Terms of Service

Updated on: October 26, 2025

1. Account Registration and Use

1.1 Target Audience and Account Creation

The Services are intended for use by businesses and developers, including individual developers. You must provide true, accurate, and complete information to create an account. You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age or have reached the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction.

1.2 Account Security and Multiple Accounts

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information, including your password and API Key. You are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You are expressly prohibited from registering or using more than one (1) account at any point in time to circumvent usage limits or for any fraudulent purposes. You acknowledge and agree that the Company is entitled to record your service usage behavior and log data, and these records will be used for auditing, security monitoring, and dispute resolution.

1.3 Account Termination

The Company reserves the right to terminate or suspend your account at any time, with or without cause, without prior notice, if your conduct violates these Terms or poses a potential legal risk to the Company.

2. Usage License and Prohibited Activities

Permission is granted to use the materials (information or software) and the API Key on the SearchCans website and Services as long as your use case requires. This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not:

2.1 Usage Restrictions

• Modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on the SearchCans website or Service.
• Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials.
• Attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your SearchCans API key or account.
• Mirror the materials on any other server as-is with no value-added.

2.2 Fraudulent Activity and Abuse

You shall not engage in any fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal activity, including but not limited to:

• Maliciously utilizing the refund or dispute mechanisms of payment service providers (such as Stripe Chargebacks) to circumvent service fees, after having used or planning to use the Services.
• Submitting false or misleading payment information or refund justifications.

Any breach of this Section 2 will be considered a material breach of these Terms, and the Company shall have the right to immediately terminate your account and Services without a refund.

3. Data License and API Responsibility

As part of the Services, SearchCans collects and generates Data by aggregating information from publicly available web pages (via Search API) or by fetching specific URLs directed by You (via Reader API).

3.1 Third-Party Content

Data accessible through SearchCans may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). This content remains the sole responsibility of the third-party originators or publishers of such content. In some cases, public-domain content accessible to SearchCans may also be subject to intellectual property rights. If this is the case, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so or are otherwise permitted by law. You acknowledge that it is your sole responsibility to verify the copyright status of any content and to ensure your use complies with all applicable laws (including but not limited to intellectual property laws, data privacy regulations, and the local laws of your jurisdiction).

3.2 User Obligations

Unless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the Data returned from the API:

• Misrepresent the ownership or the source of the Data.
• Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
• Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material.

3.3 Reader API Specific Disclaimer (User-Directed Fetching)

3.4 SERP API Specific Disclaimer (Search Engine Results)

3.5 Data Retention and Logging Policy

4. Fees, Payment, and Refunds

4.1 Payment Model

The Services are based on a pay-as-you-go model, and you must purchase credit packages to use the Services.

4.2 Refund Policy

The Company offers a full refund within 7 calendar days of the date of payment, provided that you have used no more than 20% of the total searches in that plan. Beyond this period or usage limit, all purchased credit packages are non-refundable.

4.3 Fraudulent Claims

The Company reserves the right to reject a refund if there are reasonable grounds to believe the request is fraudulent, involves malicious exploitation of this policy, or constitutes Chargeback Fraud.

4.4 Legal Consequences

Any unauthorized chargeback will be deemed a material breach. If a User initiates a chargeback after receiving the Services, the User shall be liable for the full cost of the Services, any chargeback processing fees incurred by the Company, and all associated attorneys' fees and collection costs.

5. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

5.1 Disclaimer of Warranties

The Services are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. The Company does not guarantee, represent or warrant that your use of its service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free. Specifically regarding the Reader API and SERP API, the Company makes no warranty regarding the completeness, accuracy, or reliability of any data retrieved from third-party sources.

5.2 Limitation of Liability

In no event shall SearchCans, our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, suppliers or licensors be liable for any consequential loss suffered or incurred by you or any third party, nor for any amounts exceeding the total fees actually paid to the Company by you in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This limitation applies even if notified of the possibility of such damages. "Consequential loss" includes any indirect loss, real or anticipated loss of profit, loss of benefit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of data, or loss of goodwill.

6. General Provisions

6.1 Marketing Materials

The Company may use your company name and your company logos in case studies, marketing materials, or other write-ups, unless you request otherwise.

6.2 Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

6.3 Dispute Resolution and Binding Arbitration

Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, shall be submitted to Seattle, Washington, United States, for final and binding decision by one arbitrator appointed by JAMS pursuant to its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures. Judgment on the Award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. YOU AND THE COMPANY AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

6.4 Modifications

SearchCans reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify these Terms at any time without notice and post it on its website. By continuing to use our Service after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you are no longer authorized to use the Service.

6.5 Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at: support@searchcans.com