Terms of Use

1. Who provides the Services

The Services are provided by the operator of Hooky (the “Operator”). Where these Terms refer to “Hooky”, “we”, “us”, or “our”, they mean the Operator. You can contact us at legal@hooky-ai.com.

2. What the Services do

Hooky lets you control AI coding agents (Claude Code and GitHub Copilot) and your IDE from a paired mobile device. The Services include the mobile app, the IDE extensions, an optional encrypted relay used when your devices are not on the same local network, and the hooky-ai.com website. We may add, remove, or change features at any time.

3. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age at which you can validly enter into a binding agreement in your country of residence, whichever is higher.
• Some features require you to sign in with a GitHub account. You are responsible for maintaining the security of that account and of any device on which you have installed Hooky.
• You are responsible for any activity that occurs through your account or your paired devices.

4. Licence to use the Services

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Services for your own software-development activities, whether personal or professional. This licence does not transfer any ownership of intellectual property to you.

The Services may include open-source components distributed under their own licences. Those licences govern your use of those components and, where they are more permissive than these Terms with respect to that component, the more permissive terms apply to that component only.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Services in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right;
• use the Services to develop, distribute, or facilitate malware, spyware, or any code intended to harm a system or a person;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Services (including other users’ devices, sessions, or accounts);
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network without explicit permission, or interfere with the proper working of the Services;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services except to the limited extent applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction;
• misuse the relay service — including, without limitation, attempting to register as a Visual Studio Code endpoint without a valid pairing, generating excessive load, or relaying traffic that is not part of your own paired session;
• send through the Services any content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that infringes another person’s privacy or intellectual property rights;
• attempt to circumvent any security, rate-limiting, or authentication mechanism that is part of the Services.

6. Third-party services

The Services interoperate with third-party services such as GitHub, Anthropic, Apple, and Google. Your use of those third-party services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the availability, behaviour, accuracy, or content of those third-party services. Where you provide credentials (for example, a Claude API key or an Anthropic OAuth token) to the Services so that they can call a third-party API on your behalf, you remain responsible for compliance with the relevant third party’s terms and for any usage charged to those credentials.

7. Your content

You retain all rights in the source code, files, prompts, chat messages, and other content that you submit to the Services (“Your Content”). By using the Services, you grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, transmit, store, process, and display Your Content solely to the extent necessary to provide the Services to you (for example, to route a message from your phone to your IDE through the relay, or to save a chat to your account so that you can open it again on another device).

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant this licence and that Your Content does not violate any law or any third party’s rights.

We do not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence models.

8. AI output

The Services allow you to interact with third-party AI agents. Output produced by these agents may be inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate. You are responsible for reviewing AI-generated code and other AI output before you accept, deploy, or otherwise rely on it. We make no representation that AI output is fit for any particular purpose, free of defects, secure, or appropriate to use in production. Treat AI-generated changes the same way you would treat a pull request from an unknown contributor: review the diff, test the result, and assume nothing.

9. Fees

Access to and use of certain Services or features may require the payment of fees. Any applicable fees, billing frequency, and refund terms will be presented to you before you incur a charge, and you authorise us (or our payment processor) to charge the payment method you provide. We may change our fees prospectively; we will give you reasonable advance notice of any change before it takes effect, and your continued use of the affected Service after the change takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the new fee.

The Services may also rely on third-party APIs (for example, Anthropic’s API) for which you may be charged directly by the third-party provider; you are responsible for those charges.

10. Privacy

Our handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

11. Intellectual property

The Services, including the Hooky name, logo, and the software, designs, and documentation we provide, are owned by the Operator or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted in these Terms, no rights are granted to you.

If you submit feedback, ideas, or suggestions about the Services, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use them for any purpose without any obligation to you.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted operation. We do not warrant that the Services will be free from errors, secure, available at any particular time or location, or that defects will be corrected.

Nothing in this section excludes or limits any warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the statutory rights of consumers.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will the Operator, its affiliates, or its contributors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Services.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the total aggregate liability of the Operator for any claim arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid us for the Services during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred euros (€100).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud, gross negligence, wilful misconduct, death, or personal injury caused by negligence.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Operator, its affiliates, and its contributors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your use of the Services in breach of these Terms, (b) Your Content, or (c) your violation of any law or any third-party right.

15. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time and uninstall the app and the extensions. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms, if continued provision would expose us or another user to legal or security risk, or if we discontinue the Services. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law) will survive.

16. Changes to the Services and to these Terms

We may modify the Services or these Terms from time to time. When we materially change these Terms, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, give a more prominent notice. Your continued use of the Services after the changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, your sole remedy is to stop using the Services.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the Services are governed by the laws of the country in which the Operator is established, without regard to its conflict of law principles. The courts of that country have exclusive jurisdiction, except that, where you are a consumer, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-law provisions of the country in which you reside.

18. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms we provide for specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Services and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject matter.
• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.
• Notices. We may give notices through the Services or by emailing the address associated with your account. You may give notices to us at legal@hooky-ai.com.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to legal@hooky-ai.com.