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Terms of use
LaikaSuite is free. There is no account, no payment, no subscription and nothing to cancel. These terms exist for one honest reason: the applications hold work that matters to you, on a device only you control, and it is fair to say clearly what that does and does not guarantee before you rely on it.
What these terms cover
These terms govern your use of LaikaSuite: the hub at laikasuite.astralaika.com and the fourteen applications it launches. Using them means accepting these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the applications.
They do not govern the files you produce, which are yours entirely, nor any other AstraLaika project, each of which carries its own terms.
What is offered
A set of applications that run entirely inside your web browser. They are offered free of charge, without registration, to anyone, for personal or professional work alike. There is no free tier and no paid tier: there is one version, and everyone has it.
The applications are installable and work offline. An installed copy keeps working with no network at all, which is the point of building them this way.
The licence you get
You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, worldwide and revocable right to use the applications as they are provided, for as long as they are provided.
That right does not include redistributing the applications, selling them, presenting a modified copy as the original, or extracting the interface, the icons or the illustrations for use elsewhere. The intellectual property section of the legal notice sets out what belongs to whom, and the licences page names every third-party work the suite stands on.
It does include everything you make with them. The output is yours, without condition, without attribution, and without any licence back to the publisher.
Your work, and your backups
Everything you create belongs to you and stays on your device. The publisher holds no copy and cannot retrieve anything for you. It follows that keeping your work safe is your responsibility, and that certain ordinary actions destroy it permanently:
- clearing your browser's site data, cache or history for this site;
- browsing in a private or incognito window, which discards everything on close;
- uninstalling the browser, resetting the device, or losing it;
- using a different browser or a different device, which has its own separate storage;
- a browser evicting site data under storage pressure, which some do without asking.
Every application can export your work as a file, and the vault can keep it in an encrypted container you carry yourself. Use them. A document that exists in exactly one browser profile exists once.
The vault, and the passphrase that cannot be recovered
This clause is the most important one on the page, and it is here rather than in a footnote because the consequence is severe and irreversible.
The vault encrypts its contents with a key derived from your passphrase, on your device. The passphrase is never stored, never transmitted and never known to the publisher. If you forget it, the vault and everything in it — including any passwords it holds — are permanently lost. There is no reset, no recovery code, no back door, and no request to support that could change this.
That is not a missing feature. It is the same property that makes a vault file safe to carry on a USB stick or store anywhere you like: nobody can open it without the passphrase, and “nobody” includes its author. Choose a passphrase you will not lose, and keep the vault file backed up in more than one place.
Acceptable use
Since the applications run on your own machine and send nothing anywhere, there is very little to police. Two things are nevertheless asked: do not use them for any unlawful purpose, and do not present a modified copy as the original.
You are responsible for the content you create and for the use you make of it, including where that content is subject to rules of its own — professional secrecy, personal data belonging to others, or copyright held by someone else.
Availability, changes and discontinuation
The applications may be changed, and the site may be modified or shut down, at any time and without notice. No service level is offered, no uptime is promised, and no notice period is undertaken.
Because the applications are installable and run offline, an installed copy will keep working after the site is gone — but it will stop receiving fixes, and your exported files remain the only thing that is truly independent of all of this.
Material changes to these terms will be reflected in the date at the foot of this page. Continuing to use the applications after that date means accepting the new version.
As is, without warranty
The applications are provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind: no warranty that they will work without fault, that they will suit a particular purpose, that they will be available at any given moment, or that a file they produce will be readable by any other program.
This is the ordinary condition of software given away for nothing. It is not a way of dismissing defects: defects are worth reporting, and they get fixed. It is a way of saying that no service level is being sold, because nothing is being sold.
Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by French law, the publisher shall not be liable for loss of data, loss of work, loss of profit, or any indirect damage arising from the use or the unavailability of the applications.
As French law requires, this limitation does not apply to gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor to personal injury. Nothing in these terms removes any right you hold under mandatory law, and a consumer keeps every protection their own country of residence gives them.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by French law.
Should a dispute arise, please write first: most things are settled that way. If no amicable solution is found, the competent French courts shall have jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory rule protecting consumers in their country of residence.
A consumer resident in the European Union may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform, though with nothing sold and no contract of sale there is unlikely to be anything for it to resolve.
Contact
For any question about these terms: astralaika.studio@gmail.com.
Last updated: 21 August 2026