Terms of Service

Last updated: May 6, 2026 | GDPR-Compliant | EU Consumer Rights Protected | EU AI Act Compliant

Agreement to Terms

By accessing or using Contextium, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this service.

Description of Service

Contextium is a cloud-based documentation platform that allows users to create, store, manage, and collaborate on documents with version control. We provide:

  • Document creation and management with rich text editing
  • Team collaboration tools (comments, suggestions, mentions)
  • Version control and document history tracking
  • File storage and organization with folders and projects
  • Workspace management with role-based permissions
  • AI Agent configurations with custom instructions and skills
  • Skill library for reusable prompts and commands
  • Workflows and tag-based file collections for organizing context
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration for AI tools
  • AI Chat for interacting with Claude or OpenAI models using your workspace context
  • Marketplace for discovering, publishing, and installing community skills, agents, and MCP servers
  • Third-party integrations (Slack notifications)
  • User feedback system for bug reports and feature requests
  • Search functionality across documents
  • Email notifications for team activity

Account Registration

To use Contextium, you must:

  • Be at least 16 years old
  • Provide accurate and complete registration information
  • Maintain the security of your account credentials
  • Promptly update any changes to your information
  • Accept full responsibility for all activities under your account

Authentication Methods

You may register and sign in using:

  • Email and Password: Direct registration with Contextium
  • Google OAuth: Sign in with your Google account
  • GitHub OAuth: Sign in with your GitHub account
  • Microsoft OAuth: Sign in with your Microsoft account (Office 365 or personal)

When using third-party authentication (OAuth), you agree to the terms and privacy policies of those providers. We receive only the minimum information necessary to create and maintain your account.

You may not share your account credentials or allow others to access your account. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account.

Subscription Plans

Free Tier

Our Starter plan is free and includes basic features with usage limits. We may modify or discontinue the free tier at any time with 30 days notice.

Paid Plans

Pro and Team plans are billed monthly or annually. By subscribing to a paid plan:

  • You authorize us to charge your payment method
  • Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled
  • Prices are subject to change with 30 days notice
  • Refunds are provided only as required by law

Billing and Renewal

  • Monthly subscriptions bill on the same day each month
  • Annual subscriptions bill on the anniversary of your purchase date
  • We'll send a renewal reminder email 7 days before your next billing date
  • Payment failures will result in service interruption after 3 retry attempts over 7 days
  • You're responsible for keeping your payment method up to date

Taxes and Additional Fees

All prices are exclusive of applicable taxes. The final price at checkout will include:

  • VAT (for EU customers): Applied based on your country rate
  • GST (for applicable regions): Applied based on local regulations
  • Other taxes: As required by your jurisdiction

Tax rates are determined automatically at checkout based on your billing address. Business customers may be exempt from VAT by providing a valid VAT ID at checkout.

Cancellation and Refunds

You may cancel your subscription at any time. Upon cancellation, you will retain access until the end of your current billing period.

EU Consumers: You have a 14-day right of withdrawal for new subscriptions (see "EU Consumer Rights" section below). For cancellations after this period, refunds are provided only as required by law or if the service has not been provided as described.

Business Users: No refunds will be provided for partial billing periods after the 14-day withdrawal period, except where required by law.

Third-Party Integrations

Contextium offers integrations with third-party services to enhance functionality:

MCP Server Integration

Contextium provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that allows compatible AI tools (such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, and others) to access your workspace. By authorizing an MCP client:

  • You grant the authorized application access to read, create, update, and delete files in your workspace
  • Access is controlled through secure OAuth-style tokens that you authorize via your browser
  • You can view and revoke MCP client access at any time from your account settings
  • You are responsible for managing which applications have access to your data
  • All MCP access is logged for security and auditing purposes

MCP & CLI Call Limits

Free (Starter) tier workspaces are subject to a monthly limit on MCP and CLI API calls. Each request authenticated with an MCP or CLI token counts as one call against this limit. When the monthly limit is reached, further MCP and CLI requests will be rejected until the limit resets at the start of the next calendar month. Paid plans have no call limit.

Free (Starter) tier users may participate in the referral programme. When three people you invite each start actively using Contextium (reaching their first served context), your workspace unlocks one additional team-member seat at no cost. This bonus seat is a one-time reward, is permanent, and does not increase your monthly MCP or CLI call limit.

Slack Integration

You may connect your Contextium workspace to Slack to receive notifications. By enabling this integration, you authorize Contextium to send messages to your Slack workspace on your behalf. You are responsible for managing which Slack channels receive notifications and for complying with your organization's Slack policies.

AI Chat Providers (Anthropic / OpenAI)

AI Chat requires you to provide your own API key from Anthropic (Claude) or OpenAI. By using AI Chat you agree that:

  • Your messages, conversation history, and any workspace context shared during a session will be transmitted to your chosen AI provider and processed under their terms of service and privacy policy
  • Any API costs incurred with your provider are billed directly by that provider to you — Contextium has no visibility into or control over those costs
  • Contextium stores your API key encrypted in our database solely to facilitate requests on your behalf
  • You must comply with Anthropic's and/or OpenAI's usage policies when using AI Chat
  • Contextium is not responsible for AI provider outages, rate limits, content moderation decisions, or changes to their policies

Payment Processing

All payments are processed through Stripe. We do not store credit card information. By subscribing to a paid plan, you agree to Stripe's terms of service and privacy policy.

Email Delivery

Transactional emails (notifications, invitations, password resets) are sent via Resend. We use this service to ensure reliable email delivery and track delivery status.

AI Chat

No Server-Side Chat Storage

Conversations are stored in your browser's local storage only. Contextium does not retain your chat history on its servers. Clearing your browser data will permanently delete your conversations and they cannot be recovered by Contextium.

AI Workspace Access

During a chat session the AI has tool-level access to read your workspace files, skills, agents, tags, and workflows, and may create or update workspace resources on your behalf when instructed. You are responsible for reviewing any changes made by the AI to your workspace. Contextium is not liable for workspace modifications made by an AI model acting on your instructions.

No Liability for AI Outputs

Contextium is not responsible for the accuracy, legality, completeness, or appropriateness of responses generated by third-party AI models. AI Chat is a productivity tool — you must review all AI-generated outputs before acting on them. You remain solely responsible for any decisions made based on AI-generated content.

EU AI Act Transparency

In compliance with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation 2024/1689), Article 50 transparency obligations:

  • Contextium's AI chat assistant is a limited-risk AI system under the EU AI Act. It is not classified as high-risk.
  • You are notified at the start of each chat session that you are interacting with an AI system, not a human.
  • All AI-generated responses are labelled as AI-generated within the interface.
  • No fully automated decisions with significant legal or personal impact are made without the ability for you to review and override them.
  • AI models are provided by Anthropic and OpenAI. These providers are responsible for GPAI model compliance under the EU AI Act.

Deployer Obligations

If you use Contextium in a context that may be classified as high-risk under the EU AI Act — for example, in recruitment, access to essential services, or safety-critical systems — you are acting as a deployer under the EU AI Act and are responsible for your own compliance obligations in that context.

Marketplace

Publishing

By publishing a listing to the Marketplace you confirm that:

  • You own or have the necessary rights to the content you are publishing
  • The listing does not contain malicious code, harmful instructions, or content that violates these Terms or applicable law
  • You consent to your display name and account creation date being shown publicly on your publisher profile page
  • You are solely responsible for the accuracy, security, and legality of any listing you publish

Content Monitoring and User Responsibility

We make reasonable efforts to review and monitor Marketplace listings for content that violates these Terms, including malicious code, harmful instructions, and illegal content. However, we cannot guarantee that every listing has been fully reviewed prior to being made available for installation.

You are solely responsible for reviewing the full content of any skill, agent, or MCP server before installing it into your workspace. By installing a listing, you acknowledge that you have had the opportunity to review it and accept full responsibility for any consequences of its use.

Contextium is not liable for any harm, data loss, security breach, unintended behaviour, or other consequence resulting from installing or using a third-party Marketplace listing.

No Warranty on Third-Party Listings

Marketplace listings are provided by community publishers. Contextium makes no representations or warranties about the quality, security, accuracy, fitness for purpose, or ongoing maintenance of any listing. All listings are installed at your own risk.

Reviews and Ratings

Reviews you submit are stored linked to your user account and displayed publicly on the listing page. You are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of your reviews. Contextium may remove reviews that violate these Terms without notice.

Public Profiles

Publishers' display names, account creation dates, and all their published listings are publicly visible. Aggregate install counts are shown publicly on all listings. By publishing a listing you accept this visibility.

Claiming Listings

The claim status of imported listings (unclaimed, pending, claimed) is publicly visible. Submitting a false or fraudulent claim is a violation of these Terms and may result in immediate account termination.

Publisher Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Contextium, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from content you publish to the Marketplace.

Acceptable Use

You agree NOT to use Contextium to:

  • Violate any laws or regulations
  • Infringe on intellectual property rights
  • Upload malware, viruses, or harmful code
  • Harass, abuse, or harm others
  • Impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation
  • Spam or send unsolicited communications
  • Interfere with the service or other users
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems
  • Use automated tools to access the service (except our official API)
  • Create fake or duplicate accounts to artificially inflate referral bonuses or circumvent usage limits
  • Resell or redistribute the service

Violation of these terms may result in immediate termination of your account.

Your Content

Ownership

You retain all ownership rights to the content you upload to Contextium. We do not claim ownership of your documents, files, or data.

License to Us

By uploading content, you grant us a limited license to store, process, and display your content solely for the purpose of providing the service to you. This license ends when you delete your content or account.

Responsibility

You are solely responsible for your content and must ensure you have the right to upload and share it. We do not monitor or review user content, but we may remove content that violates these terms.

File Deletion and Trash Retention

When you delete files, folders, or projects in Contextium:

  • Items are moved to trash where they are retained for 30 days by default (workspace admins can configure this period)
  • During the retention period, you can restore deleted items from the trash
  • You can permanently delete items immediately from trash if you choose
  • After the retention period expires, items are automatically and permanently deleted
  • Permanently deleted items may remain in encrypted backups for up to 90 additional days before being purged
  • Version history for a file is deleted when the file is permanently deleted

You are responsible for maintaining your own backups of critical content. While we maintain system backups for disaster recovery, we are not liable for any data loss.

Version History

We maintain complete version history for all files:

  • Each version includes a complete content snapshot, author, timestamp, and change summary
  • Version history is retained for the lifetime of the file
  • All versions are permanently deleted when a file is permanently deleted
  • Version history does not count separately toward your plan's file limits

Feedback and Bug Reports

When you submit feedback, bug reports, or feature requests through our feedback system, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use, modify, and incorporate your feedback into our service without compensation or attribution. This helps us improve Contextium for all users.

Shared Links and External Sharing

Contextium lets you generate links that make a file viewable (and, if you enable it, downloadable) by people outside your workspace. You are solely responsible for what you choose to share and with whom. A shared link grants read access to the file’s contents; Contextium does not and cannot prevent a recipient from copying, screenshotting, downloading, redistributing, or otherwise retaining content they are able to view. Access controls (link expiry, revocation, and email-restricted access) limit who can open a link — they do not secure the content itself once it has been viewed. You share at your own risk and are responsible for ensuring you have the right to share any file and that its sensitivity is appropriate for external viewing, and for revoking links that should no longer be active.

AI Agent Personas and Usage

Contextium provides default AI agent personas with pre-configured instructions and behaviors to assist with various tasks. By using these AI agent features, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

Neutral Design of Default Personas

All default agent personas provided by Contextium are created on a neutral basis, without bias or prejudice against any race, color, creed, religion, political view, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, or other protected characteristics. Our default personas are designed to:

  • Serve as neutral, unbiased starting points for users to build upon
  • Provide general-purpose functionality without ideological influence
  • Respect diversity and maintain impartiality in their default configurations
  • Allow users full freedom to customize and adapt them to their specific needs and values

Users are free to modify, customize, and adapt agent personas to align with their own requirements, organizational values, or specific use cases through the provided customization features.

No Liability for Agent Results

Contextium is not responsible for any results, outputs, decisions, or actions produced by AI agent personas, whether using default configurations or custom settings. AI agents are tools that:

  • May produce inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate outputs
  • Should not be relied upon for critical decisions without human review
  • Operate based on the instructions and context provided to them
  • May have limitations or biases inherent to AI language models

Recommended Best Practices

Before deploying AI agents for important tasks, we strongly recommend that you:

  • Question agents about their constraints, limitations, and capabilities
  • Review and understand the agent's persona instructions before use
  • Test agents with sample tasks to verify their behavior
  • Supervise agent outputs and verify accuracy before acting on results
  • Use the context box to provide specific guidelines and constraints

Customization and Override

Each AI agent includes a context box that allows you to:

  • Override default persona behaviors and instructions
  • Adapt agents to your specific requirements and use cases
  • Add guardrails, constraints, or additional guidance
  • Provide domain-specific knowledge or context

You are responsible for configuring agents appropriately for your intended use and for reviewing their outputs. The customization features are provided to give you control over agent behavior, but you remain solely responsible for how you use and rely on the results.

User Responsibility

You acknowledge that:

  • AI agents are productivity tools, not decision-makers
  • You are responsible for verifying agent outputs before using them
  • You should not use agents for tasks requiring professional judgment without appropriate oversight
  • Agent personas may be updated or modified without notice
  • You must ensure agent outputs comply with applicable laws and regulations

No Liability for User-Created Content and Configurations

IMPORTANT: Contextium provides a platform for creating and customizing Context Libraries, AI agents, skills, workflows, and LLM configurations. We are NOT responsible and have NO accountability for how users create, configure, or use any of these features.

You acknowledge and agree that:

  • User-Created Content: Contextium is not responsible for any Context Libraries, agent personas, skills, workflows, custom instructions, LLM selections, or any other configurations that you create, whether built from our default templates or created entirely from scratch
  • Harmful or Illegal Use: If you create or modify Context Libraries, agents, skills, workflows, or LLM configurations that produce content containing racial bias, ideological prejudice, discriminatory content, harassment, hate speech, or any other harmful, illegal, or inappropriate outputs, you are solely and exclusively liable for such content
  • Platform Provider Only: Contextium merely provides the technical platform and tools. We do not control, monitor, review, or approve user-created Context Libraries, agent configurations, skills, workflows, LLM choices, or their outputs
  • No Liability for Consequences: Contextium bears no liability whatsoever for any lawsuits, criminal actions, civil claims, damages, or legal consequences arising from your creation, configuration, or use of Context Libraries, AI agents, skills, workflows, LLM integrations, or any other features on our platform
  • Indecent or Criminal Outcomes: If your use of Context Libraries, agents, skills, workflows, or LLM configurations leads to criminal offenses, civil violations, harm to individuals or organizations, or any other legal action, you acknowledge that you are solely responsible and Contextium has no liability
  • LLM Provider Responsibility: When you use third-party LLM providers through Contextium (such as Claude, ChatGPT, or others), you are also subject to their terms of service and acceptable use policies. Contextium is not responsible for the behavior, outputs, or policies of third-party LLM providers
  • Full User Accountability: You accept complete responsibility for ensuring your Context Libraries, agent configurations, skills, workflows, LLM usage, and all outputs comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards in your jurisdiction

By creating or customizing any Context Library, AI agent, skill, workflow, LLM configuration, or other feature on Contextium, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Contextium, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses (including reasonable legal fees), or actions arising from or relating to your configurations, outputs, or use of the service.

This disclaimer applies to all user-created or customized content including Context Libraries, agents, skills, workflows, and LLM configurations, regardless of whether they are created using our default templates, modified from defaults, or created entirely from scratch. Your use of any customization features constitutes acceptance of full legal responsibility for the results.

Intellectual Property

Contextium and its original content, features, and functionality are owned by Contextium and are protected by international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our service without our explicit written permission.

Data Protection and Privacy (GDPR)

Your use of Contextium is also governed by our Privacy Policy. We are committed to protecting your data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.

Our Commitments

  • Encrypt data in transit (TLS/HTTPS) and at rest (AES-256)
  • Maintain regular backups
  • Never sell your personal data to third parties
  • Process data only for legitimate purposes with lawful basis
  • Implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures
  • Notify you of data breaches within 72 hours as required by GDPR

Your GDPR Rights

Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right of Access (Article 15): Request access to your personal data
  • Right to Rectification (Article 16): Correct inaccurate personal data
  • Right to Erasure (Article 17): Request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten")
  • Right to Restriction (Article 18): Restrict processing of your personal data
  • Right to Data Portability (Article 20): Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
  • Right to Object (Article 21): Object to processing of your personal data
  • Right to Withdraw Consent (Article 7): Withdraw consent at any time
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint: File a complaint with your local data protection authority

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@contextium.io. We will respond within 30 days as required by GDPR.

California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):

  • Right to Know: Request disclosure of the personal information we have collected about you and the purposes for which it is used
  • Right to Delete: Request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions
  • Right to Correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: We do not sell personal information. AI provider integrations operate under service provider contracts, not sale arrangements
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights

To submit a CCPA request, contact us at privacy@contextium.io.

Data Controller and Processor

Contextium acts as the data controller for your account information and as the data processor for content you upload. You remain the data controller for content you create and share.

However, you are responsible for maintaining your own backups of critical content. While we maintain regular system backups, we are not liable for any data loss.

Service Availability

We strive to provide reliable service but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may:

  • Experience downtime for maintenance or upgrades
  • Modify or discontinue features with notice
  • Limit usage to prevent abuse

We aim for 99.9% uptime but are not liable for service interruptions.

Termination and Account Deletion

Account Deletion by You

You may delete your account at any time from your account settings. When you request account deletion:

  • Your account enters a 90-day grace period during which it is deactivated but not permanently deleted
  • You can cancel the deletion and reactivate your account within this 90-day period
  • After 90 days, your account and all associated data will be permanently deleted
  • You can request immediate deletion by contacting support@contextium.io

During the grace period, your data is not accessible to you or other users, but is retained in our systems to allow reactivation. This grace period complies with GDPR requirements while protecting against accidental deletion.

Termination by Us

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice, if you:

  • Violate these Terms of Service
  • Fail to pay for a paid subscription
  • Engage in fraudulent or illegal activity
  • Abuse the service or harm other users

Before termination for non-payment, we will provide reasonable notice and opportunity to resolve the issue. Upon termination for cause, you may request a data export within 30 days.

Service Warranties and Disclaimers

For EU Consumers: Under EU law, we are required to provide services that comply with the contract. Digital content and services must be as described, fit for the purpose for which they are intended, and of satisfactory quality. If the service is faulty, you have legal rights including repair, replacement, price reduction, or refund.

For Business Users: To the extent permitted by law, Contextium is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties beyond those required by law, including but not limited to:

  • Specific performance characteristics or fitness for every particular purpose
  • Error-free or uninterrupted operation
  • Correction of all defects immediately

We will make reasonable efforts to maintain service availability and fix reported issues, but cannot guarantee that the service will meet all specific requirements or that all defects will be immediately corrected.

Limitation of Liability

Important: Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit our liability for:

  • Death or personal injury caused by our negligence
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
  • Any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under EU law

Subject to the above, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, Contextium shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to:

  • Loss of profits, data, or goodwill
  • Service interruption or system failure
  • Cost of substitute services
  • Any damages arising from your use of the service where you have not followed our guidance

For business users, our total liability for any claims arising from these Terms shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or €100, whichever is greater.

For consumers in the EU, this limitation does not affect your statutory rights under consumer protection law, including your right to claim damages for defective services.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Contextium and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including legal fees) arising from:

  • Your use of the service
  • Your violation of these terms
  • Your violation of any rights of another party
  • Your content

Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the European Union and the laws of [Your EU Country], without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Dispute Resolution

In the event of a dispute, we encourage you to contact us first at legal@contextium.io to seek an amicable resolution. If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, you have the right to:

  • Bring proceedings in the courts of your EU member state of residence
  • Use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr
  • Seek mediation through a recognized alternative dispute resolution body

Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer under EU law, including your right to take legal action in the courts.

EU Consumer Rights

If you are a consumer in the European Union, you have specific rights under EU consumer protection law that cannot be waived by contract:

Right of Withdrawal (14-Day Cooling Off Period)

For new paid subscriptions, you have the right to withdraw from your purchase within 14 days without giving any reason. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us of your decision by contacting support@contextium.io.

If you have already used the service during this period and then withdraw, we may charge you a proportionate amount for the services provided up until you communicated your withdrawal.

Legal Guarantee

Under EU law, digital content and services must be as described, fit for purpose, and of satisfactory quality. If our service is faulty, you are entitled to a repair or replacement, or if this is not possible or would cause disproportionate inconvenience, a price reduction or refund.

Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. We will notify you of material changes by email or through the service. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

You should review these terms periodically. The "Last updated" date at the top indicates when these terms were last revised.

Severability

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement

These Terms of Service, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Contextium regarding your use of the service.

Contact Information

If you have questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us:

Legal Notice: These Terms of Service are designed to comply with EU law and GDPR requirements. However, they are provided as a template and should be reviewed by qualified legal counsel specializing in EU data protection and consumer law before use in production. You must update the placeholder "[Your EU Country]" with your specific jurisdiction and may need to add additional provisions based on your business model and location.