Terms of use

These terms govern your use of the Leathercase website at leathercase.app and everything served from it: the pages, the user guide and the links to downloads, the newsletter, the workshops and patronage. They are an agreement between you and André Amâncio de Moraes (“we”, “us”), who makes Leathercase.

By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.

The Privacy policy says what personal information we handle and why.

These terms have not been reviewed by a lawyer. If anything in them is unclear or seems wrong, write to [email protected].

1. Who may use the site

You may use the site if you are old enough to agree to these terms where you live. If you are under that age, use the site only with a parent’s or guardian’s agreement. The newsletter and the workshops are not meant for anyone under 16.

2. What the site offers

The site describes Leathercase and links to it. In particular:

• Downloads. Download links point to installers published on GitHub, in the public repository Leathercase/leathercase-releases. GitHub hosts those files, and your use of GitHub is governed by GitHub’s own terms. The app is free. Sections 7 to 9 of these terms apply to the downloads as they apply to the site.
• The newsletter. It runs on Substack. Subscribing puts you under Substack’s terms and privacy policy. Every issue names its sender and has a working unsubscribe link.
• The workshops. You register for a workshop by subscribing to the newsletter, and the link to each session comes by email. Patron sessions are open to patrons. A session may be moved or cancelled; the workshops page shows the sessions still to come.
• Patronage. Becoming a patron happens on the patronage service the site links to, under that service’s terms. Patronage supports the work; it does not buy the app, a feature or a promise of one.
• The guide and other pages. They describe how the app works. They are not a promise that any feature will exist or work in a particular way.

We may change, suspend or stop any part of the site at any time, without notice.

3. Features described as coming

Some pages may describe features or languages that are not yet released. They are marked as coming. A description of something coming is a statement of current intent, not a promise. It may change, be delayed or never be released.

4. Acceptable use

When you use the site, you agree not to:

• break any law, or help anyone else break one;
• try to get into any part of the site, its host or its services that you are not meant to reach;
• interfere with the site, for example by overloading it, scanning it for weaknesses without our written permission, or sending malware;
• scrape or copy the site in bulk, except as search engines usually index it;
• use the site, its text, images or the Leathercase name to suggest that we endorse you or your product;
• reproduce or distribute the installers anywhere except through the official links, or offer modified copies of them.

5. Intellectual property

The site, its text, images, video, design and code, the app and the name “Leathercase” belong to André Amâncio de Moraes or to their licensors. All rights are reserved.

You may view the site and share links to it. You may quote short passages with attribution. Anything else needs our written permission.

Other companies’ names and products mentioned on the site, such as the file formats the app reads, belong to their owners. Naming them does not mean they endorse Leathercase.

6. Links to other sites

The site links to other sites, such as GitHub, Substack, patronage services and the makers of AI agents. We do not control them. We are not responsible for their content, their availability or how they handle your data.

7. No warranty

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE AND EVERYTHING ON IT, INCLUDING THE DOWNLOADS, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. THIS INCLUDES ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

We do not warrant that:

• the site or the downloads are free of viruses or other harmful components;
• the information on the site is complete, current or correct;
• a translation of the site matches the English text.

Keep copies of your writing. The app reads your files and does not change them, but no software is free of faults.

8. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

(a) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. THIS INCLUDES LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, WORK, MANUSCRIPTS, GOODWILL OR OPPORTUNITY. IT ARISES OUT OF OR RELATES TO THE SITE, THE DOWNLOADS OR THESE TERMS. IT APPLIES WHETHER THE CLAIM IS IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER THEORY. IT APPLIES EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD SUCH DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.

(b) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ABOUT THE SITE AND THE FREE SERVICES IT OFFERS, INCLUDING THE DOWNLOADS, IS ZERO. IF A COURT DECIDES THAT LIABILITY CANNOT BE ZERO, IT IS LIMITED TO THE LOWEST AMOUNT THE APPLICABLE LAW ALLOWS.

(c) Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. Depending on where you live, this may include:

• liability for fraud, wilful misconduct or gross negligence;
• liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence;
• your statutory rights as a consumer.

Where the law limits these exclusions, they apply to the fullest extent it permits.

9. Your indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless André Amâncio de Moraes, and anyone acting for him, from any claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense. This includes reasonable legal fees. It covers claims that arise from:

• your use or misuse of the site or the downloads;
• your breach of these terms;
• your breach of any law or of anyone’s rights.

We do not indemnify you or anyone else for anything that arises from the site, the downloads or these terms, except where the law requires it.

10. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. When we do, we publish the new version on this page with a new version number and effective date. A change does not apply to anything that happened before it took effect. If you keep using the site after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms.

11. Ending your use

You may stop using the site at any time. We may block or end your access to the site, the newsletter or the workshops if we believe you have broken these terms. Sections 5 and 7 to 14 survive the end of your use.

12. Governing law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. The courts of the Province of British Columbia have jurisdiction over any dispute.

This choice does not apply where the consumer protection law of your place of residence requires otherwise. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection that law gives you, and you may bring a claim in the courts where you live if that law allows it. A consumer in Quebec keeps the rights the Consumer Protection Act gives, including the right to sue in Quebec. Nothing here takes away a consumer’s right to go to court or to join a class action where provincial law protects that right.

13. Language and translations

These terms are written in English. On a page of the site in another language, they are shown in English, and the page says so. The site’s own pages in other languages are translated by an AI model, may contain errors, and say so.

If a translation of these terms is published later, it is made by an AI model and says so, and the English text prevails where they differ, except where local law requires otherwise. For example, the law may require that terms offered to a consumer in your country be binding in your language; in that case, the version in that language governs to the extent the law requires. If you live in Quebec and want these terms in French, write to [email protected].

14. General

• Severability. If a court finds any part of these terms invalid or unenforceable, that part is limited or removed only as far as needed. The rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, we have not given it up.
• Entire agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the site.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours, for example to a company formed to run Leathercase.
• No third-party rights. Nobody other than you and us has rights under these terms.

15. Contact

André Amâncio de Moraes [email protected]