chekd — Terms of Service

1. Acceptance & eligibility

By installing or using chekd — the desktop/CLI software, its cockpit, and its related online services (license delivery, the optional data platform, chekd.net) (together, the “Service”) — you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service. You must be at least 13 (and old enough to form a binding contract where you live, or have a parent/guardian’s consent). If you use chekd for an organization, you represent you have authority to bind it. chekd is operated by [operator legal name — LLC pending; currently a solo developer in Florida, USA] (“chekd”, “we”).

2. What chekd is

chekd is a local-first verification tool that walks web applications you point it at, reports findings (dead/broken/ugly UI, etc.), and — on the paid plan — can apply AI-generated fixes to a separate branch in your own repository. chekd is a developer aid, not a substitute for your own review: AI-generated findings and fixes can be wrong, incomplete, or harmful in context, and you remain responsible for reviewing every finding and every fix before you ship. chekd never commits to your main branch automatically.

3. Your responsibilities

• Authorization. You only run chekd against apps/URLs you own or are explicitly authorized to test. You will not use chekd to scan, probe, or attack systems without authorization — that can be a crime (e.g., under the CFAA) and is entirely on you.
• Review before shipping. You are responsible for the code chekd helps you change. Review fixes before merging; chekd writes to a separate branch precisely so you can.
• Backups & version control. Run chekd’s fix features only in a version-controlled repository. Keep your own backups; a tool that edits code is only as safe as your ability to roll back.
• Keys & credentials. You keep your license key and any account credentials secure and don’t share them (§5).

4. Plans, licenses & what you’re buying

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use chekd per these Terms and your plan. There are two plans:

• Free — the local core, free, no key needed. Unlimited local runs; your corrections are always recorded locally.
• chekd Plus — [$9.99/month] — a recurring subscription for the paid feature set (taste intelligence, the DESIGN lens, FULLFIX apply, the chekd-ON autonomy mode, PR/diff review, and related premium features), governed by §7 (auto-renewal, cancellation). The launch price is Founding Member pricing: members who subscribe at the founding price keep that rate on an active subscription when the list price later rises.
• Promotional / founder keys — time-limited keys we may issue at our discretion (free or discounted). They carry an expiry date and simply stop unlocking paid features on that date. They do not auto-convert into a paid plan and never bill you — when a promo key expires, nothing is charged; you just drop back to the free plan unless you choose to subscribe.

(a) Updates and versions. Your license covers the software as delivered and such updates as we actually publish for your plan. We are a small operation and do not promise any particular update cadence, feature roadmap, or support lifetime.

(b) Restrictions. Don’t resell, sublicense, or redistribute chekd or license keys; don’t circumvent or reverse-engineer the licensing mechanism; don’t remove proprietary notices. Open-source components included with chekd are governed by their own licenses (see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES), which these Terms don’t restrict.

5. License keys — how they work, and what happens if we part ways

chekd license keys are cryptographically signed and verified offline, on your machine — chekd does not phone home to validate your license. That’s a privacy feature with a legal consequence you should understand:

• We cannot remotely disable a key. Once issued, a key will keep passing technical validation until its built-in expiry date (keys without one have none).
• A working key is not the same as a valid license. Your legal right to use paid features comes from these Terms, not from the key validating. If your purchase is refunded, your subscription lapses, or your license is terminated for breach (§15), your license ends even though the key may still technically function — and you agree to stop using paid features and delete the key.
• Keep it secret. Keys are for you (or your organization, per your plan). Publishing a key or sharing it beyond your plan’s scope is a breach we may respond to by refusing future sales, terminating your license, and declining renewal.

6. Payments, billing & taxes

Purchases are processed by LemonSqueezy as Merchant of Record — for the payment transaction, you are buying from LemonSqueezy, and your purchase is also subject to LemonSqueezy’s buyer terms and privacy policy. As MoR, LemonSqueezy handles payment processing, global sales tax/VAT collection, PCI compliance, refund execution, and chargebacks. We never see or store your card number; we receive your email, order ID, and plan so we can deliver your license (see the Privacy Policy §3.2). Prices are as shown at checkout and may change for future purchases at any time; §7 governs price changes to an active subscription.

7. The chekd Plus subscription — auto-renewal, cancellation, reminders

This section applies to the chekd Plus subscription (promo keys never auto-bill).

• It renews automatically. The chekd Plus subscription renews at the end of each billing period (monthly) and your payment method is charged the then-current price for your subscription, until you cancel. The renewal terms (price, period, how to cancel) are disclosed clearly at checkout, and by subscribing you give your express consent to them.
• Cancel anytime, online, in a couple of clicks. You can cancel through the LemonSqueezy customer portal (linked from your receipt and from chekd’s Settings → License) — no phone call, no chat gauntlet, no retention maze. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period; you keep chekd Plus access until then. We don’t do partial-period refunds for cancellation, except where §8 or your local law requires otherwise.
• What you keep after cancellation. Your taste and design artifacts and your correction corpus are local files on your machine, and they stay yours: after cancellation you always retain read and export access to your existing local taste/design artifacts and corpus outputs. Cancellation gates future premium generation, ongoing taste compilation, FULLFIX and higher-autonomy (chekd-ON) runs, and premium orchestration — it never removes or blocks access to your existing local data. See the Refund Policy.
• Founding Member rate. If you subscribed at the Founding Member launch price, that rate is kept for your subscription while it remains active. A cancellation followed by a later re-subscription is at the then-current price.
• Reminders. You’ll receive a renewal reminder at least annually (and before any renewal of a term longer than a month), with the price, the renewal date, and a cancellation link.
• Price changes. If the price of your active subscription changes, we’ll email you before the change takes effect, with enough notice to cancel first (and never less than the notice period your local law requires).
• Lapse. If a renewal payment fails or you cancel, your subscription key stops being licensed at period end (§5 applies).

8. Refunds & the EU/UK right of withdrawal

• 14-day refund policy. If chekd isn’t for you, email [email protected] or contact LemonSqueezy within 14 days of purchase and we’ll refund your first subscription charge, no interrogation. Refunds are executed by LemonSqueezy (the Merchant of Record) back to your original payment method; note that LemonSqueezy also reserves its own right to issue refunds (e.g., to head off a chargeback) within 60 days. The full policy lives at the Refund Policy.
• EU/UK consumers. chekd’s license key is digital content delivered immediately at purchase. By choosing immediate delivery at checkout, you expressly consent to immediate performance and acknowledge that you thereby lose the statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for digital content. Our voluntary 14-day refund policy above stands in regardless, so in practice you lose nothing.
• Effect of a refund. A refund ends your license (§5): the key may still technically validate, but your right to use paid features stops, and you agree to delete the key. Your own local artifacts and corpus remain readable and exportable (§7).
• Renewal charges. Charges for a renewal period you didn’t intend are eligible for refund if you contact us within 14 days of the charge.

9. Data collection — opt-in, and your content license

chekd’s default mode uploads nothing (this is machine-enforced — see the Privacy Policy). If you are on the paid plan and affirmatively turn on data collection (an all-or-nothing switch, off by default and separate from your purchase), then:

• (a) Content license — opted-in data only. You grant chekd a worldwide, royalty-free license to use the data you choose to share (scrubbed app content, findings, and selectors) solely for the purposes named in our Privacy Policy — train-models (improving chekd’s ML models) and owner-analytics. This license applies only to data uploaded while collection is on, and ends for future data when you turn collection off.
• (b) Your representations. You represent and warrant that you have the rights to the content you share and that sharing it with us does not violate any third party’s rights, contract, or law. You will not turn on collection for apps whose content you are not entitled to share.
• (c) Material changes / re-consent. If we materially change what we collect or the purposes we use it for, your existing consent does not carry over — we will ask you to opt in again under the updated policy.

10. Acceptable use

Don’t use chekd to break the law, infringe rights, distribute malware, or test systems you don’t have permission to test. Don’t misrepresent chekd’s output as a certification or audit. We may suspend or terminate access (§15) for violations.

11. Your code, our code

• Yours stays yours. chekd claims no ownership of your applications, repositories, content, findings about your apps, or the fixes applied to your code. Fixes chekd writes into your repository are yours to keep, modify, or discard — including after these Terms end.
• Ours stays ours. chekd, its models, branding, and everything we ship (minus the open-source components under their own licenses) remain our property. These Terms grant use, not ownership.
• Feedback. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without obligation to you.

12. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE. SPECIFICALLY, AND WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING: chekd USES AUTOMATED AND AI-BASED ANALYSIS THAT CAN PRODUCE FALSE POSITIVES, MISS DEFECTS, AND GENERATE INCORRECT OR HARMFUL CODE CHANGES. chekd DOES NOT WARRANT THAT IT WILL FIND EVERY DEFECT, THAT ITS FINDINGS OR FIXES ARE CORRECT OR COMPLETE, OR THAT ITS OUTPUT IS FIT TO SHIP WITHOUT YOUR REVIEW. YOU MUST REVIEW chekd’S OUTPUT BEFORE RELYING ON IT; WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR CODE YOU SHIP. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or guarantees (for example, statutory consumer guarantees in the EU, UK, or Australia); to that extent, those rights are not affected, and these disclaimers apply to the maximum extent permitted.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (a) chekd’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR US $50; AND (b) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION — INCLUDING DAMAGE CAUSED BY CODE CHANGES YOU CHOSE TO MERGE OR DEPLOY. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE LIMITED (SUCH AS LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, OR FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE), AND NOTHING AFFECTS NON-WAIVABLE CONSUMER RIGHTS IN YOUR JURISDICTION.

14. Indemnification

If you use chekd against systems you weren’t authorized to test, ship code without the review these Terms require and it harms someone, share data through the opt-in platform that you had no right to share, or otherwise breach these Terms, you will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from that conduct. This clause does not apply to consumers in jurisdictions that prohibit it.

15. Termination

• By you: stop using chekd at any time; you can also cancel a subscription (§7) or request a refund within the window (§8).
• By us: we may suspend or terminate your license for material breach of these Terms (for example: unauthorized scanning, key sharing, or chargeback abuse). Where practical we’ll notify you at your license email and give you a chance to cure, but we may terminate immediately for serious violations.
• Effect: on termination, your license to paid features ends and you agree to stop using them and delete your key — even though an offline key may still technically validate (§5). Sections that by nature survive (9(a) for already-uploaded data, 11–14, 17, 19) survive termination. Fixes already merged into your code remain yours (§11).

16. Export controls & sanctions

You may not use or download chekd in violation of US export-control or sanctions laws, and you represent you are not on a US restricted-party list or located in an embargoed jurisdiction. (Payment-level geographic blocking is handled by the Merchant of Record.)

17. Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and disputes belong exclusively to the state or federal courts located in Palm Beach County, Florida — except that if you are a consumer, you keep any right your local law gives you to sue (and be sued) at home and to rely on your local mandatory consumer protections. Before either of us files anything, we agree to try good-faith informal resolution first: email [email protected] with a description of the dispute, and give us 30 days to work it out with you.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we’ll give notice (at chekd.net and/or to your license email) at least 14 days before they take effect, and continued use after the effective date is acceptance. Changes are never retroactive: the version in force when you bought governs that purchase, and a material change you don’t accept is grounds to cancel a subscription before its next renewal.

19. Miscellany

• Entire agreement. These Terms plus the Privacy Policy (and, for the payment transaction itself, LemonSqueezy’s buyer terms) are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
• Severability. If a clause is held unenforceable, the rest stands, and the clause is enforced to the maximum extent permitted.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a clause isn’t waiving it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor of the chekd business (e.g., the pending LLC), with notice.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control.

20. Contact

[email protected] · [operator mailing address — TBD; a PO box or registered-agent address is fine, but a real postal address is expected in published terms].