The terms Valt0 is used under
Valt0 is proprietary software. You may install it and use it on any project you like; you may not sell it, republish it or take it apart. What you keep in a vault is yours alone and is not covered by any of this.
You may install Valt0 on the machines you work on and use it on any project, your employer’s included.
Your vaults, your keys and your secrets are yours. They never leave your machine, so there is nothing here for us to claim.
You may not sell it, republish it, take it apart, or build something like it out of what you find inside.
It is provided as it is. If a vault is lost, the loss is yours, so keep a copy of the file and a copy of the key.
This is an agreement
Valt0 is software owned by Byte 1620. It is not open source. These terms are the agreement between you and Byte 1620 covering every copy of it you hold, and you accept them by downloading, installing or running the tool.
If you are installing Valt0 for a company rather than for yourself, you are confirming that you are allowed to accept these terms on that company’s behalf, and “you” below means the company.
If you do not accept them, do not install it, and delete any copy you already have.
What you may do
Byte 1620 grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable right to install and run Valt0 for as long as these terms hold.
There is no limit on how many machines you install it on, how many vaults you create, or whether the work you do with it is commercial. A vault file you create is yours: keep it, commit it, copy it, hand it to whoever you like.
The licence covers the tool. It does not cover, claim or limit anything you store in a vault.
What you may not do
Everything not granted above is withheld. In particular, you may not:
sell, rent, sublicense, republish or otherwise distribute Valt0, in whole or in part, to anyone else; offer Valt0 to third parties as a hosted or managed service; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, or otherwise try to recover its source, except where a law gives you that right despite this clause; use it, or anything you learn by taking it apart, to build or help build a competing product; remove, obscure or alter any copyright, licence or attribution notice it carries; circumvent any limit, check or licence enforcement built into it.
Who owns what
Byte 1620 owns Valt0: the code, the name, the mark, the documentation, and every copy and derivative of them. Nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you. You are granted permission to run the tool, and nothing more.
You own your vaults, your keys and your secrets. Valt0 has no server and no account, so a secret you store never reaches Byte 1620 and there is no copy of it anywhere but your own machines. Byte 1620 claims no right of any kind over the contents of a vault file.
Parts written by other people
Valt0 includes open source components, each under its own licence. Those licences govern those components and, where they conflict with these terms, they win for that component alone. The full list ships with the tool.
No warranty
Valt0 is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. Byte 1620 does not warrant that the tool is free of defects, that it will run uninterrupted, that it will suit your purpose, or that its encryption is proof against every attack now or later.
You are responsible for keeping your own backups of both the vault file and the key that opens it.
A vault whose key is lost cannot be opened by anyone, Byte 1620 included. There is no recovery, no reset and no support path that ends in your secrets coming back.
What Byte 1620 is liable for
To the fullest extent the law allows, Byte 1620 is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss arising from your use of Valt0 (including lost secrets, lost data, lost revenue, lost time, or a leaked or unreadable vault), even if it was told such loss was possible.
Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at the greater of what you paid for the tool in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred euros.
Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be excluded by law.
How this ends
These terms hold until they end. They end automatically the moment you break any of them, and Byte 1620 may end them at any time on notice.
When they end, stop using Valt0 and delete every copy of it. Your vault files are unaffected: they are yours, they stay yours, and they remain readable by any tool that can open them.
Changes to these terms
Byte 1620 may revise these terms. A revision applies to versions of Valt0 released after it, and the version and date at the top of this page say which revision you are reading. The copy that shipped with your build continues to govern that build.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the country in which Byte 1620 is established, and the courts of that country have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
Name the jurisdiction outright here, country and court, rather than by reference. A licence that will not say which law it runs under is hard to enforce under any of them.
Getting in touch
Questions about this licence, or about a use of Valt0 it does not appear to cover, go to Byte 1620.
A contact address belongs here: the legal entity’s registered name and an email that reaches a person. Both are needed for the licence to function as a notice clause.
How the tool actually works (every command, and what happens to a key) is in the documentation.