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Terms of use

The terms for using the Hey Town Hall Data API and MCP server.

Draft for legal review. This page is a plain-language starter that has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer, and it may change before Hey Town Hall Data opens.

Who we are

Hey Town Hall Data is run by Ailio Technologies Inc., a Canadian company (“we”). These terms are between us and the company that opens the account (“you”). The person who signs up says they may agree to them for that company.

What you get

An account, API keys and access to the records through the REST API and the hosted MCP server. A sandbox key (htd_test_) reads fictional data about Port Ellery, Marlow County and Tolland Township and is free. A live key (htd_live_) reads the real records and is billed as the pricing page says.

What the licence covers

While your account is open and paid up, you may use the records you pull to build and run your own products and services, for your own use and your customers’. You may show records to your customers, store them, combine them with your own data and let an AI model read and quote them.

You may not sell or give away the records as a dataset of their own, or offer an API or feed that mainly passes them on to others. Keep your keys to your company; do not share or publish them.

Where the records come from

Every record is read from what a local government published in public: its website, its meeting system, its documents and videos. Each one carries its source_url, the address it was read from, and read_at, when it was read. We read carefully, but a government can publish something wrong, change it later, or take it down, and our reading can miss. A value we could not read is null, which means unknown, not no. Check the source before you rely on a record for a legal, financial or safety decision.

The governments’ own rights in what they publish stay theirs. Where a government sets terms on reuse, those terms apply to you as they do to us.

Acceptable use

We may suspend a key or an account that breaks these rules. Where we can, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

Billing

Live requests are billed monthly in US dollars at the flat rates on the pricing page, the same at any volume. Requests that fail are not billed. You may set a monthly cap; past it, live requests stop until you raise it or the month ends. We will give you 30 days’ notice by email before a rate goes up. An invoice left unpaid can lead to live keys being suspended until it is paid; the sandbox stays open.

Removing a record

If a record should not be in the dataset, for example a personal phone number a government published by mistake, write to privacy@heytownhall.com with the record’s source_url or id. We will look, take it out if it should not be there, and tell you what we did. The original stays wherever its government published it; we will tell you how to ask them as well.

Our promises, and their limits

We provide the service as it is. We do not promise that every record is complete, current or correct, or that the service never stops. To the extent the law allows, our total responsibility to you for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the three months before it, and neither of us is responsible to the other for lost profits or indirect losses.

Ending

You can close your account at any time; you pay for the requests made before you did. We can end these terms with 30 days’ notice, or at once for a serious breach. What you pulled while the licence was in force you may keep using for products already built on it, under the acceptable use rules above.

Changes and law

If we change these terms we will email account owners before the change takes effect. These terms are governed by the law of British Columbia and of Canada. Questions: help@heytownhall.com.