Terms of Service

Last updated on 15 Oct 2026.

Forge Simply offers Git hosting and related services. The Service is operated on European based and owned infrastructure, and as far as practical, all supporting services are also based in Europe. Please see our Privacy Policy for details.

These Terms of Service describe the terms and conditions (“Terms”) that apply to all of the services Forge Simply and its subsidiaries offer, including but not limited to our Git hosting platform and its associated features (“Services”). By using our Services, you agree to these Terms.

If you have any questions, please see our Contact page.

You must be old enough for an account, the account is your responsibility and we may terminate it.

Accounts are only available to users who are 13 years of age or older, or the minimum age for accessing internet services in their country, whichever is older. You must also be a human, accounts registered through automated means are not permitted. Accounts utilized by an automated process are permitted, so long as the initial account registration was manually performed by a human.

You are responsible for your account, any activity performed with it, and the security of your account credentials.

Your account may be disabled without notice at any time, temporarily or permanently, for any reason.

We require an email address to register an account. This email address must be kept up-to-date and we must be able to reach you for official communication at this address. If we are unable to reach you, your account may be terminated.

We expect you to use our Services as authorised.

You must not use Forge Simply in an unlawful manner, such as by storing or transmitting unlawful content or using the Services in a manner which would cause them to store or transmit unlawful content under applicable South African and/or European laws and regulations.

The following types of content are explicitly prohibited:

  • explicit sexual content
  • malware in executable form; or in source form without obvious disclaimers describing the legal and practical risks of use
  • any content which utilizes our platform for malware delivery or activation
  • content which infringes on any copyright, patent, or trademark you do not own
  • content related to cryptocurrency or blockchain technologies
  • content for which the default use is to cause harm

You must not deliberately use the Services for the purpose of:

  • impacting Service availability for other users
  • obtaining or disclosing private information of other users
  • impersonating any person other than yourself or organisations you are authorised to represent
  • spamming, unsolicited advertising, or solicitation
  • threatening or harassing others
  • cryptocurrency mining

You may use automated tools to obtain public information from the Services for the purposes of archival or open-access research. You may not use this data for recruiting, solicitation, or profit.

We are not responsible for content users upload to the Service.

You may get access to other people’s content if they make it publicly accessible on the Service or if they choose to explicitly give you access. We are not responsible for the content users choose to upload.

If you believe any content violates your intellectual property rights you should contact the content owner. If you believe any content violates these Terms, you may lodge a complaint with us.

You own your code and you grant us sufficient rights to operate our Services.

When uploading content to Forge Simply, you must have the right to do so. You grant Forge Simply sufficient rights for the operation of the Services in relation to your content, such as the right to display the content on the website. These rights are revoked upon the removal of your content from our Services. We may retain your content in our system (e.g. for backups) for up to three months, but it will not display on our website during this period.

If you own the copyright for the content you upload, these rights are granted automatically when you upload the content. If you do not own the copyright, in part or in full, you must have received a license which provides for these rights. You may not upload content for which you do not own the copyright and have not received a suitable license.

“Free software” and “open source” licenses (defined respectively by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative) provide for these rights, as well as all Creative Commons licenses. Other licenses may or may not provide these rights, and it is your responsibility to check.

You may request an archive of all the operational information we hold relating to your account by contacting us via email or the Contact page. Allow for up to 4 weeks for an archive to be prepared. We may conduct security and verification checks to convince ourselves that you are the legitimate owner of the requested account.

If you need an archive of Service related content (e.g. Git repos, tickets, attachments, etc) you may use the normal user interfaces to download them.

We don’t provide AI/ML access. You may, provided you own the content and it doesn’t hamper our Service.

Forge Simply does not use your content to do machine learning (“ML”) or artificial intelligence (“AI”) training, nor do we provide such access to external parties.

You may provide access for AI/ML tools and services to content that you own provided such access remains compliant with all the other conditions in these Terms, does place a load on the Service that varies substantially from normal human use, does not negatively impact other clients’ perceived user experience, or result in expenses for Forge Simply which are not covered by your subscription plan.

You may NOT provide access for AI/ML tools or services to content which you do not own, even though you may legally have the right to use and modify such content, e.g. forks of open-source software in your account.

Some Services require payment, we do not give refunds.

Some Services require payment for service, or for different degrees of service. When you request paid services, you are billed immediately for the displayed term. These services will be remitted to you at the displayed price, which will not change during the payment term. If you authorise us to automatically renew your service at the end of the term, you will be notified at least 1 week in advance of renewal when the price has changed during the previous payment term.

No refunds are given for partial service or when you request your services are downgraded. In the event that your services are downgraded, you are billed the reduced price at the start of the next billing term.

We may terminate our Services, do not provide warranties and are not liable.

We may disable or terminate all or part of our Services, permanently or temporarily, at any time with or without notice.

This software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the copyright holder or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

We listen to feedback and may use it to improve our Services.

If you choose to provide us with feedback about our Services (for example, by completing a survey or sending us an email), you grant us a forever license to use your input to improve our Services without any payment or credit to you.

We do not give you rights to our trademarks.

Using our Services does not grant you any rights to use our trademarks or branding elements.

We retain intellectual property rights and we make use of open-source software.

We retain all intellectual property rights in our Services. To build our Services, we incorporate and build upon third-party software and services, some of which are open-source. Whenever we modify open-source software for our purposes we make those modifications available either in the upstream project or as a separate soft fork.

We have written these terms to be severable

If any of these Terms is found to be void or unenforceable, it will not affect the other Terms.

We will make it clear when the terms change

We will make it clear when these terms are modified by posting the latest version at this URL and indicating the last modification date. Continuing to access or use our Services after any changes constitutes your consent and agreement to any new terms.