Scriptorium CoderScriptorium Coder — End User Licence Agreement
Please read this agreement before installing or using Scriptorium Coder. By installing or using the software you agree to it. The Scriptorium terms, privacy policy and refund policy at momoworx.com apply together with it; if they and this agreement ever differ, the terms at momoworx.com/scriptorium-terms apply.
1. Definitions
"The Software" means Scriptorium Coder, including its programs, engine, language files, icons, documentation and any updates supplied to you. "We", "us", "the Licensor" means Momo Designs cc. "You", "the Licensee" means the person or organisation named on the licence key. "This computer's code" means the code the Software shows under File › Licence, which it works out from the computer it is running on.
2. Grant of licence
On payment of the applicable fee we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Software on the computer whose code is on your licence key (or, for a key that names no computer, on the number of devices stated on it), for the period stated on it. A licence marked *perpetual* does not expire, and works with every later version of the Software.
Scriptorium Coder is sold as a yearly subscription. A subscription licence is paid until the day stated on it, and works, with every version of the Software released, until that day. For fourteen (14) days after it the Software keeps every feature, so that the licence can be renewed; after that it becomes a reader, as described below, until it is renewed. Renewing adds a year from the day the licence was paid until, or from the day of renewal once those fourteen days have passed. A subscription does not renew by itself: nothing is charged unless you renew it.
A free evaluation period of fourteen (14) days is granted without payment, with every feature. When it ends the Software becomes a reader: it continues to open and display your documents, and always will, but writing, saving, printing, exporting, copying, the assistant and reading aloud need a valid licence key.
3. What you may do
- Install and use the Software for any lawful purpose, personal or commercial.
- Make backup copies of the Software for your own use.
- Keep, use, sell and distribute the documents you create with it. Documents you create are entirely yours. We claim no rights in them whatsoever.
- Move your licence to a replacement computer. You can do it yourself, a few times a year, under File › Licence: on the old computer, or on the new one by entering your licence key there. Or send us the code the Software shows on the new computer, and we will move it. The computer your licence leaves becomes a reader.
4. What you may not do
- Copy, distribute, rent, lend, sell or sub-licence the Software itself.
- Share, publish or resell your licence key, or use it on a computer it was not issued for.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, or attempt to derive the longHand language, its engine or the licensing mechanism from it, except to the extent that such restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
- Remove or alter any copyright, trade secret or attribution notice.
- Circumvent, disable or tamper with the licensing or evaluation-period checks.
5. Ownership and trade secrets
The Software is licensed, not sold. All intellectual property in the Software remains with Momo Designs cc. longHand, the programming language in which the Software's formatting engine is written, and the engine itself, are confidential trade secrets of Momo Designs cc and are protected as such.
6. Privacy
Your documents stay on your own device. The Software does not create an account and needs no internet connection to work. It never sends us your documents, their names or anything in them.
When it is online, it sends our licence server a few facts, and only these:
- during the evaluation, and afterwards while it is a reader, once a day: this computer's code, the day the evaluation began, the version of the Software, the operating system and the language it is showing;
- with a licence, about once a week: this computer's code, to check that the licence still stands; and once, if our list has no record of the licence key the Software holds, that key, which holds the name it is licensed to, its serial number and the day it was issued, so that the licence is on our list;
- when you ask it to fetch your licence: this computer's code, and the codes it went by in versions before 3.40.1;
- when you move your licence to another computer: its licence key, and the code of the computer it moves to;
- only if you choose to register your evaluation: your e-mail address, your name if you give it, and whether you agree to hear about news and offers.
This computer's code identifies the computer, not you. The assistant, the voice library, dictation and spelling dictionaries use other services only when you use them, as the privacy policy at momoworx.com/scriptorium-privacy describes. No advertising; we do not track what you do in the Software.
Settings and your recovery drafts are stored only on your own device.
7. Warranty
We warrant that the Software will perform substantially as described in its documentation for ninety (90) days from purchase. Your sole remedy for a breach of this warranty is, at our option, repair of the Software or a refund of the fee you paid.
Except as stated above, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Software is provided "as is" without any other warranty, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Nothing in this agreement limits or excludes any right you may have under the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.
8. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or in connection with the Software is limited to the amount you paid for your licence. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business, or loss of data.
Keep backups of your work. Scriptorium Coder saves plain, standard Markdown files precisely so that your documents never depend on us continuing to exist.
9. Termination
Your licence ends if you breach this agreement and do not put it right within a reasonable time after we ask you to. On termination you must stop using the Software and remove it from your devices. Documents you have created remain yours.
We may withdraw a licence key that was stolen, charged back, refunded, shared or moved to another computer. A withdrawn key turns that copy of the Software back into a reader the next time it checks with us. If we withdraw one by mistake, we put it back.
10. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa. The parties submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Eastern Cape.
11. Contact
Momo Designs cc
Registration No. 2005/082538/23
Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
[email protected]
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