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Terms of Service
The deal between you and ForkDeploy: what you can do with it, what you can’t, and what each side is on the hook for. Plain language, and honest about being a small EU beta.
Last updated: 7 September 2026
The basics
Who you’re agreeing with.
ForkDeploy is a personal platform operated by TM Dev, an individual developer based in Belgium. In these terms, “we” and “ForkDeploy” mean TM Dev; “you” means the person using the service.
By creating an account or using ForkDeploy, you accept these terms and our privacy policy. If you don’t agree with them, don’t use the service.
ForkDeploy is in free beta. It is a side project run by one person, offered to friends, family, and fellow developers, not a company with a support desk. Treat it accordingly.
Your account
One account, and you’re responsible for it.
You need an account to use ForkDeploy. You must give a real, working email address, be at least 16 years old, and keep your login details safe. Everything that happens under your account is your responsibility.
One account per person. To keep a shared free tier fair, we may verify your email, review new signups before approving them, and decline or remove accounts that look like duplicates or automated signups.
You can sign in with email and a password, or with GitHub or Google. If you use a provider, you’re also bound by that provider’s terms.
Acceptable use
What you may not run or do.
ForkDeploy runs your code on shared infrastructure. To keep it working for everyone, the following are not allowed, whether on the platform or directed at it:
- – Illegal content or activity, or anything that infringes another person’s rights, whether intellectual property, privacy, or otherwise.
- – Malware, botnets, command-and-control servers, credential-stuffing tools, or anything built to attack or compromise other systems.
- – Cryptocurrency mining, or other workloads whose main purpose is to burn compute rather than run an application.
- – Sending bulk unsolicited email (spam), or operating open mail relays.
- – Denial-of-service traffic, port scanning, or attacks against any target, whether launched from ForkDeploy or aimed at it.
- – Large-scale scraping or automated harvesting of data that isn’t yours to take.
- – Working around plan limits, quotas, or the signup approval process. This includes creating multiple accounts to multiply free resources, or sharing one account to dodge per-account limits.
- – Reselling, sublicensing, or offering ForkDeploy as your own hosting product without written permission.
- – Anything that threatens the stability, security, or reputation of the platform or its other users.
Your code
Your content, and your responsibility for it.
You keep ownership of everything you bring to ForkDeploy: your source code, your data, your configuration. We don’t claim any rights to it.
You grant us only the limited permission needed to run the service: to store, copy, build, deploy, back up, and display your content so the platform can host it for you. This permission ends when you delete the content or close your account.
You are responsible for what you deploy: that you have the right to use and deploy it, that it complies with the licences it depends on, and that it doesn’t break the acceptable-use rules above. We don’t review your projects, and we’re not responsible for their content or behaviour.
No promises on uptime
The service is provided as-is.
ForkDeploy is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no uptime guarantee and no service-level agreement. It runs on a single server. It can go down, lose recent data, or be taken offline for maintenance, sometimes without warning.
Features may change, be added, or be removed as the platform develops. For changes that materially affect how you use it, we’ll give notice where we reasonably can, through the dashboard, email, or the roadmap.
Keep your own backups. Your source lives in your Git repository; export anything else you can’t afford to lose. ForkDeploy is not a system of record.
When things go wrong
Suspension and closing accounts.
We may suspend or limit your account, stop a project, or close your account if you break these terms, if your usage threatens the platform or its other users, or if we’re required to by law. Where the situation allows, we’ll tell you why and give you a chance to put it right first.
When an account is closed, its projects and running services are stopped and torn down. A minimal record (an internal id and the reason) is kept afterwards to prevent abuse and keep the audit trail honest. See the privacy policy for what that involves.
You can close your account at any time from the dashboard. If we close a paid account for a breach of these terms, that closure is not refundable. Otherwise the refund policy applies.
Money
Free now, paid plans later.
ForkDeploy takes no payments during the beta. When paid plans launch, they’ll be governed by these terms together with the refund policy, and the prices and what each plan includes will be on the pricing page. Nothing you use for free today will start costing money without clear notice first.
The limits
What we’re liable for.
To the fullest extent the law allows, ForkDeploy is not liable for lost data, lost profits, lost business, or downtime, or for any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the service. The service is free during the beta and provided without warranty.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that can’t be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud. Nothing here removes the statutory rights you may have as a consumer under EU or Belgian law.
Two last things
Governing law, and changes to these terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of Belgium, and the Belgian courts have jurisdiction. If you’re a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in.
Changes to these terms
As the platform grows, these terms will be updated. The date at the top always reflects the latest version, and material changes will be called out clearly. Continuing to use ForkDeploy after a change means you accept the updated terms.
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