Version 1.3; 26 September 2026. These terms apply to everything published on importrules.com and to every report, monitoring subscription, watchlist, API plan, embed widget and listing purchased from Import Rules. Dutch law applies where the law requires a choice.
Import Rules publishes reference material about EU product regulations, built from public sources (EUR-Lex, ECHA, national authorities) with the source and verification date stated per answer. It is not legal advice. No client relationship arises from reading this site or buying a report. Always verify against the official text before acting, and appoint a qualified professional for your specific situation.
Our visibility measurements count which sources appear when specific buyer questions are put to search and language-model services. Every measurement carries a date and method. Positions in search engines and language models change continuously and cannot be controlled by us. A report is a snapshot, not a prediction or a guarantee. We do not warrant that any action, ours or yours, will result in being mentioned by any model or search engine.
The watchlist is a monitoring subscription: you add counterparties (one slot per name), and every watched name is re-screened against the sanctions lists this site searches, after every daily list refresh. What you buy is the noticing of a change, not a judgment. A result never says a party "is sanctioned" or "is not sanctioned"; it states which lists were searched, on which date, and what changed since the previous screening. The published lists and the source cited in each record are leading; we never publish our near-matches, and every record carries its source and date so you can verify it yourself.
To make change detection possible we store the names you watch, your e-mail address and the administration of your paid slots. The free one-off check stores nothing. Removing a watched name deletes it; deleting the account removes the watchlist. Slots are prepaid per period, priced per watched name per month excluding VAT as shown in the watchlist dashboard, and run until the end of the paid period. You are responsible for keeping your password secret; it can be changed in the dashboard, and changing it signs out every other session.
API access gives machine access to the same screening, under a key and a quota (checks per month and per day, as stated with your plan). Ordering starts access immediately for a trial period while the invoice is processed; paid access runs for the period invoiced. The key is shown once and stored only as a hash: keeping it secret is your responsibility; a leaked key can be replaced in the dashboard, which stops the old one immediately. Quota is counted per key, resets daily and per rolling 30 days, and is not carried over. We may shape or refuse requests that exceed the stated limits or that aim to replicate, scrape or resell the underlying data rather than to screen names; the lists themselves are public and we name their sources. We do not warrant uninterrupted availability: where the service does not answer, an API response says so explicitly and concludes nothing. Names sent to the API are not stored; per key we count requests and outcomes only.
The embed widget shows the screening inside your own website, as an iframe under your name. It works only on the domains you put on the allowlist (managed in the dashboard) and within a daily request cap per key; a key shown on a domain outside the allowlist is refused server-side. The widget displays verdicts with the list names and the date of the lists; the full record with sources remains on importrules.com, linked from every verdict. You may not present the widget as your own compliance programme, as a clearance, or remove the attribution; white-label means your name on the frame, not yours on the data.
To the extent permitted by law, the total liability of Import Rules for any claim connected to the site, a report, a monitoring subscription or a listing is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (for one-off reports: the price of that report). We are not liable for indirect damage, lost turnover, lost profit or missed opportunities. Nothing in these terms limits liability where the law does not allow it to be limited.
The editorial tables are compiled from what companies publish about themselves and are unpaid. Extended (paid) listings and sponsorships are always labelled as such, are limited per section, and never appear inside an answer to a buyer question. We may refuse or end any paid placement at any time; fees for the remaining period are then refunded. Being listed; paid or not; is not an endorsement and says nothing about quality, capacity or solvency of a company.
Reports bought at reseller volume may be passed on to your own clients. Resale under your own name is permitted for the report format you paid for; the underlying measurement method, the source data and this document remain the property of Import Rules. As a reseller you are responsible for what you tell your clients about the report; our liability towards your clients is excluded and remains limited to what you paid us, as in section 3.
Subscriptions are monthly and can be cancelled any day, effective at the end of the paid month. Annual payments get twelve months of service for ten monthly invoices; cancelling early refunds the unused whole months. One-off reports can be cancelled free of charge until measurement starts; after delivery there is no refund, because the work is the measurement.
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Import Rules is run by a broker in sustainable commodities, not a law firm; the founder's account of why this site exists is on the about page. Every answer names its regulation, article and verification date so you can check our work rather than trust it. The free tools; the sanctions screen, the product finder, the duty and VAT calculators; run on our own server in the European Union, keep nothing of what you type except anonymous counts, and have no account, no e-mail wall and no tracking. If anything here worries you before you use a paid product: ask us directly; a written answer before the sale is part of how we work.
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