Introduction
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and VC Tools Inc (“VC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of the VC desktop and mobile applications, the hosted application at https://app.vce.codes, the account portal at https://portal.vce.codes, and the optional VC Connect service (together, the “Services”), as well as the VC website at https://vce.codes (the “Site”).
By accessing or using the Site or the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you use the Services for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes the organization. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Site or the Services.
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site or the Services. If the law where you live requires a greater age to enter into these Terms, you must meet that requirement or have a parent or legal guardian agree on your behalf.
Accounts
You can use some VC features without a VC account. An account is required for account-backed features, including hosting from the desktop app, VC Connect and paid plans. You agree to provide accurate account information, keep your credentials secure, and promptly tell us if you suspect unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity through your account and connected devices, except to the extent caused by our failure to use reasonable security measures.
You may not share credentials in a way that compromises the Services, impersonate another person, or create accounts through unauthorized automated means. We may require reasonable verification before restoring access or acting on an account request.
Your content and providers
VC can help you send prompts, source files, images, attachments, review comments and instructions to coding-agent harnesses and providers you choose, and display their responses, command output, file changes, source code and diffs (together, “User Content”). You keep all rights you have in your User Content.
You bring and configure your own coding-agent harnesses and providers. Your User Content is ordinarily processed in the environment you control and by the providers you select, not by VC. When you enable a VC-operated feature that must transmit or process User Content, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, transmit, reproduce and process that content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure and troubleshoot that feature. This license ends when the content is no longer needed for those purposes, subject to reasonable backup, security and legal-retention requirements.
You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to use and submit User Content and to direct its processing by the harnesses and providers you select. You are responsible for reviewing those providers’ terms, privacy practices, data controls and output before using them with confidential, proprietary, regulated or personal information.
VC and proprietary rights
VC and its licensors own the Site, the Services, and their branding, designs, hosted infrastructure, documentation and other materials, excluding User Content and third-party materials. These Terms do not transfer ownership of either party’s intellectual property.
Portions of VC are distributed as open-source software. Your use, copying, modification and distribution of that software are governed by the license that accompanies it. These Terms govern your use of the hosted Services and do not limit rights an applicable open-source license grants you.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Services for lawful personal or internal business purposes. You may not use our trademarks, service marks or trade dress without written permission.
Acceptable use
You may not use the Site or the Services to:
- Violate applicable law or another person’s rights;
- Upload, transmit or generate content you do not have the right to use;
- Distribute malware, exploit code or harmful content, except in authorized security work;
- Probe, attack, disrupt or gain unauthorized access to the Services or another system;
- Bypass rate limits, access controls, security measures, plan limits or usage restrictions;
- Interfere with other users or place an unreasonable load on shared infrastructure;
- Facilitate fraud, harassment, abuse or deceptive conduct; or
- Misrepresent that output or activity from a third-party agent was produced or endorsed by us.
Authorized security research must follow our Security Policy. We may investigate suspected violations and take proportionate action to protect users and the Services.
Availability and changes
We may add, change, suspend or discontinue features, integrations or supported platforms. We aim to give reasonable notice when a change materially reduces a paid or account-backed feature, but urgent security, legal or reliability changes may take effect immediately. The Services may be unavailable because of maintenance, provider outages, network conditions or events outside our control.
VC depends on software, environments, networks and coding-agent providers that you configure or that third parties operate. We do not control their availability, compatibility, pricing or behavior.
Plans, fees and payment
You can use VC on the free plan without charge. Paid plans add features such as managed tunnels, more environments and agent teams. Current plans and prices are shown on our Pricing page and in the account portal.
When you buy a paid plan, you authorize us and our payment provider to charge the price shown at checkout, including applicable taxes, for each billing period until you cancel. Paid plans renew at the end of each billing period unless cancelled. Price changes apply to future billing periods, and we will tell you before they take effect.
You can cancel at any time in the account portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, and you keep your plan’s features until then. If a renewal payment fails, your subscription becomes past due and the portal shows a warning so you can resolve it. If you believe you were charged in error, open a support ticket; refunds we issue appear in your payment history.
You remain responsible for charges from your coding-agent providers, cloud infrastructure, network operators, app stores and other third parties.
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how VC collects, uses and shares personal information when you use the Site and the Services. Third-party environments, harnesses, identity providers and coding-agent providers process information under their own terms and privacy policies.
Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Services at any time. You can disconnect environments and devices from within VC and ask us to delete your account as described in our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate access to account-backed or hosted features if we reasonably believe you materially violated these Terms, created a security or legal risk, failed to pay an applicable fee, or used the Services in a way that could harm other users or shared infrastructure. When practicable, we will give notice and an opportunity to fix the problem. We may act immediately where needed to prevent harm or comply with law.
Provisions that by their nature should survive termination, including ownership, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification and dispute terms, will survive.
Beta services
VC is an early-stage product, and some features may be labeled alpha, beta, preview, experimental or pre-release (“Beta Services”). Beta Services may be incomplete, change without notice, contain errors or lose data. Do not rely on Beta Services as the only copy of important work, and review proposed commands and file changes before applying them.
Disclaimers
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Coding agents and artificial-intelligence systems can produce incorrect, insecure, incomplete or harmful output. You are responsible for reviewing output, commands, patches and other actions before relying on or executing them. We do not warrant that the Services or third-party output will be uninterrupted, secure, accurate, error-free or suitable for your purpose.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.
Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, VC AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SITE, THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising from or relating to the Site, the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of USD 100 or the amount you paid us for the Services in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless VC and its affiliates, officers, employees and agents from third-party claims, damages, losses and reasonable legal fees arising from your User Content, your use of the Site or the Services in violation of these Terms or law, or your infringement of another person’s rights. We will promptly notify you of a covered claim and reasonably cooperate in its defense. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault by us or imposes obligations on us without our written consent.
Copyright complaints
If you believe material available through a VC-operated part of the Site or the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] identifying the copyrighted work, the allegedly infringing material and its location, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief, a statement that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act, and your physical or electronic signature.
VC does not control content stored only in a user’s environment or held by a user-selected provider. Requests about that material should go to the operator that hosts it.
Third-party services
The Services may connect to or display content from third-party coding agents, model providers, identity and payment providers, repositories, app stores, websites and infrastructure. Your use of those services is governed by their terms. We do not endorse or control third-party services and are not responsible for their content, security, availability, output or data practices.
Third-party and open-source software included with VC is governed by its license notices. Where those licenses conflict with these Terms for that software, the open-source license controls.
Feedback
If you send us ideas, suggestions or other feedback about VC, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use and commercialize that feedback without restriction or compensation. This does not transfer ownership of your User Content.
Governing law and disputes
Before starting a formal proceeding, the party raising a dispute must send written notice describing the dispute and the relief requested. Notices to us must be sent to [email protected]. Both parties will try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the country where VC Tools Inc is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to any mandatory rights you have as a consumer where you live, disputes that are not resolved informally will be decided by the competent courts of the country where VC Tools Inc is established.
Miscellaneous
These Terms and the documents they refer to are the entire agreement between you and us about the Site and the Services. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be changed to the minimum extent necessary or removed, and the rest of these Terms will stay in effect.
Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Headings are for convenience only, and “including” means “including without limitation.”
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms at this address and update the dates above. If a change materially affects your rights, we will give additional notice when reasonably practicable or when the law requires it. Changes apply from their effective date. Continuing to use the Site or the Services after that date means you accept the updated Terms.
Contact us
If you have questions about these Terms, contact VC Tools Inc at [email protected].