| Operator | SpreadBench is an independent data-benchmark project run by Brian Tian (attribution and citation format on the citation page). It is not a corporate entity, issues no securities and provides no investment service. |
| Data boundary | Only public data is aggregated: SEC EDGAR filings, the US Treasury curve, and FRED (via the St. Louis Fed) OAS references. No licensed data, no secondary trades (FINRA TRACE not licensed), no CDS. Red lines: no credit ratings, no investment advice. |
| Accounts | There are none. All content and APIs need no registration, no login and no API key (until v0.3.0). Hence there is no password store and no account data to leak. |
| What this site collects | (1) Anonymous in-page events: page path, language, referrer — no personal identifiers. (2) Standard server access logs, with sensitive headers (Cookie / Authorization / X-Api-Key) stripped before writing to disk. (3) IP addresses are used only for anti-abuse rate limiting and country-level statistics — no profiling, no linkage to any identity. No third-party advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking. |
| Payments | Paid products (the GRVI data archive etc.) settle via Alipay or USDT through payment channels; this site never stores card data. Order records hold contact details and the purchased SKU only. |
| Service surface | Static site + read-only APIs; the only write path is order checkout. The admin path is disallowed in robots.txt. |
| Incidents & changes | Every product and API change is logged in the changelog (line by line); data-convention changes go through methodology §11 with a version bump. This status page does not duplicate them — it reflects machine checks only. |
| Contact | Broken endpoint or data anomaly: hi@spreadbench.com (data errata answered within 5 business days per methodology §13). |