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Terms of Service

Effective: June 29, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Sell Traces, Inc. ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") for Rebates. Rebates includes the public Rebates site, the Rebate command-line tool, the account dashboard at app.rebates.ai, sponsored terminal ads, referrals, earnings, payout features, related APIs, docs, installers, and support services (together, the "Service").

These Terms cover Rebates only. They do not grant us rights to sell your AI chats, agent traces, source code, local files, prompts, transcripts, or terminal history as datasets. If we launch a separate Sell Traces data marketplace or another product that needs different rights, we will update or supplement the terms for that product before asking users to use it.

By creating an account, installing or running Rebate, enabling the Claude Code integration, using the dashboard, clicking a sponsor, joining a referral, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service for a company or another organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

1. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. You are responsible for your account, your login credentials, your local device state, and activity under your account. You must provide accurate information and keep your payout and contact information current.

We may refuse, suspend, limit, or terminate accounts, devices, payouts, credits, or access when we believe it is necessary to protect the Service, advertisers, other users, payout partners, or our legal obligations.

2. What Rebates does

Rebates lets eligible developers earn from sponsored units shown in their coding environment. The current Rebate CLI integrates with Claude Code by installing Rebate-owned settings, hooks, a sponsored statusline or footer, sponsor-related spinner text when a real sponsor is available, and the /ad command. The CLI does not wrap, replace, or modify the claude executable.

Sponsor availability is not guaranteed. A session, prompt, render, impression, click, or account may receive no sponsor and may earn nothing. We may change, pause, remove, test, or limit sponsor placements, rates, eligibility, inventory, or features at any time.

3. Local installation and consent

When you run Rebate setup, you authorize the CLI to make the local changes it shows or documents for the integration you enable. For Claude Code, those changes may include editing Claude Code settings, writing a backup, installing the /ad command, writing Rebate state under ~/.rebate, storing device-flow credentials, storing a device id, caching the latest sponsor, and writing update configuration.

You are responsible for reviewing the setup plan before enabling the Service on a machine you do not own or control. You can turn off the Claude Code integration with rebate off. You can remove Rebate-owned local credentials, device id, cache, and update state with the documented purge option. Removing local state may prevent future credits from that local device until you sign in again.

4. Sponsored content and third-party links

Sponsored content may be selected, supplied, measured, or paid for by advertisers, ad networks, measurement providers, or other third parties. Sponsor copy, advertiser sites, products, offers, prices, claims, availability, and promotions are not our responsibility. Clicking a sponsor may open a third-party site subject to that third party's terms and privacy policy.

We may use Rebates-controlled sponsor links and measurement systems to attribute sponsor activity, prevent fraud, and credit earnings. You must not interfere with, strip, replay, forge, block, modify, or simulate those measurement flows.

5. Earnings, credits, and payouts

Rebates credits eligible ad activity to the signed-in account connected to the local device. Rates, thresholds, holds, payment methods, referral rules, and eligibility requirements are shown in the product, dashboard, or docs and may change prospectively. Credits shown in the dashboard may be provisional until we verify advertiser reporting, device ownership, invalid traffic checks, payout eligibility, chargebacks, refunds, tax requirements, and other review signals.

We may delay, reverse, withhold, expire, or adjust credits or payouts when we believe activity is invalid, fraudulent, automated, duplicated, self-generated, incentivized in an undisclosed way, abusive, technically misreported, against advertiser requirements, against these Terms, or legally restricted. We may set minimum payout amounts, payout schedules, tax-information requirements, payment processor requirements, and account-review requirements.

You are responsible for taxes, fees, and payment-account information associated with your earnings. Payout processors, banks, wallet providers, and tax-service providers may apply their own terms, fees, verification, and restrictions.

6. Referrals

If we offer referrals, the referral terms shown in the product control the current offer. The current Rebates referral flow may show a referral code or share URL and may require the referred account to earn a stated amount from confirmed non-bonus Rebates impressions before either person qualifies for a reward. We may deny or reverse referral rewards for self-referrals, duplicate accounts, fake accounts, invalid traffic, abuse, violation of these Terms, or other activity that defeats the purpose of the referral program.

7. Acceptable use

You must not:

  • create fake accounts, fake devices, fake impressions, fake clicks, fake referrals, or fake payout identities;
  • use bots, farms, emulators, scripts, hidden windows, forced displays, repeated reloads, click fraud, incentivized clicks, or other artificial traffic to increase earnings;
  • tamper with Rebate, Claude Code settings, sponsor rendering, sponsor measurement, device or account identifiers, earning records, or payout state;
  • use the Service to violate law, third-party rights, advertiser rules, platform terms, sanctions, export controls, or payment-network rules;
  • probe, scan, overload, reverse engineer, scrape, or attack the Service except as allowed by law or a written security policy from us;
  • submit malware, secrets you are not allowed to share, or unlawful content in support messages, feedback, or optional contextual ad features; or
  • help anyone else do any of the above.

8. Optional contextual ad features

The default sponsored-terminal flow does not require raw trace uploads or raw chat-transcript uploads. If you opt into a contextual ad feature, the CLI or integration may send the disclosed local summary or context fields described at the time of opt-in. You are responsible for reviewing that disclosure and not sending content you are not allowed to share.

9. Your content and feedback

The Service may let you submit feedback, support messages, diagnostics, referral text, optional contextual summaries, or other content. You retain your rights in content you submit, but you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, process, reproduce, display, transmit, modify, and use that content to operate, secure, support, debug, improve, and enforce the Service.

If you send feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or compensation to you. This section does not create a marketplace license to sell your AI chats, agent traces, source code, local files, prompts, transcripts, or terminal history as datasets.

10. Our software and intellectual property

We and our licensors own the Service, software, docs, logos, names, designs, and other materials we provide, except for third-party materials and your content. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works from the Service except as allowed by the license for a specific open-source component or by written permission from us.

11. Privacy

Our Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information for Rebates. By using the Service, you acknowledge the Privacy Notice. Third-party services, advertisers, ad networks, OAuth providers, payout processors, and sites you visit are governed by their own policies.

12. Changes to the Service or Terms

We may update the Service and these Terms as the product, law, economics, advertiser requirements, or our business changes. When changes are material, we will provide notice as required by law or through a reasonable product channel. Your continued use after the effective date of an update means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and turn off the local integration.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may turn off local integrations with the documented Rebate commands. We may suspend or terminate access, local device eligibility, credits, payouts, referrals, or accounts at any time when we reasonably believe these Terms were violated, risk is unacceptable, or continued service is not commercially or legally practical.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination survive, including sections about credits and payouts, acceptable use, ownership, privacy, disclaimers, limits of liability, indemnity, dispute resolution, and general terms.

14. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

We do not guarantee sponsor availability, earnings, payout timing, rates, advertiser demand, compatibility with every terminal or Claude Code version, continued third-party API behavior, or uninterrupted access.

15. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, service interruption, computer damage, or substitute services.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount of verified unpaid Rebates earnings owed to you for the three months before the event giving rise to the claim or USD $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow some limitations. In those jurisdictions, the limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law.

16. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us and our officers, directors, employees, contractors, service providers, and affiliates from any claim, liability, loss, damage, cost, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your use of the Service, your content, your violation of these Terms, your fraud or invalid traffic, your violation of law, or your violation of third-party rights or terms.

17. Dispute resolution

Before filing a claim, you and we will try to resolve disputes informally. Email legal@rebates.ai with a description of the issue and the relief requested. If we cannot resolve the dispute within 30 days, either party may start a formal proceeding.

Except for small-claims matters, requests for injunctive relief, and claims that cannot be arbitrated by law, disputes will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules or Commercial Arbitration Rules, as applicable. Class actions, class arbitrations, representative actions, and jury trials are waived to the extent permitted by law.

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days after you first accept these Terms by emailing legal@rebates.ai with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out" and the email address associated with your account.

18. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that arbitration is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.

19. General terms

You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, or operation of law. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These Terms and the policies they reference are the entire agreement for Rebates.

20. Contact

For legal questions about these Terms, email legal@rebates.ai.