Terms of Service

1. Acceptance and scope

By creating an account, signing into the Service, issuing or using an API key, or invoking the MCP endpoint, you accept these Terms on behalf of yourself and, where applicable, the organization you represent. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Enterprise, research, education, or evaluation engagements may be governed by a separate written agreement (an “Order Form” or master agreement). To the extent that agreement conflicts with these Terms, the executed agreement controls for the parties to it.

2. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction and capable of forming a binding contract.
• You are responsible for the security of your account credentials and API keys, and for all activity under your account.
• Researcher and educator access is granted after a short eligibility review; commercial resale or operational revenue services are out of scope for that tier and require an Enterprise agreement.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts for violations of these Terms, abuse, or risk to the Service or other users.

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to violate applicable law, infringe rights, or evade fraud, sanctions, or anti-abuse controls;
• Submit, upload, or paste personal information, sensitive personal data, regulated health or financial data, or content you are not authorized to share;
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service except under a written authorized testing program;
• Circumvent rate limits, authentication, audit logging, or usage metering;
• Resell, sublicense, or otherwise commercially redistribute the Service or its outputs except as expressly permitted;
• Use crawled or aggregated data to harass identifiable individuals or to make solely automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects on individuals;
• Access or use the Service from a country or region, or while listed on a denied- or blocked-party list, to which export of US-origin technology is prohibited (including under the US Export Administration Regulations and OFAC sanctions programs).

Crawls and submissions you direct. When you trigger a crawl, fetch, or analysis of a third-party host through the Service, you represent that you are authorized to access and process that host’s content for that purpose. You are responsible for any third-party claims arising out of your use of the Service to access third-party systems, including under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act, or analogous foreign laws.

4. Submitted data and submissions

Some features let you upload or paste content (for example, ads.txt / app-ads.txt / sellers.json text, OpenRTB bid requests or responses, impression or bid logs, and SupplyChain JSON). Together with files we crawl on your behalf and metadata you generate using the Service, these are “Submissions.”

• You retain ownership of your Submissions and represent that you have the rights necessary to provide them.
• You grant Svart Works a worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, process, parse, index, hash, fingerprint, validate, and display Submissions for the purpose of operating, securing, and improving the Service for you and other users.
• You agree that we may share aggregated, de-identified, or fingerprint-style derivatives (for example, schain topology hashes, cluster signatures, anonymized risk indicators) with the broader transparency and ad-fraud community to support investigation work, unless your Order Form prohibits it. We treat such derivatives as “de-identified” under California Civil Code § 1798.140(m), do not attempt to re-identify them, and contractually prohibit recipients from doing so.
• You will not submit personal information, login credentials, payment data, or other sensitive content. We are not responsible for the contents of Submissions you provide. If you become aware that a Submission contains personal information that should not have been provided, contact privacy@decryptads.com and we will work with you to delete or minimize it, subject to legal hold and audit requirements.

Feedback license. If you provide ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the Service, you grant Svart Works a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use that feedback for any purpose, with no obligation to credit or compensate you.

See the Privacy Notice for details on how we handle data, including Submissions.

5. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, models, scoring logic, dashboards, data schemas, documentation, and brand, is owned by Svart Works and its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Service in accordance with these Terms and your plan.

Public IAB Tech Lab specifications and third-party file content (ads.txt, app-ads.txt, sellers.json, buyers.json, adagents.json, schain payloads) remain the property of their respective publishers and licensors; nothing in these Terms grants you rights in those files beyond what their original publication terms allow.

6. Fees, plans, and billing

Plan terms, usage limits, and pricing are described on Pricing and in any Order Form. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, fees are non-refundable and exclude taxes. We may change pricing for future renewal terms with reasonable notice.

7. Service availability and changes

We work to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted operation. We may modify, add, or remove features; deprecate API or MCP endpoints with reasonable notice; perform maintenance; or impose reasonable rate limits. Service-level commitments (uptime targets, support response times, scheduled maintenance windows) are not part of these public Terms; they apply only when expressly set out in an Order Form or master services agreement signed by Svart Works.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, Svart Works disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and freedom from defects.

Risk indicators, clusters, fingerprints, validators, scoring, and analytics produced by the Service are investigative aids. They are not legal conclusions, certifications, or determinations of guilt, fraud, or compliance. Operational, contractual, or enforcement decisions remain your responsibility and require independent review.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Svart Works will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Svart Works’ aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the fees you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (US$100).

The disclaimers and limitations in this section do not apply to: (i) your indemnification obligations under these Terms; (ii) breach of confidentiality; (iii) our willful misconduct or fraud; or (iv) liabilities that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Order Forms with enterprise customers may set different (typically higher) liability caps and additional carve-outs; in that case the executed Order Form controls for the parties to it.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify Svart Works and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your Submissions; (b) your use of the Service, including any crawl, fetch, or analysis of a third-party host that you direct through the Service; (c) your breach of these Terms or applicable law (including unauthorized-access claims under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act, or analogous foreign laws); or (d) your infringement or violation of any third-party right.

11. Termination

Either party may terminate access to the Service for material breach. We may suspend or terminate access for security, legal, or abuse reasons, including non-payment. On termination, your right to access the Service ends. The following sections survive termination of these Terms or your use of the Service: § 3 (Acceptable use), § 4 (Submitted data and submissions), § 5 (Intellectual property), § 6 (Fees) for any unpaid amounts, § 8 (Disclaimers), § 9 (Limitation of liability), § 10 (Indemnification), § 12 (Governing law and disputes), and § 15 (General provisions). Aggregated, de-identified, or fingerprint-style derivatives produced before termination may be retained and used in accordance with § 4 and the Privacy Notice.

12. 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 principles. Subject to any mandatory arbitration provisions added in a future revision, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Wilmington, Delaware for any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service.

The applicability and scope of binding arbitration, any class-action waiver, and any specific consumer-rights provisions are reserved for a future revision of these Terms following counsel review. Until then, the courts identified above have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes between you and Svart Works under these Terms.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via the Service or by email to account holders. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: legal@decryptads.com. General contact options live on the Contact page.

Postal: Svart Works Inc., a Delaware (USA) corporation, Wilmington, Delaware, United States.

15. General provisions

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Notice and any Order Form, constitute the entire agreement between you and Svart Works regarding the Service and supersede prior or contemporaneous understandings on that subject.
• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force; the invalid provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.
• Waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. Waivers are effective only if in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Svart Works.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets.
• No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights for any person who is not a party to them.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control (including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, internet or upstream provider outages, or governmental actions).
• Notices. Notices to you may be given by email to the address associated with your account or by posting in the Service. Notices to Svart Works must be sent to legal@decryptads.com with a copy to Svart Works Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
• US Government end users. The Service is “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” as those terms are used in 48 C.F.R. § 2.101 and is provided to US Government end users only with the rights set out in these Terms.
• Open-source notices. The Service includes open-source software. Applicable license texts and attributions are available on request from legal@decryptads.com.