Licence and privacy

A server that is not linked never contacts Caria Core about licences. It runs as Free.

Once a day it reads the public list of Zelie releases to see if there is an update. That file is the same for everyone. Downloading a release needs a download key.

Linking is your choice. It takes two steps:

1. 1In the panel, open Settings › License and press Link.
2. 2Sign in on cariacore.com and enter the code the panel shows.

To link, the panel sends its hostname and Zelie version once, so you can recognise it on the approval page.

You can end it at any time: Disconnect in the panel, or Remove machine on your account page.

A linked panel renews its licence once a day. Each renewal sends:

Licence number

The licence the panel is linked to.

Public key

The panel’s public key. The private key never leaves your server, and every request is signed with it.

Machine hash

A one-way SHA-256 of the machine’s id and a random install id. Not the id itself.

Zelie version

The version the panel runs.

Counts

How many game servers, apps and databases the server has, and how many of them are read-only. Numbers only.

Time and a random value

So a recorded request cannot be sent again.

The counts show your machines on your account, and let Caria Core notice a panel that runs more than its plan allows.

Like any web request, cariacore.com sees the server’s IP address. The site keeps it only as a keyed hash, to notice a copied server: the same panel renewing from two places.

What comes back is a small signed licence file: the plan, its limits, valid for 7 days. The panel checks the signature itself.

• Files
• Environment variables or secrets
• Database contents
• Logs or console output
• Player data
• App or domain names
• The IP addresses of your users

Caria Core cannot connect to your server. Every request is started by the panel, and nothing on the server listens for Caria Core.

So Caria Core cannot run commands on it, read its files or stop anything.

If cariacore.com or the internet is unreachable, the licence keeps working for 7 days. After that the server runs as Free. Nothing running stops, and nothing is deleted.

When a paid plan ends, or after those 7 days, the server runs as Free. Free allows 3 game servers, 3 apps and 3 databases.

If the server has more than that:

• Nothing is deleted.
• What is running keeps running.
• The ones past the limit become read-only: they cannot be started again, changed or updated.
• You choose which ones stay active.

They stay read-only until the plan is back, or until you delete some.

Updates are downloaded from releases.cariacore.com and checked against Zelie’s signing key before they are installed.

Zelie is licensed software. The rules are in the Zelie terms of use.