Terms of Use for Code Helper

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Code Helper mobile application, website, software, APIs, tools, services, content, support channels, and related products collectively referred to as the “Service.”

The Service is operated by Code Helper, also the company name (“Code Helper,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Contact:

Email: tobiasgroth0@icloud.com

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, or older if required by the laws of your country.

If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Service only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.

By using the Service, you represent that:

You meet the age requirements.
You have legal capacity to agree to these Terms.
Your use of the Service complies with applicable law.
You are not prohibited from using the Service under applicable sanctions, export control, or other laws.

2. Description of the Service

Code Helper provides software-related tools and assistance, which may include:

Code explanations.
Debugging help.
Programming education.
Error analysis.
Code generation or suggestions.
Documentation assistance.
Productivity tools.
Developer support features.
Other coding-related services.

The Service may use automated systems, artificial intelligence, third-party infrastructure, and other technologies to process user inputs and generate outputs.

3. No Professional Advice

The Service is provided for informational, educational, and productivity purposes only.

Code Helper does not provide legal, financial, cybersecurity, professional engineering, or other regulated professional advice. Any technical suggestions, code, explanations, or outputs should be independently reviewed, tested, and validated.

You are solely responsible for decisions made based on the Service.

4. Accounts

You may need to create an account to access certain features.

You agree to:

Provide accurate and current information.
Keep your login credentials secure.
Not share your account with unauthorized users.
Notify us promptly of unauthorized access.
Accept responsibility for all activity under your account.

We may suspend or terminate your account if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, or used the Service unlawfully.

5. User Content

“User Content” means any content you submit, upload, transmit, paste, type, generate, store, or otherwise provide through the Service, including code, text, files, logs, prompts, screenshots, project descriptions, comments, and feedback.

You retain ownership of your User Content, subject to the license granted below.

You represent and warrant that:

You own or have the necessary rights to submit your User Content.
Your User Content does not violate laws or third-party rights.
Your User Content does not contain malware, harmful code, or unlawful material.
You will not submit confidential, proprietary, regulated, or sensitive information unless you are authorized to do so.

6. License You Grant to Code Helper

By submitting User Content, you grant Code Helper a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, display, analyze, modify, and use your User Content as necessary to:

Provide the Service.
Generate responses and outputs.
Maintain and secure the Service.
Troubleshoot, debug, and improve functionality.
Enforce these Terms.
Comply with law.
Develop and improve the Service, where permitted by law and applicable settings.

This license lasts for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfill the purposes described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

7. Outputs

The Service may generate code, explanations, text, suggestions, or other outputs in response to your inputs.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Code Helper assigns to you any rights we may have in outputs generated specifically for you, to the extent permitted by law. However:

Outputs may not be unique.
Other users may receive similar or identical outputs.
Outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, insecure, outdated, or unsuitable.
Outputs may require testing, review, correction, licensing checks, or security analysis.
Outputs may include references to third-party concepts, APIs, packages, libraries, or code patterns.

You are solely responsible for using, reviewing, testing, and validating outputs before relying on them or incorporating them into any project.

8. Code, Security, and Development Risks

You acknowledge that software development involves risk.

Code Helper does not guarantee that any code or recommendation:

Is correct.
Is secure.
Is free from vulnerabilities.
Is suitable for production.
Complies with your project requirements.
Complies with third-party licenses.
Avoids infringement.
Works with your environment, dependencies, or infrastructure.
Meets industry standards.

Before using any output, you should review it, test it, scan it for vulnerabilities, verify licenses, and ensure it meets your needs.

9. Prohibited Uses

You may not use the Service to:

Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right.
Infringe copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy rights, or other rights.
Upload or distribute malware, spyware, ransomware, worms, viruses, or destructive code.
Gain unauthorized access to systems, accounts, data, networks, or devices.
Conduct phishing, credential theft, fraud, spam, or social engineering.
Generate or facilitate harmful, abusive, deceptive, or illegal content.
Harass, threaten, defame, or harm others.
Reverse engineer, scrape, overload, disrupt, or attack the Service.
Bypass access controls, rate limits, subscriptions, or security features.
Misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
Use the Service to build a competing product by copying protected aspects of the Service.
Submit sensitive personal data or confidential third-party data without authorization.
Use outputs without checking applicable licenses and obligations.
Use the Service in high-risk systems where failure could cause death, injury, severe damage, or major legal harm.

10. High-Risk Use Restrictions

You may not use the Service as the sole basis for decisions or systems involving:

Medical diagnosis or treatment.
Legal decisions.
Financial or investment decisions.
Employment, housing, credit, insurance, or eligibility decisions.
Critical infrastructure.
Weapons or military targeting.
Emergency services.
Aviation, transportation safety, or life-critical systems.
Any other use where failure could cause serious harm.

Any such use is at your sole risk and requires independent professional review.

11. Intellectual Property

The Service, including software, design, interfaces, logos, trademarks, text, graphics, features, workflows, and underlying technology, is owned by Code Helper or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws.

Except as expressly allowed by these Terms, you may not:

Copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or sublicense the Service.
Reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code.
Remove proprietary notices.
Use Code Helper’s branding without permission.
Create derivative works based on protected parts of the Service.

The name Code Helper, logos, and related branding are trademarks or trade names of Code Helper. You may not use them without prior written permission.

12. Feedback

If you provide suggestions, ideas, bug reports, improvements, or other feedback, you grant Code Helper a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, modify, commercialize, and incorporate that feedback without restriction or compensation.

13. Subscriptions, Payments, and Billing

The Service may offer free and paid features.

If you purchase a subscription, in-app purchase, or paid feature, you agree to pay all applicable fees, taxes, and charges.

Payments may be processed by third-party providers, app stores, or payment platforms. Their terms may also apply.

Unless otherwise stated:

Fees are charged in advance.
Subscriptions may renew automatically.
You are responsible for canceling before renewal.
Refunds are not guaranteed except where required by law or platform policy.
Prices and features may change with notice where required.

If payment fails, we may suspend or limit access to paid features.

14. Trials and Promotions

We may offer free trials, promotional plans, discounts, or beta access. These offers may be subject to additional terms and may be modified or discontinued at any time.

At the end of a trial, you may be charged unless you cancel before the trial expires, where applicable.

15. Beta Features

We may offer beta, experimental, preview, or early-access features. These features may be incomplete, unstable, inaccurate, or discontinued at any time.

Beta features are provided “as is” and may be subject to additional restrictions.

16. Third-Party Services

The Service may link to or integrate with third-party services, including:

App stores.
Payment processors.
Cloud providers.
Code repositories.
Package registries.
APIs.
Documentation websites.
Authentication providers.
Analytics tools.

We are not responsible for third-party services. Your use of third-party services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

17. Open-Source Software

The Service may include or interact with open-source software. Open-source components are governed by their own licenses.

You are responsible for complying with any open-source license obligations that apply to code, packages, libraries, or outputs you use.

18. App Store Terms

If you download the Service from an app store, such as the Apple App Store or Google Play, you agree to comply with the applicable app store terms.

The app store provider may not be responsible for support, maintenance, claims, or liabilities related to the Service except as required by applicable law or platform terms.

19. Availability and Changes

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service at any time.

We do not guarantee that the Service will be:

Available at all times.
Error-free.
Secure.
Compatible with all devices.
Free from data loss.
Uninterrupted.
Suitable for your needs.

We may impose limits on usage, storage, features, or access.

20. Support

We may provide support through email or other channels. Support availability, response times, and scope are not guaranteed unless expressly stated in a separate agreement.

Support contact:

tobiasgroth0@icloud.com

21. Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you acknowledge that we collect, use, and share information as described in the Privacy Policy.

22. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access if:

You violate these Terms.
You create risk or legal exposure.
Your use may harm the Service or others.
Required by law.
Your account is inactive for an extended period.
Payment fails for paid features.

After termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, dispute resolution, and payment obligations.

23. Disclaimers

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Code Helper disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including:

Warranties of merchantability.
Fitness for a particular purpose.
Non-infringement.
Accuracy.
Reliability.
Availability.
Security.
Error-free operation.
Suitability of generated code or outputs.

We do not warrant that the Service or outputs will meet your requirements or that defects will be corrected.

24. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Code Helper and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, agents, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for:

Indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages.
Lost profits.
Lost revenue.
Lost data.
Business interruption.
Loss of goodwill.
Security breaches not caused by our willful misconduct.
Errors, vulnerabilities, or defects in code or outputs.
Your reliance on the Service or outputs.
Third-party services or content.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Code Helper’s total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:

The amount you paid to Code Helper for the Service in the three months before the claim arose; or
USD $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some limitations may not apply to you.

25. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Code Helper and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, agents, licensors, and service providers from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from:

Your use of the Service.
Your User Content.
Your outputs or use of outputs.
Your violation of these Terms.
Your violation of law.
Your violation of third-party rights.
Your misuse of code, data, credentials, APIs, or third-party services.

26. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [Governing Law / Country / State], without regard to conflict of law principles.

If you are a consumer, you may have mandatory rights under the laws of your country that cannot be waived by these Terms.

27. Dispute Resolution

Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at tobiasgroth0@icloud.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally.

If the dispute cannot be resolved informally, disputes will be resolved in the courts located in [Jurisdiction / Venue], unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Optional arbitration clause, if you want one:

“Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding arbitration under the rules of [Arbitration Provider], except that either party may bring claims in small claims court or seek injunctive relief for intellectual property or unauthorized access claims.”

Use this arbitration clause only after legal review.

28. Export Control and Sanctions

You may not use, export, re-export, or transfer the Service except as permitted by applicable law.

You represent that you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in a country or region subject to comprehensive sanctions, and that you are not listed on any prohibited or restricted party list.

29. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If changes are material, we may provide notice through the Service, by email, or by other reasonable means. Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service.

30. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent.

We may assign or transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, reorganization, or by operation of law.

31. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

32. No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

33. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms that apply to specific features, form the entire agreement between you and Code Helper regarding the Service.

34. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact:

Code Helper