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LEGAL DISCLAIMER, NON-AFFILIATION & TERMS OF USE NOTICE
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1. EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PURPOSE ONLY
   This software, documentation, and associated scripts are developed and
   distributed exclusively for educational, academic, and research purposes.
   Nothing contained in this package constitutes financial, investment, legal,
   tax, or accounting advice.

2. NO INVESTMENT ADVICE & ZERO LIABILITY
   The authors, maintainers, and contributors of this software are NOT SEBI-
   registered Research Analysts (RA) or Registered Investment Advisors (RIA).
   No calculations, valuation metrics, screeners, AI context outputs, or
   timeseries generated by this tool constitute a recommendation, endorsement,
   or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any equity, derivative, commodity,
   or financial instrument.
   Under no circumstances shall the authors or contributors be liable for any
   direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential
   damages, including but not limited to loss of capital, trading losses,
   missed profits, business interruption, or data corruption arising from the
   use or inability to use this software.

3. INDEPENDENCE & NON-AFFILIATION DISCLAIMER
   "bfinance" is an independent, community-driven open-source project.
   This project is NOT affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in
   any way officially connected with:
   - Yahoo! Inc. or yfinance (Ran Aroussi)
   - Screener.in / Mittal Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
   - National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE)
   - BSE Ltd. (Bombay Stock Exchange)
   - Any financial institution, broker, or regulatory body.
   All brand names, product trademarks, scrip symbols, and registered logos
   belong exclusively to their respective statutory owners.

4. UPSTREAM COMPLIANCE & FAIR USAGE
   Users of this library are solely and exclusively responsible for ensuring
   their automated scripts and queries comply with all applicable local laws,
   data privacy regulations, and the Terms of Service / Acceptable Use Policies
   of any upstream web services or data providers.
   For mission-critical, enterprise, commercial, or automated algorithmic
   trading environments, users should license official authorized market data feeds.
