Last updated 2026-09-04
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern the download, installation, and use of Key Lair ("the Software") and this website, provided by Secret Item Games GmbH ("we", "us", "the Licensor"). Key Lair is offered to businesses -- studios, publishers, agencies, and similar commercial users acting in their trade or profession (Unternehmer within the meaning of Sec. 14 BGB), not to consumers. By downloading, installing, or using the Software, you confirm you're acquiring it for that kind of business purpose.
These Terms cover your use of this website and the general terms of using the Software. The actual usage rights you receive -- what you're allowed to install, on how many domains, and under what conditions -- are set out separately in the Key Lair License, which forms part of this agreement by reference. If the two ever conflict on a licensing question, the License controls; on everything else, these Terms control.
The Community edition is provided free of charge for self-hosted use under the terms of the License. Premium and Enterprise tiers, where purchased, are provided in exchange for the fee agreed at the time of purchase; specific commercial terms (pricing, invoicing, payment) for those tiers are confirmed separately at checkout or by written agreement, not by this general page.
We may change, extend, or discontinue features of the Software between versions. Nothing here obligates us to release any particular future version, on any particular timeline.
You are responsible for how and where you host the Software, for keeping it updated, and for your own server, network, and account security. Self-hosting means you operate the Software on infrastructure you control -- security is a shared responsibility between the Software and how you run it, and the Software is one part of that picture, not a guarantee of the whole. You're responsible for complying with applicable law in how you use the Software, including data protection law that applies to any personal data (e.g. creator names or emails) you process through it.
The Software is provided "as is" and "as available". Except where the License or applicable law provides otherwise, we make no warranty that the Software will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose beyond what's described in its own documentation.
Software development -- including this project's -- increasingly involves AI-assisted tooling, which is evolving quickly and unevenly. A practice, dependency, or configuration considered reasonably secure today may turn out not to be tomorrow, through no specific fault on either side. We address vulnerabilities we become aware of at our own reasonable pace, in line with Sec. 7 below, and cannot guarantee that any given version is free of undiscovered vulnerabilities at any point in time. Running any self-hosted software, this one included, carries inherent risk that sits with the operator, not just the vendor.
We are fully liable, without limitation, for damages caused by intent (Vorsatz) or gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit), for injury to life, body, or health, for any guarantee we've expressly given in writing, and under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) or other mandatory statutory liability that cannot be limited by agreement.
For damages caused by ordinary negligence (einfache Fahrlässigkeit), we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation (Kardinalpflicht -- an obligation whose fulfillment is essential to carrying out the agreement and on which you may regularly rely), and even then only up to the damage that was foreseeable and typical for a contract of this kind at the time it was entered into. We are not liable for ordinary negligence outside of that case -- including, without limitation, for loss or theft of data caused by your own misconfiguration or user error, or by a security vulnerability that wasn't the result of our intent or gross negligence.
This limitation applies equally to the personal liability of our employees, representatives, and agents.
We retain all ownership of and intellectual property rights in the Software. These Terms and the License grant usage rights only; nothing here transfers ownership, and nothing here grants you rights beyond what the License states.
These Terms apply for as long as you use the Software. Sec. 7 of the License governs termination of your usage rights.
We may update these Terms from time to time -- for example as the Software, our services, or applicable law changes. The version in effect at the time you download or update the Software is the one that applies. We'll update the date at the top of this page when we do.
These Terms, together with the License, are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If you are a merchant (Kaufmann), a legal entity under public law, or have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this agreement is our registered place of business.
Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, this does not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. The invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes as close as possible to its intended commercial purpose.
Questions about these Terms: contact@secret-item-games.com