Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-05-16

These terms ("Terms") govern your use of the OpenRegistry service ("OpenRegistry", "the Service", "we", "us", or "our") operated by Sophymarine. By using the Service - including connecting your AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, or any other MCP client) to the endpoint at https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/mcp - you agree to these Terms.

2. Acceptable use

You agree NOT to:

• Use OpenRegistry in a way that violates any upstream registry's terms of service, or any applicable data-protection, anti-money-laundering, or sanctions law.
• Attempt to circumvent OpenRegistry's rate limits, tier gates, or 501 responses (e.g. by rapidly rotating IPs or anonymous sessions). This includes not using OpenRegistry to access AML-gated UBO registers that we explicitly 501 on — those require your own AML-obliged-entity credentials with the registry.
• Attempt to evade, disable, probe, reverse-engineer, or otherwise circumvent any of OpenRegistry's security, fraud-detection, or anti-abuse measures, whether or not such measures are visible or documented to you. The specific design, configuration, scope, and operational parameters of these measures are confidential and will not be disclosed. Use of OpenRegistry that follows or facilitates any such circumvention is itself a breach of these Terms.
• Use OpenRegistry to harass, stalk, dox, or otherwise target identified individuals. Government registries publish director names and beneficial-ownership entries for statutory transparency; using that data to target individuals in ways the law prohibits (including GDPR-violating processing, UK PHA 1997 harassment, or similar regimes elsewhere) is your liability, not ours.
• Redistribute OpenRegistry's cached or proxied responses as a commercial dataset-for-sale, except where the upstream licence permits (e.g. UK OGL). Attribution to each underlying registry is required where it is required by the upstream licence.
• Reverse-engineer, probe, or attack OpenRegistry's infrastructure, or use credentials issued to others without authorisation.
• Use OpenRegistry to build a competing general-purpose MCP server that proxies our implementation (fair-play exception: reading our documentation repository, which is CC-BY-4.0, to build your own independent implementation is explicitly welcomed).

3. Tiers and payment

Sophymarine offers a range of access tiers across its services — including an anonymous best-effort tier, a signed-in free tier, and one or more paid subscription tiers — each with its own rate limits, quotas, and feature set. The current tier definitions, prices, and entitlements are published on the relevant service and may be revised from time to time at our discretion.

Paid tiers are billed in advance via Stripe. You may cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle and no refund is provided for the partial month or for any prepaid balance. We reserve the right to change tier pricing, quotas, or feature sets with reasonable notice to authenticated subscribers.

4. No warranty of data accuracy

OpenRegistry forwards and returns government-registry data unmodified, preserving upstream field names, status codes, and raw filing bytes. We do not verify, reformat, translate, or enrich the registry's response. Responsibility for the accuracy of the underlying data rests with the government registry of record.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any particular query will return data in real time.

5. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Sophymarine's aggregate liability for any claim arising from your use of the Service is capped at (a) the fees you paid us for the Service in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $50, whichever is greater. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.

6. Compliance use and regulated-activity disclaimer

OpenRegistry is a data-access utility, not a compliance or legal service. If you use OpenRegistry as part of a regulated workflow (KYC, AML, sanctions screening, legal due diligence, journalism investigating public figures), you remain solely responsible for:

• Verifying the freshness and completeness of the data at the upstream source before relying on it for a regulated decision.
• Documenting your chain of reasoning and source citations in compliance records. Each tool response includes the registry's own identifier; the government URL for any record is reconstructable from the jurisdiction + identifier.
• Handling the data in accordance with your firm's data-protection, confidentiality, and records-retention policies.
• Independently validating AML-gated registry information when the chain of ownership crosses into DE / ES / IT / NL / LU / AT / MT / PT (where OpenRegistry 501s with an alternative_url to the statutory gated portal) and in RU / KY (where UBO access is AML-gated by national law).

7. Intellectual property

The OpenRegistry service implementation is proprietary to Sophymarine. The documentation repository at github.com/sophymarine/openregistry, including the 10 Claude Agent Skills, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0). "OpenRegistry" and "Sophymarine" are trademarks of Sophymarine.

8. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service (paid or free) if you materially breach these Terms, including by abusing the Service, violating acceptable use, or failing to pay for a paid tier. Anonymous-tier users may be IP-banned without notice for abuse.

Bypass of security measures. Any account found to have evaded, disabled, probed, or attempted to circumvent any of our security, fraud-detection, or anti-abuse measures (Section 2), or to have used the Service in a manner that follows or relies on such circumvention by any party, may be suspended or terminated at our sole discretion and without prior notice. Any fees you have paid — including the unused portion of any current subscription period and any prepaid balance — are non-refundable in such cases. This applies whether or not the attempt succeeded, and is in addition to any other remedy available to us under these Terms or applicable law.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination (Acceptable Use, No Warranty, Limitation of Liability, Compliance Disclaimer, IP, Governing Law) continue to apply after termination.

9. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. Consumers with statutory rights under their own jurisdiction retain those rights; this clause does not limit statutory consumer protections where they are mandatory.

10. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced on the project GitHub repository (Launched issue) with at least 14 days notice to authenticated-tier users. Continued use after the notice period constitutes acceptance.

11. Contact

Questions or notices may be submitted through the support channel published on the relevant Sophymarine service.