Last updated: 8 November 2026
Terms of service
These terms apply to Gespann Cloud, the paid and free service at gespann.app. The Gespann command line tool (the CLI) is open source and separate. See section 3.
1. Who we are
Gespann is operated by TecMinds GmbH, Neustadtstrasse 8a, 6003 Luzern, Switzerland (“we”, “us”). You (“you”, “the customer”) are the person or company that creates an account or buys a plan. If you accept these terms for a company, you confirm that you may bind it.
Terms of the customer that differ from these apply only if we agree to them in writing.
2. The service
Gespann Cloud receives metadata that the CLI sends with gespann sync: hashed mistake ids, counts, guardrail ids, check results, block counts per day, the CLI version and a repo hash. It stores this history and shows it in a dashboard. What each plan includes is listed on gespann.app at the time you order.
Features marked as “coming”, such as the GitHub App, the ranked guardrail registry and Pro rule packs, are not yet part of the service. We plan to include them in the plans named on the pricing page when they ship. We do not promise a date, and you cannot claim a refund or damages because a coming feature has not shipped yet.
We may develop the service further, as long as the core of what you paid for stays available for the period you paid for.
3. The open source CLI
The CLI is licensed under the MIT License. These terms do not limit your rights under that license. The CLI works without an account and without Gespann Cloud. It runs on your machine, and you are responsible for what it changes in your repositories. It proposes guardrails and applies them only when you run gespann apply.
4. Account
You need an email address to create an account. Keep access to it and to your API keys safe. You are responsible for activity under your account and keys. Tell us at once at [email protected] if you think a key has leaked, and revoke it in your account.
5. Ordering and payment
Orders and payments are handled by Dodo Payments, which sells the subscription to you as merchant of record. Dodo Payments charges the price plus any VAT or sales tax and issues the invoice. Their terms also apply to the payment.
Prices are in US dollars, excluding VAT and sales tax. The price at the time of your order applies.
6. Term, renewal and cancellation
A paid plan runs for one month or one year and renews automatically for the same period until you cancel. The price for each period is due at its start.
You can cancel at any time in the billing portal, or by writing to [email protected]. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. Until then the plan stays active. Apart from section 7, amounts already paid are not refunded pro rata.
We announce price changes at least 30 days before your next renewal by email. If you do not agree, cancel before the renewal.
For Team plans, you choose the number of seats, at least 2. If you add seats during a period, the extra seats are billed pro rata.
7. Refunds
If you are not happy, you get a full refund of your first payment for a plan if you ask for it within 14 days of that payment. Later payments and renewals are not refunded. Details are in the refund policy. Mandatory consumer rights stay unaffected.
8. Free plan
The free plan includes 1 repo and 14 days of history. Older history is deleted automatically. We may change or end the free plan with 30 days’ notice by email.
9. Your data and acceptable use
The data you sync remains yours. You give us the right to store and process it to provide the service. We may use aggregated, anonymous statistics that cannot be traced back to you or your repositories to improve Gespann.
Do not use the service to break the law, to attack or overload it, to get around plan limits, or to send data that the CLI would not send, such as code or personal data of others. We may suspend accounts that do.
How we handle personal data is described in the privacy policy.
10. Availability
We run the service with care, but we do not guarantee that it is always available or free of errors. Maintenance can interrupt it. The CLI keeps working while the service is down.
11. Warranty
We provide the service as described in section 2. If you report a defect, we fix it within a reasonable time. Any further warranty is excluded to the extent the law permits. Guardrails are suggestions that you review. We do not warrant that they catch every mistake or never block a correct command.
12. Liability
Our liability for damages is limited to the fees you paid us for Gespann Cloud in the 12 months before the event that caused the damage.
To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, in particular lost profit, lost data or the cost of mistakes that a guardrail did not catch.
These limits do not apply to unlawful intent or gross negligence (Art. 100 para. 1 Swiss Code of Obligations), or where mandatory law, such as product liability law, says otherwise. They also apply to our staff and subcontractors.
13. Ending the contract
You can close your account at any time. We may end a free account with 30 days’ notice, and any account at once for serious breaches of these terms. When you delete your account, we delete its data at once. When a paid plan ends without renewal, the account continues as a free account, and history beyond the free plan’s 14 days is deleted 30 days later, as described in the privacy policy.
14. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms. We announce changes at least 30 days before they take effect by email. If you do not agree, you can cancel with effect from that date. If you keep using the service after that date, the new terms apply.
15. Law and courts
These terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The courts of Lucerne, Switzerland, have exclusive jurisdiction. Mandatory places of jurisdiction for consumers remain reserved.
If a provision of these terms is invalid, the rest remain valid. The invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its purpose.