Terms of Service

The agreement between you and Harvo Search when you use the API, the dashboard, or the playground.

Effective 29 September 2026 · Version 1.0 · Applies worldwide

Contents

1. Who we are

Harvo Search is operated by Harvoworkz ("we", "us", "the operator"). This is a privately operated service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, DuckDuckGo, or any other search or hosting provider whose products it queries.

When we say "the Service" we mean the whole of it: the web interface, the dashboard, the playground, the HTTP API, and the code behind them. When we say "you" we mean the person or organisation using it.

You may use the Service for personal or commercial purposes. Commercial use does not require a separate agreement at the current quota, but see section 3 for the conditions.

2. Accounts

2.1 Signing in

You can create an account with an email address and password, or sign in using Google. When you use Google sign-in, Google authenticates you: your Google password is never transmitted to us and we never see it. We receive only the profile details you allow Google to share, which are your name, email address, and profile picture. Google's own terms and privacy policy govern that relationship, and you can disconnect your Google account from us at any time from Google's security settings.

You are responsible for everything done under your account, including activity by anyone you share a key or session with. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed by someone else.

2.2 What an account gives you

An account grants you a monthly request quota and the ability to create API keys. It does not grant you ownership of the Service, of the software, or of any data other than your own.

2.3 API keys

Keys are stored only as a one-way cryptographic hash. We can neither display your key again nor use it to tell who called an endpoint; we can only tell you how many requests it cost. If you lose a key, revoke it and create a new one. A leaked key is your responsibility from the moment it exists.

Keys must not be embedded in client-side code, shipped inside a mobile or desktop application, placed in a public repository, or committed to source control.

2.4 Age

You must be at least 16 years old, or the age at which your country grants you digital consent, to hold an account. If you are under 18 you need a parent or guardian's permission.

2.5 Account closure

You may ask us to delete your account at any time. When we delete an account we remove your profile, your keys, and the usage records tied to you, as described in the Privacy Policy.

3. Licence to use the API

We grant you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service and to call the API from your own applications during the term of this agreement.

The licence is granted as is, and it is not sublicensable without our written consent. Specifically, you may not:

• resell, sublicense, or re-license raw query capacity as a competing service;
• share one account or key across unrelated customers as a tenancy system;
• present our name, branding, or interface in a way that suggests we endorse your product;
• use the Service to build or train a competing general-purpose search index without a separate written licence.

You may embed the search results in your own product and your own user interface, provided you do not imply that results originate from you, and provided you comply with the attribution and rate terms here. Linking to the source URL is encouraged and we ask you to keep it.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for anything unlawful, or to harass, defraud, or harm anyone;
• circumvent, disable, or attempt to exceed rate limits or quotas by any means, including rotating keys, IPs, or accounts;
• interfere with the Service's operation, probe for vulnerabilities without written permission, or run automated discovery against it;
• use the page-fetching routes to attack, scan, or overload any system you do not own or have written permission to test;
• use the Service to collect personal data about individuals in a way that breaches their rights or applicable law;
• attempt to extract the Service's source, reverse engineer it for competitive purposes, or remove proprietary notices from it.

We publish a machine-readable list of the exact terms you may send to the API. Sending terms the Service does not implement is a breach, not a creative use.

5. Intellectual property

The Service's software, design, branding, and documentation are owned by Harvoworkz and are protected by copyright and related rights. We grant you no ownership of any part of it beyond the licence in section 3.

Feedback you send us may be used freely to improve the Service without obligation to you, though we will not identify you as its source without permission.

Third-party names and marks belong to their owners. Their appearance here does not imply any endorsement or affiliation.

6. Third-party sources

This is the part most users have never been told, and it is the part that matters most.

The Service aggregates results from many independent providers, including search engines, encyclopaedias, code forges, academic archives, media databases, and financial data APIs. We do not own or control that content, and we do not vet it. When you search:

• your query, and the terms you type, are sent to the providers we query, under their own terms and privacy policies;
• those providers see the request as coming from our infrastructure, not from your browser;
• we do not pass your name, email address, or account details to any of them;
• content returned may be inaccurate, out of date, offensive, or unlawful in your jurisdiction. We do not endorse it and we do not guarantee it.

Licensing note. Providers grant access on their own terms, generally for personal or light commercial use. We are not a reseller of any provider's data licence, and we cannot grant you rights we do not hold. If your use of the output requires a commercial licence from a specific provider, obtaining it is your responsibility. For the same reason, do not use the Service to build a training corpus without checking the terms of every source behind the results.

Where a provider refuses us, the Service reports that provider as unavailable rather than quietly substituting a different source. That behaviour is deliberate and you should rely on it: a thin answer you can see is better than a confident one we cannot account for.

7. Market data is not advice

The finance routes return prices parsed directly from public exchange and reference-rate endpoints. They are provided for information only.

• a price may be delayed, stale, wrong, or absent, and a source may be blocked or rate-limited from our network at any time;
• the Service reports a source as unavailable rather than carrying forward a previous value. It never substitutes one instrument's price for another's;
• currency conversion, where shown, preserves the original unit alongside the converted figure;
• some figures are policy reference rates, not trades, and are labelled as such.

Nothing the Service returns is financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Verify independently before acting. You are solely responsible for any decision you take on the basis of it.

8. Availability and changes

The Service is provided on an "as available" basis with no uptime commitment. Because it depends on providers we do not control, the number of engines answering changes hour to hour. We measure and publish that number rather than promising a fixed one.

We may change, suspend, or retire any endpoint, and may change quotas. We will give reasonable notice of a material change that affects a paid or production integration. We may end the free tier at any time.

9. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account immediately, without notice, if you breach these terms, in particular the acceptable use rules, or if we are required to by law.

Where a breach is curable and poses no immediate risk, we will normally warn you and give a reasonable opportunity to fix it first. Suspension does not entitle you to a refund of any quota you have already used.

10. No warranty

Except where the law says otherwise, the Service and everything in it are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, or uninterrupted availability.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Harvoworkz and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or connected with your use of the Service.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising in any twelve-month period is limited to USD 100, or the amount you paid us in that period, whichever is higher.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts of that jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and the parties submit to them.

Nothing in this section removes any mandatory consumer protection you have under the law of your country of residence, or the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your own country where that law gives you that right.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The version number and effective date at the top of this page identify the current version. Where a change materially reduces your rights we will give notice by email or in the dashboard before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the revised terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms, or a notice you need to serve us, go to harvoworkz@gmail.com. Write in English and include enough detail for us to identify the issue. We read everything, though we cannot guarantee a response time.

See also our Privacy Policy, which explains what is stored, where, and why.