Terms Versioning
Policy

1. What This Policy Covers

This policy explains how VLStudio announces changes to any of its legal documents (Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and the other policies linked from our legal documents index), and how your acceptance of those documents, and of updates to them, is captured today. It is referenced from our Terms of Service, Section 16 and our Privacy Policy, Section 18, both of which point here rather than restating this mechanism themselves.

2. How Material Changes Are Announced

When we make a material change to any VLStudio legal document, we do the following:

• Update the "Last updated" date at the top of the document itself, so the current version is always identifiable at a glance.
• Send an email notice to registered users describing the material change, for any document where we hold your email address.
• For the Terms of Service specifically, give at least 14 days' notice before a material change takes effect, consistent with Terms of Service, Section 16.

A non-material change (a clarification, a typo fix, a formatting update) may be made without the notice period above, but we still update the "Last updated" date so the change is visible.

3. How Acceptance Works Today

Today, your acceptance of a VLStudio legal document, and of a material update to one, is captured by continued use of the Service after the effective date of that document or update. If you keep using VLStudio after a change takes effect, that continued use is treated as your acceptance of the updated terms.

We say plainly that this is a weaker form of consent than a fresh, affirmative click on the specific updated document. It relies on your continued use as a proxy for agreement, rather than recording a discrete, timestamped action tied to the exact version you accepted. Where a change is significant enough that we judge continued-use consent to be insufficient, we will require a fresh acceptance action before you can keep using the affected feature; today, that judgment is made case by case rather than through a systematic versioned-consent mechanism.

4. The Signup Checkbox Gap

Until this is fixed, the acceptance basis for a new signup is the same continued-use standard described in Section 3: using the Service after creating your account is treated as your acceptance of the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in effect at that time, in addition to the recorded acceptance captured at signup.

5. Logged, Versioned Acceptance

Acceptance is recorded as a versioned, timestamped event tying a specific account to a specific document version at a specific time: the signup checkbox on the website and the desktop app both record the accepted document version and the moment of acceptance on the account, and the desktop app additionally requires explicit first-run acceptance of the EULA, re-shown whenever the documents materially change. A material update that requires fresh consent is delivered by publishing the new version and bumping the recorded version, which re-triggers acceptance in the desktop app.

6. Changes to This Policy

Changes to this policy itself follow the same continued-use acceptance standard described in Section 3.

7. Contact

• Email: vlstudiopartners@hotmail.com, interim address: vlstudiopartners@hotmail.com
• Postal: Vladyslav Zhminko, Calle de Valencia 191, Piso 6, Puerta 1, 08011, Barcelona, Spain