Beta terms, in plain English

Last updated 5 July 2026 · covers the Uplink app suite · the canonical copy

The Uplink apps are in private beta, netmap first. These are the working rules while they are, short, honest, and written by the person who builds the software, not by a law firm. Where a rule names a specific app, it describes that app; the same rules apply to each Uplink app as it ships. The full license is the EULA.

01 It is a beta

The software is provided as-is, while it is being built. Expect bugs, features that move, and the occasional rough edge. It does real work today, but you are the professional of record: check the output before you rely on it, same as any drawing.

02 Your license

Beta licenses and trials are personal, run free with full features during the private beta, and are revocable for abuse, sharing keys, attacking the service, scraping the community library, or pushing junk through publish links. Play it straight and none of this applies to you. The full license terms live in the EULA.

03 Your work is yours

The files you create are local on your machine, and export is always available, during the beta and after it. Nothing you make is held hostage.

04 What you submit to a community library

By submitting an item to a community library (for example netmap's) you confirm you are allowed to share it (nothing confidential or proprietary), and you give Uplink permission to review, edit, merge with duplicates, host and distribute it to other users, with optional handle credit to you.

05 What you publish

Publish links carry content you chose to make public, and you are responsible for it. Uplink can take down a published item that is illegal or abusive. Links expire after 14 days by default; you can extend them from the app.

06 Payment and pricing

Paid plans will be sold through our payment partner, a merchant of record; their checkout terms govern the purchase itself, including refunds. The beta itself is free. Prices can change at any time, with or without notice. A published rate card is the current plan, not a promise. A price change applies going forward: it never rewrites a period you have already paid for, and if a subscription price changes you will see the new price before your next renewal charges.

07 Acceptable use

Do not share license keys or resell access. Do not reverse-engineer, patch, or circumvent the licensing and enforcement in the software. Do not attack, overload, or scrape the Uplink services. Do not push illegal, infringing, or confidential-that-is-not-yours content through a community library or publish links. Breaking these is how a license gets revoked.

08 Features can change

The apps are actively built. Features, especially cloud-dependent ones, can be added, changed, moved between tiers, or discontinued as a product finds its shape. Free-during-beta features may become paid features later; anything like that lands with notice.

09 Availability

There is no uptime guarantee during the beta. The cloud services get maintained, sometimes they restart, and occasionally they will be down. Your local files never depend on them.

10 Intellectual property

Uplink, the software, the services, the brands, is proprietary and stays that way; a license is permission to use it, not ownership of it. Feedback and suggestions you send can be used to improve the product without obligation or payment. Your work remains yours, full stop.

11 If you publish someone else's secrets

You are responsible for what you choose to publish or submit. If you share a design, IP scheme, or document you did not have the right to share and it causes a dispute, that dispute is yours. Uplink will take the content down, and you cover Uplink for claims that come from your upload.

12 Ending things

You can stop using an Uplink app any time; your local files stay on your machine and keep working as files. Uplink can suspend or revoke licenses for the abuse cases above. If the beta or a service winds down, you get notice and your data-export path stays open.

13 Changes to these terms

These terms will evolve with the product. Updates get posted here with a fresh date; material changes get flagged (and emailed to license holders when it matters). Using the apps after a change means the current version applies.

14 The legal frame

Uplink apps are professional tools intended for business use; you need to be able to form a contract to use them. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, USA. If some part turns out unenforceable, the rest still stands.

15 No warranties, plain version

To the fullest extent the law allows, Uplink apps come with no warranties and are not liable for lost profits, lost work, or the cost of a re-pulled cable. Verify critical output the way you would verify any drawing that goes to the shop.

16 Contact

Questions, problems, feedback: hello@uplink.show. Legal matters and deletion requests: legal@uplink.show.