Terms of Use

These Terms govern your use of a running Atelier instance — the platform once installed on infrastructure you control. They are separate from the LICENSE, which governs the Atelier source code itself.

A condensed version of these Terms is shown in-app when new users create an account on an Atelier instance, and they must accept it to continue — the canonical text below is what governs.

Atelier — Terms of Use

Version 1.0 · Effective 2026-06-02

By creating an account on an Atelier instance, you ("the User") agree
to these Terms with Edward Howard ("the Owner").

1. License Grant

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable
licence to install and run an Atelier instance for YOUR OWN USE,
including:
- personal projects;
- your organisation's internal projects;
- building applications that you (or your organisation) offer to
  clients, customers, or end-users, including for payment.

This licence does NOT permit:
- hosting an Atelier instance as a service for third parties
  ("Atelier-as-a-Service"), whether free or paid;
- reselling, sublicensing, or redistributing the Atelier platform
  software, in whole or in substantial part;
- using Atelier to build a competing or substantially similar
  platform-building, app-generation, or low-code/no-code tool.

The distinction: the applications you build with Atelier are yours to
do anything with (see §3). The Atelier platform itself is not.

2. Restrictions

You may not:
- redistribute, sublicense, or sell the Atelier platform software
  itself;
- reverse engineer or decompile the platform binaries beyond what is
  necessary to install, configure, and operate the platform on your
  own infrastructure;
- share your own access credentials (passwords, API tokens, session
  cookies) with anyone you do not intend to grant access to your
  Atelier instance.

3. Your Content — explicitly yours

Applications, source code, prompts, secrets, uploaded files,
screenshots, and any other content you create, upload, or generate
using Atelier remain YOUR PROPERTY. You are free to:
- share, publish, deploy, modify, or sell the applications you build
  with Atelier, including commercially;
- take screenshots of the Atelier interface, your apps, or your
  dashboards and post them on social media or anywhere else;
- discuss publicly the apps you build and how you built them.

Atelier asserts no ownership over your output and places no
restriction on sharing your work.

(This is distinct from the LICENSE on the platform source code, which
does restrict redistribution of Atelier's own code. Your apps are
not the platform.)

4. Pricing and future versions

Atelier is currently in early access and may be made available at no
cost or at the Owner's discretion. THE OWNER RESERVES THE RIGHT to
introduce paid tiers, licence keys, subscriptions, or other commercial
arrangements for future versions of the Atelier platform.

Any such change will not retroactively affect:
- your right to use a previously-installed version of Atelier under
  the Terms you accepted when you installed it;
- content (applications, source code, data) you have already built
  with Atelier.

Future versions may be governed by updated Terms (see §9). Continuing
to upgrade or install newer releases means accepting the Terms in
effect at the time of that install or upgrade.

5. Data & Privacy

Atelier runs on infrastructure you control. No usage data is sent to
the Owner. Calls to LLM providers are made directly from your instance
to whichever provider you configure, using credentials you supply.

You are responsible for securing the data you put into the platform,
including the SQLite database, secrets, and any backups.

6. No Warranty

The software is provided "AS IS" for evaluation, testing, and use. No
guarantees of uptime, data integrity, security, or fitness for a
particular purpose.

7. Liability

The Owner is not liable for any damages arising from your use of this
software, including but not limited to data loss, service interruption,
costs incurred from LLM API usage, or consequences of running
generated application code in production.

8. Termination

This Terms-of-Use licence may be revoked by the Owner at any time, on
written notice. Upon termination you must cease using the Atelier
platform software and delete copies of the platform binaries; content
you created using Atelier remains yours.

9. Changes to these Terms

The Owner may revise these Terms from time to time — for example,
when the platform exits early access or when paid tiers are introduced
(§4). Each revision carries a new version number.

When the Terms are revised, existing users will be required to review
and re-accept the new version before continuing to use their Atelier
instance. Re-acceptance is the only mechanism by which the revised
Terms become binding on existing users — continued use of an older
version under the previously-accepted Terms is unaffected (see §4).

If you do not accept revised Terms, you may discontinue use of the
platform; content you have already created with Atelier remains
yours (per §3).

10. Contact

Terms-of-Use questions: tryatelierai@gmail.com
Source-code licensing questions: see the LICENSE.

For a plain-language summary of risks and responsibilities (LLM costs, generated-code review, etc.), see the Disclaimer & risks page.