Terms of Use
Terms for the provision and use of the MultiDocker software ("the software"), made available by Coding 9 GmbH ("we").
1. Provided free of charge
We make the software available for download at no cost. No contract of sale and no paid contract for digital products is concluded. In legal terms this is a gift within the meaning of § 516 BGB (German Civil Code).
The download requires neither registration nor any personal data. You pay neither with money nor with data.
By downloading, installing or using the software you accept these terms as binding. The version applicable is the one published here at the time of your download, which you can read, save and print from this page at any time.
2. Licence granted
We grant you a simple, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide and free right to install and use the software in unmodified form. This covers private and commercial use, on as many devices as you or your company operate.
It does not cover passing the software on to third parties, renting it out, sub-licensing it, or shipping it as part of a product of your own. Please point people to our download page instead. The reason is practical: pre-release builds are only ad-hoc signed, so a forwarded copy can no longer be told apart from a modified one.
Your statutory rights as the user of a computer program remain untouched, in particular the right to a backup copy, to error correction, and to decompilation for the purpose of interoperability under §§ 69d, 69e UrhG (German Copyright Act). These rights cannot be excluded by contract, and we do not exclude them.
Copyright and attribution notices within the software must not be removed or altered. All rights in the software remain with Coding 9 GmbH. No rights beyond those named in this section are granted, whether expressly or by implication.
Source code. Where we publish the source code of the software, the terms of the LICENSE file in the respective repository apply in addition. Versions you build or modify yourself are used entirely at your own responsibility; statements in these terms about the installer files we provide do not apply to them.
3. No warranty — provided "as is"
We provide the software as it is ("as is"). We give no warranty; that matches the statutory position for something given away free of charge.
In particular we neither assure nor guarantee that the software runs free of errors or without interruption, that it is fit for any particular purpose, that it achieves any particular result, that it works with your hardware and software or with any given version of Docker, macOS or third-party components, or that it is free of security vulnerabilities. We assume a guarantee within the meaning of § 276 (1) BGB only where we expressly designate it as such in writing.
Statements on this website, in the documentation, in screenshots or in demonstrations describe the software, but they are neither an agreement on its quality nor a guarantee.
4. Use at your own risk, and your own duties
You use the software at your own risk and on your own responsibility. It operates on your local Docker environment, your project directories, your containers and volumes and your network, DNS and certificate configuration; it starts and stops containers and can change or delete data in your databases.
It is your own responsibility in particular:
- to back up your data regularly and in a manner appropriate to the risk, and to verify that those backups can be restored, before you use the software,
- to assess the effects on production and production-like environments yourself — the software is intended for local development environments,
- to decide which projects you make publicly reachable through the sharing feature ("demo link", tunnel): an application published that way is reachable from the internet unprotected unless you do something about it, and you carry the responsibility for the content and data exposed,
- to comply with the legal requirements that apply to you, in particular data protection law where you work with real personal data.
5. No claim to support or availability
Providing the software free of charge creates no claim to support, maintenance, updates, bug fixes, further development, or availability of the software or of this website. Where we do help out, we do so voluntarily and without creating any entitlement for the future.
6. Liability
We are liable for damages only in cases of intent and gross negligence (§ 521 BGB).
We are liable for defects in the software only where we have fraudulently concealed a defect (§ 524 BGB). We are liable for defects of title only where we have fraudulently concealed such a defect (§ 523 BGB).
Within this limitation we are in particular not liable for lost profit, savings not realised, business interruption, third-party claims, or other indirect and consequential damage.
Loss of data. For the loss of data we are liable only up to the effort their restoration would have required had you kept proper and regular backups.
The above limitations apply equally to claims in tort (§§ 823 ff. BGB) and to any other claim, on whatever legal basis.
The above limitations do not affect:
- liability for damage arising from injury to life, body or health,
- liability for intent and gross negligence,
- liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz),
- liability arising from a guarantee or from the assumption of a procurement risk.
No liability beyond this exists. This also applies to the personal liability of our legal representatives, our staff and our vicarious agents.
7. Third-party rights and indemnity
You indemnify us against claims brought against us by third parties because you used the software in breach of these terms or in breach of applicable law. This includes the reasonable costs of legal defence, and applies only to the extent that you are responsible for the claim.
We do not monitor which projects, content or data you process with the software or publish through the sharing feature, and we have no access to them. That is your responsibility alone.
8. Beta status and code signing
The software is in beta. Features may be incomplete, may change, or may be removed. The DMG we provide is ad-hoc signed and not notarized by Apple, which is why macOS warns about an unidentified developer on first launch. Please satisfy yourself that the file comes from the source you expect before installing it.
9. Third-party components
The software uses and launches third-party components, among them Docker, Traefik, dnsmasq, mkcert, Mailcatcher and Cloudflare tunnels. Those components are governed by their respective providers' own licence and usage terms, which you are responsible for observing. We give no warranty for third-party components.
10. Changes and discontinuation
We may change, restrict or discontinue the software, individual features, the download and this website at any time and without notice. There is no claim to the continued existence of the offer.
We may adapt these terms for the future. The version published here at the time of your download applies.
11. Governing law and final provisions
The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence remain unaffected.
If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from these terms is our registered office.
The software may be subject to foreign trade regulations. You are yourself responsible for complying with the export and import rules of the country in which you use it.
Should any provision of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected. The statutory rule takes the place of the invalid provision.
12. Contact
Please send questions about these terms through our contact page at coding9.de. The full provider details, including the electronic mail address, are in the legal notice.