Terms of Service
Version 2026-08-07.4 · Last updated August 7, 2026
1. Who this agreement is between
These terms are an agreement between your business and AuthWatch LLC, a New York limited liability company operating as AuthorityWatch ("we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using the service, you agree to them on behalf of your business, and you confirm you are authorized to do so.
2. Business use only
AuthorityWatch is sold to businesses for business purposes. It is not offered to consumers and is not intended for personal, family, or household use.
3. What AuthorityWatch is
AuthorityWatch monitors publicly available FMCSA records (operating authority, insurance filings, safety status) for the motor carriers on your watchlist and notifies you by email when those records change. Every alert links to the federal record it is based on.
4. What AuthorityWatch is not
AuthorityWatch is an information service. It is not legal advice, insurance verification, a credit or background check, or a substitute for your own due diligence. Federal data sources can lag, contain errors, or change format; we surface what the record says, when we saw it - we do not guarantee completeness or timeliness. Always verify current status in FMCSA L&I before dispatch or contracting decisions.
5. Your responsibility for carrier decisions
You are solely responsible for deciding which carriers you use. You agree to independently verify a carrier's current status in FMCSA records before dispatch, contracting, or any other decision, and not to rely on AuthorityWatch as your only source.
Our alerts report what a federal record said at the time we observed it. They are not a recommendation, an endorsement, a warning, or an assessment of any carrier's fitness, honesty, or safety, and must not be treated or republished as one.
6. Federal data sources
We depend on records published by FMCSA and related federal systems, which we do not control. Those systems change format, lag, omit records, go offline, and are being restructured through the MOTUS transition. Interruption, degradation, incompleteness, or discontinuation of a federal source is not a breach of these terms. If a source becomes permanently unavailable and we cannot deliver the service, either of us may terminate and we will refund any unused prepaid time.
7. No service level commitment
We poll federal sources on a regular schedule and aim to deliver alerts promptly, but we do not commit to any specific uptime, polling frequency, or delivery time. Email delivery also depends on your own mail provider.
8. Your account
You are responsible for the accuracy of the carrier numbers you upload and for keeping your login credentials safe. One account is for one brokerage or business entity; we may suspend accounts shared across separate businesses.
9. Your data is yours
Your watchlist - which carriers you monitor - belongs to you. We do not sell, rent, license, or share it, and we do not use it to build products or datasets for anyone else. Who you monitor stays between us.
We also do not operate a load board, sell carrier access, or broker freight. Your watchlist has no commercial value to us beyond running your monitoring, because we have no other business it could feed.
These commitments are contractual. They survive termination of your account, and a change to our privacy policy does not alter them.
10. Billing
Paid plans bill monthly by card until you cancel. You can cancel any time from your account; cancellation stops future charges at the end of the current billing period. If a renewal charge fails we retry and email you before pausing alerts. Alerts paused for non-payment are not a breach of these terms.
11. Acceptable use
No reselling or republishing our alert stream, no scraping the service, no use that violates law or FMCSA data terms, and no republishing our alerts as statements about a carrier.
12. Warranties
The service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every relevant change in a federal record will be detected or delivered, or that federal records are themselves accurate, complete, or current.
13. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of or damage to cargo, theft, freight or cargo claims, lost profits, lost revenue, business interruption, loss of goodwill, or claims brought against you by third parties, arising out of or relating to the service - whether or not we were advised such damages were possible.
Our total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred dollars ($100).
These limits apply regardless of the legal theory. They are a fundamental basis of this agreement: the price of the service reflects this allocation of risk, and we would not offer it at this price without them.
14. Your indemnity
You will defend and indemnify us against claims, damages, and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your carrier selection or dispatch decisions, your use of our alerts, your republication of anything we send you, or your breach of these terms.
15. Time limit on claims
Any claim relating to the service must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred.
16. If we discontinue the service
If we decide to shut AuthorityWatch down, we will give account holders at least 90 days' written notice by email. Monitoring continues for the entire notice period. You can request an export of your full carrier and alert history at any time, including during that period, by emailing ops@authoritywatch.io; we provide it within 30 days. Any prepaid time you have not used will be refunded.
17. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. Material changes are announced by email to account holders before they take effect, and each version carries the version number shown at the top of this page.
18. General
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in New York State have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Both parties waive any right to a trial by jury. Claims must be brought individually; neither party may bring a class or representative action.
If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these terms by reference; together they are the entire agreement between us about the service. You may not assign them without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a sale of the business. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.