Terms of Service and End User Licence Agreement

Effective 27 September 2026 · Version 2026-09-27

These terms are a contract between you and Nikah AI Ltd, trading as Wharfsync ("we", "us", "our"), a company registered in England and Wales (company no. 17199968) with its registered office at Office 1216, 60 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 2EW. You can contact us at support@wharfsync.com, or at privacy@wharfsync.com about your personal data.

They cover the Wharfsync extension for Visual Studio Code and compatible editors (the "Software"), Wharfsync Pro subscriptions (and the Dev Classics bundle when it is offered), and this website. Our Privacy Notice, Refund & Cancellation Policy and Cookie Statement also apply.

1. Who can use Wharfsync

1.1 Anyone may install Wharfsync and use its Free features.

1.2 You must be 18 or over to buy a subscription. If you buy for a business, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms for it.

2. Your licence to use the Software

2.1 We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Software, subject to these terms.

2.2 Free features may be used by anyone, for personal or commercial work, at no charge.

2.3 Pro features (and the Dev Classics bundle) are licensed per person. One subscription covers one named person using Pro on any number of devices they personally use. A team needs one subscription per person.

2.4 You must not: share your licence key publicly or with anyone it does not cover; try to get around the licence checks; resell, rent or sublicense the Software; or reverse engineer it except where the law allows you to.

2.5 Wharfsync includes open-source components licensed under their own terms, listed in the Third-party notices. Nothing in these terms restricts the rights those licences give you.

2.6 We own the Software and the Wharfsync name. Wharfsync is independent: it is not made by, or affiliated with, the authors of the liximomo or Natizyskunk "SFTP" extensions. It reads the same .vscode/sftp.json file format so that your existing settings keep working.

3. Subscriptions, prices and payment

3.1 Wharfsync Pro costs £3.99 a month or £39 a year. The Dev Classics bundle (Pro for Wharfsync, Restwren and Treelace, £5.99 a month or £59 a year) is sold only when our Buy page lists it; we will not offer it until one bundle licence key unlocks all three products. The price shown on our website and at checkout is the total you pay. There is no free trial.

3.2 Payments are processed by Stripe. Where the checkout page shows that your purchase is sold through Stripe's merchant-of-record service (in the UK this is branded Onelink), that service is the seller of record for the payment and its buyer terms also apply to the payment.

3.3 Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each month or year until you cancel. Payment for each renewal is taken at the start of the new period.

3.4 We will not increase the price of an existing subscription. If our prices change, the new prices apply only to new subscriptions.

3.5 If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it for a limited time and Pro keeps working meanwhile. If the payment still fails, the subscription ends and Pro features switch off. Free features keep working.

3.6 Your licence key is shown on the page you reach after paying. You can retrieve it again at any time from the Retrieve my licence page. The key works offline until the expiry date inside it, which is normally the end of your paid period plus 7 days. While your subscription continues, the extension renews the key about once a day by sending the key, and nothing else, to our licence server. You can turn this off in the extension settings; the key then keeps working until its expiry date.

4. Cancelling

4.1 You can cancel at any time in the Stripe customer portal. Open it from the Manage subscription page, or with the Wharfsync: Manage or cancel subscription command in your editor.

4.2 When you cancel, you are not charged again, and Pro stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.

4.3 Your 14-day right to cancel as a consumer, and when it ends, is explained in the Refund & Cancellation Policy.

5. Your responsibilities

5.1 Only connect Wharfsync to servers and accounts you are authorised to use.

5.2 Keep your devices, accounts and credentials secure. Wharfsync keeps passwords in your operating system's keychain when you ask it to, but you control your computer and your accounts.

5.3 Read sync previews, overwrite warnings, delete confirmations and production-deploy confirmations before you accept them.

5.4 Follow the law and your hosting provider's terms.

6. What Wharfsync does

6.1 Wharfsync runs on your computer. Your files and server credentials go only between your computer and the servers you configure. We never receive your files, server addresses, usernames or passwords.

6.2 We are not your hosting provider and we do not host, store or back up your websites or files.

7. Updates and availability

7.1 We may update the Software from time to time, for example to fix faults, improve security or keep it compatible with new editor versions. Your editor installs updates from the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX according to its own settings.

7.2 The Software is designed to keep working offline. If our licence server is unavailable, your licence key keeps working until the expiry date inside it.

7.3 If we stop providing Pro features during a period you have paid for, we will refund the unused part of that period.

8. If the Software is faulty: your legal rights

If you are a consumer, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 says digital content you pay for must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. If it is not, you can ask us to repair or replace it, and if that is not possible or does not fix the problem within a reasonable time, you can have some or all of your money back. If digital content we supply damages your device or other digital content because we did not use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. For more information, contact Citizens Advice. Nothing in these terms affects these rights.

9. Our liability to you

9.1 Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that the law does not allow us to limit or exclude, including your statutory rights as a consumer.

9.2 Subject to 9.1, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Software, a subscription or these terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, is limited to the total fees you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

9.3 Subject to 9.1, we are not responsible for loss or damage that you could have avoided by keeping backups and reviewing transfers as described in the box at the top of these terms, or for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you accepted these terms.

9.4 Subject to 9.1, if you use the Software for business, we are not liable for loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, goodwill or data, or for any indirect or consequential loss.

10. Ending these terms

10.1 You may stop using the Software at any time.

10.2 We may suspend or end your Pro licence if you seriously breach these terms, for example by publishing your licence key. We will tell you if we can. If we end it for a reason that is not your breach, we will refund the unused part of your paid period.

11. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms for legal, security or product reasons. The current version, with its effective date, is always on this page. If a change materially reduces your rights during a period you have paid for, it will apply from your next renewal, and you can cancel before then.

12. Complaints and disputes

12.1 Please contact support@wharfsync.com first. We aim to reply within 5 working days.

12.2 These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you can bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, or of Scotland or Northern Ireland if you live there, and you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live.

13. General

13.1 These terms, together with the documents they refer to, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Software.

13.2 Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

13.3 If a court finds part of these terms invalid, the rest continues to apply.

13.4 We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will tell you if this happens, and it will not reduce your rights.

13.5 If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later.