Terms of Service

1. Who we are, and what you are agreeing to

Gherkinizer ("the Service") is operated by an independent sole trader ("we", "us"). Full legal and business details are available on request from [email protected].

By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these terms. If you are using Gherkinizer for your employer, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms on their behalf, and that submitting your employer's material to the Service does not breach their own policies. That last point is worth checking before you paste anything.

2. What the Service does

Gherkinizer converts natural-language requirements into Gherkin feature files, suggests edge cases, and generates step-definition code, using third-party AI models. It is a drafting aid. It does not replace review by a competent engineer, and it is not professional, legal, or compliance advice.

3. Accounts

• You must be at least 13 years old to hold an account.
• You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe it has been compromised.
• Some features, including document upload, require a signed-in account with a verified email address.
• One person, one account. Accounts may not be shared or resold.

4. Plans, billing and cancellation

• A free tier is offered with usage limits. Paid plans are billed monthly or annually in advance through Stripe, our payment processor. We never see or store your card details.
• You can cancel at any time from your account page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.
• Fees are not refunded for partial periods, except where a refund is required by law. Your statutory cancellation and refund rights as a consumer are not affected by anything in these terms.
• Prices and plan limits can change. Changes to the price of an existing subscription will be notified in advance and will not apply to a period you have already paid for.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service unlawfully, or to produce unlawful or infringing material;
• attempt to circumvent usage limits, rate limits, authentication, or any other technical control;
• probe, scan, or test the security of the Service without our prior written permission, or attempt to gain access to another user's account or data;
• resell, rebrand, or provide the Service to third parties as your own, or use it to build a directly competing product;
• submit material containing malware, or use the Service in a way that degrades it for others.

Responsible disclosure of a security issue is welcome and is not a breach of this section: email [email protected] rather than testing against live accounts.

6. What you must not submit

The Service transmits what you submit to a third-party AI provider in order to answer your request. It is built for ordinary, non-sensitive requirements work, and it is not approved for regulated or controlled material. You must not submit:

• ITAR or export-controlled data, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), or classified information of any government;
• personal data about other people, including special category data and health information, beyond the account details we necessarily process about you;
• payment card data, credentials, API keys, or other secrets;
• confidential material belonging to a third party that you are not authorised to disclose to an external service.

These restrictions are enforced by this agreement, not by a technical control: the input field accepts free text, and the Service cannot determine the sensitivity of what you send it. Deciding what is appropriate to submit is your responsibility. What happens to what you do submit is described on the data-handling page.

7. Your content, and who owns the output

You keep ownership of everything you submit. You also own the feature files, step definitions, and other output the Service generates for you, to the extent such material is capable of being owned. Use it commercially, publish it, put it in your repository — no attribution is required and no licence back to us is needed.

We claim no ownership of, and no licence over, your requirements, your uploaded documents, or your generated output, beyond the limited permission needed to operate the Service for you: transmitting your input to the AI provider to answer your request, and storing the feature files you explicitly choose to save so you can retrieve them.

We do not use your requirements, uploaded documents, or generated output to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI model, and we do not use them to develop future features. Requirements you do not save are not stored at all.

Because AI models generate output from patterns rather than by copying, similar or identical output may be produced for other users from similar input. We cannot and do not warrant that any output is original or that it does not resemble material owned by someone else.

8. AI-generated output

Output is generated by an AI model and may be wrong, incomplete, insecure, or confidently plausible and still false. Generated feature files are checked against the official Cucumber parser, so you can see whether what you received is syntactically valid Gherkin — but that is a check on syntax, not on whether the scenarios are correct, complete, or appropriate for your system.

Generated step-definition code is not reviewed, scanned, or tested for security vulnerabilities. Treat everything the Service produces as a first draft requiring review by a competent engineer before you rely on it or run it. You are responsible for what you do with the output.

9. Third-party services

Delivering the Service depends on third parties: Google (Cloud, Firebase, and the Gemini API, which performs all AI processing), Stripe (payments), and Google Analytics (usage measurement). Their handling of data is governed by their own terms, and we cannot make commitments on their behalf. The data-handling page sets out which of them receives what.

10. Availability

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. There is no service level agreement, no uptime commitment, and no guaranteed recovery time. It runs in a single region and may be unavailable for maintenance, because of a dependency failure, or without notice. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of it; where we discontinue the Service altogether, we will give reasonable notice so you can export your saved work.

11. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected and this section applies only so far as the law permits.

Subject to that: we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, loss or corruption of data, or any indirect or consequential loss, however caused. Our total liability arising out of or in connection with the Service, in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to the greater of the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or £100.

This is a low-cost service operated by one person, and the cap reflects that. If your use case needs a materially higher limit of liability, it needs a negotiated agreement — get in touch rather than relying on these terms.

12. Your responsibility for what you submit

If you use the Service in the course of a business, you will indemnify us against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your breach of section 5 (acceptable use) or section 6 (what you must not submit). This does not apply to consumers.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, or where required by law — we will tell you why unless we are legally prevented from doing so, and where the breach can be put right we will normally ask you to put it right first.

On termination, your saved feature files and account data are deleted in line with the privacy policy. Export anything you want to keep before you close your account. Sections 7, 11 and 12 survive termination.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The effective date at the top will change, and material changes will be notified by email or in the application before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, you can cancel and close your account.

15. General

These terms, together with the privacy policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent.

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction — except that if you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in and may bring proceedings there.

16. Contact

General enquiries: [email protected]. Security reports: [email protected]. Privacy and data protection: [email protected].