Terms of Use

The short version

Use the site, read it, get in touch. The free plugins are open source and yours to use under the GPL. Paid plugin licences are sold by Freemius, not here, under their own agreement. Client work runs on a separate written contract. Everything on this site is provided as-is, and my liability is limited to what you paid me.

1. Who these terms are with

This website at buildsbyluke.com is operated by Builds By Luke ("I", "me", "my"). By using the site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

You can reach me at [email protected].

2. Using the site

You may read, browse, link to and share this site freely. You agree not to:

• use it for anything unlawful, or in a way that breaches someone else's rights;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, or to any system or network behind it;
• interfere with its operation, including by overloading it or probing it for weaknesses;
• use the contact form or chat to send spam, abuse, or bulk unsolicited messages.

I may withdraw or restrict access to the site, or to the chat, at any time and without notice, including to anyone abusing them.

3. Content on this site

The design, text, imagery, code and motion work on this site are mine, or used with permission, and are protected by copyright. Project work shown in the portfolio may include material belonging to the clients it was made for. You may not copy or reuse the site's content as your own, though you are welcome to reference or link to it.

This does not apply to the plugins, which are covered by section 4. They are open source and governed by their own licence, not by this section.

4. The free plugins are open source

The free plugins published under Builds By Luke, on WordPress.org and elsewhere, are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. That licence grants you rights to use, study, modify and redistribute them, and it governs your use of that software.

Nothing in these terms limits, overrides or takes away any right the GPL gives you. Where anything here conflicts with the GPL in respect of that software, the GPL wins.

5. Paid plugin licences are sold by Freemius

Paid ("Pro") plugin licences are not sold by this website. They are sold by Freemius, Inc., which acts as an authorised reseller and the merchant of record for the purchase. Your purchase is governed by the End User License Agreement presented at checkout for that product, together with Freemius's own terms, not by these terms.

That means Freemius handles payment, invoicing, taxes and the refund process. Support and maintenance for the software itself remain mine. Refund eligibility is determined in accordance with the product's published refund policy and the applicable EULA.

6. The monday.com apps are sold through monday.com

The monday.com apps published under Builds By Luke are distributed exclusively through the monday.com marketplace. Where an app has a paid plan, monday.com collects the payment, handles invoicing and taxes, and remits to me — monday.com is the merchant of record for that transaction, not this website. Your subscription is therefore governed by monday.com’s own marketplace and billing terms, together with these terms, and billing questions are resolved through monday.com.

Support and maintenance for the software itself remain mine, at [email protected], with a two business day response commitment.

Each app runs on monday code inside monday.com’s infrastructure and requests a documented, minimal set of OAuth permissions, listed on that app’s page. Uninstalling an app revokes those permissions and removes the data it kept in your account. Every app offers a free tier; you are never charged without choosing a paid plan.

The apps act on the data in your own monday.com account at your instruction. You remain responsible for the content of your boards and for who you share access with — including, where you use a link-sharing feature such as Form to Edit, who you send those links to.

7. The Atlassian apps are sold through Atlassian

The Atlassian Marketplace apps published under Builds By Luke are distributed exclusively through the Atlassian Marketplace. Where an app has a paid plan, Atlassian collects the payment, handles invoicing and taxes, and remits to me — Atlassian is the merchant of record for that transaction, not this website. Your subscription is therefore governed by Atlassian’s own marketplace and billing terms, together with these terms, and billing questions are resolved through Atlassian. Each paid app begins with a free evaluation period arranged by Atlassian; you are never charged without choosing to continue past it.

Support and maintenance for the software itself remain mine, at [email protected], with a one business day response commitment.

Each app runs on Atlassian Forge, inside Atlassian’s own infrastructure, and requests a documented, minimal set of permissions listed on that app’s page. Where an app connects to a service outside Atlassian, every hostname it may contact is declared in the app manifest, shown to your administrator before you install, and listed on that app’s page.

Several of the apps connect to a third-party system on your behalf — using an account and credentials you supply, to reach your own tenant of that system. Three things follow from that, and they are your responsibility rather than mine: you must hold a valid subscription to that third-party service, your use of it remains governed by your agreement with that provider, and you are responsible for the credentials you supply and for scoping them to the minimum access the app documents. If your credentials are rejected or revoked, the app stops being able to reach that service; it will report the failure rather than work around it.

Where an app names another company’s product, that name is used only to describe what the app connects to. All third-party product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners, and no affiliation, endorsement or sponsorship is claimed or implied.

The apps act on the data in your own Atlassian site at your instruction. You remain responsible for the content of your projects and spaces, for who you grant access to, and for the configuration you give each app — including which project receives records created from an external system.

8. The Wix apps and the GHL apps have their own terms

Both product lines are distributed through their own marketplace, which collects the payment, handles invoicing and taxes, and remits to me — that marketplace is the merchant of record for the transaction, not this website. Support and maintenance for the software itself remain mine, at [email protected].

Because the two platforms work differently, each line has its own terms of use rather than a paragraph here:

• Terms of Use for the Wix apps
• Terms of Use for the GHL apps

Those terms govern your use of the apps. These terms govern your use of this website.

9. Enquiries and client work

Nothing on this site is an offer capable of acceptance, and sending an enquiry does not create a contract. Rates, availability, timelines and any budget figures shown are indicative and may change.

If we work together, the engagement will be governed by a separate written agreement (a proposal, statement of work or contract), which will take precedence over these terms for that work.

10. Third-party links and services

This site links to and relies on third-party services, including Freemius for paid licences, and hosting, messaging and form-delivery providers. I do not control them, I am not responsible for their content or practices, and their own terms and privacy policies apply when you use them. How your information moves through those services is described in the Privacy Policy.

11. No warranty

The site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

I do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, nor that any information on it is complete or current. Anything on this site is general information, not professional, legal, tax or accounting advice. Where a plugin touches a regulated area, no software can by itself make anyone compliant with anything. Responsibility for compliance stays with the site owner.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, I will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, business or goodwill, arising out of or connected with your use of this site or the free plugins, even if I have been advised that such loss might occur.

My total aggregate liability arising out of or connected with these terms, the site, or the free plugins is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid me in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100).

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you; the rest still will. If you are a consumer, these terms do not affect your statutory rights.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify me against any claim, loss or expense arising from your misuse of this site, or from your breach of these terms or of any law.

14. Changes

I may update these terms from time to time. The revised version takes effect when posted on this page with a new effective date, shown at the top. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept the change. Changes will not be applied retroactively to a dispute that arose beforehand.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Ontario, Canada will have jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep any right you have to bring proceedings in your own place of residence under local law.

Purchases of paid plugin licences are excluded from this section. Those are governed by the dispute-resolution terms in the applicable Freemius EULA, which may require arbitration.

16. General

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in force. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us regarding this website.

Contact

Builds By Luke, Canada
[email protected]