1.Agreement to Terms; Binding Contract
These Terms govern your access to and use of the Colabs mobile applications, websites, features, content, and related services (collectively, the "Platform"). By creating an account, tapping "I Accept," checking the agreement box, or accessing or using the Platform in any way, you enter into a legally binding agreement and represent that you have the authority and capacity to do so. Your acceptance is recorded electronically, including the version of these Terms in effect at that time and when you accepted, and you agree that such record is valid, admissible, and sufficient evidence of your agreement. If you use the Platform on behalf of an organization, you agree to these Terms on its behalf and bind it to these Terms. If you live in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, the section "Additional Terms for Users in the EEA and UK" applies to you and prevails over any conflicting provision.
2.Who You Are Contracting With; "Colabs Parties"
You are contracting with Colabs World, Inc. and its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and related, connected, successor, and assign entities. Wherever these Terms protect, release, disclaim liability for, limit liability of, or require indemnification of "Colabs" or the "Colabs Parties," that protection extends to and may be enforced by Colabs World, Inc. and each of its parent, subsidiary, affiliated, related, and connected companies, and each of their respective owners, shareholders, investors, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, representatives, licensors, suppliers, and service providers, and their successors and assigns. Each Colabs Party is an intended third-party beneficiary of these Terms with the right to enforce them directly.
3.Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher) and legally able to form a binding contract to use the Platform. By registering, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements, that all registration information is accurate, and that you are not barred from using the Platform under any applicable law, by sanctions, or by prior termination by us. Use by anyone under 18 is strictly prohibited. We may request proof of age or identity at any time and may suspend or terminate accounts that fail to meet these requirements.
4.Account Registration and Security
You are solely responsible for the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to provide accurate information, keep it current, use strong credentials, and notify us immediately at support@colabs.ai of any suspected unauthorized use or security breach. You may not share, sell, transfer, or let others use your account, and you may not create an account using automated means or false information. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from unauthorized use of your account.
5.Nature of the Platform; We Are Not a Party to User Interactions
The Platform is a medium for communication and collaboration that helps people discover subjects (Fields), places (Communities), ideas, projects, research outputs, and one another, and gives them tools to collaborate. Colabs does not employ, endorse, sponsor, supervise, or control users, and does not organize, host, lead, fund, or participate in the projects, tasks, research, activities, meetings, or transactions that users arrange through the Platform. Any agreement, meeting, project, activity, transaction, or relationship between users, or between a user and any third party, is solely between those parties. Colabs is not a party to and assumes no responsibility for any such interaction. Colabs is a privately operated service. It is not a government actor or a public forum, and no one has a right to have content hosted, shown, recommended, or kept on the Platform, or to keep an account. We may decide what the Platform carries and how it is arranged, as described in the Moderation section. Recommendations and suggestions — for example "People to collaborate with," "Neighbours," open roles, ideas, and projects — are generated automatically from information users provide and from activity on the Platform. They are not endorsements, vetting, or a statement that anyone is qualified, trustworthy, or safe. No screening. Colabs does not screen, vet, approve, or monitor users, projects, tasks, Fields, Communities, or content before they appear on the Platform, and does not check that any of them are genuine, lawful, safe, or as described. We provide tools for reporting problems and may act on reports, but at the Platform’s scale we can review only a small fraction of what is posted. That a user, project, task, or piece of content appears on the Platform, is recommended, appears in search, or remains after being reported does not mean that Colabs has reviewed or approved it. Project owners, project administrators, and Field, Community, or project moderators are users, not employees or agents of Colabs. They do not speak or act for Colabs, and Colabs is not responsible for their decisions. You use the Platform, and interact with others, entirely at your own risk.
6.Badges and Trust Signals
The Platform may display badges or labels on some accounts, such as the Premium check or roles. These are LIMITED signals and are NOT identity verification, background checks, credential checks, or endorsements. The Premium check: a check next to a person’s name means only that the account has a current Premium subscription. It is a paid feature. It does NOT confirm a person’s legal name, age, identity, qualifications, criminal history, intentions, or that they are safe to meet, work with, or pay. Colabs does not verify anyone’s photos or identity. Any review we carry out of an account, application, project, task, or piece of content is limited to the information in front of us at the time and is not an investigation, license check, or guarantee. Badges may become out of date and may be removed at any time. You must make your own judgment about every person you deal with, whether or not they display a badge.
7.User Conduct and Prohibited Activities
You agree not to, and not to permit or enable others to: (a) post or transmit content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or that infringes any right; (b) impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity, affiliation, credentials, or qualifications; (c) harvest, scrape, collect, or store other users’ information; (d) stalk, harass, threaten, defraud, or harm any person; (e) transmit spam, malware, or any disruptive or malicious code; (f) circumvent, disable, reverse engineer, or interfere with the Platform, its security, or its rate limits; (g) use the Platform for any illegal, commercial-solicitation, or unauthorized purpose; (h) fabricate, falsify, or plagiarize research data, results, citations, or reviews, or manipulate reviews, citations, reactions, or reports; (i) share another person’s trade secrets or confidential information, or information you are obligated to keep confidential; (j) offer services that require a professional license you do not hold; (k) share export-controlled technical data or otherwise violate export-control or sanctions laws; (l) organize or promote any activity involving minors except as permitted in the section on Communities, Civic Activity, Minors, and Emergencies; or (m) violate any applicable law or third-party right. You also agree to abide by our Community Guidelines, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference. We may investigate and take any action we deem appropriate, including content removal, suspension, termination, and reporting to law enforcement.
8.User Content and License to Colabs
You retain ownership of the content you create, post, upload, or share ("User Content"), but you are solely and fully responsible for it and for any consequences of sharing it. License to Colabs. By submitting User Content, you grant Colabs and the Colabs Parties a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, and sublicensable (to our service providers and as needed to operate the Platform) license to host, store, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, publish, publicly perform and display, and distribute your User Content, in any media now known or later developed, for the purposes of operating, providing, securing, moderating, promoting, researching, and improving the Platform, including product analytics and developing and training models used to provide or improve the Platform. Private content. We will NOT use the content of your private messages, or content in projects or conversations that are not visible to the public, to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models or for advertising, except (a) in de-identified or aggregated form that does not reveal the content, or (b) where needed for safety, moderation, security, or legal compliance. Duration. The license lasts for as long as your User Content is on the Platform. When you or we delete User Content, the license ends, except that it continues for (a) content you shared with others that they have re-shared, quoted, or incorporated; (b) content you contributed to a shared project, which remains part of that project as described in the next section; (c) reasonable backup and legal-retention periods; and (d) de-identified or aggregated data and models already trained. License to other users. Content you share with other users may be viewed, used, and shared by them as the Platform’s features allow (for example, members of a project can view and use files contributed to it). Where you attach an open license to content (for example, a Creative Commons license on an Artifact), that license governs other users’ rights in that content, and you understand that open licenses generally cannot be revoked once granted. You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights necessary to grant these licenses and that your User Content does not violate any law or third-party right. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights in your User Content as against the Colabs Parties for the licensed purposes.
9.User Content Is the User’s Speech, Not Ours
User Content is created by, and is the speech of, the user who posts it. That user is its author and publisher. Colabs is not the publisher or speaker of User Content, does not adopt or endorse it, and does not verify that it is accurate, lawful, or appropriate (see 47 U.S.C. §230). Views expressed by users are their own and not those of Colabs. Hosting, displaying, ranking, recommending, labeling, translating, summarizing, or moderating User Content — or choosing not to — does not make Colabs its author, publisher, or speaker, and does not mean Colabs agrees with it. You may encounter content that is offensive, inaccurate, misleading, harmful, or unlawful, including in messages sent to you. You use the Platform with that understanding and at your own risk, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Colabs is not responsible for any User Content or for any loss or damage arising from it.
10.Projects, Collaboration, and Ownership of Work
Projects, tasks, and discussions let users work together. Colabs provides the tools only; the collaboration is between the users involved. No transfer of ownership. Nothing on the Platform assigns, transfers, or licenses intellectual property between users, and joining a project does not by itself give anyone ownership of, or rights to, anyone else’s work, except the rights to view and use shared content that the Platform’s features provide and any license you attach. If ownership, authorship, credit, confidentiality, inventorship, revenue, equity, or payment matters to you, you are solely responsible for agreeing it with your collaborators in writing, outside the Platform. Disputes between collaborators. Colabs is not a party to, and has no obligation to resolve, any dispute between users about ownership, credit, authorship, contributions, roles, membership, money, or the direction of a project. We may, but are not required to, act on a report that a user has violated these Terms. Owner controls. Project owners and administrators can edit, archive, and delete projects and remove members, which may remove access to content others contributed. Keep your own copies of anything important to you. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Colabs is not liable for loss of access to, or deletion of, project content. Contributions after you leave. Content you contribute to a shared project forms part of that project’s record for the other people working on it. If you leave the project or delete your account, that content may remain with the project without attribution to you, as described in our Privacy Policy.
11.Ideas Are Public, Not Confidential
Ideas, proposals, discussions, and similar posts are shared with other users and are NOT confidential. Colabs does not protect ideas, and posting one gives you no exclusive right to it. Other users — and Colabs itself — may already be working on, or may later independently develop, similar ideas, and you agree that neither Colabs nor any other user owes you compensation, credit, or confidentiality because of something you posted. Public disclosure can affect patent and other rights. In many countries, disclosing an invention publicly before filing a patent application can prevent you from obtaining a patent. Do not post anything you intend to patent, any trade secret, anything owned by your employer or another person, or anything you are obligated to keep confidential. If in doubt, get legal advice before posting.
12.Research Content, Artifacts, Reviews, and Results
Not professional advice. Content on the Platform — including research outputs ("Artifacts"), findings, methods, datasets, results, reviews, and discussions — is provided by users for information only. It is not medical, health, legal, financial, engineering, safety, or other professional advice, has not been checked by Colabs, and may be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Do not rely on it for decisions affecting health, safety, money, or legal rights without independent professional advice. Reviews and verdicts are opinions. Reviews, verdicts (such as "Endorse," "Replicated," or "Concerns"), citations, and reported results are the opinions and reports of the users who submit them. They are not peer review, certification, or validation by Colabs. Reviewers are solely responsible for their reviews, including their accuracy and for any claim that a review is defamatory. Artifacts are public. Artifacts you publish are visible to everyone, including on public web pages that search engines may index. You are responsible for choosing a license you are entitled to grant; the default license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) lets anyone reuse the Artifact, including commercially, and generally cannot be withdrawn once others rely on it. Personal data and research ethics. Do not publish personal information about other people, health or other sensitive data, or data collected from human participants unless you have every consent and approval required (for example, from an ethics committee or institutional review board) and the data is lawfully shareable. You are solely responsible for complying with the research-ethics, data-protection, biosafety, and other rules that apply to your research. Dual-use and controlled research. You are solely responsible for determining whether information you share is subject to export controls, sanctions, security classification, or rules on dual-use research, and for not sharing it where prohibited.
13.Tasks and Work Between Users
Tasks, roles, and requests for help are arrangements between users. Colabs does not employ, engage, or contract with anyone who performs or requests work through the Platform, and no employment, independent-contractor, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship exists between Colabs and any user because of that work. Colabs does not guarantee that any task will be done, done well, done on time, or done safely. Any payment, reward, reimbursement, or other compensation between users is arranged directly between them, outside the Platform, at their own risk; Colabs does not hold, process, or guarantee it and cannot recover it. Each user is responsible for their own taxes, insurance, licenses, permits, workplace-safety obligations, and compliance with employment and labor laws. Volunteer work is performed at the volunteer’s own risk.
14.Communities, Civic Activity, Minors, and Emergencies
NOT AN EMERGENCY SERVICE. The Platform is not a way to report emergencies, crimes, or hazards to any authority, and Colabs does not monitor posts in real time or forward them to anyone. If someone is in danger or there is an urgent hazard, contact your local emergency number (for example 911, 112, or 999) and the relevant authority first. Civic and in-person projects. Colabs does not organize, supervise, insure, or inspect any in-person activity. Organizers and participants are solely responsible for obtaining any required permits, landowner or authority permissions, insurance, and safety measures, and for the condition of any place, equipment, or materials used. Participation is voluntary and at your own risk. Minors. The Platform is for adults only. You may not use the Platform to organize, promote, or recruit for any activity in which minors take part unless you are acting for an organization that is responsible for safeguarding them and you comply with every applicable law and safeguarding requirement, including any background checks, supervision, and parental consents. Colabs does not conduct background checks and accepts no responsibility for the safety of minors at any activity.
15.Messages, Automated Scanning, and Disappearing Messages
Messages are delivered to the people in the conversation and stored by us so that the service works. To protect users and comply with the law, we use automated tools to scan content — including text and images in messages — for a limited set of serious harms such as child sexual exploitation, credible threats, and illegal content, and we review content that users report to us. These tools are limited and do not detect everything, and we do not monitor conversations generally. We do not use the content of private messages for advertising. Where offered, disappearing messages remove messages from a conversation after the time set for it. They are not a guarantee of erasure: anyone in the conversation can read, copy, forward, or screenshot messages before then, and we may retain removed messages for a limited period for safety, security, and legal reasons as described in our Privacy Policy. Do not share anything you would not want kept.
16.Location and Visibility
Some features use your location. Joining a Community lists you among its members ("Neighbours"), which shows other users that you are associated with that place, and your activity status may be visible to others depending on your settings. Joining a Field or project may likewise show your interests or work to others. You are responsible for deciding what you share and with whom, and you can change the visibility and location settings the Platform offers at any time. Settings control what the Platform shows from then on; they cannot recall information that others have already seen, copied, or shared.
17.Moderation, Reporting, Notices of Illegal Content, and Appeals
No obligation to monitor. Colabs does not pre-screen users, projects, tasks, or User Content and has no obligation to monitor, review, or remove them, although we may do so at any time and in our discretion. Our decision to review, keep, restrict, or remove any content, or our failure to do so, does not make us responsible for that content and creates no duty to you or anyone else. How moderation works. We may restrict, hide, label, or remove content and restrict or suspend accounts that we believe violate these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or the law. We use a combination of user reports, automated tools (for example, image and text classifiers and rules that act when a number of different users report the same content), and human review. Automated tools may hide content pending human review. Reporting illegal content. You can report content in the app or by emailing safety@colabs.ai. To help us act, include where the content is, why you believe it is illegal or violates our rules, your name and email (unless you are reporting child sexual abuse material), and a statement that your report is accurate and made in good faith. We report apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to other authorities as required by law, and may report threats to life or safety to law enforcement. Decisions and appeals. Where required by law, or where we otherwise choose to, we will tell you when we restrict your content or account and why. You can appeal a moderation decision in the app, where available, or by emailing safety@colabs.ai. We may take action without notice where notice would create a risk of harm or prejudice an investigation.
18.Safety Tools Have Limits
The Platform offers tools such as blocking, muting, reporting, privacy and visibility settings, automated scanning, rate limits, and disappearing messages. They are provided to help you, but they are not guarantees. They may not work in every case, may be delayed or interrupted, and can be circumvented — for example, by someone creating a new account, by others re-sharing content, or by a technical fault. Blocking someone does not prevent them from seeing content you have made public or that others share, and reporting content does not guarantee that we will act, or act within any particular time. You are responsible for your own safety decisions, including what you share and with whom. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Colabs is not liable for any failure, delay, or limitation of these tools, or for anything another user does despite them. If you are in danger, contact your local emergency number.
19.How We Use Information
Our collection and use of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which explains what we collect, why, the legal bases we rely on where the law requires them, how long we keep it, and your rights and choices. Where you are in the United States, you acknowledge and agree to the practices it describes, including our use of information to operate, secure, personalize, and improve the Platform; for research, analytics, and product development; to develop and train models used to provide or improve the Platform (subject to the private-content limits above); for safety, moderation, and fraud prevention; to show advertising and affiliate offers; to enforce these Terms; to comply with law; and in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. We may create and use de-identified and aggregated data, which we may retain and use indefinitely. Where the law requires your consent for a particular use (for example, contact matching, ad consent where required, or sensitive data), we will ask for it separately, and nothing in these Terms substitutes for that consent. You may exercise your privacy rights by contacting privacy@colabs.ai.
20.Contact Matching (Optional; Off by Default)
Contact matching is an OPTIONAL feature that is OFF by default. We will not access, transmit, or process your address book unless you separately and expressly enable "Find friends from my contacts" in Settings → Privacy (or accept the equivalent in-app consent prompt) AND grant your device’s contacts permission. If you enable it, you instruct us to transmit the phone numbers and email addresses in your address book to our servers so that we can compare them against existing Colabs accounts and show you which of your contacts already use the Platform. You represent that you have the right to share that information with us for this purpose, and you agree not to enable the feature if doing so would breach any duty of confidentiality or other obligation you owe to the people in your contacts. We use that information solely to perform the match and return the results to you; we do not retain your address book, use your contacts for advertising, or sell, rent, or share them. See the Contacts section of our Privacy Policy for full details. You may withdraw this consent at any time in Settings → Privacy, which stops all further contact matching. Withdrawing it does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal, and does not limit your other rights under the Privacy Policy. Exporting contacts. If you import or export contact information (for example, to a CSV or vCard file), you are solely responsible for having the right to do so and for handling that information lawfully.
21.Feedback
If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Platform itself, you grant Colabs a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use and exploit it for any purpose without restriction, attribution, or compensation. This does not apply to Ideas, projects, or other User Content you post for other users, which are covered by the User Content section.
22.Third-Party Services, Links, and Affiliate Offers
The Platform may surface, link to, or integrate third-party content, providers, listings, affiliates, and services (including external retail and marketplace partners, maps, and sign-in providers). Those third parties are independent, and their offerings are governed by their own terms and policies. Colabs does not control, endorse, guarantee, or assume any responsibility for any third party, their content, or any transaction or interaction you have with them, including pricing, availability, fulfillment, safety, or returns. Any dealings with third parties are solely between you and the third party, and Colabs disclaims all liability arising from them to the fullest extent permitted by law.
23.Advertising, Affiliate, and Sponsored-Content Disclosure
The Platform shows advertising, and some listings, links, and product suggestions are affiliate, sponsored, or commissioned placements, which means Colabs may earn a commission, fee, or other compensation when you view, click, or purchase through them, at no additional cost to you. Not every such link is individually labeled, so you should assume that any link to a product or merchant may earn Colabs compensation. Where a feature contains affiliate links, the app discloses this within that feature — for a gear list, with a short notice beside the links and more detail behind its info icon. Advertising and sponsored placements are chosen by Colabs and its partners, not by the users whose projects, tasks, or content they appear next to, and they are not endorsed by those users. The one exception is a project’s or task’s gear list: its organizers choose the items, and Colabs links each item to a search for it on Amazon, which may be an affiliate link. The presence of a listing is not an endorsement by Colabs, and compensation may influence which offers appear. As an Amazon Associate, Colabs earns from qualifying purchases. You are responsible for evaluating any offer and for your own purchasing decisions.
24.Beta and Evolving Features
The Platform is under active development. Features may be labeled beta, preview, or experimental, or may be offered to some users only, and any feature may be changed, limited, or withdrawn at any time. Such features are provided as-is and may contain errors or lose data.
25.Changes to the Platform; Storage, Retention, and Removal of Data
Changes to the Platform. We may add, change, limit, suspend, or remove any part of the Platform — including any feature, setting, default, limit, or tool — at any time, with or without notice. This includes messaging, disappearing messages, deletion, visibility, privacy, safety, and moderation features. Where we discontinue the Platform entirely, we will try to give reasonable notice so you can save your content, but we are not otherwise liable to you for any such change. How we handle data. Subject to applicable law and our Privacy Policy, we decide how and where data is collected, processed, stored, backed up, secured, transferred, made available, and deleted, and which service providers we use, based on what we consider necessary or appropriate to operate, secure, improve, and pay for the Platform and to comply with the law. EXCEPT WHERE APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES OTHERWISE OR OUR PRIVACY POLICY EXPRESSLY STATES A SPECIFIC COMMITMENT, COLABS DOES NOT PROMISE THAT ANY CONTENT OR DATA WILL BE STORED FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME, REMAIN AVAILABLE, OR BE RECOVERABLE, OR THAT IT WILL BE DELETED OR REMOVED WITHIN ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR FROM EVERY COPY OR LOCATION. Removal tools are best-effort. Deleting content or an account, disappearing messages, blocking, and privacy and visibility settings work on a best-effort basis. Removal takes time to take effect across our systems, including backups and caches, and cannot reach copies that other users, recipients, or third-party services already have — for example, screenshots, forwards, downloads, notifications already delivered to a device, or public content copied by search engines or other sites. Security. We use security and privacy measures that we consider reasonable, and we may change them at any time. No measure is perfect, and we do not guarantee that any of them will prevent unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or disclosure. Keep your own copies. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of any content or data you want to keep. Except as stated above, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, Colabs is not responsible for storing, preserving, or returning any content or data, or for its loss or deletion.
26.Assumption of Risk; User Interactions and In-Person Meetings
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS AND THIRD PARTIES, WHETHER ONLINE OR IN PERSON, AND YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. Colabs does not conduct criminal background checks, identity verification, credential checks, or screening of users, projects, or tasks. Any badge, including the Premium check, is limited as described in the section on Badges and Trust Signals and does not change this. Colabs does not guarantee that any user, project, task, activity, or location is safe, lawful, accurate, or as represented. You acknowledge that other users may misrepresent themselves and that real-world activities carry inherent risks, including risk of property damage, illness, injury, or death. You agree to use caution and good judgment, to take reasonable safety precautions when communicating with or meeting anyone, and to comply with all applicable laws. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COLABS AND THE COLABS PARTIES ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR THE CONDUCT, ACTS, OR OMISSIONS OF ANY USER OR THIRD PARTY, OR FOR ANY HARM, LOSS, OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM ANY INTERACTION, PROJECT, TASK, ACTIVITY, OR MEETING FACILITATED THROUGH THE PLATFORM.
27.Release; You Agree Not to Hold Colabs Responsible
In plain terms: Colabs provides the medium, and the people who use it are responsible for what they say and do. By using the Platform, you agree not to hold Colabs or the Colabs Parties responsible for the content or conduct of any user or third party, online or offline. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, you release, waive, and discharge Colabs and the Colabs Parties from, and covenant not to sue them for, any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses of every kind and nature, known or unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with (a) User Content, (b) any dispute, interaction, collaboration, transaction, project, task, activity, or meeting with another user or third party, (c) the act, omission, or conduct of any user or third party, or (d) any unauthorized access to or use of the Platform, your account, or your information by a third party. If you are a resident of a jurisdiction that limits such releases (for example, California Civil Code §1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party"), you expressly waive the protections of any such law to the fullest extent permitted. This release does not apply to claims that cannot be released under applicable law.
28.Disclaimer of Warranties
THE PLATFORM AND ALL CONTENT, FEATURES, AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COLABS PARTIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE COLABS PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, THAT CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED, OR THAT ANY CONTENT, RECOMMENDATION, BADGE, OR USER IS ACCURATE, RELIABLE, QUALIFIED, OR TRUSTWORTHY. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE PLATFORM CREATES ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HERE. COLABS HAS NO OBLIGATION TO STORE, BACK UP, OR RETURN ANY CONTENT, AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING YOUR OWN COPIES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTY EXCLUSIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
29.Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COLABS PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE CAUSED BY ANY USER OR THIRD PARTY, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM USER CONTENT, THE CONDUCT OF ANY USER OR THIRD PARTY, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE PLATFORM OR YOUR INFORMATION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM, THESE TERMS, OR ANY INTERACTION WITH ANOTHER USER OR THIRD PARTY, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE COLABS PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COLABS PARTIES’ TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO COLABS IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). THESE LIMITATIONS ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BARGAIN AND APPLY EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, SUCH AS LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT WHERE THE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT ITS EXCLUSION, OR (WHERE APPLICABLE LAW SO PROVIDES) FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR OWN NEGLIGENCE. IN THOSE CASES THE COLABS PARTIES’ LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
30.Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Colabs Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, investigations, damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) brought by a third party or a government authority and arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content; (b) your violation of these Terms or any law or third-party right; (c) your projects, tasks, collaborations, interactions, transactions, activities, or meetings with any user or third party; or (d) your negligence or willful misconduct. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate with our defense. You will not settle any matter affecting the Colabs Parties without our prior written consent.
31.Intellectual Property
The Platform and all associated software, content, designs, trademarks, logos, and features (excluding User Content) are owned by Colabs World, Inc. or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Platform. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works from any part of the Platform except as expressly permitted.
32.Copyright Complaints (DMCA)
We respect intellectual-property rights and respond to notices of alleged infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content on the Platform infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent — Copyright Agent, Colabs World, Inc., 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA; phone +1 302-636-5401; email copyright@colabs.ai — that includes: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to locate it; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf. We may remove allegedly infringing content, forward notices to the affected user, and terminate repeat infringers. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. Submitting a false claim may subject you to liability.
33.Purchases, Subscriptions, and Billing
Certain features may require payment or a subscription. Prices, features, and availability may change. Paid subscriptions may automatically renew for successive periods at the then-current rate until cancelled, and you authorize us and our payment processors to charge your payment method accordingly. You are responsible for managing and cancelling subscriptions through the applicable app store or account settings before the renewal date. Except where required by law or expressly stated, all payments are non-refundable and purchases are final. If we terminate your account without cause, we will refund any prepaid fees for the unused period that we can refund ourselves; where the purchase was made through an app store that controls refunds (for example, Apple), you can request the refund from that store and we will not oppose it. Payments made through third-party app stores or processors are also subject to their terms. Consumers in the EEA and UK may have a statutory right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days, as described in the section for those users. Premium. Premium is an optional subscription sold only inside the Colabs iOS and Android apps, through Apple App Store or Google Play billing. It is not sold on our website. Your payment is processed by Apple or Google under your App Store or Google Play account and their terms, and we confirm each purchase with Apple or Google. A store subscription can be linked to only one Colabs account at a time. The following applies to Premium: (a) What Premium includes. Premium gives you exactly two things: no ads (no ad banners and no affiliate product links) while your subscription is current, and a public Premium check next to your name. The Premium check means only that you have a current Premium subscription. It is not identity verification, as explained in "Badges and Trust Signals." Premium does not change anything else about how the Platform works for you or how others see your content. (b) Plans and prices. Premium is offered as a monthly plan (US$9.99 per month) or a yearly plan (US$59.99 per year). The price you pay is the one shown in the app at the time of purchase, which may differ by country or region and currency and may include or exclude applicable taxes. (c) Free trial. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers; the monthly plan has no free trial. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial, it converts automatically into a paid yearly subscription and you will be charged the yearly price when the trial ends. (d) Automatic renewal. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each monthly or yearly period, and your App Store or Google Play account is charged for the next period, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. (e) Cancelling. You cancel Premium, including during a free trial, in your App Store or Google Play account settings. Deleting the app or your Colabs account does not cancel a store subscription. When you cancel, Premium continues until the end of the period you have already paid for and then ends. (f) No grace period. If a renewal payment fails, Premium ends immediately; there is no grace period. Ads return and the Premium check is removed until a payment succeeds and your subscription is current again. (g) Refunds. Except as stated above for an account we terminate without cause, refunds for Premium are handled by Apple or Google under their own refund policies, not by Colabs; request one from the store you bought it through. If Apple or Google grants a refund, Premium ends immediately.
34.App Store Terms (Apple and Google)
If you download the Platform from the Apple App Store or Google Play, you also agree to the applicable app-store terms, and the following applies. These Terms are between you and Colabs World, Inc., not with Apple or Google, and Apple and Google are not responsible for the Platform or its content. Apple and Google have no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Platform. To the extent permitted by law, Apple and Google are not responsible for any product warranties, claims of non-conformity, product-liability claims, or claims that the Platform infringes intellectual-property rights; any such claims are governed by these Terms. Apple, Google, and their subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
35.Export Controls and Sanctions
You represent that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of any country or region subject to comprehensive U.S., EU, or UK sanctions, and that you are not on, or owned or controlled by anyone on, any government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You agree not to use the Platform to export, re-export, transfer, or share any software, technology, or technical data in violation of export-control or sanctions laws, and you are solely responsible for determining whether anything you share is controlled.
36.Suspension, Termination, and Deletion of Accounts
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, TO SUSPEND, RESTRICT, DISABLE, OR PERMANENTLY TERMINATE AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT, PROFILE, CONTENT, OR ACCESS TO THE PLATFORM, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AT ANY TIME, INCLUDING FOR suspected violation of these Terms or our Community Guidelines, conduct we deem harmful, unlawful, or objectionable, risk to other users or to us, extended inactivity, or business, operational, or legal reasons. Where required by law, we will give you notice and a statement of reasons and allow you to appeal, as described in the Moderation section. You have no right or property interest in your account, and we are not obligated to retain or return any of your content following termination. You may stop using the Platform and delete your account at any time through in-app settings. All provisions that by their nature should survive — including those on the Colabs Parties, User Content and licenses, User Content being the user’s speech, projects and ownership of work, ideas, research content, the limits of safety tools, changes to the Platform and data handling, data use, feedback, third parties, affiliate disclosure, assumption of risk, release, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, intellectual property, dispute resolution, and the general provisions — survive termination.
37.Dispute Resolution; Binding Arbitration; Class-Action and Jury Waiver
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO CONSUMERS WHO LIVE IN THE EEA OR THE UK. Informal resolution first. You and Colabs agree to first try to resolve any dispute informally. The party raising a dispute must send a written notice describing it and the relief sought (to legal@colabs.ai for notices to us), and the parties will negotiate in good faith for at least sixty (60) days. Any limitation period is suspended while this process is under way. Arbitration. If not resolved, you and Colabs agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Platform or these Terms will be resolved exclusively by FINAL AND BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court or seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property or unauthorized-access matters. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. Fees are allocated as provided in the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, under which the business pays most administrative and arbitrator fees. Class-action and jury waiver. YOU AND COLABS AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE CLAIMS OR PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. TO THE EXTENT ANY CLAIM PROCEEDS IN COURT, YOU AND COLABS EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL. Mass arbitration. If twenty-five (25) or more similar demands are filed against Colabs by or with the assistance of the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules and fee schedule will apply, the demands will be administered in batches, and any limitation period for a demand is suspended while it awaits administration. Time limit. Any claim must be brought within ONE (1) YEAR after it arises, or it is permanently barred, to the extent permitted by law. Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@colabs.ai from the address associated with your account, within thirty (30) days after you first accept these Terms (or this version of them), with your name and a statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms. Changes. If we change this section, the change will not apply to any dispute of which we had notice before the change. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) will proceed in court, and the remainder of this section remains in effect.
38.Governing Law and Venue
These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or the Platform are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and, where applicable, by the Federal Arbitration Act. Subject to the arbitration provision above, you and Colabs consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Delaware for any matter not subject to arbitration. Mandatory consumer-protection rights under the laws of your place of residence are not affected by this provision.
39.Additional Terms for Users in the EEA and UK
If you are a consumer who lives in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the following applies and prevails over anything else in these Terms: (a) Your rights. Nothing in these Terms affects the rights you have as a consumer under the mandatory laws of the country where you live, including rights relating to digital content and services and to unfair contract terms. (b) Disputes. The Dispute Resolution section (arbitration, class-action waiver, jury waiver, and one-year time limit) does not apply to you. You may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live, and the governing-law clause does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of that country. If you are in the EEA, you may also use an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under the EU Digital Services Act for disputes about content moderation. (c) Liability. We are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill, but not for loss or damage that is not foreseeable. We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. The Release, Indemnification, and "Safety Tools Have Limits" sections, and the liability statements in "User Content Is the User’s Speech, Not Ours," apply to you only to the extent permitted by the law of your country. We provide the Platform for private, non-commercial use, and we are not liable to you for business losses. (d) Suspension and termination. We will suspend or terminate your account only for a valid reason (such as a breach of these Terms or the Community Guidelines, a legal requirement, a risk of harm, or discontinuing the Platform), and we will give you a statement of reasons and a way to appeal as required by law. (e) Changes. We will give you reasonable advance notice of changes that materially affect you, and you may close your account before they take effect. (f) Withdrawal. Where you buy a paid digital service from us directly, you may have a 14-day right to withdraw. If you ask us to start providing the service within that period, you may be asked to pay for what you used before you withdrew. (g) Data protection. Our Privacy Policy explains the legal bases on which we process your personal data and your rights under the GDPR and UK GDPR. Nothing in these Terms is a request for, or a substitute for, your consent under data-protection law.
40.Changes to These Terms
We may modify these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will give you reasonable advance notice through the Platform or by email (a shorter period may apply where required for legal, safety, or security reasons, or where the change only adds protections for you), and where required we will ask you to accept the updated Terms. If you accept them earlier — for example, through an in-app prompt — they apply to you from when you accept. If you do not agree, you may stop using the Platform and close your account before the changes take effect. Otherwise, your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. Changes to the Dispute Resolution section are also subject to the limits in that section.
41.Electronic Communications and Notices
You consent to receive communications from us electronically, including by email, in-app message, or notice posted on the Platform, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications provided electronically satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing. Notices to us must be sent to legal@colabs.ai or by mail to Colabs World, Inc., Attn: Legal, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA. It is your responsibility to keep your contact information current.
42.General Provisions
These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Community Guidelines are the entire agreement between you and Colabs regarding the Platform and supersede all prior agreements. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions remain in full effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them, including to any Colabs Party or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, provided that doing so does not reduce your rights as a consumer. Nothing in these Terms creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship. The Colabs Parties are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond their reasonable control (force majeure). Section headings are for convenience only.
43.Contact
Questions about these Terms? Contact us — Support: support@colabs.ai | Legal: legal@colabs.ai | Privacy: privacy@colabs.ai | Safety and reports of illegal content: safety@colabs.ai | Copyright: copyright@colabs.ai | Mail: Colabs World, Inc., 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA.
Last updated: October 31, 2026 (v4.0.0). By tapping "I Accept These Terms," checking the agreement box, or creating an account, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service in full, including that you are solely responsible for your content and interactions, that you agree not to hold Colabs responsible for the content or conduct of other users or third parties, the assumption of risk, release, content license, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, our right to suspend or delete your account, and (unless you are an EEA or UK consumer or you opt out) binding arbitration with a class-action waiver.