Last updated: 22 January 2024
1. Introduction
1.1. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions (the "
Terms"), the terms and conditions of our
Privacy Policy (the "
Privacy Policy") and all terms incorporated by reference.
1.2. The Services are provided to you by Cronos Labs ("Cronos Labs", "we", "us"). We may amend or modify these Terms at any time by posting the revised terms on our website and/or providing a copy to you. The revised Terms will be effective as of the time they are posted but will not apply retroactively unless otherwise stated. Your continued use of the Services after the posting of the revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of such revised Terms. If you do not agree with any such modification, your sole and exclusive remedy is to terminate your use of the Services.
1.3. If you accept or execute the Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or other legal entity to these Terms and that such legal entity is duly organized and validly existing under applicable laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and, in such event, "you" and " your" will refer and apply to that company or other legal entity.
2. Definitions
"Applicable Laws" means any law, rule, statute, subordinate legislation, regulation, by-law order, ordinance, protocol, code, guideline, treaty, policy, notice, direction or judicial, arbitral, administrative, ministerial or departmental judgment, award, decree, treaty, directive, or other requirement or guideline published or in force at any time which applies to or is otherwise intended to govern or regulate any person (including all parties to this Terms), property, transaction, activity, event or other matter, including any rule, order, judgment, directive or other requirement or guideline issued by any governmental or regulatory authority.
"Authorized User" means you and your employees, contractors or agents authorized by you to access and use these Services pursuant to these Terms. You are responsible for the acts and omissions of your Authorized Users and any other person who accesses and uses the Service using any of your.
"Force Majeure Event" means an event or failure which is beyond our reasonable control including, without limitation, (i) acts of God, nature (including without limitation, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics), court or domestic or foreign governmental authorities; (ii) failure or interruption in public or private telecommunication networks, communication channels or information systems; (iii) acts or omissions of acts of a party for whom we are not responsible; (iv) delay, failure or interruption in, or unavailability of, third party services and sites; (v) strikes, lockouts, labor disputes, wars, civil unrest, terrorist acts and riots; (vi) viruses, malwares, other malicious computer codes or the hacking of any part of the Services.
"Services" means the data, information, materials, and other content on the Site or provided through the Site.
"Site" means the website at https://explorer.cronos.org/
"User-Generated Content" or "Content" means any data, information, and other materials that you or your Authorized Users submit to the Platform, including, without limitation, the personal information (such as name, email address, and other identifying information) of you and your Authorized Users.
3. The Cronos Explorer Services
We reserve the right, at our sole and exclusive discretion, and without liability or prior notice to you, to update, change, remove, cancel, suspend, disable or restrict access to or discontinue the Services or change any features, component or content thereof. We further reserve the right to charge applicable fees for any part of the Services by way of reasonable notice (including but not limited to amendment of these Terms). If we do so, these Terms shall apply to any and all additional Services and any and all updated, modified or revised Services unless otherwise stipulated. Your continued use of the Services after such updates, changes, and/or modification, shall constitute your acceptance of such terms and you agree that it is your responsibility to check these Terms regularly and to be aware of such updates or changes. Should you not agree to these Terms, or any updated Terms, you are immediately deemed to have stopped using the Services and shall bear any consequences for not acting in accordance.
4. Eligibility
4.1. You represent and warrant that you:
4.1.1. are at least eighteen (18) years of age and of legal age to form a binding contract;
4.1.2. have not previously been suspended or removed from using our Services;
4.1.3. have full power and authority to enter into this agreement and in doing so will not violate any applicable laws or regulations or any other agreement to which you are a party;
4.1.4. You are not impersonating any other person, operating under an alias or otherwise concealing your identity;
4.1.5. You are the sole customer/user and ultimate beneficial owner of your account and not acting on behalf of or representing any other natural person, legal person or legal entity;
4.1.6. You are accessing and/or using the Services for your personal, non-commercial use unless you enter into a separate agreement with us for your commercial use.
4.2. We are entitled, in our sole discretion and without providing reasons to you, to refuse your registration, suspend, terminate or limit your use of the Services, or to change the eligibility criteria for registration or use of the Services at any time.
5. Discontinuance of Services
5.1. We may, in our sole discretion and without liability to you, with or without prior notice and at any time, modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion of our Services.
6. Assumption of Risk
6.1. You acknowledge and agree that there are risks associated with utilizing an Internet-based service including, but not limited to, the risk of failure of hardware, software and Internet connections, and the risk of malicious software introduction.
6.2. You acknowledge and agree that we will not be responsible for any communication failures, disruptions, errors, distortions or delays you may experience when using the Services, however caused. We take no responsibility for and will not be liable for any losses, damages or claims arising from the use of our Services, including, but not limited to, any losses, damages or claims arising from:
6.2.1. passwords (if applicable) being "brute forced",
6.2.2. server failure or data loss,
6.2.3. forgotten passwords (if applicable),
6.2.4. corrupted wallet files,
6.2.5. incorrectly constructed transactions or mistyped Cronos Chain addresses,
6.2.6. unauthorized access to mobile applications, or
6.2.7. "phishing," viruses, third-party attacks or any other unauthorized third-party activities.
7. Third-Party Services and Content
7.1. In using our Services, you may view content or utilize services provided by third parties, including links to web pages and services of such parties ("Third-Party Content").
7.2. We do not control, endorse or adopt any Third-Party Content and will have no responsibility for Third-Party Content, including, without limitation, material that may be misleading, incomplete, erroneous, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable in your jurisdiction.
7.3. In addition, your business dealings or correspondence with such third parties are solely between you and the third parties. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings, and you understand that your use of Third-Party Content, and your interactions with third parties, is at your own risk.
8. Acceptable Use
8.1. When accessing or using the Services, you agree that you will not violate any law, contract, intellectual property or other third-party right or commit a tort, and that you are solely responsible for your conduct while using our Services. You must not:
8.1.1. Use our Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect or inhibit other users from fully enjoying our Services, or that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the functioning of our Services in any manner;
8.1.2. Use our Services to pay for, support or otherwise engage in any illegal activities, including, but not limited to illegal gambling, fraud, money-laundering, or terrorist activities;
8.1.3. Use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access our Services or to extract data;
8.1.4. Engage in automated data collection, data mining, crawling, scraping, or similar data gathering or extraction methods, unless such automated data collection is confined solely to search indexing for display on the Internet;
8.1.5. Engage in the reproduction of any content posted (such as public labels or name tags) or extracted from our CSV exports or our website or any of our affiliate websites without our prior consent or authorization;
8.1.6. Copy, transfer, mirror, manipulate and/or aggregate any of the Service or any content (including data) for the purpose of making it available to any third party;
8.1.7. Copy, modify, attempt to decompile or reverse engineer and/or create derivative works of the Service or any content;
8.1.8. Attempt to circumvent any content filtering techniques we employ, or attempt to access any service or area of our Services that you are not authorized to access;
8.1.9. Make excessive requests for information or take any action that interferes with, disrupts or imposes an undue burden on the Service or any server or network connected to the Service or negatively affects the quality or availability of any content, or speed or functionality of the Service;
8.1.10. Introduce to the Services any virus, trojan horse, worms, logic bombs or other harmful material;
8.1.11. Develop any third-party applications that interact with our Services without our prior written consent;
8.1.12. Provide false, inaccurate, or misleading information; and/or
8.1.13. Encourage or induce any third party to engage in any of the activities prohibited under this Section.
9. User-Generated Content
9.1. Responsibility for User-Generated Content. You are solely responsible for the content of, and for any harm resulting from, any User-Generated Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Service, regardless of the form of that Content. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User-Generated Content.
9.2. Ownership of Content & Right to Post. If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post; that you will only submit Content that you have the right to post; and that you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.
9.3. License Grant to Us. We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, parse, and display your content, and make incidental copies as necessary to render the Website and provide the service.
9.4. Moral Rights - You retain all moral rights to Your Content that you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us, to enable us to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section 9.3.
9.5. To the extent this agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant us the rights we need to use your content without attribution and to make reasonable adaptations of your content as necessary to render the Site and provide the Service.
9.6. We have the right (though not the obligation) to refuse or remove any User-Generated Content that, in our sole discretion, violates any of our terms or policies.
10. Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property Rights
10.1. Unless otherwise indicated by us, all copyright and other intellectual property rights in all content and other materials contained on the Site, or provided in connection with the Services, including, without limitation, Cronos Labs or its logo, trademarks and all designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, the look and feel of the Site, data, software, sound files, other files and the selection and arrangement thereof (collectively, "Company Materials") are the proprietary property of Cronos Labs or our licensors or suppliers and are protected by copyright laws and other intellectual property rights laws.
10.2. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of any Company Material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that:
10.2.1. full and clear credit is given to https://explorer.cronos.org/ with appropriate and specific direction to the original content;
10.2.2. your site or any materials accompanying the Link shall not contain any content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, scandalous, seditious, defamatory or otherwise inappropriate to Company and its goodwill, as determined by us in our sole and absolute discretion;
10.2.3. your site does not contain any information that, in our sole and absolute discretion, may create the false impression that you, your site or any other website, service, person or entity is associated with, approved by, sponsored by or otherwise endorsed by the Company; and
10.2.4. We may revoke our consent to your use of any Company Material at any time in our sole and absolute discretion, without prior notice. If we notify you that you may no longer link to the Service, or to a page or document, you must promptly (and, in any event, within two (2) calendar days from the date of our notice) remove all affected links or content from your site.
11. API Licence
11.1. Subject to these Terms, we hereby grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited licence to use the Application Programming Interface ("API Licence") solely in accordance with these Terms and after registering with the Service as a registered user ("Registered User(s)"). You may become a Registered User by providing the following data for registration, subject to the Privacy Policy:
11.1.1. Email address;
11.1.2. A password; and
11.1.3. Any other information as may be determined in Cronos Labs’ sole discretion from time to time.
11.2. By becoming a Registered User, you are entitled to the API Licence under these terms to use the following functions (as may be determined and/or amended by Cronos Labs from time to time in its sole discretion without notice to you) (i) create an API key for using the API services as determined by Cronos Labs from time to time and; (ii) checking the statuses for smart contract verification on the Site.
11.3. You shall not use the API Licence in any way not expressly permitted or granted under these Terms.
11.4. You hereby represent and warrant that any and all information provided to us is always complete, accurate, and up-to-date in all respects and that in the event that such information ceases to be complete, accurate, and up-to-date, you shall provide us with such revised and updated information without delay. You undertake to indemnify Cronos Labs for any and all losses incurred as a result of your failure to provide complete, accurate and up-to-date information at any point prior to and following termination of the Services.
11.5. Should you elect to become a Registered User, you hereby and represent and warrant that, in doing so, you are not acting on behalf of or representing any other natural person, legal person or legal entity.
12. Suspension and Termination
12.1. In the event of any Force Majeure Event, breach of these Terms, or any other event that would make provision of the Services commercially unreasonable for Company, we may, in our discretion and without liability to you, with or without prior notice, suspend your access to all or a portion of our Services.
12.2. We may terminate your access to the Services in our sole discretion, immediately and without prior notice, without liability to you, including, for instance, in the event that you breach these Terms.
13. Disclaimer
13.1. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, AND EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE CONTRARY IN A WRITING BY US, OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM, AND YOU WAIVE, ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT AS TO OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION, CONTENT AND MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN. CRONOS LABS DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, SECURITY, AVAILABILITY OR INTEGRITY OF THE SERVICE OR THE SITE, AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OTHER INACCURACIES RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THE SITE.
13.2. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT INFORMATION YOU STORE OR TRANSFER THROUGH OUR SERVICES MAY BECOME IRRETRIEVABLY LOST OR CORRUPTED OR TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO A VARIETY OF CAUSES, INCLUDING SOFTWARE FAILURES, PROTOCOL CHANGES BY THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS, INTERNET OUTAGES, FORCE MAJEURE EVENT OR OTHER DISASTERS, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE, OR OTHER CAUSES EITHER WITHIN OR OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING UP AND MAINTAINING DUPLICATE COPIES OF ANY INFORMATION YOU STORE OR TRANSFER THROUGH OUR SERVICES.
14. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL CRONOS LABS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFIT OR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM THESE TERMS, THE CONTENT, SERVICES, SITE, OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES RELATED TO LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE AND EVEN IF CRONOS LABS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. ACCESS TO, AND USE OF THE SITE, SERVICES OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT ARE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING THEREFROM. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF CRONOS LABS ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THESE TERMS, THE ACCESS AND USE OF THE SITE AND SERVICES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL FEES THAT YOU HAVE PAID TO US WITHIN THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENTS GIVING RISE TO ANY CLAIM. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY OF CRONOS LABS FOR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY CRONOS LABS’ NEGLIGENCE OR ANY INJURY CAUSED BY CRONOS LABS’ FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION. NO ACTION, REGARDLESS OF FORM, ARISING FROM OR PERTAINING TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT BY USERS MORE THAN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER SUCH ACTION HAS ACCRUED.
15. Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Cronos Labs, its past, present and future employees, officers, directors, contractors, consultants, vendors, service providers, agents, representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns (individually and collectively the "Cronos Labs Parties"), from and against all actual or alleged third party claims, damages, awards, judgments, losses, liabilities, obligations, penalties, interest, fees, expenses (including, without limitation, court costs, costs of settlement and costs of pursuing indemnification and insurance), of every kind and nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, matured or unmatured, or suspected or unsuspected, in law or equity, whether in tort, contract or otherwise (collectively, "Claims"), including, but not limited to, damages to property or personal injury, that are caused by, arise out of or are related to (a) your use or misuse of the Site and Services or other conduct or actions in connection therewith, (b) your breach or violation of these Terms, and (c) your breach or violation of the rights of a third party, including another user or third party service provider. You agree to promptly notify Cronos Labs of any Claims and cooperate with the Cronos Labs Parties in defending such Claims. You further agree that the Cronos Labs Parties shall have control of the defence or settlement of any Claims. THIS INDEMNITY IS IN ADDITION TO, AND NOT IN LIEU OF, ANY OTHER INDEMNITIES THAT MAY BE SET FORTH IN A WRITTEN AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND CRONOS LABS.
16. Miscellaneous
16.1. Amendment and Variation. These Terms may from time to time be updated or amended. Such updates and/or amendments will take effect immediately unless otherwise indicated. We will post any such updates on the Site. You should regularly check the Site to inform yourself of any such changes. In addition, we may at any time change, add or remove any feature or functionality of the Site without prior notice. By continuing to use the Service and/or the Site after any such changes have taken effect, you are indicating your acceptance of the updated or amended Terms as well as your acceptance of the updated Site. If you do not wish to be bound by any changes or amendments to these Terms then you should stop using the Service and Site immediately.
16.2. Transfer, Assignment or Delegation. These Terms, and any rights and obligations and licences granted hereunder, are limited, revocable, non-exclusive and personal to you and your Authorized Users and therefore may not be transferred, assigned or delegated by you to any third-party without our prior written consent, but may be transferred, assigned or delegated by us without notice and restriction, including without limitation to any of the entities within the Cronos Labs group, or to any successor in interest of any business associated with the Service. Any attempted transfer or assignment in violation hereof shall be null and void.
16.3. Severability. If any provision of these Terms shall be found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall not affect the other provisions of these Terms and all provisions not affected by such invalidity or unenforceability shall remain in full force and effect. Such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of the provision to the greatest extent possible under any Applicable Laws.
16.4. Entire Agreement / Translation. These Terms (together with our Privacy Notice and any other documents relevant to the Service) constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding its subject matter and supersedes and invalidates all other prior representations, arrangements, understandings, and agreements relating to the same subject matter, (whether oral or in writing, express or implied). Each party acknowledges that in agreeing to these Terms it does not rely on any statement, representation, warranty, or understanding other than those expressly set out in these Terms. These Terms are concluded in the English language and all communications including any notices or information being transmitted shall be in English. In the event that these Terms or any part of it is translated (for any proceedings, for your convenience or otherwise) into any other language, the English language text of these Terms shall prevail.
16.5. Waiver. You understand and agree that if you have a dispute with one or more users, YOU RELEASE US FROM CLAIMS, DEMANDS, AND DAMAGES OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH DISPUTES. IN ENTERING INTO THIS RELEASE YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE ANY PROTECTIONS (WHETHER STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE) THAT WOULD OTHERWISE LIMIT THE COVERAGE OF THIS RELEASE TO INCLUDE THOSE CLAIMS WHICH YOU MAY KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN YOUR FAVOR AT THE TIME OF AGREEING TO THIS RELEASE. Notwithstanding the foregoing, these Terms shall not be waived in whole or in part except where agreed by the parties in writing. The delay of enforcement or the nonenforcement of any of the terms of these Terms by any party shall not be construed as a waiver of any of the other rights of that party arising out of the breach or any subsequent breach of any of these Terms and no right, power or remedy conferred upon or reserved for any party in these Terms is exclusive of any other right, power or remedy available to that party and each such right, power or remedy shall be cumulative.
16.6. Third Party Rights. Other than the entities within the Cronos Labs group, a person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to enforce any of these Terms.
17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong without regard to any choice or conflict of laws rules. Any dispute, controversy or claim, whether contractual or non contractual, arising out of or in connection with these Terms, or the breach, termination or invalidity thereof, or any other issue which shall arise in virtue of these Terms, shall be referred to and finally settled by arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre ("HKIAC") under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules in force when the Notice of Arbitration is submitted. The law of this arbitration clause shall be Hong Kong law. The seat of arbitration shall be in Hong Kong. The number of arbitrators shall be one. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in the English language.