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By accessing cryptolut.com you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please close the site. These terms form a binding agreement between you and Cryptolut Editorial (“Cryptolut”, “we”, “us”). They cover your use of the website, the newsletter, and any other product or service we operate under the Cryptolut name unless that product carries its own terms. We may update the terms from time to time; the version that governs is the one in force on the day you visit. Where a change is material we will note it at the top of this page for at least 14 days.
What Cryptolut is
Cryptolut is an independent digital publication covering cryptocurrency, digital assets, decentralised finance, regulation, and adjacent topics. Our work combines original editorial writing with curated headlines and short summaries aggregated from established crypto publications. Aggregated items are displayed with clear attribution and a link back to the original source.
We are a small editorial operation, not a financial intermediary. We do not custody assets, do not execute trades, and do not provide brokerage, investment, or wallet services of any kind. We are a news site.
Editorial independence
We decide what to cover and how to cover it. We do not accept payment for coverage, we do not run sponsored posts disguised as news, and we do not allow outside parties to vet articles before publication. Where we ever do accept paid promotion it will be clearly labelled as advertising and held to the standards in our Editorial Guidelines.
Not investment, legal, or tax advice
Read this carefully. Cryptolut publishes journalism. Nothing on the site is a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, or otherwise transact in any digital asset, token, security, or financial instrument. Nothing on the site is legal or tax advice. We are not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, or any equivalent regulator in any jurisdiction, and we do not provide personalised financial advice.
Cryptocurrencies are speculative. Their values can change rapidly and can go to zero. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Prices and on-chain data displayed on the site come from third-party feeds and may be delayed, incomplete, or wrong; you must not rely on them for trading. Please do your own research, consult an appropriately regulated adviser if you need one, and never put in money you cannot afford to lose.
Account terms
Most of Cryptolut can be read without an account. Where an account is offered (for editorial staff, contributors, or beta features), you agree to provide accurate information at registration, to keep your credentials confidential, and to notify us at terms@cryptolut.com if you suspect unauthorised use. You are responsible for activity carried out under your account until you notify us. We may suspend or terminate any account whose use materially breaches these terms.
Permitted use
You may read, print, quote, and share articles from Cryptolut for personal and non-commercial purposes, so long as you credit Cryptolut and link back to the original article. Short quotations — a sentence or two used for commentary, review, or news reporting — are welcome, with attribution. Republication of full articles, scraping, and bulk reuse for commercial purposes require written permission.
Prohibited conduct
You agree not to:
- Scrape or bulk download the site in a way that disrupts service, ignores our robots directives, or republishes our content wholesale.
- Attempt to overload the service, carry out denial-of-service attacks, or probe for vulnerabilities without our written permission.
- Impersonate Cryptolut, its editors, or its contributors, whether by forging bylines, cloning the site, or misrepresenting yourself in correspondence.
- Submit unlawful or abusive content via the newsletter form, comments, contact channels, or any other input surface.
- Circumvent access controls, including trying to access admin routes, internal API endpoints, or non-public pages you are not authorised to see.
- Use the service to violate sanctions, money-laundering laws, or other laws that apply to your activity.
Responsible security research is welcome. If you think you have found a vulnerability, please write to terms@cryptolut.com before disclosing it publicly and give us a reasonable window to fix it.
User-submitted content
From time to time we may invite reader comments, tips, op-eds, or letters. When you submit any content to us — whether in a comment field, an email, a tip submission, or a careers application — you confirm that the content is yours to submit, that it does not infringe anyone’s rights, and that it complies with these terms.
You retain ownership of what you submit. You grant Cryptolut a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable licence to host, reproduce, display, edit for length and style, and otherwise use the submission in connection with the publication, archiving, syndication, and promotion of Cryptolut. You may withdraw the submission at any time by writing to us; we will remove it from the live site, though copies may persist in caches and archives outside our control.
Intellectual property
All editorial content — original articles, illustrations, photography, site design, code, and the Cryptolut name and marks — is © Cryptolut or licensed to us by the contributor that produced it. Aggregated headlines and short excerpts remain the property of the publication that produced them. We present them with attribution and a link to the source under the doctrine of fair use (United States) or fair dealing (United Kingdom and elsewhere) for the purpose of news reporting and commentary.
If you are a rights holder and you would like your material removed, see the DMCA section below.
DMCA and takedown procedure
Cryptolut complies with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and with comparable notice-and-takedown regimes in other jurisdictions. If you believe content on cryptolut.com infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to terms@cryptolut.com with the subject line “DMCA Notice” that includes:
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
- The exact URL on cryptolut.com where the allegedly infringing material appears.
- Your contact information — full name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorised to act on behalf of the rights holder.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
We will act on properly formed notices promptly. If you believe your content was removed in error, you may submit a DMCA counter-notice following the procedure in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). Repeat infringers will have their access terminated.
Third-party links
Clicking a headline typically takes you to an external publisher. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, privacy practices, or availability of third-party websites, and a link does not imply endorsement. Your interaction with those sites is governed by their own terms and policies. We do not control how third parties use the data they receive from your visit.
Disclaimer of warranties
Cryptolut is provided “as is” and “as available”. While we work hard to publish accurate and timely reporting, we do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, that every page will be free from error, or that coverage of a fast-moving market will remain current after publication. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cryptolut, its editors, contractors, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary loss arising from your use of the site, including lost profits, lost data, or trading losses, even where we have been advised of the possibility. Our aggregate liability under or in connection with these terms is capped at one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Cryptolut harmless against any third-party claim, demand, or proceeding arising out of your breach of these terms or your misuse of the site, including reasonable legal fees. We will notify you promptly of any such claim, allow you to control the defence and settlement (provided no settlement admits liability or imposes obligations on us without our consent), and cooperate reasonably in the defence at your expense.
Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the site if we reasonably believe you have breached these terms, for example by scraping the site or abusing the newsletter form. The sections covering intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, and dispute resolution survive termination.
Governing law
These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Where mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country in which you reside apply, those rules continue to protect you to the extent the law of Delaware does not.
Dispute resolution and arbitration
Before bringing formal proceedings, please write to terms@cryptolut.com with a short description of the dispute. We will make a good-faith effort to resolve the matter informally within thirty days.
If a dispute is not resolved informally, you and Cryptolut agree to resolve it by final and binding individual arbitration administered under recognised commercial arbitration rules, seated in Wilmington, Delaware, and conducted in English by a single arbitrator. There is no class or collective arbitration. Either party may, at its option, bring an individual claim in small-claims court if the claim qualifies and remains there. Either party may also seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual-property rights or confidential information. The arbitrator’s award may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Severability and waiver
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions continue in full force. The decision-maker may reform the unenforceable provision to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable while giving effect to the parties’ original intention. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Changes to terms
We may revise these terms from time to time. Material changes will be flagged at the top of this page with an updated “Last updated” date. Continued use of the site after a revision means you accept the revised terms; if you do not agree, please stop using the site.
Contact
For questions about these terms, write to terms@cryptolut.com. For privacy questions see the Privacy Policy. For corrections, corrections@cryptolut.com.