Terms of use

1. What Guise is

Guise is a local Windows desktop application with a local web interface. It creates and manages separate browser profiles, each with its own storage, browser configuration and proxy assignment, and it can replay browsing flows you record.

It is not a proxy service, a hosting service, a VPN, or an account provider. The browser engines it runs are third-party builds, not Guise code, and their own licences apply.

2. Licence

Guise is free of charge. You may install and use it for personal work and for internal work at a business you own or work for, on machines you own or control, for as many profiles as your hardware supports.

You may not:

• sell, rent, sublicense or bundle Guise into a paid product or service;
• redistribute modified builds under the Guise name or logo;
• remove or alter copyright and attribution notices;
• present Guise as your own product.

No paid tier is offered today. If one is introduced later, these terms will be updated before it applies to you.

3. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for how you use Guise and for everything it does on your behalf. In particular:

• Lawful use only. Follow the law where you are, the terms of the sites you visit, and any robots or rate-limit rules that apply to your traffic.
• Accounts you may operate. Only run identities and accounts you are authorised to use. Creating accounts to evade a ban, commit fraud, or misrepresent who you are is not permitted.
• Your proxies. Your agreements with proxy providers are yours, including what they allow you to do and where their endpoints may be used.
• Your data. Profiles, cookies, recorded flows and downloaded browser data live on your machine. Back them up, protect them, and delete them when you are done.

4. Third-party components and services

Guise downloads and runs browser builds from separate open-source projects, and some installers bundle a pinned Firefox build. Either way those builds keep their own licences and notices, and Guise does not relicense them.

Websites, proxies and any other service you connect to are outside Guise. We do not control them and do not guarantee that any site will accept any profile.

Fingerprint stability is best effort. Pinned values are designed to survive restarts, but browser builds change, and some output can still vary between versions or restarts.

5. No warranty

Guise is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability and non-infringement. There is no promise that it will be uninterrupted, error free, undetectable, or that a profile will not be flagged, blocked, challenged or banned.

6. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, the developer is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost accounts, bans, lost data, lost profits or lost business, arising from the use of or inability to use Guise.

Total liability for any claim relating to Guise is limited to the amount you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim, which for a free copy is zero.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law.

7. Your data and privacy

Guise has no account system, no advertising and no behavioural tracking. Profiles, cookies, notes and proxy assignments stay on your machine, and proxy passwords are stored per entry by Windows Credential Manager rather than in the application database.

Anonymous crash reports are optional and off by default. You can turn them on from the welcome screen or later in Settings, and off again at any time. When they are on, a crash sends the error type and message, the stack trace that produced it, the app version and your operating system. Before anything is sent, the app removes local file paths and account names, proxy addresses and IP addresses, profile names and start URLs, cookies, and recorded automation steps. Reports carry no account, no advertising identifier and no precise location.

Network traffic happens for five reasons only: loading the site you browse, connecting through the proxy you assigned, checking this releases repository for updates, downloading browser builds, and sending a crash report if you have opted in. We do not receive your browsing data, and we cannot recover a profile you delete.

8. Updates and changes to these terms

Updates are published as installers in the public releases repository, and the app checks that repository when you ask it to. Running an older version is allowed.

These terms may change as the app changes. The date at the top of this page is the version marker, and material changes will also be noted in the releases repository. Continuing to use Guise after a change means you accept the updated terms.

9. Ending this licence

You can stop at any time by uninstalling Guise and deleting your profile data. This licence ends if you breach these terms, at which point you must stop using Guise and remove your copies.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts there have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you use Guise from elsewhere, local consumer law may give you rights that this section cannot remove.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms, or a report that Guise is being misused, belong in the public issue tracker: github.com/raio-rio/guise-releases/issues.