BitcoinProof Terms of Service
Version 1.0 — Last updated 2026-07-29 — Published at bitcoinproof.io/terms
These Terms of Service ("ToS") govern Your use of the website bitcoinproof.io (the "Site"), Your purchase of a BitcoinProof Licence Key, and Your participation in the BitcoinProof referral programme. They are agreed between You and Wenze van Klink, trading as BitcoinProof, Dutch sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak), KVK 91404983, BTW NL004888591B14, registered address Snijbiet 11, 2371DR Roelofarendsveen, email support@bitcoinproof.io ("we", "us", "Provider"). By creating an account, by purchasing a Licence Key, or by enrolling in the referral programme, You accept these ToS.
The End User Licence Agreement (EULA) at bitcoinproof.io/eula governs installation and use of the Software itself; these ToS govern the commercial relationship and the Site. The PDF Disclaimer at bitcoinproof.io/disclaimer is incorporated by reference into both documents as the canonical characterisation of BitcoinProof Reports.
1. Definitions
Capitalised terms used in these ToS have the meanings set out in the EULA, plus:
1.1 "Account" means Your authenticated session on the Site, identified by Your email address.
1.2 "Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or public holiday in the Netherlands.
1.3 "Business Tier" and "Individual Tier" have the meanings in clause 5.
1.4 "Bitcoin Payment Processor" means the third-party provider we engage to process Bitcoin payments, acting as a regulated Crypto-Asset Service Provider under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and answerable to its home financial regulator. The specific provider engaged, its authorisations, and its regulator are named in Annex A to our privacy policy. No Bitcoin Payment Processor is engaged at present, so Bitcoin payment is not offered until Annex A names one.
1.5 "EUR Payment Processor" means the third-party payment service provider we engage to process EUR payments for the Business Tier, regulated in its home jurisdiction. The specific provider engaged and its regulator are named in Annex A to our privacy policy.
1.6 "Referral Programme" means the programme described in clause 11.
2. Eligibility
2.1 You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in Your jurisdiction, whichever is higher) and have legal capacity to contract.
2.2 You must not be a person, entity, or located in a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive Dutch, EU, UN, US (OFAC), UK (OFSI), or Australian (DFAT) economic sanctions.
2.3 We may refuse Your purchase or close Your Account at our reasonable discretion, including for the foregoing reasons, with refund where mandatory law so requires.
3. Account creation
3.1 To purchase a Licence Key You must create an Account using a valid email address. Authentication is by magic link: a one-time link emailed to that address. There is no password.
3.2 You are responsible for the security of Your email account and for activity that occurs through Your Account.
3.3 The email address is used solely to (a) authenticate You; (b) deliver Licence Keys, receipts, and operational notices; (c) operate the Referral Programme; and (d) where You have opted in, send renewal reminders. The email address is never transmitted from the Site to the BitcoinProof desktop application; the Software does not communicate with us about You.
3.4 Privacy is governed by the Privacy Policy at bitcoinproof.io/privacy.
4. The Software, the EULA, and the PDF Disclaimer
4.1 Use of the Software is governed by the EULA. By purchasing a Licence Key You acknowledge that You have read or have had the opportunity to read the EULA.
4.2 The PDF Disclaimer is the binding factual characterisation of what a Report is and is not. Where any commercial statement on the Site or in marketing material is in tension with the PDF Disclaimer, the PDF Disclaimer prevails for the purpose of describing the product.
5. Pricing and tiers
5.1 Individual Tier (B2C). Per Entity per year:
| Entity | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 | €59 |
| 2 | €35 |
| 3 | €25 |
| 4+ | Contact us |
Payment: Bitcoin only (Lightning or on-chain), via the Bitcoin Payment Processor. No EUR fiat option. No invoice issued. No support; the tier is self-serve by design.
5.2 Business Tier (B2B). €149 per Entity per year, with 1–3 self-serve and 4+ contact-us. Payment: Bitcoin (Lightning or on-chain) or EUR (SEPA Direct Debit, iDEAL, card) via the EUR Payment Processor — buyer chooses at checkout. A Dutch-VAT-compliant EUR invoice/receipt is generated automatically for all Business Tier purchases regardless of payment method. Email support is included; see clause 9.
5.3 Multi-year prepay discounts (both tiers). 2-year: 15%; 3-year: 25%; 5-year: 40%. The Licence Key issued is a single key with the ceiling year as its year field. Price is locked at purchase.
5.4 All prices are in EUR. For Bitcoin payments, the EUR price is the contractual price; the Bitcoin amount displayed at checkout is informational, computed by the Bitcoin Payment Processor at the prevailing spot price for a short quote window. The contract price for VAT, invoicing, and accounting purposes is the EUR amount.
6. Payment processing and Payment Processor KYC handoff
6.1 Bitcoin payments. Bitcoin payments, when offered, are processed by the Bitcoin Payment Processor (named in Annex A to our privacy policy), who is the regulated counterparty for the payment leg; its own terms and privacy notice apply between You and it. We are not party to the payment transaction and do not receive Your wallet address, transaction graph, or any KYC data from it. Bitcoin payment is currently unavailable: no Bitcoin Payment Processor is engaged, so Bitcoin checkout is not offered until Annex A names one.
6.2 Bitcoin Payment Processor KYC handoff. The Bitcoin Payment Processor, as a MiCAR-licensed CASP and as a regulated entity under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (Transfer of Funds), may apply identity verification ("KYC") to You at transaction thresholds it sets and in additional risk-based circumstances; the applicable cumulative-value threshold for the currently engaged provider, if any, is stated in Annex A to our privacy policy. Completing that KYC may be a precondition to the Processor confirming Your payment. This KYC process is between You and the Bitcoin Payment Processor. We do not receive its outputs. Your Licence Key is issued to You by us after the Processor confirms successful payment.
6.3 EUR payments (Business Tier only). EUR payments are processed by the EUR Payment Processor (named in Annex A to our privacy policy). Its terms apply between You and it. Settlement to us is in EUR via SEPA.
6.4 Settlement and timing. Once the Bitcoin Payment Processor or the EUR Payment Processor has confirmed Your payment to us, we will issue Your Licence Key by email within 1 hour for an automated purchase (and in any event within 1 Business Day where manual review is required, e.g., entity-4+ orders).
7. Licence-key delivery and non-receipt
7.1 We deliver Licence Keys to the email address registered on Your Account.
7.2 If You have not received Your Licence Key within 24 hours of the Bitcoin Payment Processor or the EUR Payment Processor confirming Your payment, contact us at support@bitcoinproof.io. We will investigate and re-deliver. Where the failure is on our side, we will, at Your option, deliver the key or refund the EUR contractual price (consistent with clause 8 mandatory-law exceptions).
8. No refunds — and the EU digital-content withdrawal waiver
8.1 General position. All sales are final. We do not offer refunds. This is stated clearly at checkout and on this clause.
8.2 EU / EEA Consumers — express withdrawal-right waiver under Article 16(m) CRD. A Licence Key is "digital content not supplied on a tangible medium" within the meaning of Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU. Under that provision, Your 14-day right of withdrawal is lost when:
(a) You give Your prior express consent to the supply of the digital content beginning during the 14-day withdrawal period; and
(b) You expressly acknowledge that You thereby lose Your right of withdrawal; and
(c) We provide You with confirmation of (a) and (b) on a durable medium (per Article 8(7) CRD).
The Site captures (a) and (b) by two unchecked checkboxes that You must affirmatively tick before placing an order, and the order-confirmation email captures (c) on a durable medium. Where any of (a), (b) or (c) is not properly captured for a given purchase, You retain the 14-day right of withdrawal and may exercise it by emailing support@bitcoinproof.io with the model withdrawal form (Annex I to Directive 2011/83/EU), in which case we will refund the price within 14 days.
8.3 Spain (TRLGDCU Articles 102, 103(m), 105). The express-consent and acknowledgement mechanism in clause 8.2 is the implementation in Spain of the Art. 103(m) TRLGDCU exception. The "order-with-obligation-to-pay" labelling required by Art. 98.7 TRLGDCU is implemented at checkout.
8.4 Norway. Equivalent to clause 8.2 under the Angrerettloven implementing Directive 2011/83/EU.
8.5 Switzerland. Switzerland has no general statutory cooling-off right for distance contracts of this kind. The no-refund position applies subject to OR Art. 100(1) and UWG Art. 8.
8.6 Australia. The no-refund position is subject in full to the ACL consumer guarantees (clause 8 of the EULA): for a major failure of an ACL consumer guarantee (acceptable quality, fit for purpose, supplied with due care and skill, or reasonable correspondence with description), You are entitled to a refund or to compensation as provided by the ACL.
8.7 Mistakes by us. Where we charge You in error or fail to deliver, You receive a refund of the EUR contractual price.
9. Renewal
9.1 No automatic renewal. Licence Keys do not auto-renew. We do not store payment credentials for recurring billing. To extend coverage You purchase a new Licence Key at Your initiative.
9.2 Reminder emails. We may send a courtesy reminder before a Licence Key's year ceiling is reached. You may opt out of these reminders without effect on the Licence Key.
10. Business Tier support
10.1 The Business Tier includes email support at support@bitcoinproof.io.
10.2 Service Level Commitment (Business Tier). First response within 2 Business Days. Best-effort substantive response within 5 Business Days. Hours: 09:00–17:00 CET, Monday to Friday, excluding Dutch public holidays.
10.3 Escalation. Where a request is not responded to within the SLA, You may flag escalation to support+escalation@bitcoinproof.io.
10.4 Free / Individual Tier. No support is provided. The product is self-serve by design at those tiers, and the price reflects that.
11. Referral programme
11.1 Standard programme. A referrer earns 20% commission on the EUR contract price of qualifying Licence Key purchases attributed to the referrer's referral code, for 24 months from the referee's first purchase. Payouts are in Bitcoin, paid quarterly, with a €20 minimum payout (carried forward if not met).
Two paths exist to become a referrer. First, You may purchase a Licence Key as a customer and a Partner record is automatically created alongside Your customer Account at first identification (Shape B auto-creation, Phase 9 Design Extension May 2026). This automatic record sits in a pending_activation state — it accumulates attribution and commission records silently but does not pay out — until You explicitly activate Your referral account via the dedicated control in /account. Second, You may sign up directly as a non-customer referrer via the public form at bitcoinproof.io/refer; this path creates an active Partner record at the point You verify Your email address through the magic-link sent to You.
Whichever path You take, Your first payout is subject to a 30-day holdback from the moment Your referral account becomes active. The holdback applies to Your first payout only; subsequent payouts run on the standard quarterly cadence. Named-partner arrangements with bespoke terms (see clause 11.2) are exempt from the holdback.
11.2 Named-partner arrangements (bespoke). From time to time We may enter into named-partner arrangements with specific channel partners on bespoke terms differing from the standard programme — for example, a different commission rate, a different attribution window (including a lifetime arrangement), or both. Any such arrangement is documented separately between Us and the named partner. Where a named-partner arrangement is in effect, the standard 20% / 24-month terms in clause 11.1 do not apply to that partner's attributed sales; the bespoke terms govern. This clause records the existence of the bespoke-arrangement framework for transparency — the standard programme remains the default. No named-partner arrangements are active at the date of these ToS.
11.3 Attribution data. A referrer receives only aggregated attribution data ("your code generated N sales totalling X EUR in the period"). A referrer never receives identifiable customer data. This is a deliberate design to (a) preserve the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) small-business operator exemption under section 6C and (b) to honour our minimum-data principle under GDPR Art. 5(1)(c).
11.4 Disqualifying conduct. The following void attribution and forfeit accrued commission:
(a) Self-referral — defined as a purchase whose customer email matches Your Partner contact email (or the email of the User account linked to Your Partner record), where the comparison applies normalisation appropriate to the email provider (in particular, dots within a Gmail local-part are ignored and any +suffix alias is stripped before comparison). Self-referral attempts are detected and blocked at the moment attribution would otherwise occur; the purchase proceeds and is treated as organic.
(b) Misleading marketing about the Software, including any misrepresentation of the PDF Disclaimer.
(c) Creation of fake purchases or coordinated reversed transactions.
(d) Impersonation of BitcoinProof or use of our trade marks beyond fair use.
(e) Sanctions-list referrers.
11.5 Tax. Referrers are responsible for their own tax obligations on commission income.
11.6 Termination. We may terminate the standard programme on 30 days' notice; accrued unpaid commission becomes payable at the next quarterly cycle. Bespoke programmes are governed by their own terms.
You may also terminate Your own participation in the standard programme at any time via the "Permanently disable referral account" control in /account. This transitions Your Partner record to exited (a terminal state), scrubs Your partner contact email, and ends the programme as between You and us. Any commission that has vested before this transition remains payable on the standard quarterly cycle; once the final payout settles, Your payout address is also scrubbed. Re-engagement after Your own opt-out requires a new Partner record (the original is preserved in a scrubbed form for audit purposes).
11.7 Automatic Partner record creation. Where this clause 11 refers to a Partner record automatically created alongside Your customer Account at first identification, the lawful basis for that processing is performance of contract under GDPR Article 6(1)(b) — namely, performance of these ToS, which incorporate the referral programme by reference. The automatic record is pending_activation and confers no payable rights until You activate it. The record can be permanently disabled by You at any time via the /account control described in clause 11.6 (with the same effect as exiting the standard programme); activated records can also be exited via the same control. Until activation, the record sits dormant: attribution and commission rows may accumulate against it, but no payout is made and the dashboard at /partner is not surfaced as a primary control to You. We treat this as the lightest-touch onboarding consistent with the contractual relationship; if You prefer never to have a Partner record at all, the /account control is the explicit opt-out path.
12. VAT treatment
12.1 B2C in EU/EEA outside the Netherlands. We charge VAT at the rate of Your country of residence under the EU One-Stop-Shop (OSS), Art. 369a of Directive 2006/112/EC.
12.2 B2C in the Netherlands. Dutch BTW applies at the standard rate.
12.3 B2B in EU outside the Netherlands. Where You provide a valid VAT identification number (we will validate via VIES), the supply is reverse-charged: no VAT is charged by us; You account for VAT under Art. 196 of Directive 2006/112/EC. The invoice carries the note: "VAT reverse-charged — BTW verlegd."
12.4 B2B in the Netherlands. Dutch BTW applies at the standard rate; the invoice complies with BW Art. 35a Wet OB.
12.5 Outside EU/EEA (Switzerland, Australia, etc.). Out-of-scope of EU VAT for B2B; for B2C in jurisdictions where local consumption-tax registration thresholds may apply, You acknowledge that the displayed price is exclusive of any local tax that may be chargeable in Your jurisdiction and that we do not currently register for local consumption tax outside the EU. We monitor thresholds (e.g., AU GST, CH MWST) and will register where required.
13. Acceptable use of the Site
13.1 You shall not (a) interfere with the Site's operation; (b) use the Site to send spam or to scrape content other than as permitted by robots.txt; (c) use the referral attribution mechanism abusively; (d) impersonate any other person; (e) attempt to enumerate Account email addresses.
14. Service availability
14.1 We use commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Site and the licence-validation endpoint available. No SLA is offered to Free or Individual Tier users. The Business Tier SLA in clause 10 applies to support, not to Site uptime.
14.2 The Software, once installed and activated, operates locally on Your computer and includes a 30-day offline grace period. Site downtime does not invalidate Your activated Licence Keys.
15. Modifications to these ToS
15.1 We may modify these ToS by publishing a new version at bitcoinproof.io/terms and notifying registered Account holders by email at least 30 days before the new version is published. A version takes effect when it is published, and modifications apply prospectively from that date.
15.2 Modifications cannot retroactively diminish Your accrued rights or the validity period of an issued Licence Key (consistent with the EULA clause 2.5 permanent-scope guarantee).
15.3 If You do not accept the modification, Your remedy is to stop using the Site; existing Licence Keys remain valid.
16. Termination by us
16.1 We may terminate Your Account on reasonable notice, including for material breach of these ToS or clause 3 of the EULA, sanctions reasons, or fraud. Where mandatory consumer law requires it, we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid multi-year term.
17. Privacy
17.1 The Privacy Policy at bitcoinproof.io/privacy describes processing of personal data under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), the Dutch UAVG, and applicable equivalent law in Switzerland (revFADP), Norway (Personopplysningsloven), and Australia (Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), to the extent the small-business operator exemption does not apply).
17.2 Data flows for the Site (magic-link auth, purchase history, referral attribution) are disjoint from data flows for the Software. The Software does not transmit personal data to us. Email addresses collected via the Site are never used by the Software and are not exposed to it.
18. Dispute resolution
18.1 We aim to resolve disputes informally. Please email support@bitcoinproof.io first, with detail of the matter; we aim to respond substantively within 10 Business Days.
18.2 If the matter is not resolved informally, the dispute may be brought before the courts identified in clause 19.
18.3 Alternative dispute resolution. EU Consumers may have access to alternative dispute resolution under Directive 2013/11/EU as transposed in their Member State; we are not a member of any specific ADR scheme but will engage in good faith with any competent ADR body. EU Consumers can also approach the European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net). The European Online Dispute Resolution Platform (Regulation (EU) No 524/2013) was discontinued on 20 July 2025 (Regulation (EU) 2024/3228); references to it have been removed.
19. Governing law and forum
19.1 These ToS are governed by Dutch law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the CISG.
19.2 The exclusive forum is the District Court of Amsterdam (Rechtbank Amsterdam).
19.3 Consumer carve-out. The carve-outs in EULA clause 13.3 (Rome I Art. 6, Brussels Ia Arts. 17–18, Lugano 2007 Arts. 15–17, ACL s.67) apply identically to these ToS.
20. Miscellaneous
20.1 Severability, no waiver, entire agreement, notices, assignment, and language clauses corresponding to EULA clauses 14.1–14.6 apply mutatis mutandis.
End of ToS.