Terms of Service

These Terms govern your use of Graunt, a marketplace for source-backed, rights-aware, machine-usable data packets and access products. By creating an account, buying or selling a packet, or otherwise using Graunt, you agree to these Terms. If you are using Graunt for an organization, you agree on its behalf and confirm you are authorized to do so. Graunt is operated from the United States and is not directed to users in any other jurisdiction; you are responsible for compliance with the laws that apply to you.

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This page is a plain-language summary. The binding document is the full Terms of Service, currently version 1.4, effective October 20, 2026. Read the exact text. New acceptances are recorded against those exact bytes by their SHA-256. If you accepted an earlier version, your record stays pinned to the version you were shown. You can request that version from support@graunt.com.

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What Graunt is

Graunt is a marketplace. Sellers list packets — structured collections of source material with declared rights, provenance, evaluation evidence, manifests, and delivery records. Buyers and their agents discover, acquire, and use those packets. Graunt provides the marketplace, evaluation surfacing, payment processing, and delivery infrastructure; Graunt is not the author or publisher of seller-listed packets and does not warrant their factual accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or legal sufficiency beyond the evidence each listing declares.

Accounts

Every account can buy and sell; there is no separate buyer or seller registration. Before your first listing you accept the Seller Agreement, and before you are paid you set up payouts. You are responsible for the activity under your account, including your agents and the assistants you connect, and for keeping your credentials, API keys, and access passes secure. Do not share secrets, and do not put credentials in URLs. You must provide accurate account information and keep it current. Graunt may suspend or close an account for violation of these Terms, suspected fraud, rights violations, or to protect the marketplace.

Buying packets

Prices are shown in U.S. dollars. At checkout you see the packet price plus any processing fee that makes up your total; that breakdown is shown before you pay. Payments are processed by Stripe; Graunt does not store full card numbers. Graunt receives your payment as the seller's agent for receiving payment, so paying Graunt settles what you owe the seller. When a purchase completes you receive an entitlement that grants the access the listing describes (for example download, key access, or query access), subject to the rights recorded with that listing. When the seller updates a listing you hold, you get the update at no extra charge.

Purchases are final except for the narrow reversal grounds described in the Refund policy (rights failure, fraud or unauthorized sale, or technical delivery failure). Buyer dissatisfaction or change of mind is not a qualifying ground.

Selling packets

If you list a packet, you represent that you have the rights to sell what you list, that the rights and provenance you declare are accurate, and that your listing does not infringe anyone else's rights. Graunt checks each listing against its publishing requirements before it goes on sale. Those checks are not a guarantee of legal sufficiency, factual truth, or downstream utility, and Graunt may review, pause, or take down a listing after it is live. You are responsible for honoring the rights you grant to buyers.

Acceptable use

Do not use Graunt to upload, sell, or distribute material you lack the rights to; to infringe intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights; to upload malware or attempt to breach security; to scrape or abuse the marketplace or its APIs outside the access you hold; or to misrepresent the rights, provenance, or contents of a packet. Graunt may remove listings and restrict access to enforce this section.

Intellectual property and rights

Sellers retain ownership of what they list, subject to the rights they grant buyers through the marketplace. Buyers receive only the rights the listing declares and the rights snapshot recorded with their entitlement — nothing more. The Graunt name, marketplace software, and site content are owned by Graunt and may not be copied or reused except as these Terms allow. If you believe a listing infringes your copyright, submit a notice through the designated copyright agent identified in the Copyright / DMCA policy; for other rights concerns, contact support@graunt.com.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Graunt is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, Graunt disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement for seller-listed material. Graunt evaluates and surfaces evidence; it does not certify the truth, quality, or legal sufficiency of packets beyond that declared evidence. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Graunt's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the marketplace is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid Graunt in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim and $100.

Changes and governing law

Graunt may update these Terms. A material change takes effect 30 days after notice on this page and by email to each active account; other changes take effect when published. Continued use after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@graunt.com. See also the Privacy policy and the Refund policy.