Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

COT Screener is operated by LL Platforms UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Wuhlestraße 7 a, 12683 Berlin, Germany, registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg under HRB 200065. These terms govern the website cotscreener.com and the COT Screener app, on the free plan and on Pro. By creating an account you accept them. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights remain untouched by everything below.

2. What COT Screener is

COT Screener prepares public data from the CFTC’s weekly Commitments of Traders report and related market data. It scores, charts and organizes that data so it is easier to read. It is an information and analysis tool. It is nothing more than that.

3. Not investment advice

Nothing on this site is investment advice, a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell anything. We are not an investment adviser, broker or portfolio manager, and we provide no licensed financial service. The data can be wrong, delayed or incomplete, at the source or on our side. Futures trading carries substantial risk of loss. Whatever you do in the markets, you do it on your own judgment and at your own risk.

4. Your account

Registration requires a valid email address. Keep your credentials to yourself. Accounts are personal: one account per person, no sharing. You can delete your account at any time under Settings, which removes your data as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these terms, and we will tell you why.

5. Free plan and Pro

The free plan exists so you can use the core board without paying. Pro adds the features listed on the pricing page and costs the price shown there per month. The price shown at checkout is the one that counts. Features on both plans can evolve over time. We will not materially cut down what Pro includes during a period you have already paid for.

6. Billing through Paddle

Purchases are processed by Paddle as merchant of record. Your purchase contract is concluded with Paddle.com Market Limited, London, or with Paddle Payments Limited, Dublin, for EU customers. Paddle handles the checkout, invoices, taxes and refunds under the Paddle checkout terms. The service itself is provided by us under these terms.

The price shown on the pricing page is the total price including value-added tax. Nothing is added at checkout, so the amount you see is the amount you pay. Paddle shows the tax portion separately on the invoice, which depends on the country you buy from.

7. Term and cancellation

Pro runs month to month and renews automatically. You can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current billing period. Use the cancel contract page, which works without signing in (§ 312k BGB), or simply write to support@cotscreener.com. The right to extraordinary cancellation for good cause stays untouched. A free account is not a paid contract: just delete it in Settings when you no longer want it.

8. Right of withdrawal, refunds and warranty

If you buy Pro as a consumer, you have a statutory right of withdrawal of 14 days. Withdrawing is not the same as cancelling: cancelling ends the subscription at the close of the period you have paid for, while withdrawing unwinds the purchase itself and you get the money back.

Because Paddle is the merchant of record, your purchase contract is with Paddle, so the withdrawal instruction and the model withdrawal form come from Paddle at checkout and in its order confirmation, and a withdrawal is declared to Paddle. You do not need the model form. Any clear statement that you are withdrawing is enough.

One statutory exception is worth knowing about, because it applies to most digital services. If you ask for the service to start immediately, and confirm that you understand this ends your right of withdrawal, the right lapses once we have started (§ 356 (5) BGB). Paddle asks for that confirmation at checkout.

Refunds. Outside the withdrawal period we do not offer a general money-back guarantee. There is no need for one: Pro is monthly, so the most you can be committed to is the month you are in, and cancelling stops the next charge. Refunds are issued by Paddle, so a refund request goes to Paddle. If something on our side went wrong and left you paying for a service you could not use, write to support@cotscreener.com and we will sort it out with Paddle rather than send you in circles.

Warranty. Your statutory rights for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) apply in full and are not limited by anything in these terms. If Pro does not work as described, you can require us to fix it, and if that fails you can reduce the price or end the contract under the conditions the law sets out.

9. Fair use

You may use COT Screener for your own analysis. You may not:

• scrape the site or bulk-download data,
• redistribute, resell or republish our data, scores or charts, including licensed price data,
• share your account or resell access,
• access the service by automated means beyond normal use of the app,
• disrupt or overload the service.

10. Our content

The software, design, texts, scores and visualizations are ours or licensed to us. You get a simple, non-transferable right to use the service while your account exists. The underlying CFTC source data itself is public information.

11. Availability and changes

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee a specific uptime. Maintenance can cause short interruptions. We develop the service further and may change features with fair regard to your interests.

12. Liability

We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and where we gave an express guarantee. For slight negligence we are liable only if an essential contractual duty is breached. These are duties the contract stands and falls with and that you may reasonably rely on. In that case our liability is capped at the damage that is typical and foreseeable for a service like this one. The no-fault liability for defects that already existed when the contract started (§ 536a (1) BGB) is excluded. Any further liability is excluded. Section 3 applies: trading decisions are yours alone.

13. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms for good reason, for example new features or changes in the law. We will notify you by email at least four weeks before a change takes effect. If a change materially affects what you pay for, we will ask for your consent or you can cancel before it applies.

14. Final provisions

German law applies. If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence still apply. The contract language is English. Should a provision of these terms be invalid, the rest remains in force. If you are a merchant, the place of jurisdiction is Hamburg. We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).