Terms of use

Effective 2026-08-17.

These are the terms you agree to when you use axonia. They are written to be read once and understood, not to be long. axonia is operated by Gabriel Dinant, and “axonia” below means both the product and the person or company operating it.

What axonia is, and who may use it

axonia is a hosted product for software engineering communities of practice. It gives a community somewhere to propose topics, run sessions, publish what it produces, and see whether any of that is working.

You may use axonia if you are old enough to enter a contract where you live, and if you are not barred from using it by the law that applies to you. Most people reach axonia through an employer that has connected it to their identity provider. Where that is the case, your employer decides who may use axonia, and can end your access to it.

Your account is yours

Your account is personal. Sign-in credentials, personal access tokens, and any other key axonia issues to you identify you and no one else, so do not share them and do not let someone else use your account.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think somebody else has access to it, change your credentials, revoke your tokens, and tell axonia.

What you may and may not post

Content you post to a community is visible to the people in that community. Post accordingly. axonia is not the place for your employer’s secrets, for personal data about other people that they have not agreed to share, or for anything you are not free to publish.

Do not use axonia to harass anyone, to post unlawful content, to infringe someone else’s rights, to distribute malware, or to attack the service or the people using it. Do not try to reach data belonging to organisations you are not a member of, and do not automate access in a way that degrades the service for others.

What you post stays yours. By posting it to a community you give axonia the permission it needs to store it, display it to that community, and back it up, which is what running the product requires and nothing more.

Ownership of axonia itself does not pass to the people who use it. The service, its software, its documentation, its name and its branding remain the property of axonia, and nothing in these terms transfers any of it. Using axonia grants the right to use the service as it is offered, and nothing further.

Paying for axonia

A Community Hub is free. An enterprise organisation pays what its agreement with axonia says, billed monthly in arrears: a month is charged after it has ended, for the communities that were active during it, so nothing is charged in advance.

Payments are collected by Paddle, which acts as the merchant of record for every purchase. Paddle is the seller for the transaction: it collects the payment, calculates and remits any tax that applies, and issues the invoice. Paddle’s checkout buyer terms govern the purchase transaction itself, including payment and tax, and apply alongside these terms.

Charges are made in the currency stated in the agreement, and taxes are added where they apply. An enterprise agreement ends as that agreement says; ending it stops future charges; the month already used was charged after it was used rather than before, so there is no unused time to return. How refunds work is set out in the refund policy.

Suspension

axonia may suspend or close an account that is being used in breach of these terms, and may do so immediately where the abuse is causing harm. Where it is reasonable to do so, axonia will say why, and will give you a chance to put it right.

axonia may also suspend access to a paid account whose charges are unpaid. This is a right reserved, not a process that runs on a timer: no account is suspended automatically for non-payment, and an unpaid charge raises a conversation before it raises anything else.

An organisation’s administrators can independently remove a member’s access to their organisation.

What axonia does not promise

axonia is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. It is not promised to be uninterrupted or error-free, and it is not promised to be fit for any particular purpose you have in mind. Back up anything you cannot afford to lose.

To the fullest extent the law allows, axonia is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits, or for lost or corrupted data. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and, where you use axonia as a consumer, for anything your consumer rights protect.

Changes to these terms

axonia may change these terms as the product changes. The effective date at the top says when this text last changed. Where a change materially affects you, axonia will tell account holders before it takes effect. Continuing to use axonia after that means you accept the new terms. If you do not, stop using axonia. If you signed up yourself you can delete your account from the profile menu; if you reached axonia through your employer, your access is theirs to end, and the privacy notice explains why.

Reaching axonia

Write to support@axonia.dev. That address reaches the operator of axonia named at the top of this document. Enquiries about personal data go to privacy@axonia.dev instead, as the privacy notice says.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of Switzerland, where the operator of axonia is established, and the courts of that place have jurisdiction.

If you use axonia as a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, nor your right to bring a claim before the courts there.