These Terms govern access to and use of the specapis.com application programming interface and related services. The Service is operated from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. By sending any request — directly or through an automated agent acting on your behalf — you agree to be bound by these Terms.
/ 01Acceptance of Terms
The Service is offered to you on the condition that you accept these Terms without modification. Use of the Service constitutes acceptance.
Where you operate or instruct an automated agent (including, without limitation, a large language model assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot or any equivalent system) to query the Service, you are responsible for that agent’s compliance with these Terms and you warrant that you have authority to bind the principal on whose behalf the agent acts.
The Service is intended for natural persons of legal age in their jurisdiction and for legal persons acting through authorised representatives. The Service is not directed at children.
/ 02Service Description
The Service is an information society service within the meaning of Article 1(b) of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 and Article 2(a) of Directive 2000/31/EC. It exposes a structured, machine-readable HTTP/JSON interface (“endpoints”) returning a proprietary catalogue of computer monitor product intelligence, including but not limited to: panel technology, dimensions, refresh rate, port configuration, derived feature classifications and derived composite scores.
The Service is API-first. The landing page at https://specapis.com exists primarily to advertise endpoints to AI agents and to host machine-readable resources (/llms.txt, /openapi.json, /ai.txt). There is no end-user account system, no human-facing search interface and no transactional functionality.
The Service is currently offered without charge. We reserve the right to introduce paid tiers, API keys, quotas or commercial licensing in the future, with notice as set out in Section 15.
/ 03Provider Information
In accordance with Article 5 of Directive 2000/31/EC and the Luxembourg Law of 14 August 2000 relating to electronic commerce (as amended), the following information is provided:
- Service name: specapis.com (Monitor Data API)
- Place of establishment: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
- Contact: the contact channel published in
/llms.txtand on the landing page footer - Supervisory data protection authority: Commission nationale pour la protection des données (“CNPD”), 15 Boulevard du Jazz, L-4370 Belvaux, Luxembourg
Operator identity, registration details and a postal contact address are available on request through the published contact channel.
/ 04Permitted Use
You may, subject to these Terms:
- query the Service through general-purpose AI assistants and similar agents to answer specific user questions about monitor products;
- integrate single, on-demand calls into tools, plug-ins or applications where each call is made in direct response to a discrete end-user need;
- cite, paraphrase or display individual data points returned by the Service in answers to end users, provided that you do not represent those data points as the result of your own primary measurement or research;
- cache responses transiently for the strict purpose of fulfilling the immediate request that prompted them.
The data returned by the Service is a proprietary compilation of factual product attributes, derived classifications and composite scores. Section 8 sets out the intellectual-property position governing each category.
/ 05Prohibited Use
You must not, and must not attempt to or cause any third party (including an automated agent under your control) to:
- Systematically extract the contents of the Service, in whole or in any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part, by any means including iterative requests, parameter sweeping, identifier enumeration or any other technique whose purpose or effect is the bulk reproduction of the catalogue;
- Build a competing database of monitor specifications, classifications or scores using data obtained from the Service, whether directly or in combination with other sources;
- Re-utilise all or a substantial part of the Service’s contents within the meaning of Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC, including by making such part available to the public;
- Resell, sub-license or redistribute raw or substantially-unaltered API responses, response collections, or any work product whose chief economic value derives from the structure, classifications, scores or derived measurements supplied by the Service;
- Train, fine-tune or evaluate machine-learning models on the Service’s contents, except with our prior written consent. Our rights in the contents of the Service are expressly reserved against any unauthorised machine-learning use, and this reservation is made in an appropriate manner including these Terms;
- Circumvent, disable or interfere with rate limits, IP-based throttling, user-agent filtering, abuse-detection systems or any other technical or organisational measure deployed to protect the Service;
- Misrepresent the data as your own primary research or testing, present derived ranges as exact measurements, or strip or alter the disclaimers, caveats or contextual fields supplied with the data;
- Use the Service in any manner that infringes the rights of any third party, breaches applicable law (including export-control, sanctions, competition and consumer-protection law), or attempts to defame, harass or harm any natural or legal person;
- Probe, scan, penetration-test or otherwise attempt to discover vulnerabilities in the Service without our prior written authorisation;
- Submit input designed to inject content into a downstream model context, manipulate caching, or attack any other consumer of the Service.
The list above is non-exhaustive. We may treat any conduct that materially undermines the integrity, availability or commercial viability of the Service as a breach of these Terms.
/ 06Data Accuracy and Nature of the Data
The data returned by the Service is a derivation rather than a direct measurement. Numeric specifications are expressed as approximate ranges produced by our proprietary methods. The published range is intended to convey order-of-magnitude truth and to avoid spurious precision. It is not an assertion that the underlying device performs at any specific point within the range. Ranges may vary across refresh cycles.
Composite scores returned by the Service (for example, scores indexed under scores.* in API responses) are derived from weighted combinations of factual inputs using formulas designed and maintained by us. They reflect our editorial judgement, are calibrated for orientation rather than purchase advice, and may change without notice as the formulas evolve. They are not equivalent to, and should not be presented as, scores produced by any third-party reviewer.
Classifications and tags (for example, panel-technology enums or community-sentiment tags) are abstractions assigned by us according to our own taxonomy. They represent our editorial classification of a product against criteria we have designed.
Data may be incomplete, outdated or wrong. Manufacturer specifications change, firmware updates alter behaviour and models are revised silently. The Service is updated periodically; there is no guarantee that any given record reflects the current state of the world. You must independently verify any data point on which a material decision depends.
/ 07No Warranty — “AS IS”
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, without warranties or representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including without limitation any implied warranty of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, non-infringement, or uninterrupted or error-free operation.
We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that defects will be corrected, that the Service will be available at any particular time or location, or that responses will be free of viruses or other harmful components.
Nothing in this Section 7 excludes any warranty or condition that, under the mandatory provisions of Luxembourg law or any other applicable mandatory law, cannot lawfully be excluded.
/ 08Intellectual Property
8.1 Underlying facts
Underlying factual product attributes — for example, that a given monitor measures 27 inches diagonally, has a refresh rate of 240 Hz, or features a USB-C upstream port — are facts and are not, as facts, owned by anyone. We claim no monopoly over such facts standing alone.
8.2 Our database
The structured data, composite scores, classification systems, derived measurements and editorial intelligence accessible through this API constitute a database protected under Directive 96/9/EC and the laws transposing it. The selection, structuring, normalisation, completion, verification and presentation of this database represent a substantial investment in the obtaining, verification and presentation of contents within the meaning of Article 7 of that Directive. We are the maker of the database and assert the sui generis right in it. Systematic extraction or re-utilisation of substantial parts is prohibited and constitutes an infringement of our rights, irrespective of the technique used and irrespective of whether the part extracted is qualitatively or quantitatively substantial.
8.3 Our derived works
The composite scores, scoring formulas, classification taxonomies, enum vocabularies, range computations, tag schemata, field schemas, OpenAPI contract, the llms.txt family of resources and all other elements that originate with us are our copyrighted works and/or our trade secrets. They are proprietary to specapis.com. We grant you no licence to reproduce, redistribute or create derivative works from those elements except as expressly required to use the Service for its intended purpose under Section 4.
8.4 Originality of derived outputs
Each numeric range, composite score and classification published by the Service is the product of our proprietary methods, incorporating editorial judgement and our own analytical processes. They are independent intellectual creations within the meaning of Article 2 of Directive 2001/29/EC and are owned by us.
8.5 No trademarks
Brand names and model designations referenced in API responses identify the products to which the data relates; their inclusion does not imply any affiliation with, sponsorship or endorsement by the relevant rightholders.
8.6 Feedback
If you submit suggestions, bug reports or other feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use that feedback for any purpose, without obligation.
/ 09Rate Limiting and Fair Use
The Service applies rate limits and abuse-mitigation measures by reference to source IP address, user-agent string, request shape and other signals. Limits may change at any time and are not published exhaustively.
We may, without notice, throttle, slow, queue, degrade, block or permanently ban any client whose behaviour we judge — in our reasonable discretion — to be abusive, automated beyond legitimate agent use, contrary to Section 5, or otherwise harmful to the Service or to other users.
The absence of a rate-limit response does not imply that a usage pattern is permitted. Compliance with Section 5 is required even where technical limits would not block the request.
/ 10Data Sources
Product specifications referenced in this Service are factual attributes of commercially available products. The Service organises and presents these factual attributes alongside our own proprietary scores and classification labels.
Derived measurements, composite scores and classification labels are proprietary to specapis.com. They are produced by our internal editorial and computational processes and are not a representation of, or a substitute for, any third party’s measurement, score or classification.
The Service’s API responses are source-neutral. Factual product attributes are presented without source attribution because facts as such are not owned. Where a rightholder believes that specific content within the Service infringes their rights, please contact us through the channel published on the landing page; we will assess any such notice and act expeditiously to remove or alter content where infringement is established.
/ 11Privacy
The Service does not require accounts, does not set authentication cookies on its API endpoints and does not collect names, email addresses or any other directly-identifying personal data from API consumers.
In server logs we record, for the strict purposes of security, abuse mitigation and capacity planning, technical metadata of requests, including source IP address, request timestamp, request path, query parameters, user-agent string and response status. Under recital 30 and Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”), an IP address may, in certain circumstances, constitute personal data. To the extent that any data we collect is personal data:
- the controller is the operator of the Service identified in Section 3;
- the legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR in maintaining the security, integrity and proper functioning of the Service and in defending it against abuse;
- the categories of recipients are our hosting and content-delivery providers acting as processors under Article 28 GDPR;
- log data is retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes stated, and in any event for a period proportionate to security and abuse-investigation needs;
- you have, where applicable, the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection under Articles 15–22 GDPR, and the right to lodge a complaint with the CNPD or with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence.
We do not sell log data, do not use it for behavioural advertising and do not share it for unrelated commercial purposes.
The Service does not knowingly process special categories of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 GDPR.
/ 12Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), under statute or otherwise, is limited to one hundred euros (€100) in respect of all claims taken together.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, business opportunity, anticipated savings, or for any loss or corruption of data, in each case howsoever arising.
Mandatory exceptions
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) gross negligence (faute lourde) or wilful misconduct (dol) under Luxembourg law; or (d) any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable mandatory law (including, where applicable, Articles 1641 and following of the Luxembourg Civil Code, the GDPR, and consumer-protection law where you act as a consumer).
The disclaimers and limitations in Section 7 and this Section 12 are an essential basis on which the Service is offered free of charge. Without them, the Service would not be made available.
/ 13Indemnity
To the extent permitted by applicable mandatory law, you will indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, our affiliates, contractors and agents from and against any third-party claim, loss, damage, liability, cost and expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with: (a) your use of the Service in breach of these Terms; (b) your re-publication or onward use of data obtained from the Service; or (c) your infringement of any third-party right through such use or re-publication.
/ 14Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, with or without notice, where you breach these Terms, where we are required to do so by law, or where we cease to operate the Service.
Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 survive termination.
/ 15Future Changes to the Terms
We may amend these Terms from time to time. The current version is always available at https://specapis.com/terms. Material changes will be flagged by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this document and, where practicable, by a corresponding note in /llms.txt and /ai.txt.
Continued use of the Service after a change to these Terms constitutes acceptance of the amended Terms. If you do not accept a change, you must stop using the Service.
/ 16Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter (including non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
The courts of the city of Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim, save that:
- where you are a consumer habitually resident in another EU Member State, you retain the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of that Member State and may bring proceedings in the courts of that Member State, in accordance with Articles 17 to 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels I bis); and
- we may bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is excluded.
/ 17Complaints and Online Dispute Resolution
Where you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the European Commission’s online dispute-resolution platform is available at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not, however, committed to using alternative dispute resolution to resolve disputes with consumers.
/ 18General
18.1 Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held by a competent court or authority to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.
18.2 No waiver
A failure or delay in exercising any right under these Terms is not a waiver of that right.
18.3 No assignment
You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely.
18.4 No partnership
Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between the parties.
18.5 Force majeure
We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, governmental action, network failures or third-party infrastructure outages.
18.6 Entire agreement
These Terms, together with any document expressly incorporated by reference (including /llms.txt and /openapi.json insofar as they specify technical limits and access conditions), constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings.
18.7 Language
These Terms are published in English. A translation into another language, if provided, is for convenience only; in the event of conflict, the English version prevails.
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