Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-05-04

Introduction and acceptance

Welcome to Markland. These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and the operator of https://markland.dev regarding your use of the Markland service. Read them carefully — they cover what you can and can't do on Markland, what we do and don't promise, and how disputes are handled.

By creating an account, publishing a document, or otherwise using Markland, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.

Plain English is the goal. Where legal terms appear, they are there because removing them would create real ambiguity, not for ceremony.

Definitions

• "Markland," "we," "us," "our" — the operator of https://markland.dev, a single individual developer (@magic_davey) operating the service in their personal capacity.
• "You," "your" — the natural person or legal entity using Markland under an account.
• "Service" — the Markland website, the MCP server at /mcp, the document-publishing API, and any related software or infrastructure operated by Markland.
• "Account" — a record created by signing in with a verified email address. Each Account is held by one human user.
• "Agent" — an automated software actor (typically an AI agent like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex) that you have authorized to act on your behalf via a Markland-issued bearer token.
• "Content" — markdown documents, titles, comments, agent labels, and any other material you publish, upload, or otherwise make available through the Service.
• "Public Document" — Content you have explicitly marked as public; reachable by URL without an Account or grant.
• "Private Document" — Content readable only by the owner and accounts or agents with a grant.

Your account

You must be at least 16 years old to create an Account. By creating one, you confirm you meet this minimum age and that you are entering into these Terms on your own behalf, or with authority to bind any organization on whose behalf you are acting.

You are responsible for keeping your sign-in email secure and for any activity that occurs under your Account, including activity by Agents you have authorized. Bearer tokens issued to your Agents grant the same authority as your Account, scoped to whatever permission level you assigned. Treat them like passwords; if a token is leaked or an Agent is no longer trusted, revoke the token from /settings/agents immediately.

You agree to provide accurate sign-in information and to update it as needed. Each Account is for use by one human; sharing sign-in credentials with another human is not permitted (Agents are the supported way to delegate).

Our service

Beta status. Markland is in active beta, operated by a single individual developer. The Service is provided on an "as-is, as-available" basis. Please don't put anything on Markland that you cannot afford to lose access to or that you wouldn't be willing to re-host elsewhere on a few hours' notice.

Service availability. We aim for high availability but do not guarantee any specific uptime or performance level. The Service may be unavailable due to maintenance, failures, third-party outages, or events outside our control. We make no commitment about response times for support requests during beta.

Changes to the Service. Features may be added, modified, or removed during beta with or without notice. We will give reasonable advance notice (at least 14 days, where feasible) before discontinuing core publishing or sign-in functionality, and will provide an export path for your documents before any wholesale data removal.

Pricing. The Service is currently offered without charge during beta. We may introduce paid tiers in the future; if we do, existing accounts will receive at least 30 days' notice before any feature you currently use becomes paid-only, and grandfathering decisions will be communicated in writing.

Your content

You own your Content. Markland claims no ownership of any document, title, comment, or other material you publish through the Service.

License to operate. By publishing Content through Markland, you grant Markland a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, render, and display that Content solely as necessary to operate the Service for you and the people or Agents you have granted access to. This license is limited in scope: it does not give Markland the right to use your Content for advertising, training AI models, or any other purpose not strictly required to deliver the Service. The license terminates when you delete the Content or your Account, except for residual copies in encrypted backups, which are deleted within 30 days per the retention schedule on /privacy.

Public Documents. Content you mark public may be indexed by search engines, retrieved by AI crawlers (subject to robots.txt), forked by other users via the Save-to-Markland flow, and quoted under fair-use principles. Setting visibility back to private removes the URL from the public index but does not retract copies third parties may have already retrieved.

Representations. By publishing Content you confirm that (a) you own it or have a license sufficient to grant the rights described in this section, (b) the Content does not violate the Acceptable Use restrictions, and (c) public-mode Content is intentionally public.

Acceptable use

Markland is a publishing surface, not a hosting platform for everything. You agree not to use the Service to:

• Publish, store, or transmit illegal content under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction in which you operate.
• Publish content that infringes the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other rights of any third party.
• Distribute malware, phishing payloads, or any code or content designed to harm a recipient's system, account, or data.
• Harass, threaten, defame, or doxx any specific person or group, or coordinate harm against them.
• Engage in spam, mass unsolicited messaging, fraud, market manipulation, or any deceptive scheme.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other users' Accounts, or the underlying infrastructure (penetration testing requires prior written authorization).
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service — including by submitting requests at a rate, volume, or pattern designed to degrade performance for other users.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service, except to the extent permitted by law.
• Use the Service to train AI or machine-learning models without prior written authorization. This restriction applies whether the model is yours, your employer's, or a third party's.
• Misrepresent your identity, your authority, or the source or accuracy of any Content you publish.

We reserve the right to remove Content, suspend tokens, or close Accounts that violate these guidelines. Enforcement is logged in the append-only audit trail described on /security. Where law allows, we will notify you of an enforcement action and the reason.

If you believe Content on Markland infringes your rights or violates these terms, contact us using the address in the "Contact" section below. Provide enough information for us to locate and assess the Content (URL, the right being asserted, your contact information, and a good-faith statement that the Content is unauthorized).

Termination

Termination by you. You can stop using Markland at any time. To delete your Account and associated Content, follow the process described on /privacy.

Termination by us. We may suspend or terminate your Account, revoke tokens, or remove Content if you violate these Terms (especially the Acceptable Use section), if your use of the Service creates an unreasonable burden or risk for other users or for Markland, or if continued service would be illegal. Where lawful and operationally feasible, we will notify you and give you an opportunity to cure the issue before terminating.

Effect of termination. On termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including "Your content" (as to the license retention period and IP rights), "Disclaimers," "Limitation of liability," "Indemnification," and "Governing law and disputes" — survive.

Service discontinuation. If Markland decides to wind down the Service entirely, we will give at least 30 days' notice via email to active accounts and provide a way to export your documents before data is removed. The 30-day notice does not apply to legally compelled shutdowns or events outside our control.

Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, INFORMATION, AND MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH IT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MARKLAND DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

Markland does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or free from viruses or other harmful components, or that defects will be corrected. Markland makes no warranty about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of any Content available through the Service.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions the disclaimers apply to the maximum extent permitted by local law.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL MARKLAND BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, EVEN IF MARKLAND HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

MARKLAND'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID MARKLAND FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS. SINCE THE BETA IS FREE, (A) IS CURRENTLY ZERO AND (B) APPLIES.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations may not apply to you. The limitations apply to the fullest extent permitted by local law, and nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited (such as for gross negligence or willful misconduct in jurisdictions where that is the case).

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Markland and its operator from any claim, demand, loss, or damage (including reasonable attorneys' fees) brought by a third party arising out of (a) Content you publish through the Service, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or any rights of a third party, or (d) actions taken by an Agent acting under a token issued from your Account. Markland will give you notice of any such claim and reasonable cooperation in the defense at your expense; you may not settle a claim that imposes obligations on Markland without our prior written consent.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, except that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service that cannot be resolved through good-faith discussion will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts. Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from raising a dispute in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction, where available, for claims that fit within that court's monetary limits. Class actions and class arbitrations are not permitted; each party may bring claims only in their individual capacity.

If you are an EU/UK consumer, this section does not deprive you of mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence; in that case the courts of your country of residence may have concurrent jurisdiction.

General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Markland regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.
• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.
• No waiver. A failure or delay by Markland in enforcing any right under these Terms is not a waiver of that right.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without Markland's prior written consent. Markland may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of its assets, on notice to you.
• No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and Markland.
• Force majeure. Markland is not liable for failure or delay in performance caused by events outside its reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, civil unrest, government actions, internet outages, or third-party-service failures.
• Notices. We may give you notice through the email address on your Account, through a notice posted on the Service, or by any other reasonable means. You may give us notice using the address in the "Contact" section below.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision. For material changes — anything that meaningfully expands what you owe Markland, narrows what Markland owes you, or changes how disputes are resolved — we will notify active account holders by email at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms; if you do not accept, you may delete your Account before the effective date.

The full revision history of this page is available in the public Markland repository on GitHub (github.com/magic_davey/markland). Every word change is on the record.

Contact

For any question about these Terms, or to send a notice required under them, contact legal@markland.dev. For privacy-related requests (data access, deletion, export), see /privacy. For security-specific reports, see /security.

The operator is reachable at @magic_davey on GitHub.