Terms of Use

1. The agreement

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Ocean Edgewater, LLC, a California limited liability company that operates Catholic Intelligence (“we,” “us”). They govern your use of catholicintelligence.com, its subdomains, its API and MCP endpoint, and the emails we send (together, the “Service”), whether you use it yourself or through software that acts for you.

By using the Service you accept these terms. If you use it for an organization, you accept them for that organization and confirm that you may. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information.

2. What the Service is

Catholic Intelligence is a reference to the institutions of the Catholic Church: dioceses, parishes, religious institutes, those who hold office in them, and the times at which the sacraments are offered. It is a work of the lay faithful. It is not an official publication of the Holy See, of any episcopal conference, or of any diocese; it carries no ecclesiastical approval; and it binds no one. Where it differs from what a diocese or parish says about itself, the diocese or parish is right.

3. Your access

You may use the Service to read and to look things up for your own personal, pastoral, or internal use. Some of it is open to anyone; the rest is open only to signed-in readers or members. We may grant, decline, limit, suspend, or end anyone’s access at our discretion.

Access is personal. Do not share your sign-in link, session, or account, and do not use anyone else’s. You are responsible for everything done under your access.

4. No licence and no permission to reuse

1. Nothing is sold or licensed. We do not sell, license, or supply copies of the content of the Service or of any part of it, and no one is authorized to do so for us.
2. Access is not a licence. Using the Service gives you no licence, ownership, or other right in anything on it or available through it. Nothing in these terms, on the Service, or in anything we do grants or implies permission to copy, republish, distribute, sell, or build anything from its content.
3. Technical access is not permission. That a page, file, endpoint, or response can be reached, that a request is answered, or that robots.txt or a similar file does not exclude it, does not authorize any use of its content.
4. Permission is only ever in writing. No permission may be implied from our silence, delay, or failure to object. A permission from us exists only in a document signed by us that refers expressly to this section.

This section continues to apply after your access ends.

5. What others publish

The Service describes, quotes, and links to what others publish, including the Holy See, episcopal conferences, dioceses, parishes, religious institutes, news publishers, and photographers. That material belongs to those who publish it. We claim no rights in it, we grant none, and we have no authority to grant any. Where such material carries its own licence, that licence comes from its owner and not from us.

Nothing on the Service states or implies that any of them has licensed, authorized, approved, or endorsed the Service, or is affiliated with it.

6. What you may not do

You may not, and may not allow any person or software to:

1. scrape, crawl, harvest, download in bulk, or otherwise collect the content of the Service or any substantial part of it, by any means, automated or manual, including through the API or MCP endpoint, whether at once or by many small requests;
2. use any content of the Service, or any response from its API or MCP endpoint, to build, populate, train, fine-tune, evaluate, or supply any directory, database, dataset, index, map, list, or machine-learning or artificial-intelligence system;
3. republish, sell, or distribute content of the Service, except as the law permits without anyone’s permission;
4. get around a limit or boundary of the Service, including by probing its access controls, using another person’s access, rotating addresses or accounts, forging headers, or ignoring robots.txt, a Retry-After header, a rate limit, or a refusal;
5. impair the Service or anyone else’s systems, including by denial of service, injection, or malicious code;
6. state or imply that you, your product, or the Service is endorsed by, affiliated with, or issued by the Holy See, any episcopal conference, any diocese, or any parish;
7. use contact details found on the Service to send unsolicited commercial messages, or to harass, defraud, surveil, profile, or target any cleric, religious, employee, or congregation, or to track where or how anyone worships;
8. use the Service to decide anyone’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, or housing; it is not a consumer report; or
9. use the Service in breach of any law, including data-protection, anti-spam, computer-misuse, and export-control law.

Software that reaches the Service must identify itself and a way to reach its operator. An operator who connects software to the Service accepts these terms for it and is responsible for what it does. A refusal from the Service, its API, or its MCP endpoint is final and must not be routed around. Nothing in this section stops a general web search engine from indexing public pages, as robots.txt allows, for the sole purpose of directing people to them in its search results.

7. Paid memberships

Where we offer a paid membership, its price and billing period are shown before you pay. A membership renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. You may cancel at any time by writing to [email protected], and it will not renew. If you ask within fourteen (14) days of your first payment, we will refund it. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc.; we do not receive your card number.

8. What you send us

When you send a correction, photograph, schedule, news tip, comment, or other material, you confirm that you have the right to send it and that it infringes no one’s rights, and you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, and publish it on the Service. What you send stays yours to publish elsewhere. We review material before it is shown and may decline or remove anything.

If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, write to [email protected] with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). We remove material on a valid notice and end the access of repeat infringers.

9. Accuracy and corrections

Addresses, schedules, appointments, and contact details change without notice to us, and the Service may be incomplete or out of date. A blank means that something has not been established, not that it does not exist. Check with the institution concerned before relying on anything here, and do not rely on the Service alone for any decision with legal, financial, safety, or canonical consequences.

If something is wrong, write to [email protected]. A correction from an institution about itself outranks every other source we have, and an institution may ask us to remove its contact details.

10. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW PERMITS, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW PERMITS, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR DATA, AND OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE AND ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$100). These limits do not apply to liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any third-party claim, and any resulting loss, liability, or reasonable legal fees, arising out of your breach of these terms or your use of the Service in breach of law.

11. Suspension and changes to the Service

We may change, suspend, or withdraw any part of the Service at any time, and we make no commitment that any page, endpoint, or field will continue. We may suspend or end your access at once if we reasonably believe you have breached section 6, or to protect the Service or anyone else. Sections 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12 continue to apply after your access ends.

12. Governing law and general terms

Law and courts. These terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts in Los Angeles County, California, have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and we submit to them, except that we may seek urgent relief in any court to stop a breach of section 6. Before starting proceedings, each of us will first try in good faith to resolve the dispute by writing to the other.

Changes to these terms. We may change these terms by publishing them here with a new date. A change applies from that date and does not apply to a dispute that arose before it. If you continue to use the Service after a change, you accept it.

General. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it is changed to the minimum extent needed, or removed, and the rest stands. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer these terms; we may transfer them to a successor to the Service. They create no rights for anyone else.

Contact. Ocean Edgewater, LLC, operating Catholic Intelligence: [email protected]. Our postal address is available on request.