Terms of Service

Last updated: 29 September 2026

1. This agreement

Valen (“Valen”, “we”, “us”) is a modification for Minecraft 1.8.9, operated by Valen. These Terms of Service form a binding agreement between you and us covering the Valen website, the loader, the client itself and any support we provide.

If you do not agree to any part of these terms, do not use the client.

2. Who may use it

You may use Valen if you are at least 16 years old, or if you are at least 13 and a parent or guardian accepts these terms on your behalf. If you are under 13, do not use Valen.

3. Your license

A license is a personal right to use the software, not ownership of it. Subject to these terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and run Valen for your own personal, non-commercial use, on one machine at a time.

All intellectual property in Valen — source code, compiled builds, artwork, interface design and branding — remains ours. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you.

A license lasts for the term attached to its key, and nothing renews automatically. It is also only usable for as long as we continue to operate and distribute Valen. See section 7.

4. What you may not do

You must not, and must not help anyone else to:

  • share, sell, rent, lend, sublicense or publish your license key;
  • redistribute the loader or the client, in whole or in part, modified or not;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, deobfuscate or otherwise attempt to derive the source of any part of the software, except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded;
  • circumvent, disable or interfere with licensing, authentication or hardware binding, including by spoofing a hardware identifier;
  • attack, overload or probe our infrastructure, or automate requests to our API beyond normal use of the client;
  • use Valen to harass, defraud or cause harm to other people, or to break any law that applies to you.

Breaking any of these is a material breach, and we may suspend or terminate the key under section 9.

5. Keys, machines and expiry

Your key binds to the first machine that authenticates with it and runs on one machine at a time. The machine is recognised by a hashed hardware identifier, described in the Privacy Policy.

You can move a key to a different machine a limited number of times per calendar month, depending on its plan. The allowance refills on the 1st:

  • 30 days — none. The first machine it binds to is final.
  • 90 days — one HWID change a month.
  • Yearly — two HWID changes a month.

Replacing hardware, changing a motherboard or reinstalling your operating system can change the identifier and use up a HWID change. On the 30-day plan, a changed identifier can end your access and does not create a refund unless applicable law requires one.

We cannot guarantee that a machine identifier will stay stable. Licenses stop authenticating at the end of their term, with no grace period.

A key activates on first use — its term starts the first time it authenticates and binds to a machine, not when it is issued.

Keep your key private. You are responsible for what happens under it, and a leaked key may be banned.

6. Third-party servers and bans

You are responsible for reading and following the rules of any server you connect to, and the Minecraft end user licence agreement. Using Valen does not grant permission to evade a server ban or anti-cheat system. We do not promise that a server will permit the client, or that an anti-cheat system will fail to detect it. We are not affiliated with Mojang Studios, Microsoft, or any server or network, and we do not act on their behalf.

7. Availability and updates

Valen is delivered as a service: the loader authenticates against our servers at every launch and downloads the current build. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, and we may take the service down for maintenance.

We may add, change or remove modules and features at any time, including features you rely on, as Minecraft, Forge or the servers you play on change. We may also discontinue Valen entirely. If we permanently discontinue it before a paid fixed term ends for a reason unrelated to your breach, we will, where feasible, give reasonable notice and either provide replacement access for the unused period or refund the unused part of the term. This does not apply where access ended because of your breach, a payment reversal or a legal requirement.

8. Earlier purchases

Valen is not currently sold. Licenses bought earlier keep their paid term. Those payments were processed by Stripe, the payment processor, not the seller of the license, and we never received or stored card details.

Refunds for earlier purchases are governed by our Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms. If you raise a chargeback instead of contacting us, we may suspend the key while the dispute is open.

9. Suspension and termination

We may temporarily suspend a license while investigating suspected sharing, abuse, authentication interference, a payment reversal or dispute, or where the law requires it. We may permanently terminate it for a material breach, a shared or resold key, a payment reversal decided against you, or a legal requirement. During a suspension you must not use the client. Where the breach is minor and fixable we will normally warn you first, unless that would create a security or legal risk.

If you believe a suspension or termination is wrong, email support@valen.cx with your key and a short explanation. We will review it and restore access if the action was a mistake. If we end a paid license for a reason not caused by you, and no legal requirement prevents it, we will either restore access or refund the unused paid term.

You may stop using Valen at any time by deleting the loader. Stopping use does not by itself entitle you to a refund.

10. No warranty

Valen is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the software will be error-free, uninterrupted, compatible with your setup, or undetected by any anti-cheat.

Nothing here excludes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded under the law of your country.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for loss of data, for loss of game accounts, ranks, cosmetics or in-game purchases, or for loss of profit or opportunity, however caused.

Our total liability to you for any claim connected to Valen is limited to the amount you actually paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product and the law change. The date at the top identifies this copy. For a license bought earlier, the version recorded with its order governs its purchase and refund terms; ask support for a copy. If you do not accept a new version, stop using the client.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms go to support@valen.cx.