Legal notice, terms of use and privacy policy

This document constitutes, in a single instrument: (i) the provider identification required of information society services; (ii) the Terms of Use governing all access to and use of everytrace(the "Site"); and (iii) the information notice required by Articles 12 to 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR"). By accessing, browsing, querying, subscribing to or otherwise using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and accepted these terms in their entirety. If you do not accept them, you must cease using the Site immediately; continued use constitutes acceptance.

1. Provider identification (imprint)

1.1 The operator of this Site is not yet identified here. Applicable law requires an information society service to disclose the name of the natural or legal person responsible for it and the geographic address at which that person is established. Those particulars are configured per brand in tenant_config.legal (the controller and address fields) and have not been supplied for this domain. Until they are, this section does not satisfy that requirement, and no statement in this document should be read as a representation that it does.

1.2 References below to "the Operator", "we" or "us" mean the natural or legal person that in fact operates the Site, whose identity is to be inserted above.

1.3 Pending completion of the particulars above, correspondence reaches hello@everytrace.co, which is designated as the point of contact for the purposes described in section 12 and for communications from competent authorities. The language accepted for such communications is English.

2. Definitions

2.1 "Content" means all material accessible on the Site, comprising Third-Party Material and Operator Material.

2.2 "Third-Party Material" means headlines, publisher-authored summaries, outlet names, publication timestamps, hyperlinks and associated metadata originating from news publishers, syndication feeds, the GDELT public dataset or other external sources, together with any record of changes made to such material by its publisher.

2.3 "Operator Material" means the software, arrangement, selection, groupings, clusterings, rankings, durations, measurements and interface elements generated or authored by or for the Operator.

2.4 "User", "you" means any person who accesses the Site by any means, whether or not they subscribe to the brief or create an account.

2.5 "Consumer" means a natural person acting for purposes outside their trade, business, craft or profession.

3. Nature of the service; no editorial responsibility for Third-Party Material

3.1 The Site is an automated aggregation and measurement service. It ingests publicly available news feeds and the GDELT public dataset, groups reports that appear to concern the same event, and measures how long each grouping continues to attract coverage. What is stored from each report is its headline, the publisher's own summary, the outlet, the time of appearance and a hyperlink to the original. Article bodies are not copied, and every report displayed links back to the outlet that published it.

3.2 Selection, grouping and ordering are performed by software, without human editorial review of individual items. The Operator does not author, commission, verify, fact-check, endorse, adopt or ratify Third-Party Material, and does not exercise editorial control over it within the meaning of applicable press or media law. Publication of an item on the Site is not a statement by the Operator that the item is accurate, complete, lawful, fair, balanced, current or newsworthy.

3.3 Position, prominence, ordering, cluster size and duration figures are outputs of automated measurement. They are not assertions about the importance, truth, gravity or reliability of any event, report, outlet or person, and must not be construed as such. Any inference drawn from them is drawn by the reader at the reader's own risk.

3.4 Records of headline or summary changes are factual. Where an outlet alters a headline or summary after publication, that alteration is recorded and displayed. Such a record is a neutral observation about the outlet's own publicly served metadata as retrieved at stated times. It is not, and must not be read as, an allegation of error, bad faith, deception, manipulation, dishonesty or any other impropriety on the part of the outlet, its journalists, its editors or any person mentioned. No such meaning is intended and any such meaning is expressly disclaimed.

3.5 Ingestion is automated and may fail, duplicate, mis-group, mis-time, mis-attribute, omit, truncate or retain items that have since been corrected, updated or withdrawn at source. The original page at the outlet always prevails over anything shown here. Users are directed to the source before relying on anything.

3.6 The front page weights ordering toward the country from which it is read, as described in clause 15.4. Such weighting lifts stories in the ordering; it never limits what is shown, and it involves no profiling of the individual reader.

4. Third-party rights, sources and attribution

4.1 All rights in Third-Party Material remain with the outlets, agencies, photographers and authors that created it. It is displayed here for the purpose of identifying, referencing and linking to their reporting.

4.2 The Site is operated on the basis that its use of press publications falls outside the exclusive rights conferred on press publishers by Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and the national provisions transposing it, because it is confined to acts of hyperlinking, to the use of individual words and very short extracts, and to mere facts, none of which fall within the scope of that right. This is a statement of the basis on which the Site is operated; it is not a warranty as to outcome, and the scope of the very short extracts limitation is not uniformly implemented across Member States and has not been definitively settled by the Court of Justice.

4.3 The Operator does not represent that any particular use is lawful in every jurisdiction from which the Site may be reached. Rights holders who consider that their rights are affected are directed to section 12, which sets out a mechanism for obtaining prompt correction or removal without recourse to litigation.

4.4 Retrieval is limited to sources that make material available publicly and by ordinary automated means. The Operator endeavours to respect machine-readable reservations of rights, including robots exclusion rules and reservations of text and data mining rights under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790. A rights holder wishing to reserve rights or to be excluded may do so by machine-readable means or by written notice under section 12, and such notice will be given effect.

4.5 Geolocation data used as described in clause 15.4 is derived from the IP Geolocation by DB-IP database, used under its applicable licence and attributed accordingly. The GDELT public dataset is used subject to the terms on which it is published.

4.6 Operator Material is protected by copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights vesting in the Operator. No licence is granted other than a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to view the Site for private, non-commercial reading.

5. Disclaimer of warranties; service provided as is

5.1 THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY, CONDITION, REPRESENTATION OR UNDERTAKING OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, the Operator disclaims all implied warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, currency, reliability, merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

5.2 The Operator does not warrant that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; that defects will be corrected; that the Site or the servers that make it available are free of harmful components; or that any result, figure, grouping, duration, ranking or measurement is accurate, reproducible or fit for any purpose.

5.3 The Site is provided free of charge, is offered as a matter of accommodation, and creates no obligation of continued provision. The Operator may at any time and without notice or liability modify, suspend, restrict, degrade, discontinue or permanently withdraw the Site or any part, feature, dataset, edition or archive of it.

5.4 Nothing on the Site is advice.Nothing on the Site constitutes or is intended to constitute legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, medical, safety, security, employment, political or other professional advice, a solicitation, an offer, a recommendation, or an inducement to any transaction or course of action. No fiduciary, advisory, professional or confidential relationship arises from use of the Site. Any decision taken on the basis of Content is taken solely on the User's own judgement and at the User's own risk, and independent professional advice should be obtained before acting.

5.5 The Site must not be used as a source of emergency, safety, medical, security or evacuation information, nor for any purpose where an error, delay, omission or interruption could result in death, personal injury, environmental damage, financial loss or other serious harm.

6. External links and destinations

6.1 The Site consists substantially of hyperlinks to external resources controlled by third parties. The Operator has no control over, does not monitor, and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for those resources, including their content, accuracy, legality, availability, advertising, paywalls, tracking practices, cookies, security or data processing. The inclusion of a hyperlink is a reference and is not an endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, partnership or recommendation.

6.2 Following an external hyperlink takes you outside the Site. From that point the privacy policy and terms of the destination apply and those of this document do not. The Operator is not a party to, and bears no responsibility arising out of, any dealing between you and any third party, including any subscription, payment, registration or dispute.

7. Limitation of liability

7.1 To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator, and its officers, employees, contractors, agents, licensors and suppliers, shall not be liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Site, the Content, any reliance on the Content, any inability to access the Site, or any act or omission of any third party whose material is displayed or linked here.

7.2 This exclusion applies in particular, and without limitation, to: indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary loss; loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, opportunity, anticipated savings, goodwill or reputation; loss, corruption or inaccessibility of data; business interruption; losses arising from decisions taken in reliance on any Content, ranking, grouping, duration figure or change record; and losses arising from inaccuracy, incompleteness, delay, omission, mis-attribution, mis-grouping or removal of any item.

7.3 Liability is excluded whether the claim is framed in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, restitution, misrepresentation or otherwise, and whether or not the Operator was advised of the possibility of the loss.

7.4 Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited in aggregate, for all claims arising in any twelve-month period, to the greater of (i) the total amount paid by the User to the Operator for access to the Site during that period, which for ordinary reading is nil, and (ii) EUR 100.

7.5 Mandatory exceptions. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for intent or gross negligence, or for any other liability that may not lawfully be excluded or limited. Nothing in these terms excludes, limits or affects the mandatory statutory rights of a Consumer, including rights under Directive (EU) 2019/770 on digital content and digital services where applicable, or the rights of any data subject under the GDPR, which cannot be waived or contracted out of and are not affected by this section.

7.6 Each provision of this section operates separately. If any part is held unenforceable, the remaining parts continue in effect, and the unenforceable part is to be given the widest effect that is lawful.

7.7 Time bar. Any claim arising out of or relating to the Site must be brought within one year after the cause of action arises, save where a longer period is mandatory under applicable law, in which case the mandatory period applies.

8. Acceptable use; prohibited conduct

8.1 You may use the Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms. You must not use the Site in any way that breaches applicable law, infringes the rights of others, or is fraudulent, harmful, deceptive or malicious in purpose or effect.

8.2 Without limitation, you must not: (a) scrape, crawl, harvest, mirror, index or systematically extract the Site or any substantial part of its database, whether by automated or manual means, except by ordinary search-engine crawling permitted by the Site's robots rules; (b) reproduce, republish, redistribute, sell, sublicense or create derivative works from Operator Material without prior written consent; (c) attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Site, its servers, or any account, including the private curation area; (d) interfere with or place unreasonable load on the infrastructure, including by denial-of-service attack or excessive automated requests; (e) circumvent, disable or interfere with any security, rate-limiting or access-control feature; (f) introduce malware or any other harmful code; (g) misuse the referral programme as described in section 10; or (h) use the Site to develop a competing service.

8.3 The Operator may, without notice and at its sole discretion, rate-limit, block, suspend or terminate access, remove content, suspend or delete an account, and take any technical or legal measure it considers appropriate in response to actual or suspected breach of this section. The Operator reserves all rights and remedies.

8.4 Indemnity. To the fullest extent permitted by law, and except where you are acting as a Consumer, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Operator against all claims, demands, proceedings, losses, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with your breach of these terms, your misuse of the Site, or your infringement of the rights of any third party.

9. Notices, complaints, corrections and removal

9.1 Any person may notify the Operator of Content they consider to be illegal, infringing, inaccurate, outdated or otherwise objectionable, by writing to hello@everytrace.co. This mechanism is provided in the manner contemplated by Article 16 of the Digital Services Act and is available electronically and free of charge.

9.2 To enable a prompt and properly reasoned decision, a notice should contain: (a) a sufficiently substantiated explanation of the reasons why the material is alleged to be illegal or otherwise objectionable; (b) a clear indication of the exact electronic location of the material, such as the precise URL or URLs; (c) the name and electronic mail address of the person submitting the notice, except where the notice concerns an offence referred to in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU; and (d) a statement confirming the bona fide belief of the person submitting it that the information contained in it is accurate and complete.

9.3 Notices containing the elements in clause 9.2 will be processed without undue delay and in a diligent, non-arbitrary and objective manner. The Operator will confirm receipt and communicate its decision, together with reasons, to the notifying party. Incomplete notices may be processed more slowly or may require clarification before any decision can be taken.

9.4 Where an item is removed, corrected or de-indexed following a notice, such action is taken without admission of liability, fault or wrongdoing of any kind, and is not evidence that the material was unlawful. The Operator may equally decline to act where it considers a notice unfounded, and may reinstate material previously removed.

9.5 To the extent the Operator acts as an intermediary in respect of Third-Party Material, it relies on the liability exemptions available to such providers under Articles 4 to 6 of the Digital Services Act, and on the absence of any general obligation to monitor or actively to seek facts indicating illegal activity under Article 8 of that Regulation. Nothing in these terms, and no voluntary investigation, filtering or removal undertaken by the Operator, is to be construed as a waiver of those exemptions or as the assumption of an editorial role.

9.6 If you publish material shown here and wish it corrected, updated or removed, the same address applies and a request will be honoured promptly on verification of your connection to the material.

10. Accounts and referral programme

10.1 An account is optional, is never required in order to read the Site, and exists for a single purpose: participation in the referral programme, under which readers who introduce other readers accrue credit. Accounts may be created using Google sign-in or a one-time link sent by email, and both methods may be attached to the same account.

10.2 You are responsible for maintaining the security of your sign-in identity and email account, and for all activity occurring under your account. You must notify the Operator promptly of any suspected unauthorised use.

10.3 Referral credit has no monetary value, is not a currency, security, voucher, deposit or property, is not redeemable for cash, is not transferable, and confers no right of any kind against the Operator. The Operator may vary, suspend, revalue or discontinue the referral programme, in whole or in part, at any time and without compensation.

10.4 Self-referral, automated account creation, use of disposable or third-party addresses without authority, artificial inflation of referral counts and any other manipulation of the programme are prohibited. The Operator may invalidate credit, refuse participation and terminate accounts where it reasonably suspects such conduct, and its determination in this respect is final.

10.5 You may delete your account at any time. The Operator may terminate or suspend an account for breach of these terms, for suspected abuse, or where required by law. Termination does not affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either party.

11. The brief (email subscription)

11.1 Subscription is optional and free. Delivery frequency, format, composition and continuation are at the Operator's discretion, no delivery schedule is guaranteed, and the brief may be suspended or discontinued at any time without notice or liability.

11.2 You must subscribe only using an address you are entitled to use. Subscription is confirmed by a double opt-in mechanism; an unconfirmed request is deleted rather than retained.

11.3 You may withdraw at any time using the link in any issue: one click, no explanation and no confirmation page. Withdrawal stops future issues; erasure of the underlying record may be requested at the address in section 1 and is effected as a deletion rather than a flag.

11.4 There is no open tracking and no click tracking. Issues contain no tracking pixel and no rewritten links. The Operator therefore does not know whether an issue was opened or what was clicked in it. Where an address ceases to accept mail, or a recipient reports an issue as spam, the mail provider reports this and the address is suppressed; that is the only automated feedback in operation.

12. Privacy policy — controller, scope and principles

12.1 The controller for the processing described in this Part is the person identified in section 1, whose particulars are not presently configured for this domain. Data protection enquiries and requests to exercise rights are addressed to hello@everytrace.co.

12.2 Reading the Site requires no account and no registration. There is no advertising, no advertising identifier, no tracking pixel, no fingerprinting and no third-party script of any kind: every page is rendered by the Operator's own server and loads nothing from any other party. Personal data are not sold, rented, bartered or disclosed for the marketing purposes of any third party.

12.3 No automated decision-making producing legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affecting you is carried out within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR, and no profiling of individual readers is performed.

12.4 Provision of personal data is not a statutory or contractual requirement. You are under no obligation to provide any data; the only consequence of not doing so is that you cannot receive the brief or hold an account, neither of which is necessary for reading.

13. Readership measurement (non-identifying)

13.1 Data about your visit is recorded even when you are anonymous, and this recording is not optional. For every visit, whether or not anything is accepted and with no facility to decline, the server records which pages were opened and in what order, how long each was kept open, how far each was scrolled, which links and buttons were activated, the domain of the referring site, a device class (mobile, tablet or desktop) and a country.

13.2 The reason it cannot be declined is that it contains nothing relating to an identified or identifiable person. Nothing is stored on or read from your terminal equipment for this purpose, so the consent requirement in Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC is not engaged. Your IP address and browser identification are never written to storage. The identifier that binds the pages of a single visit together is a hash computed with a secret that is destroyed every 24 hours, after which the Operator itself cannot connect yesterday's visit to today's, or either to any person. Search terms and other query parameters are stripped before storage.

13.3 These records are deleted after 180 days at the latest. Because they are not personal data, the rights in section 18 are inapplicable to them: there is no record capable of being located, disclosed, corrected, restricted or erased on request, and this is a consequence of the design rather than a refusal.

13.4 The one processing that does require permission is recognition on return: answering whether readers come back requires a persistent random identifier in your browser, and the Site asks before setting one. Declining changes nothing else — you continue to be counted anonymously as above. Where consent is given and later withdrawn, the data collected under that identifier are deleted rather than merely no longer collected. The legal basis is consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC.

14. Server logs and security processing

14.1 The server keeps ordinary request logs, which include IP addresses, request lines, timestamps, response codes and user-agent strings. These are personal data.

14.2 The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interests pursued are operating the service, maintaining availability, diagnosing faults, and detecting, preventing and investigating abuse, intrusion and fraud. Those interests have been balanced against the rights and freedoms of data subjects, having regard to the limited categories of data, the short retention period and the absence of any use for profiling, marketing or disclosure. You may object under Article 21 GDPR on grounds relating to your particular situation.

14.3 Logs are retained no longer than necessary for those purposes and are then deleted, save where a specific record must be preserved for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or in order to comply with a legal obligation or a lawful order.

15. Geolocation, subscription and account data

15.1 Subscription. Where you subscribe to the brief, what is stored is your email address, the edition requested, and evidence of the request: the time of the request, the time of confirmation, and the IP address and browser identification from which each of those was made. No name is collected, no profile is constructed, nothing is purchased from any data broker, and nothing is inferred about you from what you read. The legal basis is consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, given by confirming the link in the opening email. The evidence described exists in order to demonstrate consent as required by Article 7(1) GDPR, and is retained for as long as the subscription subsists and thereafter for the period necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. An unconfirmed request is deleted within one month.

15.2 Accounts. Where you create an account, what is stored is the sign-in identity used (a Google account identifier, or your email address), a referral code that is yours to share, and sign-in timestamps. No name is required, no profile is built, and nothing about what you read is attached to it. The legal basis is consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, given by creating the account for a purpose stated in advance. Deleting the account removes it, its sign-in identities and the referral records tied to it, as a deletion rather than a flag.

15.3 Referral opens. A share link carries a visible ?sidparameter containing the sharer's referral code and nothing else. When such a link is opened, the fact that a code was opened is recorded, together with the country and, where the connection resolves it, the region or city. The IP address is used solely to derive that location, on the Operator's own server against the local database named in clause 4.5, and is not stored: the place is kept, the address is not, and nothing retained can be reversed into it. So that a single open is not counted twice, a small functional cookie (everytrace_reads) records which codes this browser has already counted today; it holds only those codes and no identifier. Opening a link places you on no one's referral list; that occurs only if you choose to create an account. The sharer's code is separately stored on your device in a plain, readable cookie (everytrace_sid) for up to 60 days, so that if you create an account in the same browser the referring reader can be credited. It is stripped from the address bar once read, so that onward sharing does not propagate another person's code. Clearing it, or never creating an account, simply means that no referral is recorded. Once a referral is recorded between two accounts, it is retained until either account is deleted.

15.4 Front-page geolocation.The country used to weight the front-page ordering is derived on the Operator's own server from the connection's address against the local DB-IP database. No third party is queried, nothing is stored on your device for it, and the address is used for the lookup and then discarded, leaving only the request logs described in section 14.

16. Recipients, processors and international transfers

16.1 Two providers process personal data on the Operator's behalf, each under a data processing agreement compliant with Article 28 GDPR, and each solely for the purposes described above.

16.2 Amazon Web Services (SES) dispatches the brief and the confirmation email, in the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) region. Migadu hosts the mailbox behind the contact address on this page, in Switzerland, a country benefiting from an adequacy decision of the European Commission. Data therefore remain in Europe in both cases.

16.3 Amazon Web Services is a United States-owned company. United States authorities may in principle seek to compel access to data it holds irrespective of the region in which that data is stored. This is stated because it is accurate, not because it is comfortable, and it is disclosed so that you may take it into account before providing an address.

16.4 Beyond the above, personal data are disclosed only where necessary to comply with a legal obligation, to respond to a lawful order of a competent authority or court, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, and to the Operator's professional advisers under duties of confidentiality. In the event of a corporate reorganisation or transfer of the Site, data may be transferred to the acquirer subject to the same protections.

16.5 A data protection officer has not been designated, none of the criteria in Article 37(1) GDPR being met by the processing described in this document. Enquiries are handled at the address in section 1.

17. Cookies and browser storage

17.1 Functional storage cannot be declined, and no banner pretends otherwise. Two things fall within that description. First, your answer to the consent question is itself kept in your browser's local storage; that record is what makes it possible not to ask again on every page, it exists whether you answered yes or no, and storing it is exempt from the consent requirement precisely because it is the mechanism by which consent operates. Second, a session cookie is created when a maintainer signs in to the private curation area; it is strictly necessary for that sign-in, is not used for tracking, and never applies to ordinary reading. Offering a decline button for either would be offering a choice that does not exist, which is why none is shown.

17.2 The referral cookies described in clause 15.3 (everytrace_reads and everytrace_sid) are functional, are set only when a share link is opened, contain only referral codes, and may be cleared by you at any time through your browser with no consequence other than that no referral is recorded.

17.3 The only optional storage is the recognition identifier described in clause 13.4: a random value placed in local storage if, and only if, you agree to be recognised across visits. Declining, or never answering, leaves nothing of the kind on your device; withdrawing removes it together with the data collected under it. Subscribing to the brief stores nothing in your browser at all — the form posts an address and that is the end of it.

18. Your rights as a data subject

18.1 Where personal data relating to you are processed here, you have the rights of access (Article 15), rectification (Article 16), erasure (Article 17), restriction of processing (Article 18), data portability (Article 20) and objection (Article 21) under the GDPR. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time under Article 7(3), without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

18.2 In practice, the data capable of being the subject of such a request are the request logs described in section 14, the recognition identifier if you consented to one, your subscription record if you subscribed, and your account and referral records if you created an account. The readership measurement described in section 13 contains, by design, nothing traceable to you, and there is accordingly nothing to disclose, correct or erase in respect of it.

18.3 Requests are answered without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt, extendable by two further months where necessary having regard to complexity and number of requests, in which case you will be informed within the first month. The Operator may request information reasonably necessary to confirm your identity, and may refuse to act on, or charge a reasonable fee for, requests that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, as permitted by Article 12(5) GDPR.

18.4 You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The authority competent for the Operator is that of the Member State of the Operator's main establishment, as identified in section 1. You are not required to contact the Operator first, although doing so is usually the quickest route to a resolution.

19. Security

19.1 The Operator implements technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including transport encryption, minimisation of what is collected, short retention periods and the deliberate avoidance of identifiers wherever a purpose can be achieved without them.

19.2 No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and no guarantee of absolute security is given or can be given. Transmission of data to the Site is at your own risk. In the event of a personal data breach, the Operator will notify the competent supervisory authority and, where required, affected data subjects, in accordance with Articles 33 and 34 GDPR.

20. Minors

20.1 The Site is not directed at children and is not intended for use by persons below the age at which consent to information society services is valid in their country of residence. No account or subscription should be created by such a person. Where the Operator becomes aware that data relating to such a person have been provided without the required authorisation, those data will be deleted.

21. Availability, force majeure and changes

21.1 The Operator is not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, epidemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour dispute, act of government or regulator, failure of an upstream provider, network, hosting, feed, dataset or power supply, cyber-attack, or the withdrawal, alteration or restriction of any source or third-party service on which the Site depends.

21.2 These terms may be amended at any time. The amended version takes effect upon publication on this page, save that amendments materially affecting subscribers or account holders will, where practicable, be notified in advance. Continued use after publication constitutes acceptance. Where consent is the legal basis for a processing operation, no amendment purports to extend that processing without a fresh consent.

22. General provisions

22.1 Severability. If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, it shall be severed or read down to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

22.2 No waiver. No failure or delay by the Operator in exercising any right or remedy constitutes a waiver of it, and no single or partial exercise precludes any further exercise.

22.3 Assignment.The Operator may assign, novate or otherwise transfer its rights and obligations under these terms. You may not do so without the Operator's prior written consent.

22.4 No third-party rights. Save as expressly provided, no person other than the parties has any right to enforce any provision of these terms.

22.5 Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and the Operator in respect of the Site and supersede all prior statements, understandings and representations, save that nothing limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

22.6 Language. This document is drawn up in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only, and in the event of discrepancy the English version prevails, except where mandatory consumer or national law requires otherwise.

23. Governing law and jurisdiction

23.1 These terms, and any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with them or with use of the Site, are governed by the law of the country of the Operator's establishment as identified in section 1, that particular not being configured for this domain, without regard to conflict of law rules.

23.2 The courts of the Operator's place of establishment have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms or the Site.

23.3 Consumers.Clauses 23.1 and 23.2 do not deprive a Consumer of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the Consumer is habitually resident, and do not remove a Consumer's right to bring proceedings in, or to be sued only in, the courts designated by applicable consumer jurisdiction rules. Nor do they affect a data subject's right to bring proceedings under Article 79 GDPR before the courts of the Member State of their habitual residence.

24. Accessibility and feedback

24.1 The Site is built to be readable without client-side scripting from third parties and to work with assistive technology. No warranty of conformity with any particular accessibility standard is given. Accessibility barriers may be reported to hello@everytrace.co and will be addressed so far as reasonably practicable.

25. Status of this document

25.1 The effective date of this version is not configured for this domain; it should be set in tenant_config.legal (effective_date) so that superseded versions can be distinguished. It supersedes all previous versions published at this address.

25.2 Headings are for convenience and do not affect construction. Parts A (sections 1 to 11) and D (sections 19 to 25) constitute the Terms of Use; Part C (sections 12 to 18) constitutes the privacy information notice and is not a contractual term, is not capable of being waived by you, and does not limit your rights under the GDPR.