TraceEagle User Agreement

1. Acceptance and Parties

This Agreement is between you (the "User") and TraceEagle / 网络追踪鹰 (the developer and provider of the Software, "we", "us") with respect to your installation, activation and use of the Software.

You confirm that you have full legal capacity to be bound by this Agreement; if not, use it only with the consent and supervision of your guardian. If you use the Software on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to do so, and this Agreement binds both you and that organization.

2. Definitions

Software: the TraceEagle / 网络追踪鹰 client and its components, updates and documentation.

Capture: any functionality provided by the Software to observe or reconstruct network communications — including packet capture, proxying, TLS/HTTPS decryption, reading application-layer plaintext, removing certificate pinning ("unpinning"), process injection, and installing root certificates.

Target: the device, network, system, application, service, communication and data being captured.

Authorization: explicit permission from the owner or lawful controller of a Target allowing you to perform Capture on that Target.

3. License Grant and Restrictions

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software for lawful purposes. Certain features may depend on license (activation) status.

Except where permitted by mandatory law or with our written consent, you may not: (a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or attempt to derive the source code; (b) copy, sell, rent, distribute or sublicense the Software, or resell/share license codes; (c) circumvent, crack or interfere with the Software's licensing, activation or revocation mechanisms; (d) remove or alter any proprietary notices.

The Software is for your own use. Your use of it does not make us a processor of your communications or data; you are the sole controller of, and responsible party for, the data you capture.

4. Authorized Use (Lawful-Use Precondition — Key Clause)

You may perform Capture only on devices, networks, systems and applications that you own, or for which you have obtained explicit Authorization from the Target's owner or lawful controller.

"Capture" expressly includes, without limitation: decrypting HTTPS/TLS communications, reading application-layer plaintext, removing certificate pinning, injecting into processes, installing root certificates on a Target, and replaying/modifying requests — each of which must be performed strictly within the scope of Authorization.

Before performing Capture, you are obligated to determine and ensure that the Target belongs to you or that you are authorized, and that the Capture does not violate any applicable law, contract, privacy policy or third-party terms. The burden of proof is on you.

Features such as "unpinning / trusting the proxy certificate" exist solely to let applications you are authorized to test trust your own capture environment, and must not be used to gain unauthorized access to, or defeat the security measures of, others' systems.

5. Prohibited Conduct (Key Clause)

You must not use the Software for any of the following (regardless of whether it constitutes a crime where you are located):

(a) intercepting, monitoring, recording or reconstructing the communications or data of others without authorization;

(b) accessing, intruding into, controlling, interfering with or damaging others' devices, networks, systems or their security measures without authorization;

(c) stealing or unlawfully obtaining others' personal information, privacy, account credentials, trade secrets or protected data;

(d) circumventing the licensing, authorization, copyright protection or technical measures of others' software;

(e) committing fraud, network attacks, distributing malware, or any other unlawful or infringing activity;

(f) violating any law, regulation, industry rule or third-party agreement applicable to you or the Target.

6. User Responsibility and Undertakings (Key Clause)

You bear sole and complete legal responsibility for all of your conduct and its consequences in using the Software. Whether your Capture is lawful, authorized, or infringes third-party rights is for you alone to determine and answer for, and is unrelated to us.

You undertake to comply with Clauses 4 and 5. We do not monitor or review your use, and have no means or obligation to determine whether you are authorized. The Software is a neutral technical tool provided for lawful network debugging, security testing, troubleshooting, and research and study.

7. Indemnification (Key Clause)

If your breach of this Agreement, or your use of the Software, gives rise to any third-party claim, administrative penalty, litigation, demand or loss, you shall independently assume and resolve it and hold TraceEagle / 网络追踪鹰 and its developers harmless (including reasonable legal fees and enforcement costs); and you shall compensate us for any loss we thereby suffer.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties (Key Clause)

The Software is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that it is fit for a particular purpose, uninterrupted, error-free, or absolutely secure, or that Capture/decryption will succeed against any particular Target.

Operations such as capture, injection, unpinning, certificate installation and network-setting changes carry technical risk and may affect the availability, stability or security of the Target device, application or network. You should assess the risk yourself and keep backups; the associated risks and consequences are yours.

9. Limitation of Liability (Key Clause)

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages (including loss of profit, loss of data or business interruption); and our aggregate liability under this Agreement shall not exceed the fees you actually paid for the Software (or, where obtained for free, the minimum amount permitted by law).

10. Intellectual Property

The Software and its related intellectual property belong to us. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The Software may include third-party or open-source components governed by their own license terms, which prevail for those components in case of conflict.

11. Data and Privacy

The handling of data you capture, and the information collected in connection with license activation and activity statistics, are governed by the separately published TraceEagle Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of this Agreement. The traffic data you capture is stored only on your local device; we do not upload or access it.

12. Licensing, Activation and Revocation

Some features require activation with a license code; activation may require online verification and binding to a device. If you breach this Agreement (especially Clauses 4 and 5) or abuse your license, we may revoke your license online and terminate the license grant, without refund.

13. Changes to this Agreement

We may update this Agreement as necessary. For material changes, we will prompt you again in the Software and require you to re-confirm your acceptance; continued use constitutes acceptance of the updated Agreement.

14. Termination

You may terminate this Agreement at any time by ceasing use and uninstalling the Software. If you breach this Agreement, the license terminates automatically and you must immediately stop using and delete copies of the Software; Clauses 5–10 and 15 survive termination.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

You shall comply with all mandatory laws and regulations applicable to you and your location; all matters between you and a Target, or between you and third parties, arising from your use of the Software are your sole responsibility.

Any dispute arising from this Agreement should first be resolved amicably and in good faith through negotiation. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect.

16. Miscellaneous

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Software. It may be provided in multiple languages; in case of any ambiguity between versions, the Chinese version prevails.

17. Contact Us

If you have questions, please contact us at [contact email / channel — to be filled in].