Terms of Service

1. What this service does, and what it costs

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.

It is free to use: there is nothing to pay, and nowhere to enter payment details. Free is not the same as unlimited — we may cap how much one account records or stores, and where a cap applies we will say what it is and tell you when you reach it rather than quietly discarding what you send. If we tighten a limit, or ever charge for the service, that is a revision of these terms and section 7 is how you find out: you will be asked to accept the new version before it applies to your account.

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.

More precisely, the table holds an estimated energy cost per thousand tokens for each of several model tiers. We multiply your token counts by that figure, apply an overhead for the data centre, and then multiply by an assumed grid intensity for the region. Both halves are estimates of things we cannot observe: we do not see which hardware served a request, how heavily it was loaded, or which grid supplied it.

The method will keep changing. We revise the factor table and the way it is applied as better public research appears, and you should expect the figures to move when we do — that is the method improving, not a correction of an error. Every stored figure keeps the version of the table that produced it, so a revision never silently rewrites your history: older records keep the numbers they were calculated with, and each one carries the version it used.

If your organization holds its own validated energy figures — measured on hardware you operate, or supplied to you by a vendor under agreement — and needs those used in place of ours, contact us. That is arranged case by case rather than configured in the product today.

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 workspace

Signing in creates a workspace. In this version there is no way to invite anyone into one, so what you record is visible to you and to nobody else using the service. Where a workspace already holds more than one member, its administrator can see usage reported by every member of it and other members see only their own — that is how those workspaces were created and it is unchanged. If invitations return, that is a revision of these terms and section 7 is how you will hear about it, before it applies to your account.

You are responsible for what happens under your credentials, including anything an ingest token issued for your workspace sends us. There is no page that issues or revokes one: we issue a token on request and revoke it on request, and we tell you when it is done.

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.

If you upload a claude.ai data export, you confirm that you are entitled to disclose its contents to us — an export is made of whole conversations, which can hold other people's information and your employer's as readily as your own — and that the decision to upload it is yours.

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's CSV export gives you your organization's usage totals by project — event counts, footprint and energy, first and last activity, split by how confidently the figures are known — not a copy of every stored record; it does not include individual events, notes, or session or model identifiers.

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 for as long as your account exists, so it remains answerable which version applied at any past date up to then; deleting your account deletes that record along with everything else the Privacy Policy says is removed with it.

8. Which law applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia, and both of us submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. Non-exclusive rather than exclusive on purpose: it says where we are without requiring you to come here to raise something.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where a term here conflicts with one of those, the law wins and the term applies only so far as it lawfully can — section 5's limits included. Section 5 is written as a limit on liability for decisions taken on an estimate, and section 2 explains why that limit is not boilerplate; neither is a way around something the law does not let us contract out of.