Legal & Privacy Terms

AskPay is an early-stage, experimental pay-per-use AI chat application. It is provided strictly as-is, with no warranties of any kind — express or implied. The application is currently in active development and may run against testnet contracts, mainnet contracts, or both, depending on the deployment configuration.

By using AskPay you acknowledge that you are interacting with pre-production software. Bugs, unexpected behaviour, and breaking changes may occur at any time without notice.

AskPay is a non-custodial application. It never holds, controls, or has access to your private keys. All transactions are initiated and signed exclusively by your own wallet (MiniPay, Valora, MetaMask, or another compatible wallet).

You are solely responsible for:

• Keeping your wallet seed phrase and private keys secure.
• Verifying every transaction before you sign it.
• Ensuring you have sufficient USDm balance before submitting a query.
• Understanding that approving a transaction authorises a token transfer from your wallet.

AskPay is provided without any guarantee of continuous availability. The application, its backend API, and any third-party AI provider it relies on may be unavailable, slow, or return errors at any time.

We do not commit to a specific service level agreement (SLA), maintenance window, or response-time target for this early-stage deployment.

All payments made through AskPay are recorded on the Celo blockchain. Once a transaction is confirmed, it cannot be reversed, cancelled, or refunded — this is a property of the underlying blockchain, not a policy choice. Please verify the query fee displayed in the UI before signing.

If the AI response is unavailable after a confirmed payment (e.g. due to a backend outage or API error), the on-chain payment cannot be undone. We will make reasonable efforts to surface errors clearly in the UI before a payment is requested.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the developers of AskPay shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the application — including but not limited to loss of funds, loss of data, or loss of access to your wallet.

The PayPerQuery.sol contract deployed on Celo has not undergone a formal third-party security audit. It is intentionally simple and non-upgradeable, but you interact with it at your own risk. The source code is publicly available for your review.

These terms may be updated as the project matures. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use of AskPay after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

The Celo blockchain is a public ledger. When you pay for a query, the following information is permanently and publicly recorded on-chain:

• Your wallet address (the account that signed the transaction).
• The amount of USDm transferred as the query fee.
• The unique query ID associated with that payment.
• The block number and timestamp of the transaction.

This is inherent to how blockchains work and is not something AskPay controls. Anyone can inspect this data using a public block explorer such as celoscan.io.

AskPay does not collect, store, or process:

• Your name, email address, or any other personally identifying information.
• IP addresses or device fingerprints (beyond what a standard web server log would record for a single request, which is not retained).
• Browsing history, cookies set for tracking, or any analytics identifiers.
• The content of your questions or the AI answers on a persistent server-side basis.

Query history displayed in the AskPay UI is stored locally in your browser's localStorage. It never leaves your device unless you share it yourself.

This is the most important disclosure: the text of your question is forwarded to a third-party AI API in order to generate a response. Depending on server configuration, that provider is either:

• Groq — running llama3-8b-8192. Groq's privacy policy applies: groq.com/privacy-policy.
• Google Gemini — running gemini-1.5-flash. Google's API terms apply: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms.

Do not submit sensitive personal information, confidential data, or anything you would not want processed by a third-party AI API. The query text is not logged server-side beyond the in-flight API call, but AskPay cannot control how the upstream provider handles it.

AskPay does not sell, rent, or trade any user data — on-chain or off-chain — to any third party. The forwarding of your question text to an AI provider (described in §3 above) is strictly for the purpose of generating your answer, not for advertising or data brokerage.

If you have questions about this notice, open an issue or discussion on the AskPay GitHub repository.