Terms of Service
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Osprey website, the hosted Osprey proxy service at api.osprey.ac, and related hosted materials or services made available by the Osprey project that are not expressly governed by a separate open-source license (collectively, the "Service").
By using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
1. About Osprey
Osprey is an open-source browser protection project intended to help identify potentially malicious, phishing, scam-related, or otherwise unsafe websites.
Osprey is meant to supplement your own judgment and other security tools, not replace them.
2. Open-source software
The Osprey browser extension, OspreyProxy, and related source code made available by the project are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3, or (at your option) any later version ("GPLv3 or later"), unless a different license is expressly stated for a specific component or file.
Your rights to use, copy, modify, and distribute project source code are governed by the applicable open-source license, not by these Terms.
If there is any conflict between these Terms and an applicable open-source license with respect to software released under that license, the open-source license will control for that software.
3. GitHub
Project source code, releases, issue tracking, and related materials may be hosted or distributed through GitHub. Your use of GitHub is governed by GitHub's own terms, policies, and privacy practices, not by these Terms.
4. Non-commercial use
Osprey is made available on a non-commercial basis for end users, researchers, and organizations using it for their own internal purposes. The hosted Osprey proxy service and any public APIs made available through it are likewise provided for the project's non-commercial use.
Restrictions on commercial use of the hosted Service are described in Section 6 (Acceptable Use).
5. No guarantee of detection
Osprey is a security aid only. We do not guarantee that the Service will detect, block, or correctly classify every malicious, phishing, scam-related, deceptive, or otherwise unsafe site or URL.
Threat intelligence can be incomplete, delayed, unavailable, or inaccurate. You are responsible for your own security decisions and for how you use the results provided by Osprey.
6. Acceptable use
Please do not use the Service to:
- violate applicable law;
- interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure;
- bypass security controls or rate limits;
- send abusive, excessive, or malformed automated traffic;
- use the hosted Service or its APIs to operate, resell, or support a commercial product or service without prior written permission; or
- use the Service to support harmful, fraudulent, or abusive activity.
We may rate-limit, restrict, or block access to the hosted Service if necessary to protect the Service, users, or third parties.
7. Third-party services
The Service may rely on third-party threat intelligence, DNS filtering, hosting, network, security, monitoring, or infrastructure providers. We are not responsible for outages, errors, policy changes, or inaccuracies caused by third-party services.
8. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy describes how Osprey processes data, including limited operational monitoring and service telemetry used to run, secure, and maintain the service.
9. Project name and branding
Except to the extent governed by applicable open-source licenses, the Osprey name, logos, branding, website content, and other non-code materials made available by the project may be protected by applicable law.
These Terms do not give you permission to use the Osprey name, logos, branding, or other source identifiers in a way that is likely to cause confusion about affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement.
10. Changes to the Service
The Service may change over time, and we may modify, limit, suspend, or discontinue parts of it at any time.
We may also update these Terms from time to time. The effective date above reflects the date of the most recent revision. Continued use of the Service after an update means you accept the revised Terms.
11. Disclaimer
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, ACCURATE, OR EFFECTIVE AT DETECTING OR PREVENTING ANY PARTICULAR THREAT.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OSPREY PROJECT AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS, MAINTAINERS, OPERATORS, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE.
13. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, except to the extent applicable law requires otherwise.
14. Contact
If you have questions about these Terms, contact support@osprey.ac.