Terms of service.

Paid content.

CloverTerm has two kinds of paid content: Pro, a one-time purchase of local features, and Cloud, services that need our servers running continuously, to be offered later as an annual subscription. The two are independent. Prices are as shown on the purchase page.

1. 01What Pro covers: Pro is the features that work installed on your computer and phone — the ones there today and the ones added later — bought once. A feature that does not go through our servers will never be taken out of Pro; a feature that does go through our servers will never be sold inside Pro. Team collaboration products are not part of Pro.
2. 02Licensed by the day: a Pro licence carries an expiry date. Purchased Pro is a lifetime licence with no expiry date; Pro obtained through a trial or a redemption code is counted in days, and further days extend the same expiry date. While the licence is valid, every local Pro feature is available.
3. 03When it expires: the whole of Pro stops. Free features and your data are unaffected, and data created with Pro features can still be viewed and exported.
4. 04Checked on your device: a Pro licence goes online only when you activate it or restore a purchase, and is verified locally after that. Our licence service being unreachable, or your session expiring, never revokes a licence already active on your device.
5. 05Cloud is a separate subscription: features that need our servers running for you all the time (hosted sync, and Guardian later) are not in Pro and will be sold separately as an annual subscription; its price, term and renewal rules will be shown and confirmed before purchase.
6. 06Refunds follow the channel you bought through: orders placed on this website are refunded by us, handled manually; orders placed through the App Store are governed by Apple’s payment and refund terms, and refunds are requested from Apple.

Free edition licence.

1. 01The Free edition may be used in personal and commercial settings alike — including in-house operations and managing servers for clients — with no limit on devices, seats, number of hosts or purpose, and no registration or sign-in.
2. 02Free features stay free permanently: a free feature present in the first release will never become paid.
3. 03The only restrictions: do not decompile or reverse-engineer the client, and do not redistribute the installers (including repackaging modified builds). Get installers only from this website or official app stores; see the download page.

Where self-hosted sync ends.

1. 01The sync backend is your own private GitHub or Gitee repository. Your account with that platform, its availability and its storage limits are governed by that platform’s terms and are your responsibility.
2. 02Synced content is encrypted with AES-256 before it leaves the device, using a key derived locally from your Sync Password. The Sync Password cannot be recovered — forgetting it means nobody can decrypt the remote snapshot, including us.
3. 03Our servers never handle synced data, so we cannot recover, retrieve or decrypt anything in your repository. The local rollback point is your last line of defence.

Acceptable use.

1. 01CloverTerm is a high-privilege operations tool. Every command you run is your responsibility, including what it does to your servers and data. Safe Paste, host-key confirmation and diagnostics are aids, not guarantees.
2. 02Connect only to hosts you own or are explicitly authorised to manage. Do not use this tool for unauthorised access, scanning or attacks.
3. 03Do not post host addresses, keys, other people’s private information or unlawful content in the feedback community. We may remove content or suspend accounts that do.
4. 04Do not redistribute, crack or strip licence checks from the client for profit.

Intellectual property.

CloverTerm is not open source; its trademarks, branding and code are ours. These terms grant you a limited, non-transferable licence to use it, not a sale of ownership. Third-party open-source components are licensed under their own terms — the list is at third-party licences.

What you post in the feedback community remains yours; you grant us the rights needed to display and operate it. The host data and files you manage through CloverTerm are entirely yours.

Disclaimer and limitation of liability.

1. 01Losses arising from operations, configuration changes or commands you perform are yours to bear.
2. 02We are not liable for sync interruption or data loss caused by a code-hosting platform (GitHub, Gitee) failing or changing its policies.
3. 03To the maximum extent permitted by law we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages; our aggregate liability is capped at what you actually paid us in the twelve months before the claim, which is zero if you have paid nothing.
4. 04These limits do not apply where the law does not permit them, such as personal injury caused by wilful misconduct or gross negligence.