Terms of service

1. Who we are

Coding Buddy is provided by Gustavo Cenci Peters Tecnologia da Informação Ltda, a company based in Brazil ("we", "us"). Contact: support@codingbuddy.io.

2. What you get

A subscription gives you a license key for the Coding Buddy app for macOS and its VSCode extension, on up to 2 Macs that you use yourself, and the updates we release while your subscription is active. The license is personal: you may not resell it, share the key, or use it to offer the app to others.

3. What you need to bring

The app needs macOS 14 or later, Visual Studio Code and your own Anthropic and OpenAI API keys. AI usage is not included in the price: the app uses your own Anthropic and OpenAI API keys, and those companies bill you directly under their own terms. You are responsible for those accounts and what they cost.

4. Price and billing

The subscription costs $12 per month, charged in US dollars to the payment method you give at checkout, in advance for each period, and it renews automatically until you cancel. Payments are processed by Stripe. Taxes that apply where you live may be added, and your bank may charge currency or international fees that we do not control. If we change the price, we tell you by email at least 30 days before it applies to you.

Free trial. A new subscription starts with 7 days free. Your payment method is collected at checkout and first charged when the trial ends, unless you cancel before then. The trial does not cover AI usage, which your providers bill as described above. One trial per person.

5. Cancelling

You can cancel at any time from Manage subscription, signing in with the email you used at checkout. Cancelling stops future charges. The app keeps working until the end of the period you have paid for, and then locks until you subscribe again. Your settings and API keys stay on your Mac.

6. Refunds

If you are not satisfied, write to support@codingbuddy.io within 7 days of a charge and we refund that charge in full. Refunds go back to the original payment method and end the subscription. After 7 days a charge is not refunded, except where the law says otherwise. Nothing here limits rights the consumer law of your country gives you, including any right to withdraw from an online purchase.

7. How the license check works

The app checks your subscription online about once a day and keeps working for up to 7 days without a connection. If the subscription has ended, or a payment has failed and was not recovered, the app locks until it is renewed.

8. Using it properly

• Do not try to get around the license check, and do not redistribute the app or a modified copy of it.
• Do not use the app to break the law or the terms of the AI providers whose keys you use.
• The tutor is produced by AI models and can be wrong. You decide what goes into your code: the app changes a file only after you agree, and you are responsible for reviewing and keeping backups of your work.
• Follow your school's or employer's rules on AI assistance. That is yours to check.

9. Your content and your privacy

Your code and your conversations stay yours. They are sent from your Mac to the AI providers under your own accounts and do not come to us. The privacy policy says what we do collect.

10. Our software

The app, the extension, this site and the Coding Buddy name belong to us or to those who license them to us. These terms give you a right to use the software, not ownership of it.

11. Availability and changes

We work to keep the app and the license service running, but we do not promise they will be uninterrupted or free of errors. The app depends on services run by others (Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Apple, Microsoft's VSCode), which may change or stop. We may change or remove features; if a change makes the app materially worse for you, you can cancel and ask for a refund of your last charge.

12. Warranty and liability

The app is a learning aid provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we give no other warranties, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses (including lost data, lost work or charges from your AI providers), and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Some laws do not allow these limits for consumers; where that is so, they apply only as far as the law permits.

13. Ending the agreement

You can end it by cancelling. We may suspend or end a subscription that breaks these terms or is used for fraud, and will refund the unused part of the current period unless the breach was deliberate.

14. Law

These terms are governed by the law of Brazil. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in and may bring a claim in its courts.

15. Changes to these terms

When these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. For changes that matter, we tell subscribers by email at least 30 days ahead. If you do not agree, you can cancel before the change applies.