Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing the Forge website, documentation, or software, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Forge.

2. What Forge is

Forge is a local-first productivity and reflection system for goals, projects, tasks, calendar planning, notes, wiki pages, health records, preferences, and related workflows. Forge is intended to run locally or in a self-hosted environment chosen by the user.

Forge is not presented as a hosted consumer cloud service that takes custody of all user data by default. In normal use, the operator of the Forge runtime controls the deployment, storage, connected services, and access rules.

3. User control and responsibility

You are responsible for how you install, configure, host, secure, and use Forge. This includes responsibility for your devices, local network, self-hosted servers, backups, user accounts, secrets, API keys, connected calendars, and any third-party integrations you enable.

You are also responsible for ensuring that your use of Forge complies with applicable law and with any contractual obligations that apply to your environment or your own users.

4. Open-source software

Forge is made available as open-source software. Your rights to use, copy, modify, and distribute the Forge code are governed by the applicable open-source license or licenses published with the project repository and its components.

These Terms apply to the Forge website, public documentation, and general use of the Forge project. They do not replace the applicable open-source license terms for the source code itself.

5. Acceptable use

You may not use Forge to:

• violate applicable law or regulation;
• infringe the rights of others;
• interfere with, damage, or misuse systems you do not control;
• process data through Forge when you do not have the right or authority to do so; or
• misrepresent Forge as a hosted service, certified system, or regulated product when it is not.

6. Third-party services and integrations

Forge can connect to third-party services such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI, calendar providers, or other external platforms. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms, privacy policies, and technical requirements.

Forge is not responsible for changes, outages, access restrictions, billing, or data handling performed by third-party services.

7. No professional advice

Forge may help users organize information related to health, behavior, goals, planning, or reflection, but Forge is not medical, legal, financial, or mental health advice. You should use qualified professionals where appropriate.

8. Availability and changes

Forge is provided on an evolving basis. Features, documentation, integrations, routes, and behavior may change at any time, with or without notice.

Because Forge is local-first and self-hostable, continued operation also depends on your own environment and the external services you choose to connect.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

Forge is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Forge project disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, security, and accuracy.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Forge project and its maintainers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, business, goodwill, or service availability arising from or related to your use of Forge.

If liability cannot be excluded entirely under applicable law, it is limited to the smallest amount permitted by that law.

11. Changes to these terms

These Terms may be updated from time to time. The version published on this page is the current version.

12. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact albert.buchard@gmail.com.