Free tier — commercial use and attribution for an ad-supported site

島田旭

Hello,

I run japansnowline.com, a bilingual Japanese/English site publishing daily
snow conditions for 3,108 ski areas in 48 countries. I would like to embed
Windy webcam players on our ski area pages, using the free tier.

I have read the API documentation and the Webcams API terms, but three points
are not covered there, so I would be grateful for clarification.

COMMERCIAL USE
Our site carries display advertising (Google AdSense) and affiliate links
to accommodation booking partners. The pages that would embed the Windy
player are the same pages that carry those ads. Is this permitted on the
free tier, or does an ad-supported site require the Professional tier?
VOLUME
We would embed at most one or two players per ski area page, loaded only
when a visitor clicks to play. Across the site that is potentially a few
thousand pages. Is there a daily or monthly limit on player embeds or API
requests on the free tier that we should design around?
ATTRIBUTION
The terms ask for "Webcams provided by Windy.com" with links to windy.com
and the add-a-webcam page. Should this appear next to each individual
webcam, or is once per page sufficient?

One further note in case it affects your answer: our site is statically
generated and rebuilt once per day, so we cannot use image URLs that expire
after 10–15 minutes. We would only use the player embed, never cached images.

Thank you for your time.

Suty

@島田旭 Hello, regarding to your questions about our Webcams API. It is okay to use the free tier on the same page with your ads.
Regarding to the volume, there is no limit for this.
To the point 3, it is completely okay to mention this once per page, but it is important to mention us as a provider in general.

島田旭

@Suty Hi Suty, thank you for your confirmation! It's understood that I use the API on the free tier in my site.

Suty

@島田旭 Yes, completely understood.