Terms of service

These terms govern the use of this site: the institutional pages, the labs from the book, the material we publish and the code that comes with it. Using the site means accepting them.

What you will find here: methodological research on the markets, educational material, and analysis software. Three activities, and all three are activities of publishing and of study.

What this site is not — where the boundary with regulated activities runs, and how you can check it — is set out in full in the scope disclaimer, which is one of the legal documents linked at the foot of every page. We do not summarise it here: a boundary stated in two places is a boundary that will say two different things after the first revision.

You can buy on this site and you can open an account. What is on sale today: the books in their digital edition — single volumes and the box set —, access to the full text of our publications together with their replication materials, and the training paths; the account is what gives you access to what you bought. The analysis platform is not on sale yet: anyone who wishes can join the waiting list to be told when it launches. The contents, the price and the payment method of each offer are stated before you buy, on the page of the offer itself: there they are specific and checkable, here they would be a copy destined to fall behind.

If you buy as a consumer you have the right of withdrawal set out in the Italian Consumer Code (legislative decree 206/2005): fourteen days from the conclusion of the contract, with no need to give a reason, by writing to the address stated in the privacy policy. One of the cases in which the right does not apply does arise here, and it is digital content delivered at once — the books in their digital edition and the training paths, which open the moment they are paid for: and article 59(1)(o) of the Italian Consumer Code rules out withdrawal where the person ordering has consented to immediate performance and has acknowledged that this consent gives up the right. That consent is asked for at the moment of payment, before and not after: without it, the fourteen days stand. Prices shown on this site are final and include tax.

The material published on this site belongs to Cryptoverso: the book, the workbooks, the twenty-nine labs, the text, the figures, the data, the code that produces them, the name and the domain.

Logika.studio is the technical partner: it builds and maintains the software behind this site and behind the analysis tools. It is named for what it does — the engineering — and it does not own the material.

The distinction is written here because here is where it is needed. Anyone who wants to cite a piece of content, reuse it or ask for permission needs to know whom to approach, and the answer is Cryptoverso.

Any third-party trade marks, logos and names mentioned belong to their respective owners: we use them to identify what we are talking about, never to imply a relationship that does not exist.

The notebooks of the preview chapters open without an account and without handing over an email address: they are the public part of the method, and anyone can read and re-run them. The other notebooks of the book, with their code and data, are for readers who have the volume: they open with a personal access code, tied to the account that holds the volume.

The preview notebooks you may read, run, modify, and use to study, to teach and to check what we claim. If you publish a result or an adaptation, cite the source: the title of the lab and Cryptoverso. The notebooks in the volume’s package follow instead the personal-use licence that comes with them: you may read, run and modify them for yourself, but not redistribute them, share them with anyone who does not have the volume, or include them in a product or a course.

The runnable notebooks are distributed together with their own licence, which travels with the files. Should the conditions of that licence and this section ever diverge, the licence distributed with the notebooks prevails: it is the text that accompanies the code, and it is the text in front of whoever runs it. This section does not invent a different one, and does not restate it either.

You may read, download, print and share the public content for personal use, for study or for research, citing the source. Material reserved to readers who bought a volume (the notebooks in the package, with their code and data) remains for personal use and is not to be shared.

You may not:

• resell the material, or build it into a paid product, without a written agreement with Cryptoverso;
• extract content in bulk, automatically, at a rate that degrades the service for the people reading it: this site publishes a sitemap and an index for automated agents precisely so that machine access has no need to be aggressive;
• present the material as your own, or alter it so as to attribute to us statements we have not made;
• attempt to reach non-public areas, interfere with the operation of the site, or work around its security measures.

If your case fits none of these lines and you are unsure, write to us: we would rather answer a question than have a prohibition read by analogy.

This site and its content are provided as they are. We do what we can to keep them accurate and current, and we publish the code precisely so that an error can be found; we do not, however, warrant that they are free of errors, nor that the site will always be reachable.

The content is published for research, study and information. The decisions of the person reading remain that person’s own, and so does responsibility for how they turn out: that is what the scope disclaimer means, and it is not a stylistic formula.

To the extent permitted by law we are not liable for indirect damage arising from the use of this site or from being unable to use it. Liabilities that the law does not allow to be excluded remain unaffected, starting with wilful misconduct and gross negligence: a clause purporting to exclude them would be void, and writing it would serve only to make the opposite look true to someone who does not know.

This section is not written in capitals. Shouted text is no more effective: it is only harder to read, and it is the most common way of getting someone to accept what they never read.

The site links out to services we do not operate: the platform on which the notebooks run, the service that hosts the code, the community server, the social channels.

Following those links takes you off this site and into a service with terms and notices of its own, which are worth reading. We do not control them, we do not undertake that they will be available, and we are not answerable for what you find there.

A link is a pointer, not an endorsement of everything on the other side of it.

These terms are governed by Italian law.

Any dispute falls to the court of the place of domicile of the person who publishes this site, named in the privacy policy. We do not publish a private address here, and there is no need to: the court is determinable, and it will become the court of the registered office once a company exists.

If you are a consumer, the mandatory provisions in your favour remain unaffected, including the jurisdiction of the court of the place where you reside or have elected domicile.

These terms change when what the site offers changes. The revision date at the top of the page is the date of the last substantive change, and it is the quickest way to tell whether you are reading the same version you read before.

Changes take effect once published. A change affecting the conditions of a paid service is announced before it takes effect, with reasonable notice to whoever is using that service: if you have already bought, you stay on the conditions you accepted.

The Italian and English versions say the same thing: should a discrepancy emerge, the Italian version prevails.