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        <h1 class="legal-title">Terms of service.</h1>
        <p class="legal-lead">Last updated 2 June 2026. Plain English: it is a beta, we provide no warranty, do not abuse the rate limits, do not resell, trust scores are signals not permission.</p>
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        <h2>Acceptance</h2>
        <p>By using nipcode.xyz, the hosted API, the CLI, or any first-party Nipcode artifact, you accept these terms.</p>
        <h2>Beta status</h2>
        <p>Nipcode is in public beta. There is no SLA, no uptime guarantee, no compatibility promise on the API surface between minor versions. Breaking changes will be in the changelog.</p>
        <h2>License</h2>
        <p>The Nipcode source code is published under the MIT License. See <a href="https://github.com/trynipcode/nipcode/blob/main/LICENSE">LICENSE</a>. Trust scores and decision output you receive from the API are yours to use, including commercially.</p>
        <h2>Fair use</h2>
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          <li>Rate limit: 60 requests per minute per API key, enforced on the server.</li>
          <li>Do not bulk-scrape source registries through our API. Call them directly if you need that.</li>
          <li>Do not run automated tests against our endpoints at sustained high rate. Use staging or a local mock.</li>
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        <h2>Prohibited use</h2>
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          <li>Reselling the Nipcode API or the decision response as your own service</li>
          <li>Using Nipcode to attack, deanonymize, or harass any upstream package maintainer</li>
          <li>Circumventing rate limits, key scoping, or revocation</li>
          <li>Submitting deliberately misleading queries to manipulate the decision output</li>
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        <h2>Trust scores are signals</h2>
        <p>A high trust score is <strong>not</strong> a guarantee that a package is safe. The install boundary always requires explicit user or host-policy approval. You are responsible for verifying any package before installing it. We disclaim liability for any damage resulting from a decision you made based on our output.</p>
        <h2>Intellectual property</h2>
        <p>&quot;Nipcode&quot; and the snowflake mark are project marks. See <a href="https://github.com/trynipcode/nipcode/blob/main/TRADEMARKS.md">TRADEMARKS.md</a>. Third-party registry names (npm, PyPI, crates, GitHub, etc.) belong to their owners. We are not affiliated with any of them.</p>
        <h2>Termination</h2>
        <p>We may revoke any API key at any time without notice if we detect abuse. You may delete your account at any time via the contact path in the privacy policy.</p>
        <h2>Changes</h2>
        <p>We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced via the GitHub repo and a note in the changelog before they take effect.</p>
        <h2>Contact</h2>
        <p>Open an issue at <a href="https://github.com/trynipcode/nipcode/issues">github.com/trynipcode/nipcode/issues</a>.</p>

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