Terms of Use

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Flints ("Service"), operated by Flints ("we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Service.

1. Service Description

Flints is a knowledge capture tool that lets you record decisions, ideas, notes, and other structured entries across macOS, iOS, and the web. Entries sync across your devices and can be shared with team members or exported to third-party tools.

2. Eligibility and Account Registration

By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you are at least 16 years of age, have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms, and will comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations.

Access to Flints requires an invite code. You must provide accurate information when registering and are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials, including your password and any two-factor authentication setup. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorised access to your account. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.

3. Plans and Billing

Flints offers a free tier with entry limits and a paid Pro plan with expanded capabilities including unlimited entries, team sharing, bot API access, and project log export.

If you subscribe to a paid plan, you agree to pay the applicable fees. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the renewal date. Fees are non-refundable except where required by law. We may change pricing with 30 days' notice. All fees are exclusive of taxes, and you are responsible for any applicable taxes in your jurisdiction.

4. Your Content

You retain full ownership of all entries, notes, and other content you create in Flints ("Your Content"). We do not claim any intellectual property rights over Your Content.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to store, sync, display, and transmit Your Content solely to operate and provide the Service to you. This includes syncing Your Content across your devices, displaying it to team members you have explicitly invited to shared projects, and making it available through features you have enabled (such as AI context URLs, project log exports, or bot API tokens). This licence terminates when you delete Your Content or close your account, subject to reasonable backup and deletion timelines.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and represent that you have all necessary rights to submit it to the Service. You must not use the Service to store or transmit content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, infringing on third-party intellectual property, or otherwise objectionable.

5. Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including all software, designs, text, graphics, trademarks, logos, and other materials (excluding Your Content), is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in the Service beyond the limited right to use it in accordance with these Terms.

6. Team Sharing

When you invite members to a project, they can view and (depending on permissions) create or edit entries in that project. You are responsible for managing project permissions and understanding that shared content is visible to all project members. Members you invite are bound by these same Terms.

7. Integrations, AI Tools, and Third-Party Services

Flints offers integrations including Obsidian sync, AI context URLs, project log export, the command-line tool, and bot API access. These features are designed to let you export and share Your Content with third-party tools and services of your choosing.

When you use any integration or export feature to transmit Your Content to a third-party service — including but not limited to AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini, or any other artificial intelligence or machine learning service — you do so at your own risk and sole discretion. You acknowledge and agree that:

• The decision to share Your Content with any third-party service is yours alone. We do not initiate, control, or require the transfer of Your Content to any third party.
• Once Your Content leaves the Service through an integration or export feature you have enabled, it is governed by the terms, privacy policies, and data handling practices of the receiving third-party service, not by these Terms or our Privacy Policy.
• Third-party AI tools and services may use, store, process, or retain Your Content in accordance with their own policies, which may include using it to train models or for other purposes. It is your responsibility to review and understand those policies before sharing Your Content.
• We bear no responsibility or liability for any use, disclosure, retention, leak, breach, or other handling of Your Content by any third-party service, including any AI tool, after it has been transmitted from the Service at your direction.
• You are responsible for ensuring that Your Content does not contain sensitive, confidential, or regulated information that should not be shared with third-party services, or that you have obtained all necessary consents to share such information.

8. Bot API Access

Pro plan users can create bot tokens that allow programmatic read and write access to their projects via our API. You are responsible for securing your bot tokens and for all actions taken through them. Bot tokens should be treated as sensitive credentials and never shared publicly. We are not liable for any unauthorised access or data exposure resulting from compromised bot tokens.

9. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any applicable laws
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service or other users' accounts
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure
• Use bot tokens or the API to exceed documented rate limits or abuse the Service
• Share your invite codes in bulk or sell access to the Service
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service
• Use the Service to build a competing product
• Use the Service to store or transmit malware, viruses, or other harmful code
• Scrape, data-mine, or otherwise extract data from the Service through automated means beyond what is provided by our API

10. Service Availability and Force Majeure

We strive to keep the Service available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. The Service may be temporarily unavailable for maintenance, updates, or circumstances beyond our control. We will make reasonable efforts to provide advance notice of planned downtime.

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations under these Terms where such failure or delay results from events beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to natural disasters, war, terrorism, riots, pandemics, government actions, power failures, internet or telecommunications failures, cyberattacks, or failures of third-party service providers.

11. Data and Backups

While we take reasonable measures to protect Your Content, we do not guarantee that data loss will never occur. You are responsible for maintaining your own backups. Features like project log export and AI context URLs can help you keep copies of your data outside the Service. We are not liable for any loss of or damage to Your Content.

12. Termination

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account immediately and without prior notice if you materially breach these Terms, engage in fraudulent or illegal activity, or pose a security risk to the Service or other users. For other violations, we will provide notice where practicable. Upon termination, we will make reasonable efforts to allow you to export Your Content for a period of 30 days, after which it may be permanently deleted.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including but not limited to: Your Content ownership, Intellectual Property, Limitation of Liability, Warranty Disclaimer, Indemnification, and Governing Law.

13. Warranty Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. We expressly disclaim all implied warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components, or that any data (including Your Content) will be accurate, reliable, or preserved.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. In such jurisdictions, the above exclusions apply to the fullest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy conferred by the Australian Consumer Law or any other applicable law that cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified by agreement.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will we, our directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of data, loss of profits, loss of goodwill, loss of business opportunities, or business interruption, arising from or related to your use of or inability to use the Service, however caused and regardless of the theory of liability (contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise), even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Without limiting the foregoing, we are not liable for any damages arising from:

• Your use of or reliance on any third-party service, including AI tools, that you connect to or share Your Content with through the Service
• Any unauthorised access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of Your Content by third parties, including through compromised bot tokens, AI context URLs, or other export mechanisms you have enabled
• Any loss of or damage to Your Content, whether caused by service failures, third-party actions, or any other reason

Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising from or relating to the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) $50 AUD.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In such jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Flints, its directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from or related to:

• Your use of the Service
• Your Content, including any claim that Your Content infringes the intellectual property or other rights of a third party
• Your violation of these Terms or any applicable law
• Your use of integrations or export features to share Your Content with third-party services, including AI tools
• Any third party's access to Your Content through bot tokens, AI context URLs, or other features you have configured

16. Dispute Resolution

If a dispute arises under these Terms, you agree to first attempt to resolve it informally by contacting us at hello@flints.app. If the dispute is not resolved within 30 days, either party may proceed to formal resolution.

You agree that any legal proceedings arising from or related to these Terms or the Service will be brought solely in the courts of Victoria, Australia, and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts. You waive any objection to venue or jurisdiction.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. You waive any right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration against us.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via email or an in-app notification at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and close your account.

18. General Provisions

Governing Law. These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Victoria and the Commonwealth of Australia, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements, understandings, and communications, whether written or oral.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

Waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. These Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights.

19. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at hello@flints.app.