Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you (or the entity you represent, “you” or “Customer”) and SaltingIO LLC, a Wyoming limited-liability company (“SaltingIO,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the SiftingIO website at sifting.io, the SiftingIO REST and WebSocket APIs, dashboards, SDKs, sample code, documentation, and any related product or service we make available (collectively, the “Service”).

By creating an account, generating an API key, or otherwise accessing the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, the Important Disclosures, and any order form, plan page, or enterprise agreement that references these Terms (together, the “Agreement”). If you are agreeing on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and references to “you” will mean that organization. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into a binding contract. The Service is not intended for, and we do not knowingly permit access by, individuals under 16.

SiftingIO is a market data product operated by SaltingIO LLC. SiftingIO is not a separate legal entity. All commercial activity relating to the Service, including accounts, subscriptions, invoicing, payment processing, refunds, taxes, and customer-facing contracts, is conducted by SaltingIO LLC under the SiftingIO brand.

Our registered address is 30 N Gould St, STE R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. References in the Agreement to “SiftingIO” as a contracting party mean SaltingIO LLC operating the SiftingIO product. You may direct correspondence to legal@sifting.io or, for parent-company and billing matters, to info@salting.io.

The Service delivers real-time and historical market data over REST and WebSocket interfaces, together with related dashboards, documentation, and developer tooling. Available datasets, asset classes, update frequencies, latencies, rate limits, and other technical characteristics are described on the Service website and may evolve over time. We may add, modify, deprecate, or remove features in our reasonable discretion; material changes affecting paid functionality will be communicated through the Service or by email.

The Service is offered globally where lawful. You are responsible for determining whether your access to and use of the Service, and of the data delivered through it, is lawful in your jurisdiction and for all purposes for which you use it. You are responsible for your network, devices, software, and any third-party services you integrate with the Service.

Cryptocurrency prices delivered through the Service are derived and calculated by aggregating, normalizing, and de-duplicating market activity across multiple third-party centralized and decentralized venues. Foreign-exchange rates are sourced from one or more institutional liquidity providers and may be calculated from underlying quotes. Equities and other datasets are obtained from licensed upstream providers. SiftingIO does not redistribute raw, unmodified primary-exchange feeds.

We obtain market data through agreements with, or the publicly published terms of, the relevant exchanges, liquidity providers, and data vendors (collectively, “Data Sources”). Some Data Sources require that downstream customers (you) accept additional terms, for example, restrictions on display, on redistribution, on derivative works, on storage of historical data, on use by non-professional vs. professional users, or on the creation of indices, benchmarks, or AI training corpora. Where any such terms apply to your use of the Service, we will pass them through to you as part of the Agreement, post them in the Service, or notify you by email; you agree to comply with any such pass- through terms in addition to these Terms.

Underlying market data may be subject to the intellectual-property rights of the originating exchanges, liquidity providers, index sponsors, and other third parties. All trademarks, service marks, ticker symbols, and trade names are the property of their respective owners; their appearance does not imply affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship. Methodology may evolve over time; material methodology changes are communicated through the changelog and, where applicable, version bumps.

Subject to the Agreement and your timely payment of all applicable fees, SaltingIO grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non- transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license, during the term of your subscription, to access the Service and to use the data delivered through it (the “Data”) solely for your internal business purposes and within the scope of your active plan tier.

Any rights not expressly granted are reserved by SaltingIO and its Data Sources. The license terminates automatically on the earlier of expiration of your subscription, suspension or termination of your account, or material breach of the Agreement.

To use most of the Service you must register an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it up to date. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account, including activity by your employees, contractors, and end users, and for ensuring that your use complies with the Agreement.

You must safeguard your login credentials and notify us promptly at security@sifting.io of any unauthorized access or suspected compromise. We may rely on instructions received through your account or with your API keys as authorized by you.

API keys issued to you are confidential credentials. You must not share, publish, embed in client-side code that is accessible to end users (e.g. mobile apps without a server-side proxy), commit to public repositories, or otherwise expose API keys, and you must rotate keys promptly upon any actual or suspected compromise.

You must not attempt to circumvent rate limits, authentication, quotas, anti-abuse mechanisms, or usage tracking; share a single API key across separate legal entities, products, or unrelated applications without our prior written consent; or use multiple accounts, identities, or addresses to evade limits or fees.

You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to:

• use the Service in violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions program, exchange rule, market-abuse rule, or third- party right;
• interfere with, disrupt, or impair the Service or the networks connected to it; introduce malware, viruses, or harmful code; or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, system, or Data;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive source code, models, or trade secrets from the Service, except to the extent that such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• use the Service to build a directly competing market data product, to facilitate the unlicensed redistribution of upstream exchange feeds, or to misrepresent the source, accuracy, or timeliness of the Data;
• scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service outside the documented APIs;
• use the Service in connection with high-risk activities where failure or inaccuracy could lead to death, personal injury, or material environmental damage; or
• use the Service to facilitate fraud, market manipulation, money laundering, terrorist financing, or other unlawful conduct.

Use of the Data is limited to the scope set out in your active plan, any order form, and any pass-through terms from Data Sources. Unless your plan or order form expressly authorizes it in writing, you may not:

• redistribute, resell, sublicense, broadcast, syndicate, or otherwise make the Data available to third parties as a data feed, file delivery, terminal display, or substantially similar service that competes with the Service or with any underlying Data Source;
• store and republish historical Data as a standalone dataset, or create indices, benchmarks, NAVs, or reference rates for use by third parties;
• use the Data, in whole or in material part, to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or augment any machine-learning model, foundation model, or generative AI system that is offered to third parties or that produces outputs substantially derived from the Data;
• display the Data publicly (e.g. on a public website, in a public mobile app, or on broadcast media) on a plan that authorizes only internal, non-display, or development use; or
• remove, alter, or obscure any attribution, source identifier, or disclaimer that the Service or the Agreement requires you to display.

Your active plan or enterprise order form will specify whether your use is classified as internal, display, non-display, redistribution, or derivative-works use, and whether end users are counted as professional or non-professional. If you are unsure which classification applies to your use case, contact legal@sifting.io before deploying. Unauthorized scope expansion is a material breach of the Agreement and may result in retroactive fees, suspension, or termination.

Paid plans, prices, billing intervals, and included usage are set out on the Service’s pricing page or in your enterprise order form. All fees are payable to SaltingIO LLC and are processed by our third-party payment processor (currently Stripe, Inc.). Fees are stated and payable in U.S. dollars unless otherwise specified.

Subscriptions auto-renew for successive periods of equal length at then-current rates unless cancelled before the renewal date. Usage above included quotas (overage) is billed at the published overage rate or as set out in your order form. You authorize SaltingIO and its payment processor to charge your designated payment method for all fees, taxes, and overage when due.

Fees are exclusive of all taxes, levies, or duties imposed by any taxing authority, except for taxes based on SaltingIO’s net income. You are responsible for all such taxes associated with your purchases. If we are required to collect or pay any tax for which you are responsible, the appropriate amount will be added to your invoice unless you provide a valid tax-exemption certificate.

Except as expressly stated in a separate refund policy, on the pricing page, or as required by applicable law, all fees are non- refundable and non-cancellable, and there are no refunds or credits for partially used periods. If you dispute a charge, you must do so within 30 days of the invoice date by emailing billing@sifting.io; failure to do so waives your right to dispute that charge. Overdue amounts may bear interest at the lower of 1.5% per month or the maximum rate permitted by law and may result in suspension or termination of access.

You are responsible for accurately reporting your usage profile to us, including end-user counts, professional vs. non-professional classification, application types, display vs. non-display use, redistribution scope, and the creation of derivative works.

Upon reasonable written notice, you shall provide additional usage information and reasonable cooperation in support of license verification, source attribution, and any third-party audit obligations to which SaltingIO and its Data Sources are subject. We may also rely on telemetry from the Service to verify your usage. If an audit or our telemetry reveals usage outside your licensed scope, you agree to pay the applicable retroactive fees (calculated at our then-current published rates for the unauthorized use, from the earliest date the unauthorized use can be evidenced) and our reasonable audit costs, and we may, in addition, suspend or terminate the Agreement.

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the dashboard or by emailing billing@sifting.io; cancellation takes effect at the end of your then-current billing period.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, immediately and without prior notice if (a) you breach the Agreement, including any acceptable-use, redistribution, or payment provision; (b) we reasonably believe your use poses a security, legal, or reputational risk to us, our users, or our Data Sources; (c) a Data Source requires us to do so; or (d) we are required by law or by court or regulatory order to do so. We may terminate the Agreement for convenience on 30 days’ notice; if we do so other than for your breach, we will refund prepaid fees for the unused portion of your then-current term.

Upon termination, your right to access and use the Service and the Data ceases immediately. You must promptly delete all copies of the Data in your possession or control, except where applicable law requires retention. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including those concerning fees due, intellectual property, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, audit rights for the prior 24 months, and dispute resolution, will survive.

As between you and SaltingIO, SaltingIO and its licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, the Data, our methodology and software, and all intellectual-property rights in the foregoing. Nothing in the Agreement transfers ownership of any of those rights to you.

You retain ownership of any content you submit to the Service (e.g. configuration data). You grant SaltingIO a worldwide, royalty- free, non-exclusive license to host, copy, transmit, display, and process such content as necessary to provide and improve the Service. If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Service, you grant SaltingIO a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or compensation to you.

Each party may receive non-public information of the other that is identified as confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information includes the Service (including its source code, architecture, and non-public APIs), pricing, and business plans on our side, and your non-public configuration and usage data on yours. Each party will protect the other’s Confidential Information with the same degree of care it uses for its own (and no less than reasonable care) and will use and disclose it only as necessary to perform the Agreement.

We implement administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the Service and your data, including encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and logging. No system is perfectly secure; you are responsible for the security of your own systems and credentials. Security disclosures may be sent to security@sifting.io.

The Service and the Data are provided for informational and operational purposes only. Nothing on the Service or returned by it constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax, accounting, or other professional advice, an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation to enter into any transaction. Any decision made on the basis of the Data, including trading, investing, marking, hedging, valuation, or risk decisions, is made at your sole discretion and risk. Trading cryptocurrencies, foreign exchange, equities, and other instruments involves substantial risk, including the risk of total loss. SaltingIO does not act as a broker, dealer, exchange, custodian, money transmitter, or registered investment adviser.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE AND THE DATA ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE. SALTINGIO AND ITS LICENSORS, AFFILIATES, AND DATA SOURCES SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND THOSE ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THE DATA WILL MATCH ANY PARTICULAR EXCHANGE, BROKER, OR VENUE. UPTIME COMMITMENTS, IF ANY, ARE GOVERNED EXCLUSIVELY BY YOUR PLAN OR SEPARATE SLA.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL SALTINGIO, ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS (INCLUDING ANY DATA SOURCE) BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OPPORTUNITY, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU TO SALTINGIO FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION (CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES; IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SaltingIO, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and Data Sources from and against any third-party claims, demands, actions, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to (a) your use of the Service or the Data in breach of the Agreement; (b) your unauthorized redistribution, display, derivative works, or AI-training use of the Data; (c) your content or your end users’ use of your products or services that incorporate the Data; (d) your violation of any law, regulation, sanctions program, exchange rule, or third-party right; or (e) any misrepresentation by you of your usage profile that triggers liability to a Data Source.

We will promptly notify you of the claim, give you sole control of its defense and settlement (provided that any settlement requiring admission of liability or payment by us is subject to our prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld), and provide reasonable cooperation at your expense.

You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory subject to comprehensive U.S. or applicable trade sanctions (including, as of the effective date, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, and so-called Luhansk People’s Republic regions of Ukraine); (b) you are not on, and will not provide access to any person or entity on, the U.S. Treasury OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list or any other applicable restricted-party list; and (c) you will comply with all applicable export-control, anti-money- laundering, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, market-abuse, and financial-services laws in your use of the Service. You may not use the Service in violation of any U.S., U.K., EU, or other applicable export-control law.

We may modify the Service at any time. We may modify these Terms from time to time; the updated version will be posted at this URL with a revised “Last updated” date. Material changes will be communicated through the Service or by email at least 14 days before they take effect, unless a shorter period is required by law, by a Data Source, or to address a security or compliance issue. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of an updated version constitutes acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

The Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Agreement or the Service that cannot be resolved through good- faith negotiation within 30 days will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The seat of arbitration will be Sheridan County, Wyoming, and the language of arbitration will be English. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. YOU AND SALTINGIO EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court for disputes within its jurisdiction, and either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual-property or confidentiality rights.

You may opt out of arbitration by sending written notice to legal@sifting.io within 30 days of the date you first accept these Terms. Opting out has no other effect on the Agreement.

The Agreement is the entire agreement between you and SaltingIO regarding the Service and supersedes any prior or contemporaneous understandings on that subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. No waiver of any term will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of that term or any other term. You may not assign or transfer the Agreement without our prior written consent; we may assign the Agreement without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control. The relationship of the parties is that of independent contractors; nothing creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship. Notices to you may be provided through the Service or to the email on file; notices to us must be sent to the addresses below.

Questions about these Terms, licensing, or audit cooperation: legal@sifting.io.
Security disclosures and DPA requests: security@sifting.io.
Billing and parent-company correspondence: info@salting.io.

Postal: SaltingIO LLC, 30 N Gould St, STE R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States.