Terms of Service

You accept these terms when you do any of the following:

• create an account or sign in,
• publish a dataset,
• ask a dataset a question, pay for one, or subscribe to a dataset,
• connect an agent or other software to quarry, or use an API key.

If you do not agree, do not use quarry.

Software and agents. You can use quarry through software that acts for you, including an AI agent. When you do, that software acts on your behalf: you accept these terms through it, and you are responsible for everything it does on quarry, including the payments it makes, whether or not you reviewed each action. If you build or run an agent for other people, you remain responsible for how it uses quarry.

Organizations. If you use quarry for a company or another organization, you confirm that you have the authority to accept these terms for it, and "you" means that organization.

Age. You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a contract.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data. Our documentation describes how the service works and its current limits; it explains the service and does not change these terms.

quarry is an online marketplace. Creators upload files, group them into datasets, and set a price per question. Buyers, often through an agent, ask a dataset a question and receive the passages of the creator's files that answer it, each with its source. Buyers never receive the files themselves.

Each sale is a contract between the creator and the buyer. We provide the service that makes it possible: we store and prepare the creator's files, run the search, and pass on the payment request. We are not the seller of any dataset, and we are not a party to the contract between a creator and a buyer.

We do not review datasets before they are published, and we do not check that their content is accurate, complete, lawful, or fit for any use. Creators are responsible for their datasets. We do not promise creators any sales, or buyers any particular result.

How search orders datasets. When someone searches quarry, datasets are ordered by how closely their listing and content match the search. Nobody can pay for a better position.

Creators need an account. Buyers can ask questions and pay for them one at a time without an account; a subscription needs one.

• Give accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Keep your password and your API keys secret. You are responsible for everything done through your account and your keys, including by software you connect.
• Tell us right away if you think someone else has used them.
• Do not open several accounts to get around a limit or a suspension.

Your public handle cannot be changed once you have chosen it, and neither can the web address of a dataset once it has been published.

You keep ownership. You keep all rights in the files you upload. These terms transfer no ownership to us or to buyers.

What you allow us to do. To run the service, you give us a licence to your content. It is worldwide, non-exclusive and free of charge, and it covers only what the service needs. It lets us, and the service providers that work for us:

• store your files;
• read them and turn them into text and passages that can be searched;
• show your dataset's listing (its name, description, category, example questions, size, activity, and price) on quarry and to agents that search it;
• show a short free preview of a matching passage in search results, for as long as you leave previews switched on;
• return passages, with the name of the file and the page or rows they come from, to buyers, and to anyone who asks a dataset you made free;
• keep backups and records of what was sold.

We do not use your content to train machine-learning models. We send it to service providers only so that they can perform their part of the service.

How long it lasts. The licence lasts for as long as your content is on quarry. When you delete a file or a dataset, it leaves the service at once and its stored copies are removed shortly after; copies may remain in backups for a limited time. While your account is open, we keep the record of past sales (amount, date, payer, and transaction) without the content. Passages a buyer has already received stay with that buyer under Using passages.

What becomes public. Publishing a dataset makes its listing and your handle public. File names are shown to buyers as the source of each passage, so name your files as you would want them cited.

What you confirm. Each time you upload content or publish a dataset, you confirm that:

• you own the content, or have every right and permission needed to sell access to it this way, including the right to let us and buyers use it as these terms describe;
• the content and your listing break no law and no one's rights, including copyright, trade secrets, confidentiality duties, privacy, and the conditions under which you obtained the content;
• it holds no personal data about other people, unless you have a lawful basis to sell access to it;
• your listing describes the dataset honestly;
• it contains nothing built to damage a system, or to deceive or manipulate the people or the software that read it.

You set the price of a question for each dataset, and you can make a dataset free. A published dataset is locked: to change its files, its name, its description or its price, unpublish it first. You can still change its example questions and switch free previews on or off.

Your licence to buyers. When a buyer receives passages from your dataset, you give that buyer the licence described in Using passages. For a subscription you write your own usage terms, which apply on top of that section.

You are responsible for what you sell: your content, your listing, your price, your usage terms, and any taxes on your sales.

Unpublishing. You can unpublish a dataset at any time. It then leaves the marketplace and stops answering new questions. If it has subscribers, they keep access until the end of the period they have paid for, and you cannot change or delete its content until then.

What you receive. A question returns passages from the creator's files, each with its source: the file name and, where there is one, the page or the rows. quarry does not write an answer for you.

Price. Each dataset shows its price per question on its listing and in the payment request, before you pay. Prices are in USDC, a digital dollar.

When you are charged. You approve the payment for one question at a time. We check it before the search runs, and it is collected only once the search has returned passages. You are not charged when:

• your request is invalid,
• the dataset is not available,
• the search fails, or
• our relevance check finds that no passage answers your question.

When passages are returned, the question is charged at the listed price, even if they answer it only in part. The relevance check is automated and can be wrong. When it cannot run, a search that returns passages is charged.

Your payment goes straight to the creator's wallet. We never hold it.

Payments are final. A payment in USDC cannot be reversed by you, by us, or by a bank, and there are no chargebacks. Once a question has been answered and paid, it is not refundable. Because we never hold your payment, we cannot refund it ourselves: only the creator who received it can send it back. If you believe you were charged in error, write to hello@quarry.market within 30 days with the transaction reference, and we will look into it with the creator.

Pay on the network named in the payment request; a payment made for another network is refused.

If the law gives you a right to cancel a purchase within a set period, you ask for the passages to be delivered at once and you accept that this right ends when they are delivered. Nothing in this section removes a right to a refund that the law gives you and that cannot be waived.

Monthly subscriptions

Where a creator offers a monthly subscription:

• it gives one account a set number of questions per month on one dataset, at the price and under the usage terms shown when you subscribe;
• it is sold by the creator and paid by card, in US dollars, through a payment processor;
• it renews automatically every month, at the same price, until you cancel;
• you can cancel at any time from your account. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep access until the end of the month you have paid for;
• payments already made are not refunded, and unused questions do not carry over;
• a question that fails, or that no passage answers, does not count;
• a creator who changes an offer changes it for new subscribers only: you keep the price, the number of questions and the usage terms you signed up for;
• if the creator unpublishes the dataset, your subscription stops renewing and you keep access until the end of the month you have paid for.

A subscription belongs to the account that bought it. If that account is held for an organization, people in the organization may use it through the account's API keys and connected agents.

Passages belong to the creator. When you receive passages, paid or free, the creator gives you a licence to use them. It is non-exclusive and cannot be transferred, and it lasts for as long as you follow these terms.

You may:

• read and keep the passages, for your own use and that of your organization;
• use them to answer questions, including questions from the people who use your agent or your product;
• quote them with a citation to their source: the file name, the page or rows when given, and the dataset's listing.

You may not:

• resell passages, or offer access to them as a dataset, a feed or a service of their own;
• republish passages in bulk;
• use repeated questions to rebuild a dataset or a substantial part of one;
• use passages to train or fine-tune a machine-learning model, unless the creator has given you written permission, for example in the usage terms of a subscription;
• remove or hide where a passage comes from;
• split your use across several accounts, wallets or keys to get around a limit or one of these rules.

The usage terms a creator sets for a subscription apply in addition to this section. Where the two differ, the creator's usage terms decide.

If you break this section, your licence to the passages concerned ends and you must delete them. Creators may enforce this section against buyers directly. We may also act on a breach, but we are not obliged to.

Listing a dataset is free. Today we take no commission on questions paid one at a time: the whole price goes to the creator.

If we introduce a commission or change one, we will tell creators by email at least 30 days before it applies. It never applies to sales made before that date, and you can unpublish your datasets before it does.

For subscriptions, our commission, if there is one, is shown to you before you start selling them, and the rate in force when a subscriber signs up stays the same for that subscription.

Other companies set and charge their own fees: the payment partner that handles bank withdrawals takes its fee from each withdrawal, and the card payment processor takes its fees from subscription payments. Today, payments and withdrawals made through quarry carry no network fee for you; if that changes, we will say so before it applies.

What you earn from questions paid in USDC goes into a payout wallet. We have it created for you with a wallet provider when you set up your account. It holds your USDC on a public blockchain.

The wallet is yours. A withdrawal can only be made at your request, with your own sign-in. We do not hold the wallet's key and cannot move your funds on our own.

We are not a bank, a custodian, a money transmitter, or a payment institution. Your balance is not a deposit, earns no interest, and is not covered by any deposit insurance.

Withdrawing. You withdraw through quarry, to a wallet address you give us, within limits: a minimum amount, a maximum number of withdrawals per day, and one withdrawal at a time. The current figures are in the app and in our documentation. The wallet's key cannot be exported, so withdrawing through quarry is the only way to move your balance, and you may be unable to withdraw while quarry or the wallet provider is unavailable.

Check the address. A transfer to a wrong address cannot be reversed or recovered, by anyone.

Bank withdrawals

Where bank withdrawals are offered, you can withdraw in US dollars to a US bank account in your name. This service is provided by a licensed payment partner, not by us; the app names the partner before you start.

• You accept the partner's terms and pass its identity checks on its own pages. It can refuse, pause or end its service to you.
• It converts your USDC into dollars, takes its fee from each withdrawal, and sends the rest to your bank, usually within one to three business days.
• A bank withdrawal cannot be cancelled once your USDC has left your wallet.
• You are responsible for the bank details you enter.
• If your bank returns a transfer, write to us before you try again.

Subscription revenue

Money from subscriptions does not go into the payout wallet. The card payment processor pays it to your bank account, under its own terms, which you accept when you set up subscription payouts.

Pauses, taxes, and closing your account

We may pause withdrawals from an account while we look into suspected fraud, a security problem or a breach of these terms, or where the law requires it. We tell you why unless the law prevents us, and we lift the pause as soon as its reason is gone.

You are responsible for declaring and paying any taxes on what you earn. We may ask you for tax information and report your earnings where the law requires it.

Withdraw your balance before you ask us to close your account: once it is closed, you can no longer withdraw through quarry.

You may not:

• upload, publish or sell access to content that is illegal, that infringes someone's rights, or that you have no right to distribute;
• upload other people's personal data without a lawful basis;
• upload content built to deceive or manipulate the people or the software that read it, including hidden instructions aimed at agents, or anything designed to damage a system;
• describe a dataset in a misleading way;
• get around payment, limits or access controls, or evade a suspension;
• collect listings or passages in bulk outside the normal use of search and questions;
• probe, overload or disrupt the service, or test its security without our written permission;
• pretend to be someone else, or misstate who you act for;
• use quarry for fraud, money laundering, to evade sanctions, or for anything unlawful.

We limit how often the service can be used. The current limits are in our documentation, and we may change them.

You may use quarry only if that is lawful where you are. You confirm that you are not:

• located in, or a resident of, a country or territory under a comprehensive trade embargo of the United States; or
• on a sanctions list of the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom or the United Nations, or owned or controlled by someone who is.

You will not use quarry to pay, or to be paid by, anyone in those situations. We may refuse or block any use, account or payment that we believe would breach sanctions, and a payment may also be refused by the services that process it.

Reporting a problem. If you believe a dataset or a listing is illegal, infringes your rights, or breaks these terms, write to hello@quarry.market. Anyone can report, with or without an account. Tell us which dataset (its web address), what the problem is and why, and how to reach you. We confirm that we received your report, review it, and tell you what we decided.

Copyright notices

If you believe content on quarry infringes your copyright, send us a notice that includes:

• your signature, physical or electronic, or that of the person acting for the owner;
• the work you say is infringed;
• the content you want removed and where it is on quarry: the dataset's web address and, if you can, the file or the passage;
• your address, phone number and email address;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorized to act for the owner.

Send copyright notices to hello@quarry.market.

Counter-notice. If we remove your content after a copyright notice and you believe that was a mistake, you can send us a counter-notice with: your signature; the content removed and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and phone number; and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your address (or, if you are outside the United States, of any district where we can be found), and to accept service from the person who sent the notice. We pass it on to that person. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have gone to court, we may restore the content.

Repeat infringers. In appropriate circumstances, we close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. Knowingly sending a false notice or counter-notice can make you liable for damages.

What we can do, and how we decide

If content or conduct breaks these terms or the law, or puts others at risk, we may unpublish or remove a dataset or a file, restrict what an account can do, or suspend or close an account. We decide case by case, looking at how serious the problem is, whether it has happened before, and what the person concerned tells us. A person reviews each report and makes each of these decisions; we do not use automated tools to moderate content.

When we restrict your content or your account, we tell you by email what we did and why, unless the law prevents us. You can contest the decision by replying to that email: we review it again and answer you.

If a dataset you subscribe to is removed for breaking these terms, your subscription ends early. Write to us and we will help you get the unused part of the month refunded by the creator.

Payments on quarry use USDC, a digital dollar issued by a third party, on a public blockchain. By paying or being paid this way, you accept that:

• transactions are public: anyone can see the addresses, the amounts and the times;
• transactions are final and cannot be reversed;
• USDC is not legal tender, is not a bank deposit, and is not covered by deposit insurance. It is designed to be worth one US dollar, but its issuer, not quarry, stands behind it, and it could lose value or stop being usable;
• the blockchain is run by third parties: it can be slow or unavailable, and its rules can change;
• you are responsible for the wallet you pay from, its keys and its security. We cannot recover a lost key;
• a payment may be refused by an automated compliance check run by the services that process it;
• laws and taxes on digital assets differ from country to country and change. It is for you to check that using them is lawful for you.

We are not your broker, adviser or fiduciary, and nothing on quarry is financial advice.

Test money. While the site says that payments use test money, they are made in test tokens that have no value and can never be exchanged for money.

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect and how we use it.

Personal data in your files. If your files hold personal data about other people, you decide why and how that data is used, and you are responsible for having a lawful basis and for informing those people where the law requires it. We process that data only to provide the service to you. If the law requires a data processing agreement between us, write to hello@quarry.market: we will provide one, with the list of the providers that help us process your files.

Questions. A creator can read the questions paid one at a time that are asked of their dataset. Do not put confidential information in a question.

quarry's software, design, documentation, name and logo belong to us or to those who license them to us. These terms give you the right to use the service, and nothing more.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely, without owing you anything.

Changes to the service. We keep improving quarry: features may change, and we may add, limit or remove some. If a change would materially reduce what you can do with a dataset you have published or a subscription you have paid for, we tell you beforehand wherever we reasonably can.

Availability. We work to keep quarry available, but we do not promise that it will always be available, fast, or free of errors, and we give no service-level commitment. Features marked as beta or test may change or stop without notice.

Other companies' services. Parts of the service are provided by other companies, for hosting, reading files, payments and wallets. Where you deal with one of them directly, as with the bank withdrawal partner or the card payment processor, its own terms apply between you and it, and we are not responsible for its service.

You. You can stop using quarry at any time. To close your account, write to hello@quarry.market. Before you do, withdraw your balance and unpublish your datasets. If a dataset still has subscribers, your account stays open until the period they have paid for ends.

Us. We may suspend or close your account, or refuse to serve you, if:

• you seriously or repeatedly break these terms;
• the law, a court or an authority requires it;
• your use creates a risk of harm or of legal exposure for other users, for us or for our providers; or
• you repeatedly infringe other people's rights.

Where we can, we warn you first and give you the chance to fix the problem, and we tell you the reason by email. Where the law requires notice before a creator's account is closed, we give it, except where we must act at once: illegal content, fraud, a security risk, a legal order, or repeated breaches.

If we decide to shut quarry down, we will give creators at least 30 days' notice by email so that they can withdraw their balances.

What happens next. Before we close an account, we give its holder 30 days to withdraw the balance, unless the law forbids it. When an account is closed, its datasets are unpublished and its files deleted as described in Creators: your content. Its lists of past sales and withdrawals are deleted with it; the payments themselves stay on the public blockchain, and passages already delivered stay with their buyers.

The sections meant to last continue after these terms end, including Using passages, Disclaimers, Limits on liability, Indemnity, Disputes and General.

Passages can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Files are read and prepared by automated tools, which can misread text, tables and images, and suggested listings are generated automatically and can be inaccurate.

We are not responsible for what creators, buyers, agents or other companies' services do.

These limits apply whatever the legal basis of the claim (contract, negligence or another tort, statute, or anything else), and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They reflect how risk is shared between you and us: today we charge creators nothing, and we never hold buyers' payments.

They do not apply to liability that the law does not allow us to exclude or limit, such as liability for our fraud, for our intentional misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. If you are a consumer, they do not take away rights that the law of your country gives you and that cannot be waived.

If someone brings a claim against us, or against our officers, employees or contractors, because of:

• your content or your listing,
• your use of quarry, or use through your account, your keys or your agents,
• what you do with passages,
• your breach of these terms or of the law, or
• a dispute between you and another user,

you will cover the resulting damages, settlements, costs and reasonable legal fees. We will tell you about the claim promptly. We may run its defense ourselves, and you may not settle it in a way that binds us without our written agreement.

This section does not apply to the extent that a claim results from our own breach of these terms or our own wrongdoing. If you are a consumer, it applies only as far as the law of your country allows.

Talk to us first. Most problems are solved quickly by writing to hello@quarry.market. Before going to court, you and we will each give the other written notice of the dispute and 30 days to resolve it.

Disputes between users. A dispute about a dataset or a sale is between the creator and the buyer. We may help, but we do not have to, and we are not responsible for its outcome.

Law and courts. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. Any dispute that is not resolved goes to the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we accept their jurisdiction. Either of us may still ask any competent court for urgent measures to protect its rights.

A claim must be brought within one year of the events that gave rise to it, unless the law requires a longer period.

Consumers in Europe. If you are a consumer living in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim in the courts of that country. The waivers and the one-year limit above apply to you only as far as that law allows.

We may change these terms. When a change is material, we email account holders and post a notice on this page at least 30 days before it takes effect. A change can apply sooner when the law requires it, when it is needed urgently for security, or when it only adds a feature.

If you do not agree with a change, stop using quarry before it takes effect; creators can unpublish their datasets, withdraw their balance and close their account. Using quarry after that date means you accept the change.

If you have no account, the version posted on this page when you ask a question applies to that question. A change does not apply to a dispute that began before it took effect.

This is version 2026-10-26. Earlier versions are available on request.

• Whole agreement. These terms, together with the usage terms a creator set for a subscription you bought, are the whole agreement between you and us about quarry.
• If part fails. If part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest stays in force, and that part applies as far as the law allows.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, we have not given it up.
• Transfer. You may not transfer your rights or duties under these terms without our written consent. We may transfer ours to an affiliate or to a successor of our business, and we will tell you if we do.
• Events beyond control. Neither you nor we are liable for a failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, such as an outage of a network or a provider, an attack, or an act of an authority.
• Independent parties. You and we are independent. Nothing here makes you our employee, agent, partner or joint venturer, or us yours. Creators are independent sellers, not our suppliers or representatives.
• Other people. These terms give rights to no one but you and us, except that creators may enforce Using passages against buyers.
• Notices. We send notices to the email address of your account, or post them on quarry, and you agree to receive them electronically. Send yours to hello@quarry.market.
• Language. These terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, the English text decides, where the law allows.

Contact. Bulma Labs Corporation. Questions: hello@quarry.market.