Terms of Service — GearHost AI Publishing

1. What these terms cover

These terms apply to the following GearHost services (together, the “AI Publishing Services”):

• Instant Publish: publishing a website to a public https://<name>.gearhost.io address with no account, directly or through an AI app.
• The GearHost MCP server at https://mcp.gearhost.com/ and https://mcp.gearhost.com/account, and the related publishing APIs.
• AI Publishing Keys and connected apps: credentials that let an AI app publish to and manage the CloudSites in your GearHost account.

They supplement the GearHost Terms of Service (the “Main Terms”), which also apply. Where the two conflict about the AI Publishing Services, these terms control. Our Instant Publish privacy policy and the GearHost privacy policy describe how we handle data. By using the AI Publishing Services, directly or through an AI app acting for you, you agree to these terms. You must be at least 13 years old, as the Main Terms require.

2. AI apps act on your behalf

• When you connect an AI app (such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or VS Code) to GearHost, it acts for you. You are responsible for what it does with your key or connection, including publishing, changing, and deleting sites, as if you had done it yourself.
• AI apps can make mistakes. Review what an AI app proposes to publish or delete before you let it proceed, especially anything destructive.
• AI apps are provided by third parties under their own terms. GearHost isn't responsible for how a third-party app behaves, what it sends us, or what it does with information it receives from us.

3. AI Publishing Keys and connected apps

• An AI Publishing Key, or an app you connect by signing in, can reach every CloudSite in your account, including ones created later. Keep keys secret, like a password. Don’t put them in public code, websites, or shared prompts.
• You can revoke a key or disconnect an app at any time in the GearHost panel (Settings → AI Publishing Keys). It stops working immediately.
• We email the account owner when a key is created or an app is connected. Changing or resetting your password disconnects all connected apps. A sign-in lasts at most 90 days before the app has to sign in again.
• We may suspend or revoke a key or connection that we reasonably believe is compromised, abused, or putting the platform or other customers at risk. Keys stop working if the account is disabled.

4. Instant Publish sites are public and temporary

• Everything you publish is public and can be viewed by anyone with the address while it is live. Never publish passwords, keys, or private personal data.
• An unclaimed site is removed automatically about 72 hours after its last update, and no later than 7 days after it was first published, however often it is updated. Once removed, it can’t be restored.
• To keep a site, claim it into a GearHost account. A claimed site becomes a CloudSite in that account, governed by the Main Terms and the account’s plan.
• Instant Publish serves static websites. Server-side code and some file types aren’t accepted, and size, file-count, and rate limits apply. We may change these limits at any time.

5. Acceptable use

You may not use the AI Publishing Services, or let an AI app use them for you, to publish or do anything that:

• is unlawful, or infringes anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights;
• is phishing, impersonates a person or organization, or is otherwise deceptive or fraudulent;
• distributes malware, exploits, or harmful downloads, or uses our hosting as a file-distribution network;
• is sexual content involving minors, or promotes violence, terrorism, harassment, or hate;
• is spam, or supports spam, scams, or unsolicited messaging;
• tries to get around our limits, file-type rules, or security controls, probes or attacks our systems or other customers, or uses many sites or keys to evade limits;
• harms the reputation of the shared gearhost.io domain or the deliverability of other customers.

The Main Terms and GearHost’s program policies also apply.

6. Your content

• You keep ownership of what you publish. You confirm you have the rights to publish it.
• You give GearHost permission to store, copy, cache, scan, serve, and distribute your content (including through our content-delivery and security providers) as needed to run, secure, and improve the AI Publishing Services. This permission ends when the content is removed, except for copies kept briefly in caches, logs, or for legal and abuse-handling reasons.

7. Moderation, reporting and copyright

• We may scan published sites automatically (for example, against Google Safe Browsing), and we may block, remove, or refuse any content or site, or suspend any key or connection, that we believe breaks these terms or puts users or the platform at risk, with or without notice.
• Report abuse with the report_abuse tool or by emailing abuse@gearhost.com. An unclaimed site reported by several different people may be removed automatically while we review it.
• Copyright notices are handled under the DMCA process described in the Main Terms.

8. Availability and changes

Instant Publish and the free parts of the AI Publishing Services are offered as-is. We may change, limit, or stop any part of them, and we may change how many sites or requests we accept, at any time. Paid CloudSites are covered by the Main Terms and your plan.

9. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

THE AI PUBLISHING SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS. GEARHOST IS NOT LIABLE FOR LOST CONTENT, FOR ACTIONS AN AI APP TAKES WITH YOUR KEY OR CONNECTION, OR FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. THE DISCLAIMERS, LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, AND INDEMNITY IN THE MAIN TERMS APPLY TO THE AI PUBLISHING SERVICES.

10. Ending use

You can stop using the AI Publishing Services at any time: delete your sites, revoke your keys, and disconnect your apps. We may suspend or end your access to them as described above or in the Main Terms.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and disputes are handled as set out in the Main Terms (the courts of Denver County, Colorado).

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed. If you keep using the AI Publishing Services after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions: support@gearhost.com · Report abuse: abuse@gearhost.com
Privacy: Instant Publish privacy policy · Setup & integrations: /preview/integrations/