Legal

Terms of Service

These Terms are an agreement between you and the operator of Tidewatcher ("Tidewatcher", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using tidewatcher.app (the "Service") you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, Risk Disclaimer and Refund Policy below. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

1. Who can use Tidewatcher

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a contract. You may not use the Service where doing so is illegal, or if you are on a sanctions list or located in a sanctioned country.

2. What the Service is

Tidewatcher shows market data, on-chain token data, social media posts, prediction-market odds, memes, automated scores (such as "Heat") and automated safety checks, all gathered from third-party public sources. It is a research and information tool only. We do not give investment, financial, legal or tax advice, we are not a broker, exchange or registered investment adviser, and we never hold, trade or move your funds. Nothing in the Service is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything.

3. Your account

Keep your password secure; you're responsible for activity on your account. One account per person — don't share, resell or rent access. Tell us right away at [email protected] if you think your account was accessed without permission.

4. Subscriptions and billing

• Paid plans (Scout, Trader, Pro) are billed monthly in advance and renew automatically at the then-current price until you cancel.
• Cancel anytime on your account page ("Manage billing"). Cancelling stops future charges; you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for.
• Free trial: new accounts get one 7-day free trial. A card is required at checkout but is not charged until the trial ends. If you cancel before the trial ends you will not be charged. Otherwise your plan starts and is billed monthly as described above. One trial per person; we may refuse trials to accounts created to get repeat trials.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
• We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice by email; the new price applies from your next renewal after the notice period. If you don't agree, cancel before then.
• Features and limits of each plan are described on the pricing page and may change over time. We will not materially reduce a paid plan during a period you've already paid for.
• Refunds are covered by the Refund Policy below.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to: scrape, copy or resell the Service or its data; reverse-engineer it or bypass plan limits or security; overload it or use bots against it; use it for anything illegal, including market manipulation, fraud or "pump and dump" schemes; or use the Tidewatcher name to suggest we endorse any token or person.

6. Third-party content

Posts, tokens, links, prices and other content shown in the Service come from third parties (for example X/Twitter accounts, DexScreener, CoinGecko, GeckoTerminal, pump.fun, Yahoo Finance, Polymarket, Reddit, RugCheck and GoPlus). We don't control, verify or endorse them, and listing an account or token is not an endorsement. Accounts we suggest following may be paid to promote tokens. Your use of third-party sites is governed by their terms.

7. Our content

The Service, its design, code, scores and branding belong to us. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for your own research while your account is in good standing.

8. Alerts

Telegram and Discord alerts are best-effort. They can be late, missed, duplicated or wrong because of outages, rate limits or data errors. Never rely on an alert as your only source for a decision.

9. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service and cancel at any time. We may suspend or close accounts that break these Terms, abuse the Service, or that we're required to close by law. If we close your account without cause, we will refund the unused part of your current paid period.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service and all data are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any safety check will detect a scam.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Tidewatcher and its operators will not be liable for any trading or investment losses, lost profits, lost data, or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, however caused, even if advised of the possibility. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US $50.

Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.

12. Indemnity

You agree to cover our reasonable costs and losses from claims by others arising out of your misuse of the Service or your breach of these Terms.

13. Disputes

Please contact us first — most problems can be solved by email within 30 days. If not, any dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association (consumer rules), except that either side may bring an individual claim in small-claims court. You and we waive the right to a jury trial and to take part in class actions. You may opt out of this arbitration section by emailing [email protected] within 30 days of creating your account.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer-protection laws where you live.

14. Changes

We may update these Terms. For material changes we'll email you or show a notice at least 14 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the new Terms.

15. Other

If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term isn't a waiver. You can't transfer these Terms; we can, as part of a sale or reorganisation of the Service. These Terms are the whole agreement between us about the Service.

Privacy Policy

We collect as little as we need to run the Service. We don't sell or rent your personal data, and we don't use advertising trackers or analytics cookies.

What we collect

• Account: your email address and a scrypt hash of your password (never the password itself).
• Billing: your Stripe customer ID, plan, subscription status and renewal date. Card details go straight to Stripe; we never receive them.
• Settings you choose: the X accounts you follow in the app, alert rules, and — if you set up alerts — your Telegram bot token and chat ID or Discord webhook URL.
• Usage: daily counts of plan-limited actions (like rug checks) and the time you accepted these terms.
• Referral: if you signed up through a creator's link, which creator referred you. They see only counts and amounts, never your email.
• Technical: your IP address is used briefly in memory to stop login abuse and may appear in our host's server logs.

Cookies

We use tw_session, a strictly necessary cookie that keeps you logged in. If you arrive through a creator's referral link we also set tw_ref for 30 days, which only records which creator sent you so they can earn a commission if you subscribe. No tracking or advertising cookies are used. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means Google receives your IP address when pages load.

Why we use it

To provide your account and plan, process payments, send the alerts you set up, prevent abuse and fraud, and meet legal obligations. (For EU/UK users: legal bases are performance of a contract, our legitimate interest in security, and legal obligation.)

Who we share it with

• Stripe — payment processing.
• Fly.io — hosts our servers and database.
• Telegram / Discord — only if you set up alerts, to deliver them.
• Authorities, if the law requires it, or a buyer if the Service is sold (this policy would still apply).

How long we keep it

While your account is open. After you ask us to delete your account we remove your data within 30 days, except billing records we must keep for tax and accounting (usually up to 7 years, held by Stripe).

Your rights

You can ask to access, correct, download or delete your data, or object to how we use it, by emailing [email protected] from your account email. We'll respond within 30 days. California residents: we don't sell or share personal information for cross-context advertising. EU/UK residents may also complain to their local data protection authority.

Security

Passwords are hashed, sessions are stored only as hashes, traffic is encrypted with HTTPS, and access to the database is restricted. No system is perfectly secure; we'll notify you if a breach affects your data as the law requires.

Children

The Service is not for anyone under 18 and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

We'll post updates here and email you about material changes.

Risk Disclaimer

• Not financial advice. Everything in Tidewatcher is general information. We don't know your finances or goals. Do your own research and consider a licensed professional before investing.
• Memecoins are extremely high risk. Most lose most or all of their value. Prices can move 90%+ in minutes. Liquidity can disappear. Only use money you can afford to lose completely.
• Safety checks are not guarantees. A "good" rug-check grade means our automated checks didn't find certain known red flags at that moment. Scams can pass every check, and contracts and holders can change after a check.
• Scores are not predictions. Heat scores, signals and trend labels summarise past and current activity. They don't predict future prices, and past performance doesn't indicate future results.
• Social posts may be paid. Accounts shown in Tidewatcher — including ones we suggest following — may be paid to promote tokens, may hold the tokens they post about, and may sell after posting.
• Data can be wrong or late. We rely on third-party sources that can lag, break or report errors.
• Sponsored creators. We may give creators free access or pay them a commission for referring subscribers. They are required to disclose this. Their opinions are their own, not ours.
• Taxes and laws. You are responsible for following the laws and paying the taxes that apply to your trading where you live.

Refund & Cancellation Policy

• Cancel anytime from your account page → "Manage billing". No calls, no emails needed.
• After cancelling you keep access until the end of the month you've paid for, then you won't be charged again.
• Because access starts immediately, payments are generally non-refundable and we don't give partial refunds for unused time.
• We will refund duplicate charges, charges after a cancellation that didn't go through on our side, and periods when the Service was unavailable for most of the time because of a problem on our side. Email [email protected] within 14 days of the charge.
• Where the law gives you a right to cancel and get a refund (for example the EU/UK 14-day right of withdrawal), that right applies. By starting to use a paid plan right away you ask us to begin the service immediately, which may reduce that refund in proportion to the time used.