Terms of Service
Last updated: May 2026
KaratGuide (karatguide.com) is a free educational resource about gold purity, karat grades, precious-metal alloys, and estimated melt values. By using this website, you agree to these terms.
1. Acceptance of these terms
By accessing or using KaratGuide, you agree to use the site only for lawful, personal, and informational purposes. If you do not agree with these terms, do not use the site.
2. Educational information only
All content on KaratGuide is provided for general education and reference only. It is not financial, investment, legal, tax, appraisal, jewellery, or professional advice. You should verify important decisions with a qualified professional or trusted market source.
3. Gold price data and calculations
Gold prices and melt values shown on KaratGuide are estimates generated from third-party market data and simple arithmetic. They may be delayed, unavailable, rounded, incomplete, or wrong.
- Price and currency API: the calculator, ticker, and gold price pages fetch rates from cdn.moneyconvert.net/api/latest.json.
- Gold spot price: the API returns an
XAUrate. KaratGuide estimates USD per troy ounce of 24K gold as1 / rates.XAU. - Per-gram price: KaratGuide divides the estimated troy-ounce price by
31.1035, the number of grams in one troy ounce. - Karat melt value: estimated value is calculated as
weight in grams x karat purity x 24K price per gram. For example, 18K uses a purity factor of0.75and 14K uses approximately0.5833or0.585depending on the page. - Other weight units: troy ounces use
31.1035 g, tola uses11.664 g, and tael uses37.429 gwhere shown.
4. No guarantee of accuracy
We do not guarantee that any content, gold price, currency conversion, purity value, formula, output, chart, translation, or calculation on KaratGuide is accurate, complete, current, reliable, or suitable for your purpose. Mistakes, miscalculations, stale data, wrong gold prices, and technical errors can happen.
5. No responsibility for decisions or losses
To the fullest extent permitted by law, KaratGuide and its owners are not responsible or liable for any decision, transaction, loss, damage, missed opportunity, incorrect valuation, purchase, sale, appraisal, or other consequence arising from your use of this website or reliance on any information shown here.
6. Third-party services and links
KaratGuide uses third-party services for price data, analytics, advertising, geolocation, hosting, and other site functions. These services may change, fail, or provide incorrect data. Links to external websites are provided for convenience only; we are not responsible for their content, policies, availability, or accuracy.
7. Availability and changes
We may update, remove, change, or discontinue any page, tool, price feed, calculation, feature, translation, or these terms at any time without notice.
8. Limitation of liability
KaratGuide is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties and exclude liability for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or other damages connected with use of the site.
9. Contact
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