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Last updated June 11, 2026.

Plain-language summary

Clovis is a public local-first bookkeeping project. You can read the source, install the package, and keep your ledger on your machine. Clovis Computing does not operate as your bank, accountant, broker, tax preparer, investment adviser, fiduciary, payment processor, or custodian. You are responsible for the records you create, the commands you run, the tools you connect, and the decisions you make from any Clovis output.

Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service govern access to and use of the cloviscomputing.com website and Clovis materials provided by Clovis Computing, including documentation, support materials, links, examples, package metadata, and project resources. By accessing the website, installing the package, using the CLI or MCP server, copying project materials, or communicating with support, you agree to these terms to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

If you accept these terms on behalf of a company, organization, household, client, or other person, you represent that you have authority to bind that party. If you do not agree, do not use the website, package, documentation, support channels, or related project materials.

Relationship to the open-source license

The Clovis source code and public package are licensed under the license published with the repository and npm package, currently AGPL-3.0-or-later. That license controls your rights to copy, modify, distribute, run, network-deploy, or embed the software. These website terms do not replace, narrow, or expand the open-source license. If these terms conflict with the open-source license for the code itself, the open-source license controls for the code.

Scope of Clovis

Clovis is software for local bookkeeping workflows. It may help you import statement files, store records in a local ledger, run reports, inspect transactions, reconcile records, create backups, export data, expose typed tools to local AI clients, and answer questions from records you control. Clovis is not a hosted finance account and does not custody money, move money, guarantee account balances, verify bank records, file taxes, provide regulated advice, or make financial decisions for you.

Your responsibilities

You are solely responsible for:

  • reviewing imported transactions and generated reports before relying on them;
  • reconciling Clovis records against source statements and official account records;
  • choosing account names, categories, budgets, exchange rates, assumptions, and reporting methods;
  • confirming tax, legal, accounting, investment, payroll, and compliance treatment with qualified advisers;
  • maintaining backups and access controls for local ledgers, exports, statement files, and devices;
  • protecting credentials, API keys, private files, account numbers, and sensitive financial records;
  • testing Clovis before using it in production, business-critical, client-facing, or regulated workflows; and
  • complying with all laws, regulations, contracts, employer policies, client obligations, and platform terms that apply to you.

No professional advice or fiduciary relationship

Clovis output is for informational and organizational use only. Clovis Computing does not provide financial, accounting, tax, audit, legal, payroll, benefits, credit, banking, insurance, securities, investment, business, or professional advice through the website, package, README, CLI, MCP server, examples, support messages, or AI integrations. No attorney-client, accountant-client, adviser-client, fiduciary, employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, or trustee relationship is created by your use of Clovis.

AI, MCP, automation, and agents

Clovis can expose local bookkeeping tools to AI clients through MCP or other local integrations. AI systems, agents, scripts, prompts, models, and tool calls can misunderstand your data, omit relevant context, produce incorrect summaries, recommend improper categories, trigger unintended commands, or generate unsafe outputs. You are responsible for configuring AI clients, reviewing tool permissions, inspecting proposed actions, validating results, and deciding what information is sent to any AI provider or local model.

Local data and backups

Clovis is designed around local ledger files. Clovis Computing does not maintain a hosted ledger account for you, does not automatically receive your local financial records, and does not guarantee recovery of lost, deleted, corrupted, encrypted, or overwritten local files. You are responsible for backups, restore testing, device security, malware protection, file permissions, version control, retention policies, and disaster recovery.

Compatibility and data migration risk

Clovis 1.x documents compatibility expectations for public package exports, CLI commands, MCP tools, and readable migrations. Reports, import behavior, examples, docs, dependencies, operating systems, Node.js versions, or user modifications may still affect behavior or data compatibility. Before upgrading or using Clovis in an important workflow, back up your data, test on copies, read release notes, and confirm the output.

Third-party services and dependencies

Clovis may be distributed, discussed, installed, hosted, secured, or used through third-party services such as GitHub, npm, Cloudflare, email providers, operating systems, package managers, AI providers, MCP clients, banks, statement exporters, and dependency packages. Those services are not controlled by Clovis Computing. Their availability, security, privacy, pricing, terms, outages, rate limits, moderation, account access, package delivery, and data handling are governed by their own terms and policies.

User content, support submissions, and feedback

If you send issues, support requests, examples, logs, code, pull requests, comments, ideas, feature requests, or other materials to Clovis Computing or public project channels, you represent that you have the right to share them and that they do not violate third-party rights or expose information you are not authorized to disclose. Do not send private financial records, credentials, account numbers, API keys, secrets, or full statement files unless a safe private process has been agreed.

You grant Clovis Computing a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, display, distribute, and create derivative works from support submissions and feedback for operating, improving, securing, documenting, and supporting Clovis, subject to any open-source contribution terms that apply to code contributions.

Acceptable use

You may not use Clovis, this website, package distribution, support channels, or project resources to:

  • violate any law, regulation, court order, contract, intellectual-property right, privacy right, or platform policy;
  • commit fraud, money laundering, sanctions evasion, unauthorized trading, tax evasion, or other unlawful financial activity;
  • misrepresent Clovis output as professional advice, audited financial statements, tax filings, investment recommendations, or bank records;
  • attack, scan, overload, reverse engineer unlawfully, bypass access controls, or interfere with systems or accounts;
  • upload, publish, or distribute malware, malicious packages, credential stealers, exploit code, or deceptive content;
  • collect, disclose, or process another person's financial data without authority;
  • remove required notices, misstate licensing obligations, or imply endorsement by Clovis Computing without permission; or
  • use Clovis in safety-critical, emergency, life-support, medical, weapons, nuclear, aviation, or other high-risk systems where failure could cause serious harm.

Security reporting

If you believe you found a security vulnerability, report it privately through the support contact or GitHub security reporting channel when available. Do not publicly disclose a vulnerability, access data that is not yours, degrade service, exfiltrate secrets, or test against systems you do not own or have permission to test. Responsible reports are welcome, but no bug bounty, reward, employment, contract, or payment obligation exists unless agreed in writing.

Changes, suspension, and discontinuation

Clovis Computing may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue the website, documentation, support channels, examples, releases, package publication, project materials, or future services at any time, with or without notice, to the maximum extent permitted by law. You are responsible for maintaining copies and backups of materials needed for your workflows, subject to applicable licenses.

Paid offers, commercial licenses, and separate agreements

The public package is currently available through npm and GitHub. Future paid products, commercial licenses, hosted services, support plans, consulting, or enterprise agreements may have separate terms, order forms, or written agreements. If a separate written agreement applies, it controls where it expressly conflicts with these terms.

Intellectual property and branding

Except for rights granted by the open-source license or a separate written agreement, Clovis Computing and its licensors retain all rights in Clovis names, marks, logos, website copy, documentation, design, and project materials. You may not imply sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, certification, or official status without written permission.

Export controls and sanctions

You are responsible for complying with export-control, sanctions, import, encryption, financial, and technology laws that apply to your use, download, distribution, modification, or deployment of Clovis. Do not use Clovis if applicable law prohibits you from doing so.

Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Clovis Computing, its owners, maintainers, contributors, affiliates, service providers, and representatives from and against claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from or related to your use of Clovis, your local data, your automation, your AI-client configuration, your violation of these terms, your violation of law or third-party rights, your content or submissions, or your use of Clovis for professional, commercial, client, regulated, or high-risk workflows.

Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Clovis, the website, documentation, package, examples, support, source, CLI, MCP server, APIs, reports, imports, exports, schemas, migrations, AI integrations, and all related materials are provided "as is," "as available," and with all faults. Clovis Computing disclaims all warranties, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, security, compatibility, quiet enjoyment, uninterrupted operation, and error-free operation.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Clovis Computing, its owners, maintainers, contributors, affiliates, service providers, and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, enhanced, or similar damages; lost profits; lost revenue; lost savings; lost opportunity; lost goodwill; data loss; business interruption; account errors; tax, legal, accounting, investment, trading, or business decisions; failed imports; incorrect reports; security incidents; third-party services; AI output; or unauthorized use of your device, credentials, files, or ledger, even if advised of the possibility of those damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the total aggregate liability of Clovis Computing and related parties for all claims arising from or related to Clovis, the website, support, or these terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid directly to Clovis Computing for the specific Clovis product or service giving rise to the claim in the twelve months before the event giving rise to liability, or 100 USD.

Release

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release Clovis Computing and related parties from claims arising from your local records, imported files, third-party services, AI providers, open-source modifications, downstream deployments, package registry behavior, source repository behavior, or financial decisions made from Clovis output.

Disputes

You agree to try to resolve disputes informally by emailing support@cloviscomputing.com before filing a claim, unless applicable law allows you to proceed without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, disputes must be brought individually and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action. Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, disputes will be handled by courts with jurisdiction over Clovis Computing's principal place of business or another forum required by non-waivable applicable law.

Severability and no waiver

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining parts remain in effect to the maximum extent permitted by law. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Headings are for convenience only.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the project changes. The updated date shows when the current version was posted. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated terms to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to support@cloviscomputing.com.