1. The Services
VanlyFacture provides educational and planning resources for people designing campervan and similar electrical systems, including step-by-step calculators (for example, daily energy needs, battery capacity, and charging sources), articles, and related materials.
The Services are intended to help you estimate and learn. Outputs depend on the assumptions and inputs you provide. Content may reflect professional engineering education and experience, but the Services remain general planning and educational tools for a wide audience, not retained work for your specific project unless we agree otherwise in writing. Features may change, be added, or be discontinued over time.
2. Not professional advice; consulting
Using the website, calculators, or articles does not create an engineer–client relationship, duty of care, or guarantee that any design is safe, legal, or suitable for your vehicle, installation, or jurisdiction. Nothing on the Services is a substitute for advice or services from professionals who review your site-specific conditions (including licensing, inspection, product certification, and local codes). Standards, codes, and product requirements vary by region and change over time.
If we offer or agree to paid consulting or one-to-one support for your build, that work—if any—is governed by a separate written agreement (scope, fees, deliverables, and limitations) and does not change the general educational nature of the public Services for everyone else.
You remain responsible for verifying designs, installations, and purchases with appropriate professionals and manufacturers and for complying with applicable laws and regulations. See also our Disclaimer.
3. Eligibility
The Services are not directed at young children. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Services only with the involvement and consent of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. If you are an adult, you represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.
If you use the Services on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Services in any way that violates law or infringes others’ rights (including intellectual property and privacy);
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, our systems, or third-party systems; probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities without permission; or overload or disrupt the Services;
- Use automated means (such as scraping, bots, or bulk harvesting) in a way that impairs the Services or violates our published crawler rules (for example
/robots.txt); - Misrepresent your identity, submit false or misleading information, or use the Services to distribute malware, spam, or harmful content;
- Reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code from the Services except where applicable law expressly permits this despite this limitation.
We may suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or pose a risk to the Services or other users.
5. Accounts, email signups, and local data
Parts of the planner may work without creating an account. Planner inputs and estimates may be stored in your browser (for example, using local storage) so your session can persist. You control that data through your browser settings.
If you submit an email address for notifications, waitlists, or similar optional programs, you agree that we may use it as described in our Privacy Policy and any notice shown at signup. You must provide a valid address you control.
6. Intellectual property
The Services, including text, graphics, logos, layouts, software, and planner logic (excluding your own inputs), are owned by VanlyFacture or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your own non-commercial planning and learning, subject to these Terms.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Services except as allowed by law or with our prior written consent. Feedback you voluntarily provide may be used by us without obligation to you.
7. Third-party links and services
The Services may link to third-party sites, tools, or products. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, terms, or practices. Your use of third-party offerings is at your own risk and subject to their terms.
Some links may be affiliate links (including to retailers such as Amazon). If you use those links and make a qualifying purchase, we may earn a commission from the merchant at no extra cost to you. How we handle affiliate relationships, editorial independence, and Amazon Associates is explained in our Disclaimer (Affiliate links).
We use service providers (for example, hosting and database providers) to operate the Services, as described in our Privacy Policy.
8. Disclaimers
The Services are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, to the fullest extent permitted by law. This includes implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that any estimates or outputs are accurate or complete for your situation.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions; in those cases, our warranties are limited to the minimum required by law.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, VanlyFacture and its owners, contractors, and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your use of or inability to use the Services, including personal injury or property damage allegedly connected to reliance on the Services.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of these Terms or the Services is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Services in the twelve (12) months before the claim (if any), or (b) fifty euros (€50) or the equivalent in your local currency. If you have not paid us, that amount is zero and the cap in (b) still applies where legally permissible.
These limitations apply whether the claim is based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Where liability cannot be excluded but can be capped, our liability is capped as above.
10. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VanlyFacture and its owners and personnel from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Services, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of others’ rights. We may assume exclusive defence of any matter subject to indemnification, at your expense, upon written notice to you.
11. Changes to the Services or Terms
We may modify the Services or these Terms at any time. We will post updated Terms on this page and change the “Last updated” date. For material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate (for example, a notice on the site or by email if we have your address). Your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms, except where applicable law requires a different process for consumers.
12. Termination
You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or terminate access to the Services, or remove content, for any reason, including breach of these Terms or operational needs, with or without notice where permitted by law.
Provisions that by their nature should survive (including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law) will survive termination.
13. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which VanlyFacture operates, without regard to conflict-of-law rules that would require another jurisdiction’s laws, except that mandatory consumer protection rules in your country of residence may still apply to you where they cannot be waived.
Unless applicable law requires otherwise, courts in that same jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms or the Services. Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us (see below) so we can try to resolve the issue informally.
14. General
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Disclaimer, are the entire agreement between you and VanlyFacture regarding the Services and supersede any prior understandings on the same subject.
No waiver. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Severability. If any provision is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
15. Contact
For questions about these Terms, please use our Contact page.