Terms of Service

Last updated 21 September 2026. Please read these terms carefully before using Lean CMS. By installing or using the plugin you agree to them.

We are an Australian business. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law cannot be excluded and are not affected by anything on this page. These terms are written in plain language rather than in the densest form available — they are the agreement, not legal advice about it.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Lean CMS plugin and any related services provided by Piksoul ("we", "us", "our"). Lean CMS is open-source software distributed under the GPL; these Terms cover your use of it and any paid services you choose to take from us.

By installing or using the Plugin, or by taking a paid licence or service from us, you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to do so, and "you" means that organisation.

Plugin means the Lean CMS software, including the Core plugin and any Pro or theme components we supply.

Site means one WordPress installation answering at one web address.

Content means the layouts, text, media and configuration you create with the Plugin.

Services means any paid support, updates, hosting, build work or managed tooling we provide.

Licence means a paid entitlement from us to receive builds, updates and support for an agreed number of Sites — distinct from the GPL, which governs the code itself.

The Plugin's source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. That licence governs what you may do with the code: use it, modify it, and redistribute it on the same terms. It does not expire, and nothing in these Terms takes it away from you.

In practical terms, you may install the Plugin wherever you like — on as many Sites, staging copies and development copies as you wish. What a paid Licence buys is separate, and is covered in the next section.

You may not resell, sublicense or redistribute a licence key or your access to our update service. The key is an access credential, not part of the GPL-licensed code, and sharing it is a breach of these Terms.

A paid Licence covers activations: the Sites that may receive builds, automatic updates and support through our distribution service. Your agreement with us states how many.

One Site means one website at one web address. Reinstalling, restoring or rebuilding at the same address does not consume a further activation. A staging or development copy needs no activation of its own — it will run perfectly well, it simply will not receive updates or support.

Support covers the current release. If you are running an older one, we may ask you to update before we investigate, because we need to reproduce a problem on the current version. Security fixes ship forward in the next release rather than being applied to older ones.

WordPress Multisite networks are not officially supported. Nothing in the Plugin is known to be incompatible with them, but they are not part of what we test against, and a Licence counts each site in a network separately. Talk to us before installing on one.

There is no checkout on this website. Licences and Services are arranged directly with us, and the commercial terms — price, payment, invoicing, renewal and refunds — are set out in the agreement or quote we give you, not here.

Two things are worth stating up front because they differ from most of the market. Licences are annual and do not auto-renew: we invoice you and you choose whether to pay, rather than a card being charged automatically. And if you do not renew, the Plugin keeps working — you simply stop receiving updates and support.

Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law apply to every purchase regardless of what an agreement says. See section 9.

You agree not to use the Plugin or Services to break the law, infringe anyone else's rights, distribute malware, send unsolicited commercial messages, or attempt to disrupt, overload or gain unauthorised access to our systems.

You are responsible for your Content and for the Sites you run the Plugin on, including keeping WordPress and your hosting secure and taking your own backups.

You keep all rights to your own Content. Nothing in these Terms gives us ownership of the layouts, text, media or configuration you create.

The Plugin's code is GPL-licensed, as set out in section 3. Our trademarks, name, logo and brand assets are not — the open-source licence grants no right to use them. If you redistribute a modified version of the Plugin, as the GPL permits, do not present it as ours or use our branding on it.

The Plugin runs inside WordPress and alongside your theme, your other plugins and your hosting, none of which we control. It also includes third-party open-source components, each under its own licence.

We cannot warrant that the Plugin will work with every combination of theme, plugin and host. Where an incompatibility is ours to fix, we will fix it; where it is in another vendor's code, we will tell you what we found.

We are an Australian business and the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) applies to what we supply.

Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies those guarantees, and where anything here conflicts with them, the guarantees prevail.

Among other things, those guarantees mean what we supply must be of acceptable quality, match its description, and be reasonably fit for any purpose we have told you it is fit for. Where a failure is major, you may cancel and seek a refund, or seek compensation for the drop in value. Where it is not major, you may have it put right within a reasonable time — and if we do not do that, you may then cancel or seek a refund. You may also be entitled to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss caused by the failure.

Sections 10 and 11 are read subject to this section.

Subject to section 9, and to the fullest extent the law permits, the Plugin is provided "as is". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that it will meet every requirement of your Site, or that it will be compatible with every theme, plugin or host.

Where the law permits us to limit a remedy — broadly, for goods and services not of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use — our liability for a breach of a guarantee is limited to resupplying the goods or services, or paying the cost of having them resupplied.

Subject to section 9, and to the fullest extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, loss of data, loss of profit, or loss of business opportunity arising from your use of the Plugin or Services — however caused.

Where our liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, it is limited in total to the amount you have paid us for the Licence or Service the claim relates to in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including under the Australian Consumer Law, or for fraud.

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your Content, from your use of the Plugin or Services in breach of these Terms, or from your breach of the law or a third party's rights.

This does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own breach, negligence or wrongdoing.

This website does not collect personal information — there is no form, no account and no analytics on it. Our Privacy Statement sets out what that means in practice and what does reach a third party.

Where you contact us, or where we provide you with Services, we handle your personal information in line with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

The Plugin itself runs on your own server and sends us nothing about your Site or its visitors. The exception is the update service: a Site with an activated Licence identifies itself to that service when it checks for a build. Our Privacy Statement covers what that involves.

We may suspend or end paid Services for serious or repeated breach of these Terms, or for non-payment, with notice where it is practical to give it.

You may stop using the Plugin at any time, and you may choose not to renew a Licence at the end of its term. If a Licence ends, the Plugin keeps working on your Sites under the GPL — you stop receiving builds, updates and support.

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes are noted by updating the date at the top of this page. Where a change materially reduces your rights under a current paid Licence, we will tell you rather than relying on this page alone.

Continuing to use the Plugin or Services after a change means you accept the revised Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Western Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Western Australia.

If you are a consumer in another country, this does not take away any rights you have under the mandatory consumer law of the place you live.

Questions about these Terms, or about a Licence? Get in touch and we will help.

For support on a current Licence, email [email protected] or contact your account manager. To report a security issue privately, email [email protected].