Terms of Service

1. Acceptance and eligibility

By creating an account, or by using Weblane in any other way, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree with them, don’t use the service.

You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live — at least [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: minimum age; 16 or 18 depending on the jurisdictions we serve]. If you’re accepting on behalf of a company or another organisation, you’re confirming you’re allowed to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

2. What Weblane is

Weblane is a hosted website builder. You design pages on a visual canvas with responsive breakpoints, components and a built-in CMS; you can work on a project together with other people in real time; and you can publish the result to a free address on a wbl.is subdomain or to a custom domain you control. Along the way you can upload your own fonts, generate a starting design with AI, and collect form submissions from your visitors.

Weblane is a service we run, not software you buy a copy of. We add, change and remove features as the product develops, and parts of it are still early. We’ll try not to break things you depend on, but we can’t promise any specific feature will stay exactly as it is.

3. Your account

Give accurate details when you sign up, keep your login credentials to yourself, and keep them safe. You’re responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has got into it, tell us at [email protected] straight away.

Projects live in a workspace, and a workspace owner can invite other people to it with different roles. Whoever invites someone is responsible for that choice: members can see and change the projects the workspace shares with them. Remove people who shouldn’t have access any more.

4. Your content and your sites

Your content stays yours. Designs, text, images, code, CMS entries, uploads — we claim no ownership of any of it.

To actually run the service, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, adapt and publicly serve that content for the sole purpose of operating Weblane and delivering your site to its visitors. In practice that means things like: keeping it in our database and object storage, syncing it between collaborators, generating thumbnails and optimised images, caching it on a CDN, keeping version history, and keeping backups. The licence lasts as long as the content is on Weblane and ends when you delete it, except for backup copies that age out on our normal retention cycle ([PLACEHOLDER — legal review: state the backup retention window]).

You’re responsible for having the rights to everything you publish — your own work, stock you licensed, images and text you were given permission to use. If you don’t have the rights, don’t publish it here.

We don’t sell your content and we don’t use it to target advertising. [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: confirm the position on using customer content to train or improve AI features — the intended answer is that we do not].

5. Custom fonts

Weblane lets you upload font files and use them in your projects. Fonts are licensed software, and uploading one here doesn’t change its licence.

When you upload a font, you’re confirming that you hold a licence that covers what you’re about to do with it — web use, self-hosting the file, and the sites and page-view volumes you’ll use it on. Foundry terms vary a lot; checking yours is on you, not on us. We store the file and serve it only to render your own sites.

If a rights holder tells us a font on Weblane is being used without a licence, we may remove it from the workspace and from the sites serving it.

6. AI-generated content

Weblane can generate a site, a section or copy from a prompt. Treat the output as a starting point, not a finished product.

We don’t promise generated output is original, unique, accurate, or fit for any particular purpose. Two people giving similar prompts can get similar results, and a generated layout or sentence may resemble something that already exists. Review what you get before you publish it — once it’s on your site, it’s your content and your responsibility, including if it turns out to infringe someone else’s rights.

AI features run on third-party model providers. Using them sends your prompt and the relevant parts of your document to those providers so they can produce the output. [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: name the model providers and link a sub-processor list].

7. Acceptable use

Don’t use Weblane to:

• publish anything unlawful, or anything that infringes someone else’s copyright, trademark or privacy;
• distribute malware, run phishing or credential-harvesting pages, or impersonate a person or an organisation in order to deceive;
• send spam, or use forms and email relay to send bulk unsolicited mail;
• host material that sexually exploits minors, incites violence, or targets someone for harassment;
• attack or degrade the service — overload it, scrape it at scale, work around usage limits or access controls, or reverse engineer it;
• resell hosting capacity, or use Weblane mainly as generic file, media or CDN storage rather than as a website.

Usage is also subject to fair limits on storage, bandwidth and form volume so one site can’t take the service down for everyone. When something looks off we’ll normally get in touch before we act — unless the problem is urgent, like live malware or an active attack.

8. Forms and visitor data

Sites you publish can collect form submissions. Those submissions are stored on our infrastructure and, if you set it up, relayed to you by email or webhook.

The data your visitors submit is your responsibility. You decide what to ask for, so between you and us you’re the one who needs a lawful basis for collecting it, a privacy notice that tells visitors what happens to it, and a way to answer them when they ask for access or deletion. We handle that data on your instructions, to run the service for you.

Only collect what you actually need, and delete submissions you no longer need. We may apply retention and volume limits, and we’ll tell you before we enforce anything that would delete data.

[PLACEHOLDER — legal review: a privacy policy and a data processing agreement must be linked here; GDPR Article 28 processor terms, international transfer mechanisms and the sub-processor list are NOT covered by this draft].

9. Publishing and hosting

Published sites are served from a wbl.is subdomain, or from a custom domain you connect by pointing DNS records at us. Registering and renewing that domain is between you and your registrar; if it lapses or the records change, your site stops resolving and there’s nothing we can do about it from here.

We can suspend or take down a site — or an account — that breaks these terms, breaks the law, puts the service or other users at risk, or that we’re legally ordered to remove. When it isn’t urgent we’ll try to warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem.

We aim to keep sites up and fast, but we don’t promise uninterrupted service. Maintenance, provider outages and bugs happen. [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: confirm that no uptime SLA or service credits are offered at this stage]. Keep your own copies of work you can’t afford to lose.

10. Fees

Weblane is currently free to use while the product is in development. Payments aren’t live yet, so nothing on this page charges you anything today.

When paid plans launch we’ll tell you before you’re charged, and you’ll be able to stay on what’s free instead of paying. [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: real commercial terms are needed before billing starts — plans and what each includes, billing cycle and renewal, taxes and VAT handling, refunds, what happens to a site when a payment fails, and how much notice a price change gets].

11. Termination

You can stop using Weblane whenever you like: delete your projects and your account from the dashboard, or email us at [email protected] if you need a hand.

We can suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that doesn’t pay once paid plans exist, or where we have to act for legal or security reasons. Serious cases — illegal content, an active attack — can be immediate; otherwise we’ll give you notice and a chance to put it right.

When an account closes, its published sites stop being served and its content may be deleted after a short grace period ([PLACEHOLDER — legal review: define the grace period and what export we guarantee]). Export anything you want to keep before you close an account.

We may also discontinue Weblane as a whole. If that ever happens we’ll give reasonable notice and a way to get your content out.

12. Disclaimers

Weblane is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

In plain terms: we don’t warrant that the service will be error-free or always available, that an import or a generated design will match a source design exactly, that your site will rank, perform or convert in any particular way, or that third-party services you connect will keep working.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we’re not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or lost goodwill, even if we were told they were possible.

Our total liability for all claims relating to Weblane is capped at [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: the cap — e.g. the greater of the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or a fixed floor amount while the service is free].

Nothing here limits liability that can’t be limited by law — including fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, and consumer rights you have where you live.

14. Changes to these terms

We’ll update these terms as Weblane changes. For material changes we’ll give notice — in the app or by email — before they take effect, and the “Last updated” date at the top always tells you which version you’re reading. If you keep using Weblane after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms; if you don’t want to, you can close your account.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: governing law], and disputes go to the courts of [PLACEHOLDER — legal review: venue / jurisdiction, plus any consumer carve-out that lets a consumer sue where they live]. Mandatory consumer protections in your own country still apply where the law says they do.

16. General

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in force. If we don’t enforce something straight away, we haven’t given up the right to enforce it later. You can’t transfer your agreement with us to someone else without our consent; we may transfer ours as part of a reorganisation or sale of the business. Together with any policies we link from this page, these terms are the whole agreement between us about Weblane.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms, a rights complaint, or anything else: [email protected].