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Terms of Service

Effective date: July 25, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Clay Digital Consulting, a Tennessee company (“CortexMCP”, “we”, “us”), governing your access to and use of the CortexMCP platform, dashboard, API, Model Context Protocol interface, and the TheSystem WordPress plugin (together, the “Service”). By creating an account, accessing the Service, or clicking to accept, you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it. Our Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference.

The Service

CortexMCP is a business software platform for marketing strategy, research, content production, structured data, publishing, and analytics. Features vary by subscription tier, and we may add, modify, or discontinue features. We will give reasonable advance notice before removing or materially degrading a feature you actively use.

Eligibility and accounts

  • You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. The Service is not offered to consumers for personal use, and is not directed at children.
  • You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
  • You are responsible for the security of your credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly at support@cortexmcp.io if you suspect unauthorized access.
  • Account roles are Owner, Member, and Client. The Owner is responsible for the conduct of all users they invite and for the data those users add.
  • You may not share a single seat among multiple people, or resell access without a written reseller agreement.

Subscriptions, fees, and credits

  • Access is sold on a subscription basis. Fees, billing period, and included consumption limits are those presented at purchase.
  • Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current rate until cancelled. You may cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
  • Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated in writing. Cancelling mid-period does not entitle you to a partial refund.
  • Certain operations consume credits or metered allowances. When an allowance is exhausted, those operations are unavailable until the next period or until additional credits are purchased. Consumption is visible in your account, and it is your responsibility to monitor it.
  • We may change prices with at least 30 days’ notice before the change applies to your next renewal. If you do not accept a price change, cancel before it takes effect.
  • Fees are exclusive of taxes. You are responsible for applicable taxes other than taxes on our income.
  • We may suspend access for non-payment after notice and a reasonable cure period.

Your content and data

You own your content. Business context, brand materials, uploads, connected-site content, and content generated for you through the Service (“Customer Content”) remain yours. We claim no ownership.

License to us. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, transmit, and display Customer Content solely to operate and support the Service for you, and to the extent necessary to transmit it to the sub-processors described in the Privacy Policy. This license ends when the content is deleted, subject to backup cycles.

Your responsibilities. You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit Customer Content and to authorize the processing described here, and that doing so does not infringe anyone’s rights or violate any law. Where you use the Service for a client’s property, you represent that you are authorized to act on that client’s behalf.

Third-party accounts. When you connect a Google account, a WordPress site, a social account, or any other third-party service, you represent that you are authorized to connect it. You remain bound by that third party’s own terms. We are not responsible for a third party’s acts, outages, policy changes, or termination of your access to them.

AI-generated output

The Service uses artificial intelligence to generate content, analysis, scores, and recommendations (“Output”). Before relying on Output, understand:

  • Output can be wrong. AI systems produce plausible text that may be factually inaccurate, outdated, internally inconsistent, or misattributed. Scores and recommendations are estimates produced by heuristics and models, not guarantees.
  • You are responsible for review. You must review, verify, and edit Output before publishing it, relying on it, or presenting it to a client or the public. Publishing unreviewed Output is your decision and your risk.
  • Not professional advice. Output is not legal, financial, medical, tax, or other professional advice.
  • No exclusivity or originality guarantee. Similar prompts may produce similar Output for different customers. We do not warrant that Output is original or that it can be protected as your intellectual property.
  • Third-party terms. Output is produced in part through third-party model providers, whose usage policies apply to how the Output may be used.
  • No ranking or performance guarantee. Search engines, AI assistants, and social platforms control their own ranking and visibility. Nothing in the Service guarantees rankings, traffic, visibility, citations, leads, or revenue.

Acceptable use

You may not, and may not permit anyone else to:

  1. Use the Service to violate any law, regulation, or third-party right.
  2. Publish or generate content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or that sexualizes or endangers minors.
  3. Generate or distribute spam, malware, phishing content, or deceptive material designed to mislead users or search engines about identity or origin.
  4. Access, scrape, audit, publish to, or modify any website, Google property, or third-party account you are not authorized to act on.
  5. Impersonate any person or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation.
  6. Attempt to circumvent usage limits, entitlements, credit metering, tenant isolation, or authentication.
  7. Access another customer’s account or data, or probe, scan, or test the security of the Service without our prior written authorization.
  8. Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying models of the Service, except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable by law.
  9. Use the Service to build, train, or benchmark a competing product, or to extract its prompts, templates, frameworks, or knowledge base for that purpose.
  10. Resell, sublicense, or provide the Service to third parties except as expressly permitted for managing your own clients’ properties.
  11. Interfere with the Service’s operation, or impose an unreasonable load on it.

We may investigate suspected violations and may suspend access where necessary to protect the Service, our other customers, or third parties. Where practical we will give notice and an opportunity to cure first.

Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, models, prompts, frameworks, methodologies, knowledge base, documentation, design, and trademarks, is owned by Clay Digital Consulting and its licensors and is protected by intellectual property law. These Terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Service during your subscription. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not use our names, logos, or marks without prior written permission, except to accurately identify the Service.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without restriction or compensation.

Third-party services

The Service integrates with third parties including Google, WordPress, and various data and AI providers. Those integrations are provided as a convenience. We do not control them, do not warrant their availability or accuracy, and are not liable for their acts or omissions. A third party’s change to its API, pricing, or terms may reduce or eliminate a feature; where that happens we will notify you but it does not constitute a breach of these Terms.

Availability

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service unless a separate written service level agreement says otherwise. We may perform maintenance, and will give advance notice of planned maintenance expected to cause significant disruption where practical.

Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free; that defects will be corrected; that Output will be accurate, complete, current, or fit for your purpose; or that use of the Service will produce any particular marketing, ranking, traffic, or revenue result.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, in which case they apply to the extent permitted.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

  • Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill, or business interruption, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if advised of the possibility.
  • Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100.

These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including in some jurisdictions liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury.

The parties agree these limitations are a fundamental basis of the bargain and apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Clay Digital Consulting and its officers, employees, and agents from claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees arising from: (a) your Customer Content; (b) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law; (c) content you published using Output; (d) your connection to or use of any third-party account, including any claim that you were not authorized to connect or act on it; or (e) your violation of a third party’s rights.

We will notify you of any such claim, give you control of the defense (with our right to participate at our expense), and cooperate reasonably. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits our liability or imposes an obligation on us without our written consent.

Term, suspension, and termination

  • These Terms apply for as long as you have an account.
  • You may cancel at any time from your account settings or by contacting support@cortexmcp.io. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
  • We may suspend or terminate your access: for material breach not cured within 10 days of notice; immediately, for conduct that poses a security, legal, or operational risk to the Service or others; or for non-payment after notice.
  • We may terminate for convenience on 30 days’ notice, in which case we will refund a pro-rated portion of prepaid fees for the unused period.
  • On termination: your access ends; you may export your Customer Content for 30 days after termination; after that, data is deleted in accordance with the Privacy Policy. Sections 4 (as to the license already exercised), 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15 survive.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict of laws rules, and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

The parties will first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute informally by written notice, with 30 days to resolve. If unresolved, the exclusive venue for any action is the state and federal courts located in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction there.

Arbitration and a class-action waiver are intentionally not imposed by default; if wanted they must be drafted deliberately and conspicuously by counsel. Left as court venue.

General

  • Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any written order form or service level agreement are the entire agreement between us on this subject and supersede prior discussions.
  • Changes. We may update these Terms. Material changes take effect 30 days after we post them and notify account owners by email. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept, cancel before the effective date.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, on notice to you.
  • Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect.
  • No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure to perform due to causes beyond its reasonable control.
  • Notices. To you: the email on your account. To us: support@cortexmcp.io, with a copy by mail to Clay Digital Consulting, 71 Dowlen Rd, Hixson, TN 37343.
  • Relationship. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship.

Contact

Clay Digital Consulting
71 Dowlen Rd, Hixson, TN 37343
support@cortexmcp.io