Celebrium — Terms of Service

Version: v0.5

Effective date: 2026-10-22

1. Introduction and acceptance of terms

Welcome to Celebrium, an AI-native learning web application available at celebrium.ai (the "Service"). The Service is operated from South Africa by WFJ Lombard, sole proprietor ("Celebrium", "we", "us", or "our").

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Celebrium. By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

Features, availability, and these Terms may change as the Service develops.

2. Eligibility

Anyone may create an account, subject to these Terms.

Date of birth. Every account is asked for a date of birth once, after its first sign-in, whichever way the account was created. Please give your real date of birth. It cannot be changed in the app; if it is wrong, contact us.

If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. When you give a date of birth under 18, we ask for your parent or guardian's email address and send them a link. Your account stays on hold, and we keep nothing about your learning, until they approve. To approve, your parent or guardian confirms that they are your parent or legal guardian, that they are 18 or older, and that they accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy on your behalf.

If nobody approves within 30 days, or your parent or guardian declines, the account and its data are deleted. Your parent or guardian may withdraw consent at any time with the link in the confirmation email we send them, and the account and its data are then deleted.

If you are 18 or older, you confirm that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

A parent or guardian may contact us at any time at contact@celebrium.ai to ask what data we hold about a learner in their care, or to have the account and its data deleted. We will act on such a request without requiring a reason.

3. Description of the Service

Celebrium is a publisher, not a marketplace. Every course in the Celebrium catalogue is written and owned by us. We do not host a public catalogue of courses made by other people, and the Service does not let you publish a course to other users at large.

Celebrium lets you:

Study the courses in the Celebrium catalogue, which we write.
Ask questions to an AI tutor about the course you are studying.
Be marked on tests and exams, and get feedback on what to work on.
Build private courses of your own, on a topic you choose, optionally grounded in study material you already have the right to use. Courses you build are private to you, and you may share one with specific people you invite.

The Service uses third-party AI models to generate lesson text, infographics and images, and tutoring responses.

3.1 AI-content accuracy disclaimer (important)

The Service relies on artificial intelligence, and AI output can be wrong.

All lessons, answers, infographics, summaries, and other AI-generated content are provided for general educational purposes only.
AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading, and may contain errors or "hallucinations".
Nothing on the Service is, or should be relied on as, professional, medical, legal, financial, or other specialist advice. Always consult a suitably qualified professional before making decisions in those areas.
You are responsible for independently verifying any information before relying on it. You use AI-generated content at your own risk.

4. Accounts and security

To use most features you will need an account. You agree to:

Provide accurate and complete information and keep it up to date.
Keep your login credentials confidential and not share your account.
Be responsible for all activity that happens under your account.
Notify us promptly at contact@celebrium.ai if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.

We may suspend or close accounts that we reasonably believe are being misused or that breach these Terms (see Section 12).

Some data may currently be stored locally on your device (for example in your browser's local storage) and is being migrated to cloud accounts. Locally stored data may be lost if you clear your browser or switch devices.

5. Your content and uploads

5.1 Ownership

You keep ownership of the content you create or provide — including the private courses you build, your notes, your chats, and any study material you provide ("User Content").

5.2 Licence you grant to us

To operate the Service, we need permission to handle your User Content. You grant Celebrium a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, transmit, display, and create technical derivatives of your User Content solely to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Service for you — for example, sending your uploads and prompts to our AI sub-processors to generate lessons and tutoring responses (see our Privacy Policy).

This licence lasts only as long as needed to provide the Service and ends when you delete the relevant content or close your account, except for backups retained for a limited period and anything you have shared with people you invited, which stays available to them until you remove it (see Section 6).

5.3 Your responsibility for the material you provide

You are responsible for the study material you provide. You represent and warrant that you own it, or that you have all necessary rights, licences, and permissions to provide it and to have it processed by the Service, and that it does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, confidentiality, or other rights.

If you do not hold those rights, please do not use the material here. See our Copyright Policy for how to report an infringement and what we do about it.

6. Your private courses, and sharing them

A course you build is private to you. The Service does not offer a way to publish it to other users at large, and it is never added to the Celebrium catalogue.

You may share a private course with specific people you invite. When you do:

You remain responsible for that course and everything in it, including any study material it is built from or that it reproduces.
You confirm that you have the right to share it with those people and that doing so does not infringe anyone's rights or break any law.
You grant the people you invite a licence to view and use the course through the Service, and you grant Celebrium the rights needed to host and display it to them.
You indemnify Celebrium for claims arising from what you share (see Section 11).

6.1 Moderation and reporting

We are not obliged to monitor User Content, but we may review, moderate, restrict, or remove any content that we reasonably believe breaches these Terms, infringes rights, or is otherwise harmful, and we may do so without prior notice where appropriate.

To report content that infringes your copyright, please follow our Copyright Policy, which sets out what to send and where. For anything else that breaks these Terms, email contact@celebrium.ai with enough detail for us to investigate. We will review reports and take action we consider appropriate, which may include removing content and suspending accounts.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

Break any applicable law or regulation, or infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights.
Upload, create, or publish content that is unlawful, harmful, abusive, harassing, hateful, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.
Generate or spread content designed to deceive, defraud, or harm others, or that exploits or endangers minors.
Scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-extract content or data from the Service except as we expressly permit.
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code or underlying models, or circumvent any security or access controls.
Misuse the AI features — for example, attempting to bypass safety measures, extract training data, overload the system, or generate prohibited content.
Interfere with or disrupt the Service, introduce malware, or gain unauthorised access to any system or account.
Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service without our written permission.

We may take action — including removing content, and suspending or terminating accounts — for any breach of this section.

8. Payments and subscriptions

Some features are or will be paid. Where charges apply, the following terms apply. Pricing and available plans will be shown in the Service at the point of purchase.

8.1 Subscriptions

We may offer subscription tiers billed monthly or yearly. Unless stated otherwise, subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, until you cancel.

8.2 Metered AI-generation usage

Some AI-generation activity may be billed on a metered (usage-based) basis — for example, generating courses or content. Metered usage may be charged at a margin above our underlying AI-provider costs to cover those costs and the operation of the Service. We will make reasonable efforts to show usage and applicable rates before you incur metered charges.

8.3 Billing, renewal, and cancellation

You authorise us and our payment processor to charge your chosen payment method for all fees you incur.
You can cancel a subscription at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then unless stated otherwise.
Taxes (such as VAT) may be added where applicable.

8.4 Refunds

Except where required by applicable consumer-protection law, fees are generally non-refundable, including for partial billing periods and unused metered allowances. Where mandatory consumer rights apply (for example for UK/EU consumers), nothing in these Terms limits those rights.

8.5 Who sells to you, and who processes payment

Who you buy from depends on where you are. The checkout tells you before you pay.

In South Africa you buy from WFJ Lombard, trading as Celebrium, a sole proprietorship registered in South Africa. We are the seller, and we are responsible for the sale, for refunds, and for any South African VAT due on it where applicable. Your card statement will show Celebrium. Payments are processed for us by Paystack, a licensed payment provider. Paystack handles the card or bank transaction on the checkout page; it does not sell to you and does not decide refunds. Prices are shown and charged in South African rand (ZAR).

Everywhere else your order is processed by Paddle.com, our online reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle sells the subscription or top-up to you, handles payment, and collects any VAT or sales tax due in your country, which is added at checkout. Paddle's buyer terms apply to the purchase itself and your statement will show Paddle. We remain responsible for the Service. Prices are shown in US dollars.

We never see or store full card numbers (see our Privacy Policy).

9. Celebrium's intellectual property

The Service itself — including its software, design, branding, "Celebrium" name and logo, and the original content we provide (other than User Content) — is owned by Celebrium or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from the Service except as expressly permitted.

10. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

10.1 Disclaimers

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that AI-generated content will be accurate or reliable (see Section 3.1).

This is an early-stage Service; features may change, break, or be withdrawn.

10.2 Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

We will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, goodwill, or opportunity, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the Service.
Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us in the 3 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) ZAR 2,000.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — for example liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any non-excludable rights of consumers under applicable law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Celebrium and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising out of or related to:

Your User Content or any course you publish.
Materials you upload that you did not have the right to upload.
Your breach of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.
Your misuse of the Service.

12. Suspension and termination

By you: You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time.
By us: We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we reasonably need to protect the Service, other users, or third parties.

Discontinuing the Service: We may stop providing the Service. If we do, we will give you at least 60 days' notice to the email address on your account. During that period the Service keeps working and you may export your courses and your notes, so that what you have studied does not disappear with us. What happens to money you have already paid is set out in our Refund Policy — a subscription is not renewed and any period you have paid for is honoured or refunded, and founder membership is dealt with in Section 4 of that policy.

On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including content licences for published courses, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law) will survive. We may delete your data following termination, subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable law.

Nothing in this section limits your rights under the consumer-protection law of your own country, including the South African Consumer Protection Act.

13. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of South Africa, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

You agree that the courts of South Africa will have jurisdiction to resolve disputes, subject to any mandatory rights you may have under the consumer-protection laws of your own country of residence (for example UK or EU consumers). Before starting formal proceedings, the parties will try in good faith to resolve any dispute informally by contacting us at contact@celebrium.ai.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify you (for example by email or an in-app notice) before they take effect. The "Effective date" at the top shows when the current version applies. If you continue to use the Service after changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at:

WFJ Lombard, sole proprietor (operator of Celebrium)
17 Orion Drive, Southern Cross, Great Brak River, 6525, South Africa
contact@celebrium.ai