News API terms Presscloud B.V.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Agreements in your Proposal prevail over these API terms. These API terms prevail over the Terms and Conditions.
4. 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.

1. Account: the News API account you use in the API console to manage your Keys and see your usage;
2. API console: the part of the Platform where you create and revoke your Keys;
3. Data: everything the News API returns, including headlines, snippets, URLs, publication dates, author names, outlet details and the metadata about them;
4. End product: the service, product or analysis you build with the Data and offer to your own users or customers;
5. News API: the Presscloud programming interface you use to query the Presscloud news index, including its RSS variant;
6. Plan: the agreements on volume, rate limit, countries, history and price that apply to your Account;
7. Key: an API key (starting with sk_live_) the News API uses to recognise your requests;
8. Publisher: the outlet or person that originally published an article;
9. Proposal: the offer accepted by both parties, or the agreement, specifying your Plan, price and any additional permitted uses.

1. An Account belongs to your organisation. You may not share it with or transfer it to others.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. We may temporarily block a Key or Account if we suspect abuse, if the security of the News API is at risk or if you do not pay. Where we can, we let you know beforehand.

1. 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.
2. Within that licence you may:
   1. use the Data internally for monitoring, analysis and research;
   2. display Data in your End product to the extent you have the necessary third-party permission or an applicable legal exception permits that display, naming the outlet and linking to the original URL;
   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;
3. 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;
   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, or to approach journalists;
   6. circumvent technical limits of the News API, such as the rate limit, the quota or the country and history restrictions of your Plan.
4. The News API does not deliver full article texts. If you want to use those, you arrange that with the Publisher yourself.

1. Presscloud is not the author or owner of those articles and claims no rights to them. Publishers, authors and other rightsholders retain their rights in articles, headlines and extracts. A snippet’s length, public availability, attribution or link does not by itself establish a right to republish it or use it for training. Unless your Proposal expressly identifies third-party rights we are authorised to grant and their scope, you must establish the permission or legal exception needed for your intended use before using that material. Our permission cannot replace a third party’s permission.
2. 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.
3. Beyond the licence in article 4 you acquire no rights and we transfer none.
4. We may also remove Data when we stop following a source. We assess Publisher and author objections and may correct, restrict or remove affected Data. If action is needed on Data already supplied, we identify the records by article ID or URL and tell you what to do and by when. 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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

1. Your Plan sets your monthly quota and per-minute request limit. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

1. 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 Data is provided as is. We extract it 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. Check the Data yourself before you base decisions on it.

2. We may maintain, improve and extend the News API. We add new fields and filters without notice.
3. 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.
4. 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.

1. 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 and 8.3 remain.
2. We invoice as agreed in your Proposal. You pay within 30 days of the invoice date. All prices exclude VAT.
3. If you do not pay on time, we may block your Keys until payment is received. You still owe the fee for that period.
4. Article 7 of the Terms and Conditions (Prices, duration and payment) does not apply to the News API.

1. 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 or for errors in the Data.
2. We are not liable for indirect damage, such as lost profit, missed savings, loss of data or damage suffered by your own customers.
3. Our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us for the News API in the twelve months before the damage occurred.
4. These limitations do not apply in the event of intent or deliberate recklessness on the part of Presscloud.

You indemnify us against third-party claims arising from your use of the Data or from your End product, including claims from Publishers, authors and your own customers, unless the claim arises from a failure on our part.

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. Articles 4.3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 13 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.

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.