Terms, refunds and privacy

This is the whole agreement in one place. By creating an account, or by continuing to use the Service, you accept all three parts. We record the date, the version, your IP address and what you confirmed when you joined.

Coin News Pot is a private members' community. Once you sign in, these rules apply to you. If your age, or the laws of your country or state, mean the Service is not allowed or not suitable for you, please leave now and do not use it.

Part 1 · Terms of service

1. About these terms

By creating an account or using Coin News Pot (the "Service") you agree to this document. If you don't agree, don't use the Service. If you use it for an organisation, you confirm you may accept it on its behalf.

2. Who can join

• You must be 18 years or older, and old enough to make a binding agreement where you live. You confirm this when you sign up.
• Rules about crypto differ between countries and states. You are responsible for checking that using the Service is allowed where you live, and you confirm this when you sign up. If it isn't, you must not use it.
• We may refuse or close accounts, or limit the Service in some places, when we think the law or safety requires it.

3. Beta Program

The Service is currently in beta. It is provided "as is" and "as available". We work to keep it accurate and online, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service, complete coverage or error-free data.

4. Accounts

• You sign in with one-time codes sent to your email. Keep access to that email secure.
• One person per account. Journalist and author accounts are personal accounts. Only one device can be signed in at a time: signing in somewhere else signs the other device out.
• The Widget plan covers one website. Your widgets and the WordPress plugin share it; you can move it to another website up to 3 times in 30 days. Testing on localhost is free and doesn't count.
• The Chrome extension and the Android app sign in with their own email code and stay signed in next to the website: one extension and one app per account. They are for your own use; don't share them or their sign-in. They are installed from your dashboard, outside the Chrome Web Store and Google Play, so install them only from Coin News Pot.
• The WordPress plugin's License Key is for your own website only. Don't share or publish it. Making a new key stops the old one at once; we may replace a key that is used on other websites.
• API keys are for your own systems. We record the addresses that use each key; signs of sharing can lead to a new key being required, a re-verification, or a closed account.
• Teams: by arrangement with us, a journalist's news sheet can also be shared, view only, with named team members. Their access starts and ends with that account's plan. Contact support@coinnewspot.com for team pricing.
• You must give accurate details. We may refuse or close accounts that use false details, VPNs or proxies to abuse trials.

5. Plans, trials and payment

• Plans run for 30 days from activation. If you renew before a plan ends, the new 30 days start when the current ones end. Prices are in USD and paid in USDT (TRC20, BEP20 or ERC20).
• Free trials: Journalist 3 days (72 hours); Widget 2 days (48 hours); API 7 days limited to 1,000 requests. One trial per person. The trial starts as soon as you confirm your email; a sign-up from the same address as a recent one is checked by us first. For Journalist, your dashboard feed works right away and your Google Sheet is shared after a quick check by our team. The news feed shows news from the day you join.
• A plan is activated after we confirm your payment on-chain, usually within 30 minutes. If we haven't confirmed it by then, the plan works provisionally until we do (at most 72 hours; API use has the trial allowance). You are responsible for sending the exact amount shown, on the correct network.
• You pay all network and exchange fees: the exact amount shown must arrive in our wallet. We don't accept part payments. If less arrives, we don't activate the plan and send back what arrived, minus the network fee; you can then order again. If more arrives, you can ask for the extra back.
• Only submit transactions you made yourself. Submitting a transaction made by someone else, or an edited screenshot, is a violation of these terms: the payment is rejected, the account is restricted, and access from its network is blocked permanently.
• Plans do not renew automatically. When a plan ends, access to the feed, your Google Sheet updates, widgets and the API stops until you renew. Stories published while you had no active trial or plan are not added to your Google Sheet later.
• Crypto transfers cannot be reversed. When a refund is due, see Part 2.

6. Use of content

We only publish news collected from publicly available sources. News items summarise that information and remain the property of their original publishers. You may use them in your own work and on your own sites. You may not resell, sublicense or redistribute the raw feed as a competing service.

AI use (AI Starter and AI Pro)

• Allowed: using the news to answer people's questions inside your AI products, assistants and agents, through our AI API or MCP server.
• Attribution: wherever a story is shown, show "via Coin News Pot" with the story link. On AI Starter this is always on; on AI Pro you may switch it off in Dashboard → AI → Settings.
• Not allowed: training or fine-tuning AI models on the data, building a dataset to sell, or reselling or republishing the feed as a service. A training licence is available on request: write to support@coinnewspot.com.
• AI keys are for your own products. A regenerated key keeps working for 24 hours, a deleted key stops at once. AI Pro webhooks must point to your own server; we switch a webhook off after 50 failed deliveries in a row.
• AI packages give access to the AI API and MCP server only, not the journalist feed, widgets, the Chrome extension or the Android app. Their trial is 3 days (72 hours) with 500 calls.
• Answers built from our news are news, not financial advice (see section 8).

7. Acceptable use

• Don't share your account, API key, Google Sheet or login codes.
• Don't scrape the site or try to get around rate limits, trials, widget domain locks or the WordPress plugin's licence check.
• Don't probe, attack or overload the Service.

Breaking these can lead to reset keys, blocked IP addresses, or a closed account without refund.

8. Risk warning: no financial advice

• Crypto is high risk. Prices can move very fast. You can lose some or all of the money you put in, at any time.
• Content is general news for information only. It is not financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything.
• We never hold your funds and never ask for your private keys or seed phrases.
• Your decisions are your own. Do your own research, and never invest money you can't afford to lose. We are not responsible for losses from decisions you make using the Service.

9. Liability

To the extent allowed by law, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid in the 30 days before the claim.

10. Where the news comes from, and removal requests

• We build each item from publicly available announcements by projects, exchanges and news publishers. Our system rewrites them as short, original summaries; we do not copy articles.
• Names, logos and trademarks belong to their owners. We are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the projects and publishers we cover.
• Summaries are produced with AI and can contain mistakes. Check the original before you publish or act on anything.
• Removal requests: if you own content and want an item removed, email support@coinnewspot.com with the item (its title and date) and the reason. We reply within 2 working days. If the request is valid, we remove the item from the website, feed, API and widgets, and stop using that source if you ask.
• Confidential or personal information: we only aim to show news that is already public. If you think an item contains confidential, private or personal information, or anything that shouldn't be public, email support@coinnewspot.com the same way. We review it and remove it if the concern is valid.
• If we tell you an item was withdrawn, remove it from the places where you republished it.

11. Emails we send you

Running your account needs a few emails: sign-in codes, your trial starting, reminders 5 days and 1 day before a plan ends, your plan ending, payment confirmations and refunds, support replies, and security alerts such as a sign-in from a new device. These are part of the Service and can't be turned off while your account is open (you can turn off the new-device alert in Settings). We don't send marketing emails.

12. Your rights under local law

Some countries give consumers rights that a contract cannot remove. Nothing in this document limits those rights where they apply to you.

13. Changes

We may update this document. Material changes are announced by email or in the dashboard at least 7 days before they apply.

Part 2 · Refunds

Try first, then pay

Because Coin News Pot is a Beta Program, you can test it before you spend anything:

• Journalist: 3-day free trial with full access, starting once we've reviewed your sign-up.
• API: 7-day free trial with 1,000 requests, starting once we've reviewed your sign-up.
• Widget: 2-day free trial on your own site, starting once we've reviewed your sign-up. You can also build widgets and test them on localhost at any time, free (test mode shows a few stories).

If you used the free trial: no refund

The trial is there so you can test the plan fully before paying. If you used the free trial of a plan, payments for that plan are final and not refunded, including unused days.

If you paid without a trial: 72-hour refund

• If you bought a plan without using its free trial (for example if you paid straight away), you can ask for a full refund within 72 hours of the plan becoming active.
• This applies to your first purchase of that plan, not to renewals.
• Email support@coinnewspot.com from your account email with the payment reference or transaction hash.
• We send the USDT back to the wallet it came from, on the same network, minus the network fee. Your plan ends when the refund is made.
• After 72 hours, payments are final.

Payment problems

• Paid twice or by mistake: the extra payment is refunded on request (or, if you prefer, it extends your plan).
• Underpaid: pay the difference before we activate, or ask us to send back what you paid.
• Overpaid: the extra is refunded on request, or credited to your next renewal.
• Not active after 48 hours: write to support@coinnewspot.com with your transaction hash.
• We cannot recover funds sent to a wrong address or on a wrong network.
• Accounts closed for breaking these terms are not refunded.

Refunds are made by hand by our team, and every refund is recorded in your billing history. Nothing in this part limits rights you have under the law where you live.

Outages

If the Service is down for more than 72 hours in a row because of a fault on our side, we extend your plan by the lost time. This is a time extension, not a refund.

Part 3 · Privacy

What we collect

• Account: name, email, country, account type, organisation and website if you give them, and the Google account you choose for your news sheet.
• Agreement records: when you accepted this document, which version, from which IP address, and that you confirmed your age, the risk warning and that the Service is allowed where you live. Your cookie choice, with time and IP.
• Security: IP address, browser and device type, login times and failed attempts.
• Payments: plan, amount, network, transaction hash, the sending wallet if you give it, and any screenshot you upload. We never ask for private keys or seed phrases.
• Usage: API requests (time, endpoint, status), widget views by domain, exports, and for the WordPress plugin the website address, WordPress and plugin version, licence status it reports and the server address it calls from.
• Chrome extension and Android app: their sign-in (device type and model, Android version, IP address, when last used) and your settings in them. The news they show is kept on your own device so it can be read offline; uninstalling removes it. The Android app gets "new news" signals through Google Firebase Cloud Messaging; a signal carries only a story number, nothing about you.
• How you found us: only if you clicked "Accept all" on the cookie banner, the campaign tags in the link you came from, the site that linked to us and the first page you saw, saved with your account when you sign up. We also record the main steps of your account (sign-up, trial, checkout, payments, renewals) to see how the Service is used. This stays on our own server and is never shared or sold.

Why

• To run your account and deliver what you pay for.
• To stop fraud, trial abuse, account sharing and attacks.
• To verify payments and keep billing records.
• To email you about your account, plan endings and important changes.
• To understand which of our posts and pages bring people who find the Service useful.

Who else sees it

We don't sell your data. Only services that help run the product see the minimum they need: our hosting, Google (to share your news sheet, and Firebase Cloud Messaging for the Android app's new-news signals) and Cloudflare (the human check at sign-up). We share data when the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Your choices

See your own login history in Settings, update your details, or delete your account there. For a copy of your data, write to support@coinnewspot.com.

Questions or complaints about your data (grievances): use the contact form and choose "Privacy or my data", or email support@coinnewspot.com. We reply within 30 days.

Cookies

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