Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and DataAnonymiser ("we", "us") governing your use of the DataAnonymiser desktop application, any files it downloads and installs in order to work (the "local processing files"), this website, and related account and licensing services (together, the "Service"). By creating an account, subscribing, downloading, installing, or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. License grant

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal (or, for a team or organization plan, internal-business), non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and run the application on the number of devices permitted by the plan your account holds, whether free or paid. Where your plan entitles you to them, that license also covers downloading and using the entitled local processing files solely for their intended use within the application; the free plan carries no such entitlement. The application and those files are licensed, not sold.

3. Restrictions

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

• copy, distribute, publish, transmit, sublicense, rent, lease, lend, sell, resell, or otherwise make available the application, its source code, or any local processing file (in whole or in part) to any third party;
• extract, copy, export, or redistribute any local processing file or any part of one, or use it outside the application or with any other software or service;
• use any local processing file without a plan that entitles you to it, or use the application or any local processing file after your license has expired or been terminated;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, the contents of the local processing files, or the underlying structure or methods of the Service, except to the limited extent this restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law;
• circumvent, disable, or interfere with license verification, device limits, signature or hash checks, update mechanisms, or any other technical protection measure;
• remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice; or
• use output generated by the Service to develop, train, fine-tune, test, benchmark, or improve any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning system that competes with, or is intended to replicate, the Service or any part of it; or
• use the Service in violation of applicable law or the rights of others.

4. Intellectual property

The application, the local processing files, this website, and all related intellectual property are and remain the exclusive property of DataAnonymiser and its licensors. No rights are granted except the limited license in Section 2.

Output generated by the Service is proprietary to DataAnonymiser. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive right to use that output for your own personal or internal-business purposes. This right does not permit using output to train, fine-tune, test, benchmark, or improve a competing system, or to reproduce or extract the Service's methods or other protected technology.

5. Subscriptions & payment

Paid plans are billed monthly or yearly through our payment processor (Stripe) and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel or manage your subscription at any time from your account; cancellation stops future renewals and access continues until the end of the paid period. Prices are shown on the pricing page, exclude applicable taxes, and may change at our discretion (changes do not affect the period you have already paid for). Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable.

6. No warranty: anonymization is best-effort

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

In particular, anonymization is best-effort and not guaranteed. We do not warrant that the Service will detect, mask, or remove all personal, sensitive, or confidential information, that its output is free of residual identifiers, or that it meets HIPAA, GDPR, or any other de-identification or compliance standard. You are solely responsible for reviewing and verifying the output before sharing it with any third party or system. See our Limitations page.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, DataAnonymiser and its suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business, arising out of or relating to the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, we are not liable for any damages, loss, or harm arising from:

• the Service failing to detect, mask, or remove any sensitive or personal information;
• your disclosure or sharing of anonymized or original content with any third party or system; or
• any resulting exposure, re-identification, or misuse of data.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including, where applicable, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and any mandatory statutory rights of consumers.

8. Feedback submissions

If you choose to submit an example to help us improve the Service, you must first replace all real sensitive and personal data by redacting it yourself, and you confirm you have the right to share the submission. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to store and use the submitted content to operate and improve the Service. Any reward (such as a subscription extension) is granted at our discretion after we validate the submission.

9. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your license and access if you breach these Terms, in particular the restrictions in Section 3. On termination, your license ends and you must stop using and delete the application and its local processing files. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10) survive termination.

10. Governing law & changes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Germany, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights in your country of residence. We may update these Terms from time to time; material changes take effect when posted (shown by the "Last updated" date), and your continued use constitutes acceptance. Your privacy is described in our Privacy Policy.