Plain rules, no surprises.

The short version

Your media lives on your hardware and stays yours, and so does the responsibility for it. We run the account, connectivity, and app side, and we expect you to use it lawfully. Supporter is optional and funds development, maintenance, and our infrastructure. We can close accounts that are abused, we answer valid copyright complaints, and if you ever leave, your library is already sitting on your own disk.

Who you are agreeing with

tofa is built and operated from Iceland, where we are completing the registration of the company behind it, tofa ehf. These terms are an agreement between you and tofa, and once the registration completes they carry over to the company automatically. We will update this page with the company details when that happens, and nothing about your rights changes because of it.

What tofa is

tofa has three parts, and it helps to keep them apart:

• The server software, which you download and run on your own hardware. Your media files live there and only there. We never copy or store your library in our cloud.
• The cloud services we operate: your account and sign-in, the connectivity that lets your devices reach your server from anywhere, discovery, requests between users and owners, and watch-state sync.
• The apps, on your TV, phone, tablet, and the web.

tofa is currently in beta. Things mostly work, and sometimes they will not. We ship fixes fast, but during the beta you should expect rough edges.

Your account

You need an account to use the cloud services. Keep your sign-in to yourself, give us a real email address so we can reach you about your account, and tell us if you think someone else has access. If you run a server and invite people to it, choose people you trust. What your invited users can see and do on your server is under your control, and inviting them is your call, not ours.

Your library is yours, and your responsibility

Everything in your library sits on hardware you own and control. That is the point of tofa. It also means the content is yours in every sense: you are responsible for having the necessary rights to the media you store, stream, and share with the people you invite. tofa provides software and connectivity. We do not supply content, we do not have a catalogue, and we cannot see what is in your library.

Tools you connect to your server

tofa can connect to third-party tools that you install, run, and configure yourself, for example software that manages and organises your media collection. Those tools are yours. We do not provide them, operate them, or control what they do, and connecting them is optional and off by default. When tofa passes something along to a tool you have connected, such as a request from one of your users, what happens next is done by your tools under your configuration and on your responsibility. Use them lawfully.

Acceptable use

A few hard lines. Do not:

• Use tofa to break the law, including copyright law.
• Sell access to your server or run it as a commercial streaming service. tofa is for personal, non-commercial use with your household and family.
• Attack, overload, or probe the service, other users, or other people's servers.
• Work around limits, gates, or security measures.

If an account crosses these lines we can suspend or close it. Where it makes sense we will warn you first, but for serious abuse we act first and explain after.

Supporter and payments

Hosting, streaming, and sharing your library stay free. Supporter is optional and unlocks extras for the owner and the household and family members they invite while using that server. Viewers don't need their own subscription, and the benefits don't extend to other servers they use or own. During the beta, Supporter features are unlocked for everyone at no charge.

tofa is for personal, non-commercial use with your household and family. You must have the necessary rights to the media you stream and share. Selling access to your server or operating a commercial streaming service is prohibited.

Supporter belongs to your owner account and covers the personal servers you own and the household and family members you invite. Reinstalling, replacing hardware, or adding another personal server doesn't require another purchase. Relay capacity is shared across those servers.

Supporter relay fallback runs at up to 4 Mbps per stream, with three simultaneous relay streams shared across all servers owned by your account. Adding servers or viewers doesn't multiply relay capacity. Direct connections have no tofa bitrate cap.

Lifetime means Supporter on your owner account for as long as tofa operates the service. It includes the Supporter features and allowances listed when you buy, plus updates to those features. A later price change for new purchases doesn't change your lifetime entitlement.

Lifetime doesn't promise every future paid product or service. Any separately priced additions will be clearly described and won't remove the features or allowances included in your purchase.

The beta stays free with Supporter features unlocked. When founding purchases open, buying will be optional and will secure lifetime Supporter for after beta. We'll announce the sale in advance and give notice before paid feature restrictions begin. Joining the beta doesn't reserve a founding pass.

After paid feature restrictions begin, new server owners will get a 30-day Supporter trial with no card required. It starts with the first successful playback from their first owned server, once per owner account, and covers their personal servers and invited viewers within the usual Supporter allowances. It won't automatically charge or reserve a founding pass.

We'll remind you before the trial ends. Without a purchase, your account returns to Free and ordinary streaming continues. Supporter automation pauses; saved rules and downloaded subtitle files stay in place. Cleanup rules only run if you choose to configure and enable them.

Everyone can read the public roadmap. After beta, submitting feature requests and voting require a Supporter account. Invited viewers don't gain those account benefits through a server owner's purchase. Feature requests and voting stay unlocked during the free beta. You can still report bugs and ask for help on Free. Votes help us prioritise alongside playback reliability, feasibility, and work already underway. A vote isn't a promise of a feature or a delivery date.

Prices are shown before you buy. Monthly and annual plans renew until you cancel; you can cancel renewal anytime. Lifetime is a one-time payment with no renewal. Price changes don't apply retroactively to a period or lifetime entitlement you've already bought. If you buy Supporter and it isn't what you expected, email us within 14 days and we'll refund it.

Copyright complaints

We respect copyright and we expect the same from everyone using tofa. If you are a rights holder and believe a tofa account is infringing your rights, send a notice to [email protected]. For us to act on it, your notice needs to include:

• The work you hold rights to, identified clearly.
• What you believe is infringing and where you encountered it.
• Your name, organisation, and contact details.
• A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the rights holder, their agent, or the law.
• A statement that your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them, plus your physical or electronic signature.

We review valid notices promptly and take appropriate action on the account involved. Remember that media files live on users' own hardware, not on our servers, so our action concerns the account and the cloud services we provide to it. The account holder gets a copy of the notice and a chance to respond, and if they send a proper counter-notice we follow the process the law sets out. Accounts that attract repeated valid complaints are closed. Knowingly false notices carry legal liability for the sender, so please only use this channel for genuine claims.

Leaving, and being asked to leave

You can stop using tofa and delete your account whenever you want, and your library is unaffected because it was never with us to begin with. We can suspend or close accounts that break these terms, as described above. If we ever decide to wind down a service, we will give you fair notice, and your media keeps playing from your own hardware regardless.

No promises we cannot keep

tofa is provided as is, and during the beta especially, without warranties. We work hard to keep the cloud services up, but we do not guarantee they will always be available or error-free. Your media and your backups are in your hands, which is where you wanted them. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, and nothing here reduces the consumer rights you hold under the law where you live.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will update this page and the date at the top, and tell account holders before the change takes effect. Continuing to use tofa after that means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Iceland, and disputes belong to the Icelandic courts, unless the consumer protection rules where you live give you a stronger right, in which case those win.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email [email protected] and a real person will answer. Copyright notices go to [email protected], privacy questions to [email protected].