Terms of Use

Effective August 2026 · Applies to the Magpie desktop application for Windows (the “Software”), published by Good Steward Companies LLC, a California company (“we”, “us”). How the Software handles your data is described in the app privacy policy.

By downloading, installing, or using Magpie you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, don’t install it.

1. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Software on devices you own or control, for your personal or internal business use. The core Software is provided free of charge.

2. Ownership

The Software is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors keep all right, title, and interest in it, including all intellectual property rights. No rights are granted beyond those stated here. “Magpie” and the associated logo are our trademarks, and these terms grant you no right to use them.

3. What you may not do

Copy, redistribute, sublicense, sell, rent, lease, or host the Software for third parties.
Modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of it.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it, except where that restriction is prohibited by law.
Remove or alter any proprietary notices.
Use it to build a competing product, or to break any law or anyone else’s rights.

The Software is closed-source. Release artifacts are distributed for use only; the source code is not licensed to you.

4. Accounts you connect

At your direction, the Software can connect to services you already use — Google Calendar, Microsoft 365 or Outlook calendars, and email providers over IMAP and SMTP. Your use of those services is governed by their terms and privacy policies, not these. You are responsible for your own credentials, including app passwords, and for anything those services charge or require. We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, or changes they make. Where OAuth is used, your access tokens are stored on your device and encrypted at rest, as described in the privacy policy.

5. Your data, and your backups

Magpie is local-first: your content lives on your device, not on our servers. What is and is not encrypted at rest is set out in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms. You keep ownership of your data. You are responsible for your own backups — because we hold no copy of your content, we cannot restore it for you.

6. Updates

The Software checks for and installs updates automatically so you get fixes without reinstalling. These terms cover updates unless an update comes with its own.

7. Paid features, if they arrive

The core Software is free. We may later offer optional paid features. Any of those would come with their own terms and pricing shown before you buy, and nothing here obliges us to build them.

8. Support

Support is community-based and best-effort, through the public issue tracker (GitHub Issues on magpie-releases). There is no service-level agreement, and no guarantee of support, response times, or fixes. We may change or discontinue the Software or any feature at any time.

9. No warranty

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, OR THAT IT WILL WORK WITH ANY PARTICULAR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE. Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this may not apply to you.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GOOD STEWARD WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SOFTWARE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) WHAT YOU PAID US FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) US$50. Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain limitations, so parts of this may not apply to you.

11. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold Good Steward harmless from claims arising out of your misuse of the Software, or your breach of these terms or of applicable law.

12. Termination

These terms run until terminated, and terminate automatically if you breach them. On termination you must stop using the Software and uninstall it. Sections 2, 3, 5, and 9 to 14 survive.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in California.

14. General

These terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the Software and replace any earlier understanding. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. Not enforcing a provision isn’t a waiver of it. We may update these terms; material changes will be posted here with a new effective date, and continuing to use the Software means you accept them.

Reaching a person: the fastest route for anything about the app — including a bug, a licence question, or a privacy request — is the public issue tracker, or the contact form on goodstewardcompanies.com.

These terms are written in plain language where possible. They are not legal advice, and where a law requires something different, that law controls.