Terms of Service

The terms in full

The clauses below form one agreement. They are written in the order a visitor usually meets them: what the site is for, what belongs to whom, what our writing does and does not promise, and how a disagreement would be handled.

1. 1. Use of this website

   The site is provided for information about HORIZONIS HOLDINGS BV, its software development work and its editorial content. You may read, print and share the material for personal or internal business use.

   That permission covers reading and passing the material around inside your own organisation, with the attribution to this site kept intact. Publishing our articles, diagrams or code samples under your own name, reselling them, or serving them from another domain needs written permission first.

   You agree not to use the site in a way that damages it for other visitors: no attempts to access areas that are not published, no automated scraping that places a load on our servers, and no use of the contact form for anything other than a genuine question about our work.

2. 2. Intellectual property

   Text, articles, diagrams and code samples published on this site are the property of HORIZONIS HOLDINGS BV unless stated otherwise. Trademarks and product names mentioned on the site, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM Db2, CloudNativePG, pgAdmin, MySQL Workbench, SQL Server Management Studio and DataGrip, belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only.

   Naming those platforms does not mean their publishers sponsor, endorse or maintain this site, and it does not mean we speak on their behalf. Where a product has a current official source for behaviour, version support or licensing, that source takes precedence over anything written here.

   Short code samples from the articles may be reused in your own projects. If you republish a sample alongside a longer explanation, keep a link back to the article it came from so readers can reach the surrounding context.

3. 3. No professional advice

   Content on this site is general technical information. It is not a substitute for assessment of your own systems, and no client relationship is created by reading it or by submitting the contact form.

   Database work depends on the version you run, the shape of your data, the traffic you carry and the environment the systems sit in. A configuration that serves one installation well can be the wrong choice in another, so treat the articles as a starting point for your own testing rather than a finished plan.

   A client relationship with HORIZONIS HOLDINGS BV begins only when both sides have signed a written agreement. Until then, correspondence by email through the contact form is a conversation, not a mandate.

4. 4. Accuracy and availability

   We aim to keep the content accurate and the site available, but we do not warrant that either will be free of errors or interruptions. Technical guidance can become outdated as platforms change.

   Database platforms release new versions, deprecate settings and move behaviour between releases. An article that was correct when it was published may need revision a year later. We date our writing and prefer to update a piece rather than remove it, but we cannot promise that every page reflects the newest release at the moment you read it.

   The site may be unavailable during maintenance, hosting incidents or work on the platform behind it. We do not offer a service level for access to this website. If you rely on a service we operate for you, the terms of that separate agreement apply to it and not this page.

5. 5. Limitation of liability

   To the extent permitted by Belgian law, HORIZONIS HOLDINGS BV is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of this website or reliance on its content.

   That includes loss of profit, loss of data, business interruption and the cost of restoring a system, where those follow from a decision taken on the strength of what was read here. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that Belgian law does not allow to be excluded.

6. 6. Links to other sites

   Where this site links to external resources, we are not responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices.

   We link to platform documentation and to articles we consider useful to a working engineer. Those destinations have their own rules about what they collect and how they store it, and reading them is a visit to someone else's site rather than to ours.

7. 7. Changes to these terms

   These terms may be revised at any time. The version published at this address is the one that applies.

   When a change is material, we update the revision date in the summary at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after a revision means you accept the revised version.

8. 8. Governing law

   These terms are governed by Belgian law. Disputes fall under the jurisdiction of the competent courts in Brussels.

   If a dispute does arise, write to us first. Most questions about the terms can be settled with a short exchange, long before anyone needs to think about a court.