Askpert Terms of Service

Version 2026-08-30. Effective August 30, 2026.

Please read these Terms carefully. Section 12 contains a binding arbitration clause and a class action waiver. They affect how disputes between you and Askpert are resolved, and they include a 30-day right to opt out.

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a contract between you and Askpert. By creating an account, or by using the Askpert service after having an account, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

In short: making an account means you accept this contract.

2. Who we are

"Askpert," "we," "us," and "our" mean the Askpert service and its operator. Askpert is currently operated by its founder as a sole proprietorship doing business as Askpert. If the Service is transferred to a company we form, that company becomes the contracting party and we will publish an updated version of these Terms. Contact: info@askpert.dev.

"The Service" means the Askpert website, application programming interfaces, command line tools, MCP endpoints, and everything else we operate under the Askpert name.

3. Accounts

• You need an account to hire or create experts. One account can do both.
• You must give accurate information, keep your credentials secret, and tell us promptly if you believe your account is compromised. You are responsible for activity under your account.
• You must be at least 13 years old (at least 16 if you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom). By creating an account you confirm you meet this requirement.
• We may suspend or close accounts that violate these Terms.

In short: keep your login safe, be honest, be old enough.

4. Using experts (for buyers)

Experts are created by independent creators, not by Askpert. When you hire an expert and send it a request, your input is processed by the creator's configured expert running on our infrastructure and by the underlying large language model provider, and you receive the output. The Privacy Policy describes this data flow in detail.

Responsibility is split as follows:

• Askpert is responsible for the security and lawful handling of the data you provide to the platform itself: your account information and the inputs you submit and outputs you receive through the Service, as described in our Privacy Policy.
• Askpert is not responsible for the substantive content, accuracy, or fitness of an expert's outputs, or for a creator's configuration choices. Experts are third-party offerings that we host and inspect but do not author.
• You are responsible for the inputs you choose to submit, for choosing which experts to use, and for how you use the outputs you receive.

AI outputs can be wrong. Experts produce AI-generated output that may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or unsuitable for your purpose. Output is provided for informational purposes only. It is not professional advice, including legal, medical, financial, tax, or immigration advice, and it is not a substitute for a licensed professional. You are solely responsible for evaluating and verifying outputs before relying on them.

About inspection. Every expert passes an automated inspection before it can be listed. The inspection is a limited, automated, publish-time review; parts of it are subjective quality scoring. It is not a certification of an expert's security, accuracy, legality, or fitness for any purpose, and it is not a guarantee of how an expert will behave. The inspection also writes the short summary shown on an expert's listing, generated from the creator's own description; Section 5 explains how.

File and data access. An expert's listing describes what it asks your agent to provide. Files an expert processes are handled in an isolated sandbox environment that is designed to be separated from your local machine. Section 9 explains the limits of these measures.

Your content. You keep ownership of the inputs you submit and the outputs you receive. We use your inputs and outputs only to provide, secure, and improve the operation of the Service, and we do not use them for marketing or promotion. If you post reviews, ratings, or feedback on the Service, you grant Askpert a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display and use that content to operate and promote the Service, including in advertising.

In short: experts are third-party AI. Check their answers before you rely on them. Your data stays yours, and we do not market with it.

5. Creating and listing experts (for creators)

Your promises to us. When you create or upload an expert, or any skill, document, showcase image, video link, or other material inside it or displayed on its listing, you represent and warrant that you own it or have all rights needed to grant the licenses below, and that it does not infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights, and does not violate any law or any agreement you are bound by.

You are solely responsible for your experts. Any dispute over whether your expert infringes someone's rights is between you and that party. Section 11 (Indemnification) applies.

License you grant us, for experts built from scratch on Askpert. You grant Askpert a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, seal, display, distribute, and make your expert available for buyers to install and run through the Service. You also grant Askpert the right to use your expert's public listing content (its name, description, avatar, public statistics, the showcase images and captions you upload, the title and video identifier of any video you link, and the preview image we store for that video), and to demonstrate your expert and show illustrative results that we generate, in marketing, advertising, and promotional materials for the Service in any media. This marketing right does not extend to revealing your sealed private assets, and it does not extend to any buyer's inputs or outputs.

License you grant us, for experts uploaded from existing skill files. You grant Askpert only the license needed to host your expert, make it available to buyers, and display its public listing content, as enumerated above, on the Service.

Showcase media. You may add up to three images to your expert's listing, each with a caption you write, and one video that you link from YouTube. You represent and warrant that you have the rights to everything you upload or link, including the rights of any person shown in it and any third party's trademarks or copyrighted material it contains. When you link a video we store the title you give it and its video identifier - not the address you pasted - together with a preview image we fetch from the video host at the moment you save it, and we display them on your listing. Once your expert is listed, its showcase media is public: anyone who has the listing's address can see it, including people who are not signed in and automated crawlers. Do not upload anything confidential, anything covered by an agreement you are bound by, or anything you would not publish yourself.

Listing copy we generate. When your expert is inspected, or when we refresh listings, we generate a short summary of it from your own public description and display that summary on your listing. Nothing else is used to write it: not your instructions, your skill files, or your documents, and not any buyer's inputs or outputs. You can replace the generated summary with your own words at any time, and once you do, later inspections leave your words alone. Changing your description clears the summary, whether generated or written by you, and the next inspection writes a fresh one. Whatever your listing displays, generated or written by you, is your listing copy and your responsibility under this section.

How long the licenses last. If you delist an expert or delete your account, the licenses above end for new distribution: we stop offering the expert to new buyers. They continue only as needed to service copies already installed by buyers and to meet our legal obligations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree not to assert moral rights against the uses licensed in this section.

What we own. Askpert owns the platform scaffolding it generates around your content, including the packaging format, generated wrapper and reference files, and the connection protocol the Service emits. Nothing in these Terms transfers your content to us, and nothing transfers our platform to you.

Removal. We may delist or remove any expert at our discretion, including for suspected violations of these Terms or the Acceptable Use rules in Section 10. We may also remove an expert's showcase media on its own, without delisting the expert, including in response to a complaint under Section 7.

In short: your expert stays yours. You give us the permissions we need to run and promote the marketplace, and you stand behind what you publish. Showcase media you add to your listing is public.

6. Ownership and intellectual property

• Creators keep ownership of the copyrightable content they author in their experts.
• Buyers keep ownership of their inputs and outputs, as described in Section 4.
• Askpert keeps ownership of the Service, its software, its branding, and the scaffolding described in Section 5.
• Some material produced with AI assistance may not be protectable by copyright in some jurisdictions. The license grants in Section 5 apply to the full contents of an expert regardless of whether particular elements are protectable.
• The Askpert name, logo, and branding belong to Askpert. Do not use them to imply endorsement or affiliation without our written permission. Stating truthfully that your expert is listed on Askpert is always fine.

7. Intellectual property complaints

If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to info@askpert.dev with: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) identification of the copyrighted work; (3) identification of the material you claim is infringing and where it is on the Service; (4) your contact information; (5) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice with your signature, identification of the removed material, a statement under penalty of perjury of your good-faith belief the removal was a mistake, your contact information, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal courts for your address (or Delaware if outside the United States).

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

8. Fees and credits

Hiring an expert is currently free. Running experts consumes model usage that is paid for under the key arrangement shown on each expert's listing: Askpert's own platform key for the included default model, or your own stored LLM API key for any other model you choose. Platform plans and credits, where offered, are described in your account settings. We may introduce or change fees in the future; if we do, we will give notice and the change will apply going forward.

In short: free to hire today. LLM API usage is paid for by whoever's key the listing says.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing. We do not warrant that the Service or any expert will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that outputs will be accurate or reliable.

Security measures are measures, not guarantees. The Service is designed to keep creators' sealed assets server-side, to run expert code in isolated sandboxes, and to inspect experts before listing. We take these measures seriously, but no security measure is perfect, and we do not promise they can never fail.

Limitation. To the fullest extent permitted by law: (a) neither Askpert nor its operator is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill; and (b) our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of one hundred US dollars (USD 100) or the amounts you paid Askpert in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Savings clause. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any right or remedy you have under applicable law that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including certain consumer protection and data protection rights. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits; in those jurisdictions, these provisions apply to the maximum extent permitted.

10. Acceptable use

You must not, and must not design an expert to:

• break the law, or produce output intended to be unlawful;
• infringe others' intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights;
• probe, scrape, overload, or attempt to circumvent the Service's security or sealing mechanisms, or attempt to extract another creator's sealed assets;
• misrepresent an expert as, or as a substitute for, a licensed professional. Experts that provide legal, medical, financial, tax, or immigration information must not claim to provide individualized professional advice;
• upload malware or content you have no right to share;
• use another person's account or impersonate anyone.

We may investigate violations and may delist experts, suspend accounts, or take other appropriate action at our discretion.

11. Indemnification

Creators. You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Askpert and its operator from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of the experts you create or upload, including claims that they infringe intellectual property or other rights, violate law, or caused harm through their content or configuration.

Buyers. You will indemnify Askpert and its operator from claims arising out of your unlawful use of the Service or your violation of Section 10.

12. Arbitration and class action waiver

Please read this section carefully. It requires individual arbitration of most disputes and waives class actions. You may opt out within 30 days.

• Informal resolution first. Before filing a claim, you and we agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting each other (for us: info@askpert.dev) and allowing 30 days for a response.
• Binding arbitration. Except for small claims and the other carve-outs below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be held in English; where the rules allow, it may be conducted remotely.
• Carve-outs. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court for infringement or misuse of intellectual property or for unauthorized access to the Service.
• Class action waiver. Disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis. Neither you nor we may participate in a class, consolidated, or representative action. If this waiver is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim must proceed in court, not arbitration.
• 30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing info@askpert.dev within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with your account email and a statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect the rest of these Terms.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service and request account deletion at any time by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4 through 12 and 15) survive.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Where Section 12 does not apply, the state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction. This choice of law does not deprive you of mandatory consumer protections of the country or state where you live.

15. General terms

• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in full effect, and the unenforceable provision is enforced to the maximum extent permitted.
• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Askpert about the Service and replace any prior understandings.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or corporate reorganization, including to a company we form.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of the model providers and infrastructure the Service depends on.
• No waiver. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Each version is identified by its version date at the top of this page. If you have an account, your continued use of the Service after an updated version takes effect constitutes acceptance of the update. For material changes we will take reasonable steps to bring the update to your attention, such as a notice in the product.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms: info@askpert.dev.