Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the VLTRON documentation website at vltron.com (the “Site”), operated by Cashtopia LLC (“we”, “us”, or “our”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

These Terms apply to the documentation website only. The VLTRON application itself, which you self-host and operate, is licensed separately under the MIT License.

2. Purpose of the Site

The Site exists to host informational and technical content about the VLTRON platform, including:

• Installation, configuration, and operations guides.
• Reference documentation for features, APIs, and integrations.
• Release notes, changelogs, and roadmap information.
• Blog posts, tutorials, and project announcements.
• Contributing guidelines and community resources.

The Site is provided free of charge, does not require registration, and does not offer commercial products or paid services.

3. Eligibility

The Site is intended for software developers, IT administrators, and other professional users. By using the Site you represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms in your jurisdiction. If you access the Site on behalf of an employer or another organization, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

4. Open-Source Project

VLTRON is an open-source project. The application source code is published at github.com/Cashtopia-LLC/VLTRON under the MIT License. We welcome contributions through pull requests in accordance with the repository's contribution guidelines.

5. Use of Documentation Content

Unless otherwise noted on a specific page, the documentation content is made available under the same MIT License that governs the VLTRON application. Subject to that license, you may freely:

• Read, search, and download the documentation for personal or business purposes.
• Share links and excerpts of the documentation.
• Reproduce or adapt the documentation in your own materials, provided that the MIT License notice is preserved where the license requires it.
• Use the documentation to install, configure, operate, and customize your own instances of VLTRON.

Trademarks, logos, and brand assets associated with VLTRON remain the property of their respective owners and are not licensed under the MIT License. Please do not use them in a manner that could imply endorsement or affiliation without our permission.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree to use the Site responsibly and in accordance with applicable law. In particular, you must not:

• Attempt to disrupt, degrade, or impair the Site, including by submitting excessive automated requests, conducting denial-of-service attacks, or probing for unauthorized access.
• Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security or rate-limiting features of the Site.
• Scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract content from the Site in a manner that materially burdens our infrastructure or violates the directives in our robots.txt.
• Use the Site to publish, transmit, or facilitate unlawful, harmful, defamatory, or infringing material.
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or impersonate VLTRON or its maintainers.
• Use the Site in any way that violates export-control, sanctions, intellectual property, or data-protection laws.

7. Privacy and Analytics

Your privacy is governed by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Site uses privacy-preserving, self-hosted analytics and, only with your affirmative consent, may use Reo.dev first-party cookies for website and documentation performance analytics. You can reject or later withdraw optional analytics without losing access to the Site.

8. Third-Party Services and Links

The Site contains links and references to third-party services, software, and websites. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability, terms, or privacy practices of any third-party service, and your use of those services is governed by their own terms and policies.

9. User Contributions

If you submit a contribution to the Site — for example, a documentation pull request, an issue, or a comment — through the project's public repositories, you do so under the terms of the relevant repository's LICENSE file and contribution guidelines. You represent that you have the right to submit the contribution and grant the licenses required by those documents.

10. Intellectual Property

Except for content explicitly licensed under the MIT License or another license stated on the relevant page, all rights in and to the Site, including its design, arrangement, and selection of content, remain the property of Cashtopia LLC and its contributors. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of third-party intellectual property referenced in the documentation.

11. No Warranty

The Site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will Cashtopia LLC, its contributors, or affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenues, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, or inability to use the Site, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us to use the Site (which is zero) and (b) USD one hundred (US $100).

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Cashtopia LLC, its contributors, and affiliates from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the Site in violation of these Terms or applicable law.

14. Availability and Changes to the Site

We may modify, suspend, relocate, or discontinue all or part of the Site at any time without notice. We are not liable for any unavailability of the Site or for the loss of any content or links resulting from such changes.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in the Site, in our practices, or in applicable law. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, communicated more prominently. Your continued use of the Site following any update constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

16. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States of America, and the laws of the Republic of Uganda, without regard to their respective conflict-of-laws principles. Where you are a consumer protected by mandatory local law, those protections take precedence over this clause to the extent required.

Before initiating any formal proceeding, the parties agree to attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site through informal communication, including by opening an issue in the project repository or by contacting us at the address below.

17. Severability and Entire Agreement

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.

18. Contact

For questions about these Terms or about VLTRON, please contact us at [email protected] or open an issue in the project repository.

By using this documentation site, you agree to these Terms of Service and to the policies they incorporate by reference.