These terms of service are a legal agreement between you, either an individual or a single legal entity (“You” or “you”), and HotThemes. Please read the following Terms and Conditions carefully. Your purchase or use of our products or services implies that you have read and accepted these Terms of Use. These terms of service are valid only for our products.

License Agreement

All products (templates, modules, plugins) are released under the GNU/GPLv2 GPL version 2.0 license. HotThemes grants you a license to use the software (templates, modules, plugins) sold through our website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

Single Product Purchase

You can buy single template or extension license. In this case, you are licensing one product only. You can use the product on an unlimited number of domains. You can use our support system to get support for 1 (one) domain. You are allowed to rebrand the product. You are allowed to remove the HotThemes branding of the purchased product. You can download updates of the licensed template or extension, Photoshop source PSD file, and demo installer without time limits (lifetime). You are eligible to get support for the purchased template or extension.

Membership Plans (All inclusive)

You have three options when subscribing for a membership:

  • Personal Plan: You can download all templates and extensions released by the date of your subscription. You can download all templates and extensions released 3 (three) months from the date of your subscription. You are licensed to use templates and extensions on an unlimited number of domains. You can use our support system to get support for up to 3 (three) domains. You are allowed to remove the HotThemes branding of downloaded templates. When your subscription expires, if you don't renew it, you would not be able to download updates of templates and extensions. You have the right to download the Photoshop source PSD files and demo installer files.
  • Developer Plan: You can download all templates and extensions released by the date of your subscription. You can download all templates and extensions released 12 (twelve) months from the date of your subscription. You are licensed to use templates and extensions on an unlimited number of domains. You can use our support system to get support for up to 5 (five) domains. You are allowed to remove the HotThemes branding of downloaded templates. When your subscription expires, if you don't renew it, you would not be able to download updates of templates and extensions/plugins. You have the right to download the Photoshop source PSD files and demo installer files.
  • Enterprise Plan: You can download all templates and extensions released by the date of your subscription. You can download all templates and extensions released 12 (twelve) months from the date of your subscription. You are licensed to use templates and extensions on an unlimited number of domains. You can use our support system to get support for an unlimited number of domains. You are allowed to remove the HotThemes branding of downloaded templates. When your subscription expires, if you don't renew it, you would not be able to download updates of templates and extensions/plugins. You have the right to download the Photoshop source PSD files and demo installer files.

Modifications

You are authorized to make modification(s) to our products to fit your purposes or requests of your client(s). The PHP code portions of templates, modules, and plugins that interact via linking with the Joomla or WordPress are released under the GPL version 2.0 license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU/GPLv2). Unless otherwise stated, all images, cascading style sheets, non-linked PHP, and included JavaScript are NOT GPL and are released under a proprietary license and may not be redistributed or repackaged for use other than those allowed by the Terms of Service

Ownership

All templates, modules, and plugins downloaded from this website are the property of HotThemes. You may not claim intellectual or exclusive ownership of any of our products, modified or unmodified. Our products are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall our juridical person be liable for any damages including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages or other losses arising out of the use of or inability to use our products.

Refund Policy

If it's not possible to install our products on your site, and if our support staff is unable to help you, you are eligible for a refund. Your satisfaction is guaranteed or your money will be refunded! We honor refund requests placed within 7 days from the date of purchase.

Warranty

HotThemes does not warranty or guarantee these templates, modules, plugins, or information found on this website in any manner. We cannot guarantee they will function with all 3rd party software. Browser compatibility should be tested on our demo servers https://demo.hotjoomlatemplates.com prior to license or club membership purchase. Please ensure that the browsers you use will work with our products as we can not guarantee that HotThemes products will work with all browser combinations.

Support

HotThemes does not offer support related to 3rd party software. We offer support only for our templates, modules, and plugins. You are welcome to post if you have fair computer knowledge and your question is related to:

  • Finding and resolving errors in our products.
  • Questions about installation of our products on your server.
  • Instructions on how to use our products.
  • General questions about our products.

In the following and any other cases, support staff may not reply to your question or may delete your post without prior notice:

  • Questions about modifications of our products. If you decide and have the right to modify our products, we are not obligated to help you in this process.
  • Assistance related to software upgrades is not included in our support.

Title Passage

If you purchase rights to use our software using a digital distribution method (i.e., you download the template(s) from our authorized site), our obligation to deliver the template copy(s) to you shall be complete at such time as, and place where, the software(s) are first made available to you for download (i.e., at the physical location of our server). At that time and place, all risk of loss of your copy of the downloaded software(s) shall pass to you.

Media files used for demonstration purposes

You acknowledge that the site contains or may contain material (collectively the “Content”) that is protected by copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights; therefore, you are only permitted to use the material as expressly authorized by HotThemes. You may not transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part, except with an expressly permitted Agreement from the developer. Content used in our Demos and HotStarts are used for demonstration purposes only and should not be used in any live environment without the express permission of HotThemes or any other copyright holder.

All images, icons, fonts and other media files on our template demonstrations located on the address https://demo.hotjoomlatemplates.com are used for demonstration purposes only. All those media files are taken from free Internet resources. As per our best knowledge, those media files are not copyrighted. Some of the other media files are licensed for use by HotThemes. However, after installation of the product you bought from us, you should change all media files used for template demonstration with your own files or license them for use on your site.

If your copyright has been violated

HotThemes provides templates by in-house and freelance designers and programmers. HotThemes prohibit our designers from using materials that infringe third party intellectual property rights (such as copyright, trademark, trade dress, and right of publicity) in their designs. The intellectual property rights owners may contact us if they believe that a designer has infringed their rights. If you let us know that your rights are being infringed by one of our designers or programmers, we will remove the design or software in question from products and, if the designer or programmer continues to infringe your rights, terminate our agreement with the designer or programmer. If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been infringed by one of our designers or programmer, please contact us immediately.

Branding

The Joomla!® name is used under a limited license from Open Source Matters in the United States and other countries. HotThemes is not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Source Matters or the Joomla! Project.

Privacy Policy

Please read separate Privacy Policy page that's available on this website. By your agreement with this Terms of Service you also confirm that you read and agree with our Privacy Policy.

Changes in this document

HotThemes reserves the right to change or modify current Terms of Service with no prior notice. We may change these Terms of Service from time to time. Changes to this Terms of Service are effective upon posting.  Please check back periodically for updates. If at any point we decide to use change this document in a manner that is materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users have a choice to request their data to be deleted from our database by contacting us at any time.

 

Last Updated: December 14, 2022