Terms of Use

Version 1.0 — effective 11 September 2026.

This is a courtesy translation. The binding version of this document is the Spanish one, available at /es/terminos. Costa Rican law requires consumer contract terms to be in Spanish.

These terms are the contract between you and us for the OVERSEAS Prospecta service. They are written to be understood in one reading. If anything seems ambiguous, tell us before you subscribe: Costa Rican law reads ambiguity in your favour, but we would rather there were nothing to read into.

1. Who we are

OVERSEAS CRC S.A., corporate ID 3-101-408786, domiciled in San José, Costa Rica. Email contacto@overseascrc.com, phone +506 2258-1870.

2. What the service is

OVERSEAS Prospecta reviews, every day, the public procurement tenders published by the Costa Rican State, compares them against the criteria you define — what we call your "filters" — and alerts you when one matches.

Alerts reach you through a Telegram bot and are recorded in a web panel on this site.

The data source is the Observatorio de Compra Pública, an open dataset published by the State. We do not produce that information: we read it, organise it, and compare it against your criteria.

3. What we promise, and what we do not

This section matters more than any other. We wrote it with the same frankness we would want from the other side.

What we do

• Review the source every day, automatically.
• Compare everything the source publishes against your filters, discarding nothing on our own initiative.
• Alert you to every matching tender, with the information the source provides and the reason it matched.
• Keep the history in your panel, so you can review what you were told and why.
• Alert you when a tender we already told you about changes its opening date, is challenged, or changes status.

What we do not

• We do not guarantee the source is complete or current. The Observatorio publishes at its own pace and sometimes with delays or gaps. If a tender is not there, we cannot see it. We actively monitor that the source keeps advancing and have alarms for when it stops, but we cannot replace it.
• We are not an official source. Before making a commercial decision, always verify the tender in SICOP. Our alert is a signal for you to look, not a document with legal standing.
• We do not guarantee an exact alerting deadline. Under normal conditions, what the source publishes on one day is alerted the following morning. Weekends, holidays and days when the source does not publish alter that rhythm.
• We do not guarantee that everything we alert you to will interest you, nor that nothing relevant will be missed. Precision depends on how well tuned your filters are, and that is joint work.
• We do not submit bids for you, nor advise you on how to. The service ends where your commercial decision begins.
• We do not control Telegram. If Telegram goes down, your alerts are delayed. They are retained and delivered when service resumes, and meanwhile they remain visible in your panel.

4. Your account

To use the service you need an account with an email address you control, and you must confirm it.

You are responsible for your password and for what happens in your account. If you believe someone else got in, write to us and we will secure it.

If you link Telegram, bear something practical in mind: whoever has access to that chat receives your alerts and can view your filters without a password. Link a chat that is yours.

One account is for one company. You may share it within your organisation, but if we detect it being resold or shared with unrelated third parties, we will discuss it with you before taking any action.

5. The subscription

• Receiving alerts requires a current subscription. There is no free plan.
• Subscriptions are currently activated manually, in conversation with you. There is no automatic billing and no card details stored in the service.
• The term, price and contents of each plan are agreed with you in writing before activation, and form part of this contract.

When the subscription expires, we stop generating new alerts. Your account, your filters and the history of what you already received are kept, so that if you renew, everything is where you left it.

6. How to cancel

You may cancel at any time by writing to contacto@overseascrc.com. There is no penalty and no procedure: saying so is enough.

Right of withdrawal. If you contracted at a distance, the law gives you eight business days to withdraw from the date the contract was formed. For a service, withdrawal covers the part we have not yet provided: if you already received alerts for part of the period, what was effectively provided is deducted proportionally and we refund the rest by the same payment method, within the following eight calendar days.

We may only suspend or terminate the service if you breach these terms seriously — for example, reselling access or attempting to compromise the system — and always after notifying you and giving you the chance to remedy it. We do not reserve a right to cut off your service at our discretion.

If we are the ones discontinuing the service by our own decision, we will give you at least thirty days' notice and refund the proportional part you paid for and did not receive.

7. If the service fails

If a fault on our side leaves you without alerts for a period, we extend your subscription by the equivalent time, without you having to ask, as soon as we detect it.

We do not exclude or limit our liability for defective or late performance of the service: Costa Rican law does not allow it in contracts like this one, and it would not seem right to ask it of you either.

What we do ask you to bear in mind is the scope of what you contracted: the service alerts you to opportunities; it does not decide for you nor replace verification at the official source. A commercial decision you make is yours, and that does not change because we alerted you or failed to.

8. Who owns what

• The service, the site, the software and the OVERSEAS Prospecta brand are ours.
• Your filters, your criteria and your history are yours. We use them for nothing other than providing you the service, we do not share them with other clients, and we do not publish them. We treat them as your confidential commercial information, because that is what they are.
• Tender data is public, belonging to the Costa Rican State. We claim no ownership over it.

You may use the information we deliver for your commercial activity entirely freely. What you may not do is resell the service or automatically redistribute it as your own.

9. Your personal data

How we handle your data is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this contract and which we ask you to accept separately when registering — with its own checkbox, distinct from the one accepting these terms, because Law 8968 requires consent regarding personal data to be specific and independent.

We do not treat any document as accepted merely because you use the service.

10. If we change these terms

If we need to change them, we will notify you by email at least thirty days in advance, explaining what changes.

If the change does not suit you, you may cancel within that period and we will refund the unused proportional part. We do not change them unilaterally, nor treat a change as accepted because you keep using the service.

11. Governing law

This contract is governed by the laws of the Republic of Costa Rica. Any dispute will be resolved before the competent Costa Rican courts.

Nothing in this document waives the rights granted to you by Law No. 7472 on the Promotion of Competition and Effective Consumer Defence and Law No. 8968 on Personal Data Protection. If any clause here were contrary to those laws, it is deemed not written and the rest remains in force.

12. How to reach us

contacto@overseascrc.com · +506 2258-1870 · San José, Costa Rica.

Write to us too if anything in this document is unclear or seems unfair to you. We would rather discuss it now.

Last updated: 11 September 2026.