OC9 Founder Access Legal & Trust Center

Legal, Risk, Privacy & Founder Access Terms

OC9 is a rules-based automated trade execution software system. This page explains important terms, risk disclosures, privacy practices, refund expectations, and Founder Access conditions users should review before using OC9.

Important: OC9 is software only. OC9 does not provide financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Cryptocurrency trading involves substantial risk and may result in loss of funds. Users remain responsible for all trading decisions, API permissions, tax obligations, and exchange account activity.

OC9 Terms of Service Summary

By accessing, downloading, subscribing to, or using OC9, you acknowledge that OC9 is a software platform designed to assist with structured automated trade execution. OC9 does not guarantee profits, returns, trading success, account growth, or performance outcomes.

Software Only — Not Financial Advice

OC9 is software for automated trade execution and monitoring.
OC9 is not a financial advisor, broker, exchange, bank, or investment manager.
Nothing on this website, in the app, or in OC9 communications should be treated as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice.
Users should consult qualified professionals before making financial, tax, or legal decisions.

User Responsibility

Users remain responsible for all trading decisions and exchange account activity.
Users are responsible for choosing whether to use OC9 and for monitoring their account.
Users are responsible for taxes, reporting requirements, and legal compliance in their location.
Users are responsible for creating, securing, limiting, and revoking exchange API keys.

No Custody of Funds

OC9 does not custody, hold, transfer, or withdraw user funds.
Funds remain inside the user’s own exchange account.
Users should use restricted API permissions and should not enable withdrawal permissions for OC9.

Service Changes, Downtime & Access

OC9 features, pricing, availability, and workflows may evolve over time.
Exchange outages, API failures, network issues, device issues, or service downtime may occur.
OC9 may pause, limit, suspend, or terminate access for abuse, misuse, fraud, security concerns, or violation of these terms.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, OnTheCouchStudio and OC9 are not liable for trading losses, lost profits, missed opportunities, exchange outages, API failures, tax consequences, market volatility, user configuration choices, or indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of OC9.

Dispute Resolution

Any dispute related to OC9 should first be submitted to support so both sides can attempt a good-faith resolution. Where permitted by law, disputes may be handled through binding arbitration or another appropriate dispute-resolution process instead of court proceedings.

Full legal terms may be updated as OC9 develops. Continued use of OC9 after updates means the user accepts the updated terms.

OC9 Privacy & Data Practices

OC9 uses account, subscription, diagnostic, and platform data to operate the service, verify access, protect user accounts, improve reliability, and support Founder Access subscriptions.

Firebase Authentication Account login, email verification, user identity, and access status may be managed through Firebase Authentication.

Stripe Billing Subscription status, billing events, plan access, cancellation state, and payment verification may be processed through Stripe.

Analytics & Diagnostics OC9 may collect app events, crash logs, device state, and diagnostics to improve stability and support users.

Device Identifiers Device identifiers may be used for security, fraud prevention, diagnostics, access validation, and account protection.

Credential Handling

OC9 may use encrypted or secured local/app storage for sensitive credential handling.
Users are responsible for creating API keys with the minimum permissions needed.
Users should never enable exchange withdrawal permissions for OC9.
Users may revoke API keys directly from their exchange account at any time.

Google Sheets Integration

If users enable Google Sheets logging or reporting, OC9 may send selected performance, trade-history, or reporting data to a user-authorized spreadsheet. Users are responsible for controlling access to their Google account and spreadsheet permissions.

Account Retention & Data Deletion

OC9 may retain account and subscription records as needed for billing, legal, tax, fraud-prevention, and support purposes.
Users may request deletion of eligible personal data through the Delete My Data page.
Some records may need to be retained where required for legal, billing, dispute, or compliance reasons.

OC9 does not sell user personal information. OC9 does not custody user funds and does not store user credit card numbers directly.

Founder Access Agreement

Founder Access is an early-access program for users who want to participate in OC9 while the platform continues to develop, harden, test, and improve. By joining Founder Access, users acknowledge that OC9 is still evolving.

Founder Access Acknowledgments

Founder Access is early-stage software access, not a guarantee of financial results.
Bugs, downtime, UI changes, execution changes, pricing changes, and feature changes may occur.
Performance may vary based on market conditions, account size, exchange behavior, settings, API status, and other factors.
Users remain fully responsible for monitoring exchange activity and managing their own account risk.
OC9 may update, limit, pause, or remove features during development phases.

Subscription Access

Founder pricing, plan limits, tier availability, and subscription benefits may evolve over time.
Cancellation stops future billing but does not erase prior use of the service.
Founder Access does not create ownership rights, equity, profit-sharing rights, or guaranteed lifetime access unless expressly stated in writing.

Founder Access users should treat OC9 as controlled automation software requiring active personal responsibility, not as a hands-off profit promise.

OC9 Refund Policy

OC9 Founder subscriptions are digital software-access subscriptions. Once access is activated, subscription payments are generally non-refundable except where required by law or where a billing issue qualifies for review.

Refund Rules

Founder subscriptions become non-refundable after activation or use of the service.
Duplicate billing, accidental duplicate purchases, or technical billing errors may qualify for review.
Cancellation stops future billing only; it does not automatically create a refund for the current billing period.
No refunds are issued based on trading outcomes, market losses, lack of profits, missed trades, user settings, or exchange/API behavior.

Billing Support

Users who believe they experienced a billing error should contact support with the account email, date of charge, plan name, and a brief explanation. OC9 will review billing issues in good faith.

Risk Disclosure

Cryptocurrency trading involves substantial risk. Market prices can move quickly and unpredictably. Automated execution can amplify the effects of configuration choices, API outages, exchange latency, device issues, and market volatility.

Important Risk Statements

No trading system can guarantee profits or prevent losses.
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Users may lose money while using OC9.
Execution may fail, delay, duplicate, or behave unexpectedly due to exchange/API/device/network conditions.
Users should only trade with funds they can afford to risk.
Users should monitor their exchange account and revoke API access if they no longer want OC9 connected.

No guaranteed profits No financial advice User-controlled exchange account Crypto market risk Past performance ≠ future results

Compliance Wording Guidelines

OC9 communications should use disciplined, professional, software-focused language. Marketing should avoid implying guaranteed financial results, risk-free use, or passive income.

Avoid These Phrases

Guaranteed profits
Risk-free trading
Passive income
Financial freedom
Automatically makes money
Beats the market

Preferred Wording

Rules-based automation
Structured execution
User-controlled automation
Risk management systems
Market participation risk
Execution software

Recommended footer language: OC9 is software for automated trade execution and is not financial advice. Cryptocurrency trading involves risk, including possible loss of funds.