1 · Who you are dealing with

Ribbonfly Marquee is operated by Lasse Feddersen, trading as a sole trader (“we”, “us”). Throughout this document, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Lasse Feddersen. You can reach us at email us.

Payments are processed by Paddle, who act as the merchant of record for every purchase. That means Paddle is the seller on your receipt, Paddle handles sales tax and VAT wherever you are, and Paddle’s own buyer terms apply to the transaction itself alongside these terms.

2 · What the free plugin is

The free plugin is distributed through the WordPress.org plugin directory under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. It costs nothing, it is not time-limited, it contains no licence check and no “upgrade” lock, and nothing on this page restricts what the GPL grants you in respect of it.

3 · What a Pro licence actually buys

The Pro plugin is also GPL software. A licence is not permission to use the code — the GPL already gives you that, and it gives it to everyone who obtains a copy. What a licence buys is:

A yearly licence is in force while the subscription is. A one-time licence is a single payment with no renewal, and it stays in force for as long as we sell and maintain Ribbonfly Marquee Pro; if we ever stop, we will say so in good time and the plugin will keep running as it is. We say all this plainly because the alternative — implying that paying is what makes the software legal to run — would be untrue.

4 · One licence, one site, and what counts as one site

A licence covers one production site, together with its staging, development and local copies. Those copies are not second sites, and moving a site to a new domain is not a second site either. Running the same licence on genuinely separate sites for separate businesses is not covered; if you need several, tell us and we will sort it out sensibly.

Each installation reports an installation id. A copy made from your live site carries the same id, so its staging, development and local copies, and a move to a new domain, count as the same site; a separate, freshly installed site counts as another one. The id cannot tell a legitimate copy from a second business that started from the same database. So where the count is ever wrong, it is corrected by hand, and you are not locked out of anything while that happens. A licence check that fails, or that counts wrongly, leaves the plugin running exactly as it was — that is a commitment, and it is the same one described in section 5.

5 · What happens when a licence ends

Nothing is disabled, removed, degraded or locked. The plugin keeps running with the features you already have and keeps your data intact. What stops is the delivery of new versions and the right to support. This is described in full on the pricing page, and it is a commitment, not a description of the current build.

6 · What we do not promise

The software is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it is free of defects, that it will suit a particular purpose, or that it will run without interruption alongside every other plugin and theme in existence — nobody honestly can, and a marquee plugin shares a site with software we have never seen.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim arising from the software or these terms is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death, personal injury, or fraud.

You are responsible for your own backups. That is not us shifting blame; it is that we have no access to your site and cannot restore it.

7 · Acceptable use

Do not use our licence service or this website to attack, overload or probe systems that are not yours. Do not resell support access. You may, per the GPL, redistribute the code itself — we would rather you did not sell it as your own work, but that is a request, not a term.

8 · Changes

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects an active licence, we will email the address on the licence before it takes effect. Continuing to use the software after that is acceptance; if you would rather not, cancel and we will refund the unused part of the current period.

9 · Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of Denmark, and the Danish courts have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in.

10 · Contact

Questions about these terms, or anything else: email us. A person reads it.