Legal and policy

Working policy placeholders.

These sections reserve the website structure and identify decisions still required. They are not final legal terms.

Draft placeholder: not a binding Terms of Service document. Final terms must be reviewed and published before paid access opens.

Terms

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The final terms should identify the seller, explain the PluginOS license, define acceptable use, cover Community submissions, describe third-party requirements and set the governing-law and dispute process.

Decisions still to finalize

  • The legal entity or individual providing PluginOS.
  • What the one-time license includes and how Community access works after the included six months.
  • Founding Edition eligibility and lifetime Community language.
  • Beta limitations, support expectations and update commitments.
  • Rules and licensing for Community uploads.
Draft placeholder: no privacy promises are made by this text. The final policy must match the data the live product actually collects.

Privacy

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The final privacy policy should describe account authentication, beta applications, purchase records, product diagnostics, Community activity and support communication—only where those systems actually collect data.

Before publishing

  • Inventory every website, Manager and backend data field.
  • List the processors used for hosting, authentication, analytics, email and payment.
  • Define retention periods and deletion procedures.
  • Provide the correct privacy contact and any required regional rights process.
Draft placeholder: PluginOS is not accepting purchases during the private beta. A complete refund policy must be live before checkout.

Refunds

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No payment is taken through the current private-beta website. Before paid checkout opens, the final policy should state the refund window, eligibility rules, request method, processing time and treatment of downloaded software, Community access and the Founding Edition.

Customer-facing requirement

The final policy should be linked near every purchase decision and shown before payment—not only placed in the footer.