Terms of Service

What the service is — and is not

BreachFeed follows public reporting about data breaches and security incidents — news, company disclosures, government advisories — and alerts you when an organization or keyword you track appears in it.

The information is gathered from third-party sources and is sorted, matched and summarized in part by automated systems, including AI models. It can be incomplete, late or wrong, and the absence of an alert does not mean nothing has happened. It is information, not security, legal or other professional advice: check the original source before you act on it.

Your account

• You must be at least 18 and able to enter into this agreement.
• Give an email address you control, and keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done through your account; tell us promptly if you think someone else has used it.
• An account is for one person. On a team plan, the team’s administrators decide who holds its seats and can remove members.
• The service is not available in every country.

Plans and billing

• There is a free plan and there are paid plans; what each includes is on the pricing page.
• Paid plans, and any blocks of extra tracked entities you add, are charged in advance for each month or year through Stripe, and renew automatically until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from Account → Manage billing; cancelling stops future renewals. Deleting your account cancels a paid plan at once, without a refund for the rest of the period.
• When a paid plan ends, the account returns to the free plan, and what you track beyond the free plan’s limit is paused rather than deleted.
• If a price changes, we will tell you before your next renewal. Prices do not include taxes that your location may add.
• If you think a charge is wrong, write to us through the support page.

Referral codes

Referral discounts and rewards have no cash value and cannot be transferred. A reward may be withheld or taken back if the subscription it was earned on ends within 30 days, or if codes are used in ways the program was not meant for.

Using the service

You agree not to:

• use the service to break the law, or to harass or defame anyone;
• probe, attack or overload it, or get around its limits or access controls;
• collect its content by automated means, or resell or redistribute its alerts and records, without our written permission;
• create accounts automatically, or several accounts to avoid a plan’s limits.

We may suspend or close an account that does any of these.

Content and ownership

The service, its software and the incident records it compiles belong to us. Headlines, excerpts and articles belong to their publishers: we show a short excerpt and link to the original. We give you a personal, non-transferable right to use the service — for yourself, or within your organization on a team plan — for as long as your account is in good standing.

If you send us suggestions about the service, we may use them without owing you anything.

Text message alerts

Where text alerts are available: by adding a phone number and confirming the code sent to it, you confirm the number is yours to use and agree to receive alert texts there. How many you receive depends on what you track and your alert settings. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to stop texts to that number.

Other sites and services

The service links to sites we do not control and relies on other companies to deliver email, notifications and payments. We are not responsible for their content or for how they operate. Our Privacy Policy names the companies involved and what each receives.

Ending the agreement

You can stop at any time by deleting your account, on the account page or in the app. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the service or other people at risk, and we may change or withdraw parts of the service. The sections on ownership, disclaimers and liability continue to apply after an account is closed.

No warranties

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties about it — including that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors, or that its information is accurate, complete or timely.

Limit of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue or data, arising from the service or from relying on its information. Our total liability for any claim about the service is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose and US$100. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed, and for changes that matter we will tell members by email or on the site before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about these terms: the support page.