Terms of Service

Last updated: [DATE]

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of playship - the CLI, the web dashboard at this domain, and the services they connect to (together, the "Service"), operated by [YOUR NAME OR ENTITY] ("playship," "we," "us"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

1. What the Service does

playship has two parts:

• Build - generates a web app from a short description of your idea using a third-party AI model, and deploys it to a Firebase Hosting project that you connect and control. playship does not host your generated app on its own infrastructure.
• Play Store tooling - automates store listing creation, build uploads, staged rollouts, and in-app billing product setup for an Android app, using the real Google Play Developer API against a Google Play Console account and service account credentials that you provide and control.

playship is a tool that takes actions you direct - it does not independently decide to publish, charge, or act on your behalf without a request from you (or an API call made under your credentials) triggering it.

2. Accounts

• You must provide a real, working email address and verify it before your account is usable - this exists specifically to prevent abuse of free usage limits, and unverified accounts cannot log in.
• You're responsible for keeping your password confidential and for all activity under your account. Tell us immediately if you believe your account has been compromised.
• You must be legally able to enter into this agreement (generally, 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live) to create an account.
• One account per person. Don't create accounts to work around free-tier limits.

3. Your credentials and third-party accounts

Build and Play Store tooling both work by connecting your own accounts and credentials - a Google Play Console service account, a Firebase service account, optionally your own Anthropic API key. playship encrypts these at rest (AES-256-GCM) and uses them only to make the specific API calls you request. You're responsible for:

• Only granting playship the permissions it actually needs (the setup guides describe the minimum scopes).
• Complying with Google's, Firebase's, and Anthropic's own terms of service for whatever those credentials are used to do.
• Revoking a credential (in the Google Cloud Console, Firebase Console, or Anthropic Console) if you want to cut off playship's access immediately - deleting it from your playship account is not the only lever you have.

4. Subscriptions, credits, and billing

• Some features require a paid plan or Build credits, billed through Stripe. playship does not store your card details - Stripe does.
• Subscriptions renew automatically each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from the dashboard or by deleting your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then.
• Build credits (whether from the free signup grant, a monthly subscription allotment, or a top-up purchase) are non-transferable, have no cash value, and are forfeited if your account is deleted or terminated.
• Refunds: [DEFAULT: purchases and subscription charges are non-refundable except where required by law. Decide whether you want a different policy - e.g. a short refund window on first-time subscriptions - and replace this bracket before publishing.]
• A CLI Pro license purchased through this site's checkout is a separate Stripe subscription from the dashboard's Build subscription - see the pricing page for what each includes.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to generate or publish content that's illegal, infringing, or that you don't have the right to create or distribute.
• Attempt to circumvent rate limits, credit metering, or the email verification requirement (including by creating multiple accounts for that purpose).
• Probe, scan, or attack the Service's infrastructure, or attempt to access another user's data or account.
• Use the Service to build something that violates Google Play's, Apple's, Stripe's, or Anthropic's own policies - you're responsible for your generated app and published listing complying with the platforms you publish to.
• Resell or provide the Service to third parties as your own product without our written permission.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section, including by disabling the Service platform-wide temporarily if we believe it's necessary to investigate abuse (see our README's documented maintenance-mode kill switch, which disables new signups, checkouts, and Anthropic-spend-incurring actions without taking existing users' data offline).

6. Your content

You own what you generate with Build - the app code, the store listing copy, everything produced from your inputs. We don't claim ownership of it, and every generated version is downloadable as plain HTML/CSS/JS with no lock-in. We may process your inputs and outputs as needed to provide the Service (e.g., sending your idea description to the AI model that generates the app - see the Privacy Policy for what's shared with whom).

7. Third-party services

The Service relies on and sends data to:

• Anthropic (Claude API) - to generate apps, check ideas for competition, and draft launch posts. Your idea descriptions and revision instructions are sent to Anthropic to do this.
• Google (Play Developer API, Firebase Hosting API) - to publish your app and its listing, using your own connected credentials.
• Stripe - to process payments.
• Resend - to deliver transactional emails (verification, password reset, receipts).

Your use of the Service is also subject to those providers' own terms.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that AI-generated content will be accurate, appropriate, or fit for any particular purpose - review everything Build generates before publishing or relying on it.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, playship and its operator won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim arising from these Terms or the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or $100 if you haven't paid us anything.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold playship harmless from any claim arising from your use of the Service, your generated content, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

11. Termination

You can delete your account anytime from the dashboard's Account panel - this is self-service and immediate. We may suspend or terminate your access for violating these Terms, non-payment, or if required by law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification) do.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service changes. We'll update the date at the top of this page; continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms. For material changes, we'll make a reasonable effort to notify active users by email.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [YOUR STATE/COUNTRY], without regard to conflict-of-law principles. [Add an arbitration clause or venue selection here if you want one - talk to a lawyer about whether that's worth doing at this stage.]

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: bowwerick@playship.dev