Sternpost End User Licence Agreement and Terms of Use
Please read this Agreement carefully. It limits the Licensor's liability and places responsibility for how you use the Software on you.
By downloading, installing, copying, opening or otherwise using the Software, or by clicking "I agree" (or a similar button), you confirm that you have read, understood and accepted this Agreement. If you do not accept it, do not download, install or use the Software, and delete any copy you have.
1. Who the parties are
1.1."Licensor", "we", "us" means Denis Florkin, an individual, [POSTAL ADDRESS], Belgium, contact: [email protected].
1.2."You" means the person who downloads, installs or uses the Software. If you use the Software on behalf of a company or other organisation, "you" also means that organisation, and you confirm that you are authorised to accept this Agreement on its behalf. In that case the organisation is bound by it and is responsible for every person it allows to use the Software.
1.3."Software" means the Sternpost application in object-code form for any platform, including its installers, updates, upgrades, patches, documentation, command-line and agent (MCP) interfaces, and any related website, download and update services we make available.
2. Professional use only
2.1.The Software is a tool for software engineers, system administrators and other technically qualified professionals who operate Kubernetes clusters. It is intended exclusively for professional and business use. You confirm that you are using it in the course of your trade, business, craft or profession, and that you have the technical knowledge needed to understand the consequences of the operations you perform with it.
2.2.You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority where you live if that is higher, to accept this Agreement.
3. Licence
3.1.Subject to your continued compliance with this Agreement, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use the Software on devices you own or control, for your internal professional purposes.
3.2.The Software is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights, title and interest in and to the Software, including all intellectual property rights. Every right not expressly granted to you in this Agreement is reserved.
3.3.You must not, and must not allow anyone else to:
(a)copy, modify, translate or create derivative works of the Software, except for copies made automatically during normal installation and use;
(b)sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, distribute, publish, host or otherwise make the Software available to any third party, including as a service;
(c)decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Software, or try to derive its source code, except to the extent that applicable law expressly allows it despite this restriction (for example, for interoperability under the law implementing EU Directive 2009/24/EC), and only within the limits of that law;
(d)remove, alter or hide any notice of copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights;
(e)circumvent, disable or interfere with any licensing, update-signing, download or security mechanism of the Software;
(f)use the Software to access any system, cluster, account or data that you are not authorised to access, or in any way that breaks any law or any third party's rights; or
(g)use the Software to build a competing product.
3.4.Third-party components. The Software includes open-source and other third-party components. Each is licensed under its own terms, which are listed in the Software (Settings → Licences). Those terms govern your use of those components. Nothing in this Agreement limits rights those licences grant you.
4. Beta and pre-release software
4.1.The Software is currently pre-release ("beta") software. It may contain bugs, errors and defects, may be incomplete, may behave unexpectedly, and may cause failures or loss of data, including on the clusters and systems it connects to.
4.2.We may change, suspend or stop the Software, or any feature, download or update service, at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you. We have no obligation to provide support, maintenance, updates or fixes.
5. Your responsibility
5.1.You use the Software entirely at your own risk. You are solely responsible for:
(a)every action performed through the Software on any Kubernetes cluster or other system, whether you performed it yourself or it was proposed, prepared or triggered by the Software, by a script, or by an AI agent or other tool connected to the Software. This includes, without limitation, deleting, editing, replacing, applying, scaling, restarting or triggering resources, running bulk actions, executing commands in containers, and forwarding ports;
(b)checking every action, manifest, command and target (cluster, context, namespace and resource) before you confirm it, and the results afterwards;
(c)having the authority, permissions and approvals required to access and change every cluster, system and piece of data you use the Software with, and complying with your organisation's policies and with all laws and contracts that apply to that access;
(d)keeping current, tested backups of everything the Software can affect, and being able to restore them;
(e)the security of your devices, accounts, kubeconfig files, tokens, certificates and other credentials. The Software reads credentials from your kubeconfig and stores kubeconfigs you add to it on your device. Anyone who can access your device or user account may be able to read them;
(f)the consequences of exposing any network port, service or socket through the Software (for example port forwards or the local agent socket); and
(g)deciding whether the Software is suitable for your purposes, and testing it in a non-production environment before you rely on it.
5.2.Information shown by the Software may be wrong. Statuses, health indicators, logs, metrics, resource lists, search results, diffs, kubectl equivalents and other information may be incomplete, delayed, out of date or inaccurate. Do not rely on it as your only source of truth for any decision.
5.3.AI agents and third-party tools. The Software can expose information and actions to AI agents and other tools that you choose to connect (for example through the Model Context Protocol). Those tools are not provided or controlled by us. Their output may be wrong, incomplete, unsafe or unexpected. Any data they read from the Software (which may include cluster data, logs, secrets and other confidential information) may be sent to their providers under those providers' own terms. Enabling, connecting and using such tools, and acting on their proposals, is your decision and your sole responsibility.
5.4.No high-risk use. The Software is not designed, tested or intended for use where its failure, unavailability or inaccuracy could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage (for example medical, life-support, nuclear, aviation, weapons or emergency-service systems). You must not use it for such purposes.
6. No warranty
6.1.TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS AND GUARANTEES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
6.2.Without limiting section 6.1, we do not warrant that the Software will meet your requirements, be compatible with any cluster, version, platform or other software, operate without interruption, be secure, be free of errors, viruses or other harmful components, or that any defect will be corrected, or that any information it shows will be accurate.
6.3.No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from us or through the Software creates any warranty not expressly stated in this Agreement.
7. Limitation of liability
7.1.TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE, BUSINESS, CONTRACTS, GOODWILL OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA, LOSS OF USE, SERVICE INTERRUPTION OR DOWNTIME, COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, SERVICES OR RECOVERY, SECURITY BREACH, OR DAMAGE TO ANY CLUSTER, SYSTEM, WORKLOAD OR INFRASTRUCTURE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE OR ITS USE OR INABILITY TO BE USED, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (INCLUDING CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
7.2.TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE, FOR ALL CLAIMS TOGETHER, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, AND (B) ONE HUNDRED EUROS (EUR 100).
7.3.You acknowledge that the Software is provided free of charge, that the disclaimers and limitations in sections 6 and 7 are an essential basis of the bargain between us, and that we would not make the Software available to you without them. They apply even if any remedy fails of its essential purpose.
7.4.What we do not exclude. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for our wilful misconduct (intent) or gross negligence, or under mandatory product-liability law. If you are a consumer despite section 2.1, nothing in this Agreement affects the statutory rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived by contract.
8. Indemnity
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Licensor from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, damage, liability, fine, cost and expense (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party (including your employer, client or any owner of a cluster or system) or arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Software; (b) any action performed on any cluster or system through the Software or through a tool connected to it; (c) your breach of this Agreement; or (d) your breach of any law or of any third party's rights.
9. Data and privacy
9.1.The Software runs on your device. It connects directly to the clusters you configure; your cluster data, credentials and logs are not sent to us.
9.2.What the Software and our websites do send to us, and how we handle the personal data you give us (for example when you join the beta), is described at https://sternpost.dev/telemetry. That description may be updated from time to time.
9.3.Where you use the Software to process personal data contained in your clusters, you are the controller (or processor for your own customer) of that data, and we do not process it on your behalf.
10. Feedback
If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports or other feedback, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use, copy, modify and exploit it for any purpose, without any obligation to you. Do not include confidential information or personal data of others in bug reports or feedback.
11. Updates
The Software may notify you of, download or install updates. Updates are part of the Software and are governed by this Agreement unless they come with their own terms. We may require you to install an update to keep using the Software.
12. Term and termination
12.1.This Agreement applies from the moment you first accept it (including by downloading, installing or using the Software) until terminated.
12.2.You may terminate it at any time by uninstalling the Software and deleting all copies.
12.3.We may terminate it, or your right to use the Software, at any time and for any reason, including immediately if you breach it. It also ends automatically if you breach any of its terms.
12.4.When it ends, the licence in section 3 ends and you must stop using the Software and delete all copies. Sections 3.2, 3.3, and 5 to 15 survive termination.
13. Export control and sanctions
You confirm that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, and that you are not on any sanctions or restricted-party list of the European Union, the United Nations, the United Kingdom or the United States. You must comply with all export-control and sanctions laws that apply to your use of the Software.
14. Changes to this Agreement
We may change this Agreement from time to time. The changed version will be published at https://sternpost.dev/terms with a new version number and effective date. The Software may ask you to accept the new version. If you continue to download, install or use the Software after the changed version takes effect, you accept it. If you do not accept it, you must stop using the Software.
15. General
15.1.Governing law. This Agreement, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with it or the Software, are governed by the laws of Belgium, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
15.2.Jurisdiction. The courts of Liège, Belgium, have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute or claim, unless mandatory law gives you the right to bring proceedings elsewhere.
15.3.Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in whole or in part, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and, to that extent, replaced by a valid provision that comes as close as possible to its original intent. The rest of this Agreement remains in full force and effect.
15.4.Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the documents it refers to, is the entire agreement between you and us about the Software and replaces any earlier agreement, understanding or communication about it.
15.5.No waiver. Our failure or delay in enforcing any right or provision of this Agreement is not a waiver of it.
15.6.Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement or any right under it without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer it, in whole or in part, at any time, including to a company we set up or to a buyer of the Software.
15.7.Independent parties. Nothing in this Agreement creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and us.
15.8.Language. This Agreement is written in English. If it is translated, the English version prevails to the extent permitted by law.
15.9.Contact. Questions about this Agreement: [email protected].