Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions
Effective date: October 8, 2026 · Last updated: October 8, 2026
42 Editor saves your changes to the original file, so keep backups of files that matter and check your edits before you rely on them. The app is free and provided as is.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By downloading, installing or using the 42 Editor application ("the App"), published by CS42.org ("we", "us", "our"), you agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.
2. Description of Service
42 Editor is a free code and text editor for iPhone and iPad. It opens text files from your device and from the file providers available in the Files app, edits them in place with syntax highlighting, shows CSV and TSV files as an editable table, previews Markdown and HTML files, and saves your changes back to the original file. It does not run or compile code.
3. Licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App on Apple devices you own or control, in line with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. We retain all rights not expressly granted.
4. Your Files
The files you open, create and edit with the App are yours. We claim no ownership of them and, because they are never sent to us, we have no access to them. You are responsible for the content of your files, for having the right to change them, and for anything you choose to share.
5. Editing in Place and Backups
The App saves your changes to the original file: when you tap Save, and, with Autosave on (the default), two seconds after you stop typing and whenever you leave the file or the App. Deleting a file or folder in the App's folder view removes it from where it is stored, and the App cannot undo that. Choosing Open as Text Anyway for a file that is not text, and then saving it, can damage it. Keep backups of files that matter.
6. Formatting, Tables and Highlighting
Syntax highlighting, JSON formatting, CSV and TSV parsing and the encoding and line-ending detection are aids. They can misread unusual files, so check the result before you rely on it, especially before saving a file that other software depends on.
7. The Preview
The preview shows an HTML or Markdown file as a web page. Like a browser, it loads any images, stylesheets or scripts the file refers to at web addresses, and it runs the scripts in an HTML file. Preview only files you trust. Links you tap in the preview open in Safari or your mail app.
8. Third-Party File Providers
iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Working Copy and other file providers are run by their own companies under their own terms. Their syncing, availability and handling of conflicting versions are outside our control.
9. Acceptable Use
- You shall not reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except where that restriction is prohibited by law.
- You shall not use the App for any unlawful purpose, or to change files you have no right to change.
10. Availability and Changes
We may add, change or remove features at any time, and we may stop supporting the App.
11. Disclaimers
The App is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We do not warrant that the App will open, display or save every file correctly.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CS42.org is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including the loss or corruption of files or data, arising from your use of the App. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
13. Termination
You may stop using the App at any time by deleting it. This licence ends automatically if you breach these terms.
14. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws applicable at the developer's place of establishment, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
15. Changes to Terms
We may update these terms. The dates at the top change when we do, and continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms.
16. Contact
If you have any questions about these terms, contact us at hello@cs42.org.
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