Terms of Service

1. Parties & Service Description

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of gitbuild.dev, an EU-sovereign Git hosting service powered by Forgejo, including repository hosting, issue tracking, and related developer collaboration features. The service is provided by StennMedia, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under KvK 99876302, established in Breda, Netherlands, contactable at info@stennmedia.nl ("StennMedia", "we", "us"). The service is offered exclusively to users located within the European Union / EEA. By creating an account or using the service, you ("you", "user") agree to these Terms.

2. Account Eligibility

• You must be at least 16 years of age (or the age of digital consent in your EU member state).
• You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
• One account per person. Shared or bot accounts are not permitted without authorisation.
• You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for all activity under your account.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the service to:

• Store or distribute unlawful, infringing, or malicious content
• Upload content you do not have the right to host
• Attempt to access other users' data or disrupt the service
• Resell or repackage the service without authorisation
• Interfere with the service's infrastructure or violate applicable law

4. Content & Intellectual Property

You retain all intellectual property rights in content you upload. By using the service you grant StennMedia a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, store, and display your content solely as necessary to operate the service for you. You are responsible for ensuring you have the rights to the content you upload.

5. AI-Training Prohibition

You retain all rights to your content. StennMedia does not use, license, or share your repositories, code, issues, or metadata for the purpose of training machine learning models, large language models, or any AI system. StennMedia will not grant third parties access to your content for AI training purposes. This does not affect content that you have made publicly accessible, which may be accessible to third parties on the public internet.

This prohibition restricts only what StennMedia may do with your content — not how you create it. Code written with AI assistance or generated by AI tools is welcome on the service, and you retain the same rights in it as in any other content you upload.

6. Plans, Payment & Cancellation

The service offers Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. Paid plans are billed monthly in EUR (excluding VAT) and renew automatically via your Mollie mandate until cancelled. You may cancel at any time from your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current paid period, and you retain access until that time. No partial or prorated refunds are provided except where required by mandatory law.

7. Consumer Right of Withdrawal

If you are a consumer within the meaning of EU/Dutch law, you normally have a 14-day right of withdrawal for distance contracts. For a digital service, the following applies in accordance with Directive 2011/83/EU:

• At checkout you expressly request, by ticking the consent checkbox, that performance of the service begins immediately, before the end of the withdrawal period.
• If you withdraw after the service has begun, you owe a proportionate amount for the performance already delivered up to the moment of withdrawal.
• Your right of withdrawal is lost once the service has been fully performed with your prior express consent and your acknowledgment that you thereby lose that right.

Mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.

8. Availability & Service Levels

The service is provided on a commercially reasonable best-efforts basis. No specific uptime percentage or service-level commitment is guaranteed for self-serve plans (Free, Pro, Business). Business and Enterprise customers may agree a separate written SLA. We are not liable for unavailability caused by scheduled maintenance, force majeure, or circumstances beyond our control.

9. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable mandatory law, including liability for intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, and statutory consumer rights.

Where the user is a business (B2B), StennMedia's aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the total fees paid by that user to StennMedia in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

The service (in particular the Free plan) is provided "as available" and "as is" to the extent permitted by applicable law, without warranties beyond those required by mandatory law.

10. Account Suspension & Termination

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, applicable law, or that pose a risk to the service or other users. You may delete your account at any time from your account settings. Account deletion is immediate and permanent: your account, repositories, and associated data are removed from our live systems without a restore window. Residual copies in backups are overwritten on the 30-day backup rotation. Billing records are retained as required by Dutch tax law. See the Privacy Policy for retention details.

11. Reporting Illegal or Infringing Content

To report unlawful, infringing, or otherwise problematic content, email info@stennmedia.nl with sufficient detail to identify the content, its location, and the legal basis for the complaint. We act expeditiously on substantiated notices and, where we remove or restrict content, we provide the affected user with a statement of reasons. We do not have a general obligation to monitor content or actively seek infringing activity.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will notify you by email at your account address and post the updated date above, with at least 30 days' notice where feasible. Shorter notice may apply for changes required by law or for security reasons. If you do not agree with a change, you may terminate the contract free of charge before the change takes effect. If you continue to use the service after the effective date without having terminated, you are bound by the updated Terms, except where fresh consent is legally required.

13. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. For disputes with businesses (B2B), the court with territorial jurisdiction over Breda, Netherlands (Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant) has exclusive jurisdiction. For consumers, the statutory place of jurisdiction under Dutch and EU law applies, and nothing in these Terms deprives a consumer of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of their country of habitual residence.

14. Dispute Resolution

StennMedia is not obliged and not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (geschillencommissie). If you are a consumer with a complaint, please contact us first at info@stennmedia.nl so we can try to resolve it directly. You may also consult the national consumer authority or the courts as provided by law.