Termsof Service

1. Agreement to Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Interlinked desktop application, the Interlinked MCP server, and all related websites and services (collectively, the "Service") provided by Interlinked ("we," "us," or "our"). By downloading, installing, or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Description of Service

Interlinked is a desktop application for Windows that provides instant file search by reading the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) directly. It includes the Interlinked MCP server, which exposes file search capabilities to AI agents (such as Claude Code and Cursor) via the Model Context Protocol over a local channel. Indexing, search, and the agent connection run locally on your machine.

The Service also includes optional hosting. When you publish a link or a project, the files you selected are uploaded to our hosted storage and served from it: a link is a plain URL that anyone holding it can open, and a project is a versioned space that opens to its owner and to anyone who redeemed a connect link for it. Nothing is uploaded until you publish it.

3. License Grant

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Service for your personal or internal business use. The license covers every machine you own: there is no device limit, and no subscription is required to run the local application.

The desktop application, whole-machine search, and the agent connection (the MCP server, the ifile CLI, and the direct pipe) are provided free of charge, with no trial period and no device limit. Hosting is the only paid part of the Service. A free account can host 2 projects with 5GB of storage and 100GB of transfer a month; past those amounts its links pause until the next month. A paid subscription is $5.99/month, billed monthly, and covers unlimited hosted projects with 100GB of storage and 100GB of transfer a month included. Usage past the included amounts is billed in whole 100GB blocks at $5.99 per block, for storage (measured on the highest hourly reading of the billing month) and for combined upload and download transfer, and appears on the following month’s invoice. Transfer includes downloads by anyone you hand a public link to, counted against the account that published it. There are no seats and no per-user charge at any team size; the owner of the space is billed.

Subscriptions bill immediately upon purchase and renew automatically each billing period until cancelled. Stripe sends every receipt, and each one carries a link to manage or cancel the subscription. You can also cancel at any time from “Manage subscription” on the activation page, or from the Link website where the purchase was made; access continues until the end of the current billing period.

4. License Restrictions

You may not: (a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, or data structures of the Service, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law that cannot be waived by contract; (b) modify, adapt, or create derivative works of the Service; (c) redistribute, sublicense, rent, lease, lend, or make available the Service or your license key to any third party; (d) circumvent, disable, or attempt to circumvent the license activation mechanism or any other technological protection measures; (e) use the Service to build a competing product or service. Benchmark it all you like: we publish ours.

The Service contains proprietary algorithms, indexing methods, and trade secrets that constitute valuable intellectual property. Any unauthorized attempt to reverse engineer, extract, or replicate these technologies is a violation of these Terms and may subject you to civil liability under applicable trade secret law, as well as penalties under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 1201) and equivalent international statutes.

5. Activation

The desktop application activates against your account, which associates a license with a machine identifier derived from your hardware. Activation is free and there is no limit on the number of machines: one account covers all of a person’s own machines, as stated in Section 3. You can deactivate a machine at any time from your account page, which takes effect on that machine’s next check-in. A hosting subscription belongs to your account rather than to a machine. We reserve the right to revoke licenses used in violation of these Terms.

6. Purchases

Subscriptions are sold through Link. Stripe, trading as Link, is the seller of record for every purchase: the checkout shows “Sold through Link” and the card statement reads LINK.COM* INTERLINKED. Stripe registers, collects, files and remits any sales tax, VAT or GST due on the sale and withholds it at the time of payment; we neither calculate nor collect tax on these purchases. Stripe handles all payment processing and sends every receipt, invoice and refund notification. We never receive or store your card number. Prices are listed in USD, and Stripe may charge you in your own currency at its rate.

You may cancel at any time, from “Manage subscription” on your account page or from the Link website. Cancelling stops any further charge: hosting stays active until the end of the billing period you have already paid for, and then stops. There is no annual plan and nothing is prepaid, so cancelling never leaves a long unused balance sitting with us.

Refunds, chargebacks and payment disputes are handled by Stripe as the seller of record, under Stripe's own policy, and Stripe may issue a refund without our approval. We do not hold your money, so we cannot issue one ourselves; send refund requests to Stripe through the Link website, or write to us and we will pass them on. Two things are worth knowing before you ask. Charges above the included amounts are for storage and transfer you have already used, billed a month after the fact, so they are not unused time. And the monthly fee buys the month it covers, which is the most that can ever be outstanding.

Nothing in this section limits any right you have under consumer law that cannot be waived, including any statutory right to cancel or to a refund.

7. Hosted Content and Acceptable Use

You are responsible for what you publish through the Service and for holding the rights to publish it. A link is a public URL: anyone who has it can open and download the files behind it, with no account and no sign-in, so treat the link itself as the key. A project opens to its owner and to anyone who redeemed a connect link for it.

You may not use hosting to publish or distribute: (a) content that infringes someone else’s copyright or trademark; (b) malware, or anything designed to compromise devices or accounts; (c) content that is illegal to distribute, or that depicts the abuse of children; or (d) other people’s private information published to harass them.

Every shared page carries a “Report this link” link, and reports are reviewed. A link that violates this section is taken down: it stops serving and answers 410 Gone. Copyright notices must identify the work, identify the link complained of, and include the statements the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires; send them to the address in Section 17. We may remove hosted content, or suspend hosting for an account, where this section is breached.

8. Intellectual Property

The Service, including all compiled binaries, source code, design, branding, documentation, indexing algorithms, data structures, and the underlying search technology, is the intellectual property of Interlinked and is protected by applicable copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws. The compiled binary is a protected work under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and equivalent international statutes. Your purchase grants a license to use the software: it does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property.

Your files, data, and search results remain entirely yours. We claim no ownership of any content on your machine, and none of anything you publish through the Service.

To run the hosting you ask for, we need your permission to handle the files you publish. When you publish a project or a link, you grant Interlinked a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, transmit, and display that content, and to make the technical copies that hosting requires (versions, deduplicated fragments, caches, and backups), for the sole purpose of operating the Service and delivering the content to the people you shared it with. You grant us no other rights. We do not use your content to train anything, we do not sell it, and we do not disclose it except as Section 5 of the Privacy Policy describes. The licence lasts only as long as you keep the content hosted: delete a link or a project and the licence ends with it, subject to backups already taken expiring on their normal cycle.

You confirm that you have the rights to publish what you publish, and that doing so does not infringe anyone else's rights or break any law that applies to you.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT SEARCH RESULTS WILL BE COMPLETE OR ACCURATE IN ALL CASES. LOCAL SEARCH READS RAW NTFS DATA AND ITS RESULTS DEPEND ON THE STATE OF YOUR FILE SYSTEM.

WE OFFER NO SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT AND NO UPTIME COMMITMENT FOR HOSTING. HOSTED PROJECTS AND LINKS MAY BE UNAVAILABLE DURING MAINTENANCE, DURING AN OUTAGE AT AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDER, OR WITHOUT NOTICE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT HOSTED CONTENT WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION OR DELETION.

This is worth stating plainly rather than only in capitals, because the design of the product already answers it: the hosted copy is a copy. Interlinked runs on your own machine and your work stays there, so the authoritative version of anything you publish is the one on your disk, not ours. Keep it that way. Do not treat hosting as your only copy of anything you cannot lose.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INTERLINKED SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, WHETHER THAT AMOUNT WAS PAID TO US OR TO STRIPE AS SELLER OF RECORD.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section and Section 9 may not apply to you.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Interlinked from any claims, damages, or expenses arising from your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any third-party rights.

12. Injunctive Relief

You acknowledge that any breach of Sections 4 or 8 of these Terms would cause irreparable harm to Interlinked for which monetary damages would be inadequate. Accordingly, Interlinked shall be entitled to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction, without the necessity of posting bond, in addition to all other remedies available at law or in equity.

13. Termination

You may cancel your subscription at any time, and access continues until the end of your current billing period. You may stop using the Service at any time by uninstalling the application. The local application, whole-machine search and the agent connection keep working whether or not you hold a subscription.

When a subscription ends or a payment lapses, hosted data is kept and access is locked. Your projects and every version in them stay stored and are not automatically deleted; the links stop serving and new saves are refused until the subscription is active again. There is no self-serve export of hosted data from a lapsed account. An explicit legal request for a copy of your data, including a data portability request under Article 20 of the GDPR or the equivalent right in your jurisdiction, is handled by hand: email the address in Section 17.

We may revoke your license if you violate these Terms, including but not limited to circumventing activation, redistributing the software, or using the Service to build a competing product. Upon termination, your license to use the Service ends immediately.

14. Updates

We may release updates to the Service from time to time. Updates may be delivered automatically or require manual download. While we aim to maintain backward compatibility, we do not guarantee that all updates will be free or that features will remain unchanged indefinitely.

15. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to conflict of law principles, and disputes arising under them are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.

If you use the Service as a consumer rather than for business, this does not take anything away from you. You keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts. We will bring any claim against a consumer in the courts of the country they live in.

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via the website or through the application. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

17. Contact

For questions about these Terms, for a copyright notice under Section 7, or for a data request under Section 13, email [email protected] or reach out through our website at interlinkedfiles.com.