Section 1 — These terms, and who they are with
This website, stedding.dev, is operated by YS Progress Inc., a corporation incorporated in Ontario, Canada, operating from Markham and Toronto, Ontario (“we”, “us”, “our”). By visiting or using this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the website.
These terms apply to the website. The Stedding browser is separate: it is free software licensed under the BSD 3-Clause licence, and that licence, not this page, governs your use of the software. Section 4 explains how the two fit together.
We may change these terms at any time by publishing a new version on this page with a new date at the top. The change takes effect when it is published, and continuing to use the website after that means you accept it. The previous wording remains in the public history of the website’s repository.
Section 2 — Who may use the website
You may use the website if you are at least 13 years old, if you can form a binding contract where you live, and if doing so does not break a law that applies to you. If you use it for an organisation, you confirm that you may bind that organisation to these terms.
Section 3 — The website
We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to view and
use this website for your own information. You may link to it, quote short extracts from it
with attribution and a link, and let search engines and answer engines crawl, index and
quote it as our robots.txt invites them to. That invitation covers indexing and
answering; it is not a licence to republish the site, or a substantial part of it,
elsewhere.
You may not: use the website in a way that damages, overloads or interferes with it or with
anyone else’s use of it; attempt to gain access to any part of it, or to any system or
network connected to it, that is not intentionally made available; probe, scan or test its
security without our written permission; strip, hide or alter any notice on it; frame or
mirror it in a way that suggests it is yours or that we endorse you; or use it to break any
law or to infringe anyone’s rights. Security testing carried out in good faith through the
process published at /.well-known/security.txt, without degrading the service and without
reaching anyone else’s data, is permission enough, and we will not treat it as a breach of
these terms.
The website is provided for information. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it, or the whole of it, at any time and without notice, and we do not promise that it will be available, complete, current or error-free.
Section 4 — The software
Stedding Browser is free and open-source software published under the BSD 3-Clause licence. The full text is in the source repository. In plain terms: you may use, copy, modify and redistribute it, with or without changes, provided the licence notice is kept, and the software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. The licence is the only source of your rights in the software, and nothing on this website narrows the permissions it gives you. Sections 7 to 13 of these terms apply in addition to the licence and do not reduce it: where both could protect us, we may rely on whichever gives the greater protection.
Builds are published on GitHub Releases with a SHA-256 checksum beside each file. Verify the checksum before installing. You are responsible for what you install and run on your own computer. Those releases are the only builds we publish: we are not responsible for any copy of the software obtained anywhere else — a mirror, a package manager, an app store listing or a fork — whether or not it carries our name, and the published checksum is how you tell ours apart.
The software is beta, and the Windows builds are not code-signed yet. Windows will warn you the first time, and the release notes describe the extra step it needs. A browser holds important things — history, passwords imported from another browser, open work — and beta software can lose them. Keep your own backups. You accept these risks when you install it; if they are not acceptable to you, do not install it.
We are under no obligation to provide support, updates, security fixes or any further release, and we may stop publishing builds — for one platform or altogether — at any time and without notice.
What this website says about how the software behaves describes the build current when it was written, and Chromium’s own behaviour upstream may change. Those descriptions are not warranties or representations; the documentation in the source repository, not this website, is the record of what any given build does.
Section 5 — Third parties
The website links to services we do not control, including GitHub for the source code and the downloads, and it uses Cloudflare for hosting and for a cookieless count of page views, as described in the privacy policy. We are not responsible for those services, their availability, their content, their terms or their handling of your data, and a link is not an endorsement. Your use of them is between you and them.
Section 6 — Names, marks and content
“Stedding” and “Stedding Browser”, and the Stedding mark, are trade marks of YS Progress Inc., used continuously since 2026 in connection with browser software, and we reserve all rights in them, registered or not. The BSD 3-Clause licence expressly does not permit using the name of the project or its contributors to endorse or promote products derived from it without written permission: a fork may use the code, and may not present itself as Stedding, as endorsed by Stedding, or under a name likely to be confused with it. You may use the name and the mark to refer accurately to this project — in a review, an article, a package listing — as long as you do not suggest endorsement or affiliation.
Chromium is a trademark of Google LLC. Arc is a trademark of The Browser Company of New York, Inc. macOS is a trademark of Apple Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. These names are used only to identify those products accurately — for compatibility, for origin, and to compare this one with them — and no endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship is claimed or implied.
Text, layout, design, images and code on this website are © 2026 YS Progress Inc. unless stated otherwise, and are protected by copyright. Screenshots show the browser displaying third-party websites, whose content belongs to their respective owners.
If you send us feedback, ideas or suggestions about the site or the software, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, modify and distribute them for any purpose, including in the software under its open-source licence, without obligation, attribution or payment to you, and none of it is treated as confidential.
This website hosts no content submitted by users. If you believe something on it infringes your copyright, write to any@ys.contact with the work concerned, the address of the material, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised; we will look at it and remove or change anything we should. Complaints about the source code or the release files go through GitHub’s own process, because GitHub hosts them.
Section 7 — No warranty
The website and the software are provided “as is” and “as available”, with all faults, and without warranty or condition of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, conditions and representations, express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, or non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the website or the software will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, free of viruses or other harmful components, or that defects will be corrected, or that information on the website is accurate or complete.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case those warranties are limited to the shortest period and the narrowest scope the law allows.
Section 8 — Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, use, or data, or for the cost of substitute software, however caused and on any theory of liability — contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise — arising out of or in connection with the website, the software, or these terms, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damage.
Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the website, the software, or these terms is limited to one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100), or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is greater. Both the website and the software are supplied free of charge, and this allocation of risk is a basic part of the bargain: without it, neither would be published at all.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or under consumer-protection law that applies to you and cannot be waived. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
Section 9 — Your indemnity
You will indemnify, defend and hold harmless YS Progress Inc., its directors, officers, employees, contractors and contributors from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or connected with your use of the website or the software, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or of anyone’s rights. We may take over the defence of any such matter at your expense, and you will not settle anything that imposes an obligation on us without our written consent. We will tell you promptly of any claim for which we seek this indemnity, and will not settle it in a way that admits fault on your part without your consent. This indemnity does not apply to a claim caused by our own breach of these terms, and applies only so far as the law where you live permits an indemnity of this kind.
Section 10 — Suspension
We may block, suspend or restrict access to the website, in whole or in part and for anyone, at any time, for any reason, without notice and without liability, including where we believe use of it breaks these terms or threatens the site, our providers or other visitors.
Section 11 — Governing law and where disputes are heard
These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, the website or the software — including non-contractual disputes — are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario sitting in Toronto, and each of us waives any objection to that venue, including on grounds of inconvenient forum. To the extent permitted by law, each of us agrees to bring claims only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective or representative proceeding.
Where you are not acting as a consumer — that is, where these terms are a business agreement — any claim arising out of or related to the website, the software or these terms must be brought within one year after it arises and is permanently barred after that. Where you are acting as a consumer, the limitation period set by the law that applies to you applies instead. Nothing in this section removes a right you may have to bring a claim in the courts of your own country where a law that applies to you gives you that right and cannot be waived.
Section 12 — Compliance
We do not make the software or this website available to anyone we are forbidden to deal with. You may not obtain the software from us, or from GitHub through the links on this website, if you are located in or ordinarily resident in a country or region under comprehensive Canadian, United States, United Kingdom or European Union sanctions, or if you are on a restricted-party list of any of them. You must comply with the export-control and sanctions laws that apply to you. This section limits what we distribute; it does not add a condition to the open-source licence in Section 4.
Section 13 — The rest
- Severability. If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the least extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it or of any other.
- Assignment. We may assign these terms, in whole or in part, to a successor in connection with a merger, an acquisition or a sale of assets. You may not assign them.
- Entire agreement. These terms, together with the privacy policy and, for the software, the BSD 3-Clause licence, are the entire agreement between you and us about the website and replace anything said or written before.
- No third-party beneficiaries. No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.
- Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by something outside our reasonable control.
- Survival. Sections 4 to 13 survive any end of your use of the website.
- Headings. Headings are for reading convenience and do not affect meaning.
- Language. These terms are drawn up in English, and the parties have required that they be in English. Les parties ont exigé que ce document soit rédigé en anglais.
Section 14 — Contact
YS Progress Inc. — Markham and Toronto, Ontario, Canada — any@ys.contact. Notices about copyright, trade marks or other legal matters go to the same address.
Security problems in the browser or on this website go through GitHub’s private vulnerability reporting on the source repository, not by email, so that a fix can be prepared before the problem is public.