Terms of service

Last updated: 2026-10-28

1. Who you are contracting with

Tabio is provided by Cael Rowley, trading as Clorostica, a sole proprietorship based in Berlin, Germany (referred to below as "Clorostica", "we" or "us"). Full contact details are in the imprint:

By installing the Tabio browser extension or creating a Tabio account, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not install the extension or create an account. You must be at least 18 years old, or have the consent of a parent or guardian, to use Tabio.

2. The service

Tabio is a paid, subscription-based bookmark synchronisation service for Chromium-based browsers, with Firefox and Edge store listings to follow. Bookmark contents are encrypted on your device before they are transmitted to our servers; see the privacy policy for the technical detail.

We provide the service with reasonable care and skill and keep it up to date with the security updates it needs. Your statutory rights for digital products (§§ 327 ff. of the German Civil Code, BGB, and equivalent consumer law where you live) apply and are not limited by these terms. We do not offer a service-level agreement and do not promise uninterrupted availability; maintenance and outages happen.

3. How the contract is concluded

Creating an account does not start a trial or any subscription. You start a free 30-day trial by choosing a plan at checkout; no payment method is required for this. The contract is concluded when you complete the checkout and the order is confirmed to you by email. The contract language is English. We do not store a separate copy of the contract text; the current version of these terms is always available at this address, and you can save or print it. The details of your order are in the confirmation email you receive at checkout.

4. Pricing, tax, and payment

• Monthly plan: €3.00 per month, including VAT.
• Annual plan: €18.00 per year, including VAT (equivalent to €1.50 per month).

Prices are final prices and include VAT (or the equivalent sales tax) at the rate that applies where you live. The total is shown before you confirm the order. Prices may be converted to your local currency at checkout.

Payments are processed by Stripe under its Managed Payments programme. Link, a service operated by Stripe, acts as merchant of record: Link is the seller of record for the payment, issues your receipts and invoices, collects and remits VAT, and handles payment-related support and refunds. Link's terms apply to the payment itself; Clorostica remains responsible for the Tabio service. The charge appears on your statement as LINK.COM*. You manage the subscription and your payment method from Tabio, on the account page.

During the trial no payment method is required and nothing is charged. If you add a payment method before the trial ends, your subscription continues on the plan you chose and the first payment is taken when the trial ends. If you do not, the subscription ends together with the trial and nothing is charged: sync is paused and the extension stops pulling or pushing changes, and your existing data remains stored on your behalf until you either subscribe or delete it through the self-service options in section 7. A free trial is available once per account.

After the initial agreed term, subscriptions continue for an indefinite period until cancelled. Billing continues monthly or annually according to your chosen plan; annual advance billing does not create a new fixed annual commitment. Renewal is at the price in effect at the time of renewal. We will notify you by email at least 30 days before any price change takes effect; if you do not agree, you can cancel before the change takes effect and will not be charged the new price.

5. Term and cancellation

During the initial agreed term (one month or one year), you can cancel at any time with effect from its end. After that term, the subscription continues indefinitely and you can cancel at any time with notice of no more than one month. Any annual advance payment covering time after that termination is refunded pro rata. If you switch to another plan (for example from monthly to annual), you agree a new initial term: the first billing period on the new plan, which you can cancel with effect from its end. Your right to extraordinary cancellation for cause is unaffected. You keep access until the applicable end date. Cancellation is available through the cancellation page (fill in the form and press "Cancel now", without signing in or opening an emailed link), in Stripe's portal from the account page, or by email to clorostica@proton.me. We do not refund the unused part of the initial agreed term after ordinary cancellation, except where required by law (see section 6) or at our discretion. Stripe's portal stops renewal at the end of the prepaid billing period; use the cancellation form or email for a statutory earlier termination, including after the initial term or for cause.

6. Right of withdrawal (consumers)

First-payment money-back guarantee

Our 14-day money-back guarantee starts with your first payment, not with your free trial. It applies to both monthly and annual plans, whether or not you had a trial. Ask within 14 days of your first payment and we will refund that payment in full, without deducting anything for use of the service. This guarantee is in addition to your statutory withdrawal rights above and does not limit them.

To claim the guarantee, email clorostica@proton.me within 14 days of your first payment. Include your Tabio account email and, if available, the payment date or receipt number so we can find the payment. No reason is required. You may also use the form below. Your subscription ends when we process the refund; your account and encrypted bookmarks are kept unless you separately ask to delete them. We process the refund through Link (Stripe), using the original payment method, without undue delay and no later than 14 days after receiving your request. There is no refund fee. Cancelling your subscription on its own does not count as a refund request. Renewal payments are not covered by this guarantee; your statutory rights remain unaffected.

Ordinary cancellation during the initial agreed term takes effect at its end, as described in section 5. Statutory withdrawal, extraordinary cancellation, and the right to terminate the indefinite continuation with no more than one month's notice remain unaffected. Annual advance payments for time after a valid earlier termination are refunded pro rata.

7. Self-service account options

You can manage or end your relationship with Tabio at any time through the extension (Settings → Account) or, with the extension uninstalled, by signing in at tabio.clorostica.com/account. The following options are available:

• Cancel subscription: stops billing, keeps account and bookmarks.
• Delete billing data: deletes your Stripe customer record and ends any subscription, keeps account and bookmarks.
• Reset bookmarks: wipes encrypted content, keeps account and subscription.
• Delete account: ends any subscription and deletes your billing data, bookmarks, encryption keys, and sign-in, subject to the limited retained records described in the privacy policy.

Deletion actions are irreversible. Cancellation takes effect on the applicable contract end date; a public cancellation declaration is recorded immediately and handled by support. See the privacy policy for exactly what is deleted and the limited records the merchant of record must retain under tax law.

8. Your content and your passphrase

You retain all rights to the bookmarks you sync through Tabio. You grant us only the minimum permission required to store and serve the encrypted form of that data back to your signed-in clients. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to store the URLs and titles you save.

You are solely responsible for safeguarding your account passphrase and the recovery code Tabio shows you when you first set that passphrase. Either one unlocks your bookmarks; neither ever reaches our servers. If you lose both, we cannot recover your bookmark contents, and there is no technical means by which we, our hosting providers, or any third party can decrypt your data on your behalf.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to: attempt to access other users' accounts or data; abuse the API beyond the published per-user rate limits; or use the service to store or share content that is unlawful under applicable law.

10. Suspension and termination by us

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or that are used in ways that threaten the security or operation of the service. We may also end the service as a whole with at least 30 days' notice by email; in that case any prepaid period beyond the end date is refunded pro rata. Your right to terminate for cause is unaffected.

11. Intellectual property and licence to use

Tabio, including the browser extension, server code, design, branding, and documentation, is the property of Cael Rowley (Clorostica) and is protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws. All rights are reserved.

Subject to your compliance with these terms and your active subscription or trial, you are granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable licence to install the extension and use the service for your own personal use.

Except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law, you may not: copy, modify, or create derivative works of the extension or service; reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the extension or server code; redistribute the extension or its binaries; remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices; or use the Tabio name, logo, or branding except as needed to identify the service in editorial or factual reference.

12. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee.

For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an obligation whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on which you may regularly rely (a cardinal obligation), and in that case only for the foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded.

For clarity: loss of bookmark contents because both the passphrase and the recovery code were lost is not damage we cause; the encryption design (section 8) means we have no way to recover it. You remain responsible for keeping your own copy of your bookmarks, which your browser does by default and which you can export at any time.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live, and the statutory rules on jurisdiction apply. If you are a business, the courts of Berlin have exclusive jurisdiction.

14. Consumer dispute resolution

We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example to reflect changes in the law, in the service, or in how payments are processed. We will announce material changes by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you do not agree with a change, you can cancel before the effective date and will not be charged again. Changes that would reduce our obligations to you or increase yours only apply to periods that start after you have agreed to them.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: clorostica@proton.me. We do our best to reply within one month, and usually much sooner. For general help, see the support page; for legal details, the imprint.