1. About these terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of goldsovereignvault.com (the “Site”) and any related services we provide (collectively, the “Service”), operated by Ebenezer Industries Pty Ltd (ABN 73 604 400 580) (“we”, “us”, “our”).
By creating an account, paying for a subscription, or otherwise using the Service, you accept these Terms and agree to be bound by them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.
2. About the Service
Sovereign Vault is a market intelligence platform for classic gold sovereigns (1817–1937). We aggregate publicly available auction results and dealer listings from sources around the world, then apply our own analytics to surface signals, comparisons, and buying guidance to subscribers.
We are not an auction house. We don’t sell coins. We don’t broker transactions. The Service is informational only — you decide what to buy, sell, and hold.
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter binding contracts to use the Service. By using the Service, you confirm you meet these requirements.
4. Your account
You may need an account to access certain features. You’re responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for any activity that occurs under your account. Please notify us immediately if you suspect your account has been accessed without permission.
We may suspend or close accounts that violate these Terms or that we reasonably believe are being used in a way that harms the Service or other users.
5. Membership tiers and payment
The Service offers a free tier (with limited features) and one or more paid subscription tiers (“Vault Membership”). Subscription fees, billing cycles, and feature inclusions for each tier are listed at the time of signup.
Auto-renewal. Vault Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing cycle unless cancelled before renewal. We’ll charge the payment method on file for the renewal amount, which may change with notice.
Price changes. We may adjust subscription prices for new billing cycles. Existing subscribers will be notified at least 30 days before any price change takes effect; you can cancel before the new price applies if you don’t want to continue.
Cancellation. You can cancel a paid subscription at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle — your access continues until then, and we won’t refund the unused portion of that cycle except as required by law.
6. Refunds and Australian Consumer Law
Where Australian Consumer Law applies, you have non-excludable rights to remedies for goods and services that don’t meet consumer guarantees. Nothing in these Terms limits those rights.
Outside those statutory rights, we generally don’t offer refunds for partial billing cycles. If you believe you’re entitled to a refund, contact us and we’ll review your request promptly.
7. Intellectual property
We make a deliberate distinction between the underlying market data and our analytical work product.
7.1 Market data — public records
The raw factual data shown on the Service — auction hammer prices, sale dates, lot descriptions, dealer asking prices, mintage figures, grading outcomes, and other published transaction records — comes from publicly available sources (auction house catalogues, dealer websites, certification services, reference works). We don’t claim ownership of those underlying facts. They belong to the public record of the numismatic market.
7.2 Our analytics, models, and interpretations — owned by us
What is ours, and what we do claim ownership of, is the analytical work we apply to that data, including:
- The methods and models we use to detect trends, compare premiums, classify rarity, identify outliers, and group sales into meaningful tiers;
- Our market signals, verdict logic, recommendation engine, decision panels, and any synthesised outputs derived from the underlying data;
- The way we select, organise, and present the data — including curated views, charts, comparisons, and editorial commentary;
- Reference catalogues, mappings, attributions, corrections, and matching logic we generate or maintain.
These analytical outputs are protected by copyright, database rights, and other intellectual property laws as applicable. You may view and use them for personal, non-commercial purposes as a Service subscriber. You may not copy, redistribute, resell, license, sublicense, or create derivative works from our analytics without our prior written permission.
7.3 Site, software, brand
The Site’s design, code, software, copy, branding, logos, and trademarks are our intellectual property (or licensed to us). You receive a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the Site as a subscriber. All other rights are reserved.
7.4 Your content
Anything you contribute through the Service — saved coins, watchlists, budget settings, notes, alert preferences, communications with us — remains yours. By providing it, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, store, and process it solely to operate the Service for you. We don’t sell your personal data.
8. Permitted use
You may use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes consistent with these Terms. Commercial use — including using the Service’s outputs to inform a coin dealing, brokerage, advisory, or arbitrage business — requires a separate written agreement.
9. Things you may not do
Without our prior written permission, you must not:
- Scrape, crawl, mass-extract, or otherwise programmatically harvest data from the Service;
- Resell, redistribute, sublicense, or syndicate any of our analytical outputs;
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code or model logic behind the Service;
- Use any automated tool to interact with the Service (other than standard web browsers);
- Use the Service to build, train, or improve a competing product or model;
- Misrepresent your identity, evade access controls, or use another person’s account;
- Engage in conduct that disrupts the Service or harms other users.
10. Information, not advice
The Service is informational and educational. It is not financial advice, investment advice, tax advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any particular coin or asset. Numismatic markets are illiquid, opaque, and subject to grade attribution variability — past prices and our analytical signals are not predictions of future outcomes. You should make purchasing and selling decisions based on your own research, expertise, and where relevant the advice of qualified professionals.
11. Accuracy
We work to keep the data on the Service accurate and current, but we don’t warrant that it is complete, error-free, or up-to-date. Auction houses, dealers, and certification services correct, withdraw, or revise records over time. Our scrapers, parsers, and matchers can mis-classify or miss listings. You should verify any data point that’s material to a decision.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we’re not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive losses arising out of your use of the Service — including lost profits, lost opportunity, lost data, lost goodwill, or losses on coin transactions you make based on Service outputs.
Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you under or in connection with these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the subscription fees you paid us in the 12 months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) AUD $100.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited (including under the Australian Consumer Law).
13. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against any third-party claim arising out of your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service.
14. Termination
You can stop using the Service at any time and cancel any subscription from your account settings.
We can suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you breach these Terms, if your account is being used to harm the Service or its users, or if we are required to by law. Where reasonably practical, we’ll give you notice and a chance to remedy the breach.
On termination, your account access ends and your subscription stops at the end of the current billing cycle (you don’t get a refund for the unused portion, except as required by law). Sections of these Terms that are intended to survive termination — including IP, disclaimers, liability, and governing law — continue to apply.
15. Privacy
How we handle personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy. By using the Service you accept the practices described there.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we’ll notify subscribers by email or through the Service before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after the change is acceptance of the updated Terms.
17. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Disputes will be heard in courts of New South Wales, except where consumer protection law gives you a right to bring proceedings elsewhere.
18. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Email us at [email protected].
These Terms are drafted as a starting framework for the operating entity Ebenezer Industries Pty Ltd. Before relying on them in a dispute, we recommend a review by an Australian commercial lawyer to confirm they cover any industry-specific requirements (consumer subscription rules, data handling obligations, payment-processor agreements) that apply to the business as it grows.