Alpha terms

The alpha

The alpha is an early test. Features, datasets and limits will change, some things will break, and we may pause, change or end the alpha at any time. We make no promise about availability or performance. When we can, we will tell you by email before a change that affects you.

Signing up

While sign-up is open, anyone can create an account. You can use an email address, by following the link we email to it, or a GitHub account, with an email address that GitHub has verified. Before we send a link or start a GitHub sign-in, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that a person is asking, and we limit how often links and GitHub sign-ins can be asked for.

We may close sign-up at any time. While it is closed, a new account needs an invitation from us, sent to the email address the account will use. Accounts that already exist carry on either way, and the sign-up page says which applies.

The free plan

Your organisation is on the free plan, the only plan we offer. It has a daily allowance of units, limits on requests per minute for each key and for your organisation as a whole, and a limit on how many keys can be active at once. Your dashboard shows your organisation's limits and which requests use units. Once the daily allowance is used up, requests that use units are refused until it resets; when you reach a per-minute limit, further requests are refused until it resets. We may change the limits during the alpha.

Cost

Nothing is charged. The alpha is free: payments are not switched on, and we sell nothing. Before we charge for anything, we will revise these terms, and you will decide whether to pay. If you do, you will pay on Stripe's own pages, and your card details will never reach us.

Your account and API keys

Keep your email account, your GitHub account if you sign in with it, and your API keys secure: anyone who can read your email or use your GitHub account can sign in as you, and anyone with one of your keys can use your organisation's allowance. Do not share a key outside your organisation or publish it, for example in public code. You are responsible for requests made with your keys. If you think a key has leaked, revoke it straight away or email us.

The data and its licences

The datasets come from government publishers, each under its publisher's licence. Every response that returns data names its licence and gives a citation. You must follow the licence of each dataset you use, including its attribution requirements and any notices it requires.

We do not own the data, and we do not promise that it is accurate, complete or current. Check the publisher's own release before you rely on a figure for anything important.

Fair use

Please do not:

• get around usage limits, API keys or other access controls, for example by sharing keys;
• probe, scan or attack the service, or test its security, without our written permission (if you find a weakness, please tell us);
• send traffic that slows the service down for others;
• use the service or its data to break the law or a dataset's licence;
• suggest that we, or a publisher of the data, endorse you or your work.

Suspension and closing your account

We may suspend or revoke your keys or your account if you break these terms or put the service or other users at risk. When we can, we will tell you first. You can stop using the alpha at any time and ask us to close your account.

Feedback

If you send us feedback or ideas, through the feedback form or by email, we may use them to improve the service, and we owe you nothing for them. Please do not put API keys, passwords or other secrets in a message.

No warranty, and limits on liability

The alpha is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage that comes from using the alpha or data obtained through it. Nothing in these terms takes away a right that the law does not allow to be excluded.

Privacy

Our privacy notice explains what personal information the alpha collects and how we handle it.

Changes to these terms

We will replace these terms before the pilot. Some pages of this website and our emails already call the service a pilot; until we publish the pilot revision, these alpha terms are the ones that apply. If we change them before then, we will email alpha users before the change takes effect. The date at the top of this page shows which version applies.

Contact

Questions about these terms: ops@opendatarouter.com.