Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

COT Screener is operated by LL Platforms UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Wuhlestraße 7a, 12683 Berlin, Germany, registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg under HRB 200065. These terms govern the website cotscreener.com and the COT Screener app, on the free plan and on Pro. By creating an account you accept them. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights remain untouched by everything below.

2. What COT Screener is

COT Screener prepares public data from the CFTC’s weekly Commitments of Traders report and related market data. It scores, charts and organizes that data so it is easier to read. It is an information and analysis tool. It is nothing more than that.

3. Not investment advice

Nothing on this site is investment advice, a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell anything. We are not an investment adviser, broker or portfolio manager, and we provide no licensed financial service. The data can be wrong, delayed or incomplete, at the source or on our side. Futures trading carries substantial risk of loss. Whatever you do in the markets, you do it on your own judgment and at your own risk.

4. Your account

Registration requires a valid email address. Keep your credentials to yourself. Accounts are personal: one account per person, no sharing. You can delete your account at any time under Settings, which removes your data as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these terms, and we will tell you why.

5. Free plan and Pro

The free plan exists so you can use the core of COT Screener without paying. Pro adds the features listed on the pricing page. You can pay for it monthly or yearly, at the prices shown there. The price shown at checkout is the one that counts. Features on both plans can evolve over time. We will not materially cut down what Pro includes during a period you have already paid for.

6. Billing through Paddle

Purchases are processed by Paddle as merchant of record. Your purchase contract is concluded with the Paddle entity named at checkout and on your invoice, under Paddle checkout terms. The service itself is provided by us under these terms.

The price shown on the pricing page is the total price including tax, which in the EU means VAT. Nothing is added at checkout, so the amount you see is the amount you pay. Paddle shows the tax portion separately on the invoice, which depends on the country you buy from.

7. Free trial, term and cancellation

Free trial. New subscribers may be offered a free trial of Pro. Whether one is offered, and for how long, is shown on the pricing page and at checkout before you order. You add a payment method to start it, and nothing is charged during the trial. If you cancel before the trial ends, you pay nothing. Otherwise the subscription continues on the billing period you chose, and the first payment is taken when the trial ends.

Monthly billing. Pro renews automatically every month. You can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current billing period.

Yearly billing. A yearly term runs for 12 months and is paid in advance. You can cancel at any time during it, effective at its end. It is never renewed into another fixed year. If you do not cancel, Pro continues month to month when the year ends, at the monthly price stated when you chose yearly billing. From then on you can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current billing period.

Switching to yearly. On monthly billing, you can switch to yearly billing at any time on the plans page in the app, once any free trial has ended. A new yearly term starts on the day you switch. The unused part of your current billing period is credited against the yearly price, and the rest is charged right away. The app shows the exact amount before you confirm.

How to cancel. In the app, open Settings and click Manage subscription. The cancel contract page works too, without signing in (§ 312k BGB), and so does an email to support@cotscreener.com. The right to extraordinary cancellation for good cause stays untouched. A free account is not a paid contract: just delete it in Settings when you no longer want it.

8. Right of withdrawal, refunds and warranty

If you buy Pro as a consumer, you have a statutory right of withdrawal of 14 days. Withdrawing is not the same as cancelling: cancelling ends the subscription at the close of the period you have paid for, while withdrawing unwinds the purchase itself and you get the money back.

You can declare your withdrawal to us on the withdraw contract page, which works without signing in and confirms the declaration with its date and time by email. Because Paddle is the merchant of record, your purchase contract is with Paddle and the refund comes from them — we pass your withdrawal on, so you do not have to contact them yourself. Declaring it to Paddle directly works just as well. You do not need the model form: any clear statement that you are withdrawing is enough. The formal instructions on withdrawal, including the model withdrawal form, are on their own page.

One thing is worth knowing, and it works in your favour. Pro starts right after you order, and if you withdraw within the 14 days you get the full amount back. We do not deduct anything for the days you already had access. Your right of withdrawal runs for the full 14 days and does not expire early. If your subscription starts with a free trial, the 14 days run from the day the trial starts, and nothing is charged during the trial.

Refunds. Outside the withdrawal period we do not offer a general money-back guarantee. New subscribers can try Pro with a free trial first, and cancelling always stops the next charge. If Pro isn’t right for you after all, write to support@cotscreener.com. We read every message ourselves and will see what we can do. If something on our side went wrong and left you paying for a service you could not use, we will put it right. Paddle pays out any refund, and we arrange it with them, so you do not have to.

Warranty. Your statutory rights for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) apply in full and are not limited by anything in these terms. If Pro does not work as described, you can require us to fix it, and if that fails you can reduce the price or end the contract under the conditions the law sets out.

9. Fair use

You may use COT Screener for your own analysis. You may not:

• scrape the site or bulk-download data,
• redistribute, resell or republish our data, scores or charts, including licensed price data,
• share your account or resell access,
• access the service by automated means beyond normal use of the app,
• disrupt or overload the service.

10. Our content

The software, design, texts, scores and visualizations are ours or licensed to us. You get a simple, non-transferable right to use the service while your account exists. The underlying CFTC source data itself is public information.

11. Availability and changes

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee a specific uptime. Maintenance can cause short interruptions. We develop the service further and may change features with fair regard to your interests.

12. Liability

We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and where we gave an express guarantee. For slight negligence we are liable only if an essential contractual duty is breached. These are duties the contract stands and falls with and that you may reasonably rely on. In that case our liability is capped at the damage that is typical and foreseeable for a service like this one. The no-fault liability for defects that already existed when the contract started (§ 536a (1) BGB) is excluded. Any further liability is excluded. Section 3 applies: trading decisions are yours alone.

13. Changes to these terms and to Pro

We may change these terms for good reason, for example new features or changes in the law. We will notify you by email at least four weeks before a change takes effect. If a change materially affects what you pay for, we will ask for your consent or you can cancel before it applies.

For changes to Pro itself, § 327r BGB applies. We may change Pro beyond what is needed to keep it as agreed only for the reasons named here: further development of the service, adaptation to a changed technical or legal environment, or security — and always at no extra cost to you, with clear information about the change. If a change more than insignificantly impairs your access to or your use of Pro, we inform you by email before it takes effect, and you may end the contract free of charge within 30 days of that notice (or of the change, if it comes later), unless we keep the unimpaired version available to you.

14. Final provisions

German law applies. If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence still apply. The contract language is English. Should a provision of these terms be invalid, the rest remains in force. If you are a merchant, the place of jurisdiction is Hamburg. We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).