Operator, privacy and terms

Every Seatbit instance is run by someone, the operator, who is responsible for it and for the personal data in it. If you host Seatbit, that's you, not the authors of the software.

Seatbit has a built-in Terms of Service (/terms) and Privacy Policy (/privacy). They are linked in the footer, on the sign-in page and in every email. They describe what Seatbit stores and why, and are written for Swiss data protection law (FADP) and the EU GDPR.

Fill in your details

Under Admin → Platform settings → Operator & legal (or with the LEGAL_* variables):

Field	Shown as
Operator name	Who runs the instance and is the data controller (a person, club or company).
Postal address	The operator's address.
Contact email	For questions and privacy requests (access, deletion).
Hosting location	"This Seatbit instance runs on a server in …".
Governing law	"These terms are governed by …", e.g. Swiss law. Empty: the law of the operator's country.

Until the name and contact email are set, the legal pages and the admin page show a warning.

Use your own documents

If the built-in texts don't fit (another country's law, a club with its own policy, other service providers), write your own and set Own Terms of Service URL and Own Privacy Policy URL. /terms and /privacy then redirect there, so all links in the app and in emails go to your documents.

Note

The built-in texts are a starting point, not legal advice. Read them and check that they match how you run your instance: where it's hosted, which email provider you use, how long you keep backups.

License obligations

Seatbit is licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0 with two additional terms:

• Keep the "Powered by bitsandbricks.ch" link in the footer.
• Keep the "Source" link in the footer. If you changed the code, set Source code URL (SOURCE_URL) to where your users can get your version: the AGPL requires you to offer the source of a modified version to the people who use it over the network.

Running the unchanged image needs nothing beyond that.