Terms of Service

Who you are agreeing with

The AI Toolchain is operated by Jon Schipp, a sole proprietor in Florida, United States, doing business as The AI Toolchain (“we”, “us”). You can reach a real person at [email protected].

These terms cover the website at aitoolchain.io, the Tail, Grep, Head, Diff and Uniq newsletters, and any API or assistant access we provide. Using any of them means you accept these terms.

What the service is

We monitor public release notes, changelogs and product documentation across a large watchlist of AI tools, summarise what changed, and publish and deliver those summaries. Some of it is free to read on the website; some of it arrives by email only if you subscribe.

Your account

An account is an email address. We sign you in with a single-use link sent to that address rather than a password, so anyone who can read your email can read your account. Keep your inbox secure, and tell us if you think someone else has access.

You must be at least 16 years old. One paid subscription covers one person, except on the Business plan, which covers the number of seats named in that plan.

Paying

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller, Paddle.com. Paddle is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service enquiries and handles returns. When you buy a subscription, your payment contract is with Paddle and Paddle’s own buyer terms apply alongside these ones; your contract for the service itself is with us.

Prices are shown before you pay and may be presented in your local currency with tax included. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. Refunds are covered by our refund policy.

We may change prices. If we do, the new price applies from your next renewal, and we will tell you by email before it takes effect. The free plan may change or end at any time.

What you may and may not do with the content

Our summaries, ratings, analysis, charts and the way we organise them are ours. Your subscription buys you a personal, non-transferable right to read them and to use them in your own work — including quoting a passage with attribution and a link.

You may not:

• republish, resell, or systematically redistribute paid issues, in whole or in substantial part, including inside a product or an internal newsletter beyond your licensed seats;
• share your sign-in link or account so that people who have not paid can receive paid issues;
• scrape or bulk-download the site or any API beyond what your plan allows, or use automated means to evade a limit;
• use the service to train a model or build a competing dataset without our written agreement.

Release notes, documentation, logos and trademarks belong to the vendors and projects that published them. We link and summarise; we do not republish their pages, and nothing here implies they endorse us.

Availability

We aim to publish on the cadence each newsletter advertises, but we do not promise uninterrupted service, a particular issue on a particular day, or that a given tool will stay on the watchlist. Some days there is nothing worth sending, and on those days we send nothing.

Ending it

You can cancel or delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end an account that breaks these terms, that is used to abuse the service, or where required by law — and if we do it without cause, we will refund the unused portion of what you paid.

Warranties and liability

The service is provided “as is”. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and accuracy or completeness of any summary.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or a security incident you attribute to something we did or did not summarise.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, or any statutory rights you have as a consumer.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you, we will email subscribers before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the updated terms; if you would rather not, cancel and we will refund the unused portion.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, and the courts of Hillsborough County, Florida have exclusive jurisdiction — except that if you are a consumer in the EU, the UK, or anywhere else whose law gives you the right to bring a claim locally, that right is unaffected.

Related

• Privacy policy — what we collect and why.
• Refund policy — how to get your money back.