1. Who we are
The service is provided by Alexey Gvozditskiy, trading as Running Cat Development, a sole proprietorship registered in Poland in the Central Register and Information on Economic Activity (CEIDG). NIP 6342994917, REGON 388765800. Katowice, Poland. Email: hello@runningcat.dev. In these terms "we" and "us" mean this business, and "you" means the person or organisation that holds the account.
2. The service
The API answers HTTPS requests with map data from OpenStreetMap, points of interest, routes, weather, air quality, pollen, river levels, elevation and time zones. What each part does is described on this website. You call it with an API key from your account. To use the API you need an HTTPS client; the account pages need a current web browser with JavaScript and cookies turned on.
Each plan has the limits shown under Pricing. Over a limit the API refuses requests with status 429 and tells you when to try again; we never bill extra for going over.
3. Your account and keys
You agree to these terms when you create an account, and the agreement for the free plan starts when you first sign in. It runs until you or we end it. A paid plan starts when you buy it (section 7).
You must be at least 18 years old, or act for a business that has agreed to these terms. Give us an email address you read: we use it to sign you in and to tell you about changes to your plan or these terms.
Keep your API keys secret. You are responsible for requests made with your keys. If a key leaks, revoke it in your account and create a new one.
4. How you may use the API
You may use the API in your own products and services, commercial or not: apps, websites, games, internal tools, and products you build for your clients. Your users get your product; they do not get our API.
You may not:
- sell, rent or give away API keys or access to the API, or let others use the API through your keys as a service of its own;
- build a proxy, wrapper or API whose main purpose is to give others access to our API or to the data it returns;
- use the API to collect data in bulk, for example to build, refresh or mirror a database, or to offer its answers as a data feed or download;
- open several accounts or split work across accounts to get around a plan's limits;
- send requests meant to overload the service, test its security without our written permission, or interfere with other users;
- use the service for anything unlawful or that infringes someone else's rights.
Keeping answers so your product works faster or offline for its users is fine. Collecting them to build a copy of the data is not.
5. The data and its licences
The data in our answers comes from OpenStreetMap and other providers listed on Data sources. Their licences cover the data itself, and that page says which credit you must show where you use it. OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License, and you must credit "© OpenStreetMap contributors".
Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under those open licences. The rules in section 4 are about how you use our service.
Much of the data is collected by volunteers and public agencies, and it can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Weather, air quality and river levels are forecasts and measurements, not official warnings. Do not rely on the service where an error could put people or property at risk.
6. Changes to plans and the API
We improve the API over time and may change or retire parts of it. We may change the free plan's limits at any time. For a paid plan, we tell you by email at least 14 days before a change that lowers your limits or raises your price; the change applies from your next billing period, and you can cancel before then.
7. Payment
Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. When you buy a plan, Paddle's buyer terms apply to the purchase as well.
Prices are shown in US dollars under Pricing; Paddle adds any sales tax or VAT for your location at checkout. A paid plan is a subscription paid in advance, monthly or yearly, and it renews by itself until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account page, which opens Paddle's billing portal; the plan stays until the end of the period you paid for. When you move to another plan, the change applies at once and Paddle charges or credits the difference. If a payment cannot be collected, your account returns to the free plan.
8. Refunds
You can ask for a refund within 14 days of your first payment for a plan. Renewals and the difference charged when you move to a bigger plan are not refunded. How it works is on Refunds. If you buy as a consumer, you also have the rights Paddle's buyer terms and the law give you.
9. Availability and support
We keep the service running around the clock and fix faults as fast as we can. When planned work may stop the service, we tell account holders by email at least 48 hours before. We are not responsible for interruptions caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as failures of our hosting provider or of the internet, attacks or natural disasters. Support is by email at hello@runningcat.dev.
10. Ending the agreement
You can stop using the service at any time and ask us by email to close your account.
We may block a key or suspend an account at once if it breaks these terms, puts the service or other users at risk, or if the law requires it; we tell you why by email. We may change or end the free plan at any time. If we stop the service altogether, we tell you at least 14 days before and refund the unused part of any paid period.
11. Our rights and yours
The software, website, documentation and the service are ours. The data belongs to its owners and is used under the licences on Data sources. While the agreement runs, we give you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the API under these terms. What you send in requests stays yours; we use it only to answer the request and to run the service, as the privacy policy explains.
12. Liability
If you use the service for your business, our total liability to you for all claims is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim, and we are not liable for lost profits, lost data or other indirect loss. These limits do not apply to damage we cause intentionally, or where the law does not allow such a limit.
If you are a consumer, these limits do not apply to you, and nothing in these terms reduces the rights consumer law gives you.
13. Complaints
If something does not work as these terms promise, write to hello@runningcat.dev with the email of your account and what happened. We answer within 14 days. Complaints about a payment or a refund can also go to Paddle through paddle.net.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page shows when they last changed. We email account holders at least 14 days before a change to these terms applies, and if you do not accept it, you can close your account before then.
15. Law and courts
Polish law applies to these terms. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you can go to the courts the law allows you. Disputes with business customers go to the courts competent for Katowice.