Terms of Service

Accepting these terms

By creating a Foleo Publish account, publishing content, connecting an agent, or otherwise using the hosted service, you agree to these terms. You can use the desktop app without an account and without using Publish; that app is separately licensed under the MIT License. If you do not agree, do not use Publish.

Eligibility and the private beta

You must be at least 16 years old to create a Foleo Publish account. If you use Publish on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to accept these terms for it.

The desktop app is free to download and does not require an invitation. Foleo Publish is a private beta: access is by invitation, invitations go out in small batches, and an invitation can be withdrawn. Joining the waitlist at publish.foleo.app/sign-up is a request, not a right to an account. You need an email address you control to sign in.

Accounts and sign-in codes

Publish accounts are tied to an email address. We send a one-time sign-in code to that address; transactional email is delivered via Resend from mail.foleo.app. Sign-in uses that code, not an account password. Keep the codes you receive to yourself. You are responsible for activity on your account, including actions an agent takes after you approve access.

Acceptable use

Do not use Publish to phish, distribute malware, harass people, infringe copyright, spam, or publish content that is illegal or that you do not have the right to share. Do not probe or disrupt the service, impersonate Foleo, or try to access someone else's account. We may suspend an account or remove content that breaks these rules.

Your content

You keep ownership of the files you publish. Foleo does not claim copyright in your content. To operate the service you grant Foleo a limited license to store, copy, render, and serve that content at the URLs you create, to make the operational copies needed to host it, and to review it when investigating abuse. That license ends when the Foleo-held copies are gone, subject to the deletion semantics below and to copies that already left our systems, such as a page a reader saved.

Active HTML

Some invited accounts can publish active HTML: user-authored pages that run in readers' browsers at their own foleo.site address. During the alpha, foleo.site pages are not yet fully isolated from one another for cookies, so do not rely on that separation. This is an operator-gated alpha, not a general hosting product. Foleo does not modify your HTML. You are the publisher, and you are responsible for what that HTML does, including scripts, forms, downloads, and any harm it causes a reader. Do not publish HTML that collects secrets or impersonates another service.

Agents acting for you

Invited accounts can let an AI agent act on their behalf through the @foleo/cli command line tool, the Foleo agent plugin, or a remote MCP server at mcp.foleo.app. You approve each connection in your browser. A connection can read, publish, update, change settings for, unpublish, delete, and restore your content, and publishing active HTML needs a further approval of those exact bytes. An agent connected through the MCP server cannot purge; purge is a separate dashboard or command-line action. You remain responsible for what is published. Revoking a connection in the dashboard is what ends that access; removing an app or deleting its configuration file does not revoke it.

Abuse reports and takedown

If you find phishing, malware, harassment, copyright abuse, or other harmful content on a foleo.site page, use the report form at publish.foleo.app/report. Reports create an urgent operator alert, and harmful pages can be removed immediately. We may also suspend an account that is used to abuse the service. For follow-up, email [email protected].

Availability during the beta

Publish is a private beta. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, a particular feature set, or that published URLs will remain reachable forever. We may change, suspend, or discontinue parts of the service, including during incidents or to stop abuse. We may close or refuse an account. Where we can, we will say so at foleo.app or by email.

Fees

Foleo Publish is free during the private beta. If we introduce paid plans, we will describe them before charging anything, and you will not be charged without agreeing to it.

Unpublish, delete, and purge

These words mean specific things in Foleo. Unpublish is reversible, timerless, and byte-preserving: reader links return 404, and you can publish again. Delete immediately stops routing and starts a 30-day restore window for Foleo-held cloud bytes; it never deletes files on your computer. Purge skips that window and is irreversible, but it is still asynchronous: a request being accepted is not the same as the bytes being gone. None of these actions is a substitute for keeping your own copies.

The desktop app

The Foleo macOS app is a free, signed, and notarized download. It is local-first: it reads folders on your Mac, does not require an account, and uploads documents only when you choose to publish them. It periodically contacts downloads.foleo.app to check for updates. The app is released under the MIT License and is provided as is, without warranty of any kind.

Third-party infrastructure

Publish and this website run on Cloudflare. Transactional email is sent by Resend from mail.foleo.app. Those providers process data as needed to deliver the service. Our privacy page at foleo.app/privacy describes what we collect.

No warranties

Foleo is offered as is during this beta. We do not warrant that the service is error-free, that published pages are fit for a particular purpose, or that we will retain your content beyond the deletion semantics above. To the extent the law allows, Foleo is not liable for lost profits, lost data, indirect or consequential damages, or other losses arising from your use of the app or Publish. This does not affect rights that cannot be waived. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited, including liability for fraud.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Ontario have jurisdiction over any dispute about them, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

Changes and contact

We may change these terms as the beta evolves. The current version will always live at foleo.app/terms, and we will tell account holders before a material change takes effect. Continued use of Publish after a change means you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, unpublish or delete your content and stop using the service. Questions about these terms: [email protected].