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Terms of Service.

The agreement between you and Clauge for using the desktop application and the optional cloud sync service.

Last updated: May 11, 2026

1. Acceptance of these terms

By downloading, installing, or using Clauge (the "Software") or by creating an account to use Clauge's cloud sync features (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Software or the Service.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Clauge. If you are using Clauge on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

2. The service

Clauge is a cross-platform desktop application for developers, distributed as open-source software. The Service refers to optional features that require a backend, including but not limited to:

  • Authentication via GitHub or Google OAuth
  • Cloud sync of your collections, connections, and saved queries
  • Account profile and identity

The desktop application is free to download and use locally without signing in. The Service is provided free of charge during the current alpha phase. Pricing for premium features may be introduced in the future and will be communicated in advance; existing free-tier behavior will not be revoked retroactively.

3. Your account

To use the Service you sign in via a supported identity provider (currently GitHub or Google). You are responsible for maintaining the security of the third-party account you use to sign in, and for any activity that occurs under your Clauge account.

You must provide accurate information and may not impersonate another person or entity. We may suspend or terminate an account that we reasonably believe is being operated in violation of these Terms.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source of any closed component (the open-source components remain available under their respective licenses)
  • Use the Service in a manner intended to overload, disrupt, or degrade it (including but not limited to automated scraping, denial-of-service attempts, or abusive request volume)
  • Upload content that is illegal, infringing, defamatory, or that contains malware
  • Use the Service to violate the rights of any third party
  • Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the Service, or rebrand the desktop application and offer it as your own product, without a separate written commercial license from us (see Commercial licensing)
  • Bypass authentication, rate limits, or entitlement checks

5. Your content

"Your Content" means the data you create or upload through the Service — including but not limited to your collections, requests, environment variables, connection metadata, scripts, and notes. You retain ownership of Your Content.

You grant Clauge a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, encrypt, and process Your Content solely as necessary to provide the Service to you (for example, to sync it between your devices). This license ends when you delete Your Content or close your account, except as required to comply with law or to retain backups for a reasonable disaster-recovery window.

You are responsible for the legality of Your Content and for ensuring it does not include secrets you would not want stored in our infrastructure. Sensitive secrets (passwords, API keys, private keys) are designed to remain on your device in your operating-system keychain and are never sent to our servers; you are responsible for keeping them there.

6. Source-available license (PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0)

The Clauge desktop application source code is published at github.com/ClaugeHQ/Clauge under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0, a source-available license drafted by Heather Meeker (Open Source Initiative attorney). The full license text is in the LICENSE file of the repository, and at polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0.

In plain language, the license grants you the freedom to use, study, modify, and redistribute Clauge at no cost for any noncommercial purpose — including:

  • Personal use, hobby projects, private entertainment
  • Research, experimentation, and study
  • Academic and educational use
  • Use by charitable organizations, public research institutions, public-health and public-safety organizations, environmental nonprofits, and government institutions (per the License's "Noncommercial Organizations" clause)

The license does not grant rights for commercial use. Any commercial use — by any for-profit entity, regardless of size, and including internal-only deployment within a for-profit company — requires a separate commercial license (see Commercial licensing below).

These Terms govern your use of the hosted Service at clauge.in and any pre-built binaries we distribute. The PolyForm Noncommercial License governs your noncommercial rights to the source code. Where the two conflict for source-code use, the license controls.

Contributions to the project are accepted under the Contributor License Agreement, which grants the maintainer the right to relicense contributions under commercial terms (see Commercial licensing below).

7. Commercial licensing

Any commercial use of Clauge requires a separate commercial license from the maintainer. "Commercial use" includes, without limitation:

  • Any use by, on behalf of, or within a for-profit entity, regardless of size — from solo contractors and two-person startups to large enterprises
  • Internal deployment of Clauge on employee workstations or servers at any for-profit organization
  • Integration of Clauge into a product or service that is sold, licensed, or otherwise offered for value
  • Use of Clauge in connection with paid client work, consulting engagements, or for-profit projects
  • Bundling, embedding, or repackaging Clauge as part of any paid offering

Pricing is structured to be reasonable for organizations of every size. A solo contractor pays meaningfully less than a 50-person engineering team, which in turn pays meaningfully less than a 5,000-person enterprise. We work with each organization individually to find terms that fit the use case. Inquiries via the Enterprise contact form or support@clauge.in.

Commercial licenses typically include priority support, security review assistance, and the option of a private deployment of the sync backend on the licensee's own Cloudflare account. SLAs and volume terms are negotiated per agreement.

Reserved rights — not available under any license

The following two uses of Clauge are reserved by the copyright holder and are NOT available under any commercial license terms. No commercial agreement, present or future, will grant these rights:

  1. Integrating Clauge (or any portion of it) into a closed-source product that is distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise made available to third parties.
  2. Operating any modified version of Clauge as a hosted, managed, or other-as-a-service offering provided to third parties, with or without modification, with or without payment.

These two restrictions are absolute and apply regardless of organization size, payment, or other terms negotiated. They protect Clauge from being repackaged and resold against the maintainer. If your intended use falls under one of these two reservations, no license — commercial or otherwise — is available.

8. Trademark

"Clauge" and the Clauge logo are trademarks of the maintainer. The PolyForm Noncommercial License grants you copyright permissions only; it does not grant any trademark permissions. You may fork the source code (for any noncommercial purpose), but when you publicly distribute a fork you must use a different name and a different logo. You may not use the Clauge name or marks in a way that suggests your fork or product is endorsed by or affiliated with the official Clauge project.

Nominative fair use (e.g., "compatible with Clauge", "import from Clauge") is permitted.

9. Fees

The Service is currently provided at no cost. If paid plans are introduced, separate pricing and billing terms will be presented at the time of purchase. Free-tier users will not be charged retroactively, and any new paid feature will be opt-in.

10. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may delete your account and all associated cloud-stored content via the in-app "Wipe my cloud data" action or by contacting us.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at our discretion if you materially breach these Terms, if your account creates a security or legal risk, or if we are required to do so by law. Where reasonable we will provide notice and a chance to cure.

The desktop application remains usable locally even if your Service account is terminated, subject to the open-source license.

11. Disclaimers

THE SOFTWARE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ACCURACY.

We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from data loss. You are responsible for maintaining your own backups of any critical data.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL CLAUGE, ITS MAINTAINERS, OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING UNDER THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (USD 100).

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Clauge and its maintainers from any claim, demand, loss, or liability (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, or (c) your violation of any applicable law or third-party right.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising under these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Bengaluru, India, except where a mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction provides otherwise.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, by notifying you through the application or by email. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach out at support@clauge.in.