Celebrium — Terms of Service

Version: v0.2

Effective date: 2026-08-15

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.

We are currently operating a private trial for a limited group of invited users. Features, availability, and these Terms may change as the Service develops.

2. Eligibility

The Service is currently a private, invite-only trial. You may only create an account if you have been invited directly by us or by someone we invited.

If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with the knowledge and permission of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf. Please do not create an account without that permission.

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

We are building formal age verification and parental-consent mechanisms, and we will have them in place before the Service is opened beyond this invite-only trial. 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.

3. Description of the Service

Celebrium lets you:

Take AI-generated and AI-delivered lessons and courses.
Ask questions to an AI tutor.
Create your own courses, either by describing a topic or by uploading materials such as PDFs or EPUBs.
Keep courses private (the default) or publish them publicly so other users can discover and use them.

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AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading, and may contain errors or "hallucinations".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 upload — including the courses you author, your notes, your chats, and any materials you upload such as PDFs or EPUBs ("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 content you have published publicly (see Section 6).

5.3 Your responsibility for what you upload

You are responsible for the materials you upload. You represent and warrant that:

You own the materials, or you have all necessary rights, licences, and permissions to upload them and to have them processed by the Service.
Your uploads do not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, confidentiality, or other rights.

Do not upload copyrighted books, articles, or other third-party materials (including PDFs or EPUBs) unless you have the right to do so. Uploading material you don't have rights to may infringe copyright, and you — not Celebrium — are responsible for that.

6. Public courses and user responsibility

You may choose to publish a course so that other users can discover and use it. When you publish a course publicly:

You are responsible for that course and everything in it, including any uploaded source material it is built from or that it reproduces.
You confirm that you have the right to share it publicly and that doing so does not infringe anyone's rights or break any law.
You grant other users a licence to view and use the published course through the Service, and you grant Celebrium the additional rights needed to host, display, and distribute it to those users.
You indemnify Celebrium for claims arising from the course you published (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 (including public courses) that we reasonably believe breaches these Terms, infringes rights, or is otherwise harmful, and we may do so without prior notice where appropriate.

If you believe a public course or other content infringes your rights or breaks these Terms, please report it to contact@celebrium.ai with enough detail for us to investigate (including a description of the content, its location, and the basis of your concern). 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, subscriptions, and donations

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 Donations

You may be able to make voluntary donations to support Celebrium. Donations are voluntary, are not payment for goods or services, and are generally non-refundable.

8.4 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.

8.5 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.

8.6 Payment processor

Payments are planned to be handled by Paddle, acting as our Merchant of Record. This means Paddle sells the subscription to you on our behalf, takes the payment, and is responsible for any sales tax or VAT due in your country. Your card statement will show Paddle rather than Celebrium, and when you pay you also agree to Paddle's terms. We do not store full card numbers; card data is handled by Paddle (see our Privacy Policy). Paddle integration is planned/pending and may not yet be live.

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, private-trial 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.

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.

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), South Africa
contact@celebrium.ai