A. Terms of Service Summary: When you use Hatch, you are agreeing to these terms and our Privacy Policy, and promising to safeguard your account. You agree to use the service in accordance with our community guidelines.

1. Acceptance of Terms

Hatch provides users with a hosted community gallery to publish, discover, and connect around side-projects (the “Service”). By using the Service, you are entering into a binding agreement with Hatch, and you agree to comply with these Terms of Service (“Terms”) and also agree to our Privacy Policy; if you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

2. Account Usage and Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, including but not limited to the restriction of access to your computer and/or account.

3. Commercial Use

If you use our commercial product, the Hatch Commercial Agreement will apply and govern your use of our services in addition to these Terms.

4. Minimum Age

You must be an adult to use the Service. If you are younger than 13 we will allow you to use the Service if you first provide us with your parent or guardian’s written consent.

B. Acceptable Use Summary: Hatch hosts a wide variety of side-projects from all over the world, and that hosting only works when our users are able to work together and not abuse the Service. Certain conduct and content are prohibited on Hatch.

1. Prohibited Conduct

While using the Service, you must not engage in any conduct that is abusive or violates applicable laws, regulations, or these Terms. Prohibited conduct includes:

• Interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Service.
• Abusive advertising, spamming, or commercial solicitation.
• Phishing or impersonation, whether or not the target is a user of the Service.
• Creating accounts with automation or registering accounts in bulk.
• Conducting network attacks.
• Scraping or otherwise obtaining content, reverse-engineering any part of the Service, or for any other purpose.
• Infringing the privacy of other users, including by harvesting personal information.
• Using accounts to evade a ban or penalty from Hatch.

2. Prohibited Content

You are solely responsible for the content you create, submit, and share on the Service. The following content is prohibited and you agree not to post such content to the Service:

• Defamatory, harassing, abusive, threatening, or bullying.
• Profanity, violent, or graphic content, including hate speech or symbols.
• Visual depictions or explicit descriptions of sex and nudity.
• Promoting illegal conduct.
• Hoaxes, malware, and pyramid schemes.
• Infringing the intellectual property rights of others.
• Disrupting the experience of other users.

C. Content on Hatch Summary: You affirm you own the rights to the content you post to Hatch. You give us permission to display your content, make your content available to others, and to use it to improve our Service.

1. Your Content and Ownership

When you submit content to the Service, you affirm that you hold all of the rights to the content or have obtained all necessary permissions and rights from the owner to share it on the Service. Except as provided in these terms, you retain any and all of your rights to any content you submit, post, or display on or through the Service, and you are responsible for protecting those rights.

To provide the Service, you grant Hatch the right to copy, display, distribute, perform, reformat, and modify your content as necessary to operate the gallery and the agent-friendly MCP server.

2. Public Apps

Content you publish as a public App is made available for others to discover. It is your responsibility to ensure that your content is appropriately licensed.

3. Third Party Content

Content on the Service originates from various sources and is made accessible for your use on the Service only. You acknowledge that your access and use of this content is at your own risk.

4. Hatch Ownership

Hatch owns and retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Service and related software, all improvements, enhancements or modifications thereto, and all intellectual property rights associated with the foregoing.

5. Data Protection and Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. As explained in our Privacy Policy, which is part of this Terms, we want to inform you that we collect, use, and share your personal information and usage data to provide and improve the Service, communicate with you, and for security purposes.

6. Copyright Violations

Hatch takes copyright infringement seriously. If you believe that your copyright has been violated on the platform, please promptly notify us of the infringement at legal@hatch.local.

D. Notices, Changes, and Termination Summary: We may make changes to these terms and conditions at any time.

1. Modification of Terms and Conditions

Hatch reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify or replace these terms and conditions at any time by updating these Terms. It is your responsibility to regularly review the terms.

2. Account Termination

Upon termination, your right to use the Service will cease immediately. Hatch holds, in its sole discretion, the right to suspend or terminate your account. This may occur for various reasons, including but not limited to violations of these Terms.

3. Survival

All provisions of these Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

E. Limitations and Disclaimers Summary: The Service may contain errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, which we may correct at any time. As you use the Service at your own risk, we do not accept responsibility for loss or damage.

1. Disclaimer of Warranties

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis.

2. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Hatch will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages.

F. General Terms

1. Feedback and Suggestions

Any feedback or suggestions provided by you to Hatch with respect to the Service will remain the sole and exclusive property of Hatch.

2. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at support@hatch.local.