Terms of Use
This is a plain-language description of our rules, not a legal document. If any of these rules conflict with the law of your country, the law wins.
The short version
- Use the services thoughtfully and for their intended purpose.
- Don’t use them for anything forbidden by law.
- This is a volunteer project — it runs “as is”, with no formal uptime guarantees.
- Rules may change; significant updates are posted to the private ProsveTECH Telegram channel at least one week in advance.
What you can do
Exactly what the services are here for:
- Run video meetings via Meet.
- Use our DNS.
- Reach the websites you want via VPN or Proxy.
- Receive updates and announcements in the ProsveTECH Telegram channel (invite-only).
What’s not allowed
The project is built for a small circle of people we know — so the rules are simple and moderation is manual. Not allowed:
- Spam of any kind — mass mailings, phishing, promotion of goods or services.
- Illegal content — material that violates the laws of the countries where participants live. In particular: CSAM, calls to violence, trade in drugs or weapons.
- Attacks on infrastructure — exploit attempts, DoS, port scanning, brute-forcing passwords or invite tokens.
- Violating the privacy of other participants — forwarding private messages or metadata to third parties without consent, attempts to deanonymise accounts.
- Commercial use — this is not a commercial project; capacity is sized for personal use. If you need infrastructure for work, run your own.
The project does not help circumvent the laws of any country — neither the hosting location (Germany) nor the countries where participants live. Blocking-bypass services (VPN, Proxy) exist to protect privacy on untrusted networks and to reach legitimate resources, not to enable unlawful activity.
Consequences of violations
Scaled to severity:
- Access suspension (hours or days) — when the violation looks like a misunderstanding. We talk it through in DMs, sort out the situation, access comes back.
- Account deactivation — for deliberate or repeated violations. The account is marked deactivated, the password is reset, and encrypted history becomes unreachable.
- Permanent ban — for infrastructure attacks, CSAM, or attempts to harm other participants. Invite tokens are no longer issued to such users.
Decisions are made by the administration. If you disagree with one, write to the private ProsveTECH Telegram channel — we’ll look at it together.
Age
The services are intended for people aged 16 and older. This is the GDPR threshold for processing personal data without parental consent.
Warranty and liability
The project is volunteer and non-commercial:
- We offer no formal uptime guarantees. Servers can go down — the current status is visible at status.polycrate.org.
- We’re not liable for data loss due to server failures, lost end-to-end encryption keys, or actions by third parties.
- We do run backups and do our best to avoid data loss (details in the Privacy Policy). But we can’t honestly promise “nothing will ever be lost”.
The services are provided “as is”, without express or implied warranties — except those established by applicable law that cannot be excluded.
Governing law
The servers sit physically in Germany (Hetzner, Falkenstein, Saxony). Processing of personal data is governed by the GDPR and German data-protection law. Users are also subject to the laws of their own country — we can neither expand nor narrow those.
Changes to these terms
The current version of the terms lives in the public project repository — the edit history is visible to everyone. Significant changes (expanding the prohibited list, changing sanctions) are posted to the private ProsveTECH Telegram channel at least one week before taking effect. Cosmetic edits (wording tweaks that don’t change meaning) apply immediately.
How to reach us
If something is unclear, you want to discuss a decision, or just need clarification — write to the private ProsveTECH Telegram channel. We reply within 1–2 days.