Terms and Conditions

Acceptance of terms

By accessing the CodeConstitutions website, purchasing a product, downloading a product, or using our materials, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use the site or our products.

If you are using the site or products on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to bind that organisation to these Terms.

Who these terms apply to

These Terms apply to visitors to our website, customers who purchase digital products, subscribers to our communications (where offered), and anyone who downloads or uses CodeConstitutions resources, whether personally or on behalf of a business.

What CodeConstitutions provides

CodeConstitutions provides downloadable digital materials—including constitutions, prompt systems, checklists, guides, and related resources—intended to help users structure software work, review workflows, release readiness, QA thinking, and similar tasks when working with AI-assisted and traditional development tools.

Unless we clearly state otherwise in writing for a specific offer:

• products are digital downloads, not custom-built software hosted by us;
• they are not bespoke legal advice;
• they are not engineering consultancy or a substitute for hiring qualified engineers;
• they are not security certification or a guarantee that your systems are secure;
• they are not guaranteed compliance certification with any law, standard, or regulator;
• they do not guarantee bug-free software or specific commercial outcomes.

We may describe how materials are intended to be used, but you remain responsible for how you apply them in your environment.

Eligibility and lawful use

You must be legally able to enter into a binding contract in your jurisdiction to purchase products or enter commitments that require it. You must use the website and products only for lawful purposes and in line with these Terms.

Account, checkout, and delivery

Depending on how we configure checkout, you may complete purchases and receive digital delivery without creating a long-term user account on our systems. Where an account or customer portal exists, additional terms shown at sign-up may apply.

You are responsible for providing accurate purchase and delivery information—especially the email address used for receipts, download links, or access instructions. We are not responsible for delivery failures caused by incorrect details you supply, spam filters, or issues on your side beyond what we reasonably control.

Licence to use the products

When you lawfully purchase or receive a product from us, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to use the downloaded materials for:

• your personal use; and/or
• internal business use within the organisation that paid for the product (where the purchase is on behalf of a business),

subject to these Terms and any licence file or notice included with the product.

The licence is granted only to the purchaser identified in the order confirmation and, if the purchaser is a business, to that business's internal personnel on a need-to-know basis for internal business use. You must keep the files, download links, and copied extracts secure. Sharing them with unrelated third parties, clients, friends, communities, or the public is outside the licence unless we expressly permit it in writing.

Unless we expressly permit it in writing, you must not:

• resell, redistribute, repackage, or sublicense the materials;
• share download links, source files, copies, or extracted content with any person outside your paid licence scope, including by email, public or invite-link folders, shared drives, repositories, communities, prompt libraries, or marketplaces;
• share them publicly, upload them for mass download, or post them where they can be copied at scale by strangers;
• adapt, relabel, white-label, or make minor edits to the materials and then sell, license, publish, or distribute them as if they were your own or as a substitute for buying from us;
• claim ownership of the products or remove branding, proprietary notices, or licence language where we include them;
• include the files in competing products, resale bundles, template marketplaces, or “prompt packs” for others to copy without our permission;
• use the materials to train a public model or dataset in a way that reproduces our content as a substitute for purchase, where that conflicts with our rights; or
• circumvent technical limits we place on delivery or access.

Any permitted internal sharing within your organisation must be limited to people who reasonably need access for the licensed internal use and who are required to protect the files at least as strictly as these Terms require.

We may revoke the licence immediately if you materially breach these Terms.

Intellectual property

The website, branding, copy, product files, downloadable resources, structure, presentation, and related content are owned by CodeConstitutions or licensed to us and are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties where they apply.

Purchasing a product grants you the licence described above. It does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property to you.

Licence enforcement and anti-piracy

Unauthorised copying, sharing, resale, sublicensing, public posting, or commercial redistribution of the website content or products is a material breach of these Terms and may also infringe our copyright and other rights.

Where we reasonably suspect unauthorised distribution or misuse, we may investigate, refuse service, revoke licences, disable future access where technically available, send takedown or cease-and-desist notices, notify relevant platforms, processors, hosts, or marketplace operators, and pursue remedies available under contract, copyright, or other law, including injunctive relief, damages, an account of profits, and recovery of reasonable enforcement costs where permitted.

Nothing in this section obliges us to act in every case or limits any non-waivable rights or remedies that either party may have under applicable law.

Acceptable use restrictions

You must not use the website or products in ways that:

• violate applicable law or the rights of others;
• infringe intellectual property or confidential information;
• distribute malware, attempt unauthorised access, or disrupt the site or related systems;
• scrape, harvest, or copy the site at scale without our written permission;
• misrepresent your affiliation with CodeConstitutions or the origin of the materials; or
• are fraudulent, deceptive, abusive, or intended to harm others.

AI, software, and output risk

CodeConstitutions materials are decision-support and workflow-structuring resources. They are not a substitute for your own engineering, security, legal, or business judgment.

AI systems and other tools you use can still make mistakes, omit issues, hallucinate, or produce weak or unsafe output—even when guided by strong prompts or constitutions. You remain responsible for reviewing, testing, validating, securing, and approving any code, design, release, infrastructure, procurement, or business decision before you rely on it, especially in production or high-risk contexts.

You should use qualified human review before decisions that could materially affect safety, security, compliance, finances, employment, or legal exposure.

CodeConstitutions does not guarantee that using the materials will prevent bugs, vulnerabilities, outages, regulatory issues, disputes, or business loss.

High-risk use and backups

You must not rely on the website or products as the sole basis for decisions in any safety-critical, mission-critical, or high-consequence environment unless you have completed independent expert review, testing, and approval appropriate to the risk. Examples include medical, life-support, industrial control, vehicles, aviation, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity incident response, or systems that could cause physical harm, property damage, regulatory breach, or major financial loss if they fail.

You are responsible for maintaining backups, version control, rollback plans, test environments, security controls, and other safeguards appropriate to your systems. Except to the extent liability cannot lawfully be excluded, we are not responsible for loss or corruption of data, code, prompts, models, configurations, devices, hardware, machines, equipment, networks, environments, accounts, or third-party systems arising from how you apply or rely on the materials.

No professional advice

Nothing on the website or in our products is legal, financial, tax, accounting, regulatory, employment, medical, or other professional advice. The materials are general educational and workflow resources. If you need advice tailored to your situation, consult a qualified professional.

Pricing and product changes

Prices, product descriptions, packaging, bundle structure, and promotional offers may change at any time before you complete a purchase. The terms that apply to a given order are those in effect at checkout when you pay (unless applicable law requires otherwise).

We may modify, replace, retire, or update products or offers over time. Where a change materially affects an active obligation we have already accepted and paid for, we will handle it fairly and in line with applicable law.

Payments

Payments are processed through third-party checkout or payment providers. By completing a purchase, you authorise the applicable charge for the order you select, including any fees or charges shown in the checkout flow.

We do not intend to store full payment card details on our own systems; card and wallet data are handled by our payment partners according to their practices. We may receive limited transaction information as described in our Privacy Policy.

Support, updates, and future features

Unless we expressly promise otherwise in writing for a specific purchase, we are not obliged to provide onboarding, implementation help, customisation, consulting, troubleshooting, compatibility work, ongoing support, maintenance, revisions, or future updates. Any future files, bonuses, upgrades, additions, or revised editions remain at our discretion.

Purchasing one product does not entitle you to every future product, bundle, version, or revision unless that entitlement is clearly stated at checkout or in a written offer from us.

Refunds, cancellations, and digital product policy

Nothing in this section limits any rights or remedies that cannot legally be excluded or restricted under the mandatory consumer protection or other laws that apply to you (for example certain statutory withdrawal, quality, or non-conformity rights where they exist and cannot be waived).

Nature of the products

CodeConstitutions sells digital goods (for example downloadable markdown (.md) files and related materials). They are not physical goods. Performance of our obligation to you is typically complete when we make the purchased files available for download or access through the checkout or delivery mechanism we use (for example a download link, file attachment, or access page), using the delivery details you provide.

When delivery is complete

For the purpose of these Terms, “delivered” means that the purchased digital product has been made available to you in a way a reasonable customer can retrieve it—whether or not you have actually clicked the link, saved the file, or opened it. If you do not receive delivery because you entered a wrong email address, your mailbox rejected the message, or similar issues on your side, we may still treat the product as delivered if our records show we sent or exposed the files as required by the checkout flow.

No change-of-mind refunds after successful payment and delivery

Except where applicable mandatory law requires otherwise, we do not offer refunds for change of mind once:

• your payment has successfully cleared or been authorised and captured by our payment provider; and
• the digital product has been delivered as described above.

This includes, without limitation, situations where you change your mind, decide you do not need the files, believe the materials are “not a fit” for your project, fail to read the description before purchase, lack time to use them, duplicate an order by mistake after delivery, are dissatisfied with subjective quality where the files materially match what was offered at checkout, or claim dissatisfaction after you have already downloaded, copied, or used the content.

You acknowledge that digital products can be copied instantly once delivered, that it is not practicable to “return” them in the same way as physical goods, and that a strict policy is necessary to prevent abuse and unauthorised redistribution.

If a product does not comply with a non-excludable consumer guarantee or other mandatory legal standard that applies to the sale and gives you a right to a remedy, this section will be read subject to that law.

No cooling-off / withdrawal where the law allows waiver

In some jurisdictions consumers may have a statutory right to cancel distance contracts within a cooling-off period. For digital content not supplied on a tangible medium, many laws allow that right to be lost if you consent to immediate performance and acknowledge that you lose the right to cancel once delivery starts. Where such rules apply and you have given any required consent at checkout (or by completing a purchase that clearly states immediate digital delivery), you agree that you requested immediate supply of the digital content and that, to the extent the law permits, your statutory cancellation or cooling-off rights do not apply after delivery has begun or been completed.

If you are unsure what applies in your country, obtain independent legal advice before purchasing.

Chargebacks and payment disputes

If you initiate a chargeback, payment reversal, or dispute with your bank or card issuer after delivery without first contacting us in good faith at support@codeconstitutions.com, or if such a dispute is brought on grounds we reasonably consider inconsistent with these Terms (for example claiming non-receipt when our records show delivery), we may treat that as a breach of contract. We may suspend further sales to you, revoke any licence granted for the disputed product where permitted, and share relevant transaction and delivery records with our payment processors and fraud-prevention partners. We reserve any other remedies available at law or in equity.

Limited discretionary assistance (not a refund promise)

We may, solely at our discretion and without creating an obligation for future cases, help with issues such as a clear duplicate charge for the same order, a technical failure that prevented any delivery at all, or a corrupt or incomplete file where our records show the problem was on our side. Contact support@codeconstitutions.com with your order identifier, date of purchase, and a concise description. Any remedy we offer in those narrow situations may take the form of re-delivery, a replacement file, or a credit toward another product—not necessarily a cash refund—and does not waive this section for other purchases.

Your responsibility before buying

You agree that you have had a reasonable opportunity to review the product description, file list, licence restrictions, and these Terms (including this refund section) before you pay. If anything is unclear, contact support@codeconstitutions.com before completing checkout.

Interpretation and records

If there is a disagreement about whether delivery occurred, our reasonable records from checkout, email delivery logs, download platforms, or hosting providers will generally prevail absent clear contrary evidence. Time stamps from those systems are admissible for the purpose of resolving disputes between you and us.

We may refuse refund or chargeback-related requests that appear fraudulent, abusive, repetitive, or incompatible with the facts of delivery and use.

Third-party services and links

The website or product experience may rely on third-party services—such as payment providers, email tools, analytics, file delivery, or AI platforms you choose to use alongside our materials. Those services are not under our direct control and are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Availability and site changes

We may update, suspend, withdraw, or change the website or products at any time, including for maintenance, security, legal, or business reasons. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability.

Testimonials, reviews, and examples

If we show testimonials, reviews, case-style examples, or illustrative descriptions on the site, they are meant to explain how materials can be used. They are not a promise that you will achieve the same outcomes. Results depend on your project, prompts, discipline, tooling, team, and context.

Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the website and products are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory—including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement, except to the extent such warranties cannot legally be excluded.

We do not warrant that access will be uninterrupted, that content will be error-free in every detail, or that the materials will fit every workflow or produce any particular commercial result.

Where the law implies terms into consumer contracts that cannot be excluded, those terms apply to the minimum extent required—but our liability is still limited as described below where the law allows.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• CodeConstitutions and our directors, contractors, and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, opportunity, or business interruption—arising out of or related to your use of or inability to use the website or products, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
• For direct damages, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the website and products is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid to us for the specific product giving rise to the claim during the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to liability, or (b) where no fee was paid for that specific claim context, a nominal statutory minimum if required.

Without limiting the above, and except where liability cannot legally be excluded or limited, we are not responsible for damage to or loss of software, models, prompts, datasets, code repositories, devices, hardware, machines, equipment, networks, hosted environments, accounts, or third-party services caused by your implementation, testing, deployment, modification, or other use of the materials.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence (where applicable), fraud, or other categories some laws do not allow us to cap.

User responsibility and indemnity

You are responsible for your own implementation decisions and for complying with these Terms and applicable law when using our materials.

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless CodeConstitutions and our personnel from losses, claims, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: (a) your unlawful use of the site or products; (b) your breach of these Terms; or (c) infringement of a third party’s rights caused by your conduct or content—but not to the extent a loss is caused by our own unlawful act or gross negligence where the law does not permit indemnity.

This indemnity is intentionally narrow and is not a blanket demand that you waive all claims against us.

Suspension or termination

We may suspend access to the website, refuse service, withhold or cancel undelivered access where appropriate, or terminate your licence for reasons including material breach, fraud, abuse, repeated chargeback abuse, infringement, or misuse that harms us or others.

Provisions that by their nature should survive (including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations, indemnity where permitted, and governing provisions) continue after termination.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time by posting a revised version on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Where a change is material and we are required to notify you, we will do so using a reasonable method (for example email to the address we hold, or a notice on the site).

For a given purchase, the version in effect at the time you paid generally governs that transaction, unless applicable law requires a different approach.

Dispute resolution — contact first

Before commencing any formal dispute process, you agree to contact us at support@codeconstitutions.com and give CodeConstitutions a reasonable opportunity to review the issue and attempt to resolve it informally. Good-faith cooperation often resolves problems faster.

Governing law and forum

We do not designate a specific geographic venue for disputes on this page. Any dispute will be resolved by a court or tribunal with proper jurisdiction over the parties and subject matter, subject to any mandatory rights or protections that apply to you under the law that governs your relationship with us and cannot be waived by contract.

If you are entitled to bring claims in your home courts under mandatory consumer rules, those rights remain available to the extent the law requires.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any product-specific terms, checkout notices, or licence files presented at purchase or in the product files, form the agreement between you and CodeConstitutions regarding the website and products, and supersede prior inconsistent understandings on the same subject—except where prior commitments cannot be overridden by law.