Terms of Service
The plain-English agreement governing your use of HypeCity and any paid subscription you take out.
1. Acceptance
By accessing or using HypeCity (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Service. These Terms form a binding agreement between you and HypeCity Intelligence Ltd. ("HypeCity", "we", "us").
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with a refreshed "Last updated" date; continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
2. Use of the Service
HypeCity offers neighborhood-level real-estate intelligence, an AI Deal Analyzer, an investment simulator (Tycoon), and related tools. You may use the Service for personal or business research, subject to the Free-tier limits or your active paid subscription.
You agree not to:
- Scrape, mirror, or systematically extract Service data outside the public API access we offer at paid tiers.
- Resell, redistribute, or white-label the Service without a written agreement.
- Use the Service to violate applicable law, including securities, real-estate, or anti-money-laundering rules in your jurisdiction.
- Reverse-engineer the Hype Score™ formula, attempt to bypass paywalls, or otherwise circumvent technical controls.
3. Account & anonymous use
The Service is anonymous-first. We assign each browser a random identifier (the hc_anon cookie) so we can persist your Watchlist and subscription status without requiring sign-up. You don't need to create an account to use the Free tier.
When you upgrade, Stripe Checkout collects an email address. That email becomes the recovery contact for your subscription. Email-authenticated sign-in arrives in a later release.
4. Subscription & billing
Pricing. Investor is $18/month and Premium is $55/month, each billed in USD by Stripe on a rolling monthly basis. The Free tier is $0 and capped at 3 deal analyses per calendar month and 5 tracked neighborhoods in the Watchlist.
Renewal. Paid subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. Cancellation stops the next renewal and you keep paid-tier access until the end of the current billing period.
Refunds. Subscriptions are non-refundable except where required by applicable law. If you cancel mid-period, no proration is issued. [TODO: founder review] confirm refund policy with counsel — EU consumers have a 14-day right of withdrawal under the Consumer Rights Directive that this clause needs to honor.
Failed payments. If Stripe can't charge your card, your subscription drops to "past due" and we'll retry per Stripe's default schedule. After repeated failures, the account downgrades to Free.
5. Intellectual property
HypeCity, Hype Score™, the methodology behind the scores, our datasets, copy, code, designs, and brand are owned by HypeCity Intelligence Ltd. and protected by copyright, trademark, and trade-secret laws. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for your own research — nothing more.
Anything you input (a listing URL, your tracked neighborhoods, your analysis output) remains yours, but you grant us a non-exclusive license to process it in order to deliver the Service.
6. Disclaimers
HypeCity is an information platform. The Service is not investment, legal, tax, brokerage, or appraisal advice. Hype Score™ is a proprietary signal — see the Scoring Disclaimer for what it is and isn't.
Data sources include third-party listing portals, government statistics, and our own snapshots. We don't guarantee accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any individual data point. Always cross-check with primary sources before acting on a number.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, HypeCity is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of the Service. Our total aggregate liability for any claim is capped at the greater of (a) the amount you've paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim or (b) $100.
Some jurisdictions don't allow these exclusions; in those cases the exclusions apply to the maximum extent permitted.
8. Governing law & disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel. Disputes will be resolved in the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
[TODO: founder confirm jurisdiction] Israel is the default given founder location, but if HypeCity Ltd. is incorporated elsewhere or you expect a US-majority customer base, counsel may recommend Delaware/UK/Cyprus instead.
9. Changes
We may modify these Terms at any time by posting an updated version on this page. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects when changes were made. Material changes will be communicated by email to active subscribers.