Terms of Service
Who we are, and your agreement with us
CernaFlow is operated by Kalora AI Ltd, a company incorporated in the Republic of Mauritius under company number C25221194, registered office in Curepipe, Republic of Mauritius (“we”, “us”). These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are the agreement between us and the organisation using CernaFlow (the “Service”) — “you”.
You accept these Terms by clicking to accept them, by signing an order form that references them, or by using the Service. If you accept on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are at least 18 and have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.
CernaFlow is a business product. It is not offered to consumers and is not for personal or household use.
What CernaFlow does
You upload documents or send them in through a connector such as email or WhatsApp. We use artificial intelligence to read them, split multi-document files into their parts, match each part to one of your extraction templates, and produce text and structured data you can export. You can then ask questions about that data in plain language, and an automated system answers by searching your extractions and, where it helps, running generated code in a sandbox to analyse them.
We may change, add to or remove features, but not in a way that materially reduces the core functionality of your paid plan during a period you have already paid for.
Your account
Keep your registration details accurate. You are responsible for keeping login credentials confidential and for everything done under your organisation’s account, authorised or not. Email [email protected] if you suspect unauthorised access; changing a password ends that user’s existing sessions.
If you sign up yourself you must verify your email address before signing in. Users invited by an admin count as verified. Invitations expire after three days. You may invite as many people as you like, and you are responsible for their compliance with these Terms.
A Kalora employee may enter your organisation to provide support, investigate a fault or comply with law. Their identity is preserved throughout, the visit is recorded in your audit log, and we use that access for nothing else.
Plans, pages and fair use
Pages are the only thing we bill for. A page is charged once, when it produces a result you can use: when its extraction completes successfully. It is not charged when extraction fails, or when the file is an exact duplicate of one you already submitted. The first re-run of a document is free, because you pressed re-run when our output was wrong; later re-runs are charged. Deleting a document does not refund its pages.
Named users are unlimited. No plan caps how many people you invite.
Within a tier you choose the monthly page count you commit to. Your price is the tier’s starting price plus its per-page rate for every page above the included count.
Trial (14 days)
- Price / month (USD)
- $0
- Pages included
- 100
- Each extra page
- —
- Chat fair-use messages / month
- 50
Starter
- Price / month (USD)
- $119
- Pages included
- 800
- Each extra page
- $0.20
- Chat fair-use messages / month
- 900
Pro
- Price / month (USD)
- $349
- Pages included
- 3,000
- Each extra page
- $0.15
- Chat fair-use messages / month
- 2,400
Business
- Price / month (USD)
- $999
- Pages included
- 12,000
- Each extra page
- $0.10
- Chat fair-use messages / month
- 7,200
Enterprise
- Price / month (USD)
- Quoted
- Pages included
- 50,000+
- Each extra page
- Custom
- Chat fair-use messages / month
- Custom
Enterprise is quoted only, never self-service, and our pricing page is the authoritative current list. We may also agree a plan with you that is not on that page. Prices exclude tax and are in United States dollars.
When your pages run out the Service stops processing new documents and returns an out-of-quota error, and documents arriving through a connector are rejected the same way. You can raise your committed page count, or switch on overage under clause 5. We never process pages beyond your allowance and bill you afterwards unless one of your admins has switched overage on.
Chat is not metered by message. Two limits apply instead: a per-user limit of 60 chat messages a day, and the message figure published against each plan, which is a fair-use threshold rather than a wall. If your usage substantially and persistently exceeds it we will contact you.
Two other plan limits are enforced: active extraction templates, capped at 10 on Starter and 25 on Pro and unlimited on Business; and retention, in clause 8. We may also apply rate, concurrency, file-size and file-format limits to protect the Service.
Billing, renewal and cancellation
Paddle is our reseller and the seller on your invoice. We sell the Service to Paddle.com Market Limited, which resells it to you as merchant of record. Paddle handles your payment, invoice and receipt, appears as the seller, and determines and remits any sales tax, VAT or GST due in your country. Paddle’s buyer terms govern the payment; these Terms govern the Service. We remain responsible to you for providing the Service, and you can raise any billing question with us at [email protected]. Enterprise plans may be invoiced by us directly under a signed order form, in which case we are the seller and we charge the tax our own registration requires.
Paid plans are billed in advance, and by providing a payment method you authorise Paddle to charge it until you cancel. Your subscription renews automatically, either monthly or annually at a 20% discount on the same plan’s monthly price. An annual term cannot be cancelled mid-term, and its discount cannot be combined with a referral or promotional discount.
Moving up applies immediately and is charged immediately, prorated for the rest of the period; the Service shows you the figure before you confirm. Moving down applies at the end of the current period, and you keep your current allowance until then.
Cancelling stops the next renewal and revokes nothing on the day. You keep full access and your full allowance to the end of the period you have paid for, and then move to a trial-expired state, where people can still sign in but no documents are processed. You may undo a scheduled cancellation before it takes effect.
Overage is off unless you switch it on. It lets the Service keep processing past your committed pages instead of refusing, and it is not available on the Trial. Only an admin can switch it on, by expressly approving it, and we record who approved it and when. That approval is your acceptance of a variable bill. It applies from your next billing period, at your plan’s published extra-page rate, which is higher than your plan’s own effective per-page rate, and it is billed in arrears on your next renewal invoice as a separate line. A period with no overage produces the same invoice as the month before. There is no automatic ceiling: the approval is the control. You can switch overage off, or raise your committed pages, at any time, and we warn you as you approach and pass your allowance.
Bonus pages we grant at no charge, for example under a referral offer, are drawn on after your committed pages are spent, expire on the date shown, and carry no cash value.
If a payment fails, Paddle may retry it and contact you. While an amount is unpaid your organisation may be moved to a past-due state, where people can sign in but no documents are processed. After 30 days unpaid we may suspend the organisation entirely and may terminate. Accrued overage remains payable.
We may change our prices, including extra-page rates, on at least 30 days’ notice by email, effective at your next billing period. A changed extra-page rate never applies to a period already open. If you do not accept a new price, cancel before it takes effect.
Refunds
Fees are non-refundable, except in the two cases below and except where the law gives you a right we cannot exclude. There is no credit for unused pages, unused messages or partial periods, and we do not refund the period you are in when you cancel.
The two exceptions:
- If we terminate your paid subscription for convenience, on 30 days’ notice, we refund the unused part of any period you have already paid for, pro rata. On an annual term that means the unused whole months.
- Where a statutory right applies — for example a consumer right of withdrawal in your country — Paddle honours it as the seller on your invoice, under Paddle’s refund policy.
Refund requests go to [email protected] or to Paddle, whichever you prefer. Overage already accrued remains payable in every case.
Your data and privacy
You own your data. You keep all right, title and interest in everything you submit and everything the Service derives from it: documents, extracted text and structured data, templates and chat messages. You grant us a licence to host, copy, process, display and derive material from it, solely to run and support the Service for you, keep it secure and comply with law. That licence ends when the data is deleted, except for backups still inside their retention window.
We do not train on your data. We do not use your data to train or fine-tune generative models, and our model provider’s paid-tier terms prohibit it from doing so.
Our Privacy Policy at cernaflow.com/privacy describes how we handle personal data and lists our current sub-processors. It forms part of these Terms. For your data you are the controller and we are the processor: we act on your instructions, as needed to provide the Service, and as required by law. Business customers who need a Data Processing Agreement can request one at [email protected].
The Service is hosted in Europe. Your data may be processed in other countries by the sub-processors listed in our Privacy Policy, and by using the Service you instruct those transfers.
Security. We encrypt data in transit and at rest, store connector credentials encrypted, control access by role, isolate every tenant, and end sessions when a password changes, an account is deactivated or you sign out of all devices. No service is perfectly secure, and your side is yours: credential hygiene, prompt removal of departing users, and control of paired devices and inbound addresses. Email [email protected] with any security question or to report a problem. We will tell you without undue delay about a security incident affecting your data.
What you must not send us. Do not submit payment card data, health records, government identity numbers, biometric data or export-controlled material unless we agree in writing first. You warrant you have the rights and lawful bases we need to process what you do send. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose: the Service is not a system of record and is not a backup service.
How long we keep your data
Files still being uploaded are deleted after 7 days, and only successfully processed documents reach permanent storage. We keep each document’s original, because re-processing works from it.
You can delete extractions and documents yourself at any time. Deletion is permanent, covers the whole document and its split parts, and erases the stored file. Deleted pages are not refunded, and the record that the document was processed stays in your usage figures and audit log.
Beyond that, one period per plan governs how long we keep your documents, extracted data, ingestion records, chat sessions and audit log. Past it, we delete the record and its file automatically:
| Tier | Retention |
|---|---|
| Trial | Not deleted during the trial |
| Starter | 1 year |
| Pro | 3 years |
| Business | 7 years |
| Enterprise | As agreed in your order form |
This is a deletion schedule, not a backup promise. Export anything you need to keep for longer. Moving to a plan with a shorter period brings the deletion date forward.
After your subscription ends you may lose access to the Service and so to any export tool, so export what you need before then. On request, or in any event within 90 days after termination, we delete your data, except where law requires us to keep it or where it sits in backups until those expire. We keep invoices and audit logs as our own records of the relationship.
Acceptable use
You must not, and must not let anyone else:
- use the Service unlawfully, or process material that is unlawful, infringing or obtained without permission;
- resell or provide the Service to a third party as a service of your own, unless an order form allows it;
- copy, decompile or reverse engineer the Service, derive its source code, models or prompts, or build a competing product with it;
- probe its security, bypass authentication, tenant isolation or quota enforcement, or escape the code-execution sandbox, except under a written testing agreement with us;
- upload malware, or content designed to disrupt the Service or another user;
- send documents from a source you are not authorised to send from, or connect an account you do not control;
- make automated decisions about individuals that have legal or similarly significant effects on them, without appropriate human review.
If you breach this clause we may suspend the affected part of the Service immediately. Where it is reasonable and lawful, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.
Artificial intelligence and its output
The Service uses large language models to read, classify and split documents, extract fields, write code and answer questions. All of it is probabilistic and can be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date or wholly wrong, even when presented confidently and even when a confidence score is shown. Confidence scores are internal heuristics, not guarantees. Chat may generate and run code in a sandbox with no access to your systems; no human reviews that code before it runs.
You must review output before relying on it. You alone are responsible for checking and approving it before you act on it, publish it, file it or feed it into another system. Do not use the Service as the sole basis for a decision with financial, legal, regulatory, employment, medical or safety consequences. Output is not professional advice of any kind.
Generative models can produce similar output for different customers, so we make no claim that output is original and grant you no exclusivity in it. Otherwise you may use it freely for your own business purposes.
Connectors are your choice. Each connected service is run by a third party under its own terms, and we are not responsible for it, for its availability, or for what it does with data once we have delivered it at your instruction. WhatsApp ingestion runs over a shared platform number: anyone holding a paired handset can send documents into your organisation, so tell us promptly when someone leaves or a handset is lost.
Our rights
We and our licensors own the Service: its software, models, prompts, the templates we supply, designs, documentation and trade marks. You get a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use it during your subscription for your own internal business purposes, and every right not expressly granted is reserved. Extraction templates you create are yours. If you send us feedback, we may use it without restriction or payment. We will not use your name or logo publicly without your consent.
Warranties, liability and indemnity
We will provide the Service with reasonable skill and care. Beyond that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service and all its output are provided “as is” and “as available”, and we disclaim every other warranty, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. In particular we do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that output will be accurate or fit for your purpose, that the Service will meet a regulatory or record-keeping requirement that applies to you, or that documents will always be correctly classified, split or identified as duplicates. There is no uptime guarantee on self-service plans, and anything labelled beta or preview may change or be withdrawn at any time.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither of us is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for lost profit, revenue, business, goodwill or anticipated savings, or for loss or corruption of data or its cost of recovery. Each party’s total liability under these Terms is capped at the fees paid for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or USD 100 where no fees have been paid. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for fees you owe, or for anything that cannot lawfully be limited.
You indemnify us against any third-party claim, and resulting costs, arising from the data you submit, from your breach of clause 9, from your use of the Service’s output, or from a connector you configured. We indemnify you against any third-party claim that your permitted use of the Service infringes their intellectual property, except where the claim arises from your data, from output, from a beta feature, or from use in breach of these Terms.
Suspension, termination and changes
We may suspend or limit the Service where your allowance is exhausted and overage is off, where a user exceeds the daily chat limit, where payment is overdue, where we reasonably believe there is a breach of clause 9 or a security threat, or where law requires it. Allowance and rate limits are automatic and self-clearing; otherwise we give notice as soon as we reasonably can. Suspension does not relieve you of paying.
You may cancel at any time in the Service, as set out in clause 5. Either of us may terminate if the other materially breaches these Terms and does not fix it within 30 days of written notice, or immediately if the other becomes insolvent or ceases to trade. We may terminate a free trial at any time, and a paid subscription for convenience on 30 days’ notice with the refund in clause 6. On termination your right to use the Service ends, outstanding fees fall due, and clause 8 applies to your data.
We may change these Terms. A material change takes at least 30 days’ notice, by email to your admins or a notice in the Service, and applies from your next billing period. Smaller changes, such as fixing a typo, apply when published. If you do not accept a material change, cancel before it takes effect. The current version is always at cernaflow.com/terms.
Law, and how to reach us
These Terms, and any dispute arising from them, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Mauritius, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. We will both try in good faith to resolve any dispute by discussion for 30 days before starting proceedings.
A signed order form or master services agreement takes precedence over these Terms where they conflict. No purchase order or vendor portal term has any effect, even if we acknowledge it. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them to a successor of our business. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. These Terms are in English, and any translation is for convenience only. They are the entire agreement between us on this subject.
Kalora AI Ltd, Curepipe, Republic of Mauritius. General, legal, billing, support, security and Data Processing Agreement requests: [email protected].