Terms of service

Version 2026-10-28 · linuxstreamer · Privacy policy

These terms are the agreement between you and me, Johnny, the person who runs linuxstreamer (contact: contact@noodlebyte.org). By accepting them when you sign in, you agree to them. How your data is handled is described in the privacy policy, which is part of this agreement.

1. The service

linuxstreamer gives you a virtual machine running Steam, streamed to your browser. It is a private, free, non-commercial service for people I have invited. There is no fee, and nothing about it is sold.

2. Who can use it

• Only people I have given an account to.
• You must be 13 or older. If you are under 16, or under the age of digital consent where you live if that is higher, you need a parent's or guardian's permission.
• Your account is for you alone. Do not share your password or let others use your account, and tell me if you think someone else has access to it.

3. Your Steam account and your games

• You use your own Steam account, and you remain bound by Steam's Subscriber Agreement and by the licence terms of every game you play. You are responsible for using them within those rules.
• Only play games your own account owns. The shared library stores each game once for everyone, but it does not give anyone a licence: Steam only lets each account play what it owns, and you must not try to get around that.
• Uninstalling a game from the shared library removes it for everyone who uses it. Do not remove games others are using without asking.
• Do not use the service to cheat in online games, or in any way that breaks a game's or platform's rules.

4. Acceptable use

You must not use the service to:

• do anything illegal, or store or share illegal content;
• infringe anyone's copyright or other rights, for example by downloading or distributing pirated software, games or media;
• attack, scan or disrupt other computers or networks, send spam, or hide malicious activity behind the server's internet connection;
• try to break out of your virtual machine, reach the server itself or other users' machines, or get around the service's limits or security;
• mine cryptocurrency, or run anything that uses the shared server's resources in a way unrelated to playing games, that degrades the service for others;
• harass other users or misuse their information.

Anything you do from your machine appears to the outside world as coming from the server's internet connection, so please treat it as you would someone else's connection that they lent you.

5. Fair use of a shared server

• The server is shared, so the number of machines that can run at once is limited. If all slots are in use, you may have to wait.
• A machine nobody is watching is switched off after a period of inactivity (unless Steam is downloading), and its disk is kept.
• Some games may not work, or may not work well, on the server's graphics hardware. I may stop a game from running on the service if it causes problems for other users.
• Storage is limited. Prefer installing games to the shared library, and do not fill the server with large amounts of unrelated data.

6. Availability and changes

The service is provided free of charge, as it is, and as available. I may change it, pause it for maintenance, or stop it altogether, and I will try to give notice when I can. Keep your own copies of anything important: save files synced by Steam Cloud are safe in your Steam account, but other files on your machine exist only on the server.

7. Responsibility

Because the service is free and run privately, I am not liable for loss of data, interruptions, or problems with games or third-party services, except where the law does not allow that liability to be excluded -- for example for harm caused intentionally or through gross negligence, or where mandatory consumer law where you live says otherwise. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under the mandatory law of the country where you live.

8. Ending your account

• You can stop using the service at any time, and ask for your account and your machine's disk to be deleted, or for a copy of your disk first.
• I may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or when the service ends. Except in serious cases, I will tell you first and give you a chance to get your files.

9. Changes to these terms

If I change these terms, the new version gets a new date and you are asked to accept it before you can use your machine again. If you do not accept, you can stop using the service and ask for your data to be deleted.

10. Contact

Questions, requests and complaints: contact@noodlebyte.org.

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