Legal summary
Capell Terms of Service
The responsibilities, package risks, service limits, liability terms, and dispute rules that apply when you use Capell services.
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| Marketplace | Covered in this document |
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Plain-language summary: These terms cover Capell services, accounts, and marketplace activity. Keep your account secure, review package changes before release, understand the service and liability limits, and contact us before escalating a dispute.
Who operates Capell
Capell is operated by Ben Johnson, a sole trader trading as Capell, with a service address at Suite 2 The Gas Light, Lower Warrengate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 1SA. Capell is not an incorporated company, has no company registration number and is not VAT registered. Contact [email protected] for legal or business correspondence.
Who agrees to these terms
These terms apply when you use Capell websites, accounts, marketplace pages, package information, download and install workflows, domain verification, support routes, and related services.
If you use Capell for a business, agency, client, or employer, you confirm that you have authority to accept these terms for that organisation. Without that authority, you may use Capell only in your own name.
Your account responsibilities
You must provide accurate account information and keep access to your email, GitHub account, password, and recovery methods secure. You are responsible for activity under your account unless our breach of these terms or legal duties caused it.
At registration, Capell records when you accepted these terms and the legal version in force at that time. We keep the record so both sides can identify what was agreed if a question or dispute arises.
Review packages before changing a live site
Capell packages and marketplace extensions can alter data storage, page rendering, migrations, third-party connections, and admin tools. Before installing an optional package, review its source, manifest, permissions, licence, compatibility notes, author details, and support position.
You remain responsible for normal deployment care: staging checks, code review, Composer review, migration review, data protection, and rollback planning. Capell may provide warnings and review information, but those do not replace your technical judgment.
Capell's marketplace role
Capell may host listings, metadata, package details, screenshots, author information, install requests, upgrade authorisations, security notices, and account tooling. Third-party authors remain responsible for their packages, including rights, privacy, security, support, compatibility, and lawful operation.
Capell may review, reject, hide, suspend, remove, or delist packages or accounts where we believe there is legal, security, operational, abuse, infringement, or reputational risk.
Customer continuity if Capell permanently closes
An eligible customer is a customer organisation with a recorded purchase of a protected first-party package before permanent closure, whether its update term is active or expired. Permanent closure occurs when Capell publicly declares that it has permanently stopped trading, or when protected package delivery and support remain unavailable for 90 consecutive days without a successor operator.
Within 30 days after either trigger, Capell will make the protected first-party package source covered by that organisation's purchase record available with a perpetual fallback licence allowing the organisation to use, modify, maintain and deploy it. This fallback does not convert the software to an OSI open-source licence or grant rights to third-party packages, trademarks, hosted services, support, or future development.
Availability and changes to the service
We aim to keep Capell useful and reliable, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may update, pause, restrict, or withdraw parts of the service for maintenance, security, legal compliance, product changes, or abuse prevention.
We may also update these terms. Material changes will appear on the legal pages or during the next relevant account action. Continued use after an update means you accept the updated terms.
Liability limits
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or a statutory right that cannot be excluded.
Subject to that, Capell is not responsible for indirect loss, loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, or data, business interruption, failed deployment, package incompatibility, third-party service failure, or damage caused by an extension you choose to install, except where the law says otherwise.
For business users, Capell's total liability for claims connected with the service is limited to the amount you paid Capell for the relevant service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or GBP 100 if you have not paid Capell directly.
Law, courts, and first contact
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except where consumer law gives you a right to bring a claim elsewhere.
Contact [email protected] first when something goes wrong. A direct, detailed notice usually lets us investigate faster than a public complaint or formal claim.
