CME DATA TERMS OF USE
All content on the cmegroup.com website (“Website”) is owned or licensed by CME Group and is protected by worldwide intellectual property laws. The products, technology or processes described in this Website may also be protected by intellectual property rights of CME Group or third parties. No license is granted with respect to those intellectual property rights. The content on the Website includes, without limitation: volume, bid-ask prices, opening and closing range prices, high-low prices, settlement prices, indexes, open interest and related information, materials, and content on the Website (“CME Data”). CME Data is calculated according to the proprietary methods of CME Group entities or certain third-parties with which CME has a relationship with and through the application of methods, creativity and standards of judgment used and developed through the expenditure of considerable work, time and money, and may be modified from time to time based on this same or other criteria, and all rights, title, and interest therein are expressly reserved by each CME Group entity and CME licensor. All access and use of CME Data is subject to these CME Data Terms of Use. You acknowledge and agree that the reservation of rights by CME in these CME Data Terms of Use is appropriate.
PERMITTED USES
You are only permitted to access and use the CME Data in the form in which it is in presented on the Website. You understand, acknowledge and agree, that use of the CME Data is at your sole risk. You may access content only for your personal use for non-commercial purposes. Non-commercial use does not include the use of CME Data without prior written consent from CME in connection with: (1) the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence system; or (2) providing archived or cached data sets containing CME Data to another person or entity. You understand, acknowledge and agree that the CME Data is provided "as is" and CME Group does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, non-infringement, timeliness or any other characteristic of the CME Data. All CME Data contained within the Website should be considered as a reference only and should not be used as validation against, nor as a complement to, the CME Group data feeds.
PROHIBITED USES
You acknowledge and agree that, unless CME Group, its applicable affiliate, and/or an applicable third party provider give you prior written authorization, you are strictly prohibited from selling, licensing, renting, modifying, changing, manipulating, altering, printing, collecting, copying, reproducing, downloading (other than to view only where a link is provided), uploading, transmitting, disclosing, distributing, disseminating, publicly displaying, publishing, editing, adapting, creating derivative works, electronically extracting or scrubbing, compiling (including, without limitation, through framing or systematic retrieval to create collections, compilations, databases or directories) or conducting ‘text and data mining’ (as those terms are defined in EU Directive 2019/790) in relation to any CME Data and other CME Group intellectual property you access via the Website or otherwise transfer any of the content to any third person (including, without limitation, others in your company or organization).
You agree not to, and have no rights to, use the CME Data to create, calculate, issue, settle, maintain, support or develop any financial instruments (including but, without limitation exchange traded products, certificates, warrants, contracts for difference, swaps, binary options, structured products), indexes, products, services (including but without limitation, portfolio management services, pre- and post-trade risk management services, or valuation services) or any other derivative works without the express written consent of CME Group.
You agree not to analyze, reverse-engineer or disassemble any CME Data and not to insert any code or product to manipulate the Website content in any way that affects any user’s experience. Unless CME Group gives you prior written permission, use of any Web browsers (other than generally available third-party browsers), engines, scripts, software, spiders, robots, avatars, agents, tools or other devices or mechanisms (such as crawlers, browser plug-ins and add-ons, or other technology) to navigate, access, copy in bulk, retrieve, harvest, index, search or analyze any portion of the Website is strictly prohibited.
For the avoidance of doubt and to the fullest extent permitted by law, use of any CME Data (including associated metadata) in any manner for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence, including without limitation for the purposes of training, coding, or development of artificial intelligence technologies, tools, or solutions or machine learning language models, or otherwise for the purposes of using or in connection with the use of such technologies, tools, or models to generate any information, material, data, derived works, content, or output is expressly prohibited.
OWNERSHIP
You agree that (i) CME Data and all components thereof constitute copyrighted, and/or proprietary information of substantial value to CME Group, (ii) that you receive no proprietary rights whatsoever in or to the CME Data, and (iii) that title and ownership rights in and to the CME Data and all the rights therein and legal protections with respect thereto remain exclusively with CME Group and its licensors. You shall not, and shall not assist any third party to, assert any rights in the CME Data or any component thereof or challenge CME Group's or CME Licensor’s rights therein.
DISCLAIMER
CME Group is not responsible for technical, hardware or software failures of any kind; lost or unavailable network connections; incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions. Under no circumstances will CME Group, its affiliates, licensors or suppliers be liable for any damages or injury that results from the use of the materials on this site. Some jurisdictions prohibit the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in which case the above limitation may not apply to you.
CME DataSuite Applications are intended for marketing purposes only, and CME Group does not guarantee the accuracy or the timeliness of the data provided.
Your use of the Website may be monitored by CME Group, and the resultant information may be used in accordance with CME Group’s Privacy Notice.
Last Updated September 7, 2023