Terms of Use

1. Acceptance

By using any DRM3 product you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use our products.

2. Eligibility & Restricted Jurisdictions

You must be at least 18 years old to use DRM3 products. By using our products you represent that you meet this requirement.

DRM3 products are operated from the United States and are subject to U.S. sanctions and export-control laws. They are not offered to, and may not be accessed or used by, any person located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions (currently Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine), or any person identified on the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List or any equivalent restricted-party list. By using DRM3 products you represent that you are not such a person and are not acting on behalf of one. We enforce these restrictions with IP-based geolocation blocking at the network edge and in our applications, and may additionally use wallet-address screening and other reasonable measures. We may block, suspend, or terminate access accordingly, without liability. Access from a comprehensively embargoed jurisdiction is blocked by default.

3. Alpha Software

All DRM3 products are alpha software under active development. They may contain bugs, errors, or incomplete features. Use at your own risk.

4. No Warranty

Products are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. DRM3 Labs Corp. does not guarantee uptime, accuracy, or fitness for any particular purpose.

5. Blockchain Transactions

Transactions on the Base network are irreversible. DRM3 Labs Corp. is not responsible for lost, stolen, or misdirected tokens, failed transactions, gas costs, or smart contract outcomes.

6. TruthFoundry news indexing (formerly World News RAG)

The TruthFoundry news scan collects articles from publicly distributed RSS and Atom feeds. The public interface operates as a news index, displaying original publisher headlines, source attribution, brief summaries, and links to the original articles. All source content (article text, images, and publisher metadata) remains the intellectual property of its original publisher. DRM3 does not claim ownership of any third-party content. Analytical metadata generated by DRM3 (including but not limited to bias scores, entity extractions, sentiment analyses, momentum signals, topic classifications, content scores, and structured fields) is the intellectual property of DRM3 Labs Corp., is published in DRM3 products (including the public TruthFoundry front page and archive) and available to API consumers, and may be used in downstream products and services.

All analysis, classifications, entity extraction, sentiment scores, and momentum signals displayed on DRM3 news surfaces (including truthfoundry.ai and the legacy host news.drm3.network) are generated by AI models and represent the system's interpretation of article text. They are not verified facts, financial advice, or independently confirmed market data. Momentum signals are AI-synthesized interpretations of article content, not verified market data or live price feeds.

Images displayed on article cards and detail pages are sourced from the original publisher's RSS feed or article metadata. Image rights belong to the original publisher.

DRM3 respects machine-readable consent signals. Before fetching any feed, the pipeline checks robots.txt (for DRM3Bot and wildcard blocks), ai.txt (the TDM Reservation Protocol referenced by the EU AI Act), TDM-Reservation HTTP headers, and X-Robots-Tag directives. If any signal indicates opt-out, the feed is automatically quarantined in the next fetch cycle. Crawl-delay directives are honored up to a maximum of 10 seconds; a publisher-specified delay longer than 10 seconds is applied as a 10-second delay.

Publishers may also request manual removal of their feeds from the catalog at any time via drm3.io/publisher-opt-out. After ownership verification, removals are processed within 7 business days, including deletion of cached content.

7. AI-Generated Content

Multiple DRM3 products use AI models to generate analysis, summaries, signals, and classifications. AI-generated output may contain errors, hallucinations, or misinterpretations. Do not rely on AI-generated content for financial, legal, medical, or safety-critical decisions without independent verification.

8. Intellectual Property

All DRM3 products, source code, documentation, and branding are proprietary. Source code is not open source unless explicitly stated.

9. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall DRM3 Labs Corp. be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of our products.

10. Modifications

We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Continued use after modifications constitutes acceptance.

11. Pass Revocation & Provenance

Access passes are a license to use DRM3 services, not an unconditional right. DRM3 Labs Corp. may suspend or revoke a pass, along with the access, API keys, and tier benefits associated with it, where we determine, in our reasonable discretion, that it has been used to abuse, attack, or circumvent the service, to evade rate or usage limits, or otherwise in violation of these terms. A revocation may be recorded on-chain together with a reason, and may be reinstated once the issue is resolved.

We may also record on-chain provenance and verification attestations associated with a pass (for example, the level of identity or eligibility verification a holder has completed). These attestations do not contain personal data; they are references to verification we hold off-chain. If you believe a pass was revoked in error, contact inquiries@drm3.io.

12. Governing Law & Venue

These terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to your use of any DRM3 product are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to the arbitration provision below, you and DRM3 Labs Corp. agree that the state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute not subject to arbitration, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

13. Arbitration

Except for claims that may be brought in small-claims court and except for disputes relating to intellectual property, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of any DRM3 product shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court. The arbitration shall be administered by an established arbitration provider and seated in Delaware, applying the governing law set out above. You may opt out of this arbitration provision by sending written notice to inquiries@drm3.io within 30 days of first accepting these terms.

14. Class-Action Waiver

You and DRM3 Labs Corp. agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, shall be severed and may proceed in court.

15. Legal Entity

DRM3 products and services are operated by DRM3 Labs Corp., a Delaware corporation. References to “DRM3,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in these terms mean DRM3 Labs Corp. Notices may be sent to inquiries@drm3.io.

16. Your Account & Email

Your email address is the permanent identifier for your DRM3 account. It is your login credential and the identity by which DRM3 products recognize you across the network. For security and account integrity, the email on an account cannot be changed: we do not provide, and do not guarantee, any ability to change the email associated with an account. You may update other profile details (such as your display name or mobile number) at any time. If you need a different email, create a new account.

17. Agents & Automated Access

DRM3 surfaces are designed to be used by autonomous software agents as well as people. Agents may access metered DRM3 APIs and pay per request using the x402 HTTP payment standard, and may use issued API keys, without a separate human sign-in for each call. An agent, and the person or entity operating it, is bound by these Terms in full, including the eligibility and restricted-jurisdiction requirements in Section 2: automated access does not remove the sanctions, export-control, or acceptable-use obligations, and you are responsible for the conduct of any agent you operate. We may rate-limit, meter, block, or revoke automated access to protect the service, and payment for a request does not entitle any agent to bypass these Terms.

18. Billing, Refunds & Tax

Plans and renewal. Paid plans are billed in advance for the period you select and renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. The price and billing period for a plan are shown before you subscribe.

Cancellation. You may cancel a paid plan at any time from your account. Cancellation stops the next renewal; you keep access to the plan through the end of the period you have already paid for, after which the application reverts to its free base. We do not prorate or refund the unused part of a period that has already begun.

Refunds. Payments are otherwise non-refundable. We may, at our discretion, issue a refund to the original payment method, for example where a charge was made in error or a paid service was materially unavailable. Choosing to issue a refund in one case does not create an obligation to do so in another.

Tax. Prices are stated exclusive of any value added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), or sales tax that may apply to your purchase. DRM3 Labs Corp. is established in the United States and is currently registered to collect tax in no jurisdiction, so no such tax is calculated or added at checkout. If we become registered to collect tax in a jurisdiction that applies to you, the applicable tax will be shown separately from that date. A business customer in a jurisdiction that operates a reverse charge is responsible for accounting for tax under that mechanism; supplying a valid tax identification number at checkout lets us record the supply accordingly.

19. DRM3 Credits

19.1 What Credits are. DRM3 Credits (“Credits”) are a prepaid entitlement to obtain services from DRM3 Labs Corp. Credits are denominated in credit units, are recorded in the wallet attached to your DRM3 account, and may be redeemed against any DRM3 service that accepts Credits.

19.2 The range of services Credits may be redeemed against. Credits may be redeemed against services which differ in their nature, in their place of supply, and in their tax treatment. These include, without limitation: (a) automated inference and API requests; (b) data extracts and licensed data products; (c) features, capacity and add-ons across separately operated DRM3 applications, each of which is a distinct product; (d) services supplied to business customers, which may be zero-rated or subject to a reverse charge, and services supplied to consumers, which are not; and (e) further services which DRM3 may add to the catalogue from time to time and which may carry a different rate or a different place of supply.

19.3 Tax point. Because the services against which Credits may be redeemed are not determined at the time Credits are issued, the tax due on those services is not known at that time. The issue or transfer of Credits is therefore not itself a supply of services and does not give rise to a tax point. Any value added tax, goods and services tax or sales tax that becomes due does so on the actual supply of the underlying service at the time Credits are redeemed for it, determined by reference to your location at that time and to the nature of that service. Amounts shown at the time you purchase Credits are the consideration for the Credits and are stated exclusive of any such tax.

19.4 Location at redemption. You agree that DRM3 may determine and record your location at the time of redemption for tax purposes, using the country recorded on your account, the network address from which the request originates, and any tax identification number you have supplied. You must keep the country recorded on your account accurate and must notify us if it changes.

19.5 What Credits are not. Credits are not electronic money, not a deposit, not a payment instrument and not legal tender. Credits may be redeemed only against DRM3’s own services. Credits are not redeemable for cash, are not transferable or assignable, and have no value outside your DRM3 account.

19.6 Expiry. Credits do not expire. Unredeemed Credits are not a supply of services.

19.7 Order of redemption. Where your wallet contains both included or promotional allowances and purchased Credits, allowances are redeemed first. Purchased Credits are then redeemed in the order in which they were purchased, oldest first.

19.8 Refunds. Purchased Credits which have not been redeemed may be refunded to the original payment method at DRM3’s discretion. Redeemed Credits are not refundable.

19.9 Terms version. The version of these terms in force at the time you purchase Credits is recorded against that purchase and governs those Credits. The current version identifier is credits-2026-07-25.