Who we are and what you agree to.
shapes is a link-in-bio page builder at shapes.bio, operated by Chris Bolton (“shapes”, “we”, “us”). These Terms of Service and our Acceptable Use Policy govern your account and use of the service. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain how we handle information; accepting these terms does not by itself give consent to optional analytics.
By creating an account or using the service to build or publish a page, you agree to these terms. Visitors to creator pages should also read the creator’s own notices and terms where relevant.
If you do not agree, do not use the service. If you use shapes on behalf of a business or another person, you confirm that you can bind them to these terms.
Who can use shapes.
You must be at least 16 years old, or the age at which you can form a binding contract where you live if that is higher. You must give a working email address and keep your account details accurate.
You may not use shapes if we have previously closed your account for breaking these terms, unless we have agreed in writing.
Your account.
You sign in with a one-time email link or with Google. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your email and Google accounts secure. Tell us at once if you think someone else has access.
An outside AI assistant can build an unclaimed draft with a preview link and a claim link. Anyone with the preview link can view it; keep these links private. Claiming adds the draft to your account, but does not publish it. These terms also apply while you or your assistant build, preview or claim a draft.
What the service does.
shapes lets you build and preview drafts and publish one page for free at a shapes.bio address. Pro adds more pages, a custom domain and other paid features. The service also offers an assistant called Cove, visitor statistics, email signup collection, and supported embeds.
shapes is a front door, not the seller or merchant of record for products or services offered on creator pages. Creators and their shop, booking or payment providers are responsible for those transactions, fulfilment, taxes, refunds and disputes under their own terms. This is separate from shapes subscription payments processed through Stripe.
We may change, add or remove features, plan limits, and integrations. If we make a change that materially reduces what a paid plan includes, we will give notice before it takes effect.
Your content.
You retain the rights you have in your text, links, images and other page material (“your content”). We do not claim ownership of it. Third-party material remains subject to its owners’ rights, and AI output may not qualify for exclusive rights.
You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, resize, display and transmit your content as needed to provide, secure and maintain the service. That includes showing published pages to visitors, keeping draft versions, processing content with providers for the features you use and content moderation, and caching pages. This licence lasts while we provide those services and for retained copies described in the Privacy Policy; it does not give us a right to sell your content.
You promise that you have the rights to everything you add, that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights, and that it follows our Acceptable Use Policy. You are responsible for your content, including links to other sites and anything you embed.
The shapes name, logo, looks, starter artwork, software and design are ours or our licensors’. Starting artwork and example content are there to help you begin; replace them with your own before you share a page.
Embeds and custom code.
On Pro, the Custom code block runs your HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a sandboxed frame designed to prevent access to the surrounding page, its cookies and your shapes account. This is not a privacy or security audit of your code: the frame can still load external resources, make network requests and collect information entered into it. Some code that requires cookies or browser storage will not work.
Embeds and external resources can contact third parties as a page loads. You are responsible for the providers and code you choose, their data collection, your visitor-facing notices, and obtaining any required consent before loading non-essential tracking or collecting information. shapes does not automatically block creator embeds or custom code pending consent, and its own Cookie settings control is not a consent-management system for your page. If a provider needs consent, implement a suitable solution or do not load that content.
The Cove assistant.
Cove edits your draft, and you can review its changes and use the available undo and version-history controls. It cannot publish a page, connect your accounts, or take payments. AI output can be inaccurate, infringe rights, or resemble other people’s output. Review it before relying on or publishing it; you are responsible for the result.
Cove sends your messages, relevant conversation, draft content and tool results to OpenRouter and the selected model provider. Content moderation may also send page text and links to AI or safety providers. Operational AI usage metadata is sent to PostHog separately from optional browser analytics. See the Privacy Policy. Do not include secrets, passwords, sensitive personal information or material you lack permission to share with these providers.
Outside AI assistants you choose have their own terms and privacy practices. You are responsible for authorising their access and reviewing their work, both before and after claiming a draft. We do not control what those assistants retain.
Plans, payment and renewal.
Building, previewing and publishing one page are free. Pro is a paid plan with more pages and features, available with monthly or annual billing. Current prices and features are on the Pricing page; the checkout shows the amount and billing interval you agree to pay. Cove has a plan-dependent allowance that resets each calendar month, independently of your billing date. Prices are in US dollars unless checkout says otherwise. Any applicable taxes or additional amounts must be shown before you confirm payment.
Changing your billing interval or plan may create an immediate charge or prorated adjustment; review the amount and effective date shown before confirming.
Paid plans renew automatically each billing period until you cancel. Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not see or store your card number. By subscribing you authorise us and Stripe to charge your payment method on each renewal.
We may change prices for future billing periods. We will tell you by email or in the product before a new price applies to you, and you can cancel before it does.
Cancellation, refunds and taking pages offline.
You can cancel at any time from “Open billing portal” on the Pricing page. Cancelling stops future renewals. Unless the portal shows otherwise, you keep paid access until the end of the period you have paid for.
When paid access ends, your account returns to Free: one page can remain published, pages beyond the Free limit are taken offline, paid features stop working, and custom domain connections are removed. Your saved drafts remain in your account. Pages remaining on Free may undergo a content safety scan. Custom code requires Pro, so remove it before publishing or updating a page on Free.
Fees are not refundable, and we do not give credit for part of a billing period, except where the law requires it or where we choose to as a goodwill gesture. If you think you were charged in error, email us promptly at the address below and we will look into it.
You can take a page offline yourself at any time with “Take offline”. That controls whether a page is visible; it does not cancel your subscription.
Rules for what you do with shapes.
You must follow the Acceptable Use Policy. In short: no illegal content, no harassment, no scams or malware, no infringing other people’s rights, and no abusing the service or its limits.
You may not attempt to access another person’s account or data, probe or disrupt the service, scrape it at a scale that harms it, or reverse engineer it except where the law allows.
When we can remove content or close accounts.
We may remove content, take pages offline, or suspend or close an account if we reasonably believe that it breaks these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, puts people or the service at risk, or that the law requires it. Where we can, we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix the problem, but we may act immediately in serious cases.
A suspension that takes your published pages offline may be reversed once the problem is resolved. Closing an account for a breach does not automatically entitle you to a refund, subject to any mandatory legal rights.
You can stop using shapes at any time. Account settings lets you request account deletion, which revokes sessions and takes your pages offline while a background process cancels billing and removes account data. Export anything you need first. Deletion is not an automatic refund; the refund terms and your mandatory legal rights still apply. Email us if you cannot sign in; see the Privacy Policy for retention and deletion limits.
Copyright complaints.
If you believe something on a shapes page infringes your copyright, follow the steps in our Copyright Policy. We deal with valid notices and may close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.
Availability, backups and your own copies.
We work to keep shapes running but do not promise it will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free. We may need to take it offline for maintenance or because of problems outside our control.
Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose, such as originals of your images and a list of your links. For Pro pages you can export your email signups.
No warranties.
shapes is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we do not make any warranty about the service, express or implied, including about fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or that it will meet your needs. We do not control third-party sites, embeds or providers and are not responsible for them.
Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under consumer protection law that cannot be limited by agreement.
Limits on our liability.
To the fullest extent the law allows, shapes and its operator are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunities, arising from your use of shapes, even if we were told they were possible.
Our total liability for any claim related to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event that gave rise to the claim, and CAD $100. Some places do not allow these limits, in which case they apply only as far as the law permits.
If your content causes a claim.
You agree to defend and compensate us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs that arise from your content, your custom code, or your breach of these terms or someone else’s rights. We will tell you promptly about any claim so you can help deal with it.
Changes to these terms.
We may update these terms. If a change is material, we will tell you by email or in the product before it takes effect. The date at the top of this page shows the latest revision. If you keep using shapes after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms; if you do not, you can cancel and stop using the service.
Disputes and mandatory rights.
Nothing in these terms takes away mandatory consumer protections, privacy rights or access to a court or regulator available under applicable law. These terms do not require arbitration or select an exclusive court.
Before starting a formal claim, please email us and try to resolve the problem informally. This does not stop either of us from going to court where we need to, and it does not take away any right that consumer law gives you to bring a claim where you live.
General.
These terms, with the policies they refer to, are the whole agreement between you and us about shapes. If a part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a term, that is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours as part of a sale or reorganisation of the service.
Contact.
Questions about these terms? Email [email protected].