Terms of Service

These terms apply to worldpriceindex.org, its API at api.worldpriceindex.org and your account (“the service”), run by Vexon Group Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16879644), at 15 Seaside Road, Eastbourne, BN21 3PP, United Kingdom (“we”, “us”).

By using the service you agree to these terms, our Privacy Policy and the Disclaimer. If you use the service for an organisation, you confirm you can accept these terms for it.

You can use the public pages free of charge for personal, research, editorial and business purposes. You may link to any page, and quote figures with attribution (“Source: World Price Index”). Don't copy large parts of the site, or collect data from it automatically (scraping); use the API instead.

• Sign-in is by emailed link or Google. Keep access to your email account secure: anyone who can read it can sign in.
• Give us an email address you use. We send sign-in links, billing notices and important service messages there.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account and your API keys.

• Keys are personal to your account. Don't publish them, put them in client-side code that others can read, or share them outside your organisation.
• If a key may have been exposed, revoke it in the dashboard and create a new one. Requests made with your keys count against your plan until you revoke them.
• You can create up to 10 keys a day.

Each plan includes a number of requests a month, a hard monthly cap and a per-minute burst limit, as shown on the Pricing page when you subscribe:

• Usage and overage count requests that return data; errors don't. The per-minute and monthly limits apply to every request made with your keys, including errors.
• Limits apply to your account as a whole, across all your keys.
• On Free, requests stop at the limit until the 1st of the next month. On Starter and Pro, requests above the included amount are billed as overage until the hard cap, then refused until the next month.
• Months run from the 1st to the end of the calendar month (UTC).
• Don't try to get around limits, for example by spreading requests across several free accounts.

Subject to these terms and the source licences below, you may use data from the API in your own products, research, reports and internal tools, including commercial ones, with this attribution where the data is shown to others: “Data: World Price Index” (and the original source where the API names one).

You may not:

• resell or redistribute the data as a standalone dataset or feed, or offer an API that substantially reproduces ours, without a written Enterprise agreement;
• present the data as your own original source;
• use it in a way that breaks the law or the rights of others.

Source licences. Much of the data comes from public bodies and stays subject to their terms, which we pass on: the World Bank, OECD and ILOSTAT (CC BY 4.0); the UK Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0); the US Energy Information Administration (public domain); the IMF and BIS (free reuse with attribution, under their terms); exchange rates from the European Central Bank and other central banks via Frankfurter. Apple and subscription prices are facts collected from public pricing pages; product and company names are trademarks of their owners, and we're not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

• Paid plans are billed monthly in advance, in US dollars, through Stripe. Overage is billed in arrears on the next invoice.
• Prices exclude tax. Stripe adds VAT or sales tax where it applies, based on your billing details.
• If a payment fails, we'll email you and Stripe will retry. While payment is overdue, API requests are paused (they return 402) until it's paid.
• We may change plan prices or limits with at least 30 days' notice by email. Changes apply from your next billing period; if you don't agree, you can cancel before then.
• Enterprise plans are invoiced under a separate written agreement, which takes priority over these terms where they differ.

Upgrades take effect straight away, and you pay the difference for the rest of the period. Downgrades take effect at the end of the current period.

• You can cancel a paid plan at any time from the dashboard (billing portal). Your plan stays active until the end of the period you've paid for, then moves to Free.
• We don't refund partial periods or unused requests, except where the law requires it.
• Consumers in the UK: if you subscribe as a consumer (not for business), you have 14 days to cancel and get a refund. If you ask the service to start during those 14 days, which happens as soon as you subscribe, we may deduct a proportionate amount for what you've used.

Don't:

• break the law, or use the service to harm others;
• try to get into accounts, systems or data that aren't yours, or test our security without written permission;
• overload or disrupt the service, including with automated traffic to the website;
• upload or send anything malicious through the contact form or API.

We work to keep the service available and accurate, but we don't promise it will be uninterrupted, error-free or that any dataset will always be included. Sources change, publish late or stop publishing. We may add, change or remove features and endpoints; for paid plans we'll give reasonable notice of changes that remove an endpoint you use. There's no service-level agreement unless one is in an Enterprise agreement.

• We may suspend or close an account, or revoke keys, if you break these terms, don't pay, or your use puts the service or others at risk. Where we reasonably can, we'll warn you first.
• You can close your account by emailing [email protected]. We'll delete your data as the Privacy Policy describes.

• The data is for information only; see the Disclaimer. Check prices with the seller and figures with the original source before relying on them.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law (for example for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud).
• Otherwise, we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill.
• Our total liability to you in any 12 months is limited to the fees you paid us in those 12 months, or £100 if you're on Free.
• If you're a consumer, you keep your statutory rights.

We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top, and email account holders at least 30 days before a change that affects paid plans takes effect.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you're a consumer living elsewhere in the UK, you can also bring proceedings in your local courts.

[email protected], or the contact form.