Terms of Service · CodeMote

Last updated: 26 July 2026

These Terms were drafted by the developer of CodeMote, not by a lawyer, and they are not legal advice. They are written to be fair and to comply with Italian and EU law. Where a clause conflicts with a mandatory consumer protection, the protection wins and the clause gives way.

1. Who we are

CodeMote is provided by Salvatore Castellitti, sole trader (ditta individuale), Via Giacinto Albino 9, 86100 Campobasso, Italy, P.IVA 01945740700, s.castellitti.dev@gmail.com ("we", "us", "the Provider").

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the CodeMote web application at codemote.dev and of any account you create there ("you", "the User"). By creating an account or using the service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2. What CodeMote is

CodeMote is a browser client for a machine you already control. You start the CodeMote host on your own computer or server, and the web application connects to it over a tunnel that you start and that you can shut down at any moment. Through that connection you get an editor, terminals, git, pull requests and coding-agent chats for that machine.

Your code does not pass through our servers. The connection carrying your files, terminal output, git data and agent conversations runs between your browser and your own machine. We operate the accounts and the subscription; we do not operate a copy of your workspace. The Privacy Policy describes this in detail.

The CodeMote iOS app is the same product with a different client. A subscription's capabilities are shared between the two, so what you buy on one is honoured on the other according to the plan you hold.

3. Early access

The web application is in early access. That has consequences you should weigh before paying for anything:

Features may change, be replaced, or be withdrawn.

The twenty founder seats and any free trial are granted at our discretion and may be changed or withdrawn for accounts that have not paid.

We make no promise of uptime, of continuity, or that any data held in your account will survive indefinitely.

We will not withdraw access you have already paid for during a period you have already paid for. If we discontinue a paid service outright, we will give reasonable notice.

4. Eligibility and your account

You must be 18 years of age or older to use the service. One account belongs to one person; do not share it.

Your email inbox is your credential. Sign-in works by sending a one-time code to your address: anyone who can read that inbox can sign in as you, so keep it secure, and keep your signed-in sessions to devices you control. Codes are single-use, expire after a few minutes, and stop working after a small number of wrong attempts.

Tell us promptly at the address in section 1 if you believe someone else has reached your account.

5. Your machine, your responsibility

CodeMote gives you a remote control for a computer. What that computer does is yours to answer for. You are responsible for:

the machine you connect to, its security, and the software running on it;

the tunnel provider you choose, and the exposure that creates;

every command, edit and agent action carried out through the service;

your own backups. We do not hold a copy of your work and cannot restore it.

Coding agents such as Claude, Codex or Cursor run on your machine, under your own API keys or subscriptions. Your prompts and your code go to those vendors, under those vendors' terms, and never through us. Their usage limits, their pricing and their content policies are between you and them.

You must not use the service to reach systems you are not authorised to reach.

6. Licence

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use CodeMote for its intended purpose, for as long as these Terms are in force and any required subscription is active.

CodeMote is proprietary, closed-source software. You may not copy, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, resell, rent, sublicense or create derivative works from it, except where such a restriction is prohibited by law.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

use the service for any unlawful purpose, or to access systems you are not authorised to access;

attempt to break, circumvent or abuse the service's security, tunnelling, accounts or licensing;

distribute malware through it, or use it to harm others or to infringe third-party rights;

resell or provide the service to third parties as if it were your own.

We may suspend or terminate access for a breach of this section.

8. Subscriptions and billing

Access to the web application requires an active subscription, except where a founder seat or a trial applies.

Web purchases are sold by Polar as Merchant of Record. Polar is the seller of record for those transactions, its terms govern the sale, and it issues the receipt. Payment is processed by Polar and we never see or receive your card details.

iOS purchases are sold through Apple and managed by your Apple Account.

Capabilities are additive. Holding one plan never requires cancelling another, and no purchase invalidates a purchase you already made.

Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period at the then-current price until you cancel. Cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.

Cancel a web subscription through the customer portal linked from your Polar receipt, or by writing to the address in section 1. Cancel an App Store subscription in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions; deleting an app does not cancel a subscription.

We may change prices. Changes are announced in advance, apply from your next renewal, and never retroactively to a period you have already paid for.

9. Refunds and withdrawal

We do not issue refunds. Because purchases are made through Polar or Apple, any refund request is theirs to decide under their own policies. Contact Polar for a web purchase, or Apple ("Report a Problem" at reportaproblem.apple.com) for an App Store purchase.

Except where a refund is required by mandatory law, fees already paid are non-refundable, and periods that are only partly used are not pro-rated.

Immediate access and the right of withdrawal. As a consumer in the EU you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract. Because CodeMote is digital content supplied immediately, we begin supply only where you have expressly requested immediate supply and acknowledged that, once supply begins, the 14-day right of withdrawal is lost. We ask you for that request and that acknowledgement at checkout, before you pay. If you would rather keep the withdrawal period, do not confirm it; write to us instead and we will explain the alternative.

Your mandatory statutory rights as a consumer are not affected by anything in this section.

10. Availability and changes to the service

We do not offer a service-level agreement. We may modify, suspend or discontinue any part of the service, and we may impose reasonable limits to keep it running for everyone.

Where a material change affects a consumer who is paying for the service, we will give reasonable notice before it takes effect.

11. No warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted or error-free operation, or that defects will be corrected. We do not guarantee that a connection to your machine can always be established, or that third-party services (Vercel, Turso, Resend, Polar, Apple, RevenueCat, tunnel providers, AI vendors) will be available.

This section does not exclude the legal guarantee of conformity owed to consumers under the Codice del Consumo, which continues to apply.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption, or damage to your devices, code or systems arising from your use of, or inability to use, the service.

You are solely responsible for backing up your work, for the security of the machine you connect to, and for the consequences of the commands and agent actions carried out through the service.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability is limited to the amount you actually paid us for the service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or wilful misconduct, for gross negligence (colpa grave), or any mandatory liability toward consumers under Italian or EU law.

13. Third-party services

The service depends on third parties, each governed by its own agreement with you or with us:

Provider	Role
Vercel	Hosting for codemote.dev
Turso	Database holding accounts and subscription grants
Resend	Delivery of sign-in codes by email
Polar	Merchant of Record for web purchases
Apple, RevenueCat	In-app purchases and subscription status for iOS
Cloudflare, Microsoft devtunnel, ngrok, Tailscale	Tunnel providers you may choose to reach your machine
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor and similar	AI vendors whose tools you run on your own machine, under your own account

We are not responsible for these services, their availability or their terms.

14. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if your continued use puts the service or other users at risk. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why.

You may stop using the service at any time and delete your account from within the application. Deleting your account erases the account and the subscription grants attached to it. It does not by itself cancel a subscription billed by Polar or Apple; cancel that as described in section 8.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The updated version takes effect when it is posted here with a new "Last updated" date, and continued use after that means you accept it. For material changes that affect consumers we will give reasonable notice before they take effect.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Italian law, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you, as a consumer, are habitually resident.

If you are a consumer: you keep every protection that law gives you, and you may bring proceedings before the courts of your place of residence. You may also seek out-of-court resolution (conciliazione) through the bodies provided for by the Codice del Consumo.

If you are acting as a business: the exclusive place of jurisdiction is the courts of Campobasso, Italy.

We would much rather solve a problem by email than in a courtroom. Write to us first.

17. Contact

Salvatore Castellitti, Via Giacinto Albino 9, 86100 Campobasso, Italy, P.IVA 01945740700, s.castellitti.dev@gmail.com