Terms of Service

1. Services

Kleared provides automated security analysis of source code repositories, remediation recommendations, automated or suggested pull requests, reports, and verification badges indicating the status of recent scans.

Kleared is intended to assist with security review and development workflows. Kleared is not a law firm, cybersecurity consultancy, compliance auditor, managed security provider, or certification authority.

Use of Kleared does not create any fiduciary, advisory, legal, compliance, or professional services relationship.

2. Repository Access and Authorization

You represent and warrant that:

• you own the repositories you connect to Kleared, or you have full legal authority and authorization to grant us access to them;
• your use of the Services does not violate any contract, law, confidentiality obligation, or third-party rights;
• you have all necessary permissions from your employees, contractors, clients, or customers whose code or data may be included in connected repositories.

You are solely responsible for ensuring you have proper authorization before using Kleared.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe access is unauthorized, unlawful, or creates legal, security, or reputational risk.

3. Scan Results and Pull Requests

All scan results, remediation recommendations, generated code changes, and pull requests (“Recommendations”) are provided for informational and operational assistance only.

Recommendations are suggestions—not guarantees, certifications, legal advice, or security assurances.

You are solely responsible for:

• reviewing all Recommendations;
• testing all code changes;
• validating compatibility with your systems;
• approving or rejecting pull requests;
• maintaining backups and rollback procedures;
• determining whether any Recommendation should be implemented;
• ensuring production readiness and compliance.

We may test changes locally before submitting pull requests, but we do not guarantee functionality, compatibility, correctness, completeness, or security.

You are solely responsible for reviewing, testing, validating, and approving any code changes, pull requests, or security recommendations provided by Kleared before deployment to any environment.

Kleared shall not be liable for any outage, regression, data loss, service interruption, security incident, compliance failure, revenue loss, or other damage arising from implemented or unimplemented Recommendations.

4. Verification Badge

Verification badges reflect the status of the most recent successful scan under the scope of the Services at that time.

A badge does not guarantee that an application, repository, or system is secure, compliant, vulnerability-free, breach-proof, or suitable for any specific use.

Badges are trust signals based on available scan data only and should not be interpreted as certifications, warranties, endorsements, or legal assurances.

We may revoke, suspend, invalidate, or remove a badge at any time, including if:

• a subsequent scan identifies issues;
• billing lapses or payment fails;
• repository access is revoked;
• scan integrity is compromised;
• misuse, fraud, or abuse is detected;
• we determine continued verification creates legal, security, or reputational risk.

Revoked badges immediately lose verification status.

5. No Guarantee of Security

Kleared does not guarantee:

• detection of all vulnerabilities;
• prevention of future vulnerabilities;
• compliance with any law, regulation, framework, or certification standard;
• uninterrupted or error-free service;
• that Recommendations are complete, accurate, or suitable for your environment;
• that a passing scan means your systems are secure.

Security is a continuous process involving many factors outside our control.

You should treat Kleared as one signal among many—not as a substitute for independent engineering review, security testing, legal review, compliance review, or professional security services.

6. Payment and Billing

Paid plans, subscriptions, and one-time audits are billed through Stripe or other authorized payment providers.

By purchasing a paid Service, you authorize recurring billing where applicable.

Unless otherwise stated:

• subscriptions automatically renew until cancelled;
• cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period;
• no prorated refunds are provided;
• one-time audits are non-refundable once scanning begins;
• failed payments may result in suspension or termination of Services and badge revocation;
• you are responsible for all taxes, duties, and governmental charges associated with your purchase.

We reserve the right to change pricing at any time with reasonable notice.

7. Acceptable Use

You may not:

• scan repositories you do not own or are not authorized to access;
• attempt to reverse engineer our scanners, prompts, systems, or signing methods;
• extract, replicate, benchmark, or resell our internal security methods;
• interfere with platform integrity, availability, or security;
• misuse verification badges or represent them misleadingly;
• use the Services for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or harmful purposes.

We may suspend or terminate access immediately for violations of this section.

8. Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of your repositories, source code, and underlying intellectual property.

Kleared retains all rights, title, and interest in the Services, platform, scanners, methodologies, workflows, software, prompts, reports, verification systems, and all related intellectual property.

We may use anonymized and aggregated metadata, findings, usage patterns, and security insights to improve the Services, provided we do not publicly disclose your confidential source code.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of our intellectual property to you.

9. Privacy

Our collection and use of information is governed by our Privacy Policy.

By using the Services, you consent to our handling of data as described there.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Services are provided “as is,” “as available,” and without warranties of any kind.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Kleared disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including:

• merchantability
• fitness for a particular purpose
• non-infringement
• title
• accuracy
• reliability
• security
• availability
• uninterrupted operation
• error-free performance

We do not warrant that the Services will detect all security issues or that use of the Services will prevent breaches, failures, or losses.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Kleared shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including:

• lost profits
• lost revenue
• lost data
• business interruption
• security incidents
• system failures
• reputational harm
• compliance failures
• third-party claims

arising from or related to the Services, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising from or related to the Services shall not exceed the total amount paid by you to Kleared during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

If you have not paid us, our liability shall be zero.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Kleared and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from:

• your use of the Services;
• your repositories, code, or content;
• your implementation or non-implementation of Recommendations;
• your misuse of verification badges;
• your violation of these Terms;
• your lack of authorization to grant repository access;
• third-party claims related to your systems, code, or security posture.

13. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Services at any time, with or without notice, for any reason including:

• nonpayment;
• abuse or fraud;
• unauthorized access;
• legal, compliance, or security concerns;
• platform integrity risks;
• reputational risk;
• violation of these Terms.

We are not liable for any losses resulting from suspension or termination.

Sections intended to survive termination shall survive, including liability limitations, indemnification, payment obligations, and dispute provisions.

14. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Any dispute arising from these Terms or the Services shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

You waive any right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we do, we will update the effective date at the top of this page.

Your continued use of the Services after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

16. Contact

Questions regarding these Terms may be sent to:

hello@kleared.app