Terms of Use

Effective date: December 1, 2025

These Terms of Use govern access to and use of GlobalThreatSignal (https://globalthreatsignal.org/), including the website, data feeds, APIs, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Nature of the Service

The Service is a research project. Threat events, analytics, maps, classifications, and other content are provided for general informational and research purposes only. Content may be generated, curated, or reviewed by humans and automated systems.

2. No Warranty, Guarantee, or Promise

The Service, including all products, services, features, and content, is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the owners, operators, maintainers, contributors, and partners of GlobalThreatSignal make no warranty, guarantee, or promise of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation regarding:

3. Limitation of Liability

You assume full responsibility for any decisions, actions, or omissions based on the Service. GlobalThreatSignal and its owners/operators shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or other damages, losses, claims, liabilities, costs, or expenses, whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise, arising out of or related to use of (or inability to use) the Service, including reliance on any threat event, source, map output, alert, or API response.

4. Registration, Support, and Donations

As stated on the Register/Support page, this is a research project and financial contributions are treated as donations. Paid support tiers may provide additional access features, but do not create any warranty, guarantee, or service-level commitment. There is no guarantee of continuous availability and no guarantee that all information is accurate or true at all times. Users and organizations may cancel subscriptions at any time; refunds are not provided.

5. Acceptable Use and Access Methods

You agree to use the Service lawfully and responsibly. Access to structured data and event content for reuse, integration, or automation must be performed through authorized API endpoints.

6. Content Reproduction and Attribution

Reproduction, republication, redistribution, or other reuse of site content, including threat events, must include a public backlink to https://globalthreatsignal.org/ and should be sourced via the API. Any permitted reuse must preserve attribution and must not imply endorsement.

7. Scraping and Automated Harvesting

Unauthorized scraping, crawling, harvesting, or extraction of content outside approved access methods may be monitored, investigated, rate-limited, blocked, and/or referred for legal review. Attempts to bypass security controls, technical protections, or usage limits are prohibited.

8. Security and Availability

We may suspend, modify, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. We may also implement controls to protect infrastructure, users, and data integrity.

9. External Sources and Third-Party Services

The Service may reference external sources or third-party services. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, availability, policies, or outcomes.

10. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use at any time. Continued use of the Service after updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

11. Contact

For legal or compliance questions regarding these terms, please use the contact page on this site.

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