Last updated September 1, 2026
These terms are written to be read. Where a section carries real legal weight — the data license in section 6, the liability cap in section 13 — we have said so plainly rather than burying it in capital letters.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern access to and use of Sputnik Intelligence's website, application, API, MCP server, exports, and any related service (together, the "Service"). The Service is operated by Sputnik Intelligence ("we", "us", "our"), established in Spain.
By creating an account, using an API key, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other organization, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organization.
If you do not agree with these Terms, do not use the Service.
Sputnik Intelligence indexes publicly available podcasts and newsletters and provides search, monitoring, alerting, and analysis over that corpus. You can reach it through the web application, the HTTP API, the MCP server for AI agents, alert deliveries, and any export feature we make available.
We add, change, and remove features as the product develops. We aim to give notice of changes that materially reduce what a paid plan does, but the Service is provided on an "as available" basis and we do not guarantee uninterrupted access.
Some parts of the Service require an account or API credentials. You are responsible for keeping credentials secure and for everything done with them, whether or not you authorized it. Tell us promptly at peter@helpfulintelligence.co if you believe your account or keys have been compromised.
Accounts are for your organization. Do not share credentials with third parties or use one account to serve another company's users, unless we have agreed that in writing.
Paid plans are billed in advance at the price and interval shown at the time of purchase, through our payment provider. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same interval until cancelled. Prices are exclusive of VAT and other taxes unless stated otherwise; taxes are added where they apply.
You can cancel at any time from your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.
Fees already paid are not refundable, except where required by law or where we agree otherwise in writing. If you are a consumer in the EU, your statutory rights are unaffected.
We may change prices for future billing periods. Where a change affects a subscription you already hold, we will give at least 30 days' notice before it takes effect, and you can cancel before renewal if you do not accept it.
If payment fails or is overdue, we may suspend access until it is resolved.
You agree not to:
Redistribution and bulk use of the data are covered separately in section 6. They are not prohibited outright — they need a written agreement with us.
This is the section that matters most.
What it covers. "Licensed Data" means everything you obtain through the Service: search results, posts, transcripts, people, sources, topics, sponsors, alert hits, statements, metadata, aggregates, and anything else reachable through the web application, the API, the MCP server, webhooks, alert deliveries, or exports.
What you get. While your subscription is active and in good standing, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Licensed Data for your own internal business purposes — research, monitoring, analysis, and reporting inside your organization, including short quotations with attribution in work products you deliver to your own clients.
What the license does not allow, without a separate written agreement with us:
How to do those things legitimately. We license bulk and redistribution rights — firehose access, dataset licenses, model training, embedding data in a product of your own — under a separate written agreement. If that is what you need, write to peter@helpfulintelligence.co and we will discuss terms. The restrictions above exist so that this is a conversation, not so it is impossible.
Ownership. Licensed Data, and the corpus as a compilation, remain the intellectual property of Sputnik Intelligence and its licensors. Nothing here transfers ownership to you. Rights in the underlying published works remain with their original publishers — see section 8.
When the license ends. Your license to Licensed Data ends when your subscription ends, when you materially breach these Terms, or when we withdraw it on notice. On termination you must stop using Licensed Data and delete stored copies, other than copies you must retain by law or that are held in routine backups not actively used. At our reasonable request you will confirm in writing that you have done so. Quotations already published in good faith in your own work products before termination may stay where they are.
Checking compliance. If we have reasonable grounds to believe Licensed Data is being used outside this license, we may ask you for a reasonable description of how you are using and storing it, and you agree to answer within 30 days.
You keep ownership of what you put into the Service: your searches, saved alerts, projects, collections, webhook configuration, and account details. You grant us the license we need to host and process it in order to run the Service for you.
We do not sell your data, and we do not use the contents of your searches, alerts, or collections to train models offered to other customers. We do use aggregate, non-identifying usage information — request volumes, error rates, feature usage — to operate and improve the Service.
How we handle personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy.
The corpus is made up of material published by other people: podcast hosts, newsletter writers, their guests, and their platforms. That material is subject to their copyright, trademark, personality, and other rights. We index and process it; we do not own it, we do not endorse it, and we are not responsible for what it says.
You are responsible for using Licensed Data lawfully, in your own jurisdiction and in any jurisdiction where you publish. That includes copyright and quotation limits, data protection law where the data concerns identifiable people, and the rules that apply to your industry, including any regulated use of media monitoring in advertising, financial, or political contexts.
Transcripts are produced by automated speech recognition or supplied by publishers, and speaker attributions are inferred. Both can be wrong. Do not treat a transcript as a verbatim record, and check the source before publishing or acting on a quotation.
You will indemnify and hold us harmless against claims, damages, losses, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your use of Licensed Data outside the license in section 6, from your unlawful or infringing use of Licensed Data, or from your breach of these Terms.
We keep this section public because publishers ask, and because it describes commitments we hold ourselves to:
SputnikIntelligence/1.0 (+https://sputnikintelligence.com), so any publisher can see us in their logs and reach us. We follow the self-identifying bot expectations in the IAB Podcast Measurement Technical Guidelines.<podcast:transcript> tag, or the publisher otherwise provides a transcript, we use it rather than generating our own.We rely, among other bases, on the text and data mining exception in Article 4 of EU Directive 2019/790, as implemented in Spanish law. The opt-out route above is how a rights holder reserves their rights for that purpose, and we treat a machine-readable reservation the same way as a message from a person.
The Service itself — the software, the interfaces, the design, the documentation, the trained models and derived data products we build, and the Sputnik Intelligence name and marks — belongs to us. These Terms grant you the right to use the Service under a subscription, and nothing more. You may refer to us by name to say you use the Service; you may not use our branding in a way that implies endorsement or partnership.
We welcome feedback and may use it freely, without obligation to you.
You can stop using the Service at any time, and cancel as described in section 4.
We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these Terms, if payment is overdue, or if your use threatens the security or stability of the Service or the rights of publishers or other customers. Where circumstances allow, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right. For serious or repeated breaches, or where we are legally required to act, we may act immediately.
If we discontinue the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice and refund the unused part of any period you have already paid for.
After termination we may delete your account data. Sections 6 (in respect of your obligations on termination), 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15 survive.
The Service and Licensed Data are provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law permits, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
In particular, we do not warrant that the corpus is complete, that it covers any given show or newsletter, that transcripts or extracted people, topics, and sponsors are accurate, that alerts will catch every relevant mention, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. Coverage and accuracy are best-effort, and you should verify anything you rely on.
Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, however caused.
Our total liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, on any theory of liability, is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the event that gave rise to the claim.
These limits do not apply to your obligation to pay fees, to your indemnity in section 8, to either party's fraud, gross negligence, or wilful misconduct, or to any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.
We accept these limits as a fair allocation of risk, given what the Service costs.
These Terms are governed by Spanish law, without regard to its conflict of law rules. The courts of Spain have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory rules in your country of residence.
Before starting proceedings, both parties agree to try to resolve the dispute by talking to each other. Write to peter@helpfulintelligence.co and we will do the same.
Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any written agreement we sign with you form the whole agreement between us. Where a signed agreement conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement wins.
Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the provision is read down to the extent needed to make it valid.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including outages at infrastructure providers, network failures, natural events, or government action.
No waiver. Not enforcing a provision once does not waive it.
Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. For material changes we will update the "Last updated" date above and give notice to account holders before they take effect. Continued use after that constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept a change, cancel before it takes effect.
Sputnik Intelligence — peter@helpfulintelligence.co
Publishers: use the same address for opt-outs and takedowns, and write "takedown" or "opt-out" in the subject line so we can act on it quickly.