Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern the use of the Veyra software, its builds, website, help materials, and network functions available through the application.

1. Definitions and document status

Veyra or the Software means the Veyra software, its components, builds, updates, and supporting materials. The Licensor means the person or organization providing a particular Veyra build. The Project Team means the developers and other project contributors. User means any individual or organization using Veyra.

These are draft terms for a version of Veyra under development. They apply when a User downloads, installs, runs, copies, or otherwise uses the Software. Mandatory consumer rights and any other rights that cannot be waived under applicable law remain unaffected.

2. Purpose and architecture

Veyra is intended for direct exchange of messages, files, and calls between user devices. Its architecture is decentralized: there is no central Veyra account or permanent server-side conversation store. Bootstrap nodes help discover routes and establish connections, but they are not message servers, backup stores, or data-recovery services.

Feature descriptions are informational only. A feature appearing in documentation, the interface, or a development plan is not a promise to retain it, release it by any date, or make it work on every device or network.

3. Permission to use

Rights to use, copy, modify, and distribute the Software are governed by the separate Veyra license and the licenses for third-party components. If these Terms conflict with a code license on copyright or patent permissions, the applicable code license controls.

Commercial use of Veyra is not permitted without the Licensor's prior written approval, a separate license agreement, and payment, unless the Licensor expressly agrees otherwise.

4. Acceptable use

Users must comply with applicable law, third-party rights, and these Terms. Veyra must not be used to cause harm, threaten, harass, defraud, gain unauthorized access, distribute malware, infringe intellectual-property rights, or exchange prohibited material.

Users are solely responsible for transmitted content, necessary rights and consents, recipient selection, and the consequences of communication. The Project Team does not moderate direct conversations or verify peer identities. Verify contacts and key fingerprints through a trusted channel.

5. Devices, passwords, keys, and local data

Profiles, cryptographic keys, history, and received files are stored on User devices. Users are responsible for device security, strong passwords, key protection, storage capacity, operating-system updates, and tested encrypted backups.

The Project Team does not know User passwords or keep copies of local profiles. It cannot recover forgotten passwords, deleted keys, corrupted databases, lost conversations, or files. Uninstalling the app, resetting a device, storage failure, malware, or a failed update may cause permanent data loss.

6. Delivery and availability

There is no guarantee of availability for the Software, website, catalogs, bootstrap nodes, peers, routes, notifications, or any other component; successful connection; delivery, order, speed, or preservation of messages and files; call quality or availability; version compatibility; or operation through NAT, firewalls, DPI, blocking, proxies, VPNs, or a particular carrier's network.

A message for an unavailable peer may remain only in the sender's local outbox and require the sender's device to be available later. Any device, node, route, or third-party service may stop without notice. No service-level target or guaranteed repair time applies.

7. Security and privacy

End-to-end encryption and encrypted local storage reduce risk but do not guarantee absolute confidentiality, anonymity, integrity, peer authenticity, or protection from every attack. Vulnerabilities, implementation errors, compromised devices, weak passwords, malware, peer actions, and metadata leaks may expose information.

Veyra does not guarantee censorship circumvention, concealment of use, absence of network metadata, or suitability where failure could threaten life, health, property, or cause substantial loss. Users must assess their own risks and apply additional safeguards.

8. Third-party components and infrastructure

Veyra may depend on operating systems, libraries, drivers, telecommunications networks, app stores, DNS, certificates, and other third-party infrastructure. The Project Team does not control their operation or terms. Third-party components remain subject to their own licenses and policies, and their failure is not a breach of these Terms by the Project Team.

9. Updates, changes, and discontinuation

Features, protocols, data formats, requirements, and interfaces may change. An update may be required for compatibility or security and may change or remove features. The Project Team may suspend or discontinue releases, support, published builds, the website, or nodes it operates at any time without a guaranteed advance-notice period.

Users are responsible for installing appropriate updates promptly and backing up before updating. Support for older versions, data migration, and backward compatibility are not guaranteed.

10. “As is” disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Veyra is provided “as is,” “with all faults,” and “as available,” without express, implied, or statutory warranties or conditions of any kind.

In particular, there is no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, security, privacy, uninterrupted operation, freedom from errors or harmful components, data preservation, results, device compatibility, or satisfaction of User expectations. Advice, documentation, and Project Team responses create no additional warranty.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Licensor, Project Team, developers, contributors, suppliers, and distributors will not be liable for direct or indirect loss, lost profit or revenue, loss of data, messages, files, keys, goodwill, or opportunity, downtime, device failure, substitute-service costs, third-party claims, or any incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages.

This limitation applies under any legal theory, including contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, and breach of duty, even if the possibility of loss was known and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Users accept the risks of using decentralized software under development.

If applicable law does not allow liability to be excluded completely, aggregate liability is limited to the amount the User actually paid directly for the right to use Veyra during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or the minimum liability that the law does not permit to be excluded or limited, whichever is greater.

12. Third-party claims

To the extent permitted by law, Users will reimburse reasonable losses and costs arising from third-party claims caused by their unlawful use of Veyra, content they transmit, or their violation of third-party rights or these Terms. This does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by the wrongful conduct of the person seeking reimbursement.

13. Intellectual property and branding

Rights in Veyra and related materials remain with their respective owners. Nothing transfers ownership to a User. The Veyra name, logos, and visual identity may not be used to pass off a third-party product as official, imply endorsement, or register confusingly similar identifiers without separate written permission.

14. Termination

Users may end these Terms by stopping use and deleting their copies. License rights terminate as provided in the applicable license. Provisions that by their nature should survive remain effective, including provisions on rights, warranty disclaimers, liability, and dispute resolution.

15. Applicable law and disputes

Applicable law and a competent court are determined under mandatory conflict-of-law and procedural rules. Nothing deprives consumers of protection that the law of their country of residence requires. Before filing a claim, the parties should where possible send written notice through the contact page and allow 30 days for a response and attempted resolution.

16. Changes to these Terms

A new version will be published on this page with its revision date and applies to subsequent use of Veyra. Material changes may require renewed consent. Changes do not retroactively reduce mandatory rights that have already arisen.

17. General terms

If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue and the affected provision applies to the maximum lawful extent. Failure to enforce a right is not a waiver. These Terms, the applicable license, and expressly incorporated documents form the agreement for using Veyra; a separate written commercial agreement controls within its own scope.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms, commercial-license requests, and legal notices can be submitted through the Veyra contact page. Until legal-entity details are published, this document should be treated as a draft and not as an individualized offer to enter a commercial agreement.