Terms of Service

1. Accounts

• You must be at least 16 years old to use EELIB.IO.
• Accounts are personal: one person per account. Give accurate information and keep your password and API keys secret; you are responsible for what is done with your account.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the service or others at risk.

2. The service

EELIB.IO keeps your hardware assets and projects and offers tools that work with them. Many tools are in beta, and each shows whether it is available and what it can do now. We may change, suspend or stop features, and we do not promise that the service will always be available or free of errors.

3. Engineering results are for you to verify

Results from EELIB.IO — including part data, prices, BOMs, symbols, footprints, 3D models, schematics, PCB plans, simulations, firmware, test evaluations and AI answers — can be wrong or incomplete. They are labelled for what they are (generated, reviewed, used, verified on a board), and one never implies another.

• Review and verify every result before you order parts, fabricate a board, flash firmware or use it in a product.
• Do not rely on EELIB.IO alone for safety-critical uses, such as medical, automotive, aviation or life-support equipment.
• Prices and stock come from distributors, are shown with their source and time, and may be out of date; check with the distributor before ordering.

You are responsible for your designs and products and for any damage to hardware, devices or property that results from using these results.

4. Your content

You keep all rights to what you upload or create here. You give EETREE LLC a limited license to host, store, copy, process and transmit it — including to the service providers and AI providers named in the Privacy Policy — only to provide the service to you and as you direct it, for example when you share or publish something.

You confirm that you have the right to upload and use your content, and you do not upload other people's confidential information without their permission. What you publish, and where, is your responsibility.

5. Acceptable use

Do not:

• break the law, or infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy;
• upload malware, or attack, probe or overload the service;
• get around quotas, credits, rate limits, access controls or approvals;
• scrape the service, or resell or share access to it, except through the API as documented;
• use the service, or what it produces, in violation of export-control or sanctions laws.

6. EELIB Bridge and your hardware

The EELIB Bridge runs on your computer. It acts on instruments and boards only after you turn on access, and flashing, resetting or debugging a board also needs your approval for that board and that firmware. These actions change real devices: use them only on equipment you own or may use, and at your own risk.

7. Third-party services and names

Some features use third-party services — distributors, AI providers, code repositories and publishing platforms — under their own terms. Naming a platform, such as a place you can publish to, does not mean it endorses or works with EELIB.IO. Trademarks and product names belong to their owners.

8. Plans, credits and payments

• The Free plan includes a monthly allowance of credits and storage. Paid plans and credit packs are sold by EETREE LLC, with payment processed by Stripe, once purchases are open; the price is shown before you pay, plus any applicable taxes.
• Monthly credits lapse at the end of each calendar month (UTC); purchased credit packs expire 365 days after purchase.
• Pro renews until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, and Pro then continues to the end of the period you paid for.
• Credits spent on a run that fails are returned automatically. If a payment is refunded, the unspent credits it bought are removed. Refund requests go through Help & feedback.
• Actions that are free during the beta may begin to use credits; we will show this on the site before it applies.

9. API

API keys are for your own use. Keep them secret, stay within the documented limits, and revoke a key you no longer use. We may revoke a key that is misused.

10. Ending your use

You can stop using EELIB.IO at any time and ask us to close your account (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if we stop offering the service; where we reasonably can, we will tell you first and give you time to export your content.

11. Disclaimer

To the fullest extent the law allows, EELIB.IO is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, EETREE LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim relating to EELIB.IO is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

13. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify EETREE LLC against claims arising from your content, your designs or products, or your breach of these terms, to the extent the law allows.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in the State of Washington, and you and EETREE LLC consent to their jurisdiction. This does not take away rights you have under the consumer protection laws of the place where you live.

15. Changes to these terms

We will post any change here with a new date. If a change is material, we will tell you on the site or by email before it takes effect; using EELIB.IO after that means you accept the new terms.

16. Language

These terms are written in English. A Chinese translation is provided for convenience; if the two differ, the English version applies.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: use Help & feedback on the site.