Terms of Service | Dermal Vectors

Effective date: October 8, 2026 · Version: dv-terms-2026-10-08 Provider: Dermalapps LLC ("we"). Contact: support@dermalvectors.com.

1. About these terms

These terms govern the Dermal Vectors website, brand workspaces and forecast products. The API and Data-use Terms add rules for the REST API, AI-app (MCP) access and use of forecast outputs. The Privacy Notice explains how we handle personal information. By starting a trial or subscription, the brand owner agrees to these terms for the brand. If a signed agreement with us changes a provision, that agreement controls that provision.

2. Who can use Dermal Vectors

Dermal Vectors is a business service offered to businesses in the United States. It is not for personal or household use, and there are no consumer accounts. The person who creates a brand workspace confirms they are authorized to act for that business.

3. The service

Dermal Vectors provides modeled, weather-based forecasts for business planning:

Daily Metro DSI Forecast: a seven-day, 0–10 Dry Skin Index of modeled indoor drying stress for 371 U.S. Census metro areas (CBSA codes), issued daily.
Dry-Skin and Humidifier Search Outlooks: weekly outlooks of search interest for Google Trends metro areas, modeled by Dermal Vectors from historical Google Trends data and the DSI. Each becomes available to customers when it is released.

Products are delivered through the forecast page and CSV downloads, a REST API, and read-only access for AI apps the customer connects. A public data dictionary defines every field.

4. Accounts, brands and team members

A brand owner creates a brand workspace, invites team members, manages billing, creates API keys and connects AI apps, and is responsible for activity under the brand.
Team members act within the role the owner gives them. Only the brand owner can start a trial or manage billing.
Keep sign-in details and API keys confidential. API keys are shown once. If you suspect misuse, revoke the key or disconnect the app on the Integrations page, then tell us.

5. Free trial

One 14-day trial per brand, started by the brand owner, who confirms its terms separately. No payment card is required. The trial includes the same products as the subscription.
The trial ends automatically and does not turn into a paid subscription.

6. Subscription, renewal and cancellation

The subscription is $249 USD per month per brand, plus applicable tax (calculated at checkout), billed through Stripe. It includes the Daily Metro DSI Forecast and the Dry-Skin and Humidifier Search Outlooks as each is released.
It starts only when the brand owner separately authorizes it, and renews monthly until canceled. It can begin during or after the trial; starting it does not extend the trial.
The brand owner can cancel at any time through the Stripe billing portal, reached from the Billing page. Paid access continues until the end of the period already paid for, and no further charges are made.
If a payment fails, access may continue for up to seven days while Stripe retries the payment.
For 30 days after paid access ends, the brand can re-open, read-only, forecast issues it received during paid access. The trial does not create this access.

7. Refunds

Subscription fees are not refunded for partial months; when you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. If you believe you were charged in error, for example a duplicate charge or a charge after cancellation, email support@dermalvectors.com within 30 days of the charge. We will refund charges made in error. Other refund requests are considered case by case, at our discretion.

8. Allowances and fair use

Each brand has a monthly allowance of forecast reads, returned data and lookups, shared by all of its API keys and AI apps, plus a per-minute request limit. The current trial and paid allowances are listed on the Plan and allowances page, and the brand's own usage is shown on the Integrations page. Browsing forecasts on the website while signed in, and reading the data dictionary, do not count toward the allowance. When a limit is reached, requests are refused until the monthly reset (the 1st of the month, 00:00 UTC) or until the per-minute window passes. There are no overage charges.

9. Use of forecasts

The API and Data-use Terms set out how forecasts may be used, shared and kept, including use by agencies working for the brand, attributed excerpts in reports, and copies kept after cancellation.

10. What forecasts are, and are not

Forecasts are modeled environmental and search-interest signals for places and dates. Each carries an issue ID, dates, coverage and limitations.
They are not measurements of any home or person, not medical advice, and not predictions of search counts, sales, audience size or advertising results.
Search outlooks are Dermal Vectors' modeled estimates, not forecasts supplied by Google or Google Ads search volume. DSI metros and Google Trends metro areas are different geographies and must not be treated as the same places.
Forecasts can be late, revised or unavailable. An expired issue is never presented as current.

11. AI apps and other third-party services

The customer chooses its AI apps. Their providers process the customer's questions and the forecast results they fetch under their own terms, which we do not control. Disconnecting an app stops its access to forecasts but does not delete conversations held by that provider.

12. Intellectual property

The website, software, documentation, forecasts and the Dry Skin Index method belong to Dermalapps LLC or its licensors. Except as these terms and the API and Data-use Terms allow, no rights are granted. Do not attempt to extract or reverse engineer non-public parts of the service.

13. Disclaimers

To the extent the law allows, the service and forecasts are provided "as is" and "as available", without promises of uninterrupted availability, accuracy or fitness for a particular business decision. The customer remains responsible for its own decisions and for how it uses forecasts.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows:

neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue or data, even if told they were possible;
each party's total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the fees the customer paid to us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limits do not apply to fraud or wilful misconduct, to the customer's obligation to pay fees owed, or to the customer's obligations under section 15.

15. Customer responsibility for misuse

The customer will defend and reimburse us for third-party claims, and related reasonable costs, arising from the customer's or its users' breach of these terms or the API and Data-use Terms, or misuse of the service or forecasts.

16. Suspension and ending the service

We may suspend access for non-payment, misuse, a security risk or a breach of these terms. Where practical and appropriate, we will give notice and a chance to fix the problem first. The customer may stop using the service and cancel at any time (section 6).

17. Changes to these terms and prices

We will email the brand owner at least 30 days before a material change to these terms or a price change takes effect. A price change applies from the first renewal after that notice period. Changes needed for legal, security or regulatory reasons may take effect sooner. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means accepting it; the brand owner can instead cancel before then.

18. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Pennsylvania, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction.

19. General

If part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. The customer may not transfer these terms without our written consent. These terms, the API and Data-use Terms and any signed agreement are the whole agreement about the service.