Cline
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“You hereby grant to Cline and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right and license to host, cache, copy, process, transmit, display, perform, and otherwise use your User Content: to provide, maintain, troubleshoot, and secure the Service and any related support you request; to improve and develop the…”
Watch: indemnity liability
Start here. These are the highest-risk verified clauses AIRIN found in the platform's own policy text.
This clause caps Cline's total liability to users at the greater of amounts paid to Cline or $100 USD, applies regardless of the legal theory of liability, and notes jurisdictional limitations on such exclusions.
This clause limits Cline's liability by excluding all indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, and exemplary damages including lost profits and data loss arising from use or inability to use the Service, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
This clause restricts the user from transferring or assigning their rights under the Terms without prior written consent, while permitting the company to assign without restriction, and declares any unauthorized assignment null and void.
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- Cline's training terms are conditional — check the tier, opt-out, and enterprise exceptions before relying on protection.
- Your outputs and prompts are explicitly yours — Cline's terms include affirmatively protective IP language.
- Data handling is conditional — 4 privacy or retention clauses warrant review before using Cline at scale.
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How to read this page: Overall risk rates what Cline's own policy terms mean for your prompts, outputs, and data. The benchmark bands below grade those same verified terms relative to peers — a platform in a risky-by-default category can rate HIGH risk and still grade STRONG against its peer set. Both trace to the cited findings.
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- Privacy PolicyVerified - read in full - 17 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-07-20
- Terms of ServiceVerified - read in full - 52 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-06-08
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This segment defines 'User Content' broadly to include prompts, code, responses, outputs, and AI-generated materials, and establishes that users retain all right, title, and interest in User Content as between user and Cline, while noting Cline's lack of control over AI Model Provider outputs.
" As between you and Cline, you (or, if applicable, your Organization or other licensor) retain all right, title, and interest in and to every line of code, prompt, response, file, terminal output, and other material, content, data and infor..."
This segment grants Cline and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, and — with respect to de-identified or aggregated data — perpetual and irrevocable license to use User Content for providing the Service, improving and developing the Service and products, and for related business purposes including creating de-identified data, establishing broad training and product development rights over user-provided content.
" You hereby grant to Cline and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right and license to host, cache, copy, process, transmit, display, perform, and otherwise use your User Content: to pro..."
This segment states an obligation to comply with contractual and legal requirements as a basis for processing personal data.
" services, including to better understand the demographics of our users; Improve and customize our products and services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with; Test, enhance, update, an..."
This segment obtains user consent for Cline to use the provided email address for service-related notices and marketing communications, establishing permission for specific data uses including commercial communications.
" You may control certain aspects of your User Account and any associated User profile, and of the way you interact with the Service, by changing the settings in your settings page. By providing us with your email address, you consent to our..."
This clause establishes obligations for free trial users, specifying automatic billing conversion at trial end and the requirement to cancel by a specific deadline to avoid charges, creating tier-specific billing obligations.
" We may, at our sole option and in our sole discretion, offer free trials to a particular portion of the Service, subject to the terms of the offer. If you are signed up to such a free trial, we or Payment Processor will automatically bill ..."
This clause obligates the user to comply with all applicable export control laws, trade sanctions, and related regulations (including EAR, OFAC, and ITAR), and requires the user to represent and warrant that they are not a restricted or prohibited party under those regimes.
" You understand and acknowledge that the Service may be subject to export control laws and regulations. You will comply with all applicable import and export and re-export control and trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations, inclu..."
This segment enumerates specific prohibited activities including reverse engineering, automated scraping, and data mining, restricting user conduct and third-party facilitation of such conduct to protect platform integrity and enforce acceptable use standards.
" Except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by Applicable Law, you will not do, and will not assist, permit, or enable any third party to do, any of the following: disassemble, reverse engineer, decode, or decompile any part of the S..."
This clause establishes the procedure by which the company may deliver notices to users (including by email, hard copy, or posting on the service), reserves the company's discretion over notification form and means, and disclaims responsibility for filtering that may prevent receipt of notices.
" We may provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by Applicable Law or are for marketing or other business-related purposes, to you via email notice or written or hard copy notice, or through posting of such notice on t..."
Evidence appendix
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" An individual may access and/or use the Service on behalf of a company or other entity, such as that individual's employer (such entity, an " Organization "). In such cases, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein: (a) these Terms are an agreement between (i) us and such individual and (ii) us and that Organization; (b) "you," as used in these Terms in the context of a license grant, assignment, restriction, obligation, acknowledgment, representation, warranty, or covenant, or in any similar context, means (i) such individual and (ii) "the Organization, on behalf of the Organization and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its and their respective directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and other representatives who access and/or use the Service (collectively, " Org Users ")"; and "your" has the corresponding meanings; (c) such individual represents and warrants to having the authority to bind that Organization to these Terms (and, in the absence of such authority, such individual may not access, nor use, the Service); (d) such individual's acceptance of these Terms will bind that Organization to these Terms; (e) we may disclose information regarding such individual and such individual's access to and use of the Service to that Organization; (f) such individual's right to access and use the Service may be suspended or terminated (and the administration of the applicable User Account may be transferred) if such individual ceases to be associated with, or ceases to use an email address associated with or provisioned by, that Organization; (g) that Organization will make all Org Users aware of these Terms' provisions, as applicable to such Org Users, and will cause each Org User to comply with such provisions; and (h) that"
This segment defines what constitutes an 'Organization' and clarifies how the Terms apply when an individual accesses the Service on behalf of an entity, establishing the dual-party agreement structure and the scope of terms such as 'you' in organizational contexts.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" By connecting to the Service via a third-party service, you give us permission to access and use your information from that service, as permitted by that service, and to store your log-in credentials and/or access tokens for that service."
This segment grants Cline explicit permission to access, use, and store the user's information, login credentials, and access tokens obtained from third-party services connected to the Service, establishing the legal basis for third-party data access and storage.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" You expressly consent and agree to Cline contacting you using written, electronic, and/or verbal means, including manual dialing, emails, prerecorded/artificial voice messages, and/or using an automatic telephone dialing system to call or text your mobile/cellular telephone number, as necessary to complete transactions requested by you and to service your account, and as permitted by Applicable Law, in each case even if the phone number is registered on any United States federal and/or state Do-Not-Call/Do-Not-email registry/ies. Message and data rates apply. For purposes of clarity, the text messages described in this paragraph are transactional text messages, not promotional text messages."
This clause establishes express consent from users allowing Cline to contact them via electronic and verbal means including autodialed calls and texts to complete transactions and service accounts, even if numbers are on Do-Not-Call registries, granting broad communication permission.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" You may provide us with your telephone number as part of creating your User Account or otherwise. By providing a telephone number, you consent to receiving autodialed or prerecorded calls and/or text messages from us, or on our behalf, at such telephone number. We may place such calls or send such texts to (a) help keep your User Account secure through the use of multi-factor authentication ("MFA"); (b) help you access your User Account if you are experiencing difficulties; and/or (c) as otherwise necessary to service your account or enforce these Terms, our policies, Applicable Law, or any other agreement we may have with you. Part of the MFA identity-verification process may involve Cline sending text messages containing security codes to the telephone number you provided, and you agree to receive such texts from or on behalf of Cline."
This clause grants Cline permission to place autodialed or prerecorded calls and send text messages to users who provide telephone numbers, specifying the permissible purposes including MFA, account access, and Terms enforcement.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" We may, at our sole option and in our sole discretion, offer free trials to a particular portion of the Service, subject to the terms of the offer. If you are signed up to such a free trial, we or Payment Processor will automatically bill your Payment Method on the day that follows the last day of your free trial (which day will be the first day of your first Subscription Term), and on the first day of each subsequent Subscription Term, subject to these Terms. If you wish to avoid charges to your Payment Method, you must cancel your free trial by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the last day of your free trial period, using the same method you used to sign up or any other method we make available to you. If you cancel your free trial while it is ongoing, your access to the applicable portion of the Service may be terminated immediately upon such cancellation."
This clause establishes obligations for free trial users, specifying automatic billing conversion at trial end and the requirement to cancel by a specific deadline to avoid charges, creating tier-specific billing obligations.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Subscriptions are available on an automatically renewing subscription basis and entail payment of Subscription Fees. Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of each Subscription Term identified in your subscription order for subsequent terms equal in length to that initial Subscription Term (each such period, a " Subscription Term ") unless and until you cancel the applicable subscription in accordance with the cancellation procedures identified in section 7.4(c) (including any notice period specified in Section 7.4(c) (Cancellation Procedures)). you authorize each of Cline and our Payment Processor (without notice to you, unless required by applicable law) to charge you the applicable subscription fee and any applicable taxes, using any of your payment methods."
Establishes that subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each term and authorizes Cline and Payment Processor to charge the applicable fees on renewal, creating a continuing payment obligation unless cancelled in accordance with the specified cancellation procedures.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" We care about the integrity and security of your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures or to use your data for improper purposes."
This clause disclaims any guarantee of security for personal information, expressly stating that Cline cannot warrant that unauthorized parties will not defeat security measures or misuse data, limiting Cline's liability for data breaches.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you without our prior express written consent, but may be assigned by us without restriction. Any attempted transfer or assignment in violation hereof will be null and void."
This clause restricts the user from transferring or assigning their rights under the Terms without prior written consent, while permitting the company to assign without restriction, and declares any unauthorized assignment null and void.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" User's use of the Service, or (iii) the behavior of other applications that use the Service; take any action that imposes, or may impose (as determined by us, in our sole discretion), an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; use the Service in any manner or for any purpose that (i) violates, or promotes the violation of, any Applicable Law, contractual obligation, or right of any person, including, but not limited to, Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below), privacy rights, and/or rights of personality, (ii) is fraudulent, false, deceptive, or defamatory, (iii) promotes hatred, violence, or harm against any individual or group, or (iv) otherwise may be harmful or objectionable (in our sole discretion) to us or to our providers, our suppliers, Users, or any other third party; use or display the Service in competition with us, to develop competing products or services, for benchmarking or competitive analysis of the Service, or otherwise to our detriment or disadvantage; access any content available on or via the Service through any technology or means other than those provided by the Service or authorized by us; bypass the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including, without limitation, features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or that enforce limitations on use of the Service or any portion thereof; attempt to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security of, or decipher any transmissions to or from, the servers running the Service; use the Service to transmit spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; use the Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; transmit invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service; "
This segment continues the acceptable use restrictions by prohibiting actions that impose unreasonable infrastructure load, violate Applicable Law, infringe intellectual property or privacy rights, or engage in fraudulent or defamatory conduct through the Service.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" IN NO EVENT WILL CLINE OR ANY CLINE INDEMNITEE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS, PROCEEDINGS, LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR COSTS IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO US HEREUNDER OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00), WHICHEVER IS GREATER. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SECTION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF AND/OR LIMITATIONS ON INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS AND/OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THESE TERMS GIVE YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS, WHICH VARY FROM JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION. THE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY UNDER THESE TERMS WILL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW."
This clause caps Cline's total liability to users at the greater of amounts paid to Cline or $100 USD, applies regardless of the legal theory of liability, and notes jurisdictional limitations on such exclusions.
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" TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL CLINE OR ANY CLINE INDEMNITEE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE OR ANY PORTION THEREOF. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS, OR INJURY RESULTING FROM HACKING, TAMPERING, OR OTHER UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICE OR YOUR USER ACCOUNT OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (A) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT; (B) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICE; (C) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVERS RUNNING THE SERVICE AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN; (D) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICE; (E) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICE BY ANY THIRD PARTY; (F) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT, OR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE; AND/OR (G) YOUR DATA, ANY USER CONTENT, OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY. "
This clause limits Cline's liability by excluding all indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, and exemplary damages including lost profits and data loss arising from use or inability to use the Service, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
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" You affirm, represent, and warrant the following: you have obtained, and are solely responsible for obtaining, all consents required by Applicable Law to provide User Content relating to third parties; your User Content and Output and our use thereof as contemplated by these Terms and the Service will not violate any Applicable Law or infringe any rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, any Intellectual Property Rights and privacy rights; your User Content does not include any information or material that a governmental body deems to be sensitive or classified information, and your provision of User Content in connection with the Service is not violative of any confidentiality rights of any third party; we may exercise the rights to your User Content granted to us under these Terms without liability for payment of any guild or other fees, residuals, payments, or royalties payable under any collective bargaining agreement or otherwise; You will not upload or make available through the Service, either directly or by other means: any personal information of children under 13 or the applicable age of digital consent; your User Content does not include nudity or other sexually suggestive content; hate speech, threats, or direct attacks on an individual or group; content that is abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or invasive of another's privacy; sexist or racially, ethnically, or otherwise discriminatory content; content that contains self-harm or excessive violence; fake or impostor profiles; illegal content or content in furtherance of harmful or illegal activities; malicious programs or code; any person's personal information without such person's consent; spam, machine-generated content, or"
This segment imposes affirmative representations and warranties on users that they have obtained all required consents for User Content relating to third parties, that their content does not violate law or third-party rights including IP and privacy rights, and that content does not include classified or sensitive governmental information, creating warranty-based liability exposure for users.
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" Additionally, we offer you the chance to enroll to receive recurring SMS/text messages from Cline. You may enroll to receive text messages about account-related news and alerts and marketing related to Cline products and/or services. By enrolling in Cline's SMS/text messaging service, you agree to receive text messages from Cline to the mobile phone number provided by you, and you certify that such mobile number is true and accurate and that you are authorized to enroll such mobile number to receive such texts. You acknowledge and agree that text messages and calls may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system and that message and data rates apply. Check your mobile plan and contact your wireless provider for details. You are solely responsible for all charges related to SMS/text messages, including charges from your wireless provider. Message frequency varies. Consent is not required as a condition of purchase. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, we are not responsible for any delays upon sending or receiving text messages."
This clause grants Cline permission to send recurring promotional SMS/text messages to users who enroll, with users certifying authorization over the enrolled number, establishing consent-based marketing communication rights.
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" You may control certain aspects of your User Account and any associated User profile, and of the way you interact with the Service, by changing the settings in your settings page. By providing us with your email address, you consent to our using that email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by Applicable Law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use that email address to send you other messages, including, without limitation, marketing and advertising messages, such as messages notifying you of changes to features of the Service and special offers (collectively, " Marketing Emails "). If you do not want to receive Marketing Emails, you may opt out of receiving them or change your preferences by contacting the Service support team at support@cline.bot or by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link within a Marketing Email. Opting out will not prevent you from receiving Service-related notices."
This segment obtains user consent for Cline to use the provided email address for service-related notices and marketing communications, establishing permission for specific data uses including commercial communications.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" We engage third parties to help us facilitate targeted advertising designed to show you personalized ads based on predictions of your preferences and interests developed using personal data we maintain and personal data our third-party partners obtain from your activity over time and across nonaffiliated websites and other services. The data we and our third-party partners use for purposes of facilitating targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research, are primarily collected through the use of a variety of automatic data collection technologies, including cookies, web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies. We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help link the personal data we and our third-party partners collect to the same person, or otherwise target advertising to an individual on a third-party website or platform. In addition to taking the steps set forth in the Automatic Data Collection Preferences section above, you may be able to further exercise control over the advertisements that you see by leveraging one or more targeted advertising opt-out programs. For example: Device-Specific Opt-Out Programs : Certain devices provide individuals the option to turn off targeted advertising for the entire device. "
This segment describes the procedure for opting out of interest-based targeted advertising through the Digital Advertising Alliance program, providing the opt-out mechanism URL, and clarifies that opting out does not eliminate all advertising but limits interest-based personalization, qualifying the scope of the opt-out right.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" You may never use another User's User Account without such User's permission. When creating your User Account, you must provide accurate and complete information, and you must keep this information up to date. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your User Account, you will keep your User Account password(s) and/or any other authentication credentials secure, and you will not share your password(s) and/or any other authentication credentials with anyone else. We encourage you to use "strong" passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols) to protect your User Account. Any Org User with administrator-level access to your User Account can modify your User Account settings, access, and billing information. We will not be liable for, and expressly disclaim liability for, any losses caused by any unauthorized use of your User Account and/or any changes to your User Account, including, without limitation, changes made by any Org User with administrator-level access to your User Account. You will notify us immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your User Account."
This segment imposes obligations on users to provide accurate account information, keep it current, maintain credential security, refrain from sharing passwords, and accept sole responsibility for all account activity, establishing enforceable security and accountability requirements.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" When you enroll in a Subscription, you expressly acknowledge and agree that: (i) each of Cline and Payment Processor is authorized to charge you, at the beginning of each Subscription Term, the Subscription Fee for the applicable Subscription, any applicable Taxes, and any other charges you may incur in connection with such Subscription, subject to adjustment in accordance with these Terms; and (ii) your Subscription is continuous until the earlier of: (A) your cancellation of such Subscription (including any notice period specified in Section 7.4(c) (Cancellation Procedures)) and (B) the suspension, discontinuation, or termination of your access to such Subscription or to the Service in accordance with these Terms. You understand and acknowledge that the amounts billed may vary due to promotional offers, changes to the Subscription Fee in accordance with the Pricing and Payment Terms, and/or changes in applicable Taxes, and you authorize each of Cline and Payment Processor to charge your Payment Method the changed amounts."
Requires the user to expressly acknowledge that Cline and Payment Processor are authorized to charge subscription fees at the start of each term, and that the subscription continues until cancellation or suspension, establishing recurring billing obligations and subscription continuity terms.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" We may provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by Applicable Law or are for marketing or other business-related purposes, to you via email notice or written or hard copy notice, or through posting of such notice on the Service, as we determine, in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to Users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification, as required under Applicable Law or as described in these Terms. We are not responsible for any automatic filtering you or your network provider may apply to email notifications we send to the email address you provide us. We may, in our sole discretion, modify or update these Terms from time to time, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change these Terms in a material manner, we will notify you by updating the ‘Last Modified' date at the top of this page and by maintaining a current version of these Terms on this page. These Terms apply to and govern your access to and use of the Service effective as of the start of your access to the Service, even if such access began before publication of these Terms. Your continued use of the Service after any change to these Terms constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Service. If you do not agree to any part of these Terms or to any future Terms of Service, do not access or use (or continue to access or use) the Service."
This clause establishes the procedure by which the company may deliver notices to users (including by email, hard copy, or posting on the service), reserves the company's discretion over notification form and means, and disclaims responsibility for filtering that may prevent receipt of notices.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
Clause detail — protections, your obligations, and coverage
Every clause below is a verbatim quote from Cline's own published policy, read in full and linked to its exact location. Protections and user obligations are reported separately from risk because they are different kinds of clause — an obligation on you is not a risk to your data. Informational only, not legal advice.
✅ Protections found
7 verified clausesClauses in Cline's policies that work in your favour — commitments the platform made to you.
- Moderation & enforcementterms can change anytime
“For information about our Enterprise Terms of Service, please contact us . These Terms of Service (these " Terms ") describe the terms and conditions by which you may access and/or use our Visual Studio Code extension, our JetBrains extension, and any other s…”
This segment defines the scope and subject matter of the Terms, identifies the contracting parties, defines key terms ('Cline,' 'AI Models,' 'Cline Extensions'), and distinguishes Enterprise from standard terms, establis…
- Terms changes: advance notice promised
📍 Terms of Service › “Last Modified: September 25, 2025”Jump to exact text → - Prompt ownership
“As between you and Cline, you (or, if applicable, your Organization or other licensor) retain all right, title, and interest in and to every line of code, prompt, response, file, terminal output, and other material, content, data and information you upload to,…”
This segment defines 'User Content' broadly to include prompts, code, responses, outputs, and AI-generated materials, and establishes that users retain all right, title, and interest in User Content as between user and C…
📍 § 3.1 (Ownership of User Content)Jump to exact text → - Privacy & data useads & tracking use
“You may opt out from promotional text messages at any time. To unsubscribe from promotional text messages, text or reply "STOP," "QUIT," "END," "CANCEL," or "UNSUBSCRIBE" to the number from which you received the initial text from the mobile device receiving t…”
This clause establishes the procedure by which users may opt out of promotional text messages by sending specific keywords, and discloses that one final confirmation text may be sent after unsubscribing.
📍 § 9.4 (Unsubscribing From Promotional Messages)Jump to exact text → - Governing law & disputesarbitration & class-action waiver
“NOTHING IN THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT WILL BE DEEMED AS: PREVENTING US FROM SEEKING INJUNCTIVE OR OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF FROM THE COURTS AS NECESSARY TO PREVENT THE ACTUAL OR THREATENED INFRINGEMENT, MISAPPROPRIATION, OR VIOLATION OF OUR DATA SECURITY, CONFIDE…”
This clause carves out exceptions to the arbitration agreement by permitting the company to seek injunctive or equitable relief from courts for IP/data security violations, and permitting users to pursue claims in small…
📍 Terms of Service › “(d) Equitable Relief”Jump to exact text → - Governing law & disputesarbitration & class-action waiver
“If you are a new User, you can reject and opt out of this Arbitration Agreement within thirty (30) days of accepting these Terms by emailing us at notice@cline.bot with your full, legal name and stating your intent to opt out of this Arbitration Agreement. Opt…”
This clause establishes the procedure for new users to opt out of the arbitration agreement within 30 days by emailing notice@cline.bot with specified information, and clarifies that opting out does not affect other Term…
📍 Terms of Service › “(b) Opting Out of Arbitration Agreement”Jump to exact text → - Indemnity & liabilitydamages/liability cap
“These terms give you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights, which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The disclaimers, exclusions, and limitations under these terms will not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.”
This clause creates an exception to the disclaimers and limitations, specifying that they do not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law and preserving users' statutory rights that vary by jurisdiction.
📍 § 13 (No Warranty; Disclaimers)Jump to exact text →
+ 1 more verified clause of this kind on this platform, cited in full in the report.
📋 Rules you must follow
7 verified clausesWhat Cline requires of YOU. These are your obligations, not risks to your data or IP, so they are cited here and excluded from this platform's risk rating.
- Moderation & enforcementconduct restrictions
“User's use of the Service, or (iii) the behavior of other applications that use the Service; take any action that imposes, or may impose (as determined by us, in our sole discretion), an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; us…”
This segment continues the acceptable use restrictions by prohibiting actions that impose unreasonable infrastructure load, violate Applicable Law, infringe intellectual property or privacy rights, or engage in fraudulen…
📍 § 2.2 (Restrictions and Acceptable Use)Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcementconduct restrictions
“Except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by Applicable Law, you will not do, and will not assist, permit, or enable any third party to do, any of the following: disassemble, reverse engineer, decode, or decompile any part of the Service; use any robo…”
This segment enumerates specific prohibited activities including reverse engineering, automated scraping, and data mining, restricting user conduct and third-party facilitation of such conduct to protect platform integri…
📍 § 2.2 (Restrictions and Acceptable Use)Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“You understand and acknowledge that the Service may be subject to export control laws and regulations. You will comply with all applicable import and export and re-export control and trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including the Export Admin…”
This clause obligates the user to comply with all applicable export control laws, trade sanctions, and related regulations (including EAR, OFAC, and ITAR), and requires the user to represent and warrant that they are not…
📍 § 17 (Export Controls)Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“You represent and warrant that: (i) the account, order, and Payment Method information you supply to us and/or to Payment Processor, as applicable, is true, accurate, correct, and complete; (ii) you are duly authorized to use the Payment Method(s); (iii) you w…”
Requires the user to represent and warrant that their payment information is accurate, that they are authorized to use the payment method, that they will pay all charges incurred, and that they will not share subscriptio…
📍 Terms of Service › “(c) Payment Representations and Warranties”Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“This is a contract between you and Cline. You must read and agree to these Terms before using the Service. If you do not agree, you may not use the Service. You may use the Service only if you can form a legally binding contract with us, and only in compliance…”
This segment establishes eligibility requirements restricting Service use to legally competent adults, prohibiting minors from using the Service, and conditioning access on compliance with Applicable Law and these Terms,…
📍 § 1.1 (Eligibility)Jump to exact text →
+ 2 more verified clauses of this kind on this platform, cited in full in the report.
What the policies actually cover
10 topics- Product telemetry & usage tracking1 clause
- Advertising & tracking1 protective4 clauses
- Data shared with other AI providers1 clause
- Arbitration & class-action waiver2 protective6 clauses
- Damages & liability cap1 protective8 clauses
- Indemnity direction1 clause
- Terms can change at any time1 protective3 clauses
- License survival after account deletion1 clause
- Auto-renewal & cancel window5 clauses
- Conduct restrictions3 obligations3 clauses
36 further verified clauses are cited on this page but not yet assigned a topic.
Cross-clause notes
The Terms of Service, § 3.3 (User Content Representations and Warranties) describes rights the platform takes in user content, and the Privacy Policy, Privacy Policy › “Personal Data from Other Sources and Third Parties” describes disclosure of data to third parties or subprocessors. Both clauses are in force at the same time — read them together.
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Clause intelligence
Canonical clauses and stance patterns extracted from the same gate-verified citations shown on this page.
The clause restricts commercial use.
“For any Claim, you will first contact us at notice@cline.bot and attempt to resolve the Claim with us informally. In the unlikely event that we have not been able to resolve a Claim after sixty (60) days, we each agree to resolve such Claim exclusively through binding arbitration by JAMS before a single arbitrator (the " Arbitrator "), under the Optional Expedited Arbitration Procedures then in effect for JAMS (th...”Open source citation
The clause imposes arbitration, class-action waiver, or jury-trial waiver terms.
“THESE TERMS CONTAIN A MANDATORY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION PROVISION IN SECTION 15.2 (THE " ARBITRATION AGREEMENT ") AND A CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER PROVISION IN SECTION 15.3 (THE " CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER ") THAT REQUIRE, UNLESS YOU OPT OUT PURSUANT TO THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AN...”Open source citation
The clause imposes arbitration, class-action waiver, or jury-trial waiver terms.
“You agree that Delaware is the proper and exclusive forum for any appeals of an arbitration award, or for trial court proceedings in the event that the Arbitration Agreement below is found to be unenforceable. These Terms were drafted in the English language and this English language version of the Terms is the original, governing instrument of the understanding between you and us. In the event of any conflict bet...”Open source citation
The clause imposes arbitration, class-action waiver, or jury-trial waiver terms.
“READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT REQUIRES THE PARTIES TO ARBITRATE THEIR DISPUTES AND LIMITS THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU CAN SEEK RELIEF FROM US. This Arbitration Agreement applies to and governs any dispute, controversy, or claim between you and us that arises out of or relates to, directly or indirectly: (i) these Terms, including the formation, existence, breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation, vali...”Open source citation
The clause imposes arbitration, class-action waiver, or jury-trial waiver terms.
“If you are a new User, you can reject and opt out of this Arbitration Agreement within thirty (30) days of accepting these Terms by emailing us at notice@cline.bot with your full, legal name and stating your intent to opt out of this Arbitration Agreement. Opting out of this Arbitration Agreement does not affect the binding nature of any other part of these Terms, including the provisions regarding controlling law...”Open source citation
Tier matrix
Plan-level conditions detected from citation-backed clauses. Empty tiers mean AIRIN has not captured decisive tier language yet.
| Tier | Surface | Verdict | Risk | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All applicable tiers | commercial use | conditional | MEDIUM | 2 |
| All applicable tiers | data retention | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | governing law disputes | conditional | MEDIUM | 5 |
| All applicable tiers | output ownership | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | privacy data use | conditional | MEDIUM | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | training use | worsens | HIGH | 1 |
| Api | subprocessors data sharing | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| Api | training use | worsens | HIGH | 4 |
| Free | privacy data use | worsens | HIGH | 2 |
| Pro / Paid | indemnity liability | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| Team / Business | confidentiality | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| Team / Business | moderation enforcement | worsens | HIGH | 3 |
Policy evolution
Open full timelineBefore/after stance changes across captured policy versions. When no material delta exists yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing on privacy data use
“We engage third parties to help us facilitate targeted advertising designed to show you personalized ads based on predictions of your preferences and interests developed using personal data we maintain and personal data our third-party partners obtain from your activity over time and across nonaffiliated websites and other services. The data we and our third-party partners use for purposes of facilitating targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research, are primarily collected through the use of a variety of automatic data collection technologies, including cookies, web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies. We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help link the personal data we and our third-party partners collect to the same person, or otherwise target advertising to an individual on a third-party website or platform. In addition to taking the steps set forth in the Automatic Data Collection Preferences section above, you may be able to further exercise control over the advertisements that you see by leveraging one or more targeted advertising opt-out programs. For example: Device-Specific Opt-Out Programs : Certain devices provide individuals the option to turn off targeted advertising for the entire device.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing on subprocessors data sharing
“We may receive the same categories of personal data as described above from the following sources and other parties: Single Sign-On : We may provide you the ability to log in to our services through certain third-party accounts you maintain. When you use these single sign-on protocols to access our services, we do not receive your login credentials for the relevant third-party service. Instead, we receive tokens from the single sign-on protocol to help identify you in our system (such as by your username) and confirm you successfully authenticated through the single sign-on protocol. This information allows us to more easily provide you access to our products and services. Advertisers : We engage in advertising both on our services and through third-party services. Advertisers may share personal data with us in connection with our advertising efforts. For example, we may obtain information about whether an advertisement on our services led to a successful engagement between you and a third-party advertiser. Service Providers : Our service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as analytics and certain marketing providers, collect personal data and often share some or all of this information with us. For example, we receive personal data you may submit in response to requests for feedback to our survey providers. Our Affiliates : We are able to offer you the products and services we make available because of the hard work of our team members across all Cline entities.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing on subprocessors data sharing
“We disclose or otherwise make available personal data in the following ways: To Marketing Providers : We coordinate and share personal data with our marketing providers in order to advertise and communicate with you about the products and services we make available. To Ad Networks and Advertising Partners : We work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content on our services, on other websites and services, and across other devices. These parties may collect information automatically from your browser or device when you visit our websites and other services through the use of cookies and related technologies. This information is used to provide and inform targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research. To Service Providers : We engage other third parties to perform certain services on our behalf in connection with the uses of personal data described in the sections above. Depending on the applicable services, these service providers may process personal data on our behalf or have access to personal data while performing services on our behalf. To Our Affiliates : We are able to offer you the products and services we make available because of the hard work of our team members across Cline entities. To provide our products and facilitate our services, Cline entities disclose personal data to other Cline entities for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing on subprocessors data sharing
“To Other Businesses as Needed to Provide Services : We may share personal data with third parties you engage with through our services or as needed to fulfill a request or transaction including, for example, payment processing services. To AI Model Providers : When you use API keys provided by Cline rather than your own, we transmit your request, which may include personal data, to the AI model provider on your behalf. Once this personal data is received by the AI model provider, it is subject to the applicable AI model provider's privacy notice. Some AI model providers may use content for training unless you have explicitly opted out where such an option is offered by that AI model provider. You are encouraged to review the applicable AI model provider's privacy notice for more information. In Connection with a Business Transaction or Reorganization : We may take part in or be involved with a business transaction or reorganization, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose, transfer, or assign personal data to a third-party during negotiation of, in connection with, or as an asset in such a business transaction or reorganization. Also, in the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, receivership, or insolvency, your personal data may be disclosed, transferred, or assigned to third parties in connection with the proceedings or disposition of our assets.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable on privacy data use
“You hereby grant to Cline and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right and license to host, cache, copy, process, transmit, display, perform, and otherwise use your User Content: to provide, maintain, troubleshoot, and secure the Service and any related support you request; to improve and develop the Service and Cline's products and for its related business purposes, including without limitation by creating and using de- identified or aggregated data (and this license is perpetual and irrevocable with respect to any de-identified or aggregated data) for its business purposes; provided, however, that when you purchase a per-seat Subscription (defined below) on your User Account, this subsection 2 will not apply during such Subscription; and to comply with law, enforce these Terms, and protect the Service and its users.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: broad license on privacy data use
“You hereby grant to Cline and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right and license to host, cache, copy, process, transmit, display, perform, and otherwise use your User Content: to provide, maintain, troubleshoot, and secure the Service and any related support you request; to improve and develop the Service and Cline's products and for its related business purposes, including without limitation by creating and using de- identified or aggregated data (and this license is perpetual and irrevocable with respect to any de-identified or aggregated data) for its business purposes; provided, however, that when you purchase a per-seat Subscription (defined below) on your User Account, this subsection 2 will not apply during such Subscription; and to comply with law, enforce these Terms, and protect the Service and its users.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: platform claims or reserves rights on training use
“WE CLAIM NO OWNERSHIP RIGHTS OVER YOUR USER CONTENT. WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AND ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR ANY USER CONTENT. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USER CONTENT AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUBMITTING, POSTING, DISPLAYING, PROVIDING, SHARING, OR OTHERWISE MAKING IT AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, AND YOU UNDERSTAND AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ACTING ONLY AS A PASSIVE CONDUIT FOR YOUR ONLINE DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLICATION OF YOUR USER CONTENT. DUE TO THE NATURE OF MACHINE LEARNING, THE OUTPUT OF THE SERVICE MAY NOT BE UNIQUE ACROSS USERS AND THE SERVICE MAY GENERATE THE SAME OR SIMILAR OUTPUT FOR OTHER USERS. USE OF THE SERVICE MAY RESULT IN INCORRECT OUTPUT THAT DOES NOT ACCURATELY REFLECT REALITY. YOU MUST EVALUATE THE ACCURACY OF ANY OUTPUT AS APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR USE CASE, INCLUDING BY USING HUMAN REVIEW OF THE OUTPUT. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE OUTPUT MAY BE INACCURATE, OBJECTIONABLE, INAPPROPRIATE, OR OTHERWISE UNSUITED TO YOUR PURPOSE, AND YOU AGREE THAT WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY ALLEGES TO INCUR AS A RESULT OF OR RELATING TO ANY OUTPUT OR OTHER CONTENT GENERATED BY OR ACCESSED ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: platform claims or reserves rights on moderation enforcement
“Subject to your compliance with these Terms and any documentation we may make available to you, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, and freely revocable right and license to access and use the Service, solely for your personal use or internal business purposes, as applicable, strictly as permitted by the features of the Service. We may terminate the license granted in this Section at any time, for any reason or no reason. We reserve all rights not expressly granted herein in and to the Service.”Open timeline citation
Capture recency
- Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-07-20· verified 2026-07-20
- Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-06-08· verified 2026-06-08verified once — no re-scan in 94 days
Dates state when our pipeline captured and verified each document — not when the vendor last changed it. Documents are re-scanned on a recurring cadence; a document verified once says so until a re-scan confirms it again.
↑ 42 more findings this quarter vs last (113 vs 71). First scan: June 2026.
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