California Proxies Terms of Service

These terms cover every California Proxies account and every mobile proxy line we rent out of our Los Angeles rack. They're written in plain English on purpose, because nobody should need a lawyer to rent a SIM. Version dated October 10, 2026. If you keep a line running after we publish a newer version, the newer version is the one that applies to you.

What you're actually renting

A California Proxies line is the exclusive use of one carrier SIM (AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon) sitting in one modem, router or phone that we own and operate in Los Angeles. While your plan is active, nobody else is routed through that SIM. You get HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 access, unlimited rotation, and the dashboard and API that go with it.

The IP addresses the line hands you belong to the carrier, not to us and not to you. They come out of the carrier's Southern California pool, are shared with ordinary phone subscribers through carrier-grade NAT, and can repeat or change whenever the carrier decides. We don't promise any particular address, any particular speed on a given afternoon, or any particular reaction from any website or app. Typical 4G lines see 20–45 Mbps and 5G lines 50+ Mbps, but the radio conditions in LA on the day are what they are.

A proxy only changes the path your traffic takes. It doesn't give you a US phone number, a browser fingerprint, or any permission a platform never granted you. What you do on the far side of the line is on you.

Who can open an account

You need to be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live if that's higher, and you need the legal capacity to agree to these terms. If you sign up on behalf of a company, you're telling us you're allowed to bind it.

Your login, API keys and proxy credentials are yours to protect. Anything done through them counts as done by you until the moment you tell us they've leaked, so use a real password and keep the credentials out of shared chat threads and public repos.

Paying for time

Every plan is prepaid. Hourly blocks start at $2 (4G) or $3 (5G) for the first two hours, add the same amount per extra hour up to four hours per purchase, never auto-renew, and the hours you've paid for count toward a one-day plan if you step up. Daily, weekly and monthly plans activate the moment payment clears.

Renewals are collected ahead of the new period, so a weekly plan is charged before its next week begins, not after. If auto-renew is on, we try the payment method on file; if that fails we tell you and the overdue steps below start ticking.

We can change prices for new purchases at any time. A price change never touches a period you've already paid for; it only applies to the next renewal or the next new line.

Accepted payment methods are listed at checkout and currently include cards, PayPal, Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum, Zelle and bank wire. Crypto and wire payments count as received when they're confirmed on our side, not when they leave your wallet or bank.

If a payment is late

When a renewal fails or an invoice goes unpaid, we send a notice to your account email and show it in your dashboard. From that notice you have 24 hours of grace during which the line keeps running exactly as before.

After the grace period the line is suspended. We hold the SIM and the device for you for another 24 hours, so a late payment brings it straight back with the same credentials and the same carrier. At 48 hours past the notice the line is released and goes back into stock for somebody else.

A released line isn't refundable and can't be recovered; if you come back you'll buy a new one from whatever stock is free that day. Management can shorten these windows for accounts with repeated non-payment, chargebacks or credible abuse reports.

What the line can't be used for

We don't read your traffic, but we do act on complaints and on what our abuse tooling flags. Using a California Proxies line for any of the following ends the account without refund:

• Unauthorized access, port scanning or attacks against systems you don't own or have written permission to test
• Fraud, phishing, payment abuse, identity theft, or anything whatsoever involving child sexual abuse material
• Spam in any form: email, SMS, comments, DMs, messaging apps
• Malware distribution, command-and-control traffic, or denial-of-service traffic in either direction
• Harassment, threats, or coordinated inauthentic behavior that harms other people
• Bulk file transfer, torrenting, streaming farms, or anything that treats a phone SIM like a datacenter uplink
• Reselling, sharing or subletting the line without a written reseller arrangement with us
• Anything illegal under US federal law, California law, or the law where you're sitting

Platform rules still apply

Follow the rules of every platform you use through the line. Reading a website's public pages through a Los Angeles address is ordinary internet use; what you do with an account on that site is between you and the site, and we won't help you get around a decision a platform has made about you.

Complaints, abuse reports and lawful requests

Carriers, platforms and individuals can report abuse coming from one of our addresses. We investigate every report, may pause a line while we look, and will suspend or terminate the line if the report holds up. We'll usually tell you what was reported unless we've been told not to.

If we receive a subpoena, court order or other lawful request from a US authority, we comply to the extent the law requires and share only what we actually hold, which is described in our Privacy Policy. We don't keep traffic contents, so there are none to hand over.

Unlimited data, within reason

Plans come with unlimited data because mobile proxy work (browsing, account work, scraping at sane speeds, API calls, app testing, ad checks) just doesn't move that much. The SIM behind your line is a consumer plan from the carrier, and keeping it looking like one is what keeps the line alive.

Bulk file transfer, continuous video streaming, large downloads and similar firehose usage aren't allowed. When a line's pattern looks like that, we may slow it, rotate it, pause it, or ask you what's going on. Those measures are not downtime and don't earn credit. We don't publish a fixed number because the carrier's behavior changes and we'd rather keep the limit honest than invent one; lines used for actual proxy work don't get near it.

Intellectual property

The California Proxies name, logo, dashboard, API, documentation and website are ours. You get a personal, non-transferable license to use the dashboard and API to operate your lines while your account is open, and nothing beyond that. Don't copy, scrape or resell our site content, and don't try to reverse-engineer the service.

Whatever you fetch through a line is yours to deal with, including whatever rights its owner has in it. We claim nothing in your data.

Disclaimers and how far our liability goes

The service is provided as it is, with the carriers, the LA radio environment and third-party sites being what they are. We don't guarantee uninterrupted service, a particular address, a particular speed, or that any website will treat you a certain way. The Refund Policy covers what happens when a line we run has a fault we can't fix.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything connected to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 30 days before the claim arose. We're not liable for lost profits, lost accounts on third-party platforms, lost data, or any indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law.

Indemnity

If a third party comes after us because of what you did through a line, whether that's a platform, a carrier, a rights holder or a government body, you'll cover our costs, including reasonable legal fees, and any amounts we end up paying. We'll let you know promptly and won't settle in your name without asking you first.

Ending things

You can close your account from the dashboard or by emailing support at any time. Prepaid time on active lines isn't refunded for change of mind; the Refund Policy lists the cases where credit is issued.

We can suspend or terminate an account for breach of these terms, non-payment, abuse reports we find credible, legal demands, or risk to our carrier relationships, with notice where it's practical to give it. If we have to shut a line down for a reason that's on us, you get prorated credit for the unused time.

Changes, governing law and contact

We update these terms occasionally. The version date at the top tells you which one you're reading, and changes are posted on the site and in the dashboard before they apply to renewals. Keeping a line running after that is acceptance.

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state where the operator of California Proxies is registered, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes go to the courts of that state. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Questions about the terms go to [email protected] or to our Telegram bot at @CaliforniaProxiesBot, both answered by people around the clock.

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