Terms of Service

1. The agreement

By creating an account, calling the API, or using this website, you agree to these terms on behalf of yourself and any organisation you are acting for. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

"Service" means the SerpResult API, the dashboard, the documentation and this website. "You" means the account holder.

2. Accounts and keys

You are responsible for everything done with your account and your API keys. A secret key is shown once at creation and stored only as a hash, so it cannot be recovered later. Keep it out of client-side code and version control, and rotate or revoke it from the dashboard the moment you suspect it has leaked.

Usage under a key is attributed to the account that owns it, including usage you did not intend. We may suspend a key that is being abused or that appears to be compromised.

3. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

• break any law that applies to you or to us;
• collect personal data about individuals from search results;
• resell raw responses as a competing search results API;
• deliberately circumvent rate limits, credit accounting, or the demo limit on this website;
• attack, overload or probe the Service or the infrastructure behind it.

Results come from third-party search engines. Their content belongs to whoever published it, and you are responsible for using it in a way that respects their rights.

4. Credits and billing

Usage is counted in credits. One search costs one credit. A request rejected for an invalid parameter costs nothing; a search that the upstream engine failed to answer is charged, because the retrieval was attempted.

Every account is granted 100 free requests once, at signup. The grant is one per email address: an account created again with an email that has already had it starts with none. The 100 requests never reset and carry no expiry, and once they are spent further requests are refused until a paid plan is taken.

Every paid plan carries a monthly quota of credits. The period is the billing cycle of your subscription: it runs from the day you subscribed and renews monthly on that day. An account with no subscription cycle of its own, such as one billed through a marketplace or placed on a plan by hand, is measured on the calendar month in UTC instead. The quota is a hard limit: once it is spent, further requests are refused until the period renews or a credit pack is bought. No usage is ever billed to you after the fact.

A credit pack is paid for up front. An account with an active paid plan may buy a pack of 10,000, 50,000 or 100,000 credits from the billing page of the dashboard, priced at the rate per 1,000 published for that plan on the pricing page, and the credits are available on the account as soon as the payment clears. Pack credits do not expire. Each period spends the plan's monthly quota first and draws on the credit balance only after the quota is gone, and any unspent balance survives a renewal, a change of plan and the end of the subscription. The free trial cannot buy packs.

Plans and credit packs bought from us are sold through Polar (Polar Software Inc.), which acts as the merchant of record for the sale: Polar sells the subscription or the pack to you, collects the payment, applies the tax that is due on it, issues the invoice and stores your payment method. Card details are held by Polar and its payment provider and never reach us. A purchase is therefore also subject to Polar's own terms.

You take a plan, upgrade and downgrade from the billing page of the dashboard. An upgrade applies immediately and the difference in price is invoiced at once; a downgrade applies at the end of the billing period you have already paid for. Cancelling the subscription, changing the payment method and downloading invoices happen in the Polar customer portal, reached from that page. A cancelled plan keeps serving until the end of the period you have paid for and then does not renew.

All payments are final. You can cancel a plan at any time from the dashboard; cancelling stops the next renewal and the plan keeps serving until the end of the period you have paid for. We do not refund subscription fees, renewals, upgrade charges or credit packs, in whole or in part, and an unused credit balance is not refunded (it does not expire). This does not affect any refund that applicable law requires.

A subscription taken through the RapidAPI marketplace is an alternative at the same price. It is counted and billed by RapidAPI under RapidAPI's own terms, and the plan you hold there governs the quota and the rate limit on that traffic.

5. Availability

The Service is provided as it is, without an availability commitment. We do not promise uninterrupted service, a particular latency, or that any specific engine, country or query will return results. Upstream search engines change without notice, and some of those changes reach you.

We may change, limit or withdraw parts of the Service. Where a change breaks an existing integration, we will give reasonable notice through the documentation or by email.

6. Your data

What we store, why, and for how long is described in the Privacy Policy. In short: we log the parameters of each call so usage and errors can be accounted for, and we store the results of a search so a repeated query does not repeat the work upstream.

7. Liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, SerpResult is not liable for lost profits, lost data, or indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim arose.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

8. Changes and termination

These terms may change. Material changes will be announced before they take effect, and the date at the top of this page will be updated. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the new terms.

You may close your account at any time from the dashboard. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, and will tell you why unless the law prevents it.

9. Contact

Questions about these terms go to [email protected].