Alcove Terms of Use

These terms cover your use of the Alcove desktop application and these documentation pages. Installing or using Alcove means you accept them. If you do not accept them, uninstall the application and stop using it.

Alcove is a personal project built by IAmInControlll, referred to below as “the developer”.

Licence

Alcove is provided free of charge. You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, revocable licence to install and use it on machines you own or are permitted to administer, for personal or internal business purposes.

You may not:

• Sell, rent, sublicense, or otherwise commercially distribute the application or any part of it.
• Repackage or redistribute modified builds, or present the application as your own.
• Remove or alter the application’s name, icons, or attribution.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the application, except where local law expressly permits it despite this restriction.
• Use the application to do anything unlawful, or to interfere with someone else’s system.

Everything not expressly granted here is reserved.

Ownership

The developer retains all rights in the application, its source code, its name, and its icons. This licence gives you permission to use the software; it does not transfer ownership of anything.

Your own data stays yours. The shortcuts you add, your layout, your settings, and any backups you export belong to you, and the developer has no access to them. See the Privacy Policy.

Third-party services and content

Some features work by reaching services the developer does not operate. Using those features means accepting the terms of the service involved.

• Wikipedia - article summaries and previews come from the Wikimedia Foundation API. Article text is made available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, and each preview links back to its source article. Wikipedia content is contributed by volunteers and Alcove makes no claim about its accuracy.
• Google - the Google scope opens a search in your default browser. What happens after that is between you, your browser, and Google.
• European Central Bank - currency answers use the ECB’s published daily reference rates. They are reference rates only, not a live market feed and not a dealing rate. Do not rely on them for anything financial.
• Microsoft Store - if you installed from the Store, Microsoft’s terms cover the distribution and any updates delivered through it.

Alcove also launches whatever programs and files you point it at. Those remain governed by their own licences, and the developer is not responsible for them.

Your responsibilities

• Keep your own backups. Alcove can export your workspace to a file, but keeping a copy somewhere safe is your responsibility, not the application’s.
• Power actions are real. Shut down, restart, sleep, and lock do exactly what they say. Each asks for confirmation first. Unsaved work in other applications is your responsibility.
• Only import backups you trust. A backup archive can contain any kind of file, including executables, and restored files become launchable shortcuts.
• Administrative context matters. If you deploy Alcove on machines you do not own, make sure you have permission to do so.

No warranty

Alcove is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer disclaims all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the application will be uninterrupted, error free, secure, or compatible with your particular hardware, Windows version, or other software.

Current builds are not code-signed, which means Windows SmartScreen and some antivirus products may warn about the installer. That is a property of unsigned software generally and is not a warranty of any kind about the file’s contents.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, files, shortcuts, profits, or business, arising out of or connected to your use of or inability to use Alcove, even if the possibility of such damage was known.

Since the application is supplied free of charge, the developer’s total aggregate liability for all claims relating to it is limited to zero, except for liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived under the law that applies to you.

Changes and availability

Alcove is developed at the developer’s discretion. Features may change or be removed, and there is no commitment to a release schedule, to continued availability, or to support for any particular Windows version. These terms may be updated, in which case the new version is published here and the “Last updated” date above changes. Continuing to use the application after a change means accepting the updated terms.

Termination

This licence ends automatically if you breach these terms, and you may end it at any time by uninstalling the application. On termination you must stop using Alcove and remove it. Your locally stored data is unaffected and remains yours to keep or delete.

Severability

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is applied only so far as the law allows.

Contact

Questions about these terms: iamincontrol.dev@gmail.com.