Background
Waegis is an online anti-spam service that helps to block web spams from sites,
blogs, forums, wiki’s and emails.
You need to register with Waegis in order to obtain an API key and start using the
service. Before registration, please read these terms of service and the conditions
described herein as well as our privacy policy.
You must agree to our privacy policy and corresponding terms of service in order
to be able to use our site and service otherwise we’re unable to serve you.
When you are using Waegis site, service, your API key or libraries and plug-ins
provided by Waegis, you agree that you have read, understood and agreed to this
terms of service and the terms and conditions described herein as well as our privacy
policy.
General
Your use of Waegis site and service varies based on your needs but to use the service
you need to obtain an API key and to obtain an API key you need to be registered
on the site. To see the statistical details of your API key and/or download and
use any of the libraries and plug-ins provided by Waegis, you also need to be registered
on Waegis site.
Waegis can freely change and modify the existing site and service software and design
without any notice and without any permission from its users (free or commercial
users) or visitors. You can terminate your account at any time if you don’t agree
with these changes. The termination of an account is described in section “Termination”
in this page.
Registration
The main part of Waegis site and service requires you to be registered on the site.
Registration requires your agreement to privacy policy and these terms of service
as well as confirming and activating of your account by email. By registering on
the site you’ll be able to obtain an API key and download the libraries and plug-ins.
By registering on the Waegis site, you allow Waegis to contact you via the email
address that you have provided in order to notify you about site and service changes
and changes in privacy policy and terms of service. You’re solely responsible to
respond to any email that Waegis sends to you in less than 7 business days otherwise
you have allowed Waegis to decide on your behalf on any situation.
You need to keep your account information private and secure to not allow others
use them illegally. You’re fully responsible for whatever is done with your account.
Obtaining an API Key
The main part of your usage of the Waegis site and service is obtaining an API key
from your account. An API is a unique string value that is generated for you to
let you use the API. You should keep this value private and not share it with others
otherwise there may be some illegal use of your account. In this case you’re solely
responsible to whatever that is done by others with your API key. In general you’re
fully responsible for whatever is done with your API keys.
There are some limitations for free and commercial API keys. Waegis can change these
limitations to increase or decrease them with or without notice but users can terminate
their accounts at any time if they don’t agree with the changes.
By registering and obtaining an API key from Waegis you agree to use the API key
in order to use Waegis service and its API with a client library in order to initialize
your site instances, check your incoming content for being spam or legitimate (ham)
and also report spams and hams to improve Waegis service. You agree that you use
the API under the conditions that are described in
API documentation section. If you do not use your API key in a normal manner
(described by API specification) then Waegis has the legal right to block your account
or your API keys temporary or permanently. In this case, you have no right to ask
Waegis to unblock your account or API key. Waegis may do this after receiving enough
evidences from you to prove your legal use of its API.
You also agree that you use an API key only and only for the domain that you have
used to obtain the API key. If you use an API key for another domain then Waegis
has the right to block your account and/or your API keys without notice. You need
to use an API key for valid site instances as well. Any attempt to cheat Waegis
system and use a single site instance in turn of multiple site instances will cause
your account and/or your API keys to be blocked by Waegis without notice.
When trying to obtain an API key, you must consider that Waegis knows you as the
owner or webmaster of the site or blog and you’re responsible for this. With enough
evidences of your illegal registration of someone else’s site on Waegis, we can
block your account and your money without notice.
Free API Keys
By default you retrieve a free API key from Waegis by entering your site’s URL and
title. These are mandatory for the operation of the site and service. A free API
key costs nothing and has some lower limitations in comparison with commercial API
keys. Waegis has the right to upper or lower these limitations without notice or
finish its service to free API keys at any time 10 days after a public announcement
on its blog and/or via user emails.
Commercial API Keys
You can change your API key account type to a commercial account from your account
dashboard. There are some commercial account plans that are differentiated based
on some limitations in the number of monthly API calls, maximum allowed site instances
and the features provided on the Waegis site. Prices are also differentiated based
on these parameters. Waegis has the right to upper or lower the limitations of commercial
accounts 10 days after a public announcement on its blog and/or via user emails.
When you proceed to change your account type for an API key, any change will be
applied only to the requested API key and can’t be transferred to other API keys
or be shared with them.
Payments
To obtain a commercial API key you should provide your payment information for Waegis
including your real full name, postal address, city, state/province, country, phone
number and your PayPal account identifier. To retrieve a commercial API key you
must agree and let Waegis to transfer a specified amount of money (shown in the
order page) from your PayPal account to its own account. This amount of money can’t
be returned to you unless in cases described in the “Termination” section in the
terms of service.
You need to choose a six months or one year period of time for your account type
change request and must pay the entire price at the beginning unless Waegis owners
approve to do something else.
Waegis will review your request and will change your account type as soon as your
money arrives to its account.
When proceeding with a payment, you agree and understand that your requested account
type change will be applied to a specific API key chosen by yourself and can’t be
transferred to other API keys or be shared with them. You also need to agree and
understand that this is for a specified period of time and Waegis can change your
account type to free plan after this period with the limitations for free account
plan with or without notice.
Content on Other Sites
One of the biggest concerns for Waegis clients is that their own content is transferred
to a third party site and what will happen to them. Waegis clearly states that it
doesn’t store any incoming data including the content of other sites (its clients)
that are passed to its API for check unless in the case that a user has reported
the content as spam or ham to help improve Waegis service. This is of course for
a very short period of time and item will be removed from the servers after this
period.
Waegis only applies an automated process on the incoming data to check them based
on some algorithms and then may or may not break the content and use its words and
elements for further operation of its service. After this process the original content
cannot be retrieved.
As of the third party content referred by Waegis site via its blog, press or testimonials,
Waegis has no responsibility for the content provided by these sites and they’re
the sole responsible for their own content.
Limitation of Warranties
Unless exclusively described somewhere on the site, Waegis, its employees, its contractors
and its partners have no responsibility to guarantee any uptime, quality or accuracy
(in identifying spam or legitimate content) of site and service for users.
Limitation of Liability
Unless exclusively described somewhere on the site, Waegis, its employees, its contractors
and its partners are not liable to you or any other party for anything that directly
or indirectly causes damages, business interruption or loss of data for you, your
sites and your partners as a result of using Waegis site or service.
Copyright
You’re responsible to respect to Waegis’ copyright when using the site and service
or referring to it, its text content, downloadable content or service API and agree
to not use its content (text or software) in an illegal way.
You’re the sole responsible for your usage of what Waegis has provided as text content,
downloadable software or service API.
Termination
Waegis keeps its right to terminate its service for any free API key and related
user accounts at any time with or without notice with or without reason. It also
keeps its right to terminate its service to commercial API keys and their related
user accounts in the case when an API key or the related user account has tried
to use Waegis site and/or service in an illegal way with or without notice.
Waegis is responsible to serve to commercial API keys and their related user accounts
until the end of the account period but has the right to not renew a commercial
API key after ending the service period.
Users can terminate their accounts at any time with or without notice but Waegis
will not return any money back to users for terminating commercial accounts unless
in two cases when Waegis (i) has applied a change in its privacy policy or terms
of service or (ii) has changed its commercial account limitations. If a commercial
user does not agree to these changes then Waegis must return the remained money
of the service period to the user. This is calculated by number of remained months
rounded to the next month from the day when the termination request is sent to Waegis.
Changes in Terms of Service
Any change in these terms of service or its corresponding privacy policy is possible
under the conditions described in the privacy policy under the “Future Changes”
section.