Terms of service

Agreement

These Terms govern your access to Dawdlo's websites, software, APIs, extensions, command-line tools, agent tools, advertising marketplace, and related services (the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Notice and Ad Content Policy. If you use the Service for an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind it.

Eligibility and accounts

You must be legally capable of entering into this agreement and at least 18 years old. You must provide accurate information, protect your credentials, control every device and terminal you authorise, and promptly report unauthorised access. You are responsible for activity under your account.

How Dawdlo works

Dawdlo operates a marketplace for clearly labelled sponsored messages displayed during genuine software-development activity or agent wait states. Advertisers fund campaigns, eligible integrations request inventory, and developers may receive a share of revenue for qualified, verified impressions. Dawdlo may set placement rules, auction floors, frequency caps, verification requirements, revenue shares, payout thresholds, and fraud controls.

Advertising disclosure

Sponsored content must be readily identifiable as advertising. Dawdlo and its integrations may use labels such as "Advertisement", "Ad", or "Sponsored by [brand]". You must not remove, hide, minimise, obscure, or misrepresent these labels, suggest that an ad is independent model output, or imply that Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, Visual Studio Code, Claude, Codex, or another host created, approved, or endorsed an advertisement.

Third-party platforms

The Service may interoperate with third-party products such as Visual Studio Code, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, terminals, MCP clients, and other developer tools. Those products are operated by third parties and are governed by their own licences, marketplace rules, acceptable-use policies, security requirements, and terms. Dawdlo is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by those providers unless we expressly state otherwise in writing.

You may use a Dawdlo integration only where the relevant provider, device owner, employer, workspace administrator, and applicable law permit it. You are responsible for obtaining all required approvals. Availability of an integration, installation option, technical capability, or documentation does not represent that a third party has approved it. These Terms do not grant any right to modify, patch, inject code into, wrap, reverse engineer, bypass security controls in, or display advertising within third-party software. A disclosure or user opt-in does not make conduct permissible where a provider's terms or applicable law prohibit it.

Installation and user control

You must review an integration's behaviour before enabling it and use only installations you are authorised to control. Advertising surfaces should be voluntarily enabled, clearly described, reversible, and capable of being disabled without preventing access to unrelated core functionality. You must not deploy Dawdlo covertly, override an administrator's policy, interfere with another extension or service, add artificial delay to create impressions, or continue displaying ads after consent or permission has been withdrawn.

Advertisers

You must own or have permission to use every creative, brand, claim, and destination you submit. Ads must be truthful, substantiated, lawful, appropriately targeted, and compliant with our Ad Content Policy and all industry-specific rules. You must clearly disclose material terms and may not use deceptive formatting, impersonation, malware, phishing, unlawful discrimination, or content designed to manipulate an agent or conceal instructions from the user. Dawdlo may reject, pause, modify the eligibility of, or remove any campaign.

Campaign delivery, estimates, reach, clicks, conversions, and auction results are not guaranteed. Charges are based on the measurement and billing rules shown when a campaign is placed, including verified impressions and applicable click events. Except where law requires otherwise, funded balances and charges for valid delivery are non-refundable.

Developers and publishers

You may earn only for genuine, visible, qualified impressions served to an authorised human user during real activity. You must not generate artificial waits, automate attention proofs, hide or rapidly cycle ads, use click farms, encourage invalid clicks, misstate a placement, tamper with measurement, or operate on devices without permission. Earnings are provisional until verification, fraud review, advertiser settlement, and any applicable holding period are complete.

Dawdlo may withhold, reverse, offset, or recover amounts connected to invalid activity, mistakes, refunds, disputes, chargebacks, legal obligations, or violations of these Terms. You are responsible for taxes, reporting obligations, and accurate payout information. Payment providers may impose additional eligibility and verification requirements.

Privacy and targeting

You must provide all notices and obtain all consents required for installing an integration, storing or accessing information on a device, processing activity signals, measuring ads, and using contextual or personalised targeting. You must not send Dawdlo source code, prompts, model conversations, file contents, credentials, precise location, sensitive personal data, or other information that is not required for the documented integration. Our processing is described in the Privacy Notice.

Acceptable use

You may not use the Service unlawfully; infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights; deceive users; distribute malicious code; scrape or probe the Service without permission; bypass limits or safeguards; disrupt the Service or third-party products; resell access without approval; or use the Service in a way that creates legal, security, reputational, or operational risk for Dawdlo, users, advertisers, publishers, or platform providers.

Intellectual property

Dawdlo and its licensors retain all rights in the Service, software, branding, and marketplace data, except for rights expressly granted under an applicable open-source licence. You retain ownership of content you submit and grant Dawdlo a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, reproduce, format, distribute, display, measure, and moderate that content as needed to operate and promote the Service. Third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. Dawdlo may limit, suspend, or terminate accounts, campaigns, integrations, payouts, or access where reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, respond to platform-provider requests, protect the marketplace, investigate suspected abuse, comply with law, or address security and reputational risk. We may preserve relevant records where legally permitted.

Service changes and availability

The Service is evolving and may change, become unavailable, or stop supporting a platform or placement without guarantee or advance notice. We do not promise acceptance by any extension marketplace or continued compatibility with any third-party product. You must not rely on the Service as your sole source of income, advertising distribution, or business continuity.

Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, compatibility, or regulatory or platform compliance. Dawdlo does not provide legal, tax, advertising, employment, or financial advice. You remain responsible for assessing whether your use is lawful and authorised.

Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dawdlo will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss; loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, business, or opportunity; third-party platform action; rejected listings; account suspension; or incompatibility. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Any additional limitation or cap presented in an applicable order or written commercial agreement also applies.

Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Dawdlo and its personnel from claims, losses, liabilities, penalties, and reasonable costs arising from your ads, integrations, platform modifications, failure to obtain permission or consent, invalid activity, violation of law or third-party terms, infringement of rights, or breach of these Terms.

Changes and contact

We may update these Terms as the Service, law, or platform requirements change. Material changes will be communicated through the Service or another reasonable channel and take effect on the stated date. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance where permitted by law. Contact hello@dawdlo.com with legal questions.