Terms of use

1. Acceptance and informational scope

By accessing or using elucidsoft.com, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not access or use the website.

elucidsoft.com is an informational corporate website established to provide verified corporate records, announcements, and architectural documentation regarding Elucidsoft LLC and its software holdings. This website does not directly host user accounts, billing portals, or commercial transaction processing.

2. Commercial SaaS services separation

Elucidsoft operates commercial software platforms under registered trade names, including Upstat (upstat.io), cloudlayer.io (cloudlayer.io), and ActLume (actlume.com). Each commercial service is governed by its own independent Terms of Service, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and customer subscription agreements.

Accessing elucidsoft.com does not grant a commercial SaaS license, establish a service level agreement, or create a customer subscriber relationship with any commercial product line.

3. Open-source software licensing

Elucidsoft funds, develops, and publishes open-source software projects, including the WarpKit frontend framework, the Ori systems programming language, the ori-term GPU terminal emulator, and the OriJS backend framework.

All open-source source code, package distributions, and binaries are released under permissive open-source licenses (specifically MIT or dual MIT/Apache-2.0). Your rights to inspect, fork, compile, modify, and distribute open-source software are governed exclusively by the applicable license file in each project's repository.

Nothing in these website Terms of Use restricts, supersedes, or modifies any rights granted under open-source software licenses for code published in those public repositories.

4. Intellectual property and trademarks

All content, design assets, typography, layout structures, graphics, and text prose published on elucidsoft.com—including the Elucidsoft name, corporate logo mark, and distinctive branding—are the exclusive intellectual property of Elucidsoft LLC.

You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, or publicly display corporate branding assets from this website without prior written permission from Elucidsoft LLC, except as permitted under statutory fair use doctrine.

5. Permitted use and prohibited conduct

You agree to use elucidsoft.com only for lawful informational purposes in accordance with these Terms. When accessing the website, you agree not to:

Engage in unauthorized security probing, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, or denial-of-service attacks against our servers or network infrastructure.

Transmit malicious software, viruses, automated spam payloads, or unlawful content through corporate contact forms.

Scrape, crawl, or harvest data from this website using aggressive automated bots that impair server performance or circumvent rate limiting.

Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or authority when submitting communications through our contact channels.

6. Disclaimer of warranties

Information on elucidsoft.com is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.

While we strive to keep version numbers, release stages, and technical specifications accurate, Elucidsoft LLC makes no representations or warranties regarding the completeness, reliability, or accuracy of the information published on this website.

Product roadmaps, release milestones, and architecture descriptions reflect current engineering plans and are subject to change without notice.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Elucidsoft LLC, its founder, officers, directors, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your access to, use of, or inability to access this website.

In no event shall our total aggregate liability arising from or related to your use of this informational website exceed one hundred United States dollars ($100 USD).

8. External links and third-party resources

This website contains links to external platforms, including GitHub repositories, package registries (npm), personal portfolio sites, and external documentation resources. These links are provided solely for convenience and reference.

Elucidsoft LLC does not control, endorse, or assume responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services.

9. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Elucidsoft LLC and its officers, directors, and agents from and against any third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your misuse of the website.

10. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or related to them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision.

Any legal action, suit, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms or elucidsoft.com shall be instituted exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

11. Severability and entire agreement

If any provision of these Terms of Use is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, such provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

These Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Elucidsoft LLC regarding your use of elucidsoft.com.

12. Revisions and inquiries

We reserve the right to revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. Changes become effective immediately upon publication to this page. Your continued use of the website following the publication of revised Terms signifies your acceptance of the revisions.

For inquiries concerning these Terms of Use, please contact us through our corporate contact form.