Terms of Service

1. What these terms cover

These terms are an agreement between you and ScoutCode ("ScoutCode", "we") for ScoutCode Cloud: the hosted models the Scout desktop app uses when you pick ScoutCode, with or without an account, the ScoutCode API at scoutcode.dev/v1, the Chat page and your account on scoutcode.dev (together, "the Service").

By using the Service, or by choosing ScoutCode Cloud in the Scout app, you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you use the Service for an organization, you agree for it and confirm you may do so. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Other providers you link in the Scout app, such as OpenRouter, NVIDIA, GitHub Copilot or Kiro, are not part of the Service. Your use of them is between you and them, under their terms.

2. Accounts and keys

You can use some of the Service without an account, with lower limits. If you make an account, keep your password and API keys secret: you are responsible for what is done with them. Tell us promptly if you think one has been misused.

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to agree to these terms where you live, to use the Service.

3. Models and routing

The Service gives you access to AI models run by ScoutCode and by third-party providers. Which models are offered, their limits and their prices can change at any time.

To keep requests working when a model is unavailable, rate limited, slow or over your limits, and to manage cost and capacity, ScoutCode may send any request to a different model or provider than the one you selected, including a different model family, without telling you at the time. The name of the model in a response may not be the model that produced it. If you need a specific model every time, link that provider directly in the Scout app instead.

Model output can be wrong, incomplete, insecure or unlike what another model would produce. Review it before you rely on it, run it or ship it. You are responsible for what you do with it, including commands and edits the Scout app makes on your computer with your permission.

4. Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to break the law or anyone's rights; to make malware or attack systems you are not authorized to test; to harass, defraud or harm people; to generate sexual content involving minors; or in any way that breaks the usage policies of the model providers behind it.

Do not get around limits or access controls, share an account or key to pool limits, resell access without our written permission, scrape the Service, or interfere with its operation. We may limit, suspend or close access that breaks these terms or puts the Service at risk, with or without notice.

5. Your content

You keep the rights you have in what you send ("input") and, as between you and us, in what the models return to you ("output"). You give us permission to process your input and output as needed to run, debug and improve the Service, as the Privacy Policy describes, including keeping traces of requests and sending them to the providers that run the models.

Third-party providers handle requests under their own terms and may retain some of what they receive. Some free models may log prompts or use them to improve their models, so do not send secrets or personal data you are not willing to share.

6. Free use, credit and limits

Free use and account credit come with limits on requests, tokens or spend, which we set and may change. Credit has no cash value, cannot be transferred and may expire. Paid models stop when your credit runs out.

7. Changes and availability

The Service is a preview. We may change, pause or end any part of it, and we do not promise any level of uptime. We may update these terms; if a change is significant we will show it on the site or in the app, and continuing to use the Service afterwards means you accept it.

8. No warranty

The Service and all output are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, ScoutCode is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or revenue, arising from the Service or its output. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of what you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim and USD $50.

Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be waived.

10. Ending

You can stop using the Service at any time, and ask us to delete your account. We may end your access as section 4 describes. Sections 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11 continue after your access ends.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [the jurisdiction ScoutCode operates from], without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If any part of them cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.