Your data is yours — export and no lock-in

The test of who really owns your software is what happens when you want to leave. On a lot of platforms, that’s the moment you discover the walls: a proprietary format, a half-export, a “contact sales.” On Croft, leaving is deliberately boring.

Everything on your croft runs on a private server that’s yours — your apps and your data live there, not in a shared pool with everyone else’s. Cancel, and we hand you a single export of the whole thing: each app’s code, its database, and its uploaded files, packaged as a standard Docker setup that you — or any developer — can run on your own machine or hosting. No proprietary format, no lock-in, nothing to reverse-engineer.

The same is true if Croft itself ever went away: you’d still have that export, and it would still run. We’re building Croft to last, but you shouldn’t have to take our word for it — so we made sure you don’t.

While you’re here, your data is looked after properly. Every change streams to encrypted, off-site backups, with a nightly snapshot on top, and we run real restore drills — a backup nobody has tested is just a hope. Every deploy is reversible in one click.

This isn’t a footnote in the terms; it’s part of the pitch. Security you can trust shouldn’t come with a lock on the door out. You bring your own AI, you build on a server that’s yours, and you can walk away with all of it whenever you like. That’s what “yours” should mean.

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