Terms of use

My Own Suite is free, open source software that you download and run on your own machine or on a server you rent. These terms are written in plain language on purpose, but they are the real terms: by installing or using My Own Suite, you accept them.

The software is made available under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only. That open-source license governs your rights to use, modify, share, and host MOS; these terms explain your responsibilities when operating it.

You are the operator

Self-hosting means the machine is yours — and so is the responsibility for running it. When you use My Own Suite, you, not the My Own Suite project, are responsible for:

• Your data and your backups. The platform gives you a one-button backup system; using it is up to you. Data that was never backed up cannot be recovered by anyone.
• The security of your installation. Choosing strong passwords, deciding who can reach your server, keeping the owner account safe, and being careful about what you expose to the internet.
• Keeping your suite updated — both the platform and your installed apps — using the built-in managed updates. MOS tells you when an update is available; applying it is your call.
• Any costs you take on — hosting bills, hardware, domain names, and anything else you purchase from third parties.
• Using the software lawfully and in compliance with the laws that apply to you and to wherever your server runs.

No warranty

My Own Suite is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied — including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, reliability, availability, or that the software is free of defects. The project is currently pre-1.0: it changes quickly, and breaking changes can happen between versions.

No liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the My Own Suite project, its author, and its contributors are not liable for any damages arising from your use of — or inability to use — the software or this website. That includes, without limitation: loss of data, a compromised or hacked server, downtime, hardware damage, hosting or other third-party costs, and any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, even if we were told such damages were possible.

We don’t say this to be cold. It is the honest shape of self-hosting: the whole point is that no company stands between you and your data — which also means no company stands behind it if something goes wrong. The platform is built to make the operator’s job as safe and simple as possible, but the operator is you.

Third-party apps

The apps in the catalog are developed by other teams and organizations. Each one comes with its own license, terms, and privacy policy, and your use of an app is governed by its terms, not these. My Own Suite packages and configures these apps, and publishes a privacy assessment for those we have reviewed, but does not develop them and is not responsible for their behavior. See the privacy policy for what we do — and honestly cannot do — about that.

Apps from sources you choose

My Own Suite can install app packages from a source you supply yourself, such as a repository URL you paste in. These are unverified: we have not reviewed them, we make no representation about their safety, licensing, or privacy, and they are not covered by any assessment we publish.

Installing one builds it from the publisher’s own instructions, which execute on your server. You are choosing to trust that publisher — not My Own Suite — and the decision, along with anything that follows from it, is yours. MOS shows you what a package asks for before you install it and constrains what it may request; that is a safeguard, not a guarantee, and not a substitute for your own judgment.

Changes to these terms

Like everything else in this project, these terms live in the public repository and can only change in the open, with the full history visible in git. If you keep using the software after the terms change, you accept the updated terms.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, open an issue on GitHub — plain-language answers are the whole idea.

Last updated: July 2026.