API Docs API and Data Use Policy

Last Updated: November 3, 2025

Users of the API Docs application programming interface ("API") and API Docs Data (as defined below) are required to comply with API Docs's Terms of Use, API License Agreement and the terms and conditions of this Policy.

I. General

• Your use of the API and API Docs Data, including the collection, use, maintenance and disclosure of user data shall comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and the terms of this Policy, and any advertising, marketing, privacy, or other self-regulatory code(s) applicable to your industry.
• You must not take any action that constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail.

II. Authorization

• You must take commercially reasonable steps, compliant with applicable laws, rules and regulations, to protect all data you collect, obtain or access through the API or that users submit to the API Docs service through your application and/or website ("API Docs Data") and your authentication key from unauthorized use, disclosure or access.
• You must not give your authentication key to another party and you take responsibility for any and all use of the API using your authentication key.
• API Docs may revoke your authentication credentials at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you or any other person.
• You must notify us immediately in the event of any unauthorized access to API Docs Data, your authentication key, and/or your application and/or website.
• If your application and/or website authenticates API Docs service users:
  • You must not include functionality in your application and/or website that requests or collects API Docs username or passwords, and you may only permit users to log in via the login API.
  • Your application and/or website must provide a link to the API Docs service settings page where the user can disconnect your application and/or website from the API Docs service.

III. Access/Use

• You will only request the API Docs Data you need to operate your application and/or website and must make no further use of it and delete it when your application and/or website has no such further use for it, including, without limitation, when a user has withdrawn consent.
• API Docs expressly reserves the right to limit the number and/or frequency of API requests in its sole discretion. If API Docs reasonably believes that you have attempted to exceed or circumvent the rate limits (including, without limitation, through mass-registering of applications), your ability to use the API may be temporarily or permanently blocked, with or without notice, and without API Docs liability to you or any other person.
• If your application and/or website requires or permits the transfer of user information outside of the user's home country (including transfers to API Docs's servers, which are in the U.S.), you must ensure that such transfer complies with applicable laws.
• If your application and/or website collects, obtains or accesses any information about API Docs service users or submits any user information to API Docs, whether acting as a user of your application and/or website or indirectly:
  • You must respect a user's API Docs user settings.
  • You must obtain affirmative consent from the user who provided the data before using it for any purpose other than displaying it back to that user on your application and/or website.
  • You must obtain affirmative consent from a user before you post any information on their behalf on your application and/or website, the API Docs service or through any third party service.
  • You may not publicly display any personal information of a user (e.g., name or profile photos) in any advertisement or promotions without API Docs's prior written consent.
• If you receive any de-identified API Docs Data, you will not use the API Docs Data in combination with any other content, documentation, code, data and related materials made available through any other API Docs product, service or application programming interface, or any product, service or application of any third party, to deanonymize, or attempt to deanonymize by any manner or means, any API Docs Data or to otherwise identify any individual.
• You shall not use any automated means (for example scraping or robots) other than the Merchant API to access, query or otherwise collect API Docs-related information API Docs or any website owned or operated by API Docs or a API Docs partner site that displays API Docs information.

IV. Retention

• Your application and/or website must offer a simple means for users to disable your application and/or website, upon which disabling, you shall permanently delete all data of such user.
• You may cache data you receive through use of the API in order to improve your application's and/or website's user experience, but you should try to keep the data up to date and must delete all old data. This permission does not give you any rights to cached data.
• If you stop using the API or we disable your application and/or website, you must delete all API Docs Data.
• You must delete all data concerning a user that you receive from the API if the user asks you to do so, and you must provide a simple and easily accessible mechanism for users to make such a request. We may require you to delete data you receive from the API if you violate our terms. In the event that we do, we will have no liability to you or any other person.
• If payment information is being collected, you must provide the ability for users to remove payment information (i.e. credit cards) and you must call the appropriate API Docs API to request that API Docs removes that same data.

V. No Transfer

• You will not directly or indirectly transfer any API Docs Data, including user data or API Docs user ids, to (or use such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other advertising or monetization related toolset, even if a user consents to such transfer or use. By "indirectly," we mean you cannot, for example, transfer data to a third party who then transfers the data to an ad network. By "any API Docs Data," we mean all data obtained through use of the API, including aggregate, anonymous or derivative data.
• You will not sell, rent, or transfer any API Docs Data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you may continue to use user data within your application and/or website, but you may not transfer data outside your application and/or website.

VI. Privacy Policy

• If you collect, use, store or disclose any API Docs Data:
  • You must provide a privacy policy to users of your application and/or website that clearly discloses how you collect, use, store and disclose user data, including that:
    • you receive and use API Docs service user data, including a description of the categories of user data received and how you use and disclose it;
    • you share user data with API Docs, for use by API Docs for its own purposes; and
    • the user may read the API Docs privacy policy
  • You must clearly and conspicuously present your privacy policy to each user at the point of application and/or download, installation, authorization or first-run, and you must also make the policy available from the application user interface or from the home page of your website.
  • Your application and/or website must not collect personally identifiable information of any user unless it first informs the user about the types of information being collected and how that information may be used and then obtains the user's express permission for those uses.

VII. Attribution/Trademarks

• Your application and/or website must not:
  • Use business names and/or logos in a manner that can mislead, confuse or deceive users (e.g., do not copy the look and feel of the API Docs service);
  • Confuse or mislead users about the source or purpose of your application and/or website;
  • Impersonate or facilitate impersonation of others in a manner that can mislead, confuse or deceive users.
• You must not express or imply any affiliation or relationship with or endorsement by us.
• If your application and/or website displays any API Docs logos or trademarks, you must prominently include the following statement: "All of the API Docs® logos and trademarks displayed on this [application/service] are the property of API Docs."
• You must read and comply with the API Docs Trademark and Brand Feature Guidelines.

VIII. Permissions/Feedback

• By incorporating the API into your website or service, you agree that API Docs may collect and use information from you and your users as described in our Privacy Policy. You also agree that API Docs may use automated methods to analyze your website or service where the API and/or API Docs Materials have been incorporated. Any information you or your users submit, upload, post, create, or add to the API Docs services through your use of the API (including, without limitation, the use by users of your service and/or website) shall be deemed a User Submission (as defined in the Terms of Use).
• API Docs shall have the right to use, reproduce, transfer, sublicense and otherwise exploit perpetually any information that you or your users submit, upload, post, create or add to the API Docs services through your use of the API (including, without limitation, the use by users of your application and/or website).
• If you choose to submit comments, ideas or feedback, you agree that API Docs is free to use them without any restriction or compensation to you. By accepting your submission, API Docs doesn't waive any rights to use similar or related feedback previously known to API Docs, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.