1. Who this agreement is with
These terms govern your use of OnlyText, operated by Alessio Vertemati, Bernareggio (Monza Brianza), Italy. By creating an account or using the service you accept them. If you accept them on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.
OnlyText is offered to businesses, public bodies and other organisations acting in a professional capacity. It is not offered to consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB. Your own terms and conditions do not apply, even if we do not object to them.
2. Accounts
You need an account to use OnlyText, with accurate details and a verified email address. You are responsible for what happens under your account, so keep your credentials to yourself. We recommend enabling passkeys or two-factor authentication; both are available on every account at no cost. Tell us promptly if you believe an account has been compromised.
3. Organisations
Everything in OnlyText belongs to an organisation, not to an individual: sites, files, entitlements and billing. Members hold roles that determine what they may do, and the owner is responsible for who is invited, what role they hold, and what they do with that access. Ownership can be transferred to another member, and members can leave or be removed. If the owner leaves without transferring ownership, we may ask the remaining members to nominate one, and we may suspend the organisation until they do.
4. Early access
OnlyText is in early access:
- There is no service level agreement and no committed availability.
- Features may change, be reworked or be withdrawn.
- Processing may be interrupted, and results of file extraction may be incomplete or wrong.
- Keep your own copy of anything you upload. OnlyText is a delivery platform, not an archive of record, and you should not use it as your only copy of a file.
We will give reasonable notice of a breaking change where we can, and we will not remove your ability to export your content without notice.
5. What the service does
OnlyText takes documents you already hold — uploaded directly, or reached through a connected website, Nextcloud, S3 bucket or comparable source — and delivers them to people and to AI agents in the form each one needs. It organises them into sites, serves them on a vanity domain or a custom domain, produces delivery formats and preview cards, exposes them to agents through the Document Context Protocol and the Document Query Language, and reports how they were consumed.
6. Your content
Your documents remain yours. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership or any intellectual property right in them to us.
You grant us the rights we need to run the service for you, and no more: to store, copy, convert, index, extract, generate previews of and transmit your content, for the purpose of delivering it as you have configured. This licence lasts as long as you keep the content in OnlyText and ends when you delete it. We do not use your content to train machine learning models.
You warrant that you hold the rights necessary to upload each document and to publish it the way you have chosen, and that doing so breaks no law and no one else's rights.
7. Publishing and visibility
Every file and site carries a visibility setting. Public means anyone with the link can view it, including search engines and AI agents, without signing in. Private means only members of the owning organisation can. The boundary holds identically for people and for agents.
Choosing the setting is your decision and your responsibility. We provide tools to help — among them detection of personal data before publication — but they are aids, not a guarantee, and they do not shift responsibility for what you publish. Check before you publish, particularly where a document contains personal data or material a third party owns.
8. Connected sources
When you connect an external source, you confirm you are authorised to grant OnlyText access to it and to make its content available through the service. When you point OnlyText at a website to crawl or to serve as a caching layer in front of, you confirm you control that site or are permitted to do so. Credentials you give us for a connected source are used only to reach that source on your behalf.
9. Acceptable use
You may not use OnlyText to:
- store or publish content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that you have no right to distribute;
- publish personal data without a legal basis for doing so;
- distribute malware, or documents crafted to attack the people or systems that read them, including prompt injection aimed at another party's agents;
- attempt to reach content belonging to another organisation, or to circumvent visibility rules, rate limits or entitlements;
- probe, scan or load-test the service without our written agreement;
- resell or provide the service to third parties as your own, unless we have agreed to it in writing;
- use the service in a way that damages its integrity or degrades it for others.
Report a security problem to security@onlytext.tech rather than demonstrating it against live systems.
10. Agents, interfaces and fair use
Access by AI agents is the point of the product, and automated retrieval is expected. It is still subject to limits: we apply rate limits and fair use thresholds so that one organisation's traffic cannot degrade the service for others. Where a limit applies to your plan it is stated in the application. If your usage substantially and persistently exceeds what your plan covers, we will contact you before restricting anything, except where the load requires immediate action.
11. Fees
During early access, use of OnlyText is free of charge unless we have agreed otherwise with you in writing. We will give you notice before charging for a plan you already use, and you will be able to decline and stop using the service instead of paying.
Where a paid plan applies, fees, the billing period and what the plan includes are shown when you subscribe. Payments are handled by Stripe. Fees are exclusive of VAT, which is added where due. Subscriptions renew for the same period unless cancelled before the end of the current one, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the period already paid for; we do not refund the remainder of a period except where the law requires it. If a payment fails, we may suspend paid features after notifying you.
Plans carry allowances — storage, number of sites, and features such as external storage connections and custom domains. If you move to a plan that no longer includes a feature, the service reconciles: a site that used a custom domain, for example, falls back to its vanity domain. Content in excess of a reduced allowance is not deleted automatically, but you may be unable to add more until you are back within it.
12. Suspension
We may suspend an account, an organisation or an individual site where there is a serious security risk, where the law requires it, where content plainly breaches section 9, or where payment is overdue after notice. We will limit any suspension to what is necessary and tell you why, in advance where the circumstances allow.
13. Term, termination and your data
You may stop using OnlyText and delete your organisation at any time. We may terminate this agreement with 30 days' written notice, or immediately for good cause, including a material breach you do not remedy after being asked.
Before you delete an organisation, export what you need: your original files remain downloadable for as long as the organisation exists. After deletion, content is removed within 30 days, and within that window we can still restore it if you ask. After it, it is gone. If we terminate for a reason other than your breach, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to export first.
14. Warranty
During early access the service is provided as it is, without warranty as to availability, uninterrupted operation, or the accuracy and completeness of document extraction and analytics. This does not affect the liability described in section 15, which applies regardless.
15. Liability
We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and to the extent we have given a guarantee.
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Any further liability is excluded. In particular we are not liable for loss of data where the loss would have been avoided by backups you could reasonably have kept, nor for what a third party's AI agent does with content you chose to publish.
16. Third-party claims
If a third party brings a claim against us because of content you stored, published or made reachable through OnlyText, you will indemnify us against that claim and the reasonable costs of defending it, unless you are not responsible for the breach. We will tell you about the claim promptly and not settle it without your agreement.
17. Confidentiality
Each side keeps the other's non-public information confidential and uses it only to perform this agreement. This does not cover information that is public, already known without obligation, or independently developed, and it does not prevent a disclosure the law requires.
18. Data protection
Our handling of personal data is described in the privacy policy. Where we process personal data contained in your documents, we do so as your processor under Art. 28 GDPR; a data processing agreement, including the list of sub-processors, is available on request and forms part of this agreement once concluded.
19. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms where there is a valid reason, such as a change to the service or to the law. We will give account holders at least 30 days' notice by email. If you object before the change takes effect, either side may terminate the agreement at that date; if you continue using the service after it, the new terms apply.
20. Governing law and venue
This agreement is governed by the law of Italy. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes with merchants, legal entities under public law and special funds under public law is Milan.
21. Final provisions
If a provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the rest stays in force. You may not transfer this agreement without our consent; we may transfer it to a company that takes over the business operating OnlyText. Changes and additions must be in writing, including this requirement.
Questions about these terms go to info@onlytext.tech.