Terms of service

Article 1 — General information and definitions

1.1 Service provider identification

EXELLECT SAS
Société par Actions Simplifiée au capital de 1000 €
Registered office: 30 bis, rue du Vieil Abreuvoir, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
RCS Versailles : 994 676 922
SIRET : 99467692200010
TVA Intracommunautaire : FR7803.994676922
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://erlyc.com

Publication director: Alexandre Savchenko
Data Protection Officer: [email protected]
Web host: HOSTINGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

1.2 Nature of the application

Erlyc is a web application that turns plain-language product ideas into structured project boards, written specifications, diagrams and generated application source code, using third-party large-language models (AI).

IMPORTANT: everything Erlyc produces — specifications, diagrams and generated code — is AI-assisted draft material, not reviewed professional work. Erlyc provides no engineering, security, legal or compliance validation of any kind. You must review, test and validate all output before relying on it or deploying it.

1.3 Definitions

• "Application" or "Erlyc": the web application accessible at erlyc.com.
• "Boards": the guided project canvases (brief, needs & data, solution shape, operating model, spec map) on which a project is designed.
• "Specification": the written, versioned description of the User's application produced from the Boards.
• "Generated Code": application source code (including database schemas and demo data) generated from the Specification and diagrams.
• "Credits": the prepaid units that meter AI usage on the platform (Article 5).
• "Seed Library": the shared catalog of administrator-approved, anonymized demo values described in the Privacy policy.
• "Showcase": the public community gallery of published project snapshots.
• "User": any natural or legal person using the Application, without distinction of professional status.
• "User Content": any idea, text, board answer, specification edit or other material the User puts into the Application.
• "Account": the personal space giving access to the Application's functionalities.
• "Services": all functionalities offered via the Application.

Article 2 — Acceptance and modification

2.1 Acceptance

Creating an Account requires express acceptance of these Terms and of the Privacy policy via the mandatory checkbox on the registration form; the date of acceptance is recorded. Any use of the Application implies full acceptance of these Terms.

If you do not accept these conditions, do not use the Application.

2.2 Modifications

EXELLECT SAS may modify these Terms at any time. Substantial modifications are notified by display in the Application, by email to Account holders, and by publication on erlyc.com. When a new version of the legal documents takes effect, you are asked to review and accept it in the Application before continuing to use the Services.

Users benefiting from consumer protections under their national legislation retain any termination rights those laws provide.

Article 3 — Access to the application

3.1 Access conditions

Access requires an Internet connection and a modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) with JavaScript enabled.

3.2 Plans and early access

The Application offers free and paid plans, without distinction of professional status; plan contents and prices are described on the in-app pricing page. Erlyc is currently in early access: the Early access conditions supplement these Terms, and new registrations may be temporarily paused when the platform's AI capacity is depleted.

3.3 Account creation

Account creation requires a valid email address, a secure password and acceptance of these Terms. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential.

Regarding legal age: if you are a minor under the laws of your country of residence, you must obtain authorization from your parents or legal guardians before using Erlyc. EXELLECT SAS does not collect or verify user ages — complying with the legal requirements of your jurisdiction is your responsibility.

Article 4 — Description of the services

4.1 AI-assisted nature of the services

The Application allows Users to: develop an idea on guided Boards with AI coaching; generate and iterate a written Specification; derive screen maps, entity diagrams and database schemas; generate application source code and demo data; download specifications and Generated Code; ask contextual questions answered by AI agents; publish snapshots to the public Showcase; optionally deploy a generated application to an Erlyc-operated test server; and exchange with other users on the community forum.

4.2 Explicit limitations

ERLYC DOES NOT PROVIDE:

• Professionally reviewed or validated specifications, architectures or code
• Security audits, penetration testing or compliance validation of Generated Code
• Legal, regulatory or contractual advice of any kind
• Any guarantee that AI output is correct, complete, secure or fit for a particular purpose

AI models make mistakes: output can be inaccurate, incomplete, insecure or unusable, and identical inputs can produce different results.

4.3 Third-party AI processing

AI features are performed by third-party model providers and inference operators reached through the OpenRouter routing service. Which providers may serve a request depends on the model used, which follows from the User's plan and project settings, and their data practices differ — including whether content submitted through their API may be used to improve their own models. The applicable conditions are described in the Privacy policy.

Article 5 — Financial conditions

5.1 Credits

• AI usage is metered in prepaid Credits. Credits are not money, carry no cash value, earn no interest and are non-transferable.
• Monthly plan credits are tied to the subscription period and expire at its end.
• Purchased top-up packs are valid 24 months from the date of purchase. The validity period is shown at purchase; a reminder email is sent before expiry; credits still unused when their validity ends are forfeited.
• Credits are consumed soonest-expiring first: monthly plan credits are spent before purchased packs, and packs closer to expiry before newer ones.
• Current plan contents, pack sizes and prices are shown on the in-app pricing and credits pages; prices are displayed all taxes included.
• Certain deterministic operations are charged at flat rates or free of charge, as indicated in the Application.

5.2 Purchases

Paid subscriptions and credit packs are purchased through the Application's online checkout, operated by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd.). Payment takes place on Stripe's hosted payment page: card data is entered with and processed by Stripe and never transits or is stored on the platform. Prices are displayed all taxes included. Subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled; top-up packs are one-time purchases. Credit packs are available on paid plans only — free and invitation tiers upgrade to a paid plan to obtain more credits. Purchases made before the online checkout existed were settled out-of-band (bank transfer or invoice) and remain governed by the conditions applicable at the time.

5.3 Right of withdrawal

For consumers in the European Union: by requesting immediate provision of purchased credits, you expressly consent to immediate performance and acknowledge that the right of withdrawal is lost for credits already consumed. Withdrawal for unconsumed credits within the legal period can be requested via support; refunds follow the applicable legal procedures.

5.4 Refunds

Outside mandatory legal rights, refunds of credit packs are handled manually, at EXELLECT SAS's reasonable discretion, by reversing the purchase and the corresponding credits. Contact support to request one.

Article 6 — Responsibilities and obligations of the user

6.1 User responsibility

The User uses the Application under their sole and entire responsibility and undertakes to:

• Review and test all Generated Code and specifications before relying on them or deploying them
• Respect the laws applicable in their jurisdiction
• Verify the compliance of their projects with the technical, security and regulatory requirements of their context
• Not use unreviewed output for critical systems (medical, financial, safety-related or similar)
• Never deploy unreviewed Generated Code directly to a production environment, connect it to production or real personal data, or expose it publicly, before their own review, testing and security hardening

6.2 Professional use

If you use Erlyc in a professional context: you assume the entire responsibility for the tool's adequacy to your needs; you must have output reviewed and validated by qualified professionals before delivery or production use; you may not present Erlyc output as professionally validated deliverables; and you indemnify EXELLECT SAS against any claim related to the professional use of your output.

6.3 Prohibited content and behavior

• Content that is illegal under applicable laws or infringes third-party rights
• Inappropriate or offensive content in community spaces (Showcase, forum), which are moderated
• Attempts to intrude into, overload or disrupt the services
• Attempts to manipulate, bypass or probe the platform's AI safety filters (prompt injection and similar techniques)
• Using the Application to produce malicious software or other harmful output

6.4 Exports, deployments and connected accounts

The Application offers features that act on external services at the User's request and on the User's behalf: exporting Generated Code to a repository in the User's own GitHub account, temporary demo deployments, and deployments to servers or hosting platforms designated by the User.

• The User's credentials, the User's scope. These features use credentials the User supplies (access tokens, SSH keys). They are stored encrypted, used solely to perform the operation the User requested, and can be revoked by the User at any time on the third-party service. The User is responsible for granting the narrowest permissions the operation needs. The User may additionally protect stored credentials with a personal vault passphrase known only to them; a forgotten vault passphrase is not recoverable — the protected credentials are then deleted and the User reconnects new ones.
• What is exported is draft material. Exported or deployed Generated Code is the same unreviewed, AI-assisted draft described in these Terms. The export and deploy buttons do not change its status: deployment to a production environment without the User's own review, testing and security hardening is done entirely at the User's risk (see Articles 6.1, 6.2 and 7).
• Third-party services remain third parties. GitHub, Laravel Cloud and any other hosting or repository platform are independent services governed by their own terms and prices. EXELLECT SAS is not a party to the User's contracts with them and is not responsible for their availability, their security, their decisions, or the costs they invoice.
• Demo deployments are previews, not hosting. Temporary demo instances exist to preview the Generated Code; they are wiped automatically, carry no availability commitment and must not be used to hold real data.

Article 7 — Disclaimer of liability

7.1 Fundamental principle

EXELLECT SAS disclaims all responsibility concerning: the use made of specifications, diagrams and Generated Code; their technical correctness, security or fitness; decisions made on the basis of AI output; the consequences of deploying or commercializing applications built from Generated Code — including deployments carried out through the Application's export and deployment features (Article 6.4) and any costs, data loss or security incidents occurring on third-party platforms or the User's own servers; and damages resulting from professional or personal use of the output.

7.2 Web application limitations

Erlyc being an early-access web application: no guarantee of uninterrupted operation; dependency on Internet connections, browsers and third-party AI providers; technical evolutions possible without notice.

7.3 Limitation of liability

Within the maximum limits permitted by law, EXELLECT SAS excludes liability for financial losses linked to the use of output, design defects or errors in generated artifacts, inadequacy to specific needs, service interruptions or data loss, and acts of third parties based on the output.

In case of residual liability, it is limited to the sums actually paid by the User to EXELLECT SAS during the preceding 12 months, with a maximum ceiling of 100 €. This limitation does not apply to bodily injury or to damages resulting from gross negligence or willful misconduct by EXELLECT SAS, in accordance with mandatory legal provisions.

Article 8 — Intellectual property

8.1 Application ownership

EXELLECT SAS owns the Erlyc web application, its proprietary algorithms and functionalities, the "Erlyc" and "EXELLECT" trademarks and proprietary graphic elements, and its editorial content. The Application integrates third-party libraries (open source and commercial) used in accordance with their respective licenses.

8.2 User content

The User retains ownership of their User Content. The User grants EXELLECT SAS a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license, for the duration of the Account and the retention periods described in the Privacy policy, to: (a) host the User Content and display it in the Application; (b) process it through the AI pipeline, including transmission to the third-party providers described in Article 4.3; (c) share it according to the parameters the User chooses (e.g. Showcase publication); and (d) use it to operate, evaluate and improve the Application — including deriving decisions, conventions, reference patterns, test fixtures and evaluation datasets from it, training or fine-tuning models on those derived materials, and using them to improve results for other users.

The license under (d) is subject to the following limits: material derived from User Content and reused outside the User's own projects is anonymized and carries no link to the User, the Account or the project; reuse outside the User's own projects is subject to the authorizations described in the Privacy policy; and the User may object to that reuse for the future, which ends further reuse and withdraws the derived material from active use, without affecting results already produced.

Demo values contributed to the Seed Library follow the regime described in the Privacy policy: unreviewed contributions are deleted with the project or account; administrator-approved values remain in the library, anonymized.

8.3 Generated output

The specifications and code generated for the User's projects belong to the User, who may freely use, modify, deploy and commercialize them. Generated Code may include or depend on open-source components governed by their own licenses. The User may not present Erlyc output as professionally validated deliverables, nor engage EXELLECT SAS's responsibility for its use.

8.4 Publication on GitHub

When the feature is available, the User may optionally publish the generated code shared in their Showcase entry as a public repository under the Erlyc GitHub organization, under the open-source license the User selects; the User confirms they hold the necessary rights. Publication happens after a short moderation delay.

• Unpublishing from the Showcase archives the repository: it becomes read-only but remains publicly visible.
• The repository is deleted when the User requests it (the "Delete GitHub repository" action), when the project or the Account is deleted, or by moderation for content that violates these Terms.
• Deletion does not recall copies: clones and forks made by third parties while the repository was public are outside EXELLECT SAS's control and persist on GitHub.
• GitHub is a third-party service operated by GitHub, Inc. (United States) under its own terms of service.

Article 9 — Personal data

EXELLECT SAS processes personal data in accordance with the GDPR and applicable laws, as described in the Privacy policy. DPO contact: [email protected].

Article 10 — Availability, your data and evolution

• Availability target: 99% excluding scheduled maintenance; interruptions possible without notice for technical emergencies and during early access.
• Your exports: specifications can be downloaded in standard formats (Markdown, HTML, PDF) and Generated Code as a source archive — you are encouraged to download and keep copies of what matters to you.
• Test deployments: optional deployment of a generated application to an Erlyc-operated test server places it at a public address and wipes it automatically after approximately 72 hours.
• Account deletion: available at any time under Settings → Profile; deletion is immediate and permanent, as described in the Privacy policy. Deleted data cannot be recovered.
• Inactive accounts: accounts showing no activity for more than 24 months may be closed after prior notice by email (60 and 30 days ahead); any remaining credits lapse with the account.
• Evolution: EXELLECT SAS may evolve the Application, with notification of major changes; the Early access conditions apply during early access.

Article 11 — End of service

11.1 Notice

EXELLECT SAS may decide to permanently discontinue the Erlyc service. In that case, Users are informed at least 60 days before the closure date by email to Account holders, by display in the Application and by publication on erlyc.com. This commitment applies during early access as well: the evolution clauses of these Terms and of the Early access conditions cover individual features, not the discontinuation of the service as a whole.

11.2 Your data

Until the closure date, the export functions described in Article 10 (specifications and Generated Code) remain available and Users are urged to download their data. On closure, Accounts and the data they contain are permanently deleted under the conditions of the Privacy policy; after the closure date, data can no longer be recovered.

11.3 Credits, subscriptions and refunds

• Purchased top-up packs: credits from purchased packs (Article 5.1) still unconsumed on the closure date are refunded pro rata at their purchase price. EXELLECT SAS contacts the affected Account holders to organize the refund; requests may also be addressed to support up to 90 days after the closure date.
• Subscriptions: subscription periods are not renewed once the closure has been announced; any fee already paid for a period extending beyond the closure date is refunded pro rata.
• Monthly plan credits and promotional credits (free credits, one-time signup grants) lapse on the closure date without compensation.

Beyond these refunds and subject to mandatory legal provisions, the discontinuation of the service gives rise to no compensation.

11.4 Transfer of the service

If the service is continued by another operator (sale of business, merger, restructuring), Users are informed under the conditions of Article 2.2 and personal data is handled as described in the Privacy policy. A User who does not wish to continue with the new operator may delete their Account (Article 10) and, for purchased packs, request the refund provided in Article 11.3 as if the service had been discontinued.

Article 12 — Legal provisions

Consumer protections: Users benefiting from consumer protections under their national legislation retain their mandatory legal rights (withdrawal, legal guarantees, protection against abusive clauses, consumer mediation).

Dispute resolution: amicable resolution first, via the in-app support page or [email protected]; consumers may resort to the competent mediator under their legislation.

Jurisdiction: consumers — courts of the consumer's domicile or of EXELLECT SAS's registered office; other users — competent courts of EXELLECT SAS's registered office.

Applicable law: French law, subject to mandatory provisions of the User's country of residence for consumer relations.

Article 13 — Final provisions

Document hierarchy: in case of contradiction, the Early access conditions prevail for early-access matters, then these Terms, then the Privacy policy.

Entirety and partial nullity: these Terms constitute the complete agreement regarding the use of Erlyc; the nullity of one clause does not affect the validity of the others.

Contact: Support: [email protected] (or the in-app support page) · Legal: [email protected] · DPO: [email protected]