags (such as the X Website Tag) that use cookies or browser identifiers to measure aggregate ad performance and non-personal checkout events (selected plan tier, currency, and invoice reference). Email addresses and FNR_API_KEY credentials are never shared with advertising platforms, and visitors may block or clear measurement cookies at any time via standard browser privacy controls.

9.2 Retention & Contact. We never sell or rent user email addresses. On-chain settlement records are retained as required for accounting and anti-fraud integrity. For key support or data inquiries, contact support@forexnewsradar.com.

10. Mandatory Pre-Dispute Notice, Class-Action Waiver & Limitation Period

10.1 Mandatory 30-Day Informal Resolution. Before initiating any formal legal or arbitral proceeding, you must send a written notice describing the claim, your token prefix or invoice ID, and the relief sought to support@forexnewsradar.com and allow thirty (30) calendar days for good-faith informal resolution.

10.2 Individual Proceedings Only (Class-Action Waiver). ALL CLAIMS AND DISPUTES MUST BE BROUGHT SOLELY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Unresolved disputes shall be finally resolved by confidential, binding individual arbitration conducted in the English language on a documents-only / remote basis under established international commercial arbitration rules, governed by general principles of English commercial contract law without regard to conflict-of-law doctrines.

10.3 One-Year Time Bar & Severability. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to ForexNewsRadar must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues; otherwise, such claim is permanently barred. If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum permissible extent and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. ForexNewsRadar may update these Terms prospectively by posting a revised version at https://forexnewsradar.com/terms; continued use of the Website or API constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.