Beta terms, in plain English
Last updated 5 July 2026 · covers the Uplink app suite · canonical at uplink.show/terms
The Uplink apps are in private beta, netmap first. These are the working rules while they are, short, honest, and written by the person who builds the software, not by a law firm. Where a rule below names netmap, it describes that app; the same rules apply to each Uplink app as it ships.
01It's a beta
The software is provided as-is, while it's being built. Expect bugs, features that move, and the occasional rough edge. It drafts real show paperwork today — but you're the engineer of record: check the sheet before load-in, same as any drawing.
02Your license
Beta licenses and trials are personal, run free with full features during the private beta, and are revocable for abuse — sharing keys, attacking the service, scraping the community library, or pushing junk through publish links. Play it straight and none of this applies to you. The full license terms live in the EULA.
03Your shows are yours
Show files are local .json on your machine, and export is always available — during the beta and after it. Nothing you make is held hostage.
04What you submit to the community library
By clicking "Submit to netmap library" you confirm you're allowed to share the item (nothing confidential or proprietary), and you give Uplink permission to review, edit, merge with duplicates, host and distribute it to other users — with optional @handle credit to you.
05What you publish
Publish links carry content you chose to make public, and you're responsible for it. netmap can take down a published show that's illegal or abusive. Links expire after 14 days by default; you can extend them from the app.
06Payment & pricing
Paid plans are sold through Paddle.com as merchant of record — their checkout terms govern the purchase itself. Refunds are covered by our own refund policy: any charge is refundable in full for 14 days, no reason required. The beta itself is free.
Prices can change at any time, with or without notice. The rate card is the current plan, not a promise. A price change applies going forward: it never rewrites a period you've already paid for, and if a subscription price changes you'll see the new price before your next renewal charges.
07Acceptable use
Don't share license keys or resell access. Don't reverse-engineer, patch, or circumvent the licensing and enforcement in the software. Don't attack, overload, or scrape the Uplink services. Don't push illegal, infringing, or confidential-that-isn't-yours content through the community library or publish links. Breaking these is how a license gets revoked.
08Features can change
netmap is actively built. Features — especially cloud-dependent ones like cloud export, publish links, and the community library — can be added, changed, moved between tiers, or discontinued as the product finds its shape. Free-during-beta features may become paid features later; anything like that lands with notice on this site.
09Availability
There's no uptime guarantee during the beta. The cloud services get maintained, sometimes they restart, and occasionally they'll be down. Your local files never depend on them.
10Intellectual property
netmap — the software, the services, the brand — is proprietary and stays that way; a license is permission to use it, not ownership of it. Feedback and suggestions you send can be used to improve the product without obligation or payment. Your shows remain yours, full stop.
11If you publish someone else's secrets
You're responsible for what you choose to publish or submit. If you share a rig design, IP schema, or document you didn't have the right to share and it causes a dispute, that dispute is yours — Uplink will take the content down, and you cover Uplink for claims that come from your upload.
12Ending things
You can stop using an Uplink app any time — your local files stay on your machine and keep working as files. Uplink can suspend or revoke licenses for the abuse cases above. If the beta or a service winds down, you'll get notice and your data-export path (plain .json) is always open.
13Changes to these terms
These terms will evolve with the product. Updates get posted here with a fresh date; material changes get flagged on this site (and by email to license holders when it matters). Using netmap after a change means the current version applies.
14The legal frame
Uplink apps are professional tools intended for business use; you need to be able to form a contract to use them. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, USA. If some part of them turns out unenforceable, the rest still stands.
15No warranties, plain version
To the fullest extent the law allows, Uplink apps come with no warranties and aren't liable for lost profits, lost work, or the cost of a re-pulled cable. Verify critical paperwork the way you'd verify any drawing that goes to the shop.
16Contact
Questions, problems, feedback: support@netmap.show. Legal matters and deletion requests: legal@uplink.show.