Last updated: June 7, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the AnchorAPI screening service, including our website at https://www.anchorapi.dev/, our application programming interface (the "API"), our dashboard, the public free checker, and any related tools or services (collectively, the "Service"), provided by AnchorAPI ("we", "us", "our").
By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, including the public free checker, you ("Customer", "you", "your") agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
"Address" means a public cryptocurrency wallet address or similar public blockchain identifier submitted to the Service.
"Screening Result" means the informational output the Service returns about an Address, which may include matched list or source names, a flag status, a risk score, a risk level, and associated metadata.
"List Data" means the aggregated data the Service draws upon, including public government sanctions lists (such as those published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control - OFAC, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations) and public or community-sourced risk databases.
"Documentation" means our published guides, API reference, and other materials describing how to use the Service.
"Sanctioned Person" and "Sanctioned Jurisdiction" have the meanings given in these Terms.
The Service is an informational tool. It checks whether an Address appears on certain publicly available sanctions lists and risk data sources and returns information about any matches found, which on paid plans may include a risk score and a risk level.
The Service does not provide legal, compliance, regulatory, tax, investment, or financial advice, and does not advise on the investment merits or value of any digital asset. Screening Results are informational signals only and do not constitute a recommendation, determination, certification, or guarantee of any kind.
The Service is non-custodial. We never take possession, custody, or control of any digital asset, private key, or fund belonging to you or any third party. We do not transmit, exchange, buy, sell, broker, or facilitate transactions in any digital asset.
A Screening Result indicating no match, or a low risk score or risk level, does not mean an Address is safe, lawful, or free of risk. It means only that no match was found, or a low indicator was returned, on the basis of the List Data available at the time of the query. A match, or a high risk score or risk level, does not constitute a legal finding or determination against any person.
List Data may be incomplete, delayed, inaccurate, or out of date. Government and community sources update on their own schedules and may contain errors. We do not independently verify the accuracy of third-party List Data and make no representation as to its completeness or correctness.
Where the Service returns a risk score or risk level, it is an informational indicator derived from the data screened at the time of the query, and is not a determination, certification, or advice. Any escalation step associated with a risk level is a suggestion you may consider within your own compliance process; the decision and any action are yours. The Service does not advise on the value of, or on whether to acquire, hold, or dispose of, any digital asset.
You are solely responsible for determining which laws, regulations, and obligations apply to your business and jurisdiction, and for complying with all of them, including sanctions laws, anti-money-laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist-financing (CFT) laws, know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, data protection laws, and any licensing or registration obligations applicable to your activities.
We make no representation that the Service, the List Data, or any Screening Result satisfies the legal or regulatory requirements of any particular jurisdiction. You are responsible for assessing whether the Service is appropriate and sufficient for your compliance obligations in every jurisdiction in which you operate or have customers.
You must obtain your own legal and compliance advice regarding your obligations. Your use of the Service does not transfer, reduce, replace, or discharge any of your own legal or regulatory obligations.
You must implement your own independent review and decision-making processes before taking any action based on a Screening Result. You must not rely on the Service as your sole means of compliance.
To use the API you must register an account and generate API keys. You are responsible for keeping your API keys secret and for all activity occurring under your account or keys.
You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current. You must notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account or keys.
We may suspend or revoke API keys or accounts that we reasonably believe are compromised, are being used in violation of these Terms, or pose a security or legal risk.
General principle. You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You are responsible for all activity conducted through your account and API keys.
Prohibited uses. You must not use the Service, directly or indirectly, to:
Compliance responsibility. The Service provides informational screening signals only. You remain solely responsible for your own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and for your own decisions and actions, and for independently verifying any Screening Result before relying on it or taking action.
Enforcement. We may, in our reasonable discretion, investigate suspected violations and take appropriate action, including removing content, suspending or terminating accounts or API keys, throttling usage, and reporting to authorities where required by law. A violation of this Section 5 is a material breach of these Terms.
The public free checker may be used without an account. Before performing a check, you must acknowledge the disclaimer presented at the point of use. By using the free checker you agree to these Terms, including the disclaimers in Section 10 and the limitation of liability in Section 11, and you make the representations in Section 7.
We may impose usage limits on, modify, or discontinue the free checker at any time.
Customer sanctions representations. You represent, warrant, and covenant, on the date you accept these Terms and on each day you use the Service, that:
No evasion. You will not use the Service to evade, circumvent, test, probe, or facilitate the evasion or circumvention of any sanctions, embargo, or other legal obligation.
Our right to screen and offboard. We may, at our sole discretion and at any time, screen you and your account against applicable sanctions and watch lists, request information to verify your sanctions status, and decline, suspend, restrict, or terminate your access. If we determine, or reasonably suspect, that you are or have become a Sanctioned Person, are located in a Sanctioned Jurisdiction, or are in breach of this Section 7, we may immediately suspend or terminate your account and access without notice and without liability, and you will not be entitled to a refund of fees for the remaining prepaid period. We may take any action we deem necessary to comply with applicable sanctions law, including freezing access and reporting to competent authorities.
No re-registration. If we terminate your access for breach of this Section 7 or under Section 5, you must not create or use a new account, directly or indirectly, without our prior written consent. We may refuse, suspend, or close any such account.
Breach and indemnity. Any breach of this Section 7 is a material breach of these Terms. You will indemnify us for any loss, penalty, or liability arising from your breach of this Section, in addition to the indemnification provided elsewhere in these Terms.
No reduction of your obligations. Nothing in the Service relieves you of your own obligation to comply with all sanctions and other laws applicable to you. The Service provides informational signals only and does not constitute sanctions, legal, or compliance advice.
Paid plans are billed in advance on a recurring basis (monthly or annually) at the prices shown at the time of purchase. Payment is processed by our third-party payment processor; you agree to their terms in addition to ours.
Plans include usage limits (such as a monthly request quota and a rate limit). We may meter, limit, or throttle usage in accordance with your plan.
Fees are non-refundable except as expressly stated.
We may change prices or plan features on prospective notice. Changes do not affect the current paid period already in effect.
You are responsible for any taxes associated with your use of the Service, except for taxes based on our net income.
Automatic renewal and cancellation. Unless you cancel before the end of the current billing period, your subscription automatically renews at the end of each billing period for a further period of the same length (monthly plans renew monthly; annual plans renew annually). You authorize us and our payment processor to charge your designated payment method automatically for each renewal at the then-current price for your plan. You may cancel at any time through your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, your access continues until then, and you are not entitled to a refund of fees for the remaining period except as expressly stated in Section 8.3. Any price change applying on renewal will be notified in accordance with Section 8.4, and for annual plans we will endeavor to send a renewal reminder before the renewal date. Your continued subscription after such notice constitutes acceptance of the renewal at the then-current price.
No availability guarantee. We aim to provide a reliable Service but do not guarantee that the Service, the API, the dashboard, or the free checker will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, complete, or error-free. The Service is provided on an "as available" basis. Access may be affected by factors outside our control, including internet and network conditions, your own systems, third-party infrastructure, and upstream data sources.
Right to improve, change, and adjust. We may, at our sole discretion and at any time, improve, update, enhance, modify, add to, remove from, adjust, throttle, rate-limit, restrict, suspend (in whole or in part), discontinue, or deprecate the Service or any feature, endpoint, plan, data source, or component of it. Where we make a material adverse change to, or discontinue or deprecate, a feature or API version on which paid customers rely, we will use reasonable efforts to give advance notice. No exercise of the rights in this Section constitutes a breach of these Terms or gives rise to liability or a refund, except as provided in any separate written service-level commitment.
Maintenance. We may perform scheduled or emergency maintenance that temporarily limits or suspends availability, with or without notice.
No liability for unavailability. Subject to Section 11.5, we are not liable for any interruption, downtime, outage, latency, delay, suspension, error, defect, degradation, loss of data, or failure of the Service to operate or to return a result, whether arising from maintenance, changes made under Section 9.2, third-party or infrastructure failures (including hosting, network, payment processor, or upstream data sources), or any event beyond our reasonable control (Section 19.1). You are responsible for designing your systems to handle Service unavailability, errors, and changes, and for retaining your own records of Screening Results you rely on.
Service levels. Any service-level commitment, if offered, will be stated in a separate written agreement applicable to the relevant plan. Absent such a commitment, no uptime or response-time guarantee applies.
Modification of data sources. The Service screens Addresses against data sources selected by us at our sole discretion. We may at any time add, remove, change, substitute, or discontinue any data source, list, or jurisdiction, in whole or in part. We do not warrant that any particular sanctions list, jurisdiction, or data source is, or will continue to be, included in or screened by the Service. No such change constitutes a breach of these Terms, gives rise to liability, or entitles you to a refund. We will give reasonable notice of any material change to the data sources, and your continued use of the Service after such notice constitutes acceptance.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL LIST DATA AND SCREENING RESULTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT SCREENING RESULTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL DETECT ANY PARTICULAR ADDRESS, RISK, OR LISTING.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
THIS EXPRESSLY INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DAMAGES, FINES, PENALTIES, OR LOSSES ARISING FROM (A) RELIANCE ON A SCREENING RESULT; (B) A FALSE POSITIVE OR FALSE NEGATIVE; (C) INCOMPLETE, DELAYED, OR INACCURATE LIST DATA; OR (D) YOUR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ANY LAW OR REGULATION APPLICABLE TO YOU.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 (TWELVE) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
The limitations in this Section apply regardless of the form of action and reflect the allocation of risk between the parties.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or gross negligence, or for any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. To the extent any limitation or exclusion in these Terms (including in Section 9 and Section 10) is held unenforceable, it applies to the maximum extent permitted, and the remainder continues in effect.
You will indemnify, defend, and hold us harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to (a) your use of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms or any law (including sanctions laws); or (c) any decision or action you take, or fail to take, based on a Screening Result.
Our handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, incorporated by reference. Where we process personal data on your behalf as a data processor, our respective obligations are set out in a Data Processing Agreement made available to you.
You are responsible for ensuring that your submission of Addresses and your use of Screening Results comply with applicable data protection laws.
We retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, the API, our software development kits, the Documentation, our compiled and maintained List Data, our names and marks, and all related intellectual property. We do not claim ownership of the underlying public list entries themselves. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Service for your own internal screening in accordance with these Terms.
You must not copy, resell, sublicense, scrape, reverse engineer, or create a competing service from the Service or List Data, except as expressly permitted. You may use Screening Results for your own internal compliance purposes only, and may not redistribute them as a dataset.
Each party may receive confidential information of the other. Each party will protect the other's confidential information and use it only as necessary to perform under these Terms.
These Terms apply for as long as you use the Service. You may stop using the Service and cancel your plan at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period.
We may suspend or terminate your access for breach of these Terms, non-payment, sanctions reasons (Section 7), or to comply with law. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Section 7 (Sanctions), Section 8 (accrued payment obligations), Section 10 (Disclaimer), Section 11 (Limitation of Liability), Section 12 (Indemnification), Section 14 (Intellectual Property), Section 15 (Confidentiality), and Section 18 (Governing Law and Dispute Resolution) — survive.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified by reasonable means. Your continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
Governing Law. These Terms, and any dispute, claim, or obligation (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out of or in connection with these Terms or their subject matter or formation, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Thailand, without regard to any conflict-of-laws rule.
Jurisdiction. The parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of the Kingdom of Thailand over any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms, including any question regarding their existence, validity, breach, or termination, and waive any objection to those courts on grounds of venue or inconvenient forum.
Force Majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing under these Terms caused by an event beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, epidemic or pandemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, governmental action or change in law, sanctions, labor disputes, power or telecommunications failure, internet or network failure, denial-of-service or other malicious attacks, or the failure or interruption of any third-party infrastructure, hosting, payment, or upstream data-source provider. This Section is in addition to, and does not limit, any relief available under applicable law.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements.
If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.
You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.