Terms of Service

Accepting these terms

By creating an account or using taleseal, you agree to these terms and to our Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of this agreement. If you don’t agree, don’t use the service.

To use taleseal you must be at least 18 years old and capable of entering into a binding contract. If you’re using taleseal on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organisation too.

You agree to give us accurate account information and keep it up to date.

What taleseal is

taleseal is a service for publishing tales: narrative pages describing AI agent runs. You sign up with an email address and password, mint API keys, and publish tales through our CLI or SDK. Publishing always requires an API key.

Tales may contain code, command output, diffs and logs. You choose what to publish. The CLI shows you a preview before anything leaves your machine, and you should redact secrets and anything sensitive before publishing.

We’re actively developing taleseal, so the service will change over time: features may be added, altered or removed. If we ever decide to discontinue the service, we’ll give you reasonable notice so you can retrieve or retract your tales.

Your account and API keys

You’re responsible for keeping your password and API keys secret and for everything published with them. If a key is compromised, revoke it straight away and tell us. We store API keys hashed (SHA-256) and show them to you only once, at creation. We can’t recover a lost key, only replace it.

We may suspend or restrict your account or keys if we reasonably believe they’re being used abusively, in breach of these terms, or in a way that threatens the service or other users.

Your content

You own your tales. Publishing on taleseal doesn’t transfer any ownership to us.

So that we can run the service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute each tale, but only as needed to operate taleseal and only as directed by you (for example: serving the tale to anyone who has its URL, honouring its expiry, and destroying it when you retract it). The licence ends when the tale is removed, except for copies in routine backups for a short period and the tombstone record described in section 7.

When you publish a tale, you warrant that:

• you have all the rights needed to publish it;
• it contains nothing unlawful; and
• it contains no third-party confidential information or personal data you’re not permitted to share.

How sharing works: read this bit

Tales are unlisted, not private. Every tale gets an unguessable URL. There is no public listing or index, and tale pages send noindex headers to discourage search engines. But:

• anyone who has the URL can view the tale, no login required;
• once you (or anyone you’ve shared it with) pass the link on, we can’t control where it goes; and
• we are not liable for anyone viewing a tale via a link that you or your recipients shared.

Expiry

You can set an expiry (expiresAt) on a tale when you publish it. After expiry the tale is no longer served.

Retraction: permanent, by design

You can retract a tale at any time. Retraction permanently destroys the tale’s body and leaves a tombstone in its place: the URL returns HTTP 410 (“Gone”) so that the address never pretends the tale didn’t exist. Retraction is irreversible. We cannot restore a retracted tale, and we won’t try.

One honest caveat: retraction removes the tale from taleseal, but copies cached, archived or saved elsewhere (browsers, archives, screenshots, third-party crawlers) are outside our control.

Reports and takedowns

If you believe a tale infringes your copyright or other rights, contains your confidential information or personal data without consent, or is otherwise unlawful, email us at [email protected] with the tale URL, what the problem is, and enough detail for us to assess it.

We operate a notice-and-takedown process consistent with UK law (and we’ll honour properly substantiated copyright notices from any jurisdiction, in the spirit of the DMCA). We may remove or disable access to any content that we reasonably believe breaches these terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or the law, with or without notice, though we’ll notify the publisher where we reasonably can.

Acceptable use

Our Acceptable Use Policy is part of these terms. In short: no unlawful content, no malware or phishing, no other people’s secrets or personal data, no abuse of the platform. Breaching it is a breach of these terms.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect and how we handle it under UK GDPR. In brief: we run on Fly.io with a Neon Postgres database, passwords are hashed with scrypt, and API keys are stored only as SHA-256 hashes.

Free service, no warranty

taleseal is currently free, with no service level agreement and no uptime guarantee.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and other terms that might otherwise be implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, satisfactory quality and non-infringement. We don’t promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that data will never be lost. Keep your own copies of anything you can’t afford to lose.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data, or loss of goodwill arising from your use of (or inability to use) the service; and
• our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the service is capped at £100 or the amounts you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim, whichever is greater.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law of England and Wales, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Indemnity

You’ll indemnify us against losses, liabilities and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from third-party claims caused by (a) content you publish, or (b) your breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy. We’ll tell you promptly about any such claim and won’t settle it without giving you a reasonable opportunity to be heard.

Termination

By you: you can stop using taleseal and delete your account at any time.

By us: we may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if we’re required to by law, or if your use puts the service or others at risk. For severe abuse we may act immediately; otherwise we’ll try to warn you first.

Effect on tales: when your account is terminated, your tales stop being served. Retracted tales keep their tombstones (that’s the point of them). Sections that by their nature should survive, including 4 (your warranties), 11–13, 16 and 17, survive termination.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we’ll post the new version on the site and update the “Last updated” date at the top. If a change is material, we’ll flag it prominently (for example, a notice on the site or an email to account holders) with reasonable notice before it takes effect. Continuing to use taleseal after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you don’t, stop using the service and delete your account.

Governing law

These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from the service, are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you’re a consumer, this doesn’t take away protections you’re entitled to under the mandatory laws of the country you live in.

The boring-but-necessary bits

• Entire agreement. These terms (with the Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy) are the whole agreement between us about the service, and replace any earlier understandings.
• Severability. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we don’t enforce a right straight away, we haven’t given it up.
• Assignment. You may not transfer this agreement without our written consent. We may transfer it to a successor of the service or our business, and we’ll tell you if we do.