Last Modified: June 6th, 2025
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These Terms of Service (these "Terms") describe the terms and conditions by which you may access and/or use the Visual Studio Code extension and any other software plugin or extension provided on https://app.cline.bot/ or otherwise by Cline Bot Inc. (including its successors and assigns, "Cline," "we," "our," or "us") that uses frontier models to write, edit, and build software ("Cline Extensions"), and the website(s), including cline.bot, and any successor URL(s), and any and all related software, documentation, and online, mobile-enabled, and/or digital services that link to these Terms (collectively, the "Service"). By accessing and/or using the Service, or by clicking a button or checking a box marked "I Agree" (or something similar), you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms, and you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Privacy Notice. We reserve the right to modify these Terms, and we will provide notice of material changes as described below. These Terms apply to all visitors and users of the Service, and to all others who access the Service (collectively, "Users," and, as applicable to you, "you" or "your").
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND EACH PROVISION.
THESE TERMS CONTAIN A MANDATORY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION PROVISION IN SECTION 15.2 (THE "ARBITRATION AGREEMENT") AND A CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER PROVISION IN SECTION 15.3 (THE "CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER") THAT REQUIRE, UNLESS YOU OPT OUT PURSUANT TO THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US, INCLUDING ANY CLAIMS THAT AROSE OR WERE ASSERTED BEFORE YOU AGREED TO THESE TERMS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW (AS DEFINED BELOW), YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO SEEK RELIEF IN A COURT OF LAW AND TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL ON YOUR CLAIMS, AS WELL AS YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR PROCEEDING.
This is a contract between you and Cline. You must read and agree to these Terms before using the Service. If you do not agree, you may not use the Service. You may use the Service only if you can form a legally binding contract with us, and only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules, and regulations ("Applicable Law"). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any access to, or use of, the Service by anyone who is a minor (which is under the age of 18 in most jurisdictions) in any applicable jurisdiction is strictly prohibited and in violation of these Terms. The Service is not available to any Users we previously removed from the Service.
You may sign up for an account on the Service (your "User Account"). Your User Account may give you access to certain services and functionalities that we may, in our sole discretion, establish and maintain as part of the Service from time to time. You acknowledge that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, you do not own your User Account, nor do you possess any rights to data stored by or on behalf of Cline on the servers running the Service. We may maintain different types of User Accounts for different types of Users.
An individual may access and/or use the Service on behalf of a company or other entity, such as that individual's employer (such entity, an "Organization"). In such cases, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein: (a) these Terms are an agreement between (i) us and such individual and (ii) us and that Organization; (b) "you," as used in these Terms in the context of a license grant, assignment, restriction, obligation, acknowledgment, representation, warranty, or covenant, or in any similar context, means (i) such individual and (ii) "the Organization, on behalf of the Organization and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its and their respective directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and other representatives who access and/or use the Service (collectively, "Org Users")"; and "your" has the corresponding meanings; (c) such individual represents and warrants to having the authority to bind that Organization to these Terms (and, in the absence of such authority, such individual may not access, nor use, the Service); (d) such individual's acceptance of these Terms will bind that Organization to these Terms; (e) we may disclose information regarding such individual and such individual's access to and use of the Service to that Organization; (f) such individual's right to access and use the Service may be suspended or terminated (and the administration of the applicable User Account may be transferred) if such individual ceases to be associated with, or ceases to use an email address associated with or provisioned by, that Organization; (g) that Organization will make all Org Users aware of these Terms' provisions, as applicable to such Org Users, and will cause each Org User to comply with such provisions; and (h) that Organization will be solely responsible and liable for all acts and omissions of the Org Users, and any act or omission by any Org User that would constitute a breach of these Terms had it been taken by that Organization will be deemed a breach of these Terms by that Organization. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if an individual opens a User Account using an email address associated with or provisioned by an Organization, or if an Organization pays fees due in connection with such individual's access to or use of the Service (or reimburses such individual for payment of such fees), then we may, in our sole discretion, deem such individual to be accessing and using the Service on behalf of that Organization.
By connecting to the Service via a third-party service, you give us permission to access and use your information from that service, as permitted by that service, and to store your log-in credentials and/or access tokens for that service.
You may never use another User's User Account without such User's permission. When creating your User Account, you must provide accurate and complete information, and you must keep this information up to date. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your User Account, you will keep your User Account password(s) and/or any other authentication credentials secure, and you will not share your password(s) and/or any other authentication credentials with anyone else. We encourage you to use "strong" passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols) to protect your User Account. Any Org User with administrator-level access to your User Account can modify your User Account settings, access, and billing information. We will not be liable for, and expressly disclaim liability for, any losses caused by any unauthorized use of your User Account and/or any changes to your User Account, including, without limitation, changes made by any Org User with administrator-level access to your User Account. You will notify us immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your User Account.
You may control certain aspects of your User Account and any associated User profile, and of the way you interact with the Service, by changing the settings in your settings page. By providing us with your email address, you consent to our using that email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by Applicable Law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use that email address to send you other messages, including, without limitation, marketing and advertising messages, such as messages notifying you of changes to features of the Service and special offers (collectively, "Marketing Emails"). If you do not want to receive Marketing Emails, you may opt out of receiving them or change your preferences by contacting the Service support team at support@cline.bot or by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link within a Marketing Email. Opting out will not prevent you from receiving Service-related notices.
You may de-activate your User Account at any time. We may, with or without prior notice, change the Service, stop providing the Service or features of the Service to you or to Users generally, or create usage limits for the Service. We may, with or without prior notice, permanently terminate or temporarily suspend your access to your User Account and/or the Service without liability, with or without cause, and for any or no reason, including if, in our sole determination, you violate any provision of these Terms. Upon their termination for any reason or no reason, you continue to be bound by these Terms.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms and any documentation we may make available to you, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, and freely revocable right and license to access and use the Service, solely for your personal use or internal business purposes, as applicable, strictly as permitted by the features of the Service. We may terminate the license granted in this Section at any time, for any reason or no reason. We reserve all rights not expressly granted herein in and to the Service.
Except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by Applicable Law, you will not do, and will not assist, permit, or enable any third party to do, any of the following:
As between you and Cline, you (or, if applicable, your Organization or other licensor) retain all right, title, and interest in and to every line of code, prompt, response, file, terminal output, or other material you upload to, generate with, or otherwise make available through the Service ("User Content"). However, if you install a Cline Extension and direct all model calls through infrastructure you control, Cline does not receive or store your input tokens, output tokens, underlying code, or other User Content. If an account is created with an organizational-domain e-mail address or otherwise identifies itself as an organizational account, Cline will, unless notified in writing by an authorized representative, presume that the Organization owns all associated User Content. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership of User Content to Cline.
You hereby grant to Cline and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right and license to host, cache, copy, process, transmit, display, perform, and otherwise use your User Content:
You affirm, represent, and warrant the following:
WE CLAIM NO OWNERSHIP RIGHTS OVER YOUR USER CONTENT. WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AND ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR ANY USER CONTENT. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USER CONTENT AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUBMITTING, POSTING, DISPLAYING, PROVIDING, SHARING, OR OTHERWISE MAKING IT AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, AND YOU UNDERSTAND AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ACTING ONLY AS A PASSIVE CONDUIT FOR YOUR ONLINE DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLICATION OF YOUR USER CONTENT. DUE TO THE NATURE OF MACHINE LEARNING, THE OUTPUT OF THE SERVICE MAY NOT BE UNIQUE ACROSS USERS AND THE SERVICE MAY GENERATE THE SAME OR SIMILAR OUTPUT FOR OTHER USERS. USE OF THE SERVICE MAY RESULT IN INCORRECT OUTPUT THAT DOES NOT ACCURATELY REFLECT REALITY. YOU MUST EVALUATE THE ACCURACY OF ANY OUTPUT AS APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR USE CASE, INCLUDING BY USING HUMAN REVIEW OF THE OUTPUT. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE OUTPUT MAY BE INACCURATE, OBJECTIONABLE, INAPPROPRIATE, OR OTHERWISE UNSUITED TO YOUR PURPOSE, AND YOU AGREE THAT WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY ALLEGES TO INCUR AS A RESULT OF OR RELATING TO ANY OUTPUT OR OTHER CONTENT GENERATED BY OR ACCESSED ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE.
Cline collects and uses telemetry and usage data, including consisting of non-code metadata, such as click events and generalized usage patterns ("Telemetry Data"). Telemetry is on by default and can be disabled at any time in the extension settings, after which no telemetry data will be transmitted to or retained by Cline. If you are a User that has installed the open-source Cline extension but direct all model calls through infrastructure you control, and you do not have a User Account, no User information is collected with telemetry data. All Telemetry Data is and will be owned solely and exclusively by us, and, to the extent any ownership rights in or to the Telemetry Data vest in you, you hereby assign to us all rights (including Intellectual Property Rights), title, and interest in and to same. Accordingly, we may use, maintain, and/or process the Telemetry Data or any portion thereof for any lawful purpose, including, without limitation: (a) to provide and maintain the Service; (b) to improve our products and services (including the Service), and to develop new products, services, and/or features; (c) to monitor your usage of the Service; (d) for research and analytics, including, without limitation, data analysis, identifying usage trends, and/or customer research; and (e) to share analytics and other derived Telemetry Data with third parties, solely in de-identified or aggregated form. The Service may contain technological measures designed to prevent unauthorized or illegal use of the Service; you understand and acknowledge that we may use these and other lawful measures to verify your compliance with these Terms and to enforce our rights, including Intellectual Property Rights, in and to the Service.
For the purposes of these Terms, "Intellectual Property Rights" means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of personality, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights, and any and all other intellectual property rights and proprietary rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefor and registrations, renewals, and extensions thereof, under Applicable Law.
You understand and acknowledge that we (or our licensors, as applicable) own and will continue to own all rights (including Intellectual Property Rights), title, and interest in and to the Service, all materials and content displayed or otherwise made available on and/or through the Service (including, without limitation, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, photographs, audio, videos, and music; but, excluding your User Content), and all software, algorithms, code, technology, and intellectual property underlying and/or included in or with the Service (collectively and individually, "Intellectual Property"). Except as may be explicitly provided herein, nothing in these Terms will be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you will not access, sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, display, perform, publish, adapt, edit, or create derivative works of any Intellectual Property. Use of any Intellectual Property for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms is strictly prohibited.
To the extent you provide us any suggestions, recommendations, or other feedback relating to the Service or to any other Cline products or services (collectively, "Feedback"), you hereby assign to us all rights (including Intellectual Property Rights), title, and interest in and to the Feedback. Accordingly, we are free to use the Feedback and any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques, and/or other intellectual property contained in the Feedback, without providing any attribution or compensation to you or to any third party, for any purpose whatsoever, although we are not required to use any Feedback. Feedback is deemed our Confidential Information (as defined below). You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission of Feedback, we do not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to us, or developed by our employees, or obtained from sources other than you.
The Service may include non-public, proprietary, or confidential information of Cline ("Confidential Information"). Confidential Information includes any information that should reasonably be understood to be confidential given the nature of the information and the circumstances of disclosure, including non-public business, product, technology, and marketing information. You will: (a) protect and safeguard the confidentiality of all Confidential Information with at least the same degree of care as you would use protect your own highly sensitive confidential information, but in no event with less than a reasonable degree of care; (b) not use any Confidential Information for any purpose other than to exercise your rights, or to perform your obligations, under these Terms; and (c) not disclose any Confidential Information to any person or entity, except your service providers or financial or legal advisors who/that (i) need to know the Confidential Information and (ii) are bound by non-use and non-disclosure restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this Section.
We may identify you as a User in our promotional materials. We will promptly stop doing so upon receipt of your request sent to notice@cline.bot.
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By using the Service, you acknowledge that we may collect, use, and disclose your personal information and aggregated and/or anonymized data as set forth in our Privacy Notice.
We care about the integrity and security of your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures or to use your data for improper purposes.
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The service may contain links to or integrations with third-party sites, materials, and/or services (collectively, "Third-Party Services") that are not owned or controlled by us, and certain functionalities of the service may require your use of third-party services, such as services provided by OpenRouter, Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock, Requesty, Anthropic or OpenAI. For example, the service may enable you to toggle between different model providers and models in CONNECTION WITH YOUR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS.
If you use a third-party service in connection with OUR service, you are subject to and agree to, and must comply with, the third party's terms and conditions made available via, or agreed in connection with, THE THIRD-PARTY service. We do not endorse or assume any responsibility for any third-party services. If you access a third-party service from the service or share your user content OR OUTPUT on or through any third-party service, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that these terms and our privacy notice do not apply to your use of any third-party service. You expressly relieve us from any and all liability arising from your access to and/or use of any third-party service. Additionally, your dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on the service, including as relates to payment and delivery of goods, and any other terms (such as warranties) are solely between you and such advertisers. You understand and acknowledge that we will not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort relating to your dealings with such advertisers.
You hereby release us from all claims, damages (whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or otherwise), obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, debts, and expenses, in each case of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of a dispute between you and a third party in connection with the Service. In addition, you waive any Applicable Law that says, in substance: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE RELEASED PARTY."
You will defend, indemnify, and hold us and our subsidiaries and affiliates, and our and their respective agents, suppliers, licensors, employees, contractors, officers, and directors (collectively, including Cline, the "Cline Indemnitees") harmless from and against any and all claims, damages (whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or otherwise), obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, debts, and expenses (including, but not limited to, legal fees) arising from: (a) your access to and/or use of the Service, including your use of Output; (b) your violation of any term of these Terms, including, without limitation, your breach of any of your representations and warranties set forth in these Terms; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including, without limitation, any privacy right or Intellectual Property Right; (d) your violation of any Applicable Law; (e) User Content or any content that is submitted via your User Account, including, without limitation, any misleading, false, or inaccurate information; (f) your willful misconduct; or (g) any third party's access to and/or use of the Service with your username(s), password(s), or other authentication credential(s).
The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Your use of the service is at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the service, the intellectual property, and any other information available on or through the service are provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and/or non-infringement. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through the service will create any warranty not expressly stated herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, none of the CLINE indemnitees warrants that any content or any other information contained in, or available via, the service is accurate, comprehensive, reliable, useful, or correct; that the service will meet your requirements; that OUR service OR ANY THIRD-PARTY SERVICES LINKED TO OR INTEGRATED WITH OUR SERVICE will be available at any particular time or location, uninterrupted, or secure; that any defects or errors in the service will be corrected; or that the service is free of viruses or other harmful components. Any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the service is so obtained at your own risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system(s) or mobile device(s) and/or for loss of data that results from same or from your access to and/or use of the service. You may have other statutory rights, but the duration of statutorily required warranties, if any, will be limited to the shortest period permitted by applicable law.
Further, Cline does not warrant, endorse, guarantee, recommend, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by any third party through the service or any hyperlinked website or service, and Cline will not be a party to, or in any way monitor, any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.
United states federal law and some states, provinces, and other jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of and/or limitations on certain implied warranties, so the above exclusions and/or limitations may not apply to you. These terms give you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights, which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The disclaimers, exclusions, and limitations under these terms will not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will any Cline indemnitee be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, or data, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to the use of, or inability to use, the service or any portion thereof. Under no circumstances will we be responsible for any damage, loss, or injury resulting from hacking, tampering, or other unauthorized access to or use of the service or your user account or the information contained therein.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for any (a) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (b) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to or use of the service; (c) any unauthorized access to or use of the servers running the service and/or any and all personal information stored therein; (d) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the service; (e) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like that may be transmitted to or through the service by any third party; (f) any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the service; and/or (g) your data, any user content, or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party.
In no event will any Cline indemnitee be liable to you for any claims, proceedings, liabilities, obligations, damages, losses, or costs in an amount exceeding the amount you paid to us hereunder or one hundred U.S. Dollars ($100.00), whichever is greater. This limitation of liability section applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damage.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of and/or limitations on incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusions and/or limitations may not apply to you. These terms give you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights, which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The disclaimers, exclusions, and limitations of liability under these terms will not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
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To the extent the Service is being used by or on behalf of the U.S. Government, the Service will be deemed commercial computer software or commercial computer software documentation (as applicable). Accordingly, if you are an agency of the U.S. Government or any contractor therefor, you receive only those rights with respect to the Service as are granted to all other Users hereunder, in accordance with 48 C.F.R. §227.7202 and 48 C.F.R. §12.212, as applicable.
You understand and acknowledge that the Service may be subject to export control laws and regulations. You will comply with all applicable import and export and re-export control and trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce, trade and economic sanctions maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"), and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations maintained by the U.S. State Department. You represent and warrant that you are not, and that no person to whom you make the Service available or that is acting on your behalf, or, if you are an Organization, that no person or entity owning 50% or more of your equity securities or other equivalent voting interests, is (a) listed on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons or on any other list of sanctioned, prohibited, or restricted parties administered by OFAC or by any other governmental entity, or (b) located in, a national or resident of, or a segment of the government of, any country or territory for which the United States maintains trade or economic sanctions or embargoes or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" region.
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If you have any questions about these Terms and/or the Service, please contact us at support@cline.bot.