Governance, Terms & Compliance - Updated 2026

Legal Hub & Master Terms.

Clear, non-legalese policies governing your enterprise account, commercial data sovereignty on Neon DB, AI Employee acceptable use, and platform SLAs across all operating units.

Auto-Applies on Account Creation
EBOS Policy Version v5.0
Article 01
Vol: HQTC-2026-09

1. Master Terms of Service

These Master Terms of Service ("Terms") operate as a binding legal agreement between the Entity activating the SmartStore HQ account ("Customer", "You") and SmartStore HQ ("Company") governing access to the Enterprise Business OS (EBOS) and its sub-systems (POS, CRM, AI Employees).

A) Tenant & Org Node Provisioning

Upon account activation, the Company shall provision a dedicated PostgreSQL software tenant ("Workspace"). Customer is granted non-exclusive rights to create Org Nodes (Branches, Warehouses, Cash Counters) and access the platform during the active Subscription Term.

B) Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)

Customer retains strict accountability for defining internal IAM permission boundaries, provisioning credentials to Employees (Cashiers, Managers), securing authentication, and managing offboarding. SmartStore HQ is not liable for data breaches born from misconfigured organizational roles by the Owner.

Article 02
Zero Data Brokerage

2. Commercial Privacy & Data Sovereignty

Your business intelligence is strictly yours. SmartStore HQ guarantees absolute operational sovereignty over customer data stored in our Neon.tech PostgreSQL databases.

A) DATA OWNERSHIP GUARANTEE

The Customer retains 100% unconditional ownership over all receipts, SKUs, inventory batches (FEFO), CRM WhatsApp leads, financial ledgers, staff shift logs, and branch telemetry inputted into the platform.

B) ZERO DATA MONETIZATION PACT

SmartStore HQ strictly never sells, rents, analyzes, or monetizes customer transaction records or end-consumer chats to external advertisers, AI trainers, or market makers. Your data is isolated at the tenant level.

3. AI Employees & Meta Webhooks Use

SmartStore HQ integrates advanced Gemini AI LLMs and Meta Graph APIs (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) for unified inbox and automated sales.

Meta Commerce Policies

When utilizing the SmartStore HQ WhatsApp/Messenger integrations, you must strictly comply with the WhatsApp Commerce Policy. Sending unsolicited spam, prohibited items (drugs, weapons), or violating messaging window rules will result in your Meta Webhook being permanently disconnected by Facebook. SmartStore HQ is not responsible for bans issued by Meta.

AI Generation Liability

While our AI Employees are programmed to follow your custom multilingual persona and product catalogs, AI can occasionally generate unexpected responses (hallucinations). You agree to monitor the AI Draft Orders and chats in the Unified Inbox. SmartStore HQ is not financially liable for incorrect pricing quoted by the AI to a customer.

4. Infrastructure & Render SLA

SmartStore HQ's CQRS backend is hosted on enterprise cloud environments (Render, Neon). We back our infrastructure with strict uptime SLAs.

99.9%
Uptime Commitment
Backed by auto-scaling Render cloud deployments.
30 Min
Severity 1 Response
Guaranteed triage for POS or Database outages.
Sun 01:00
EST Maint. Window
Scheduled updates occur in off-peak hours with notice.

5. Data Portability & Offboarding

We never hold your data hostage. Upon account termination, you retain absolute export rights without administrative barriers.

A) Full Data Portability

Enterprise administrators can execute full JSON/CSV exports of all core ledgers, inventory tables, and receipts during an active subscription at any time without incurring data extraction fees.

B) Immediate 30-Day Purge

Upon confirmed account cancellation, all tenant storage partitions are disabled. Hard deletion procedures execute permanently across active Neon databases and backups 30 days post-termination.