Legal
This is a courtesy translation. Only the German version is legally binding.
Imprint
Disclosure pursuant to § 25 Mediengesetz (Austrian Media Act):
Media owner: Jürgen Laschak
Place of residence: Graz, Austria
Contact: via github.com/JayLo1401
Basic editorial direction: Private, non-commercial website. It presents software that I develop in my spare time. No goods or services are sold and no advertising is shown.
Liability
All programs presented here are hobby projects. I develop them privately, free of charge and to the best of my knowledge, but without professional quality assurance. They are provided “as is”:
- There is no warranty or guarantee that the software is free of errors, secure or fit for any particular purpose.
- There is no entitlement to support, bug fixes, updates or continued availability.
- You install and use the software at your own risk. This applies in particular when the software controls devices (Home Control) or processes personal data of guests (Order Manager).
- If you run the software yourself, you are responsible for your own server, updates, backups and data protection towards your own users.
Liability for damages arising from the use of, or inability to use, the software is excluded to the extent permitted by law. This does not affect liability for intent and gross negligence or for personal injury. The same rule is also set out bindingly in the licenses (section “No Liability”).
Links: The operators of external sites I link to (e.g. GitHub) are solely responsible for their content. If I become aware of any legal violations, I will remove such links immediately.
Licenses
Home Control, Home Radio, rtltcp.server, the Order Manager and the
Order Manager Client are licensed under the
PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.
The binding text is the English license in the LICENSE.md file of each repository; here is a
summary in plain words:
| Allowed ✅ | Not allowed ❌ |
|---|---|
| Private use, e.g. at home or at parties with friends | Selling the software or copies of it |
| Use by clubs, schools, non-profit organizations and public authorities | Offering it as a paid service (e.g. “ordering system as a service”) |
| Reading, learning from and modifying the source code, and building your own versions | Building it into commercial products or using it in a business (e.g. in the restaurant and catering trade) |
| Passing it on – together with the license text and the copyright notice | Removing the copyright notice (“Required Notice”) |
So the source code is openly visible, but it is not “open source” in the OSI sense, because commercial use is excluded. If you'd like to use the software commercially, you can ask for a separate license via GitHub.
Third-party content and trademarks
- Home Control includes the Material Design Icons (font under the Apache License 2.0).
- “Home Assistant” is a project of the Open Home Foundation. Home Control is an independent project and is not affiliated with Home Assistant.
- Home Radio uses open data and services from GeoSphere Austria, Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap/Nominatim and Radio Browser. The weather radar comes from a source you enter yourself. Full attributions can be found in the app under Settings → About and in the README.
- rtltcp.server ships libusb (LGPL-2.1) under its own license.
- All trademarks and product names mentioned belong to their respective owners.
Privacy
This website is deliberately kept simple: no cookies, no tracking, no analytics tools, no embedded third-party content and no external fonts. There are no forms and no customer accounts.
Server logs: When pages are accessed, the web server stores technically necessary data (IP address, date and time, page accessed, browser identifier) in log files. This serves secure operation and defense against attacks (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (DSGVO)). The logs are kept only briefly, deleted automatically and not combined with any other data.
Hosting: The website runs on a server of Hetzner Online GmbH in a data center in the EU.
External links: Links to GitHub and other sites are only opened when you click them. From then on, the privacy policy of the respective site applies.
Your rights: You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and objection. To exercise them, please use the contact given above. You can lodge complaints with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde, dsb.gv.at).
The programs themselves (Home Control, Home Radio, rtltcp.server, Order Manager, Order Manager Client) don't send any data to me. They run at your home or on your own server. Home Radio fetches weather and station data directly from the services mentioned above, and the radar image from the source you entered yourself.