News API terms | Presscloud

These API terms govern business use by the organisation named in the Proposal, including evaluations and use by its authorised staff and contractors. Before any API access, an authorised representative must accept these API terms and the incorporated Terms and Conditions in the API console on the organisation’s behalf. Possessing a Key or receiving Data does not by itself record acceptance. You confirm that you act in the course of a business or profession and not as a consumer. Evaluation access is limited to the period and volume we state in writing, is not for production use, and Data retrieved during it must be deleted within 14 days after it ends.
The Terms and Conditions continue to apply. Only their restrictions on extracting, storing and reusing data, automated access, and sharing or exploiting content (article 4 and article 14.9) are set aside to the extent necessary for use expressly permitted by these API terms. Their other rules, including prohibitions on unlawful use, spam and malicious software, remain in force.
Agreements in your Proposal prevail over these API terms. These API terms prevail over the Terms and Conditions.
We announce amendments by email to the address on your Account at least 30 days before their stated effective date, with the revised text and a summary of changes. Until that date, your existing terms and access continue. Accepting a forthcoming version does not bring its effective date forward. You may reject the amendment by emailing us before that date and ending your Plan when it takes effect, without an early termination charge. We refund prepaid fees for the unused period within 30 days. Continued use alone is not recorded as acceptance; if acceptance is still missing on the effective date, API access is suspended until you accept or your Plan ends. Amendments to the Terms and Conditions that materially affect use of the News API follow the same procedure.
These API terms are available in Dutch, English and French. If the language versions differ, the Dutch text prevails.
Articles 6:227b(1) and 6:227c of the Dutch Civil Code are excluded.

Account: the News API account you use in the API console to manage your Keys and see your usage;
API console: the part of the Platform where you create and revoke your Keys;
Data: everything the News API returns, including headlines, snippets, URLs, publication dates, author names, outlet details and the metadata about them;
End product: the service, product or analysis you build with the Data and offer to your own users or customers;
News API: the Presscloud programming interface you use to query the Presscloud news index, including its RSS variant;
Plan: the agreements on volume, rate limit, countries, history and price that apply to your Account;
Key: an API key (starting with sk_live_) the News API uses to recognise your requests;
Publisher: the outlet or person that originally published an article;
Proposal: the offer accepted by both parties, or the agreement, specifying your Plan, price and any additional permitted uses;
Permitted Use: the use of Data that article 4.2 expressly allows, within your Plan and in compliance with articles 4.3, 5.4, 6 and 7. Use that requires our written permission is Permitted Use only to the extent that permission has been given.
Trial: free evaluation access to the News API with a one-off request quota and a limited part of the index, as shown in the API console;

An Account belongs to your organisation. You may not share it with or transfer it to others.
Keys are confidential. Store them securely and do not put them in public code or applications running on end users’ devices. Only authorised staff and contractors operating your integration on your behalf may access them, under confidentiality and security obligations. They may not use them independently or share them further. You remain responsible for their compliance and may create Keys for your environments within your Plan’s maximum.
Everything done with a Key on your Account is attributed to you. Suspect a Key has leaked? Revoke it immediately in the API console and let us know.
We may immediately block or restrict a Key or Account where we have reasonable grounds to suspect abuse or a breach of article 4, investigate such grounds, respond to a credible third-party claim or request, comply with law, protect the security of the News API or address non-payment. We limit the scope and duration to what is reasonably necessary, explain the grounds beforehand where reasonably possible and otherwise promptly afterwards, unless the law prevents this. We review the grounds at least every 7 days and restore access promptly when they no longer apply. If blocking or restriction materially prevents your agreed use for 30 consecutive days and is not attributable to a breach by you or persons for whom you are responsible, you may terminate the Plan immediately by email without an early termination charge. Within 30 days we refund prepaid fees for the unused period, including the period when the measure materially prevented your agreed use. A measure taken in accordance with this article does not by itself entitle you to damages; article 10 governs any damages claim. The other express termination and refund rights in these API terms and your Proposal remain unaffected.
Registering does not give you a right to access. We review every application and may refuse or hold one without giving reasons. Until an application is approved you cannot create a Key and the News API does not answer your requests. The details in your application must be accurate and complete, and the email address must belong to the organisation you name.
A Trial is free, personal and non-transferable. You get a one-off number of requests that is not granted again, and access to a limited part of the index. We may end or change a Trial at any time. A Trial does not oblige us to offer you a paid Plan.

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence under the rights Presscloud holds in its news index and its own metadata and enrichments to retrieve, store and use Data within your Plan while it runs. This licence does not grant copyright or related rights belonging to Publishers, authors or other third parties. The permissions below are subject to those rights and article 5.
Within that licence you may:
1. use the Data internally for monitoring, analysis and research;
2. display Data in your End product as we supply it: headline, snippet, publication date, author name and outlet details, unchanged or truncated at the end with a visible ellipsis, but not otherwise altered, extended or combined, naming the outlet and linking to the original URL. You do not need to arrange separate permission from Publishers for that display; article 11.2 protects you there. If you want to show more than we supply, you arrange that with the Publisher yourself;
3. create and use derived data: aggregate statistics, trends and classifications that neither reproduce nor allow reconstruction of the supplied headlines, snippets or individual article records. Copies, translations, paraphrased article collections and searchable archives are not derived data. Personal data remains subject to article 6;
Without our prior written permission you may not:
1. resell, rent out or otherwise supply the Data to third parties in raw form or in bulk, or offer an End product that is essentially the same as the News API;
2. use the Data to build, fill or improve a competing news index, news database or news API;
3. train or fine-tune AI models on Data. Permission requires an express written agreement defining the permitted Data and purpose, third-party rights, model retention after termination, and how takedowns and personal-data requests affect training sets and model outputs. Inference, classification, embeddings and retrieval for a permitted End product are allowed within the licence; they are not permission to train or to let a third-party provider train on the Data. Model output shown to users is display under article 4.2(b); output that reproduces article text beyond the supplied snippet falls under article 4.3(h);
4. present the Data as your own journalistic work, or leave out the name of the outlet;
5. use the Data to find or enrich journalists' contact details, to profile or approach journalists, to combine Data with other data to identify journalists, or to build or enrich a journalist or media database;
6. circumvent technical limits of the News API, such as the rate limit, the quota or the country and history restrictions of your Plan;
7. supply Data for reuse through your End product, including through authenticated access, exports or redistribution, without binding terms imposing the applicable restrictions and obligations of articles 4.3, 5 and 6 on the recipients. Merely viewing a permitted display, whether public or authenticated, does not require a separate agreement with each viewer: name the outlet, link to the original URL, limit the display to what article 4.2(b) permits and apply reasonable technical measures against bulk extraction and unauthorised reuse. Bulk exports, an API or a searchable archive over the Data still require our prior written permission;
8. lengthen, concatenate or combine snippets across requests, or otherwise reconstruct article texts or parts of them;
9. use Data in advertising, endorsements or political campaigning, submit it as evidence in legal or administrative proceedings, or present it in a context that misrepresents its meaning or source;
10. use Data in an application where a failure could reasonably lead to death, personal injury or severe physical or environmental damage.
The News API does not deliver full article texts. If you want to use those, you arrange that with the Publisher yourself.
The licence covers only the organisation named in the Proposal. Group companies are covered only if the Proposal names them.
We may log data about your use of the News API, such as requests, filters and volumes, and use it in aggregated form that cannot be traced back to you to operate, secure and improve the service. We may freely use suggestions and feedback about the News API without compensation.
On our written request, you confirm in writing within 14 days that your use of the Data complies with this article 4. On a reasonable and substantiated suspicion of a breach, we, or an independent expert we appoint under confidentiality, may verify that use at most once a year. You cooperate with that. We bear the costs unless a breach is found.

Presscloud is not the author or owner of the articles and claims no rights to them. Publishers, authors and other rightsholders retain their rights in articles, headlines and extracts. We stand behind our own conduct: we hold the rights we license in article 4 and take reasonable, documented measures to honour machine-readable reservations of rights by Publishers. We keep snippets to at most 200 characters of body text, intended as a very short extract for news discovery, and do not supply full article texts. For Permitted Use you do not need to establish your own permission from Publishers; article 11.2 sets out our indemnity for it. For any other use you must establish the permission or legal exception that allows it before using the material, unless your Proposal expressly identifies third-party rights we are authorised to grant and their scope. Our permission cannot replace a third party’s permission, and a snippet’s length, public availability, attribution or link does not by itself establish a right to republish full articles or to train on them. Outside Permitted Use we do not warrant that use of the Data does not infringe third-party rights. An exception permitting text and data mining does not by itself authorise redistribution of extracts.
Presscloud retains the rights it holds in the selection, arrangement and enrichment of its news index, including any applicable database rights. This does not give Presscloud ownership of third-party material or of facts as such.
Beyond the licence in article 4 you acquire no rights and we transfer none.
We may remove, restrict or correct Data for reasonable operational, security or legal grounds, including when we stop following a source. We explain material changes where reasonably possible. Such action does not by itself constitute a failure on our part, subject to the express commitments in these API terms and your Proposal. We owe you no obligation to assess, honour or refuse third-party requests or objections. If we ask you to remove, restrict or correct Data already supplied, we identify the records by article ID or URL and tell you what to do and by when. We may also give that notice through a deletions feed described in the documentation, in which case the period runs from the moment the record appears there. Stop displaying or disclosing affected material promptly and complete the notified action within 7 days, or sooner if a binding legal deadline requires it. Apply the action to retained outputs and instruct recipients and contractors under your control to do the same. Isolated backups may expire through their normal retention cycle, but affected Data must not be restored to use. This provision does not limit our legal obligations or the express termination and refund rights in these API terms or your Proposal. Article 3.4 also applies where removal or restriction of Data materially prevents your agreed use.

Data may contain personal data about authors and people mentioned in headlines or snippets. Presscloud acts as a controller for collecting and supplying its news index, relying on legitimate interests in news discovery and analysis only where that processing is necessary and those interests are not overridden by the rights of the people concerned. Our Privacy Policy describes the API’s purposes, recipients, retention and rights. Public availability does not remove GDPR obligations.
Where you determine the purposes and means of further processing, you act as an independent controller and are responsible for its legal basis, transparency, security, retention, data-subject rights and any international transfers. If you act on another controller’s instructions, your actual role and any required processing agreement govern instead. These terms do not change the parties’ factual roles or provide a legal basis for every use, including processing sensitive data or criminal-offence data. We and you ordinarily act as independent controllers. If the actual processing requires joint controllership or a controller-processor relationship, we and you must put the legally required arrangements in place before that processing. This does not limit data subjects’ statutory rights. You inform data subjects yourself in accordance with article 14 GDPR and name Presscloud as the source.
Assess requests from any person whose personal data you process, not only authors. Verify identity proportionately and act within the applicable legal deadlines. Where the request concerns Data supplied by us, notify privacy@presscloud.ai with only the information needed to locate and assess it. If we notify you of a required correction, restriction or erasure, implement it within 7 days or an earlier binding deadline; promptly explain any legal reason preventing compliance. Coordinate action with your processors and recipients where required by law. Report a personal data breach affecting Data supplied by us to privacy@presscloud.ai without undue delay. We inform you where the law requires us to.

Your Plan sets your request quota and your per-minute request limit. A paid Plan has a quota per calendar month. A Trial instead has a one-off quota that is not renewed. The console shows the current limits. Responses that reach the quota and rate-limit checks carry the applicable limit headers; requests rejected earlier, including authentication or terms-acceptance failures, may not.
When you reach a limit, the News API refuses further requests with status code 429 until there is room again. Only successful requests count towards your quota.
If you need more capacity, we can propose an upgrade. A higher price or changed Plan starts only after you agree to its price and start date in writing. Reaching a limit does not automatically upgrade your Plan or create an overage charge.
Cache Data where appropriate and use incremental retrieval for updates. Reasonable retries, overlapping polling windows and an agreed historical backfill are permitted within your Plan. Do not deliberately generate avoidable load or repeatedly retrieve the entire index to bypass Plan restrictions.
The limit headers tell you which of the two you have. X-Quota-Period carries the calendar month for a monthly quota and the value lifetime for a Trial. On a Trial, X-Quota-Reset is absent, because the quota does not come back.

We do our best to keep the News API available and the index up to date. We do not guarantee availability, error-free operation or completeness, unless your Proposal includes a service level.
The News API and Data are provided as is and as available, subject to the express commitments in these API terms and your Proposal. Otherwise, to the extent permitted by law, we exclude express and implied warranties, including accuracy, completeness, timeliness and fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement beyond the warranty in article 5.1 and the indemnity in article 11.2. Article 7:17 of the Dutch Civil Code is excluded to the extent permitted by law. We extract Data automatically from published articles. Author, publication date, snippet and outlet may therefore be missing, incomplete or wrong, and an article may enter the index twice or late. These inherent data limitations do not by themselves constitute a failure on our part. Check the Data yourself before basing decisions on it. This provision does not exclude the express termination, refund or service-level rights in these API terms or your Proposal, or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. Article 10 governs damages claims.
We may maintain, improve and extend the News API. We add new fields and filters without notice.
We announce changes that break existing integrations at least 60 days in advance by email, describing the impact and migration steps. Urgent changes strictly necessary to address a security incident or comply with law may take effect sooner; we explain the reason and give as much notice as reasonably possible. If a breaking change materially prevents your agreed use, you may cancel when it takes effect without an early termination charge; unused prepaid fees are refunded within 30 days.
Which outlets are in the index can change. A Publisher may close, change its name or object to being included. That is not a shortcoming on our part.
We are not required to perform during force majeure. Force majeure includes in any case: failure, change or blocking of sources or Publishers, removal requests, outages at hosting, network or other suppliers, DDoS and other attacks, power or internet outages, government measures and changes in law. If force majeure lasts longer than 60 days, either of us may end the Plan without compensation. If the Plan ends under this article, we refund prepaid fees for the unused period within 30 days. This does not postpone or restrict your rights under articles 3.4 and 8.3 or your Proposal.
We provide support through our customer-service address, without response or resolution times, unless your Proposal includes a service level.

Your accepted Proposal sets the price, term and notice period. If it specifies no term, the Plan renews monthly on the anniversary of its start date (or the last day of a shorter month). If it specifies no notice period, email our customer-service address at least one calendar month before a renewal date to end the Plan on that date. We confirm receipt; a delayed confirmation does not delay a cancellation received on time. Access continues until the end date. Ordinary cancellation does not refund the current paid period; the refund rights in articles 1.4, 3.4, 8.3, 8.5 and 12.4 remain.
We invoice as agreed in your Proposal. You pay within 30 days of the invoice date. All prices exclude VAT. Raise any objection to an invoice within 14 days of the invoice date, otherwise the invoice stands.
If you do not pay on time, we may block your Keys until payment is received. You still owe the fee for that period. From the due date you owe, without notice of default, the Dutch statutory commercial interest plus extrajudicial collection costs of at least the amount under the Dutch Decree on compensation for extrajudicial collection costs, with a minimum of € 250. You may not suspend or set off payments. We do not refund amounts paid, except where these API terms expressly provide for it.
Article 7 of the Terms and Conditions (Prices, duration and payment) does not apply to the News API.

The Data comes from third parties. We do not check whether an article is correct, complete or current and are not liable for the content of articles, for errors in the Data or for decisions you or your customers base on the Data.
We are liable only for direct damage. Direct damage means exclusively: the reasonable costs of establishing the cause and extent of the damage and the reasonable costs of preventing or limiting damage. All other damage is excluded, including lost profit, missed savings, loss or corruption of data, reputational damage, business interruption, damage suffered by your own customers and third-party claims, except to the extent article 11.2 expressly covers those claims.
Our total liability, for all events in a contract year together, is limited to the lower of: the amount you paid us for the News API in the twelve months before the first event, and € 10,000. A series of related events counts as one event. Our indemnity in article 11.2 is subject to the separate cap in article 11.5.
These limitations do not apply in the event of intent or deliberate recklessness on the part of Presscloud’s management.
You notify us of a claim in writing within 30 days after you discovered the damage or could reasonably have discovered it. Every claim lapses twelve months after that moment.
Nothing in articles 3, 5, 8 or 10 excludes the warranty in article 5.1, the indemnity in article 11.2, the express termination and refund rights in articles 1.4, 3.4, 8.3, 8.5 and 12.4 or your Proposal, or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. Article 10 limits damages claims; those limits do not reduce an expressly agreed refund.

You indemnify us against third-party claims, including claims by Publishers, authors, data subjects and your customers, to the extent caused by your breach of these API terms, your unlawful downstream use of Data or content, functionality or services you add in your End product. This includes reasonable legal defence costs and fines only to the extent their reimbursement is lawful. The indemnity does not cover claims to the extent caused by Presscloud’s own breach, negligence, unlawful collection or supply of Data, or other conduct for which Presscloud is responsible, nor to the extent article 11.2 covers the claim. Where both parties contributed, your obligation is limited to the proportion attributable to you and persons for whom you are responsible. We notify you of a claim without unreasonable delay and reasonably cooperate in its defence. We may conduct the defence ourselves or entrust it to you. You may not settle a claim in a way that binds us without our written consent, and we may not agree a settlement payable by you without yours; neither party may unreasonably withhold or delay consent.
We indemnify you against claims by Publishers, authors or other rightsholders that the Data as we supply it, or your Permitted Use of it, infringes their copyright or related rights, other than the sui generis database right. This covers the damages and settlement amounts awarded in a final judgment or approved by us in writing, and the reasonable legal costs of the defence. The indemnity also covers claims directed only at you, as long as they fall within this article. It covers only claims brought under the law of a member state of the European Union or the European Economic Area, concerning Data displayed to users located in such a state.
The indemnity in article 11.2 applies only if you: (a) notify us in writing of the claim, or of a credible announcement of one, without unreasonable delay via our customer service address, where a late notification reduces our obligation only to the extent it prejudiced us; (b) let us conduct the defence and settlement, including the choice of counsel, and make no admission, settlement or other commitment yourself without our written consent; (c) reasonably cooperate in the defence, including by providing information about your use; and (d) carry out a request under article 5.4 or 6.3 on time. We do not agree, without your written consent, a settlement that imposes an obligation on you other than ceasing the affected use; you may not unreasonably withhold or delay that consent. We keep you informed of progress and consult you on steps that affect your End product.
The indemnity in article 11.2 does not apply to the extent a claim arises from: (a) use outside Permitted Use, including use that article 4.3 prohibits and we have not permitted in writing; (b) modifying, extending or stringing together Data, or combining Data with other content or data, where the claim would not have arisen without that act; (c) content, functionality or services you add to your End product yourself, including full article texts you arranged with the Publisher; (d) continued use of Data after a deletion or restriction request under article 5.4 or 6.3, once the period stated there has expired; (e) use after your Plan ends, beyond the retention rights in article 12.2; (f) a breach of these API terms by you or persons for whom you are responsible; (g) display of Data to users located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, or a claim brought under the law of any other jurisdiction; (h) use during an evaluation, or in any period for which no fee has been paid; (i) use for which a licence is available to you under a collective licensing scheme; or (j) content generated by a model beyond the Data we supplied. Where both parties contributed, our obligation is limited to the proportion attributable to us.
If we or you receive a claim within article 11.2, or we reasonably consider one likely, we may at our option: (a) obtain the right for you to continue the Permitted Use; (b) modify, restrict or remove the affected Data or source from the index so that the infringement stops, in which case article 5.4 applies; or (c) if (a) and (b) are not reasonably possible, terminate the affected part of your Plan or the whole Plan by email with 30 days’ notice. On termination under (c) we refund prepaid fees for the unused period within 30 days. Our total obligation under article 11.2, for all claims in a contract year together, is limited to the amount you paid us for the News API in the twelve months before the first claim, with a minimum of € 2,500 and a maximum of € 25,000, unless your Proposal states a different cap. No amount is owed under article 11.2 for a period in which you paid us nothing for the News API. This cap is separate from the cap in article 10.3 and does not apply in the event of intent or deliberate recklessness on the part of Presscloud’s management.
Articles 11.2 to 11.5 contain our entire obligation and your sole remedy against us for infringement of third-party rights by the Data or your use of it, without prejudice to the express termination and refund rights in these API terms and your Proposal and to rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. This allocation does not limit the rights or powers of third parties or supervisory authorities.

We may terminate your Plan if you breach these API terms and fail to remedy the breach within 14 days of written notice describing it. We may terminate immediately for a serious breach that cannot reasonably be remedied, such as deliberate unauthorised bulk resale. Resale expressly authorised in your Proposal is not a breach. On termination for a breach we refund nothing.
When your Plan ends, we revoke your Keys and the licence ends except for the limited retention rights here. Within 30 days, delete supplied Data, article-level caches and retrieval indexes, including embeddings used to retrieve individual articles. You may retain and use derived data as defined in article 4.2(c) and fixed reports or newsletters lawfully delivered before termination, with their original attribution and links. This does not permit maintaining or expanding a searchable archive, republishing supplied Data or serving a continuing feed. Legally required records and isolated backups may be kept only for that purpose, protected from operational use and deleted when no longer required. Model retention is governed by the express training agreement in article 4.3(c). On our request, you confirm the deletion in writing.
Articles 4.3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 continue to apply to retained material after termination, including restrictions on redistribution, attribution, takedowns and personal-data obligations. Retention does not override a required correction or deletion.
We may also end the Plan without cause on 30 days’ notice. We then refund prepaid fees for the unused period within 30 days.

If a dispute arises between you and us, Dutch law applies. In that case, the Amsterdam District Court is competent to rule on the dispute.

You keep our confidential information secret, including Keys, the prices and agreements in your Proposal, non-public News API documentation and information about our plans. You use that information only for your use of the News API and share it only with staff and contractors who need it for that purpose and are bound by confidentiality. This obligation continues after your Plan ends.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under your Plan to a group company or to a successor in a merger, acquisition or transfer of the business. We let you know. You may transfer your Plan only with our written consent.
You confirm that you are not listed on a sanctions list of the European Union, the United Nations, the United Kingdom or the United States, and that you do not make the Data available to persons or organisations that are.
We may name you and show your logo as a News API customer, for example on our website. If you would rather we did not, email us and we take it down.
If a provision of these API terms is invalid, the rest continues to apply and we replace the provision with a valid one that comes as close as possible to its intent. If we do not exercise a right immediately, we do not waive it. These API terms, your Proposal and the Terms and Conditions together form the entire agreement on the News API.

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