Terms

Terms of the free beta

Plain summary. swCollab is free and provided as-is. Backups are taken, but the disaster-recovery drills that would prove they restore cleanly have not been run yet — so keep your own copy of anything that matters. The service may change significantly, and it can be interrupted or stopped, whether from capacity constraints or for other reasons. Nothing here takes away rights the law gives you.

1. Who you are agreeing with

Sovereign Workspace - Chris Armstrong, at the address in the imprint, and referred to below as "we". By creating an account you accept these terms.

2. What the beta is

Sovereign Workspace Collaboration is in public beta. It works and we use it ourselves, but it is actively being built. Features will appear, change and occasionally be withdrawn. There may be defects, interruptions, and changes that are not backwards compatible.

The beta is free of charge. Nothing is for sale, no payment details are collected, and there is no subscription to cancel. If we later open paid plans, existing free accounts will not be converted into paid ones without you choosing that.

3. No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against every conceivable attack, or fit for any particular purpose, and we give no warranty of any kind to the extent the law allows us to exclude one.

There is no service level, no uptime guarantee and no support commitment. We answer email because we want to, not because a contract obliges us to within a set time.

4. Your data, and backups

Your content stays yours. We take reasonable care of it — encrypted storage, encrypted off-site backups, and the export tools built into the product — but during a free beta you should treat this service as not being your only copy. Export anything you would be upset to lose. We are not liable for loss or corruption of content, and that is precisely why the export exists and why we are telling you to use it.

What we do with personal data is set out in the privacy notice.

5. Liability

Because the beta is free, our liability is limited as far as the law permits. We are not liable for loss of data, lost profits, lost business, or any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the service or from it being unavailable.

What we cannot exclude, and are not trying to. Some liability cannot be signed away, and a term that pretends otherwise is simply unenforceable rather than clever. So this section does not limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for intent or gross negligence, for fraud, for our obligations under data protection law, or for anything else the applicable law does not allow to be excluded.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use the service to break the law, to store or distribute material you have no right to, to attack or overload the infrastructure, or to work around the limits of the free plan by creating multiple accounts. We may suspend or remove an account that does — and we will tell you why.

7. Ending it

You can delete your account whenever you like, from inside the product. We can suspend or end the beta, or an individual account, at any time. If we shut the beta down we will give at least 30 days' notice by email so you can export your content, unless we are forced to act faster for legal or security reasons.

8. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product changes. Material changes will be emailed to account holders. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the new version; if you do not, delete the account.

9. Law

These terms are governed by the law of Singapore. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and nothing here changes which courts you can go to.

Last updated 2026-08-11. These terms are written to be read rather than to be impressive, and they have not been reviewed by a lawyer — worth doing before paid plans open.