End User License Agreement

1. License Grant

HakoSpace grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to install and use this software solely for your own purposes, subject to the terms of this Agreement. No other rights are granted.

1.1 Version of This Agreement and Re-Consent

This End-User Licence Agreement is identified by its effective date, shown at the top of the document (current version: EULA effective 2026-04-21). The Privacy Policy is versioned independently, likewise by effective date. HakoSpace may update either document from time to time; a material change will trigger a new effective date.

Your acknowledged version is recorded on your account. When you first connect to a HakoSpace server instance, and whenever the instance's current EULA or Privacy Policy effective date exceeds the effective date last acknowledged by you, the software will require you to review and accept the current version before it permits further use of the service. This check is performed on the server at connection time and cannot be dismissed by the client.

If you decline to accept the current version, the server will refuse to grant you access. You may continue using any server whose published EULA and Privacy Policy effective dates match the versions you have previously accepted.

Historical versions of this Agreement are available at the operator's legal archive URL (typically /legal/archive/<YYYY-MM-DD>/eula). Each time you accept a version, the software stores your account identifier, the effective-date string, and a UTC timestamp as evidence of acceptance.

Nothing in this section grants HakoSpace a unilateral right to impose materially burdensome terms retroactively; your right not to accept (and to cease using the service) is preserved.

2. Permitted Use

This software may be used under the following conditions:

• Academic use: Research, study, or educational purposes at accredited institutions.
• Personal non-commercial use: Individual or community use. You may accept voluntary donations (e.g., Patreon, Ko-fi) solely to cover the infrastructure and hosting costs of running the software. However, you may not charge mandatory access fees, put the software behind a paywall, or use it to generate profit.
• Qualifying non-profits: Organizations holding valid non-profit status, provided the software is not used to generate revenue or provide paid services.

Government agencies at any level are excluded from permitted use and may not use this software without a separate written agreement with HakoSpace.

3. Prohibited Activities

The following are strictly prohibited:

• Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or otherwise attempting to derive the source code of the software.
• Extracting, reconstructing, or inferring any portion of the software's source code, algorithms, or internal logic.
• Removing, altering, bypassing, or circumventing any license verification mechanism, copyright notice, or protection feature embedded in the software.
• Redistributing, reselling, renting, leasing, or sublicensing the software to any third party.
• Repackaging or rebranding the software for distribution under any name or as part of any other product.
• Using the software to provide commercial hosting, SaaS, or managed services to third parties.

4. Intellectual Property

All rights, title, and interest in and to the software, including all intellectual property rights, remain exclusively with HakoSpace. This Agreement does not transfer any ownership rights to you. You acquire only the limited right to use the software as described herein.

5. Updates

HakoSpace may, at its discretion, provide updates, patches, or new versions of the software. Any such updates are subject to this Agreement unless accompanied by a separate license. Continued use of the software after an update constitutes acceptance of any revised terms.

6. Termination

This license is effective until terminated. It terminates automatically, without notice, if you breach any term of this Agreement. Upon termination, you must immediately cease all use of the software and destroy all copies in your possession or control.

7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. HAKOSPACE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION.

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HAKOSPACE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF HAKOSPACE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL HAKOSPACE'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF FIVE US DOLLARS ($5.00).

9. Changes to This Agreement

HakoSpace reserves the right to modify this Agreement at any time. The updated Agreement will be made available through the software or its official channels. Continued use of the software after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Agreement.

10. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Taiwan. Any disputes arising from or relating to this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Taipei District Court, Taiwan.

11. User-Generated Content, Communications, and Real-Time Media

Your acceptance of this §11 and the accompanying Privacy Policy's media-data-flow disclosure is recorded under the version-and-re-consent mechanism in §1.1 (EULA effective 2026-04-21).

11.1 Definition of User-Generated Content

For purposes of this Agreement, "User-Generated Content" ("UGC") includes all data, content, and communications that any user transmits, stores, processes, or makes available through the software, including without limitation:

• Text messages, files, images, and other attachments;
• Real-time audio streams transmitted via the software's voice chat or direct-message call features;
• Real-time video streams transmitted via the software's camera-sharing, screen-sharing, or direct-message video call features, whether captured from a device camera, a virtual camera driver, a screen capture source, or any other media source; and
• Any metadata associated with the foregoing (timestamps, participant identifiers, device fingerprints where configured by the operator, etc.).

11.2 Transient Nature of Real-Time Media; No Recording Capability

The software is architected such that real-time audio and video streams are relayed, not recorded. Neither the software nor HakoSpace retains any copy, frame, sample, or derivative of any audio or video stream after the transmission has ended. Streams pass through the server instance's media relay (SFU) and are not written to disk by the unmodified software.

No in-product recording capability exists, and no such capability will be introduced in any version within the current major release line. Any subsequent major release line that introduces a recording feature will be published as a new effective date of this Agreement under §1.1 and will require your fresh acceptance before the feature applies to you.

The server operator is solely responsible for any modification, plug-in, or external tool (e.g., third-party screen-capture software running outside HakoSpace) that causes real-time media to be retained. If a server operator deploys any such external recording mechanism, the operator must obtain all consents required by applicable law from every participant prior to recording; HakoSpace disclaims any responsibility for operator-side out-of-product recording.

11.3 Licence You Grant to the Server Operator

When you (as an end user of a HakoSpace instance) transmit UGC through the software, you grant the server operator of that instance the limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to relay, cache (for the strict duration required for transmission), process, and display your UGC solely to the extent necessary to operate the service you are using. This licence is sublicensable solely to service providers acting on the operator's behalf for the purpose of delivering the Service (e.g., transit CDNs, relay infrastructure, hosting providers under written data-processing agreements). No other sublicence is granted. This licence is transmission-bounded: for real-time media, it terminates automatically at the end of the session; for stored content (text, attachments), it terminates when you or the operator deletes the content or when the operator's retention policy expires it, whichever is earlier.

You grant no licence to HakoSpace (the software vendor). Because HakoSpace does not operate any instance, HakoSpace neither receives, stores, nor acquires rights to any UGC.

11.4 Your Responsibilities as a Broadcaster

By enabling your camera, microphone, or screen share, you represent and warrant that:

• You have the right to transmit the content captured (including the right to record any person whose voice or image you capture, where applicable law requires such consent);
• You are not knowingly transmitting content depicting a minor in a sexualised manner, non-consensual intimate imagery, content that incites violence or hatred, or any other content prohibited by the applicable law of your jurisdiction or the jurisdiction of any other participant reasonably known to you;
• You have verified, to a reasonable degree, that minors whose likeness you transmit are doing so with verifiable consent of a parent or legal guardian where required by applicable law (including COPPA, GDPR-K, and equivalents); and
• You will not use the software's real-time media features to harass, stalk, threaten, or defame any person.

11.5 Incident Response and Takedown (Pass-Through)

HakoSpace (the vendor) has no technical ability to access, moderate, or remove UGC on any server instance and therefore cannot directly process DMCA, GDPR Article 17 ("right to erasure"), or equivalent takedown requests addressed to content on a specific instance. Such requests must be directed to the operator of the instance where the content resides.

Each server operator must establish, publish, and honour a reasonable process for:

1. Receiving and acting on reports of abuse (harassment, non-consensual recording, minors in sexualised content, etc.);
2. Preserving evidence (logs, metadata) for law-enforcement cooperation to the extent required by applicable law;
3. Terminating access of users who violate §11.4 or applicable law.

Where HakoSpace receives a credible notice that a specific instance is being used predominantly for unlawful activity, HakoSpace reserves the right to revoke any licence key, PRO/MAX activation, or other commercial entitlement associated with that instance, without refund.

11.6 HakoSpace's Continued Non-Liability for UGC

Nothing in §11.1–§11.5 shall be construed to impose on HakoSpace any obligation to monitor, review, or moderate UGC on any instance. HakoSpace does not host, monitor, or control your instances, has no access to your user-generated content or communications, and assumes no liability for any user-generated content or any illegal activities conducted through your use of the software.

12. Privacy and Telemetry

By default, the software operates locally and does not transmit data to HakoSpace. However, with your explicit opt-in consent, the software may collect and transmit anonymous usage and diagnostic data (telemetry) to help improve the software. This data does not include personal information or user-generated content. For more details on data collection and usage, please refer to our Privacy Policy (2026-04-21).

13. Language Prevailing Clause

In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the English version and the Traditional Chinese version of this Agreement, the Traditional Chinese version shall prevail.