Terms of Service

Ludora is a free, open-source suite of browser-based creative tools for making games. These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your use of:

• the Ludora website at ludora.studio;
• the hosted Ludora apps at apps.ludora.studio and their app subdomains;
• the Ludora API and the custom desktop build service, when enabled;

together, the “Service”. In these Terms, “we”, “us” and “Ludora” mean the operator of the Service, reachable at contact@ludora.studio.

How we handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

By using the Service — visiting the website, creating an account, opening an app, or downloading a build — you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these Terms for that organisation.

You must be at least 16 years old to create a Ludora account, or older if the law of your country sets a higher age for consenting to online services. If you are younger, you may only use the Service with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf.

You must also be legally able to enter into a binding agreement, and you must not be barred from using the Service under any applicable law or sanctions regime.

Some parts of the Service require an account. You can create one with an email address and a password, or by signing in with a third-party provider (for example Google, GitHub, GitLab or Discord) where that option is offered.

• Provide accurate information and keep your email address up to date.
• Keep your password and any API keys confidential. Anything done through your account is your responsibility.
• Do not share your account, and do not use someone else's account without their permission.
• Tell us promptly at contact@ludora.studio if you believe your account has been compromised.

You may delete your account at any time from your profile settings. Deleting your account removes your sign-in credentials, your sessions and any linked social sign-ins; see the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data.

“Your Content” means everything you create, upload, import or store through the Service: projects, sprites, images, audio, notes, documents, code, and anything else you save.

You keep ownership of Your Content. We claim no ownership of it and we do not use it to train models or to advertise to you.

To run the Service, we need a limited permission from you: you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, resize, render and display Your Content, solely so that the Service can work for you (for example storing a project file, serving it back to your browser, or packaging it into an export you asked for). This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies still present in ordinary backups or logs until they expire.

You are responsible for having the rights to Your Content, including any assets, fonts, samples or code you import from elsewhere, and for complying with the licence terms that come with them.

Use the Service to make things. Do not use it to:

• break the law, or store or distribute unlawful content — in particular child sexual abuse material, content that incites violence or hatred, or content that violates someone's privacy;
• infringe intellectual property rights, or upload content you do not have the right to use;
• harass, threaten, impersonate or defame anyone;
• distribute malware, phishing pages, or content designed to damage or deceive;
• attack, probe, overload or disrupt the Service or the infrastructure it runs on, or bypass authentication, rate limits, quotas or access controls;
• access other users' projects, accounts or data without authorisation;
• abuse the build or export service — for example automated mass requests, or using it as general-purpose compute, storage or file hosting unrelated to creating games;
• resell or repackage the hosted Service as your own paid offering without our agreement.

We may remove content or restrict access when we reasonably believe this section has been broken, or when we are legally required to.

Ludora assembles many independent open-source editors and tools. Each of them remains the work of its own authors and is provided under its own licence, which continues to apply to your use of it.

Those upstream projects are not affiliated with Ludora, do not endorse it, and provide no support for it. We do our best to integrate them faithfully, but we cannot guarantee that a bundled app is free of defects or that it will keep behaving as its upstream version does. Questions about an app's own licence should go to that project.

Where the Service links to third-party websites or services, those are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, not by ours.

The Service is provided free of charge and on a best-effort basis. There is no uptime commitment and no service-level agreement. We may add, change, limit or remove features, apps, quotas and endpoints at any time, and we may suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service.

Keep your own copies of anything you care about. We may operate backups for our own operational purposes, but we do not promise that any particular file, version or project can be recovered. Export your work regularly.

When the custom desktop builder is enabled, it assembles a desktop application from existing prebuilt app bundles according to the apps and platform you select. Builds are produced automatically, without human review, and are provided as-is.

You are responsible for checking that downloading, installing and running a build is permitted where you are, and for complying with the licences of the bundled apps you selected. Build artefacts are temporary and may be deleted without notice once your download has completed or expired.

Ludora's own source code is published openly and is licensed under the terms stated in its repositories. Those licences govern the code itself: copying it, modifying it and running your own instance. These Terms govern the hosted Service we operate at ludora.studio, and nothing in these Terms restricts the rights an open-source licence grants you in the code.

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access, or delete content, if you break these Terms, if your use creates a legal risk or a technical risk to the Service or other users, or if we are required to do so by law. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond or to export your work.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — ownership of content, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law — continue to apply afterwards.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that data will never be lost.

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection law that cannot be waived. Where such law applies, these disclaimers apply only to the extent it permits.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ludora and the people who operate it are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business or goodwill, or loss or corruption of data or content arising from your use of the Service.

Because the Service is provided free of charge, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to one hundred euros (€100), or to the minimum amount that applicable law does not allow to be excluded, whichever is greater.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited — for example liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for wilful misconduct.

If a third party brings a claim against us because of Your Content or because of how you used the Service in breach of these Terms, you agree to cover the reasonable costs, damages and legal fees we incur as a result, to the extent the claim arises from your acts or omissions.

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves or as the law requires. The current version is always published on this page with its “last updated” date. For material changes we will give notice on the website before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the Service and delete your account.

These Terms are governed by French law, and the courts of France have jurisdiction over any dispute relating to them or to the Service. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, and you may also bring proceedings in your local courts.

If a provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the invalid part is applied as closely as possible to its original intent.

Questions, legal notices, abuse reports and takedown requests: contact@ludora.studio.

See also our Privacy Policy.