Terms of Service
Last updated 18 September 2026
These terms govern your use of Argus (“the Service”), provided by Argus (“we”, “us”). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to them. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you have authority to bind it.
1. What Argus is
Argus is a business analytics and content-risk tool. It observes public and, where you connect them, authorised Instagram accounts; records what it sees; and assesses content against platform guidelines that those platforms have published.
1.1 Guidance, not a guarantee
Argus reports risk against published platform guidelines. It does not predict, and cannot predict, whether any platform will remove content, restrict its distribution, penalise an account, or take any other enforcement action.
Platform moderation systems are proprietary, change without notice, and produce different outcomes for identical content depending on market, account history, reviewer and timing. No assessment Argus produces — including an assessment that content presents no detected risk — is a representation that content is permitted, safe to publish, or will remain published. Every decision to publish, edit or remove content is yours alone.
You must not represent to any third party that Argus certifies, approves or guarantees content or accounts.
1.2 Accuracy of observation
Figures obtained without an authorised platform connection are estimates derived from publicly visible information and are labelled as such in the Service. They can lag, be incomplete, or be unavailable where an account is private, paused or otherwise not visible. We report gaps as gaps rather than as zeroes, but we do not warrant completeness.
2. Your account and your content
- You are responsible for everything done under your account, including by your staff.
- You must have the right to submit any content you upload for screening, and the right to monitor any account you add.
- You must not upload content depicting a minor in any sexualised context, content depicting non-consensual sexual activity, or any content whose possession or distribution is unlawful.
We operate automated detection for apparent child sexual abuse material. Where it triggers, we will block and quarantine the item, preserve evidence, suspend the account, and make any report required of us by law. We will not notify you in advance of doing so.
3. Acceptable use
- Do not use the Service to harass, stalk or profile a private individual.
- Do not resell or redistribute Service output as your own monitoring product without a written agreement.
- Do not attempt to circumvent quotas, rate limits or access controls.
- Do not use the Service to build a competing content-classification dataset.
4. Fees
Paid plans are billed in advance on the cycle you choose and renew automatically until cancelled. Screening is metered; the allowance for your plan is shown at purchase. We may refuse or suspend screening beyond your allowance rather than bill you for it. Fees are exclusive of taxes. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period; we do not refund part-periods except where the law requires it.
5. Availability
We aim to keep the Service running and alerts timely, but we do not commit to an uptime or alerting-latency figure unless we have agreed one with you in writing. The Service depends on third parties, including the platforms themselves, and those dependencies can fail or change without notice.
6. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
7. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, and except for liability that cannot lawfully be excluded (including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud):
- We are not liable for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, anticipated savings, data, or for any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.
- We are not liable for any action taken by a platform against you or any account you monitor — including removal of content, restriction of distribution, suspension or permanent loss of an account — whether or not Argus assessed the content beforehand and whatever that assessment said.
- Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these terms is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim.
8. Suspension and termination
You may cancel at any time from your account. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately where you breach section 2 or 3, where required by law, or where continued provision would expose us to legal risk. On termination we delete your data in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
9. Changes
We may change these terms. Where a change materially reduces your rights we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email, and you may cancel before it takes effect.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the place in which we are established, whose courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Nothing here removes a consumer protection you have under the mandatory law of your own country of residence.