Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and the operator of vpress.app — “VPress”, “we” — covering your account, the dashboard, and the websites you publish through it. Creating an account means accepting them. If you are accepting on behalf of a company, you are telling us you are allowed to bind it.

Your account

• You need a working email address, and we ask you to confirm it before the account can be used.

• One account belongs to one person. Give colleagues their own access by inviting them to a website, not by sharing a password.

• Keep your password to yourself. What happens under your account is your responsibility, including what the people you invite do.

• You must be old enough to enter into a contract where you live.

Your websites and your content

Everything you publish stays yours. We claim no ownership of it, and you can take it with you whenever you like: the dashboard exports a whole website under Tools, and content is stored as structured data rather than as markup glued to a theme, precisely so that leaving is possible.

To run the service we need your permission to do the obvious things with it — store it, copy it between our systems, resize images, and serve it to the people who visit your website. That permission lasts only as long as the content is on the platform and exists for no other purpose.

You are responsible for what you publish, for having the right to publish it, and for the law that applies to your website: its own privacy notice, its own cookie notice, and how it treats what its visitors leave behind.

What you may not do

• Publish anything unlawful where you or your readers are, or anything that infringes someone else’s rights.

• Host malware or phishing pages, or content built to trick people out of credentials or money.

• Send bulk unsolicited email, or run a website here as the landing page for someone else’s.

• Attack the platform or the people on it: scanning, brute force, deliberate overload, or any attempt to reach another customer’s data.

• Resell the platform as though it were your own, or split one website across several accounts to get around the limits of a plan.

• Use it as general file storage or as a CDN for files unrelated to a website you publish here.

Agencies are welcome. Building and running websites for your clients is an ordinary use of VPress, and inviting a client to their own website is exactly what the roles are for.

Plans, limits and fees

• What a plan grants — how many websites, how much storage, which features — is shown on the pricing page and in your dashboard, and it is what applies to your account.

• A free plan stays free. A paid plan is billed in advance for the period you choose, and a period already started is not refunded unless the law where you live says otherwise.

• Prices can change. A change to what you already pay is announced at least 30 days beforehand and takes effect at your next renewal, so you can leave before it applies.

• Prices are shown without any tax that may apply to you, unless stated otherwise.

• Reaching a limit deletes nothing. It stops new things being created until you free up room or move up a plan.

Domains

• Every website gets a free address under vpress.app. That subdomain remains ours: we can reclaim one used against these terms, and some labels are reserved for the platform.

• A custom domain is yours. Registering it, renewing it and paying for it is your part; serving it and issuing its certificate is ours, once its DNS points at us.

• If you leave, point the domain elsewhere and it goes on working. Nothing about your domain is held hostage.

Availability

We aim to keep the platform fast and up, and it runs on infrastructure built for that. We do not promise a particular uptime figure unless we have agreed one with you in writing. Maintenance we expect to interrupt anything is announced beforehand where we can.

Suspension, and closing an account

• You can close your account, or delete a single website, at any time from the dashboard. Export first: from your side, deleting is not reversible.

• We may suspend a website that breaks these terms, or an account whose payment has failed. Where the problem is fixable and not urgent, you hear from us first.

• Suspension takes a website offline; it does not erase it. If nothing is put right, we may close the account, and the content is then deleted.

• An account that exists in order to abuse the platform may be closed without notice.

The software is ours

The platform, its code, its design and the VPress name belong to us. These terms give you the right to use the service; they do not hand over a copy of the software.

Warranties, and the limit of what we owe you

The service is provided as it is. Beyond what these terms say, we do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or that it will suit a particular purpose you have in mind. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law — for death or personal injury, for fraud, or a consumer’s non-excludable rights.

Otherwise, and as far as the law allows: we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit, or for content you lost that an export would have saved. Our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or €100 where you are on a free plan.

Your own visitors

If your website collects personal data from the people who visit it, you are the one responsible for it: for telling them what you collect, for having a lawful reason, and for answering them when they ask. We process it for you and look after it — see the privacy policy — but the duty is yours.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms as the platform changes. The date at the top says when they were last updated, and a material change is announced by email before it takes effect. Carrying on using the platform after that is acceptance; if you would rather not, export your content and close your account.

Law, and disagreements

These terms are governed by the law of the country in which the operator of vpress.app is established, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, that does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to legal@vpress.app.