Updated 12/2025
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CSI® License Agreement and Terms and Conditions for Unfair Advantage® Use
PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. BY INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE OR DATA. PROMPTLY REQUEST A FULL REFUND.
(1) The Unfair Advantage (UA) software, data and reference manual are copyrighted by Commodity
Systems, Inc. (“CSI”) and are protected by the copyright laws of the United States and copyright
provisions of various international treaties. Exchange sources may also claim copyright protection for
their respective data contributions. The effect of copyright laws and treaties is that you may not, without
written permission from CSI and/or the source copyright holder, copy or distribute the printed reference
manual, the software or the data; nor may you copy the substance, the look and feel, the capabilities,
procedures, design, interface, use of correlation tools or mathematic formulae that are inherent in CSI
products You may not modify, adapt, translate, transfer, transmit, reproduce, publish, publicly display,
publicly perform, license, rent, lease, sell, share, resell, loan, give away, distribute, network, create
derivative works from, or reverse engineer the software or data or any part thereof. Before you use the
software under a license, you must assign that license to one device. That device is the “licensed
device”. A hardware partition or a virtual machine is considered to be a separate device. You may
install and use one copy of the software on the licensed device. CSI grants to you (the registered
licensee of the program and data) the right to make one (1) copy of the software and data for the sole
purpose of backing up the system for use in case of loss or damage. Failure of a licensee to protect CSI’s copyright interests will result in the revocation of this license. Users are legally responsible for all
secondary copies and copies of copies of the database and software.
(2) All CSI data held locally on your computer and transmitted daily is believed to be accurate, but CSI
and its suppliers do not warrant or guarantee such accuracy. You should consult a broker or
authorized financial advisor or representative to verify market prices before making trades or other
financial decisions. Any and all data errors reported to or detected by CSI personnel will be researched
by CSI and corrections transmitted to customers on a daily download basis. Such corrections are made
without notice and will affect data in the resident database held on customer computers.
(3) Some of the data supplied through UA is provided with the understanding that these statistics have
entered the public domain. Should any exchange refuse to honor the existence of public domain rights
and require reasonable and affordable redistribution fees, CSI will cover its obligations to the
exchange. CSI will not cover fees for third party re-vending, reuse or redistribution of the data. In the
event that excessive redistribution fees are imposed upon CSI, CSI may a) Prorate the added costs to
existing users, b) Limit access to data released by a fee-imposing exchange, or c) Reduce coverage. CSI
will promptly notify the licensee if CSI learns of a reasonable possibility that the licensee will lose
access to any portion of the CSI data.
(4) The UA software and the accompanying financial database(s) are temporarily licensed, not sold,
to you for use only under the terms of this License. CSI reserves the right to remotely or by mail
modify software, tables, market facts, adjustments and user settings and to change the transmission
format and information structure as deemed appropriate by CSI. CSI also reserves any rights not
expressly granted to you. CSI retains ownership of all copies of the software and financial data.
CONDITIONS OF LICENSED USE – (1) For security and downloading efficiency purposes,
customers should download current data with UA at least once per month. If you fail to make timely
service payments, or if you cannot for any reason capture updates to the CSI database for a twomonth period, you may be denied access to the database and your license to use the software and
data will be revoked. If your last daily update is no further distant than two months, you may cure
your disabled software by downloading current data. To resume using the licensed data after a two-
month lapse, you will need to reinstall the software by downloading the link from the CSI website.
All data and software licensed to you are provided for your personal and private use. CSI adopts
reasonable means to monitor network and data usage. Historical futures data accessing requests are
monitored for license compliance. Data transferred to supported formats, spreadsheets, etc. are
encoded to reveal the identity of source CSI accounts. CSI reserves the right to charge higher fees
and to modify this agreement for excess data usage and for data considered to be in commercial use,
as defined in subparagraph (c).
(a) UA Silver Package- This is defined as viewing or processing up to 49 North American futures &
options markets, 69 world futures & options markets, 39 single-stock futures markets and/or 7,500
stocks, indices and funds daily by an individual subscriber, with access to a pre-set quantity of
historical data, as determined by the subscription category selected from CSI’s current price list at
the inception of continuous service. However, these limits can be increased by paying higher
monthly fees and/or extra history charges according to CSI’s current Subscription Rates. A futures
or options market is defined as a specific commodity or other similar tradable offered by an
individual exchange, such as LME tin or CBT gold.
(b) UA Gold Package – This is defined as viewing or processing up to 150 North American futures,
and World Futures & options markets, and/or 10,000 stocks, indices and funds daily by an
individual subscriber, with access to a pre-set quantity of historical data, as determined by the
subscription category selected from CSI’s current price list at the inception of continuous service. A
futures or options market is defined as a specific commodity or other similar tradable offered by an
individual exchange, such as LME tin or CBT wheat.
(c) Commercial Accounts – FTP transmissions, multi-users, network, creating derivative(s),
publication, website presentation, redistribution or resell is not allowed under this agreement. Such
use would be considered “Commercial” and would require a customized license agreement.
(d) History- All extra history purchased through UA and/or UA history only packages are nonrefundable as is Options history.
REFUND POLICY.
In consideration of the massive historical reserves received through UA, the
licensing fee is non-refundable. A one-time temporary suspension of service is permitted per annual
subscription, up to three months. In the event of a refund request before the full one-year subscription
term expires, monthly user fees are short rated at double the monthly fee per full or partial month from
inception of the current subscription term.
DISCLAIMER.
In connection with the use of the licensed software and data, CSI does not advise
customers on how to trade any market, nor does CSI assume responsibility for customer use of the
data provided with any product. CSI makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, by operation
of law or otherwise, with respect to the quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for any
particular purpose of any CSI or non-CSI product that may process data captured from the CSI
database. In addition, CSI, its licensors, affiliates, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any
incidental, consequential, or punitive damages or other damages, losses, or claims in any way
connected with or arising out of the use of any service or product provided, even if CSI has been
advised of the possibility of such damages.
GOVERNING LAW AND RIGHT TO MODIFY.
CSI may at any time change this Agreement
by revising the Conditions of Licensed Use, and users are responsible for regularly reviewing the
conditions of use. This License Agreement shall be construed, interpreted, and governed by the laws
of the State of Florida and the venue of any legal action against CSI shall be Palm Beach County in
the State of Florida.
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