Who you agree with
Max Nowack, Schillerstr. 1, 37120 Bovenden, Germany — [email protected], see the imprint — provides PatchPilot. These terms apply when you sign in to PatchPilot and when you connect a server to it.
What PatchPilot does
PatchPilot shows the patch status of the Debian and Ubuntu servers you connect, and installs their pending updates when you press "Update now" or inside the maintenance window you give a server. It installs updates of packages already installed, from the package sources configured on the server, and nothing else: it never adds a package source, never removes a package and never restarts a server. The agent on your servers is open source (github.com/patchpilothq/agent, GNU GPL v3); what it sends and what it can do is described there.
The beta
The beta is free of charge. It comes without a guaranteed availability, and what it can do may change while it is in beta. When paid plans come, their prices will be on patchpilot.cc and you will be told by email at least four weeks before anything you use costs money; nothing turns into a paid plan without you choosing it.
What is yours to do
- Connect only servers you are entitled to administer, and keep the install command to yourself: it adds servers to your workspace.
- Decide what is installed and when: PatchPilot installs what apt would install, at your direction. Keep backups you can restore, and test updates where a failure would hurt — an update can fail, or change how a program behaves, whoever installs it.
- Restart your servers when they need it; PatchPilot tells you, and never does it.
- Accept the data processing agreement for your workspace before its first server: PatchPilot processes your servers' data on your behalf.
- Do not use PatchPilot to attack it, other customers or anybody else.
Liability
As PatchPilot is free during the beta, we are liable only for intent and gross negligence. This does not limit our liability for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, or where a guarantee was given.
Ending
You can stop at any time: remove your servers, uninstall the agent with the command PatchPilot shows, and delete your workspace or your account in the settings, which deletes their data (see the privacy notice). We can end the beta, or your use of it, with four weeks' notice by email, and at once if you break these terms.
Changes to these terms
We tell you about a change by email at least four weeks before it applies, and you can object and stop using PatchPilot before then.
Law
German law applies, without the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a merchant, the courts at Göttingen have jurisdiction. Mandatory consumer protection of the country you live in is unaffected.
As of 12 October 2026.