Account, billing, and export

How billing flows through Dekimu Hub, what each paywall state means, and how to export your generated documents.

Your miniterms subscription is managed through Dekimu Hub, which is the single account hub for every Dekimu product. This page covers how billing flows, what each subscription state means, and how to export your data — both the documents you have generated and the account data itself.

Where your account lives

Your account is at id.dekimu.com. miniterms is one of several apps you may have access to under that account. The miniterms dashboard reads your entitlement from Hub on every page load; you do not have a miniterms-specific password.

How billing works

  1. You pick a tier on the miniterms pricing page
  2. You are bounced to Hub's checkout, which collects payment via Stripe
  3. Stripe confirms the subscription back to Hub
  4. Hub writes your entitlement; miniterms sees the new entitlement on next page load
  5. You return to the miniterms dashboard with paid-tier features enabled

You manage cards, invoices, and cancellation in your Hub account, not in miniterms. There is no miniterms-side billing surface.

Paywall states

Your miniterms session is always in one of three paywall states. The dashboard banner tells you which.

  • Active — entitled, all features available
  • Grace — your subscription failed payment but you are still in the grace window. Features stay available for now; the banner explains when the grace period ends.
  • Lapsed — past grace. The dashboard reverts to read-only. You can still view documents you have generated, but you cannot regenerate or export. Resolve payment in Hub and the state flips back to Active within seconds.

In all three states, your generated documents continue to be served from the Dekimu-hosted slugs (if you chose that hosting option). We do not yank live published policies when a subscription lapses — that would itself create a compliance problem for you. The paywall gates the generator, not the hosting.

Exporting your generated documents

You can export any document you have generated, in any state, at any time:

  • HTML — the standalone published form (with the attribution comment intact)
  • Markdown — the source form, useful for diffing and version control
  • JSON-LD — the structured metadata sidecar, for ingestion by other compliance tools
  • ZIP — all of the above bundled with the citation set hash

Exports are produced on demand; there is no "export queue" or wait.

Exporting your account data (GDPR right)

You have the right under [GDPR art. 15] (right of access) and [GDPR art. 20] (right to data portability) to receive the personal data we hold about you. miniterms exposes this through Dekimu Hub:

  • Open your Hub account → Settings → Data export
  • Request the export
  • You receive an email when it is ready (typically within 24 hours, usually within minutes)

The export contains your profile data, your generated documents (in all four formats), your usage logs, and the metadata about your account. The format is a machine-readable ZIP.

Deleting your account

Same place — Hub → Settings → Delete account. Deletion is a cascade: your miniterms data is purged, your other Dekimu apps are notified, and your published Dekimu-hosted slugs return 410 Gone (a deliberate signal, not 404 — it tells search engines and bookmarks that the resource is intentionally gone).

If you self-host any of the generated documents on your own site, deletion of your Dekimu account does not remove those from your site — they are your files, on your servers. You will need to remove them yourself if that is what you want.

The deletion is irreversible and we cannot recover documents from a deleted account.