Terms of use

1. Who you’re dealing with

Core Forms is a WordPress plugin published by Gatilab, an independent WordPress studio founded and led by Gaurav Tiwari, operating from India. In this document, “we”, “us” and “Gatilab” mean the same thing, and “you” means the person or organisation using the site or the plugin.

“The site” is core-forms.com. “The plugin” is Core Forms, including its premium features, updates and documentation. Using either one means you accept these terms. If you don’t accept them, don’t use the site or the plugin.

2. What you get when you buy

A Core Forms purchase gives you a licence key. Both plans include every premium feature and cover unlimited sites — your own and your clients’ — with no per-site activation count:

• Yearly — $59/year. Renews annually until you cancel.
• Lifetime — $249 once. A single payment, no renewals.

The licence key is issued to you. Don’t publish it, share it outside your organisation, or bundle it into a product you sell. If a key is being used somewhere it shouldn’t be, we may deactivate it.

3. The GPL part, honestly

Core Forms is WordPress plugin code, and the PHP that makes it up is licensed under the GNU General Public License. We’re not going to pretend otherwise: the GPL grants you rights to use, modify and redistribute that code, and nothing here takes those rights away.

What your purchase actually buys is the part the GPL doesn’t cover:

• Updates delivered through the licensed update channel.
• Support from the people who wrote the plugin.
• The licence key that authorises both.

Separately from the GPL, the “Core Forms” and “Gatilab” names and logos are ours, and non-code assets shipped with the plugin may carry their own licences. So you may have the right to redistribute the code, but not to call your fork Core Forms, or to pass our branding off as yours. We wrote about where that boundary actually sits if you want the longer version.

4. What you can’t do

Whatever the GPL permits for the code, these are not okay:

• Reselling your licence key, or sharing it with people outside your organisation.
• Removing, faking or bypassing the licence check and distributing the result.
• Using our trademarks or branding in a way that implies we built, endorsed or support your version.
• Using the plugin or the site to send spam, harvest data without consent, or break the law where you or your users are.
• Attacking the site — scraping at volume, probing for vulnerabilities without permission, or trying to disrupt it for other people.

5. Payment, renewal and refunds

Purchases are handled through our checkout on gauravtiwari.org and its payment providers. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax your jurisdiction adds at checkout.

Yearly licences renew automatically at the then-current price until you cancel. You can cancel any time from your account page — cancelling stops the renewal; it isn’t a refund.

Every purchase carries a 14-day, no-questions-asked refund. The full terms, including what happens to your licence afterwards, are on the refund policy page, and they form part of these terms.

6. Updates and support

An active licence gets plugin updates and email support. If a Yearly licence lapses, the plugin keeps working on every site you’ve installed it on — forms keep running, submissions keep saving, no kill switch, no front-end nag. What stops is new updates and support until you renew. Lifetime licences keep both permanently.

Core Forms requires WordPress 6.4 or higher and PHP 8.1 or higher. We support the plugin on supported versions of WordPress and PHP — we can’t guarantee it on end-of-life ones, or diagnose problems caused by other plugins, themes or host configuration, though we’ll usually try.

7. The site, the demo and the free tools

The demo sandbox, sample forms, calculators and other free tools on this site are provided for evaluation. They’re disposable environments — don’t put real customer data, payment details or anything confidential into them, and don’t rely on anything you enter there being kept.

Code samples in our documentation and examples folder are published for you to copy into your own projects. Use them freely; test them before you ship them.

8. Your data and your users’ data

Core Forms stores form submissions in your WordPress database, on your hosting. We don’t receive, store or process your form submissions. What we do hold is what you give us when you buy or ask for help — your name, email, purchase and licence records, and the domains a licence is activated on.

How we handle that is set out in our privacy policy.

Because the submissions are yours, so are the obligations attached to them. If you collect personal data through a form, you’re the controller of it: consent, retention, access requests and GDPR-style compliance are yours to get right. The plugin gives you the tools; it can’t make the decisions for you.

9. Third-party services

Core Forms connects to services we don’t operate — payment gateways such as Stripe, PayPal and Razorpay, and integrations such as Mailchimp, Slack, Notion, Google Sheets and the rest. Each of those is governed by its own terms and pricing, and each can change or discontinue its API.

We’ll keep integrations working where we reasonably can, but we’re not responsible for a third party’s downtime, fees, account decisions or breaking changes.

10. What we promise, and what we don’t

We build Core Forms carefully, run it on our own client sites, and fix what breaks. What we can’t do is promise software is perfect. The plugin and the site are provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Keep backups. Test updates on staging before production. That’s ordinary good practice with any plugin, and it’s the single thing that turns a bad release into a five-minute rollback.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Gatilab is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages — lost profits, lost data, lost business — arising from your use of the plugin or the site.

Where liability can’t be excluded, it is capped at the amount you paid us for Core Forms in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that can’t legally be limited, such as for fraud.

12. Ending the arrangement

You can stop using Core Forms at any time. We may suspend or terminate a licence if it is being used in breach of section 4, or if a payment is reversed or charged back — in which case the rights granted by these terms end, though the GPL rights attached to the code you already have do not.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product changes. When we do, we’ll change the “last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes won’t apply retroactively to a purchase you’ve already made. Continuing to use the site or the plugin after an update means you accept the revised terms.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If you’re buying as a consumer elsewhere, this doesn’t remove protections you have under your own local law.

15. Contact

Questions about any of this go to a real person, not a ticket queue. Email gaurav@gatilab.com or use the support page, and we’ll answer.