Terms of Use

About these terms

Makeship is a service of Cereal Digital, LLC, doing business as Makeship ("Makeship", "we", "us"). By creating an account, publishing an app, or continuing into an app as a guest or with your email, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use Makeship.

You must be 18 or older to use Makeship, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher. If you use it for a company or other organization, you agree for that organization and confirm you're allowed to. If your organization has signed a separate agreement with us, that agreement applies wherever it differs from these terms.

Two words come up throughout: a creator publishes an app on Makeship, and a user uses an app a creator published.

What Makeship is

Makeship publishes small web apps. Each app gets its own address, a place to save what people add to it, and sign-in for the people who use it. Makeship is built for apps you make for yourself and people you know. Our docs describe what it can and can't do, including its limits.

Makeship is in alpha. Features will change, some will be removed, and things will sometimes break. Keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose. We may change, pause or stop any part of Makeship, and where we reasonably can we'll tell you first.

Your account

• Give us accurate information, including an email address you control, and keep it current. Your email is how you sign in and how we reach you.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account, including anything done with API tokens you create or by an AI assistant you connect to it. Tell us straight away if you think someone else has access.
• Don't share an account, and don't open one for someone else without their permission.
• Your handle appears on your apps' addresses and labels. We may change or take back a handle that impersonates someone, uses a name you have no right to, or breaks these terms.

If you publish an app

Your app stays yours

You keep ownership of the files, text, pictures and code you upload ("your content"). You give us permission to host, store, copy, display, distribute and adapt your content, only as needed to run, secure and improve Makeship. Adapting includes changes that make an app work here, such as connecting it to Makeship's storage, and checking uploads automatically. We may pass this permission to the companies that help us run Makeship, for that purpose only.

This permission is worldwide, non-exclusive and free of charge. It ends within a reasonable time after you delete the content or the app, apart from copies in backups and anything the law requires us to keep.

You're responsible for it

• You must have the right to everything in your app, including anything an AI tool wrote or made for you.
• Your app, and what you do with what users add to it, must follow the law and these terms.
• You decide who can open your app, and you're responsible for those choices and for the people you invite.
• If your app collects personal information, you're responsible for it under the privacy laws that apply to you. Tell your users what you collect and why, and use it only for the app. You can see users' details in the dashboard. Don't use them for anything your users wouldn't expect.
• If you add a key for another service as a Connection, you're responsible for that key, for what your app does with it and for that service's charges.
• If you use your own domain, you must control it.

The label

Before an app opens for the first time, Makeship shows users a label with the app's name, its description and your handle. You agree to that label being shown, and your app must not hide, imitate or contradict it.

If you use an app

• Apps are made by individual creators, not by Makeship. We check uploads for certain risks, but we don't review, endorse or guarantee apps, and we aren't responsible for what an app says or does.
• Never enter a password or payment details into an app on Makeship. If an app asks for them, leave and report it with the link on its label.
• The creator controls their app. They can see what you add, limit who gets in, and remove you or your content.
• You keep ownership of what you add to an app. You give the creator and us permission to store and display it so the app can work, including showing it to the app's other users where the app is set up that way.
• A guest account lives in your browser and is deleted, along with what you added, after 90 days without opening the app. Add your email if you want to keep it.

What's not allowed

Don't use Makeship, or let your app be used, to:

• Phish, or pretend to be a real company, person or sign-in page.
• Ask people for passwords to other services, payment card details, or wallet recovery phrases.
• Spread malware, or get people to download or install harmful software.
• Harass, threaten or expose anyone, or publish someone's private information.
• Send spam, run scams, or mislead people about what an app is or who is behind it.
• Break the law, or publish content that is illegal, that sexually exploits children, or that infringes someone's copyright, trademark or other rights.
• Collect or store sensitive information, such as health records, government ID numbers or financial account numbers.
• Publish an app aimed at people under 18, or knowingly collect information from them.
• Upload secret keys, password files, or server programs.
• Get around plan limits, user limits, bans, upload checks or the separation between apps, or reach data that isn't yours.
• Overload, probe or disrupt Makeship, or collect data from it in bulk.
• Use the built-in AI to produce anything on this list, or use it outside the app it belongs to.
• Resell Makeship or offer it to others as your own hosting service.

You also can't use Makeship if United States law bars us from serving you, for example because you are in a country under a US embargo or are on a US government list of restricted parties.

How we keep things safe

We check every upload automatically before it goes live. An upload can be stopped, or held until a person on our team reviews it. Anyone can report an app, and we review reports.

If we believe an app or account breaks these terms or puts people at risk, we may hold or reject an upload, pause or remove an app, remove content, or suspend or close an account. When it's safe and practical we'll tell you why, and you can appeal by writing to hello@makeship.ai. We may report illegal activity to the authorities, and we report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as the law requires.

Plans and payment

• Plans. Makeship has a free plan and paid plans. Each has limits on apps, users and storage, shown on our pricing. When an app reaches a limit it may stop accepting new users or new uploads until you make room or change plan. We may change or end the free plan, and we'll tell you before we do.
• Payment and renewal. A paid plan renews automatically every month until you cancel. When you subscribe, you authorize us to charge your payment method, through Stripe, the price shown when you subscribed, in advance each month, and any taxes that apply. Business workspaces pay a monthly price plus charges for use beyond what's included, up to the spending cap the workspace's admin sets.
• Cancelling. You can cancel online at any time from the Billing page of the dashboard. Your plan stays active until the end of the month you've paid for. You aren't charged again, and after that the free plan's limits apply.
• Refunds. Payments aren't refundable, and we don't give credit for part of a month, unless the law requires it.
• Failed payments. If a payment fails we'll email you. If it isn't fixed, your paid plan ends.
• Price changes. We may change prices or what a plan includes. For a paid plan, we'll email you at least 30 days before the change applies to you.
• Taxes. Prices don't include taxes. Where tax applies, it's added to what you pay.

AI and other services

• Built-in AI. Some apps can ask an AI model questions through Makeship. A third-party provider runs the model, we choose the model and limit its use, and its answers can be wrong. Don't rely on them for anything important without checking.
• Connections. When an app calls another service with a creator's key, that service's own terms apply to the call. We aren't responsible for other companies' services.
• AI assistants. You can use Makeship through an AI assistant such as Claude. Claude is a product of Anthropic. Makeship is independent of Anthropic and of the other services it works with, and they aren't responsible for Makeship.

What's ours

Makeship's software, design, name and logo belong to us. These terms give you the right to use Makeship, and nothing more: no ownership of it, and no right to copy it or use our name as if it were yours.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely and without owing you anything.

Copyright complaints

We respond to copyright complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). If you believe something on Makeship infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated copyright agent with:

• your signature, physical or electronic;
• the work you say was copied;
• the address of the app or page where the copy is;
• your name, postal address, phone number and email;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or act for the owner.

Copyright Compliance Department
Cereal Digital, LLC (Makeship)
21 Reagan Run Ct, Arden, NC 28704
Phone: 707-583-9774
Email: webmaster@trycereal.com

When we receive a complete notice we remove or disable the material and tell the creator. A creator who believes the material was removed by mistake can send our copyright agent a counter-notice with their signature, the material and where it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that they believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification, their name, address and phone number, and their consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for their address (or, outside the United States, for ours) and to accept service from the person who complained. We may then restore the material as the law allows.

Anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is or isn't infringing can be liable for damages. We close the accounts of people who infringe repeatedly.

Ending things

You can stop using Makeship at any time. Creators can delete their apps in the dashboard and can ask us to close their account. Users can delete their data from an app's account button.

We may suspend or close your account, or remove an app, if you break these terms, if we must by law, if your use puts Makeship or other people at risk, or if we stop offering Makeship. Unless the reason is a serious breach or a legal requirement, we'll give you notice and a chance to download your data first.

When an account or app is closed, its files and data are deleted as our Privacy Policy describes. The sections of these terms that by their nature should outlast the agreement do so, including what's ours, no warranties, limits on liability, claims about your app, and disputes.

No warranties

Makeship is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We don't promise that Makeship will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, that data will never be lost, or that any app is safe, lawful or works as described.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Makeship and its owners, employees and suppliers are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill.

Our total liability for all claims about Makeship or these terms is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose and 100 US dollars.

These limits apply to every kind of claim, whether it is based on contract, negligence or another tort, a statute or anything else. They apply even if we were told the damage was possible, and even if a remedy in these terms doesn't fully make up for your loss.

Some places don't allow some of these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or for anything else the law doesn't allow to be limited.

Claims about your app

To the extent the law allows, if someone brings a claim against us because of your app, your content, your use of Makeship or your breach of these terms, you'll cover our resulting losses and costs, including reasonable legal fees. We'll tell you about the claim promptly and may take over its defense, in which case you'll help us where we reasonably ask.

Disputes and arbitration

Talk to us first

If you have a dispute with us, email hello@makeship.ai with your name, what happened and what you'd like us to do. We'll do the same if we have a dispute with you. Each of us will try in good faith to settle it within 30 days before starting anything formal.

Arbitration

If we can't settle it, you and Makeship agree to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to these terms or Makeship through final and binding arbitration. By agreeing to arbitration, you and Makeship each give up the right to have the dispute decided by a judge or jury in court. This covers disputes of every kind, including ones that arose before you accepted these terms.

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) will run the arbitration under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, which are at adr.org, before one arbitrator. It can take place by phone, by video, on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live. The AAA's consumer fee schedule decides who pays its fees. We won't ask you to pay our legal fees unless the arbitrator finds your claim was frivolous. The arbitrator can award the same remedies a court could award to you individually, and the award can be entered as a judgment in any court with jurisdiction.

The arbitrator decides whether a dispute must be arbitrated, except that only a court can decide whether the "No class actions" paragraph below can be enforced. If the AAA can't or won't run the arbitration, you and we will choose another arbitration provider together, or a court will appoint one. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

No class actions

You and Makeship can bring claims against each other only as individuals, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative action, and the arbitrator can't combine more than one person's claims. If the law doesn't allow this limit for a particular claim or remedy, such as a request for an injunction that protects the public, that claim or remedy is decided in court after the arbitration ends, and everything else stays in arbitration.

Exceptions

• Either of us can bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies.
• Either of us can ask a court for an order to stop misuse of intellectual property or unauthorized access to Makeship.

Opting out

You can opt out of arbitration by emailing hello@makeship.ai with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Include your name and the email address on your account. If you were already using Makeship when these terms first took effect, your 30 days run from the day we told you about them. Opting out doesn't affect any other part of these terms.

Governing law and courts

The laws of the State of North Carolina govern these terms, apart from its rules on conflicts of law. Any dispute that isn't arbitrated will be heard only in the state or federal courts located in North Carolina, and you and Makeship agree to the jurisdiction of those courts.

If you live outside the United States, the consumer-protection laws of your country that can't be waived by agreement still protect you, and this section applies only as far as those laws allow.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we'll change the date at the top, and for significant changes we'll email creators at least 14 days before the change takes effect. If you keep using Makeship after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms. If you don't accept them, stop using Makeship. A change to the disputes section doesn't apply to a dispute we already knew about, and you can reject such a change by emailing us within 30 days of it taking effect, in which case the earlier version of that section keeps applying to you.

General

• These terms, the Privacy Policy and the limits of the plan you're on are the whole agreement between you and us about Makeship.
• If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don't enforce a term, we can still enforce it later.
• You can't transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. We can transfer ours to a company that takes over Makeship.
• We may send you notices by email or by posting them in the dashboard, and you agree that notices sent that way count as written notice.
• These terms don't make you and us partners or agents of each other, and they give no rights to anyone else.
• We aren't responsible for a failure or delay caused by something outside our reasonable control.

Questions about these terms go to hello@makeship.ai, or to Cereal Digital, LLC (Makeship), 50 Fair Oaks Est, Fletcher, NC 28732.