Terms of use

These terms are the licence for the Hotseat app. They apply from the moment you install or use Hotseat.

Who we are

Hotseat is made and licensed by Yauheni Padniuk, a sole proprietor registered in Poland, who publishes it under the name Appkin. The address and the tax number are in the legal notice. You can write to us at hello@appkin.dev.

Buying

Hotseat is sold by a reseller, which is named at the checkout and on your receipt. The reseller is the seller. Your payment, the taxes, the invoice, the right to withdraw from the purchase and refunds are between you and the reseller, under its terms of sale. These terms cover the use of the app.

The licence

Once you have paid, you have a licence to use Hotseat:

• for one person, you;
• at up to two desks of your own, for example one at home and one at work;
• on every computer of yours at those desks;
• with no end date.

A desk is a set of computers that are paired with each other on one local network. The licence key can be in use at two desks at a time; to move it to another desk, free a place first, yourself or by writing to us.

“Lifetime” means that the licence does not expire. It is not a promise that Hotseat will be sold or developed forever.

The licence is not for sharing. You may not give your licence key or copies of Hotseat to others, such as friends, family or colleagues: a desk that belongs to someone else needs a licence of its own. You may not use Hotseat to control a computer you have no permission to control. You may pass your licence on only where the law gives you that right, and then only as a whole: you stop using Hotseat and remove it from your computers.

Updates

The price includes the updates we publish for Hotseat. “All updates” means each version we publish, when and if we publish it. We decide what an update contains, and we promise no particular feature, no schedule, and no support for a particular version of an operating system.

We publish fixes for security faults we learn of for at least two years from the day you buy.

Hotseat looks for updates by itself. Keep it up to date: we do not answer for a fault that an update we made available would have fixed.

What Hotseat is and what it needs

Hotseat is what this site says it is, with the limits this site lists. The systems it runs on are named on the first page; what each part does, what it needs and where it stops is on What it does. Your computers have to be on the same local network, and switching the monitor needs a monitor that supports DDC/CI.

If something does not work, write to us and help us find the cause, for example with the report file that Hotseat can save.

What we answer for

If you are a consumer, or the law treats you as one, you have the rights the law of your country gives you when something you bought is faulty. Nothing in these terms limits those rights.

If you use Hotseat in your business or profession, and wherever else the law allows it: Hotseat is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and of fitness for a particular purpose. The statutory warranty for defects is excluded. We are not liable for lost profit, lost data or any other indirect loss, and our total liability is limited to the price you paid for Hotseat. This does not limit liability for harm done on purpose.

Help

We help by email. We answer as soon as we can and promise no response time.

Changes

The version of these terms that was in force on the day you bought applies to your licence. A later version applies to purchases made after its date, which is at the bottom of this page. We may stop selling or developing Hotseat; your licence stays.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of Poland. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection that the mandatory rules of the country you live in give you, and you may bring a claim before the courts of that country. For everyone else, disputes are decided by the Polish court for the place where we are registered.

Last updated on 13 November 2026.