Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between you and the operator of altvale.com (the "Site"). The operator is Altvale ("Altvale", "we", "us", "our"). When Altvale is subsequently incorporated as a corporate entity, these Terms will be reissued naming that entity as a party and your rights will not be reduced by that transition.

These Terms cover the Site only. Use of the KruxOS software is governed by the KruxOS End User License Agreement, which prevails over these Terms in the event of any conflict in respect of KruxOS.

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy referenced from it. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

If you access the Site on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" in these Terms means both you personally and that organisation.

You may read the Site, link to it, share its public URLs, and quote short excerpts with attribution to Altvale.

You may not, in connection with the Site:

• Use it for any unlawful purpose, or in breach of any applicable export-control, sanctions, or anti-corruption law.
• Attempt to interfere with its operation, probe it for vulnerabilities outside of the coordinated-disclosure route described in Section 9 of the Privacy Policy, or place excessive load on it.
• Scrape, crawl, or harvest data from the Site by automated means at a rate or scale that we consider abusive in our reasonable judgement, or in circumvention of robots.txt, rate limits, or other access controls.
• Use the Site's content to train machine-learning models, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law (for example, statutory text-and-data-mining exceptions where you have not been notified to opt out) and subject to any reservation expressed in robots.txt, AI-related meta tags, or .well-known/ declarations published on the Site from time to time.
• Misrepresent your identity, impersonate Altvale, or imply an affiliation or endorsement that does not exist.
• Frame, mirror, or republish the Site as if it were your own, or remove notices of authorship or origin.

All text, graphics, layouts, logos, and other content on the Site are owned by Altvale or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trade-mark, and other intellectual-property laws. "Altvale", "KruxOS", "KruxOrchestrate", and "KruxAssist" are unregistered trade marks of the operator. Use of any of these names or marks requires our prior written permission, save for fair-use references (such as journalism, commentary, or factual reporting that the product exists).

Third-party assets bundled with the Site are governed by their own licences and credited in the NOTICE file at the Site root. Open-source components published by Altvale on public repositories (capabilities, plugins, themes for KruxOS) are licensed under the terms shipped with each repository (typically MIT or Apache 2.0); those licences govern those components and prevail over these Terms in respect of them.

Nothing in these Terms grants you any licence under any Altvale patent, copyright, or trade mark other than as expressly stated.

The Site contains links to third-party sites (for example, kruxos.com, GitHub, X, and external standards documents). Those sites are not under our control. We do not endorse them, are not responsible for their content, terms, or privacy practices, and provide the links for convenience only.

The Site is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE". To the maximum extent permitted by law, Altvale disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, or quiet enjoyment. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of harmful components; that any information on the Site is current, complete, or accurate; or that the Site or any link from it is free of viruses or other harmful code.

Statements about products on the Site (including KruxOS, KruxOrchestrate, and KruxAssist) describe current intent and are not commitments. Roadmap, version, and availability information may change without notice.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Altvale will not be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, in each case arising out of or relating to your use of or inability to use the Site, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute, or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Altvale's total aggregate liability to you arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site is limited to one hundred US dollars (USD 100). This cap applies in the aggregate and does not reset.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by negligence; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limits above apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

You agree to indemnify and hold Altvale harmless from any claim, demand, or damages (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Site, or your infringement of any third-party right in connection with your use of the Site. We will give you prompt notice of any claim and cooperate reasonably in its defence.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Site or any part of it at any time, with or without notice. We may restrict or terminate your access to the Site if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or pose a risk to the Site or its other users. The provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11) survive.

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms may be brought before the competent courts of England and Wales, which shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction in respect of a breach or threatened breach of intellectual-property rights or confidentiality obligations.

Where you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer-protection law would, in the absence of this clause, give you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts under the law of your residence, nothing in this section deprives you of that right.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the documents they reference, are the entire agreement between you and Altvale concerning the Site.

Severability. If any provision is held to be unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms remains in effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of that provision.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, to any successor entity (including any corporate entity that succeeds the current sole-trader operation), or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of our assets.

Notices. Notices to Altvale may be sent to [email protected] (or, where these Terms specify a different address, to that address). Notices to you may be given through the Site or by reply to your last known email address with us.

Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms by publishing a new version on this page with a revised Effective date. Material changes will be summarised in the Plain summary banner for at least thirty (30) days after publication. Continued use of the Site after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Questions about these Terms: [email protected]. General contact and security-disclosure routing: see the Contact page.