Terms of Service & Developer Agreement

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you ("User", "Developer", "you", or "your") and Bolt Corps("Bolt Corps", "we", "us", or "our"). By creating an account, accessing any of our digital endpoints, integrating our tools, or using our web applications, you confirm that:

• You have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by these Terms and our accompanying Privacy Policy.
• You are at least 16 years of age (or 13 years of age where permitted by applicable local jurisdiction law). If you are under the legal age of majority, you have obtained verified consent from a parent or legal guardian.
• If you are accessing or using Bolt Corps on behalf of a corporation, academic institution, or legal entity, you represent and warrant that you possess the full legal authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

Bolt Corps provides a decentralized, local-first developer ecosystem comprising six flagship product pillars:

When provisioning an account on Bolt Corps via Google OAuth or verified email credentials:

• You agree to provide true, accurate, and current profile metadata. You may not impersonate any individual, developer handle, or organization without legal authorization.
• You are solely responsible for safeguarding the credentials associated with your account, browser sessions, and invite passphrases for encrypted FlowForge workspaces.
• You agree to notify Bolt Corps immediately at boltcorpsfullstack@gmail.com if you discover or suspect unauthorized access to your account.

We believe in uncompromising developer sovereignty. Bolt Corps asserts zero intellectual property claims over any user-created software:

While you own everything you create, Bolt Corps and its licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to:

• The Bolt Corps platform UI, designs, brand marks, logos, artwork, typography, and original audio/visual assets.
• The proprietary website code, layout systems, component architectures, and orchestration algorithms.
• Nothing in these Terms grants you a license to utilize Bolt Corps trademarks, logos, or domain names for commercial advertising without our prior written consent.

When configuring third-party AI providers (OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Groq, OpenRouter, Mistral, DeepSeek) via Bring-Your-Own-Key:

• Direct Vendor Contract: You are utilizing your own API keys. You remain subject to the respective terms, acceptable use policies, and billing structures of each respective provider.
• Billing Responsibility: Bolt Corps does not charge markups on your AI token usage. You are solely responsible for token consumption, costs, and rate limits incurred on your personal provider accounts.
• Output Verification Disclaimer: Artificial intelligence models may generate hallucinated, syntactically invalid, or insecure code. You are solely responsible for conducting unit testing, security audits, and human review prior to deploying AI-generated code to production systems.

LiveWire IDE and WASM Lab execute code locally inside your browser sandbox. You agree not to abuse or exploit this computational environment:

• You will not execute scripts designed to escape browser sandbox constraints, exploit browser vulnerabilities, or manipulate hardware drivers.
• You will not conduct unauthorized port scanning, vulnerability fuzzing, or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against third parties using LiveWire network APIs.
• You will not execute client-side cryptocurrency mining scripts or browser exhaustion loops intended to disrupt shared device resources.

FlowForge utilizes mathematically verifiable client-side AES-256-GCM encryption. By utilizing FlowForge, you explicitly acknowledge and agree to the following cryptographic realities:

In Cypher and LiveWire Pair Programming sessions:

• Connections travel peer-to-peer over WebRTC. You agree not to broadcast illegal, obscene, copyright-infringing, or non-consensual media streams.
• You will not capture or record screen shares or webcam streams of other participants without their explicit, prior consent.
• Bolt Corps is not responsible for connection stability interruptions caused by restrictive corporate firewalls, symmetric NATs, or local ISP bandwidth limitations.

Our 37+ developer utilities are engineered for productivity and accuracy. However:

• Calculators, regex builders, cron parsers, schema converters, and cert decoders are provided as developer aids. You are responsible for validating transformed schemas, converted types, or permission octals prior to production execution.
• Tools compute client-side in browser memory; closing your browser tab without copying or saving generated outputs will erase in-memory session states.

The Bolt Corps Developer Forum, technical blogs, and community event chats are dedicated to fostering a supportive, inclusive engineering community:

Bolt Corps community moderators reserve the right to remove non-compliant threads, issue warnings, or permanently suspend forum privileges for repeat violators.

You explicitly covenant that you will NOT:

• Attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Bolt Corps server, database, or API without express written authorization.
• Launch flood attacks, automated script spam, or recursive API hits intended to exhaust Firebase Firestore or Supabase database quotas.
• Bypass authentication barriers, forge security tokens, or attempt unauthorized privilege escalation to platform admin portals.
• Reverse-engineer or decompile platform routing mechanics for the purpose of constructing unauthorized mirror platforms.

Certain features of Bolt Corps interact with third-party CDNs (cdnjs, npm unpkg, Pyodide CDN, Google Cloud) or external AI endpoints. Bolt Corps is not liable for service degradation, API deprecations, rate-limit throttles, or network outages originating from external third-party infrastructure.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF BOLT CORPS FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100.00 USD) OR THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO BOLT CORPS IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.

In the event of any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms:

• Informal Negotiation: The parties agree to first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute through informal written notice for a period of at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to initiating formal proceedings.
• Binding Arbitration: If the dispute is not resolved through informal negotiations, it shall be finally settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) or American Arbitration Association (AAA) by one independent arbitrator appointed in accordance with said Rules.
• Class Action Waiver: You agree that any arbitration or proceeding shall be conducted solely on an individual basis and not as a class action, consolidated action, or representative proceeding.

These Terms remain in effect until terminated by either party. You may terminate these Terms at any time by ceasing all use of the platform and deleting your account. Bolt Corps reserves the right to suspend or terminate account access for users who materially breach these Terms.