Terms of Use

Acceptance of terms

By accessing or using the websites, APIs, WebSocket streams, dashboards, documentation, connectors, or related services operated under the name TickerLayer (the “Services”), you agree to these Terms of Use, the User Agreement, the Privacy Policy, and the Cookie Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

We may update these terms from time to time. The “Effective date” at the top of this page indicates the latest general revision. Material changes may be communicated through the Services or by email where appropriate. Continued use after a change takes effect means you accept the revised terms.

Nature of the Services and data

TickerLayer provides derived, indicative market data for informational and technical use only. It is non-exchange-sourced, except for the Perpetuals feed, which is a calculated composite of third-party perpetual futures markets as described below. Unless we expressly state otherwise, we are not affiliated with any exchange, issuer, broker, trading venue, or listed company.

We do not provide investment advice, execute trades, manage funds, or facilitate financial transactions. Data may be delayed, inaccurate, incomplete, or different from official market prices.

Public pages on our website that show prices, charts, and figures for individual instruments are delayed by at least fifteen minutes, refresh periodically, and exist so that you can evaluate the Services. They are not a real-time quotation service and must not be used as one.

You are solely responsible for how you use the Services, including any reliance on data, trading or business decisions, and redistribution. Redistribution is prohibited unless expressly authorized in writing by us.

Accounts, API keys, and eligibility

You must provide accurate registration information and keep credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity under your account unless you demonstrate unauthorized access despite reasonable safeguards.

API keys and access tokens are confidential and are issued to your account. Do not share them, embed them in public client-side code, or let a third party use them, except through the connector and agent features described below. You can regenerate a key from your dashboard at any time; regeneration invalidates the previous key.

Each plan carries request allowances, rate limits, connection limits, and entitlements to specific data feeds. Requests beyond your allowance may be rejected or throttled. We may adjust free-tier limits with reasonable notice where required.

We may suspend or terminate access for violations of these terms, risk to the Services or other users, non-payment, or legal or operational necessity.

Paid plans

Paid plans are purchased through hosted checkout by card or by cryptocurrency. Card plans are subscriptions that renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled; cryptocurrency purchases prepay a fixed period and do not renew automatically. Prices, billing periods, and what each plan includes are shown at checkout.

You can cancel a subscription at any time from your billing page. Cancellation stops future renewals; access continues until the end of the period already paid for. Fees, renewal, plan changes, and refunds are governed in detail by the User Agreement, including its Refund Policy.

Use of data

Subject to these terms and your plan, you may use data from the Services inside your own applications, analyses, and workflows. Commercial plans additionally permit displaying data to your own users inside your own product.

What each plan allows: the free tier and Individual plans are for internal use, such as your own projects, research, data testing, and trading for your own account; they do not permit showing the data to other people or using it inside a commercial product. Business plans are commercial plans: they also permit using the data inside your own product and showing it to your own users. Redistributing data from the Services, or data derived from it, to third parties, or offering it as a data feed or API, requires an Enterprise agreement in writing.

You may not resell, sublicense, redistribute, publicly display as a standalone data product, or otherwise make data from the Services available to third parties except as expressly permitted in writing. You may not present data from the Services as official exchange or venue data, and you must not remove or obscure our notices about the nature of the data.

The same licence applies regardless of how the data is retrieved: through the REST API, WebSocket streams, the MCP server, a connector, or pay-per-call access.

Perpetual futures data

The Perpetuals feed publishes calculated composite quotes, mark prices, trades, and bars for perpetual futures contracts, built from third-party perpetual futures markets. We are a data provider only: we do not list, offer, sell, broker, execute, clear, or settle any perpetual contract or other derivative, and nothing in the feed is an offer, a solicitation, or investment advice. A perpetual contract is a leveraged derivative that carries no ownership or other rights in any underlying, and its price can differ materially from the underlying, most of all outside the underlying’s trading hours.

Perpetuals data is not an executable price, not any venue’s official mark, index, funding, or settlement price, and not a regulated benchmark. You may not use it to settle, margin, liquidate, or value positions or financial instruments, to calculate a net asset value, to create an index or a financial product, or as an on-chain or automated price source, unless you have validated it for that purpose, built your own safeguards, and hold a written agreement with us that permits it. If you show Perpetuals data to your own users, you must give them the notices in the Market Data Disclaimer.

Perpetual futures and similar derivatives are restricted or prohibited in some jurisdictions. You are responsible for every licence, registration, and restriction that applies to your use or display of this data. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we accept no liability for any trading loss, liquidation, settlement, valuation, or on-chain outcome connected with Perpetuals data. The Market Data Disclaimer sets out these points in full and forms part of these terms.

Futures CFD data

The Futures CFD feed publishes reference prices that we calculate with our own methodology for futures contract months, for the first months of each market in order, and for roll series that follow our own published calendar. We are a data provider only: we do not list, offer, sell, broker, execute, clear, or settle any futures contract, contract for difference, or other derivative, and nothing in the feed is an offer, a solicitation, or investment advice.

Futures CFD data is not an executable price, not the official settlement, closing, or index price of any contract month or market, and not a regulated benchmark. The restrictions on settlement, margining, valuation, index creation, and on-chain or automated use that apply to Perpetuals data apply to it in the same way, as does the exclusion of liability for any trading loss, liquidation, settlement, valuation, or on-chain outcome. If you show Futures CFD data to your own users, you must give them the notices in the Market Data Disclaimer, which sets out these points in full and forms part of these terms.

Connectors, agents, and the MCP server

You may connect third-party clients, chat assistants, or AI agents to your account through OAuth-based connectors or the MCP server. Any request such a client or agent makes is treated as made by you: it counts against your allowances, is subject to your plan and entitlements, and is your responsibility, including any actions the agent takes with the data.

You are responsible for the clients and agents you authorize, for keeping their credentials secure, and for setting any spending, quota, or behavioural limits they need. You can revoke a connector at any time by disconnecting it in the client or from your dashboard; revocation takes effect for new requests promptly after that.

Third-party clients and assistant platforms are operated by their providers under their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for how they handle data once it has been returned to them.

We may limit, rate-limit, or refuse automated traffic that degrades the Services for others, and we may withdraw or change tools exposed through the MCP server with reasonable notice where practical.

Pay-per-call access (x402)

Some endpoints can be paid for per request using the x402 protocol. Each successful payment purchases one response to one request at the price quoted for that resource at the time of the request. Sandbox environments accept test tokens with no monetary value and provide no service commitment.

You are responsible for the wallet you pay from, for network and gas fees charged by the blockchain, and for sending the correct amount to the correct address. On-chain payments cannot be reversed by us. If a payment settles and we fail to deliver the paid response for a reason within our control, contact us with the transaction reference and we will re-deliver the response or credit you.

Pay-per-call access is subject to the same data licence, acceptable use rules, and disclaimers as every other way of using the Services.

Acceptable use

You will not misuse the Services, including probing or circumventing rate limits, quotas, entitlements, or security controls; attempting unauthorized access; scraping public pages at a volume that interferes with the Services; using the Services to violate applicable law; or reselling or redistributing data except as expressly permitted in writing.

You will comply with applicable law and third-party rights when integrating or displaying data.

Intellectual property

We and our licensors retain all rights in the Services, software, branding, and documentation. Subject to these terms and your plan limits, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Services for your internal development and operations and, on commercial plans, inside your own product.

Names of other companies and products mentioned on our website belong to their respective owners. References to them describe their publicly available offerings and do not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement.

Disclaimers

THE SERVICES AND DATA ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that any data point is accurate, complete, or timely.

Guides, articles, documentation examples, and other informational content on our website are prepared with the help of drafting and editing tools, including AI-assisted tools for grammar and wording, and are reviewed before publication. Such content may still contain errors, omissions, or outdated information, is provided for general information only, and is not investment, legal, tax, or other professional advice. We are not responsible for any loss arising from reliance on it. If you find an error, write to [email protected] and we will correct it as soon as reasonably practicable.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, OR ANY TRADING, INVESTMENT, LIQUIDATION, OR SETTLEMENT LOSS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICES IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100), IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID US.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those cases, our liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.

General

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

These Terms of Use, the User Agreement, the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, and the Market Data Disclaimer together form the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Services.

Questions about these Terms of Use: [email protected].