"Two years from Catcrafts, worldwide, one counter: every claim goes to Catcrafts, whatever turns out to be broken. The software (postmarketOS, the patches, imsd) is Catcrafts' own work and is fixed by Catcrafts with updates, delivered over the air. Even a phone that no longer boots is normally recovered in place: as long as fastboot still comes up, Catcrafts walks you through reflashing it over a USB cable in minutes. Only a phone that shows nothing at all, not even fastboot, travels for a software fault. For a hardware fault Catcrafts takes the phone back and handles the manufacturer's process, including the temporary reflash to stock Android it requires, and returns it running postmarketOS. When a phone does have to travel, warranty shipping is paid by Catcrafts, both directions, worldwide. User inflicted damage, including software faults caused by relocking the bootloader do not fall under this policy. The full terms are on the terms page.";
p.summary = "The Fairphone (Gen. 6), reflashed by Catcrafts to run postmarketOS with the patches and IMS/VoLTE implementation Catcrafts maintains. All of that software is open source. You can download it and flash a Fairphone yourself, and you are welcome to. What you pay for here is the thing open source doesn't come with: real support. A phone that arrives working, and one email address that answers for it. Not a forum, not a git issue, but support like any other manufacturer offers. And the margin funds the development itself.";
q.summary = "The Fairphone (Gen. 6+), reflashed by Catcrafts to run postmarketOS with the patches and IMS/VoLTE implementation Catcrafts maintains. All of that software is open source. You can download it and flash a Fairphone yourself, and you are welcome to. What you pay for here is the thing open source doesn't come with: real support. A phone that arrives working, and one email address that answers for it. Not a forum, not a git issue, but support like any other manufacturer offers. And the margin funds the development itself.";
.blurb = "Hardware-accelerated ray tracing through WebGPU, driven by the same C++ WebAssembly module that renders this page. Four coloured lights, one shadow ray each, Reinhard tonemapping.",
// The about page: the deliberate weld between the person and the company.
// Search and AI answer engines had already connected Jorijn to catcrafts.net
// through the kernel patch trail, but with nothing first-party to quote they
// guessed — one AI overview attributed the domain to a different developer
// entirely, several redirected visitors to the Minecraft server on the
// singular domain. This page is the authoritative answer to "who is behind
// Catcrafts", for people and for machines. Same headed-sections shape as the
// legal pages, so it reuses their renderer's markup and CSS.
export const LegalPage& AboutPage() {
static const LegalPage page{
.slug = "about",
.title = "About",
.updated = "2026-08-05",
.lede = "Catcrafts is a one-person company. This page is about the person, the mission, and the name.",
.sections = {
{ "Who",
{
"Catcrafts is the registered one-person company (KVK 78437059) of Jorijn van der Graaf, a Dutch software engineer better known in the Linux mobile world as TheMightyCat.",
"Accessible open-source software and hardware, for the benefit of everyone. Software you can read, hardware you can repair, and phones that answer to their owner rather than to an advertising department. A real alternative to big tech: not a manifesto about one, but things you can download, flash and buy today.",
"Everything Catcrafts makes is published as open source. The shop is how the development gets funded: buying a phone here pays for the stack it runs.",
"imsd is the IMS/VoLTE implementation that makes phone calls work on mainline-Linux phones, written from scratch and tested on a live Dutch network. It is the reason a Fairphone (Gen. 6) running postmarketOS can ring. Jorijn works on mainline Linux support for the Fairphone (Gen. 6) and upstreams it into the kernel: sensor bindings, Qualcomm audio, the unglamorous patches that make a phone a phone.",
"The Crafter suite is the other half: a C++ build system with no DSL, a graphics engine that ray-traces natively on Vulkan and in the browser through WebGPU, a QUIC and HTTP/3 networking stack, and more. This website is built with all of it. The same C++ renders each page on the server and again in your browser as WebAssembly.",
"And of course all the upstreaming work that comes along: Catcrafts will upstream everything it makes whenever possible.",
"Catcrafts is not the Minecraft server. That is catcraft.net, singular, an unrelated community that happens to share almost the same name. This site sells and builds software and hardware for Linux phones, and has no cross-play, no ranks and no diamonds. The cat in the logo speaks shell, not creeper.",
"Sales, and donations made through the shop, come straight from the shop's order ledger and update the moment they are paid. Donations to the bank account and expenses are aggregated from the business bank account by category, brought up to date by hand, and carry the date that last happened.",
"Everything is a running total in euros on a cash basis: money counts when it moves, not when an invoice says it should. Amounts include VAT where VAT was charged.",
"No individual transactions, no timestamps, no counterparties, no account balances, and nothing about who paid or was paid. Totals only. One consequence is accepted openly: the totals update live, so someone watching the page closely could infer that a sale or a donation happened. That is as far as it goes.",
.lede = "What this site collects, why, and how to get rid of it. Written to describe what the code actually does. If you find a discrepancy, the code is the bug and a report is very welcome.",
.sections = {
{ "Who is responsible",
{
"Catcrafts, Netherlands. Contact details are on the imprint page. Catcrafts is the controller for everything described here; no other party is involved.",
} },
{ "Orders",
{
"Placing an order stores what fulfilling it requires: your email address, the recipient name and shipping address, the country, and the order itself (product, amounts, timestamps, payment reference and status). Nothing else is asked for and nothing else is kept. The legal basis is the contract: this data is what shipping you a phone and issuing an invoice consist of.",
"Neither payment method involves a payment processor, so there is no third party that Catcrafts hands your data to in order to get paid. Bank payment is an ordinary transfer from your bank to the account named on the order page: your own bank and Catcrafts' bank handle it, as they would any transfer you make, and Catcrafts has engaged nobody in between. Cryptocurrency payment involves no provider either: the order page shows a receiving address that belongs to Catcrafts, and paying it is a transaction on a public blockchain. Only the order record described above connects a payment to you, and that record stays with Catcrafts.",
"What Catcrafts records about a bank transfer is deliberately narrow: the payment reference you quoted, the amount, the date and the method. Your name and IBAN are visible to Catcrafts on its own bank statement, as they are to anyone who receives a transfer, but they are not copied into the shop's records and are not needed to confirm an order. The reference is what matches your payment to your order.",
"The order status page lives at an unguessable link. Anyone holding the link can read that order's status and totals, so treat it like a receipt on your desk and don't post it anywhere public.",
} },
{ "How long it is kept",
{
"Order records that belong to an invoice are kept for seven years. That is the Dutch fiscal retention obligation, and it is the one case where a deletion request cannot be honoured early. Everything in an order that the tax records do not need is deleted on request.",
"An order that is never paid lapses; its record is kept briefly for abuse spotting and then has no reason to exist.",
"No analytics in your browser. No cookies, none at all, which is why there is no cookie banner. No third-party scripts, no fonts loaded from anyone else's server, no embedded video, no social buttons, no advertising, no profiling, no automated decision-making.",
"Everything the browser loads comes from catcrafts.net. Paying does not send you anywhere else either: both payment methods are completed from the order page itself, so there is no payment provider's site in the middle. Following a link out, to a fediverse thread or to Forgejo, puts you on that site under its terms, and Catcrafts has no visibility into what happens there.",
"The web server keeps ordinary request logs. Those exist to debug faults and spot abuse, and are not connected to order records or used to build any kind of profile.",
"Those logs are also this site's only analytics: a page of aggregate statistics, computed on the server, with visitor addresses anonymized before anything is stored. A tally like that is nothing to keep secret, so you are free to take a look yourself at https://catcrafts.net/analytics.",
"Under the GDPR you can ask for a copy of what Catcrafts holds about you, have it corrected or deleted, restrict how it is used, object to its use, or ask for it in a portable form. Please contact privacy@catcrafts.net for this purpose.",
"This page has a date at the top. Anything that changes what is collected or why gets a new date, and you do not have to take the date's word for it: every previous version of this page, with the exact diff, is public at https://catcrafts.net/legal/privacy/history.",
.lede = "Who is behind this site and how to reach them.",
.sections = {
{ "Contact",
{
"Email info@catcrafts.net. One inbox answers everything: support, orders, privacy requests and anything else. The topical addresses named elsewhere on this site (privacy@catcrafts.net, security@catcrafts.net) reach the same person.",
"For anything about the code itself, an issue on Forgejo is usually better than email: it stays public and searchable for the next person with the same question.",
"If you find a vulnerability, please email at security@catcrafts.net before disclosing it publicly and you will be credited. This site is source-available on Forgejo, so you can read exactly what it does rather than guessing.",
"They are renders of stock hardware, which is exactly what Catcrafts ships. The difference is the software on it. No manufacturer render shows postmarketOS, so treat the screens in those images as the manufacturer's artwork rather than a picture of what arrives.",
.lede = "The terms for buying from this shop. Written to be read: short sections, no boilerplate imported from anywhere, and every claim checkable against what the site actually does.",
"Submitting the order form creates an order and shows you how to pay it: account details and a payment reference for a bank transfer, or a receiving address for cryptocurrency. The order is an offer to buy; the contract forms when the payment arrives. Until then nothing is owed: an unpaid order simply lapses and can be ignored. An unpaid bank-transfer order is held for about two weeks and a cryptocurrency order's address stays reserved for about a day; after that each lapses like any other unpaid order. In both cases a payment that arrives late is not lost, because the account and the address remain Catcrafts', and it is settled by hand on request.",
"Prices are in euros, and euros are what is charged; any amount shown in another currency is indicative only, converted at the ECB reference rate of the date shown. Inside the EU the shown price includes 21% Dutch VAT. Outside the EU the sale is a zero-rated export at the derived ex-VAT price, and the price then excludes import duty, import VAT, tariffs and any carrier handling or brokerage fee. Those charges arise on arrival in your country, are levied by the carrier or your customs authority, and are solely a matter between you and them: Catcrafts does not collect them, cannot bindingly estimate them, is not a party to their assessment, and refusal to pay them does not undo the sale. Your bank or card sets the actual euro conversion rate for whatever you pay with.",
"Neither method involves a payment provider. A bank payment is an ordinary transfer you make yourself, from your own bank to the account shown on the order page, quoting the reference shown with it: that reference is what matches your payment to your order, and a transfer without it cannot be matched. Cryptocurrency payments are made in EURC, a euro-denominated stablecoin, directly to a wallet address held by Catcrafts and shown on the order page. Catcrafts never sees your card details, your bank credentials or your wallet keys, because at no point are you asked for them. Cards are not accepted.",
"Paying in cryptocurrency changes how the money moves, not what is owed or what you are owed. Payment is accepted in EURC only, which is denominated in euros: the amount to send is exactly the euro price, with no exchange rate involved, and it must arrive in full on one of the networks the order page lists. A payment split across several networks cannot be accepted automatically.",
"Every refund under the sections below is owed in euros, and is paid back the way you paid. A bank transfer is refunded by transfer to the account it came from. A cryptocurrency payment is refunded in EURC to a wallet address you give at the time, since there is nothing to send it back to otherwise.",
"The shop also takes donations: you name the amount, and the same two payment methods apply, a bank transfer or EURC. A donation is a gift that funds the open-source work; nothing is supplied in return, so no VAT is charged and no invoice is issued. The order page for a donation is its receipt.",
"Because nothing ships, no name or address is asked for. An email address is optional and is used only to send the confirmation. Donations appear on the financials page as an aggregate running total, never individually.",
"Devices are sourced, flashed and tested to order. There is no warehouse. Allow up to a week between payment and dispatch; the order page and email updates track it. If sourcing falls through, you get the money back, promptly and in full.",
"Shipping is tracked and insured. The tiers and prices are shown at checkout before you commit.",
"Catcrafts ships to a short list of countries, and the list is the whole policy: the Netherlands, Switzerland, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Georgia, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Checkout accepts a delivery address in those and refuses every other country. The current list is always the one checkout enforces, so if a country is not offered at checkout it is not offered at all. Outside the Netherlands you are the importer: the parcel is sent duty unpaid, and your own customs authority charges you import VAT and any duty when it arrives.",
"The reason it is a list of what is allowed rather than a list of what is not, is that the rules are national and there are nearly two hundred of them. Selling a phone into a country can enrol Catcrafts in that country's recycling and battery schemes, require its own radio approval, or require the handset to be registered in a national database before any local network will carry a call. Those obligations attach before the first parcel, not after it, and a shop this size cannot pretend to have read every country's version. So a country is added when it has actually been checked, and until then the answer is no. That is a deliberately cautious default and it will sometimes say no to a country that would have been fine.",
"Catcrafts does not ship to the United States or Canada, and these are worth naming because they are the two people ask about most. Canada is not a choice: the phone holds no Canadian radio certification, and Canadian law prohibits importing, distributing or selling uncertified radio equipment, so it cannot lawfully be sold there by anyone at present. The United States is a combination: a customs entry is now required for every individual parcel, the mobile networks certify which handsets may be activated, and none of the legal protection that shields telephone companies over emergency calls extends to whoever made the device. Insurance is part of the picture too, but it is no longer the interesting part, and buying a policy would not open either country.",
"Separately, Catcrafts cannot sell or ship to Russia, Belarus or North Korea. Unlike everything above this is not a judgement call: European Union sanctions prohibit exporting consumer electronics to those countries, and the prohibition covers indirect routes, a forwarding address, a reseller, or a purchase made on behalf of someone there just as much as a direct parcel. Checkout refuses a delivery address in any of them, and an order that turns out to be bound there by another route is refused and the payment returned.",
"The same anti-routing rule applies to every refused country, not only the sanctioned ones: if a parcel is to be forwarded onward, or the delivery address belongs to a forwarding service acting for a customer elsewhere, the order is refused, and refunded in full if that only becomes clear after payment. Please do not try to route around it. The point is that the sale does not happen, not that the address looks acceptable.",
"One more thing that can refuse an address even inside the list: shipping is priced entirely from the carrier's own rates, so a destination the carrier has no rate for cannot be quoted and cannot be ordered. That is a different and much softer no than the ones above, it is about a price not existing rather than a sale being refused, and it can change whenever the carrier's tariff does.",
"The software itself remains free for anyone anywhere, and none of this touches it: the sources and images are public, and flashing a device you already own is not a purchase and is not restricted by this section.",
"Everything sold here is warranted by Catcrafts for two years from delivery, worldwide. One counter: every claim goes to Catcrafts, and Catcrafts deals with whoever needs dealing with. You never have to work out whether a fault is hardware or software, or talk to a manufacturer.",
"Behind that counter the split is simple. Software Catcrafts wrote is fixed by Catcrafts with an update, delivered remotely like any other update. If a fault stops the product from starting, Catcrafts provides the tools and walks you through recovering it in place, so a software fault still does not mean sending anything anywhere. Hardware faults are handled through the manufacturer's or supplier's warranty: Catcrafts keeps the purchase paperwork those claims depend on and runs the process end to end. What that means for a specific product is described on its own page.",
"When a product does have to travel (a hardware fault, or a product so far gone it no longer responds to recovery tools at all), the shipping is paid by Catcrafts, both directions, worldwide. Every unit is tested before dispatch, so a genuine defect should be rare. When one happens anyway, it should not cost you anything. The one exception: if a returned product turns out to have no fault, or the damage is yours (a drop, water damage, a repair attempt gone wrong, software issue caused by a relocked bootloader), the repair and the shipping are billed at cost, and you are told the price before any work happens.",
"If you are an EU consumer you additionally hold the statutory conformity guarantee: under Dutch law it lasts as long as a product of this kind may reasonably be expected to last, a defect appearing in the first year is presumed to have existed at delivery, and remedies under it are free. Nothing in this section limits those rights.",
"EU consumers can withdraw from the purchase within 14 days of delivery, no reason needed: send an email, send the product back, and the price plus the standard shipping you paid is refunded within 14 days of your notice, though the refund can wait until the product is back or you show it has been shipped. Return shipping is yours to arrange and pay. You may inspect the product as you would in a shop; value lost through use beyond that can be deducted from the refund.",
"Outside the EU, sales are final except for defects: the warranty above applies in full, but there is no change-of-mind window. Import duties and fees paid to your own authorities are between you and them and are never refunded by Catcrafts in any case.",
"A product that arrives broken is a warranty case, not a return: the warranty section applies, and the shipping is on Catcrafts.",