Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the websites, applications, developer tools, and online services (the "Services") provided by Ameretat LLC ("Ameretat", "we", "us"). By accessing or using the Services, downloading our software, or purchasing a license, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

Ameretat is an independent, privacy-first software studio. We publish native macOS apps, small web tools, and developer tools, and we are the provider and licensor of that software. We do not sell to you directly: our paid products are sold by Paddle as reseller and Merchant of Record (see Section 1). These Terms govern your use and licensing of the software (the product layer). The commercial sale of a paid product, including payment, invoicing, tax, and any statutory withdrawal right, is governed by Paddle's separate Buyer Terms (the transaction layer). If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms reduces the mandatory rights described in Section 16.

Eligibility. To buy a product or agree to these Terms, you must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live (in many places that is 18, or younger with a parent or guardian's consent). Not every product carries the same age requirement: some products set a higher minimum age or other conditions on the product's own page, and you must meet any requirement stated there for a product you use or buy.

1. Purchases and Merchant of Record

Our paid products are sold by Paddle, our authorized reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle, not Ameretat, is the seller of record and your contractual counterparty for the purchase. Paddle is responsible for the order, checkout, billing, payment processing, invoicing, the calculation, collection, and remittance of all applicable VAT, sales, and consumption taxes in your jurisdiction, chargebacks and payment disputes, and the consumer-law obligations that attach to the sale (including any statutory right of withdrawal). Ameretat acts only as the software provider and licensor: we are responsible for the product itself, the accuracy of our pre-sale descriptions, the license, support, and our own privacy practices.

Each purchase is also governed by Paddle's own Buyer Terms, presented to you at checkout. Paddle's identity, address, and contact details (as seller of record) are provided to you at checkout and on your receipt or invoice. The order confirmation, the tax invoice, and the descriptor on your card or bank statement will carry Paddle's name, not Ameretat's. Prices we display are the prices Paddle charges; taxes are added or shown by Paddle where applicable. We do not charge, collect, register for, file, or remit any tax, and we do not issue the tax invoice. If you need an invoice, a VAT or B2B invoice, or a correction, contact Paddle using the details on your receipt.

Paddle is a genuine reseller that sells the product to you, not merely a payment processor acting for us. As seller of record, Paddle performs sanctions and geographic screening at checkout under its own Buyer Terms. Ameretat's own representations and covenants in these Terms (including the export-control and sanctions provisions in Section 19) apply to all access to and use of the Services, including the free tier, key-based entitlements, and direct downloads that do not pass through Paddle's checkout. Using a Merchant of Record does not remove Ameretat's own responsibilities for the product, our disclosures, or these Terms.

2. The license we grant you

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, any product-specific terms, and (for paid products) your continued entitlement, Ameretat grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use each product you obtain, for your own personal or internal use, for as long as your entitlement lasts (the free tier, or the paid term you purchased). The license is granted to you as the individual end user.

The license is granted per product: each app, tool, or service is licensed separately, and the scope of your license is limited to what your plan or entitlement covers (for example, the number of seats, devices, enrolled servers, or keys). Your license does not include any right to resell, redistribute, sublicense, rent, lease, or host the product for third parties, or to share credentials, keys, or entitlements beyond the scope you obtained. The right to a license is sold to you by Paddle; the license itself is granted and defined by Ameretat under these Terms.

3. Accounts, keys, and credentials

How you access a product depends on the product, and you should review each product's description before you obtain it:

• Some products use a standard account identified by your email address.
• Other products are designed for privacy and use no account at all. Access is tied to a credential or keypair that you alone control, and your entitlement is linked to a public key rather than to your identity.

For key-based products such as sukey.sh, you are solely responsible for safeguarding and backing up your key or credential. Because these products are designed so that we do not receive your key and cannot read your content, Ameretat cannot recover or reset a lost key. If you lose your key, you may permanently and irreversibly lose access to the associated entitlement and content, and we have no obligation and no ability to restore it. Duplicating, sharing, or using a key or entitlement beyond the scope you obtained is a breach of your license. This is a defining characteristic of how these products work, not a defect.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to misuse the Services. In particular, you agree not to:

• break the law or infringe the rights of others;
• use the Services to store or transmit unlawful, infringing, or abusive content;
• resell, redistribute, sublicense, or host the Services for third parties except as expressly permitted;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent license, key, usage-limit, or security measures;
• use the Services to build or assist in building a competing product;
• remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary or attribution notices; or
• attempt to disrupt, overload, probe, or gain unauthorized access to the Services or related systems.

You also agree not to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the software, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law (for example, where mandatory law grants you a non-waivable right to decompile for interoperability or to carry out lawful security research). Breach of the restrictions in this Section is also a breach of our intellectual-property and confidentiality rights and may entitle Ameretat to seek injunctive relief in addition to any other remedy.

5. Intellectual property; your content; feedback

The Services, including their software, designs, interfaces, trademarks, and content, are owned by Ameretat or its licensors and are protected by law. We retain all right, title, and interest in the Services, and all rights not expressly granted to you are reserved. These Terms do not transfer any ownership to you.

You own your content. For our privacy-first products, you retain all ownership of the data and content you create or process, and Ameretat claims no rights in it. Zero-knowledge products are designed so that we cannot read your content, and we store only what is needed to enforce your plan.

If you choose to send us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, or ideas, you grant Ameretat a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or obligation to you. You do not have to send us feedback, and we do not have to use it.

6. Product functionality, compatibility, and updates

Each product's page or product-specific terms describe its main functionality so that you can judge what you are getting before you obtain it: how it is delivered or accessed (for example, download, online relay, account, or keypair entitlement), any technical restrictions (such as device, platform, region, or seat or server limits), and relevant compatibility and interoperability (such as supported macOS versions, hardware, or dependencies). For key-based products, the fact that a lost key cannot be recovered by Ameretat (Section 3) is a material functionality characteristic.

Where we state that a product receives updates, including security updates, we describe whether and for how long they are provided on that product's page or terms. We may modify, add, or remove features over time.

7. Beta, free-tier, and trial features

Some features and products are offered free of charge, as part of a free tier, or as beta, early-access, preview, or trial features (including products marked "coming soon" before they launch). These are provided "as is", with no warranty, no service-level commitment, no indemnity, and no support. They may be unstable, may change, and may be withdrawn at any time, and they may lose data. The disclaimers in Section 9 and the limitation of liability in Section 10 apply in full to free, beta, and trial features, and the consumer protections in Section 16 still apply where they are mandatory.

8. Subscriptions and cancellation

We currently offer a free tier. Paid and subscription tiers are coming soon. When they launch, the following will apply, and the material terms below will be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, before any billing information is taken and before you are charged.

Before you subscribe, you will be told, in plain language: that the plan auto-renews until you cancel; the recurring price and the billing frequency (for example, per month or per year); the renewal or next-charge date and the billing interval; how to cancel and any cancellation deadline; and the 14-day refund window, with a link to our Refund Policy. You must give express, affirmative consent to the auto-renewal (there are no pre-checked boxes), and you will receive a retainable confirmation of the renewal terms, the cancellation policy, and how to cancel. Because checkout runs on Paddle's interface, Paddle presents this consent flow and provides the acknowledgement on a durable medium; Ameretat remains responsible for the accuracy of the terms shown.

You may cancel at any time by a route that is at least as easy as signing up and in the same medium you signed up in. Online sign-up means you can cancel online, without having to call or speak to anyone and without navigating a retention or "save" flow to complete the cancellation. Depending on the product, you cancel in the product or your account, in Paddle's customer portal using your receipt, or by emailing support@ameret.at; if a retention offer is ever shown during cancellation, a control that immediately cancels will be shown on the same screen. After you cancel, your plan stays active until the end of the paid period and you are not charged again. Cancelling stops future renewals; it does not refund or shorten the paid period you are already in, except as set out in our Refund Policy. For key-based products, an entitlement tied to a public key is cancelled by letting it lapse, which simply ends the entitlement. Cancellation is confirmed on a durable medium.

For auto-renewing plans we will send a renewal reminder before each renewal (identifying the product, the charge amount and frequency, and how to cancel), and for any plan that renews yearly or less often between 15 and 45 days before it renews, in the medium you are accustomed to, and at least 30 days' advance notice of any price increase before the new price takes effect, with a clear opportunity to cancel before it applies. We will state whether these notices are sent by Ameretat or by Paddle. These commitments are dormant while there is no paid plan and will be operative from the launch of the first paid tier.

9. Disclaimers

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. AMERETAT DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.

Our security and privacy descriptions (for example, that certain products are designed so that we cannot read your content or recover a lost key, and that our systems are hosted in the European Union) describe how the products are built; they are not a guarantee against every possible risk.

Nothing in this Section or these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any warranty, guarantee, or right that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable mandatory consumer law, including the EU/EEA and UK consumer guarantees and statutory conformity rights. See Section 16.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AMERETAT WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REVENUE, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES.

AMERETAT'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE PRODUCT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD 100.

The exclusions and the cap above do not apply to liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence, to a party's indemnification obligations (other than a consumer's indemnity under Section 11), or to your mandatory consumer rights under Section 16. Nothing in this Section limits Ameretat's liability to a consumer for failing to provide a product in conformity with these Terms or with the security and privacy characteristics we describe, to the extent mandatory law does not allow that liability to be excluded or capped.

11. Indemnification

Subject to the procedure below, Ameretat will defend you against, and indemnify you for amounts finally awarded in, a third-party claim alleging that your authorized use of a paid product infringes that third party's intellectual-property rights. If such a claim arises or is likely, Ameretat may, at its option, procure a license for your continued use, modify the product so it is non-infringing, or terminate the affected license and refund the prepaid, unused fees for it. This obligation does not apply to claims arising from your misuse of the product, your modification of it, its combination with anything not provided by Ameretat, or your use of beta, free, or trial features.

You will indemnify Ameretat against third-party claims to the extent they arise from your content, your unlawful or willful misuse of the Services, or your material breach of these Terms. If you are a consumer, this obligation applies only as far as mandatory consumer law permits, is subject to the limitation of liability in Section 10, and does not make you liable beyond what that law allows.

For any indemnity, the party seeking indemnity must promptly notify the other of the claim, allow the indemnifying party to control the defense, and cooperate reasonably; the indemnifying party will not settle a claim in a way that imposes a non-monetary obligation on the other party without that party's consent. A party's indemnification obligations sit outside the limitation of liability in Section 10, except that a consumer's indemnity under this Section remains subject to that limitation.

12. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services, or cancel a paid plan, at any time (see Section 8). Ameretat may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Services, and may decline or revoke a license, where you breach these Terms, use the Services unlawfully or abusively, fail to pay, create a security risk, or where we reasonably believe that continuing to provide the Services would violate export-control or sanctions law or that an export or sanctions representation in Section 19 is or has become untrue. We will give notice where practicable and act immediately where necessary, and we will act without liability where suspension or termination is required for legal-compliance reasons.

On termination, your license immediately ends, you must stop using the affected Services, and you may lose access to data and entitlements. For key-based products, access tied to a revoked entitlement ceases. The billing and refund consequences of any cancellation or termination are handled by Paddle and under our Refund Policy. The following Sections survive termination: 1 (so far as it allocates responsibility), 2 and 4 (restrictions), 3 (key responsibility and no key recovery), 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20.

13. Third-party and open-source components

The Services may include third-party and open-source components licensed under their own terms. Those terms govern those components and prevail over these Terms for that component. To the extent permitted by law, Ameretat disclaims liability for third-party components. Where we distribute such components, we include the required attributions and notices (for example, in the product, in its documentation, or on a third-party-licenses or attributions page).

14. Force majeure

Ameretat is not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, pandemics, labor actions, changes in law or government action, internet, telecommunications, or power outages, cyberattacks such as denial-of-service, and outages or actions of third-party infrastructure or cloud providers (including our hosting provider in Germany). Such an event suspends, rather than voids, the affected obligations and overrides any uptime or availability commitment for its duration; we will use reasonable efforts to mitigate and to resume performance.

15. Assignment; miscellaneous

You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or any license, credential, or key, without Ameretat's prior written consent. Ameretat may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets. Any attempted assignment in violation of this Section is void.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will stay in full effect. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of it or of any other right.

These Terms, together with our Refund Policy, our Privacy Policy, and any product-specific terms, are the entire agreement between you and Ameretat regarding your use and licensing of the Services, and supersede prior representations on that subject. The commercial purchase transaction is separately governed by Paddle's Buyer Terms, which Ameretat does not control and which are not part of this agreement.

16. Your consumer rights

If you are a consumer, you have rights under the law of the country where you live that cannot be taken away by contract. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any non-excludable statutory right or remedy you have as a consumer. For consumers in the EU/EEA and the UK, this includes the statutory conformity rights and the tiered remedies for digital content and digital services (first repair or bringing the product into conformity, then a proportionate price reduction, then termination and a refund), and the right to terminate for a failure to supply. Those statutory rights apply in addition to, and prevail over, anything in these Terms or our Refund Policy where they conflict.

The 14-day refund window under Paddle's refund policy is separate from, and additional to, your statutory rights, and it does not replace, cap, or waive them.

The statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for distance contracts, and any consent to begin immediate supply and the resulting effect on that right, are matters between you and Paddle as the seller of record, and are presented and captured by Paddle at checkout under its Buyer Terms. Our Refund Policy explains how the statutory withdrawal right and the digital-content exception work, how to exercise withdrawal through Paddle's online withdrawal function, and how that differs from the 14-day refund window.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts located in that jurisdiction will have exclusive jurisdiction, in each case subject to the dispute-resolution terms below and to the mandatory consumer protections described in this Section.

If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, the UK, or another country whose mandatory law guarantees you access to your local courts and consumer protections, none of the choice of law, the choice of forum, or the arbitration and class-waiver terms below apply to you to the extent they would deprive you of those rights. You may bring claims in, and rely on the mandatory consumer-protection law of, the country where you live, and you keep those protections regardless of this Section.

For users who are not protected by the consumer-law carve-out above (for example, many US users): any dispute relating to the Services, these Terms, our products, our pre-sale representations, or our privacy practices (other than the commercial purchase transaction governed by Paddle's Buyer Terms) that is not resolved informally will be settled by binding individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, and you and Ameretat waive any right to participate in a class action or class-wide or representative arbitration. Before starting arbitration, you agree to first contact us at support@ameret.at and give us 30 days to resolve the dispute informally. You may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. Either party may also seek provisional or injunctive relief from a court (for example, to protect intellectual property or confidential information) without waiving arbitration. You may opt out of this arbitration and class-waiver agreement by emailing us within 30 days of first accepting these Terms; opting out does not affect the rest of these Terms. The arbitration and class waiver do not apply where they are prohibited by law.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update the Services or these Terms from time to time. When we do, we update the effective date above. For material changes, we will provide additional notice through appropriate means before they take effect, such as an in-product or on-site notice, a banner, or, where you have an account, by email. Because some products have no account, an in-product or on-site notice may be the only available channel, and we will use it for significant changes.

If you continue to use the Services after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you are a consumer, you may instead reject a change and stop using the Services or cancel, and your mandatory consumer rights are unaffected. We will inform active subscribers of material changes to subscription terms.

19. Export controls and sanctions

The Services and Ameretat software, including any encryption functionality, are subject to United States export-control laws, in particular the Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 15 CFR Parts 730-774) administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and to economic sanctions administered by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). By using or accessing the Services, downloading our software, or purchasing a license, you agree to comply with all applicable U.S. and other export, re-export, and sanctions laws.

Our software contains or makes available encryption features and is therefore controlled under Category 5, Part 2 of the EAR. You are responsible for complying with any restrictions on the import, possession, or use of encryption in your own jurisdiction, as some countries restrict strong encryption.

You represent, warrant, and covenant that:

• you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, a national of, or acting on behalf of the government of any country or region subject to a comprehensive U.S. embargo or to which export of the Services is prohibited, including, currently, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), and Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) regions of Ukraine, and any other country or region designated under EAR Country Group E:1 or E:2 or subject to comprehensive OFAC sanctions, as those lists are updated from time to time, and you will not access, download, or use the Services from or on behalf of any such country or region;
• you are not, and are not owned 50% or more (individually or in the aggregate, directly or indirectly) or controlled by any party, identified on a U.S. restricted-party list, including OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List or other OFAC sanctions lists, or the BIS Denied Persons List, Entity List, or Military End-User List (as reflected in the Consolidated Screening List), and you will not provide access to, or transfer or sublicense the Services to, any such party; and
• you will not use, export, or re-export the Services in connection with any prohibited end use, including the design, development, production, or use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, missiles, or other weapons of mass destruction, or any prohibited military or military-intelligence end use or end user; these end-use restrictions apply even where an item is classified EAR99 or as a mass-market encryption item.

Paddle performs sanctions and geographic screening of the buyer at checkout for paid purchases under its own Buyer Terms. These representations are Ameretat's own and apply to every person who accesses or uses the Services, including through the free tier, key-based entitlements, and direct downloads or service access that do not pass through Paddle's checkout. Compliance with these laws is not delegable: Ameretat may exercise the suspension and termination rights in Section 12 if providing the Services would, or might, violate these laws or if any representation here is or becomes untrue.

20. Contact

Ameretat LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Questions? Email support@ameret.at. Paddle's contact details, as seller of record, are on your receipt and at checkout.