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OttoTrader Marketplace Terms
These terms frame marketplace listings as software-license transactions for protected strategy logic and related metadata, not as financial products, advisory services, or copy-trading mandates.
Last updated: October 7, 2026 · Document summary & related guidance
Document summary
These terms frame marketplace listings as software-license transactions for protected strategy logic and related metadata, not as financial products, advisory services, or copy-trading mandates.
This document is structured in short sections so the main obligations are easier to scan.
Users should read the legal pages together with the practical product guidance.
Marketplace structure
- Marketplace buyers obtain a license to use protected trading software logic or strategy packages through OttoTrader.
- Marketplace sellers license software through the platform; they are not using OttoTrader to offer managed accounts, copy-trading, or personalized investment advice.
- Sellers require an approved, paid Creator subscription. The current platform commission is 2% of a completed marketplace sale; it is unrelated to a buyer’s profits. Checkout shows the buyer’s total price and applicable taxes.
Independent seller content
- Listings are provided by independent sellers.
- OttoTrader may review listing materials, report completeness, ownership status, and marketplace-policy compliance. A verified badge does not mean OttoTrader endorses the strategy, certifies profitability, verifies suitability, or guarantees future performance.
- Strategy pages must clearly distinguish backtested, simulated, live-verified, seller-provided, and platform-computed metrics.
- The listing identifies its creator. A display name or verified badge is not proof of a registered business or regulated status. Ask support for contracting-seller and trader-status details if these are unclear before purchasing; statutory marketplace transparency obligations remain applicable.
Buyer rights and restrictions
- Buyers receive a limited software license for the purchased listing according to the applicable plan and entitlement state.
- Protected strategy internals, hidden controls, packaging, and seller intellectual property remain restricted.
- Buyers may not redistribute, reverse engineer, resell, or misrepresent protected marketplace strategies except where required by law.
- Protected purchases depend on an eligible OttoTrader account, the required plan, supported desktop software and availability of the hosted protected runtime. A purchase does not give you downloadable source code or an independent, perpetual offline execution service. Applicable remedies remain available if the purchased service is not supplied as agreed.
Marketplace ranking and disclosures
- Default popularity ranking combines ownership count, review count, average rating, confidence from review volume, recency and a small free-listing adjustment. Counts are logarithmically weighted; popularity is not a prediction of trading returns. You can choose available rating, newest or price sorts. Moderation determines visibility and can affect ordering; there is no paid-placement boost in the current popularity formula.
- OttoTrader may label listings as draft, pending review, published, rejected, delisted, or archived to reflect the platform's moderation state.
- OttoTrader may provide standardized risk, validation, and disclosure fields so buyers can compare listings on a consistent basis.
Platform controls
- OttoTrader may remove, suspend, disable, or delist listings and sellers for policy, compliance, fraud, sanctions, IP, or safety reasons.
- OttoTrader may standardize listing disclosures, backtest labeling, risk notes, and claims formatting to reduce misleading marketplace behavior.
- OttoTrader may issue emergency disables, ownership suspensions, or delivery stops if a listing presents security, legal, or platform risk.
- OttoTrader may keep statement-of-reasons records, moderation notes, complaint logs, and takedown records in connection with marketplace enforcement.
Complaints, takedowns, and refunds
- Marketplace complaints and takedown requests can be submitted through OttoTrader's website complaint workflow or by contacting [email protected].
- A seller’s 30-day refund offer is an additional voluntary promise. A “no voluntary refund” listing does not exclude statutory withdrawal or remedies for non-conforming content/services. Digital delivery or a general terms checkbox alone does not waive a consumer’s withdrawal right. See the Refunds and Withdrawal Policy for requests and exceptions.
- Unless mandatory law provides otherwise, marketplace transactions are treated as digital-software license transactions and not as a transfer of underlying intellectual-property ownership.
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