Data Terms

Using TPS data — free for everyone, with credit

Anyone may view, quote, cite, chart, and excerpt TPS results. That includes monetized work: YouTube videos, ad-supported blogs, newsletters, articles, talks. The one condition is attribution: credit TPS and link to tokenspersecond.ai, once per work. Print and audio can put the link in the show notes or references.

What needs our permission

Substantial or bulk reproduction of the database itself: mirroring it, redistributing it, or building a dataset product or competing database from it. If that’s you, email hello@tokenspersecond.ai. We license the dataset; we’re easy to talk to.

One thing we don’t license at all: AI training. Submitters haven’t granted us the right to license their runs for training machine-learning models, so we can’t sell it and we won’t pretend otherwise. Our robots.txt says the same thing in machine-readable form (ai-train=no).

If you don’t give credit

Use without attribution simply isn’t covered by the free permission above. If we notice, we’ll ask you politely to add credit. We’re not going to sue anyone over individual numbers, and we say that plainly: these terms exist to set expectations and de-legitimize bad behaviour, not to pretend we can technically prevent it. Our robots.txt carries Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no — the machine-readable form of this page, and a signal, not a lock.

What you give us when you submit a run

When you submit a run, you keep every right you have in it. It’s yours, and you can publish it anywhere else you like. In exchange for us hosting, publishing, and maintaining TPS, you grant ARATEKNA CORPORATION PTY LTD (ACN 690 338 991) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to publish, aggregate, adapt for display and export, and commercially license your Submission — meaning the structured results, any evidence files you attach, and any notes you write on the run. The licence is irrevocable, except as set out in “Withdrawing a run” below — withdrawal is real, and it’s the one way back out. This licence survives the closure of your account, binds your successors and estate, and does not include training machine-learning models on your Submission — that right stays with you, and we won’t sublicense it to anyone. The only way to take the licence back is to withdraw the run.

If you’re under 18 when you submit a run, everything above still applies to publishing it on TPS — but we leave your runs out of the dataset we license to others. They stay on the leaderboard; they don’t go in the product. (That’s why we ask about your age when you sign up.)

Attribution and changes (moral rights)

To the extent permitted by law (including Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)), you consent to us, our sublicensees, and anyone who takes over TPS from us: (a) showing your Submission in aggregated views, charts, and statistics without crediting you individually; (b) keeping and licensing your Submission, with your handle and any link to your account removed and without attribution, after your account is deleted or your handle is removed; and (c) reformatting or technically modifying your Submission for display, storage, and export. This consent covers every run you submit to TPS, now or in the future.

In plain terms: we can show your numbers in a chart without your name on it, keep them after you leave, and change file formats. This consent doesn’t let us alter your results or say someone else ran them.

Your promises

When you submit a run, you promise that:

• it’s yours — you ran it, on hardware you control or have permission to use;
• it’s honest — the results aren’t fabricated, doctored, or copied from someone else;
• you’re allowed to publish it — nothing in the terms of any service, model, or software you used to produce the run stops you from publishing the result;
• your uploads are clean — evidence files don’t contain content that infringes anyone’s rights, and don’t show other people’s personal information; and
• you can give us the licence described above.

If a submission breaks these promises, we can remove it and close your account.

Withdrawing a run

You can withdraw any run you submitted, at any time. Withdrawal removes it from the public site and from all future dataset exports and snapshots, and deletes its evidence files — immediately from our live systems, and from our backups within 35 days. Copies already delivered to dataset licensees aren’t unwound, but our licence terms require licensees to remove a withdrawn run from their working copies within 30 days of our next monthly notice; statistics they’ve already published aren’t recomputed. Withdrawal is the strongest removal action available; it’s stronger than deleting your account.

What withdrawal doesn’t remove: if your run was flagged, demoted, or appealed, the moderation records and appeal threads that talk about it stay public — that’s the public record, and how it works (including how to complain about it) is covered in the Terms. Withdrawing the run doesn’t unwrite the discussion about it.

Deleting your account

Account deletion is different from withdrawal. Deleting your account removes your handle, profile, and email, and deletes your evidence files — immediately from live systems, from backups within 35 days. Your structured results (date, hardware, numbers, rating) stay on the leaderboard and in the dataset, with your handle and any link to your account removed, under the licence above. If you want a run gone from future use entirely, withdraw it before deleting your account. Full details, including what happens to your handle in appeal threads, are in the Privacy Policy.

The legal bits

These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia, and disputes can be brought in Victorian courts (non-exclusively — if mandatory consumer laws where you live give you extra protections or venues, you keep them). If we change these terms we’ll announce it on the site; submitting a new run requires accepting the then-current version, and every run stays governed by the version its submitter accepted. If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

If TPS changes hands. If the TPS business is sold, merged, or restructured, we can assign these terms and the licence you’ve granted to whoever takes it over. They’ll be bound to you on the same terms we are.

What survives. The licence (as limited above), the moral-rights consent, your promises about runs you’ve already submitted, and this section keep operating after your account closes or TPS stops taking sign-ups.

Notices. Official notice from us comes by a post on the site or an email to your account address. Official notice to us goes to hello@tokenspersecond.ai.

The whole agreement. These terms, the Terms, and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about your submissions and the TPS data. Nothing in this paragraph excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or other laws that can’t be excluded.