Terms of service
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1. Who and what
These terms cover qualitylayer.dev, the QualityLayer App and CLI, and the ancillary services described here, offered by Maximilian Ritter (see the imprint). The QualityLayer Software License Agreement grants the licence to the software. These terms do not revoke or narrow rights already granted under an earlier licence or separately agreed contract. Individual agreements and mandatory law prevail where applicable.
2. Buying
Polar Software, Inc. sells subscriptions as merchant of record. Polar's terms apply to payment, invoices, taxes, renewals and refunds, and to a consumer's right of withdrawal.
3. Trial
You can try QualityLayer for 7 days without paying, once per computer.
4. Subscription
A subscription renews every month or year until you cancel it. You can cancel at any time in Billing; it ends with the paid period. Business centralizes seats, billing and licence assignment. Existing contractual prices, currencies, seats, benefits, grants, keys, activations and access remain governed by their agreed terms.
5. The local product and services
All plans include the same complete local Tasks, Chat and Artifacts product. Business adds centralized seats and billing, assignment and reassignment, priority support and priority feature requests. Priority means earlier consideration, without a delivery promise. Enterprise includes Business plus volume pricing, onboarding, invoicing arrangements and negotiated purchasing and support terms. The new offering includes no hosted collaboration, self-hosted team backend, SSO, private-source or complete-build grant. Existing granted rights, including an earlier Enterprise agreement, remain unaffected.
Your own machines, SSH connections and paired browsers remain under your control. Your coding agent uses its own provider and account. Licence, trial, billing, update, support and newsletter services are separate from local work. Maintenance or faults can interrupt these services; the applicable offline allowance remains unchanged. Older-client services remain during the migration described in the privacy policy, without an immediate-deletion promise.
6. Your part and public source
- Keep your licence key private and assign each seat to its authorized person.
- Send only content you may disclose, and use the product and services lawfully.
- Do not attack or overload services or bypass licence checks, subject to mandatory legal rights.
The source-available offering permits inspection and contributions to QualityLayer itself under its exact licence and contribution agreement. It is paid commercial software, with no free complete edition or automatic open-source conversion. The public checkout intentionally excludes private components needed for a complete build. Only Max Ritter produces complete official builds. Your own output remains yours; previously granted rights and mandatory law remain unaffected.
7. Liability
We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the Product Liability Act and under any guarantee we give. For slight negligence we are liable only when we breach an obligation that makes the contract possible and on which you may rely, and only for the damage that was typical and foreseeable when the contract was made. Otherwise we are not liable for slight negligence.
8. Changes to these terms
We notify you of proposed contractual changes at least 30 days in advance where applicable. Changes take effect only to the extent validly agreed; continued use alone does not retroactively remove an existing right. Individual agreements and mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.
9. Law and courts
German law applies, without the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Consumers in the EU keep the protection of their own country's mandatory law. If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law, or have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany, the courts at our place of business decide disputes.