The licence, in plain words.
This covers using the software. What you pay, how renewals work and how refunds are handled live in the Terms of Sale and the Refund Policy — kept separate so neither document has to be read twice.
Your licence
Copywarden grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the app on Macs you own or control, for personal or business use. Paid features are unlocked by your account for as long as your plan entitles you to them; the Founding licence is described in the Terms of Sale.
What you may not do
Copywarden is proprietary software. You may not redistribute, resell, sublicense or rent it, remove or obscure its notices, or attempt to defeat its licensing. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it except to the extent that applicable law expressly gives you that right despite this restriction — in the EU, for instance, the law permits certain decompilation for interoperability, and nothing here purports to take that away.
Security research is welcome and explicitly carved out: our disclosure policy offers safe harbour for good-faith work, and it takes precedence over the restriction above for research conducted within it.
Your clipboard stays yours
We claim no ownership of anything you copy. Clipboard content is encrypted on your Mac, and with optional sync it is sealed on-device before upload into your own iCloud database — we never hold a decryptable copy, because we never hold the key. What that does and does not protect against is set out in the threat model, which is part of how we'd rather you judge this product than by promises.
No warranty
Copywarden is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will prevent every form of data loss or disclosure. It is a security tool, not a guarantee — the threat model names the residual risks we do not claim to solve, and we mean that list literally.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Where you have statutory consumer rights, those come first and nothing here reduces them.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Copywarden is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data, arising from your use of the app. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for Copywarden in the twelve months before the claim.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Payments, tax and refunds
Purchases are handled by Paddle.com Market Ltd, our merchant of record. Paddle is the seller on your receipt and their buyer terms govern payment, billing, tax and refund mechanics. Our own commitments on top of those — the 14-day, no-questions-asked window, and Pro access ending when a refund is issued — are in the Refund Policy.
Termination
You may stop using Copywarden at any time; your local clipboard history is yours and is not held by us. We may suspend or end a licence for material breach of these terms — non-payment, redistribution, or use that puts other people's security at risk. Where the situation allows it, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.
Changes to these terms
If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will say so plainly on this page with a date. We don't change the deal retroactively.
Governing law
[OWNER: governing law / jurisdiction — pending Ed's review before this page ships.]
Contact
Questions about these terms, or about anything security-related: security@copywarden.com. [OWNER: legal entity name and postal address — pending Ed's review before this page ships.]