aka.to

Terms of Service

The agreement between you and us covering accounts, links, and what each of us is responsible for.

Effective August 30, 2026

THESE TERMS OF SERVICE (“TERMS”) ARE A BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN AKA TO, INC., THE OPERATOR OF AKA.TO, AND YOU AND, IF APPLICABLE, THE COMPANY OR LEGAL ENTITY YOU REPRESENT (TOGETHER, “YOU”). WE REFER TO OURSELVES BELOW AS AKA.TO.

BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT, USING THE SERVICE, OR CLICKING TO ACCEPT, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THE SERVICE. IF YOU ARE ACCEPTING ON BEHALF OF AN ORGANIZATION, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE AUTHORITY TO BIND IT.

  1. The Service. In exchange for your acceptance of these Terms, aka.to provides a link-shortening and link-analytics service at https://aka.to, together with its API and its Model Context Protocol interface (the “Service”). We may change, add, or remove features at any time.
  2. Accounts and organizations. You must be at least 13 years old and legally able to enter into a contract. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information, for keeping your credentials and API keys secret, and for everything that happens under your account. Links, aliases, and click data belong to the organization that owns them, not to the individual member who created them; an organization’s owners and admins control its membership and its data. Tell us promptly at support@aka.to if you believe your account has been compromised.
  3. Your links and your content. You keep all rights in the destinations you link to and the content you supply. You grant us only the rights we need to run the Service: to store your links, to serve redirects to them, to render QR codes for them, and to compute and display their analytics. You are solely responsible for every destination you point a link at, including its lawfulness and its effect on the people who click it.
  4. Acceptable use. Your use of the Service is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Breaching it is a breach of these Terms.
  5. Slugs and namespaces. Two kinds of slug exist and they behave differently. A generated slug is minted automatically, is unique across the whole service, resolves at https://aka.to/{slug}, and cannot be changed once minted. A vanity slug is one you choose; it is scoped to your organization and resolves only at your organization’s subdomain, which means two organizations may each hold the same vanity slug independently. Some slugs are reserved for the operation of the Service, and we may reserve additional ones. A slug is licensed to you for the term of these Terms; it is not property, and holding one grants you no trademark or other right in it.
  6. Fees. The Service is currently offered without charge. We may introduce paid plans in future; if we do, we will give notice before any charge applies to you, and continued use after a plan takes effect is your acceptance of its pricing.
  7. Availability, suspension, and termination. We provide the Service on an as-available basis and may impose rate limits and usage quotas. We may suspend or terminate an alias, an organization, or an account—with notice where practicable, and without notice where the abuse is serious or ongoing—if you breach these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or to protect the Service or the people who click your links. A disabled alias stops redirecting and returns an error; its slug stays held so it cannot be re-registered by someone else. You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time.
  8. Analytics and privacy. Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. Two points bear repeating here because they bind us: we do not store the IP addresses of people who click your links, and we do not sell click data. Because our visitor measurement is non-identifying by construction, unique-visitor figures count visitor-days rather than distinct people, as described under what unique visitors means. Do not represent them to your own audience as a count of individuals.
  9. API and MCP access. You may access the Service programmatically using API keys issued to your organization, subject to the published rate limits. Do not attempt to circumvent those limits, issue keys to parties outside your organization, or use automated means to enumerate slugs, resolve links in bulk, or scrape the Service.
  10. Third-party destinations. A short link points somewhere we do not control. We do not endorse, verify, or take responsibility for the content, policies, or safety of any destination, and your use of a destination is between you and its operator.
  11. Disclaimer. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY LINK WILL RESOLVE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, OR THAT ANALYTICS FIGURES WILL BE COMPLETE OR ACCURATE.
  12. Limitation of liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THESE EXCLUSIONS, IN WHICH CASE THEY APPLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED.
  13. Indemnification. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless aka.to from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of the destinations you link to, your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms.
  14. Governing law and disputes. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in California have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and both parties consent to venue there.
  15. Changes to these Terms. We may revise these Terms. For material changes we will give notice through the Service or by email before they take effect, and the effective date at the top of this page will reflect the current revision. Continued use after that date is acceptance.
  16. Miscellaneous. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, are the entire agreement between us on this subject. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger or sale of assets. Questions: legal@aka.to, or Aka To, Inc., 1 Example Street, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90012.