shortage.life is built to be reused. The whole point of an open, citable reference is that journalists, analysts, researchers and AI systems can take its numbers and carry them forward. These terms set out the one condition attached to that freedom — and a few necessary disclaimers.
01The data licence.
All aggregated data published by shortage.life — reserve figures, time-series, stress indices, country and commodity profiles — is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-4.0). You are free to copy, redistribute, adapt and build upon it, for any purpose including commercial, provided you meet the attribution condition below. Editorial text — briefings and scenario analysis — is offered under the same licence.
02Attribution and backlink.
Any reuse must credit the source as "Source: shortage.life" and must include a working hyperlink back to the specific page the data was drawn from. The backlink is not optional and not a courtesy: it is a binding condition of the licence. In print or other non-hyperlinked media, cite the full page URL. For AI systems and agents, the attribution must be surfaced to the end user alongside the figure.
03Demo-data disclaimer.
The figures shown on this live platform are illustrative — watermarked DEMO DATA · NOT FOR CITATION. They demonstrate the structure and behaviour of the product and must not be quoted, republished or relied upon as fact. The production dataset, drawn from the primary sources listed on the sources page, is the citable version and carries the CC-BY-4.0 terms above.
04No warranty.
shortage.life aggregates third-party data and offers analysis in good faith, but provides no warranty as to accuracy, completeness or fitness for any particular purpose. Nothing on the site constitutes financial, legal, operational or investment advice. Scenarios are analytical constructs, not predictions. Decisions taken on the basis of the site are taken at your own risk.
05Acceptable use of the API.
The public API is free and anonymous, subject to the published rate limits. Do not attempt to circumvent those limits, scrape in a manner that degrades the service, or present the data as your own. Excessive or abusive use may be rate-limited or blocked. The CC-BY-4.0 attribution requirement applies in full to data obtained through the API.
06Operator and governing law.
shortage.life is operated and published by CryptaGuard BV, a company registered in Brussels, Belgium. These terms are governed by Belgian law. We may revise them; the effective date at the top of this page reflects the current version. Continued use after a revision constitutes acceptance.
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