Terms & Conditions

1. About these terms

These terms govern your use of the blipton website, API, and data products (the “service”), operated from New South Wales, Australia (“blipton”, “we”, “us”). By creating an account, requesting an API key, or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you are using the service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation.

2. The service

blipton is a daily indexer of publicly published property-market signals, joined to licensed open government address data. We publish the market status (on-market or off-market) of NSW residential addresses as a daily CSV and a REST API. The service publishes an address, a suburb, a postcode, a status, and dates — it does not include listing content such as photographs, descriptions, prices, or agent details.

3. Accounts

You must provide a valid email address and keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity under your account. One account per person or organisation unless we agree otherwise. We may decline, suspend, or close accounts that breach these terms.

4. API keys & security

API access uses bearer tokens. Your API key is shown to you and stored by us only in hashed form — treat it like a password. You must not share keys between organisations, publish them in client-side code or public repositories, or attempt to access data beyond your plan’s entitlements. If a key is compromised, rotate it from your dashboard immediately; you are responsible for usage (including metered charges) incurred under your keys.

5. Rate limits & fair use

Current operational limits, applied per API token:

We may adjust limits to protect the service, and will raise them for legitimate use cases on request. Circumventing rate limits or metering (including by creating multiple accounts to accumulate signup credit) is a breach of these terms.

6. Pricing, credit & billing

All prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of GST. Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not store card numbers. Current plans are published on the pricing page:

• API (pay-per-call): active on every account. New accounts receive $2.00 of complimentary credit (100 calls). Metered lookups deduct $0.02 per call from your prepaid balance. Credit top-ups are available from your dashboard in fixed amounts and are applied idempotently.
• Suburb CSV ($99/month per suburb): adding a suburb charges the flat suburb price immediately to your saved card and adjusts your subscription; removing one takes effect from the next billing cycle.
• NSW CSV ($2,200/month): the full-state daily file, billed monthly in advance; any existing suburb subscription is cancelled at the end of its current period on upgrade.

Subscription fees are billed in advance and metered usage is deducted as it occurs. We may change prices with at least 30 days’ notice; changes apply from your next billing cycle.

7. Cancellation & refunds

You can cancel any subscription at any time from your dashboard; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then. Except where required by law (including the Australian Consumer Law), fees already paid — including partial billing periods and unused prepaid API credit — are non-refundable. Complimentary signup credit has no cash value.

8. Data licence & permitted use

Subject to these terms and your plan’s entitlements, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use data obtained from the service for your internal business purposes, including analysis, feasibility work, reporting, and integration into your own tools and workflows. You must not:

• resell, sublicense, or redistribute the raw data (or a substantially complete copy of it) as a competing data product;
• publicly republish bulk extracts of the dataset;
• remove or misrepresent attribution required below.

Derived works — reports, maps, models, shortlists, and aggregate statistics that incorporate the data — are yours. Address data incorporates or is developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open G-NAF End User Licence Agreement; you must comply with that licence, including its attribution and no-misrepresentation conditions, for any use of address records.

9. Acceptable use

You must not use the service:

• for any unlawful purpose, or to harass, stalk, or profile identifiable individuals;
• to send unsolicited communications in breach of applicable law (including the Spam Act 2003 (Cth) and Do Not Call legislation) — you are solely responsible for the compliance of any marketing or outreach you run using the data;
• to probe, scan, overload, or interfere with the service, or to access it by any means other than the documented API and website;
• in safety-critical systems or any context where an error could cause harm.

10. Accuracy & disclaimers

The service is derived from publicly published market signals and an open government address register, both of which change constantly and contain errors, omissions, and delays. We describe our method, our confirmation windows, and the classes of activity we do not capture (including off-market sales, address-withheld listings, and new-build projects) on our website — read them before relying on the data.

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. It is factual market-status data only: nothing in the service is a property valuation, investment or financial advice, legal or planning advice, or a recommendation to transact. You must independently verify the status of any property before acting on it. Nothing in these terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded.

11. Availability

We target daily refreshes and high availability, and we publish a live service-health endpoint, but we do not offer a contractual SLA. The service may be interrupted for maintenance, upstream changes, or events outside our control. If a daily refresh fails, we serve the most recent good data and flag staleness via the status endpoint.

12. Intellectual property

We (and our licensors) retain all rights in the service, including its software, database structure, compiled dataset, documentation, and branding. Nothing in these terms transfers any intellectual property to you beyond the licence in section 8.

13. Suspension & termination

We may suspend or terminate access immediately for material breach (including licence breaches, abuse of limits, or non-payment), or with 30 days’ notice for convenience. On termination your licence ends and API keys are revoked; sections 8 (attribution), 10, 12, and 14 survive. You may close your account at any time.

14. Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the service is limited to the amounts you paid us in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim, and neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, or loss of opportunity. Where liability cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law, it is limited (at our option) to re-supplying the service or paying the cost of re-supply.

15. Privacy

We collect the minimum needed to run the service: your email address, a hashed password, usage and billing records, and service logs. Card details are handled by Stripe and never touch our servers. We do not sell personal information. Transactional email (verification, receipts, alerts) is sent via our email provider. You can request deletion of your account and associated personal information at any time.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. For material changes we will give at least 14 days’ notice by email or dashboard notice; continued use after the effective date is acceptance. The “Last updated” date above always reflects the current version.

17. Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. Questions, licence requests, and notices: [email protected].