Terms of Use and Sale
These terms govern access to the DocMeThis website, use of DocMeThis Fix, and the Audit and Build services offered by DocMeThis SAS. DocMeThis commercial offers are exclusively reserved for professionals.
2026-08-27
1. Purpose and acceptance
Publisher
DocMeThis SAS, a French simplified joint-stock company with share capital of €10,000, registered with the Clermont-Ferrand Trade and Companies Register under number 107 634 602, with registered office at 1 Allée du Terroir, 63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France, provides software documentation tools and services. Full details are available in the legal notice.
Customer definition
For purposes of these terms, the "Customer" means any individual acting for professional purposes or any legal entity or organization subscribing to the Services. Where an individual subscribes in the name and on behalf of a legal entity or organization, that individual represents that it has the authority to bind it.
Acceptance
Ordering a commercial service, using the free Solo plan, or purchasing a credit pack constitutes acceptance of these terms. Standalone use of DocMeThis Check is governed by its proprietary license with limited rights, whose terms are set out in Article 2, and does not constitute acceptance of these commercial terms. An accepted quote, order, or specific condition may supplement or replace these terms for the relevant scope; in case of conflict, the quote or specific condition prevails.
2. Services
DocMeThis Check
DocMeThis Check is a static tool for detecting documentation debt and drift between signatures and docstrings. For purposes of the following license, it is the “Software”.
Copyright © 2026 DocMeThis SAS. All rights reserved. The source code of the Software is made publicly available. Subject to these terms, permission is granted to reproduce, run, test, and modify the Software solely for your own purposes or the internal purposes of your organization, and not for the purpose of providing services or other work for the benefit of any third party. No right is granted to distribute, sublicense, sell, license, publish, make available to third parties, or incorporate the Software or any part of it into any product or service provided to third parties. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by DocMeThis SAS.
DocMeThis Fix
DocMeThis Fix automates the generation or correction of Python docstrings in a CI workflow. It operates with the language model selected and configured by the customer; token usage and any model-provider subscription are not included in DocMeThis Fix's commercial conditions. The environments, limits, and included credits are those shown for the selected plan or quote.
Audit and Build
Audit consists of static analysis and a documentation report. Build, when offered, consists of a documentation pack defined by quote and may include docstrings, API reference, a README, a user manual, tutorials or notebooks, a multilingual version, a traceability report, or a retrieval-augmented documentation base.
Service changes
Enterprise services, custom integrations, support, and CI environments not included in a standard plan are defined by quote. DocMeThis may evolve the services without reducing services already ordered for the relevant period.
3. Professional customers, accounts, and obligations
Professional Customer
DocMeThis commercial offers are exclusively reserved for professionals. The professional-status declaration is not required for the free DocMeThis Fix Solo plan, which involves no charge. For other commercial Services, the Customer represents that it is acting for purposes within its professional activity. Consumers acting for personal purposes are not eligible for commercial Services subject to this condition. DocMeThis may refuse an order if professional status cannot be established.
Account and security
The customer must provide accurate information and keep its accounts, tokens, API keys, and other credentials confidential. The customer chooses the permissions granted to the tools, maintains appropriate backups, and reviews generated changes and documents before merging, publishing, or deploying them.
Rights and use
The customer must have the necessary rights to repositories, files, data, and content submitted to or processed by the services. The customer must not use the services unlawfully, circumvent quotas, abuse credit packs, or compromise the security or operation of the services.
4. Credit packs and abuse prevention
Credit pack
The DocMeThis Fix credit pack offered at checkout contains the credit volume shown before confirmation. These credits remain valid for 12 months and are consumed after the monthly credits included in the subscription, where applicable.
Separate purchase
The credit pack is an alternative to the CI Fix subscription and is purchased separately. Its purchase does not create an additional subscription. The applicable commercial conditions are communicated before the order is confirmed.
Anti-abuse checks and measures
DocMeThis may perform reasonable and proportionate checks using information lawfully available to it, including account, domain, organization, payment information when provided, and usage signals necessary to prevent fraud. In this context, DocMeThis may refuse, limit, suspend, or disable access to a pack, revoke associated credits, prevent new account creation, or suspend the relevant account. Paid accounts may be suspended immediately in cases of fraud, circumvention, security risk, or serious breach, without prejudice to DocMeThis's other rights.
Domain and IP-range blocking
DocMeThis may also block domains or IP address ranges associated with abuse or an attempt to circumvent these limits.
5. Orders, billing, and late payment
Taxes
Any applicable taxes are calculated according to the Customer's status and place of establishment and are shown at checkout.
Commercial conditions
Services are provided and billed according to the commercial conditions communicated when the subscription or order is placed, on the Site or, where applicable, in the quote accepted by the Customer.
Information before ordering
The applicable commercial conditions are made known to the Customer before the order is confirmed. The order confirmation or invoice specifies them.
Services under quote
Where the terms of a service cannot be determined exactly in advance, they are established according to the quote provided to the Customer. The quote then specifies the scope of the service and the applicable method.
Changes to commercial conditions
DocMeThis may change its commercial conditions for the future. Until the relevant due date, the conditions applicable to an ongoing subscription remain unchanged. Any change takes effect from a later due date after the Customer has been informed before it becomes effective; the new conditions then apply at the next renewal, unless the Customer cancels before that date under Article 6.
Billing
Chargebee manages subscriptions and billing. Depending on the selected payment method, payment may be processed by Stripe or PayPal. The Customer also accepts the terms applicable to the operations performed by those providers. Invoices are issued using the information supplied by the Customer.
Payment and early-payment discount
Amounts due for subscriptions and credit packs are payable on order and, for subscriptions, on each renewal, unless specific quote terms provide otherwise. No discount is granted for early payment.
Late payment
In case of late payment, penalties are due automatically, without prior reminder, from the day following the due date, at the rate applied by the European Central Bank to its most recent refinancing operation plus ten percentage points. The professional Customer also owes an automatic fixed €40 recovery fee, without prejudice to additional compensation where the recovery costs actually incurred are higher, upon justification.
6. Subscriptions, credits, and cancellation
Subscriptions and cancellation
DocMeThis Fix monthly and annual subscriptions have no minimum-term commitment. They renew for a period of the same length until canceled. The customer may cancel before the next renewal date through the management area provided by Chargebee. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period already paid and does not result in a pro-rata refund, unless mandatory law or an agreement with DocMeThis provides otherwise.
Credits and usage calculation
DocMeThis Fix credits are allocated and renewed according to the selected plan. The credit volume included in each plan and the volume of any packs are shown at the time of order and may change for future orders. The method used to calculate credit usage, including the number of credits assigned to a symbol or documentation element, may change. Any change applicable to an ongoing subscription will be communicated to the Customer and take effect for the future under the applicable conditions. Additional credits, when available, are offered under the conditions communicated at the time of order, remain valid for 12 months, and are consumed after the monthly credits included in the subscription, where applicable. Credits are not currency, refundable credit, or a transferable right.
Quotas and operation
DocMeThis Fix quotas are controlled by the Gateway. A request exceeding the hard cap is rejected; a request with no available credit is rejected with a quota-exhausted status. Reservations released by a failed or incomplete execution are returned according to the service's operation. Exhausting the DocMeThis Fix quota does not prevent DocMeThis Check from continuing to run.
7. Open-source offer
Offer scope
The Open Source offer is a commercial arrangement distinct from the DocMeThis Check license. It concerns benefits granted to eligible projects for the relevant Services, including DocMeThis Fix and Audit, and does not expand the rights granted by that license. Installation, configuration, and operation of DocMeThis Check in the customer's CI environment are the customer's responsibility unless a specific service is ordered.
Eligibility requirements
The Open Source offer is reserved for publicly accessible source-code repositories whose code covered by the Services is distributed under a license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Eligibility may be checked automatically or manually by DocMeThis.
Free monthly quota
The Open Source offer takes the form of a free monthly credit quota, whose amount, renewal period, and scope are those stated by DocMeThis. This quota is not a monetary budget, an unlimited credit balance, or a receivable owed to the Customer.
Maintaining eligibility
The Customer must maintain these conditions throughout use of the offer. If a change makes the repository ineligible, including making it private or changing its license, DocMeThis may end the benefit of the Open Source offer. DocMeThis may exceptionally recognize a repository with equivalent licensing conditions as eligible.
Checks and sanctions
DocMeThis may suspend or refuse the offer in case of misrepresentation, misuse, or circumvention of the eligibility conditions.
8. Audit, Build, and High Score Refund
Audit
Audit is priced according to the agreed volume and scope. Where its price cannot be determined in advance, the quote specifies the scope, price, or applicable calculation method. Open-source projects may qualify for a free Audit within the published scope and conditions.
High Score Refund
If the overall score awarded by DocMeThis after a paid Audit is strictly above 95/100, the Audit price is refunded. The quote may specify the calculation scope, practical process, and timing of that refund.
Build and custom services
The scope, deliverables, schedule, and price of Build or any custom service are those in the accepted quote. Additional requests or scope changes may be covered by an additional quote.
9. Third-party providers, data, and language models
DocMeThis Check and DocMeThis Fix processing
DocMeThis Check and DocMeThis Fix perform their analysis in the customer's local or CI environment and do not send source code to DocMeThis. DocMeThis Fix may nevertheless send the prompts and context required for execution to the language-model provider selected by the Customer, depending on the chosen configuration. The Customer must review the provider's terms, confidentiality commitments, and retention rules.
Gateway and third-party services
The Gateway is used only by DocMeThis Fix to receive the technical information required for authentication and credit tracking, including an opaque identifier; it is not used by DocMeThis Check and is not intended to receive the Customer's source code, file manifests, or prompts. Third-party services remain subject to their own terms and privacy policies.
Payment and personal data
Chargebee, Stripe, and PayPal may process data required for checkout, payments, and subscriptions. Information about personal data and providers is available in the legal notice.
10. Confidentiality
Confidential information
DocMeThis treats as confidential the source code, architecture, and non-public technical, commercial, and organizational information disclosed in connection with an Audit, Build, or other commercial service.
Use and access
This information is used only to perform the ordered service. DocMeThis limits access to people and providers who need it for that purpose and takes reasonable measures to preserve its confidentiality. This obligation does not apply to information that is public, already known to DocMeThis, independently developed, or lawfully received from a third party, or to disclosures required by law or a competent authority.
Duration and exceptions
The confidentiality obligation survives termination for as long as the relevant information has not become public other than through a breach of these terms. The terms of the language-model provider selected by the Customer apply to information the Customer directly asks that provider to process.
11. Intellectual property
Customer materials
The customer retains its rights in its repositories, code, data, and other materials it submits. The customer authorizes DocMeThis and the necessary providers to process those materials only to perform the ordered service.
DocMeThis materials
DocMeThis retains its rights in the website, software, methods, templates, know-how, interfaces, and generic materials. DocMeThis Check is subject to its proprietary license with limited rights; other components and services remain subject to their applicable rights and licenses.
DocMeThis Fix results
DocMeThis claims no intellectual property rights in modifications or content generated by DocMeThis Fix for the Customer. Subject to third-party rights and the applicable terms of the language-model provider selected by the Customer, the Customer may use, modify, reproduce, and distribute those results.
Quoted deliverables
For an Audit, Build, or custom service, the accepted quote specifies the use rights, license, or assignment granted over deliverables after full payment. No broader, exclusive, or transferable right is implied solely by payment or delivery of a deliverable.
12. Availability, results, and support
Best-efforts obligation
The services are provided on a best-efforts basis. Analyses and generated text may be incomplete, inaccurate, or require adaptation; they do not replace code review, security validation, or editorial or business judgment. The customer remains solely responsible for accepting and using generated changes and documents.
Availability and service levels
DocMeThis does not guarantee continuous availability, error-free operation, or compatibility with every environment. Maintenance, third-party provider changes, or security constraints may temporarily interrupt or limit a service. No specific service level is promised unless expressly stated in an Enterprise quote or specific condition.
13. Suspension and termination
Suspension grounds
DocMeThis may suspend or limit a service in case of non-payment, security risk, unlawful use, fraud, quota circumvention, or breach of these terms. Where circumstances allow, DocMeThis will inform the customer and allow it to remedy the breach.
Termination
In case of a serious or uncured breach, DocMeThis may terminate the relevant service. Access to services and credits may end on the effective termination date, subject to the rights provided by the quote, these terms, or applicable law. Obligations that by their nature should survive termination remain in effect.
14. Force majeure
Principle
Neither party is liable for a failure or delay caused by a force-majeure event within the meaning of Article 1218 of the French Civil Code, beyond its reasonable control and preventing performance of its obligation.
Covered events
This may include outages or unavailability affecting GitHub, GitLab, a language-model provider, a host, a payment provider, or a network, as well as cyberattacks, power failures, natural disasters, industrial action, administrative decisions, or regulatory changes. The affected party will inform the other party where reasonably possible and take appropriate steps to limit the effects of the event.
15. Liability
Customer responsibility
The customer is responsible for its access, backups, instructions, data, and validation of results. DocMeThis is not liable for damage resulting from misconfiguration, failure to maintain backups, a third-party provider, customer-provided content, or use of an unchecked result.
Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, DocMeThis's total liability for a service is limited to the amounts actually paid for that service during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. DocMeThis is not liable for indirect loss, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, or loss of data that was not backed up. This limitation does not apply where the law prohibits limiting or excluding liability.
16. Governing law and disputes
Governing law
These terms are governed by French law. Applicable international jurisdiction rules and mandatory rules remain reserved.
Jurisdiction
When all parties have contracted as merchants, any dispute relating to the validity, interpretation, performance, or termination of the contract shall fall within the jurisdiction of the competent courts of Clermont-Ferrand, including in case of multiple defendants or third-party claims. In all other cases, the applicable jurisdiction rules shall apply.
Contact and updates
The customer may contact DocMeThis at hello@docmethis.com with any question or complaint. These terms may be updated to reflect changes to the services or regulations; the applicable version is the version accepted at the time of order or, for an ongoing subscription, the version communicated before its next renewal period.
Languages
These terms are available in French and English. In case of discrepancy, the French version prevails for contracts governed by French law, unless the accepted quote states otherwise.