Terms of Service

1. Plain-language summary

capyhive is a small, independent platform run by a solo developer. By using it you agree to these terms. The short version:

• You’re 13 or older and the info on your account is accurate.
• You own what you upload. We get a limited licence to host and display it.
• Don’t upload illegal, harmful, infringing, or malware-containing content.
• The service is provided “as is” — best effort, no guarantees.
• Our liability is limited. You agree to defend us against claims arising from your content or your misuse of the service.
• We can suspend or remove accounts and content that break these rules.

The full terms below override this summary if they conflict.

2. Who we are

“capyhive”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to the operator of capyhive.com. “You” refers to the person or entity using the service. The service includes the website, hosted apps, APIs, SDKs, and anything else we make available under capyhive.com.

3. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least 13 years old to use capyhive. If you’re between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you confirm a parent or guardian agrees to these terms on your behalf.
• You’re responsible for everything that happens under your account.
• You may not impersonate someone else, use someone else’s credentials, or register an account on behalf of a third party without authority.
• We can refuse, suspend, or delete accounts at our discretion, including accounts that we believe violate these terms or pose risk to us or other users.

4. Your content

“Your Content” means anything you submit to capyhive — apps, posts, images, comments, descriptions, code, files, and so on.

• You keep ownership. Your Content stays yours.
• You grant us a licence to run the service. By submitting Your Content you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt (for technical reasons like resizing or zipping), display, distribute, and transmit Your Content, solely to operate, promote, and improve the service. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for residual copies in backups and copies others have already taken (e.g. cached pages, screenshots).
• You promise you have the rights.You warrant that you own Your Content or have all necessary rights and permissions to grant the licence above, and that Your Content does not infringe anyone else’s rights or violate any law.
• We are not your publisher. Your Content is your responsibility. We do not pre-screen and do not endorse anything posted by users.

5. Acceptable use

You may not use the service to:

• Break the law or facilitate illegal activity.
• Infringe anyone’s intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights.
• Upload malware, exploits, phishing pages, fraud tools, or anything designed to harm users or systems.
• Harass, threaten, dox, or sexually exploit anyone, including any content sexualising minors.
• Send spam, run unsolicited advertising, or scrape the service at scale without permission.
• Probe, attack, or interfere with the service’s infrastructure or security.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from non-public parts of the service.
• Misuse other users’ data obtained through the service.
• Use the service to train machine-learning models on user content without those users’ permission.

6. Apps published on capyhive

Users publish their own apps and games on capyhive. We host them but we do not author them, vet them, or guarantee their behaviour.

• If you publish an app, you are its developer for all legal purposes, including consumer-protection and data-protection law as it relates to your users.
• If you play an app published by another user, you do so at your own risk. We are not a party to your relationship with that user.
• We may remove any app at any time if we believe it violates these terms, harms users, or exposes us to risk.

7. Fees and payments

Some features of capyhive may require payment. If we introduce paid features, the pricing and additional terms will be presented to you before you pay. All payments are processed by third-party providers; you authorise us to share necessary information with them. Refunds, where offered, are described at the point of sale.

8. Intellectual property in the service

The capyhive name, branding, mascots, UI, design system, codebase, and documentation are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. These terms do not grant you any rights to them beyond using the service as intended.

9. Copyright complaints

If you believe content on capyhive infringes your copyright, email hello@capyhive.com with: (a) identification of the work; (b) the URL of the alleged infringement; (c) your contact details; (d) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the use is unauthorised; and (e) your physical or electronic signature. We may remove or disable the content and may, at our discretion, terminate repeat infringers.

10. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the service at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, including if we believe you have violated these terms or pose risk to us or other users.

You may delete your account at any time from your account settings or by emailing us. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including content licence to the extent of residual copies, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, and governing law) will survive.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

The service and all content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, uninterrupted or error-free operation, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the service will be secure, available at any particular time or location, free of viruses or other harmful components, or that defects will be corrected. You use the service at your own risk.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will capyhive, its operator, contractors, or sub-processors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of the service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, regardless of the cause of action, will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid us for the service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty US dollars (US$50).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. To the extent any limit above is not enforceable in your jurisdiction, it applies to the maximum extent permitted there.

13. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless capyhive and its operator from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) Your Content; (b) your use of the service; (c) your violation of these terms; (d) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or (e) any app you publish on the service.

14. Third-party services

The service relies on, and may link to, third-party services (for example, the OAuth providers used to sign you in, or apps published by other users). We are not responsible for, and do not control or endorse, those services. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

15. Changes to the service or these terms

We may modify or discontinue the service, or any part of it, at any time. We may also update these terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date and, where appropriate, notify you. Your continued use of the service after the change means you accept the updated terms.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales for any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing hello@capyhive.com. We will do the same.

17. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the service and supersede any prior agreements.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our written consent. We may assign them freely, including to an affiliate or in connection with a sale of the business.
• No agency. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship.
• Notices. We may give you notices via email or by posting on the service.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email hello@capyhive.com.