Legal

Terms of sale and use.

What you are buying, what we owe you, and what happens if either of us stops.

Draft, not yet reviewed. This is the design reference for the page, written from how the product actually behaves. Every clause below needs a lawyer before it is published as a term of sale, and nothing here has been checked against Indian, EU or US consumer law.

In one sentence

You buy a licence to use the plugin and to receive updates and support for a year. The code itself is GPL. When the licence ends the plugin keeps working — you lose updates, not your business.

Last updated · draft

1. What you are buying

A licence to install and use Kavita on the number of domains your plan allows, together with updates and support for the term you paid for. You are not buying the software outright and you are not buying a service we host.

Kavita is GPL-licensed. Your rights to the code under the GPL are not limited by anything on this page. What the licence key controls is access to updates and support.

2. What we owe you

Updates for the term, and support to the service levels published on the service levels page, which form part of these terms.

We do not promise the software is free of defects. We promise to fix them, on a published clock.

3. Your account and your data

Kavita runs on your own WordPress. We do not host your data, cannot read your bookings, and have no access to your site unless you give it to us for a support request.

You are the data controller for everything your customers give you. See the GDPR page.

4. What happens when the licence ends

The plugin keeps working. Bookings, payments and reminders carry on. You stop receiving updates and you stop being covered by the service levels.

We will not disable, degrade or time-bomb software you have already installed. If we ever shipped an update that did, treat it as a defect and tell us.

5. Acceptable use

Do not resell the licence key, and do not use Kavita to send messages people have not agreed to receive. Messaging law is yours to comply with, not ours.

We may refuse or end a licence for non-payment, for chargeback abuse, or where continuing would break the law. We will tell you why.

6. Liability

[Cap and exclusions to be drafted by counsel.] Our intent is a cap at what you paid us in the last twelve months, with the usual carve-outs. This clause is exactly the kind that must not be written by a plugin author, and it has not been.

7. Changes

We may change these terms for future purchases. Changes do not apply retroactively to a term you have already paid for. Material changes will be dated on this page.