Terms of Service

📅 Effective Date: October 22, 2026

1. Agreement to Terms

By accessing or querying the Postcode Context API, website, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the Service.

Service & Software Rights vs. Underlying Public Data: The Service source code, Cloudflare Workers runtime, D1 database indexes, API design, and composite scoring methodologies (openly documented in our Data Dictionary) are proprietary to Postcode Context. Underlying statistical datasets combine Open Government Licence v3.0, Ordnance Survey OS OpenData, Registers of Scotland Open Data, and Royal Mail Postcode Delivery Point Allocation (Gridlink) data supplied under Gridlink sublicence terms.

2. Permitted Use & Fair Access

The Service is provided for lawful data analytics, artificial intelligence context injection, CRM enrichment, and software development purposes. You agree not to:

Circumvent, disable, or tamper with the security gates, rate limits, or payment mechanisms of the Service.
Conduct denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or intentionally flood the service with malformed or invalid queries.
Use the data to facilitate unlawful stalking, harassment, or unlawful discrimination under the UK Equality Act 2010.
Use the Service or any area-level demographic/affluence indicators for individual creditworthiness, underwriting, lending, tenant-screening, or employment eligibility decisions.

3. Pricing & Payment Settlement

Pay-As-You-Go (x402 Protocol): Micropayment requests across REST and MCP endpoints settle in USDC on the Base network (Chain ID: eip155:8453). Payments are cryptographically authorized off-chain via EIP-3009 and settled on-chain upon query execution.

Fair Exchange (Zero-Charge 404): If a syntactically valid postcode does not exist in our database and cannot be resolved via district fallback, the query returns HTTP 404 (or MCP isError: true) with "billed": false. Zero USDC will be settled.

RapidAPI Gateway & Partner Proxy Access: Usage via RapidAPI Gateway is governed by the respective RapidAPI plan subscription terms and per-call quotas.

4. No Financial, Valuation, or Investment Advice

All house prices, price-per-square-metre figures, energy ratings, and socio-economic scores provided by the Service are statistical aggregates compiled from official public registers. Nothing in this API constitutes property valuation, survey reports, financial advice, or lending qualification advice. Independent physical surveys and accredited professional advice must always be obtained before completing property transactions.

Regulatory Restriction: All scores and metrics are area-level statistical approximations and MUST NOT be used as the basis for individual credit, insurance underwriting, lending, employment vetting, or tenant-screening decisions.

5. Data Accuracy & Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service and all data are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. While we strive to maintain comprehensive records, we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, immediate inclusion of newly registered developments, or zero errors in underlying government registers.

6. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in England and Wales, our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service shall be limited to the total amount paid by you to us in the thirty (30) days immediately preceding the event giving rise to liability.

7. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.