Terms of Service
Short version: COTflow turns public CFTC data into a readable weekly dashboard. It's an informational tool, not financial advice — and it's free, with no account or subscription required.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of COTflow (the "Service"), operated by Renaud Blaser, an individual based in Switzerland ("we", "our", "us"). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.
1. Use of the Service
COTflow provides a dashboard that visualizes positioning data published weekly by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), along with contextual analysis. The Service is free and does not require an account. You may access it for personal or professional informational use.
You agree not to:
- Resell, redistribute, or republish the Service or its content as your own product
- Attempt to scrape, reverse-engineer, or systematically extract data from the Service
- Use the Service to violate any applicable law or third-party rights
2. No financial advice
COTflow is an informational tool. Nothing on the Service constitutes financial, investment, trading, tax, or legal advice, nor a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security, commodity, currency, or other instrument. Positioning data describes what market participants have done — it does not predict future prices.
You are solely responsible for your trading and investment decisions. You should consult a qualified professional before acting on any information you see on COTflow. Trading futures, options, and derivatives involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor.
3. Data accuracy
Positioning data displayed on COTflow is sourced directly from the CFTC's public Commitments of Traders reports. We fetch and transform this data weekly and present it in a structured format. We do our best to ensure accuracy, but:
- The CFTC publishes the underlying data — we are not its source and cannot guarantee its completeness or correctness
- Occasional delays, errors, or revisions in CFTC publication may affect what you see on the dashboard
- Contextual analysis is generated algorithmically and is intended as informational commentary, not as a definitive interpretation
The Service is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any particular time.
4. Intellectual property
The Service — including its design, code, copy, dashboards, and contextual analysis output — is owned by Renaud Blaser and protected by copyright and other applicable laws. The underlying CFTC data is public information and is not owned by us.
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or professional informational use.
5. Access
We may restrict or block access to the Service, without notice, in case of abuse (e.g. scraping, excessive automated requests) or unlawful use.
6. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, COTflow and its operator shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, trading losses, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or related to your use of the Service.
Because the Service is provided free of charge, our total aggregate liability to you for any claim arising from or related to the Service shall not exceed CHF 100.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Service after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
8. Governing law & jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of Switzerland, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Switzerland, unless a mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence provides otherwise.
9. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Contact us at info@cotflow.app.