Terms of Service
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and the operator of Cloche (“Cloche,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your use of cloche.dev, your Cloche account, and applications you publish or open through Cloche. By signing in to or using Cloche, you agree to these Terms.
How we handle personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.
1. The Service
Cloche lets you publish web applications you build, including applications built with AI agents, and host them at their own address. You decide who can open each application: specific people, anyone with a share link you create, or the public. We provide the hosting, the address, sign-in, per-user data storage, and the access controls (the “Service”).
2. Eligibility and Accounts
You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service.
If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for it, and “you” includes that organization.
You are responsible for all activity under your account, including keeping access to your sign-in email or Google account secure. Tell us promptly at hi@cloche.dev if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.
You are responsible for any AI agent, connector, or other tool you authorize to act on your account, and for what it does there. We may revoke that access to protect your account or the Service.
3. Beta Service and Fees
The Service is in beta. It is under active development, and it may be unavailable, change, or lose data despite our efforts to prevent that. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.
The Service is currently free. If we introduce fees, we will tell you the price and the terms that apply before any part of the Service you use starts to carry a fee. You will not be charged without your agreement.
4. Your Applications and Content
You keep all rights you have in the applications, code, and content you publish through the Service (“Your Content”).
You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, copy, transmit, run, and display Your Content only as needed to provide the Service to you and the people you give access to, and to keep the Service secure. Our service providers may exercise this license on our behalf for the same purposes. The license ends when you delete Your Content, except for copies that remain for a limited time in backups and logs, as our Privacy Policy describes.
You are responsible for Your Content: what your application does, what it collects, and who you give access to. If your application collects information from its users, you are responsible for giving them any notice and obtaining any consent the law requires. Services your application connects to are governed by your agreement with those services.
We do not routinely review applications, but we may review any application to enforce these Terms or protect the Service and its users.
5. Data We Process for Your Application
When people use your application, Cloche stores and processes their information on your behalf. For that information, you decide what is collected and why, and we act as your processor or service provider. When we process it, we:
- process it only to provide the Service and on your documented instructions, which these Terms, your application’s settings, and your use of the Service make up, unless the law requires otherwise;
- ensure that people we authorize to process it are bound by confidentiality;
- apply the security measures described in our Privacy Policy;
- use only the sub-processors our Privacy Policy names for application information, on terms that protect it at least as well as these Terms, and update that list at least 30 days before a new sub-processor starts processing it, so you can object or close your account;
- help you, where we reasonably can, respond to requests from people exercising their data protection rights and meet your own security and breach obligations;
- notify you without undue delay after we become aware of a personal data breach affecting your application’s information;
- delete the information when you delete the application or your account, subject to the backup retention described in our Privacy Policy; and
- make available the information reasonably needed to show that we meet these obligations.
7. Acceptable Use
You may not use the Service to build, host, or share anything that:
- is unlawful, or promotes or facilitates unlawful activity;
- sexually exploits or endangers children, or contains non-consensual intimate imagery, including synthetic imagery;
- harasses, threatens, or incites violence against any person or group, or promotes terrorism;
- defrauds, phishes, or impersonates any person or organization;
- infringes anyone’s intellectual property or privacy rights;
- distributes malware or sends spam.
You also may not:
- probe, scan, or test the security of the Service or any application without the owner’s permission;
- break or bypass the Service’s access controls, or anyone’s application access controls;
- use the Service for cryptocurrency mining, as an open proxy, VPN, or relay, or to host files mainly for linking from elsewhere;
- place an unreasonable load on the Service, interfere with other people’s use of it, or get around its limits, including by creating accounts to evade a suspension; or
- collect health, payment card, government identification, or other information subject to special regulatory or security requirements, unless we have agreed to it in writing, or knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of the law.
8. Reporting Content
Anyone can report an application or content they believe is unlawful or breaks these Terms by writing to hi@cloche.dev. A report should include the address of the application, an explanation of why the content is unlawful or breaks these Terms, your name and email address, and a statement that you make the report in good faith and that it is accurate and complete. We will confirm receipt, review the report, and tell you what we decided.
A report of copyright infringement should also identify the copyrighted work, state that you own the rights or are authorized to act for the owner, and include your physical or electronic signature. If your content is removed because of a copyright report and you believe that was a mistake, you can reply with an explanation and we will reconsider. We close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
We do not register a designated agent with the United States Copyright Office. Copyright reports are handled through the address above.
9. Suspension and Removal
We may restrict, suspend, or remove an application, or suspend or close an account, if we reasonably believe it breaks these Terms or the law, or puts the Service or other people at risk. When we act, we will tell you what we restricted, why, and which rule it concerns, and how you can contest the decision, unless the law prevents us or telling you would undermine the investigation of serious harm. You can contest any decision by replying to our notice or writing to hi@cloche.dev, and a person will review it.
10. Ending Your Use
You can delete an application from your dashboard at any time. To close your account, write to hi@cloche.dev and we will close it.
If we close your account, we will give you 30 days to export your applications’ data, unless we closed it because of content that sexually exploits children, malware, phishing, or another serious breach that puts people at risk, or the law prevents it. If we stop offering the Service, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and the same opportunity to export.
11. Disclaimers
To the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that data will never be lost. We do not create, review, or endorse applications published by users.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the extent permitted by law, the operator of Cloche will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms.
To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim arose, or 100 US dollars.
These limits do not apply to liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence, or to any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law. Nothing in these Terms affects rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived by contract.
13. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you will compensate us for claims by third parties, and the reasonable costs of defending them, to the extent the claims arise from Your Content or from your breach of these Terms.
14. Changes to the Service and These Terms
We may change the Service as it develops. We may change these Terms to reflect changes to the Service, to the law, or to how we protect the Service and its users. For a material change, we will notify account holders by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, unless a shorter period is required by law or for security. If you do not agree to a change, you can close your account before it takes effect. If you keep using the Service after it takes effect, the updated Terms apply to you. The date at the top shows when these Terms were last updated.
15. Transfer of These Terms
We may transfer these Terms, and the operation of the Service, to a legal entity formed to operate Cloche or to anyone who acquires the Service. We will tell you when that happens, and your rights under these Terms will not be reduced by the transfer. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our written consent.
16. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, and the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo have jurisdiction over disputes arising out of them. If you are a consumer living outside Israel, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim in the courts where you live.
17. General
These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. We are not responsible for failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Sections 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 17 survive the end of your use of the Service.
If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Service, we may use them without obligation to you.
18. Contact
Write to hi@cloche.dev with any question about these Terms. It is our point of contact for users and authorities, and for legal notices. We accept messages in English and Hebrew. We send notices to you at the email address on your account.
Cloche is currently operated from Israel by an individual and is not currently operated by an incorporated legal entity.