Terms of use

Zippytal is a free, open-source ecosystem you're welcome to use as long as you don't abuse it. You own what you publish; we host it for you. The service is provided as-is. Paid services come with their own engagement letters that take precedence on commercial details.

By using zippytal.com or any of its subdomains (meet.zippytal.com, chat.zippytal.com, projects.zippytal.com, …) you agree to these terms. If you don't, don't use the service.

You need to be at least 13 (16 in the EEA) and have the legal capacity to enter a contract. If you're using Zippytal on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you're authorised to bind it.

Zippytal's core ecosystem (Meet, Chat, Drive, Community, Nodes, Projects) is free and open source under the Apache License 2.0. We provide it on a best-effort basis; there is no uptime guarantee, no support obligation, and no warranty. Anyone is free to inspect, fork, and self-host the code.

Zippytal Business (custom builds, sprint zero, retainers) and Zippytal Academy (coaching, courses) are paid engagements. Each paid engagement has its own order form / engagement letter, which takes precedence over these terms on the specific commercial terms (scope, fees, timing, IP ownership of work product). These terms still govern the underlying platform you use to deliver the engagement.

You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for everything that happens through your account. Tell us at security@zippytal.com if you suspect it has been compromised.

You keep ownership of everything you publish through Zippytal — messages, files, projects, posts, all of it. You grant us the limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license needed to host, copy, transmit, and display your content for the purpose of operating the service. That license ends when you delete the content (or your account). If you publish under an open licence, that licence governs downstream reuse.

You agree not to:

• Publish unlawful, harmful, infringing, or fraudulent content.
• Harass, threaten, or impersonate others.
• Probe, scan, or attempt to bypass security or rate limits.
• Run automated abuse, spam, or denial-of-service traffic.
• Use the service to ship malware or exploit material directed at minors.
• Misuse the open-source code or our trademarks in ways that imply official endorsement when there is none.

If you operate a Zippytal node, you take on extra responsibility: traffic relayed by your node sits on your infrastructure, and you're accountable for not intentionally tampering with, mis-routing, or surveilling it. You agree to operate the node in good faith and to disable it if you can't meet that bar. We may de-list a node from the public discovery layer if it's misbehaving.

When you connect a third-party service (e.g. Google Calendar from projects.zippytal.com), that service's terms and privacy policy apply alongside ours. We send only what we need to make the integration work.

"Zippytal" and the Zippytal marks belong to us; you can talk about us, link to us, and write about us without permission, but you can't suggest we endorse you when we don't. The open-source code we publish is licensed under Apache 2.0 (see the GitHub organisation) — that licence governs the code, not these terms.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, with or without notice depending on severity. You may delete your account any time. Sections that should survive termination (intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law) do.

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure against every threat.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Zippytal's total liability for any claim arising out of your use of the service is capped at the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) [€100 — TODO confirm]. We are not liable for indirect, consequential, special, or punitive damages.

You agree to defend and indemnify us against claims arising from content you publish or actions you take that violate these terms or applicable law.

These terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction — TODO; suggested France] without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes go to the competent courts of that jurisdiction. Nothing here removes consumer-protection rights you may have under the law of your country of residence.

We'll update the "Effective" date when we change anything. For material changes we'll email account holders with a summary before they take effect; continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the new terms.

hello@zippytal.com for general questions. legal@zippytal.com for anything formal.