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Chobit Terms of Service

Effective date: 2026-05-26 Last updated: 2026-05-26

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Chobit Service provided by [OPERATOR_NAME], established in [COUNTRY] ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms.

If you use Chobit in local mode (self-hosted on your own hardware), these Terms apply only to the cloud-managed services (tailnet control plane, push notifications, email delivery, billing). The companion itself runs entirely on your machine under your control.

These Terms should be read together with the Privacy Policy.

0. Nature of the Service

Chobit is a private AI inference pipeline, not a public platform or content network.

Each account runs a single private companion. Your enrolled devices (phone, tablet, desktop) connect to the companion through an end-to-end encrypted Tailnet tunnel — the companion's data is addressed to your devices only, not broadcast to a public audience.

In hosted mode, the companion runs on the operator's VPS. The operator's server is a relay: it receives E2E-encrypted data from your devices, dispatches inference to a GPU provider (RunPod), and returns the result to your devices. The operator never serves your companion's data to any third party other than the GPU provider acting as a compute processor.

In local mode, the companion runs on your own GPU workstation. Inference is entirely local. The operator's cloud manages your tailnet, push notifications, and billing — but does not host your companion's data or inference.

We are a data processor for all tenant data (chat, memory, persona, configuration). The user is the data controller. This classification applies in both hosted and local modes.

You must be an adult to use the Service. See the Privacy Policy for the minimum age that applies to you.

2. Your data and your content

You own everything you put into the Service: your prompts, your configuration, your persona text, your integration tokens, and your chat history. We do not claim any license to it beyond what is strictly necessary to operate the Service for you.

You are solely responsible for:

  • The content you submit to the Service (prompts, files, configuration).
  • Anything your companion generates on your behalf.
  • How you use, store, share, publish, or otherwise act on the companion's outputs, including outputs delivered to third-party platforms (e.g. Discord, Telegram) through integrations you have configured.
  • Ensuring you have the rights to whatever you feed into the Service and the right to use whatever comes out.

You agree not to use the Service to do anything unlawful, to infringe anyone's rights, or to abuse the Service infrastructure.

3. Generated media is not persisted

Generated media assets (images, audio, video, and any other binary artifacts produced by inference) are ephemeral. Once an asset is transmitted to the destination you chose, such as your mobile app or a configured transport like Discord or Telegram, it is not stored inside your companion's data store.

For reproducibility we retain the prompt and seed (and any other deterministic generation parameters) inside your companion's data, so that you can re-generate the asset on demand. We do not retain the asset itself.

Text messages, persona configuration, and the companion's long-term memory are persisted inside your companion's storage. Their handling is described in the Privacy Policy.

Once an asset has been delivered to a third-party transport (a messaging app, a chat platform, your own device's storage, and so on), its retention on that platform is governed by that platform's terms, not ours. We have no ability to delete copies held by third parties.

4. No warranty on generated content

The Service uses probabilistic machine-learning models. Outputs can be incorrect, incomplete, misleading, offensive, or otherwise unsuitable for your purpose, even when the prompt seems benign. Outputs are not professional advice of any kind (legal, medical, financial, safety, or otherwise).

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or reliability of any output.

You must independently evaluate any output before relying on it, sharing it, publishing it, or acting on it. The decision to use, share, publish, or otherwise rely on any output is yours alone.

5. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

  • We are not liable for any content generated by the Service, nor for any use, sharing, publication, or other action you take based on that content.
  • We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to your use of the Service.
  • Our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service, under any theory of liability, is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) EUR 50.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, for example liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any statutory consumer rights you have under the laws of your country of residence.

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, nothing in these Terms affects your non-waivable statutory rights.

6. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold [OPERATOR_NAME] harmless from any third-party claim arising out of (a) content you submit to the Service, (b) content you generate through the Service and then use, share, or publish, or (c) your breach of these Terms or of any law. This does not apply to the extent the claim is caused by our own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

7. Payments and credits

Use of the hosted Service consumes credits from your wallet at the rate set by our pricing configuration. You can top up your wallet via the payment methods offered in the app.

Credits are a prepayment for compute and have no cash value outside the Service. They are non-transferable. Unused credits do not expire while your account is active.

Per-call pricing fluctuates with the underlying GPU provider's pricing and is captured at the time of the call. We do not guarantee a fixed per-call price. We only guarantee the credit-to-EUR exchange rate (1,000 credits = 1 EUR).

Refunds of unused credit balances on account closure are at our discretion and subject to anti-fraud and chargeback rules.

8. Account, suspension, termination

You may close your account at any time from inside the app. Data retention on account closure is described in the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if continued service would expose us or a third party to legal risk, or if your account is involved in fraud, abuse, or attacks on the Service. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you when we do so, unless we are legally prevented from doing so or the breach is severe enough to require immediate action.

9. Changes to the Service and these Terms

We may change the Service over time, including adding, removing, or modifying features. We will avoid changes that materially reduce functionality you have already paid for. Where unavoidable, we will give reasonable notice.

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be communicated by email and inside the app at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance.

10. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of [COUNTRY], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be brought before the competent courts of [COUNTRY], subject to any mandatory consumer-law rights you have to bring proceedings in your country of residence.

11. Contact

[OPERATOR_NAME] [COUNTRY] [LEGAL_EMAIL]