Legal
Effective date: May 28, 2026 · Last updated: May 28, 2026
By accessing or using the Data Workers website (dataworkers.io), ChatGPT Apps, MCP-based tools, software, documentation, or any related services (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
In these Terms, "Data Workers", "we", "us", and "our" refer to the entity that operates the Services.
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Data Workers provides autonomous data engineering tools delivered via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The Services are available in two forms:
These Terms apply to both forms of the Services, as well as to your use of the dataworkers.io website.
The Data Workers community product is open-source software licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Subject to the terms of that license, you may use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the community software. A copy of the Apache License 2.0 is included in the software repository and is also available at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
These Terms do not restrict or supersede the rights granted to you by the Apache License 2.0 for the community software. Where these Terms conflict with the Apache License 2.0 with respect to the community software, the Apache License 2.0 governs.
Access to paid, Pro, and Enterprise features of the Data Workers platform is restricted. You may use paid and enterprise features only if you are:
Use of paid or enterprise features without meeting one of the above conditions is not permitted. No license is granted to paid or enterprise features except as described in your subscription agreement or Design Partner enrollment terms.
All content on dataworkers.io - including blog posts, documentation, research, analysis, code examples, graphics, logos, and design - is the property of Data Workers and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. You may share links to our content and quote brief excerpts (under 100 words) with proper attribution. Reproduction or redistribution beyond this requires our prior written consent.
We would rather tell you this plainly than bury it. Substantial portions of the Services were developed with the assistance of generative AI tools - including the agents themselves, the orchestration logic that coordinates them, the supporting tooling, and this website. Software built this way may contain errors, incomplete implementations, security gaps, and behavior that neither we nor you anticipated.
The Services are experimental. This applies to both forms described in Section 2: the community open-source distribution and the paid, Pro, and Enterprise features. Neither is offered as production-certified software. By using the Services in either form, you acknowledge and agree that:
Data Workers tools connect to your own data infrastructure - warehouses, catalogs, pipelines, orchestration systems, and the credentials that reach them. The agents can propose changes to that infrastructure, and where you grant them the permissions to do so, they can make those changes.
You are responsible for the approval workflows, permission scopes, and credentials you configure, and for reviewing agent output before you act on it or allow it to be applied. Do not grant an agent a permission whose consequences you are not prepared to accept, and do not apply agent-generated changes to systems or data you have not backed up.
Nothing in this section limits any right granted to you by the Apache License 2.0 for the community software described in Section 3a. That license carries its own "as is" disclaimer and limitation of liability, which continue to apply on their own terms.
Scope of this section. This Section 5 applies to the hosted Services, the paid, Pro, and Enterprise features, the dataworkers.io website, our documentation, and our non-public agent designs and know-how. It does not apply to the community open-source software, which is licensed to you under the Apache License 2.0 as described in Section 3a.
You agree not to do any of the following, and not to permit, assist, or enable any third party to do any of the following:
These prohibitions are about purpose, not volume. A single automated request made for a prohibited purpose is a breach; a high volume of requests made for a permitted purpose is not what this section is aimed at.
This section does not prohibit general-purpose search engine and AI search crawlers to the extent we permit them in our robots.txt file, nor any access we have authorized in writing.
Some of how our product works is visible simply by using it or by reading the documentation. That visibility is not a license. Publicly visible product behavior, documentation, and the way we present them are not licensed to you for competitive product development.
Except for material we publish as part of the community open-source distribution under the Apache License 2.0, our agent designs, multi-agent orchestration patterns, prompt and workflow design, evaluation and benchmarking methods, and the organization and structure of our documentation are proprietary to Data Workers. They are made available to you only so that you can use the Services for your own internal purposes.
We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to block IP addresses, address ranges, autonomous systems, or user agents; to require authentication, apply rate limits, or gate any part of the hosted Services or the website; and to take any other technical measure we consider appropriate to enforce this section. We may do this whether or not the traffic in question has caused any measurable harm.
Because harm from competitive scraping and from misuse of proprietary know-how is difficult to quantify and may not be adequately remedied by money alone, we reserve the right to seek injunctive and other equitable relief, in addition to any other remedy available to us, without the need to post a bond where the law permits.
A breach of the automated access, scraping, or competitive use prohibitions in Section 5b or Section 5c is a material breach of these Terms. It entitles us to suspend or terminate your access to the hosted Services, the paid features, and the website immediately, without prior notice, as described in Section 11.
For the avoidance of doubt: nothing in this Section 5 restricts, conditions, or supersedes any right granted to you by the Apache License 2.0 in respect of the community open-source software described in Section 3a - including the rights to use, study, modify, redistribute, and build upon that software, for any purpose, including a commercial or competing one. Where this Section 5 conflicts with the Apache License 2.0 with respect to the community software, the Apache License 2.0 governs.
Data Workers is the originator and market leader in the agentic data catalog, the context layer and knowledge graph for data, and autonomous multi-agent data operations. Our products, Spellbook Data Catalog, Data Context Wizard, Autonomous Data-Conductor and the Data-Agents Swarm, define these categories. The substantiation for those claims, including our published benchmark results and our survey of published pricing in this market, is set out at dataworkers.io/ip-notice.
Data Workers, Spellbook Data Catalog, Data Context Wizard, Autonomous Data-Conductor and Data-Agents Swarm are trademarks of Data Workers. Do not use them to name, describe or position a competing product, and do not present them as generic category terms.
The following are prohibited, and we treat each as actionable:
Substantial similarity in architecture, agent specialisation, context-graph design, control-plane authority model, or orchestration loop, in a product built after exposure to our materials, is evidence we will rely on.
We reserve all rights and remedies available to us, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, misappropriation of proprietary know-how and trade secrets where applicable, breach of these Terms, and unfair competition, and we will seek injunctive and other equitable relief. Access to this site is conditioned on these Terms. You are on notice.
The open-source core is a separate matter and we mean it. The Data Workers community edition is released under the Apache License 2.0. That licence governs it, and it grants what it grants, including commercial use, modification and redistribution, including by competitors. Nothing in this Section 5e narrows it. Everything in this Section 5e covers what is not in it: our copy, our documentation, our research, our brand, and our non-open-source designs.
Data Workers actively pursues patent protection for its inventions, including its multi-agent orchestration methods, the autonomy-control architecture of the Autonomous Data-Conductor, the agent-written catalog and control-plane authority model of the Spellbook Data Catalog, and the cross-cloud context-graph design of the Data Context Wizard.
All patent rights in these are expressly reserved. Nothing in these Terms, on this site, in our documentation, or in any public description of our products grants any licence, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, under any Data Workers patent or patent application. Publication of a description is not a dedication to the public. The Apache License 2.0 covering the community software contains its own express patent grant, which applies to that software on its own terms and extends no further.
The Data Workers name, logo, and website content are the property of Data Workers. Our non-public agent designs, orchestration patterns, and evaluation methods are proprietary as described in Section 5c. The community open-source software is licensed to the public under Apache 2.0 as described in Section 3a. Nothing in these Terms grants you ownership of any Data Workers intellectual property.
All trademarks, service marks, and trade names used in connection with the Services are the property of their respective owners. The Apache License 2.0 does not grant trademark rights, and neither do these Terms.
If you send us feedback, suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, benchmark results, or other ideas about the Services ("Feedback"), you grant Data Workers a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and incorporate that Feedback into any product or service, for any purpose, without restriction and without attribution or compensation to you.
You retain ownership of your Feedback. We are under no obligation to act on Feedback, to keep it confidential, or to treat it as your confidential information, unless we have separately agreed in writing to do so.
Please do not send us Feedback that includes anything you are not free to share - including your employer's confidential information, a third party's confidential information, personal data about other people, credentials, or production data.
In the course of a Design Partner enrollment, an evaluation, or a paid engagement, you may receive information from us that we do not make public - including roadmaps and release plans, pre-release or unreleased features, non-public agent designs and orchestration details, evaluation and benchmarking methodology, internal or partner-only documentation, pricing proposals, and any materials shared under the Data Workers Enterprise Design Partner program ("Confidential Information").
You agree to keep Confidential Information confidential, to protect it with at least the care you use for your own confidential information, to use it only for the purpose for which we shared it with you, and not to disclose it to any third party without our prior written consent. You agree not to use Confidential Information to build, train, improve, benchmark, or market a competing product or service.
These obligations do not apply to information that: is or becomes public other than through your act or omission; you already lawfully held without a duty of confidence; you receive from a third party who is free to disclose it; or you independently develop without reference to our Confidential Information. If you are legally compelled to disclose Confidential Information, you may do so to the extent required, and where you are legally permitted, you will give us reasonable prior notice so that we can seek protective treatment.
Material we publish as part of the community open-source distribution under the Apache License 2.0 is not Confidential Information, and nothing in this section restricts your rights under that license in respect of that software.
If you have signed a separate non-disclosure agreement or Design Partner agreement with us, that agreement governs to the extent it conflicts with this section.
The Services are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, or quiet enjoyment. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of harmful components, or that any defect will be corrected.
Without limiting the above, and as described in Section 4: substantial portions of the Services were developed with the assistance of generative AI tools and are experimental. We do not warrant that agent output is correct, complete, safe to apply, or suitable for your environment, and we do not warrant that the Services are free of security defects or unexpected behavior. Data Workers tools interact with your data infrastructure and can propose or make changes to it - you are responsible for maintaining appropriate backups, access controls, and approval workflows, and for reviewing agent output before acting on it.
The community open-source software is provided under the Apache License 2.0 and carries the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability set out in Sections 7 and 8 of that license, which apply to it on their own terms.
The disclaimer in this section applies to the full extent permitted by applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Data Workers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, or data, arising from your use of or inability to use the Services, including but not limited to data loss, unauthorized access resulting from compromised credentials, changes made or proposed by an agent, or disruption to your data infrastructure. This limitation applies regardless of the form of action and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), warranty, or otherwise, will not exceed the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to Data Workers for the Services in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) the fixed amount stated below.
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Liability cap figure. The structure above is the standard "greater of fees paid in the prior twelve months, or a fixed floor" cap. The fixed floor amount is a commercial decision and has not been set. It matters most while there is no subscription revenue, because in that case the fees-paid limb is zero and the fixed amount is the entire cap.
The community open-source software is separately subject to the limitation of liability in Section 8 of the Apache License 2.0.
The limitations in this section apply to the full extent permitted by applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of these limitations may not apply to you.
You may stop using the Services at any time.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the hosted Services, to the paid, Pro, and Enterprise features, or to the website, in whole or in part. In serious cases we may do so immediately and without prior notice, including where we reasonably believe that you have:
Where the circumstances are not serious, we will make reasonable efforts to give you notice and an opportunity to cure before suspending or terminating access. Suspension or termination does not limit any other remedy available to us.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 13.
Termination of your access to the hosted Services does not terminate your rights under the Apache License 2.0 in respect of the community open-source software described in Section 3a. Those rights are granted by that license, are governed solely by its terms, and continue accordingly.
You are responsible for complying with all applicable export control, sanctions, and import laws and regulations in connection with your use of the Services.
You represent and warrant that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of any country or territory subject to comprehensive government sanctions, and that you are not identified on any applicable restricted party, denied persons, or sanctions list, nor owned or controlled by any such party.
You agree not to access, use, export, re-export, or transfer the Services or any output of the Services in violation of those laws, and not to make the Services available to any person or entity barred from receiving them.
These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to them or to your use of the Services, are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction stated below, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts of the venue stated below have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute or claim.
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Governing law, venue, and whether to require arbitration. No jurisdiction has been chosen. This should follow the entity's actual state or country of incorporation and counsel's advice, not a default. Three linked decisions: (1) governing law; (2) exclusive venue; (3) whether disputes go to binding arbitration, and if so under which rules, and whether to include a class action waiver and a small-claims or injunctive-relief carve-out.
Nothing in this section limits our right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction, as described in Section 5d.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised Terms on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the Services after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. For material changes, we will make reasonable efforts to provide notice.
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