Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the Instrumetriq website, datasets, or services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you may not access or use the service.

2. Nature of the Service

Instrumetriq provides observational datasets derived from public market data and public social media content.

The service is intended for research, analysis, and experimentation purposes. It does not provide investment advice, trading signals, or recommendations of any kind.

3. Use of Data

Dataset access is governed by the license tier under which you subscribe. Your permitted uses depend on which subscription plan is active on your account. See Section 4 for the specific rights and restrictions that apply to each tier.

Users are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations when using the data.

4. Licensing

Instrumetriq offers three products under three separate licenses. The table below is a summary; the full terms for each product follow.

4a. Sample Data (CC BY 4.0)

The weekly sample files published on GitHub, Kaggle, Hugging Face, and Zenodo are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You may:

• use the samples for any purpose, including commercial use;
• copy, share, and redistribute them in any format;
• adapt, transform, and build upon them.

You must:

• give appropriate credit to Instrumetriq and indicate if changes were made;
• not suggest that Instrumetriq endorses you or your use.

The samples are a limited weekly subset and are not a substitute for the full dataset, which is licensed separately under 4b and 4c.

4b. Subscription Access via Patreon (Personal and Internal Use)

Standard subscription tiers (Explorer, Analyst, Researcher) grant a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the full dataset during an active subscription period, for personal and internal purposes.

You may:

• use the data internally for research, analysis, and private models;
• use the data to inform your own trading decisions, in a personal or institutional context;
• publish analyses, charts, models, or conclusions derived from the data;
• include a limited number of illustrative sample rows in academic publications to demonstrate structure or methodology.

You may not:

• incorporate the raw datasets into commercial products, software, data services, or revenue-generating services offered to third parties;
• train machine learning models intended for commercial deployment or sale to third parties;
• redistribute, resell, sublicense, or otherwise make the raw datasets available to third parties, in whole or in part.

4c. One-Time Commercial Archive (Commercial Use)

The one-time commercial archive is a single purchase of a fixed historical dataset edition, delivered as one download. It grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual license for commercial use of that edition.

You may:

• use the data in your own commercial products, software, models, and revenue-generating applications;
• train machine learning models on the data, including for commercial deployment;
• publish analyses, charts, models, and conclusions derived from the data;
• retain and use the purchased edition permanently, with no subscription required.

You may not:

• redistribute, resell, or sublicense the raw dataset files themselves, in original or modified form;
• make the raw dataset available to third parties as a substitute for their purchasing a license.

When the dataset is used as a feature source in a commercially distributed product or service, attribution to Instrumetriq as the data source is required in associated documentation, product description, or publication.

4d. Applies to All Licenses

White-labeling the dataset, that is, presenting the data as your own original data collection without attribution, is not permitted under any license. Redistribution of the raw dataset files is permitted only for the CC BY 4.0 samples (with attribution); it is not permitted for the subscription or commercial-archive data under any circumstances.

5. Data Delivery and Access

Dataset access for standard subscription tiers is delivered via Patreon. Access is contingent on an active Patreon membership at the applicable tier level. Access terminates immediately upon membership cancellation or payment failure. Instrumetriq is not responsible for access interruptions caused by Patreon platform issues.

Subscribers receive access to the following data windows during an active subscription:

• Daily files: a rolling 7-day window of individual daily Parquet files.
• Month-to-date bundle: a cumulative Parquet file covering the current calendar month, updated daily.
• Monthly archives: finalized archive files for the most recent completed calendar months, on a rolling basis. The current window is the last 3 completed months.

Instrumetriq does not guarantee the availability of any specific historical period beyond the windows defined above.

6. Disclaimer

The data is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, including accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose.

Instrumetriq is not responsible for decisions, losses, or outcomes resulting from the use of the data. See our Disclaimer page for complete details.

7. Changes to Terms

Instrumetriq reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Continued use of the service constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.