Terms of Service

1. Who we are and acceptance

Shingou (the “Service”) is operated by Adolfo Gastalver Rubio, Sole trader (autónomo), with tax identification number (NIF) 05294386Q and registered address at Carrer de la Igualtat 67, 6-2, 08902 Barcelona, Spain (“we”, “us”, the “Provider”). You can reach us at adol@adol.tech. Further identifying information is set out in our Legal Notice.

By creating an account, signing in, generating an API key, or otherwise accessing or using the Service or the API, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (the “Terms”) and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind that organisation.

2. The Service

Shingou is a read-only data API that turns public market news into a market-impact sentiment signal per instrument (a normalized score, confidence, direction, event tags, a plain-language summary, and source teasers). The Service is asset-class-agnostic by design; current coverage is a curated set of crypto instruments, with other asset classes such as equities planned. Coverage, endpoints, limits, and features may change over time.

The signals are informational only. They are not investment advice (see section 9).

3. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract. Sign-in uses a one-time email link; you are responsible for keeping access to your email account secure and for all activity under your account. You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date.

4. API keys

API keys authenticate your calls and are secrets. Keep them confidential, do not share or embed them in client-side code, and rotate or revoke them if they may have been exposed. You are responsible for all usage made with your keys. We store keys only as a hash and cannot recover a lost key — you can mint a replacement from your dashboard.

5. Plans, pricing, billing, and taxes

• Free tier — offered at no charge for personal, evaluation, and non-commercial use only (see section 6).
• Paid plans — billed in advance on a recurring basis via our payment processor, Stripe, until cancelled. You authorise recurring charges to your payment method.

Prices are stated exclusive of value-added tax (VAT) unless indicated otherwise. We charge and remit VAT where required by law; for business customers within the EU the reverse-charge mechanism may apply where a valid VAT identification number is provided. You are responsible for any other taxes arising from your use. You can view invoices and manage or cancel a subscription from your dashboard; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period and, except where the law requires otherwise, fees already paid are non-refundable. We may change plan pricing prospectively with reasonable notice.

6. Licence and permitted use

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access the API and use the signals it returns, as follows:

• Free tier — non-commercial use. You may use the Service and its output for personal projects, evaluation, research, and other non-commercial purposes only. The Free tier may not be used to operate a commercial product or service, to trade or manage assets on behalf of third parties, or otherwise to generate revenue.
• Paid plans — commercial use. A paid plan (Starter or Pro) grants the right to use the Service and its output for internal commercial purposes, including in automated trading systems and commercial products, within the plan’s limits.

On any tier you must not:

• resell, redistribute, sublicense, or publicly republish the raw signals or bulk data, or build a competing data product from them;
• exceed, circumvent, or attempt to circumvent rate limits, quotas, freshness delays, or authentication;
• scrape, crawl, or otherwise access the Service other than through the documented API, or use it to build a substantially similar service.

All intellectual property in the Service, the aggregation methodology, and its output remains ours or our licensors’. The public hash-commitment log and any content we expressly publish as open remain available under their stated terms.

7. Acceptable use

You must not use the Service unlawfully; to infringe others’ rights; to engage in market manipulation or other prohibited market conduct; to transmit malware; to probe, disrupt, or overload the Service or its infrastructure; or to misrepresent the source or nature of the signals.

8. Right of withdrawal (consumers in the EU)

If you are a consumer resident in the EU, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for a paid plan without giving a reason. However, because the Service is a digital service supplied immediately, when you subscribe you expressly request that we begin performance during the withdrawal period and acknowledge that you will lose your right of withdrawal once the service has been fully performed. To exercise the right of withdrawal where it applies, contact us at adol@adol.tech; you may also cancel online at any time from your dashboard. Statutory consumer rights are not affected by this section.

9. No financial advice

The Service is a signal layer, not a financial adviser, broker, or fiduciary. Nothing it returns is investment, financial, legal, tax, or trading advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any asset, and it is not a guarantee of any outcome or return. Trading carries substantial risk of loss. You are solely responsible for your own decisions and for complying with the laws and regulations that apply to you.

10. Availability and warranties

We aim to keep the Service available and accurate but do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or timely operation, or that the signals are complete or fit for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. This does not exclude any warranty or right that cannot be excluded under applicable mandatory law, including consumer law.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any trading or investment losses, or for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or loss-of-profits damages arising from your use of the Service. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or EUR 100. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any liability that cannot be limited under applicable mandatory law, including consumer law.

12. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses, and expenses arising from your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or of applicable law, except to the extent this indemnity is unenforceable under the mandatory law that applies to you (for example, consumer law).

13. Data protection

We process personal data as described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

14. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service or other users; where reasonable we will give notice. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including sections 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 17) survive.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms; the version and effective date are shown at the top of this page. For material changes we will give reasonable notice and, where acceptance is recorded, ask you to accept the new version. Continued use after the changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by Spanish law. The courts of Barcelona, Spain have jurisdiction over disputes. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the mandatory protections of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your domicile.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms: adol@adol.tech.