Terms of Service
Lodestar Stamp publishes dated checks of public sources. People and software can read them. We do not approve bookings. Paying never changes what the public receipt shows.
The service
Lodestar Stamp publishes dated receipts drawn from public sources on named businesses. The Trust API and MCP tools let callers look up those receipts. We publish what the registers showed on the date shown; we do not approve, recommend, or guarantee any booking, call, or payment.
What is not for sale
Nothing on the receipt is for sale. We do not sell placement on the record or changes to what the receipt says. An agent read is free. Payment for Watching or other paid products never changes the public record.
Watching subscriptions
Online checkout sells Watching for one selected business at $149 USD per month; it renews automatically until canceled. New Watching subscriptions include a 30-day free trial; the card on file is charged $149 on day 31 unless canceled. Two or more locations, or annual billing, are sold by written contract that lists every location, at the location pricing published at https://lodestarstamp.com/watch.html#pricing (per location per month: 1 location $149; 2–5 $134; 6–12 $119; 13–20 $104; 21 or more $89; annual billing charges 10 months for 12). Contracts also renew automatically until canceled. It includes a baseline briefing, published-change alerts, a weekly digest and a monthly readout for that business. The alert job checks the Lodestar published feed every 30 minutes; source publication and verification can take longer. This does not guarantee real-time updates from city systems, bookings, visibility, licensing compliance or safety.
Refunds and cancellation
Cancel future renewals online with Manage billing, or by emailing watch@lodestarstamp.com. The time we receive your request determines whether it precedes the renewal; we refund a renewal caused by a delay in processing a timely cancellation. Access continues through the paid period unless you ask us to stop emails earlier. 14-day refund on the first paid invoice. Request it by emailing the same address within 14 calendar days of that payment. This applies to monthly and annual billing and to contracts. After those 14 days, an annual payment is not refunded pro rata. A location added to a contract during a paid period is prorated immediately. Your contract lists your locations and any terms of its own. Where the contract says something different, the contract wins. Without such a term, you can cancel the whole contract the same way, at the end of the paid period. Removing a single location is done by email. The full policy is at https://lodestarstamp.com/refunds.html. Refunds and cancellation never alter public receipts.
Agent reads (API and MCP)
Programmatic reads (API and MCP) are free. Abuse control is identity and rate limits. A Watching owner, and the agents the owner authorizes, read the owner's own watched locations free, including during a trial. Payment never changes the record.
Meaning of verification
Verified means we checked the cited source on the stated date. It does not guarantee the source is accurate or current today. A recheck date is the expiry of our verification, not necessarily a license expiration date. Missing, unpublished and expired information is not evidence of wrongdoing. Anyone may submit a correction without paying, under the same evidence and review rules.
Acceptable use
Public receipts and docs are meant to be read. Do not use automated access to scrape, extract, or load the service in ways that harm availability or other users. Respect rate limits and robots guidance.
Operator
Lodestar Stamp is operated by Banjo Ventures.
Text messages (SMS)
We text only numbers that gave consent. A person who asks during a call to have a link texted gets that one text only. Recurring texts require the checkbox consent on our signup or checkout. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out, which ends all texts. Reply HELP for help or write watch@lodestarstamp.com. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. We don't sell or share phone numbers or SMS consent with third parties for their marketing.
Contact
Questions: watch@lodestarstamp.com — Lodestar Stamp · https://lodestarstamp.com
Effective
Effective date: 2026-10-08. First effective 2026-09-13; updated 2026-09-24 for contracts and annual billing, 2026-09-28 for agent reads, 2026-10-08 for online cancellation, and 2026-10-12: agent reads are free. We will update this page when these terms change.
City of Chicago data
Chicago receipts are built from the City of Chicago Data Portal. The City requires this notice:
This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.
Source terms: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/narr/foia/data_disclaimer.html.