Terms and Conditions

1. Scope of these terms

These Terms apply to your access to and use of DevChrono, including the public website, private workspace, API routes, support forms, generated summaries, exports, and any self-hosted or private deployment you operate.

DevChrono is a private engineering work journal for daily logs, debugging notes, tasks, snippets, documents, attachments, and project context. It is not a secrets manager, incident-response platform, legal archive, or regulated-recordkeeping system.

2. Accounts and workspace access

You are responsible for the accuracy of account information you provide and for keeping account credentials, API tokens, administrator credentials, session access, and deployment configuration secure.

If you operate a self-hosted or private deployment, you are responsible for database access, object storage credentials, SMTP configuration, backups, updates, migrations, environment variables, domain configuration, and access controls.

3. Your content and responsibility

You keep responsibility for the notes, snippets, attachments, documents, tasks, comments, tags, summaries, and exports you create or upload in DevChrono.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to store, process, search, summarize, share, and export the content you add to your workspace.

You are responsible for reviewing copied snippets, exported Markdown, and shared documents before relying on them or sending them outside DevChrono.

4. Acceptable use

Do not use DevChrono to store production secrets, private keys, passwords, access tokens, illegal content, malware, exploit instructions intended for abuse, or material intended to harm systems, people, or organizations.

Do not attempt to bypass authentication, access another user or workspace without permission, probe or interfere with the service infrastructure, abuse API endpoints, exceed intended rate limits, or use DevChrono to violate applicable law or third-party rights.

5. Plans, billing, storage, and third-party services

DevChrono offers a 30-day free trial without requiring a payment card. After the trial ends, continued write access requires an active paid subscription.

Paid plans are billed monthly or yearly through Paddle. Paddle acts as merchant of record and handles payment collection, invoicing, tax where applicable, and stored payment methods.

You can cancel at period end from Settings. After the current billing period ends, the account becomes read-only until you resubscribe.

Refund requests may be submitted within the published refund window and are reviewed by DevChrono before any Paddle refund is issued.

Available features, storage limits, attachment behavior, and API access may vary by account, deployment, configuration, and plan.

Some features depend on third-party infrastructure or services, including database hosting, S3-compatible object storage, email delivery, Paddle, Cloudflare, and Google reCAPTCHA.

6. Account deletion and retention

You may delete your account from Settings by confirming with your password and the required deletion phrase.

If your subscription or trial expires and you do not resubscribe, DevChrono may keep read-only workspace data for up to 90 days while sending retention reminders before automatic deletion.

After account deletion, DevChrono may retain a minimal tombstone record to prevent repeat free-trial abuse and preserve billing or audit references.

7. API tokens and automation

API tokens are credentials. Keep them private, rotate them when access changes, revoke unused tokens, and avoid embedding them in public repositories, shared documents, client-side code, browser-visible assets, or logs.

You are responsible for actions performed through your account, administrator access, API tokens, imported data, automations, and configured integrations.

8. Availability, backups, and changes

DevChrono may change over time as features, integrations, deployment requirements, storage behavior, limits, and security practices evolve.

The product is provided without a guarantee that any specific feature, integration, storage provider, export format, or API route will remain available indefinitely.

If you operate your own deployment, you are responsible for maintaining backups, testing restores, applying updates, monitoring capacity, and protecting infrastructure from unauthorized access.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

DevChrono is provided as a work journal and productivity tool. It does not replace professional security review, legal advice, compliance review, backup strategy, incident response, or engineering judgment.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, DevChrono is provided without warranties of uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, loss-free storage, or fitness for a particular regulated or mission-critical use.

10. Changes to these terms

These Terms may be updated as DevChrono changes. The effective date at the top of this page shows when the current version was published.

If a change materially affects how the product operates or how user responsibilities are described, the updated terms should be reviewed before continued use.