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Terms of Service
Last updated September 27, 2026
These terms govern your use of licenscheck.com and the licenscheck API (together, the "Service"), operated by licenscheck ("we", "us"). By using the Service, you agree to them. If you use the Service for an organization, you agree on its behalf and confirm you have authority to. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.
Section 12 requires disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration and waives class actions and jury trials. Please read it.
1. What the Service is
The Service republishes contractor license records as reported by state licensing boards, and links licenses that appear to belong to the same contractor. The records come from the boards; the links are our own automated, probabilistic matching. We are not a licensing board, we don't license or endorse any contractor, and nothing in the Service is an official record.
2. No warranty
THE SERVICE AND ALL DATA IN IT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE.
Boards make mistakes, publish late and change their data, and our matching can link licenses that belong to different businesses or miss licenses that belong together. Always verify a license directly with the issuing board before relying on it. You are solely responsible for any decision you make using the Service.
3. Not a consumer report
We are not a consumer reporting agency, and nothing in the Service is a "consumer report" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act or any similar law. You may not use the Service, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding anyone's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or tenancy, or for any other purpose covered by the FCRA or similar laws. You are solely responsible for any such use.
4. Your use
- You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract.
- Use the Service and its data only for your own internal business purposes: to check the businesses you hire or work with, not to build a product or dataset of your own from it.
- Follow the Acceptable Use Policy. In short: no scraping, bulk extraction, resale or redistribution of the data, and no getting around rate limits.
- Keep your API keys secret. You're responsible for all use of your keys until you tell us one has leaked.
- Comply with all laws that apply to your use.
5. Fees and refunds
Free access costs nothing. Paid access is priced as agreed with you in writing or at checkout, and billed as stated there. Fees don't include taxes, which you're responsible for. We may change prices for future billing periods by notifying you before they take effect.
- Paid fees are non-refundable, including for partial billing periods and unused lookups, except where the law requires otherwise.
- Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime and stay active until the end of the period already paid for; you won't be charged again.
- Billing mistakes on our side, such as a duplicate charge, are refunded.
- Anything else is at our discretion: if something went wrong, email [email protected] and we'll look at it.
6. Our rights
The Service, including our matching, the links it produces, and the compilation of the data, belongs to us. These terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to use the Service as they allow, and nothing more. We may change, limit or discontinue any part of the Service at any time.
No uptime or support commitment. Unless a written order you sign with us says otherwise, the Service is provided on a best-effort basis, with no guarantee of availability, uptime or response time, and no obligation to provide support or maintenance.
Feedback and publicity. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them freely, without any obligation to you. We may name you (and show your logo) as a customer; email [email protected] to opt out.
7. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) WE WILL NOT 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 RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY; AND (B) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE FEES YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR US$100. THESE LIMITS APPLY WHATEVER THE LEGAL THEORY, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
8. Indemnity
You will defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage and cost (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your use of the Service, your breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or your violation of any law or anyone's rights, including any use prohibited by section 3.
9. Suspension and termination
You can stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or end your access, including revoking API keys, at any time and for any reason, including a breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy. Sections 2, 3 and 6 through 13 survive termination.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms at any time by posting the new version here; the date at the top shows the latest. Changes take effect when posted, and using the Service afterwards means you accept them.
11. Governing law
These terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act.
12. Disputes: arbitration and class-action waiver
Before filing a claim, you agree to email [email protected] and try to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
If it isn't resolved, any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its applicable rules, held in New York County, New York, or by video. Either side may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court. You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in any class, collective or representative action. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim must be heard in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and both sides consent to their jurisdiction.
Any claim must be brought within one year after it arose, or it is permanently barred.
13. General
These terms, with the Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy and any written order you sign with us, are the entire agreement about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a term isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms without our written consent; we may assign them. We're not liable for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as outages of a board's systems or of our providers.
14. Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected].