Terms of service

TL;DR: Use CookieVault for any lawful purpose on unlimited devices. Don’t phish, impersonate, attack the service, or resell our hosted plan as your own. The service is provided as-is, our liability is capped at 12 months of fees or US$50, and the open-source code is governed separately by the MIT license.

Terms of service are the contract that sets out the rules for using a hosted product — your rights, the limits on those rights, and how disputes are handled. CookieVault’s terms govern the hosted service (the website, accounts, and Pro/Team sync), while the open-source code is governed separately and more permissively by the MIT license, so self-hosters get broader freedoms than the hosted-service rules alone would imply.

Your rights

In short: Use CookieVault broadly and freely — unlimited devices, commercial use, self-hosting, and forking under MIT. The hosted service adds convenience (sync, history, team features); the code gives you independence.

What you are explicitly permitted to do:

1. Install and use the extension on unlimited personal and work devices
2. Use CookieVault for commercial development, QA, and privacy work
3. Enable end-to-end encrypted sync on a Pro or Team plan
4. Self-host the sync server from the open-source code
5. Fork, modify, and redistribute the code under the MIT license
6. Export your data at any time in an open format
7. Cancel at any time, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on first purchase

What you may not do

In short: No phishing, impersonation, fraud, unauthorized access, or attacks on the infrastructure, and no reselling our hosted service as your own. Acceptable-use limits like these are standard; cookie tooling is dual-use, and these rules draw the line at illegal or abusive use.

Cookies are dual-use infrastructure: the same export feature that helps a QA engineer capture a test fixture could, in the wrong hands, move a stolen session. These rules exist to keep the lawful, legitimate uses open while drawing a clear line at abuse.

Liability

In short: The service is provided “as is.” Our total liability for any claim is capped at the greater of the fees you paid in the prior 12 months or US$50. Liability caps like this are normal for software services and keep a small independent team viable, without waiving non-waivable consumer rights.

The limitation, stated plainly:

• The service is provided as is and as available, without express or implied warranties
• Our aggregate liability is capped at the greater of (a) fees you paid in the prior 12 months or (b) US$50
• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages to the extent the law permits
• Nothing here removes rights that consumer-protection law makes non-waivable in your jurisdiction

Changes

In short: We give at least 30 days’ notice of material changes and email subscribers. Using the service after the effective date means you accept the new terms; if you disagree, cancel and export before then.

How changes work:

1. We draft the change and set an effective date at least 30 days out
2. We post the updated terms with a visible change summary and a new lastUpdated date
3. We email Pro and Team subscribers directly
4. You may accept by continuing to use the service, or decline by cancelling and exporting before the effective date

Governing law and disputes

In short: The governing-law and arbitration details are being finalized with counsel and shown here as placeholders. Small-claims actions and intellectual-property claims are excluded from any arbitration requirement.

Governing law and venue will be specified in the counsel-reviewed version. Disputes will be resolved by binding arbitration, except that either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property claims. The MIT license, which carries its own disclaimer of warranty, governs any dispute about the open-source code itself.¹

See also

• Privacy policy — what we collect and your data rights
• Security — how sync data is encrypted end-to-end
• No-sale pledge — our binding commitment never to sell data
• Pricing — Free, Pro, and Team plans and the refund window