Terms of Use

1. About the Project

Iced Latte is a non-profit, community-driven project created and maintained by Zufar Sunagatov. It serves as a learning sandbox for engineers and as a live demonstration of modern software engineering practices. The platform is not a real commercial store, no real coffee is sold, and no real payments are processed in the demo environment.

2. License & Prohibited Use

The source code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

You are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided that you give appropriate credit to Zufar Sunagatov, provide a link to the license, indicate if changes were made, and do not use the material for commercial purposes.

• Commercial use of any kind without prior written permission.
• Use in educational courses, bootcamps, workshops, tutorials, or training programs, whether free or paid.
• Use by companies, organizations, or individuals as a foundation, template, or reference implementation for commercial products or services.
• Redistribution under a different license or without proper attribution.

3. User Accounts

• You may create an account using an email address or Google OAuth.
• You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure.
• You must provide accurate information during registration.
• We reserve the right to suspend or delete accounts that violate these terms.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the platform for any unlawful purpose.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the platform, its servers, or databases.
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to extract data beyond normal API usage.
• Upload malicious content, spam, or any material that infringes on the rights of others.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any entity.
• Interfere with or disrupt the platform's infrastructure.

5. Intellectual Property

• The Iced Latte name, logo, and branding are the property of Zufar Sunagatov.
• Product images, descriptions, and sample data on the platform are for demonstration purposes only.
• User-generated content such as reviews and ratings remains the property of the respective users, but by submitting content you grant Iced Latte a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display it on the platform.

6. Privacy & Data

• We collect only the data necessary to operate the platform: email, name, and authentication tokens.
• Passwords are hashed using Argon2 and are never stored in plain text.
• We do not sell, share, or rent your personal data to third parties.
• You may request deletion of your account and associated data by contacting zufar.sunagatov@gmail.com.

7. Payments

All payment functionality on this platform is strictly educational and demonstrative. No real financial transactions are processed. The platform integrates with Stripe in test mode only to demonstrate payment flow implementation.

• No real money is charged, transferred, or held.
• No real goods or services are sold or delivered.
• Credit card numbers entered in the demo environment are processed by Stripe's test sandbox and are not real charges.
• The author assumes no liability for any financial loss arising from misuse or misunderstanding of the payment demonstration features.

8. Availability & Warranties

• This platform is a personal pet project. It is provided as is and as available without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
• We do not guarantee uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free operation.
• We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the platform at any time without notice.
• The platform should not be relied upon for any production, business, or mission-critical purpose.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Zufar Sunagatov and the Iced Latte contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of data, loss of profits, or loss of goodwill, arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the platform, regardless of the theory of liability.

10. Contributing

By submitting a pull request or other contribution to the Iced Latte repositories, you agree that your contribution is your original work or you have the right to submit it, your contribution is licensed under the same CC BY-NC 4.0 license as the project, and you grant the project maintainers the right to use, modify, and distribute your contribution.

11. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. Changes will be reflected by updating the Last updated date at the top of this document. Continued use of the platform after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

12. Contact

For questions, concerns, or requests regarding these terms:

• Email: zufar.sunagatov@gmail.com
• Telegram: @lucky_1uck
• GitHub Issues: github.com/Sunagatov/Iced-Latte/issues