Terms of Service

Effective date: May 14, 2026 Last updated: May 14, 2026

Welcome to Galvoro. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of galvoro.app and its subdomains (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. About Galvoro

Galvoro hosts and curates "Capsules" — interactive mini-applications for higher-education teaching. The Service is currently operated as an individual project, free of charge, by Sacha Epskamp, based in Singapore. No company has been incorporated. References to "we," "us," and "our" in these Terms refer to the operator personally.

2. Eligibility

To create an account you must:

• Be at least 16 years old;
• Be affiliated with a recognised higher-education institution, research institute, or comparable academic organisation, and confirm this with a verifiable institutional email address;
• Have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

Anyone may browse public Capsules without an account.

3. Your account

• You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity on your account.
• One person, one account. Do not impersonate others or share your account.
• We verify university affiliation through institutional email. You agree to provide accurate information. We may suspend or terminate accounts where verification cannot be confirmed or appears fraudulent.
• You can delete your account at any time. See Section 11.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for anything unlawful, harmful, harassing, defamatory, or that infringes intellectual property or privacy rights;
• Upload malware, attempt to compromise the Service, run automated scrapers without permission, or interfere with other users;
• Misrepresent your identity, institutional affiliation, or authorship;
• Use the Service to send spam or unsolicited communications;
• Circumvent technical safeguards, sandboxing, or curator review processes;
• Re-identify users or aggregate personal data about them.

We may remove content, suspend accounts, or terminate access where these rules are breached.

5. Content you submit

This section applies once content submission features (Capsule uploads, profile content, forks, and comments if later enabled) are enabled for your account. During the preview phase, only profile content applies.

5.1 Ownership

You retain ownership of content you submit, including Capsules you upload or fork ("Your Content").

5.2 Licenses required for Capsules

All Capsules submitted to Galvoro must be licensed under an accepted open license — currently Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) or the MIT License. You declare the license at submission. Once a Capsule is published, its license cannot be retroactively changed.

If you do not own the rights to release content under one of these licenses, do not submit it.

5.3 License to Galvoro

By submitting Your Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, transmit, modify for technical purposes (e.g. format conversion, thumbnail generation), and make Your Content available through the Service. This licence is solely for the purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the Service and survives termination only to the extent needed to fulfil the open licence you chose for the content.

5.4 Attribution and forks

Where Capsule licences permit forking, other users may fork Your Content. Galvoro will make reasonable efforts to preserve attribution and licence notices required by the declared licence and by the platform's fork chain.

5.5 Responsibility for content

You are solely responsible for Your Content. You represent that:

• You own or have the necessary rights to submit it;
• It does not infringe third-party rights;
• It complies with these Terms and applicable law;
• Any data, claims, or research findings in Your Content are accurate to the best of your knowledge.

5.6 Removal and takedown

We may remove Your Content if we believe in good faith it violates these Terms, infringes rights, or is otherwise unlawful. To report infringing or problematic content, email abuse@galvoro.app with the URL and a description.

5.7 Account deletion and your content

If you delete your account, public Capsules already published under CC-BY or MIT may remain accessible (this is inherent to those licences), but we will anonymise your authorship credit where reasonably possible. Comments, likes, profile content, and saved lists will be removed. We may also remove published Capsules if we are legally required to do so or determine in good faith that continued hosting creates legal, security, or safety risk.

6. Galvoro's content and brand

The Galvoro platform itself — its code, design, user interface, internal documentation, and brand assets including the "Galvoro" name and any logos — is the property of the operator (or our licensors) and is not released under an open licence. You may not copy, modify, redistribute, or create derivative works of the platform itself without our written permission. Content within hosted Capsules is licensed separately under their declared licences.

7. Third-party services

The Service uses third-party providers (authentication, hosting, analytics, error monitoring, email). Their respective terms and privacy practices apply where relevant. See the Privacy Policy for the current list.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free;
• Capsules will be accurate, up to date, pedagogically sound, or suitable for any particular educational purpose;
• Content submitted by other users is accurate, lawful, or non-infringing.

You use the Service at your own risk. Capsules are educational tools provided by their authors and do not constitute professional, medical, legal, financial, or other expert advice.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service is limited to SGD 100, or the amount you paid us in the preceding twelve months, whichever is greater. Because the Service is currently free of charge, the practical floor is SGD 100.

The operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost goodwill, even if advised of the possibility.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable consumer-protection law.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the operator from any claim, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service, or (c) your breach of these Terms.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time through your account settings or by emailing privacy@galvoro.app.

We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if continued provision would expose us to legal risk, or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (ownership, licences granted, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, governing law) survive.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms. If we make material changes, we will notify registered users by email and post a notice on the Service before the changes take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Singapore have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service, except that consumers in their country of residence retain any non-waivable rights of recourse to local courts and consumer-protection authorities under local law.

14. Entire agreement; severability

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect.

15. Contact

Legal and Terms-related questions: legal@galvoro.app

Reports of abuse or infringing content: abuse@galvoro.app

These Terms were drafted for a non-commercial preview launch and will be reviewed by qualified counsel before any paid or institutional offering goes live.