Terms of Service

1. What this service does

WattScope estimates the greenhouse-gas footprint of AI model usage that you report to it, attributes those estimates to your organization and projects, and shows them back to you and your organization's administrators.

2. Estimates are not measurements

This is the most important term here. Every figure this service produces is derived by multiplying token counts by a published table of energy and grid-intensity factors. Nothing is metered. The factor table is an approximation of hardware and electricity we do not observe, and its error is plausibly a factor of several in either direction.

Accordingly: figures from this service are not suitable as reportable emissions for regulatory disclosure, carbon accounting under any standard, offset retirement, or any public claim about your organization's actual emissions, unless you have independently validated them. We publish the factor table and the version that produced every stored figure precisely so that you can check this rather than take our word for it.

Where usage arrives from a vendor billing source rather than being self-reported, we label it billing-grade and never combine it into one total with self-reported data. That labelling is a statement about where the token counts came from, not a claim that the resulting emissions figure is measured.

3. Your account and your organization

Signing in creates a workspace. The first person in a workspace is its administrator and can see usage reported by every member of it; other members see only their own. Administrators can invite additional members, and an invited member's usage becomes visible to those administrators. If that is not what you want, do not accept an invitation.

You are responsible for what happens under your credentials, including anything an ingest token you have created sends us. Tokens can be revoked at any time and revocation is immediate.

4. What you may not do

Do not use the service to report usage you do not have the right to report, to attempt to reach another organization's data, to probe for vulnerabilities without our written agreement, or to place load on it beyond ordinary use. We may suspend an account doing any of these, and will tell you why.

5. Availability and liability

The service is provided as-is, with no uptime commitment. We do not warrant that estimates are accurate, that the service will be uninterrupted, or that stored data will not be lost — export your data if it matters to you; the dashboard offers CSV export of everything we hold about your organization.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and in particular not for any decision taken on the basis of an estimate this service produced. Section 2 explains why that limit is not boilerplate.

6. Ending it

You may stop using the service at any time and ask us to delete your account and your organization's data; deletion removes the usage history with it. We may end your access if you breach these terms, or if we discontinue the service — in which case we will give you reasonable notice and a chance to export.

7. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms. Each revision has a version, and you will be asked to accept the new version the next time you sign in — the service does not treat continued use as agreement. Your previous acceptances stay on record, so it remains answerable which version applied at any past date.