Terms & Legal Notice

1. Legal identification

In compliance with Decreto-Lei n.º 7/2004, of 7 January (Portuguese e-commerce law), this website is owned and operated by:

2. Purpose of the website and acceptance

This website is informational. It presents pH7x Systems, its expertise and a selection of work, publishes a blog with a comment section, and offers free tools that run in your browser. Nothing on it constitutes a binding offer, a warranty of results, or professional advice; any engagement is governed by a separate written agreement. By accessing or using the website you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.

The website offers two different kinds of thing, and they carry different terms. Browser tools (for example, the SharePoint Compass) produce indicative, rules-based readings from the answers you give. They run entirely in your browser and send nothing to us; anything you download, such as a saved assessment file, stays with you. Software we publish (for example, Microsoft 365 Governance as Code) is downloaded and run by you, in your own environment. Section 3 governs it.

3. Software we publish

We publish open-source software. The software itself is licensed to you under the MIT Licence, whose text travels with it; where these Terms and that licence differ as to the software, the licence prevails. These Terms govern this website.

It runs on your machine. You install it and you run it, in your own environment, under your own credentials. We do not operate it, we do not host it and we do not run it for you. It authenticates against Microsoft's own service endpoints, using the identity and the permissions you configure. Tenant evidence processed by the software is not sent to pH7x Systems by the software. What it produces is written to your disk.

You never give your credentials to us. Authentication and authorisation happen entirely between you and Microsoft, in your own environment. We do not ask for, and have no way to use, credentials to your tenant. If anything ever asks you to hand tenant credentials to pH7x Systems in order to run this software, it did not come from us.

You are responsible for: holding authorisation to administer the environment you point it at; the identity and permissions you grant it; the effect of running it there; and your own agreements with Microsoft and any third party. Do not run it against an environment you are not authorised to access.

4. What the results are, and what they are not

Results describe what was observed at a point in time, from the evidence the software was able to gather. The outcomes it reports: pass, fail, unknown, not-applicable, invalid-evidence: are technical terms with meanings the product defines, and they are published with it. Where the software cannot establish something it says unknown, and an unknown is not a pass.

Results are technical evidence, not legal or compliance advice. They are not an audit and not a certification: they do not certify compliance with any law, regulation, standard or contract, and they are not a substitute for your own assessment. A migration verification record states what was observed before and after a move; it does not warrant that a migration was complete or correct. You remain responsible for your own decisions, and for verifying anything you intend to act on.

5. Microsoft and other third parties

pH7x Systems is not Microsoft, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for Microsoft. Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Entra ID and PnP are the services, products and projects of their respective owners. Our software reads from them; it is not part of them. Your use of those services is governed by your agreements with their providers, not by these Terms, and nothing here changes what you owe them or what they owe you.

Parts of this website publish dates and facts sourced from Microsoft and other third parties: end-of-support dates, retirement dates, product lifecycle information. We record where each came from and when it was last checked. Those sources change, sometimes without notice. Before acting on a date published here, confirm it against Microsoft's own current documentation.

6. The contact form and submitted content

The Website includes a contact form. Sending a message through it is not an order, not a contract and not a binding proposal, by either side. It is an enquiry. Any engagement is governed by a separate written agreement.

Your message only reaches us after you confirm it by clicking the link we email to you. Until then, nothing is delivered to us, and the record is deleted within 48 hours. You are responsible for the accuracy of the details you provide, and for not using the form to send unlawful, abusive or automated content.

The blog accepts comments. By submitting one, you ask us to publish the name you chose and the text you wrote; nothing appears before a person reviews it. You are responsible for what you submit: no unlawful, defamatory or infringing content, no personal data of third parties, no advertising and no automated submissions. We may decline to publish, or remove, any comment at our discretion and without notice, and approving a comment does not mean we endorse it. You may request the removal of your own comment at any time.

7. Intellectual property

All content on this website, including text, layout, design, graphics, the pH7x Systems® name and logo, and other brand elements, is owned by, or licensed to, João Pedro de Sousa Viegas Tito Lívio and is protected by intellectual-property law. This does not apply to the software we publish as open source, which is yours to use under its own licence, on that licence's terms. You may view and print pages for your own personal, non-commercial reference. Any other reproduction, distribution, modification or public use without our prior written permission is prohibited. Third-party names, logos and trademarks shown (for example, client brands or Microsoft credentials) remain the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the website unlawfully, nor to attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, disrupt its operation, or extract its content by automated means for commercial reuse.

9. External links

The website may link to third-party sites (for example, project or client websites). Those sites are outside our control; we are not responsible for their content, availability, or privacy practices, and a link does not imply endorsement.

10. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

The website, its content and the software we publish are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including as to accuracy, completeness, uninterrupted availability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, pH7x Systems shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, nor for loss of profits, loss of business, business interruption, loss or corruption of data, or any change to the configuration or state of your environment, arising from the use of, or inability to use, this website, the information published on it, or the software.

None of this is sold to you. The software is published free, under the MIT Licence, which grants it without warranty of any kind; and to the fullest extent permitted by law our liability in connection with this website, its content and that software is limited accordingly.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud. Nothing in these Terms affects the mandatory rights of a consumer.

11. Personal data

The processing of personal data in connection with this website is described in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which form part of these Terms.

12. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by Portuguese law. Except where mandatory consumer rules provide otherwise, any dispute arising from the use of this website shall be submitted to the competent courts of the district of Setúbal, Portugal. Consumers in the EU may also use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

13. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. The version in force is the one published on this page, with the effective date shown above.

Governing language

This document is provided in several languages for your convenience. In the event of any divergence or conflict of interpretation between the versions, the Portuguese version shall prevail.