Workchute's current legal documents are the Pre-Production Terms and Conditions at /terms and the Pre-Production Privacy Policy at /privacy. Both pages are public and read-only, work without JavaScript, and remain available whether you are signed in or signed out. Terms and Privacy in the footer after each Workchute page's content lead to the same documents.
Read the documents themselves before agreeing. The pages delivered by the running Workchute release are authoritative; this Knowledge Base explains the product flow but does not replace, shorten, or reinterpret their legal text. They describe a pre-production service and must not be assumed to be final launch terms.
Agreement during onboarding
Workchute presents one unchecked agreement control in /onboarding. Its Terms and Privacy links open separately so you can review them without abandoning the form.
Valid sections save automatically when you leave or change a control. There is no separate Save progress button, and these saves do not accept the agreement.
Finish setup requires the profile fields that apply to you and agreement to the exact current documents.
An unchecked control leaves onboarding incomplete. Workchute does not treat visiting either document as agreement.
The receipt belongs to the signed-in user, not to the shared party profile. An agreement by one owner or user does not satisfy the requirement for another. Workchute records the server-owned agreement version, document versions and content identifiers, exact agreement sentence, context, and database time; it does not trust the browser to choose those facts.
Agreement for invited users
A Team invitee or external ownership recipient accepts the current agreement in the guarded invitation confirmation flow. That page also collects any missing personal display name, language, and timezone. It does not ask the invitee to complete the party's name, Head office, services, subscriptions, or other owner onboarding fields.
The invitation requires fresh authentication with the exact verified invited email. Agreement is still explicit and unchecked by default, and the receipt belongs only to the accepting user. A returning same-party member keeps any current personal receipt; a stale or missing receipt must be renewed before protected access resumes.
Profile-gated work becomes available only when both conditions are true:
the user's onboarding profile is complete; and
that user has a receipt matching one exact agreement tuple accepted by the running release.
Public browsing and public legal pages remain available without a receipt. Signing in or creating a guest draft does not silently accept the documents or execute a recovered marketplace action.
When the agreement changes
Workchute can recognize a specifically allowlisted pre-production predecessor agreement so existing users are not asked to reaccept merely because the privacy notice received a bounded update. New agreements still record the current documents; Workchute never invents a current receipt for an older acceptance.
When a release no longer accepts your exact receipt, Workchute returns a profile-complete user to the same /onboarding route in a focused Review the current agreement state. You do not have to recreate the party profile: review both linked documents, select the control, and choose Continue.
If the active agreement changes while a form is open, Workchute rejects the stale version and presents the current documents with the control unchecked. Review them again instead of repeatedly submitting the old page. A successful retry for an agreement already recorded is safe and does not create a second receipt for the same user and version.
Agreement is not marketing consent and does not turn on optional notification topics. Manage those separately in Settings.