API terms of service

1. Who provides the service

The FlyItalyADSB API service (REST API at api.flyitalyadsb.com, MCP server at flyitalyadsb.com/mcp) is provided by Nesso Labs S.r.l., Via Carlo Cattaneo 3, 25121 Brescia (BS), Italy, VAT IT04754860981. Contact: [email protected].

2. The service

The API gives access to the air-traffic data collected by the FlyItalyADSB network (live positions and recent history). The service is provided on a best-effort basis: we guarantee no service level (SLA) and no response times, for the API or for email, because FlyItalyADSB is a community and the paid plans only cover the cost of servers and bandwidth. An SLA can only be agreed in a written, tailored agreement.

3. Keys and plans

Each API key is personal and tied to an email address. The plans, with their prices and limits (requests per minute per key, requests per month, maximum radius), are described at flyitalyadsb.com/data/api. Commercial use is allowed on every plan, Free included, within that plan's limits. Requests beyond the limits get an error response (429 or 403) and are not counted.

A key can be built into an app or device you distribute or sell, and your server can use it to serve your product's users, caching the responses too. Requests from all the devices, users and servers of that product count together towards the limits of the key's plan: use one key per product and don't split the same use across several keys.

Feeder perk: whoever feeds the FlyItalyADSB network with a receiver can get the Pro plan limits and features on their Free keys at no cost (area alerts excluded), for non-commercial use only and as long as the receiver sends data. It is turned on in My API from the receiver's network; commercial use needs a paid plan.

4. Payment, renewal and cancellation

Paid plans are monthly subscriptions that renew automatically. To businesses in the European Union and the United Kingdom that give a valid VAT number, and to customers in the United States, they are sold directly by Nesso Labs S.r.l.: card payments go through Stripe and Nesso Labs S.r.l. issues the invoice, with the tax treatment that applies to the buyer's country. In those cases Nesso Labs S.r.l. handles payments, refunds and disputes.

To everyone else they are sold on our behalf by Stripe through its Link service, acting as reseller (merchant of record): it applies the taxes due in the buyer's country, issues receipts and invoices and handles payments, refunds and disputes under its own terms. A subscription bought through Link stays sold through Link until it is cancelled, even if the buyer falls under the previous paragraph.

You can change plan or cancel at any time from My API (for subscriptions sold through Link, also at link.com); a cancellation takes effect at the end of the period already paid, after which the key goes back to the Free plan. The rights the law gives consumers are unaffected.

5. Data and licence

The data is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (CC BY-SA 4.0): anyone reusing it must credit "FlyItalyADSB" with a link to flyitalyadsb.com and share derivative works under the same licence. A paid plan pays for access to the service and higher limits, not for a different licence on the data.

6. Uses that are not allowed

You may not: use the data for safety of life, air traffic control or navigation; give your key to others for use in their own products, or work around the limits (several keys or IP addresses for the same use); resell or redistribute the data in real time as an API or feed for other people's products without a written agreement with us; use the service for unlawful activities, or to follow or harass people.

7. Suspension

In case of abuse, of a breach of these terms, or of traffic that puts the service at risk for other users, we may limit, suspend or revoke a key, notifying you by email where possible.

8. Liability

The data comes from volunteers' receivers and may be incomplete, delayed or wrong: it is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law, Nesso Labs S.r.l. is not liable for indirect damages or lost profits arising from the use of the service; the mandatory protections of consumer law are unaffected.

9. Changes

Changes to plans, limits or these terms are announced to users by email and apply from the date stated: at least 7 days in advance for the Free plan, at least 30 days in advance for paid plans. Paid subscribers can cancel before they take effect.

10. Governing law

Italian law applies. For disputes with consumers, the courts of the consumer's place of residence have jurisdiction; in all other cases, the courts of Brescia. If the Italian and English versions differ, the Italian version prevails.