End-user licence agreement
This is the licence under which we sell SealedBrief. Buying a licence, or accepting the agreement gate when you first launch the app, means you agree to these terms. The terms are short on purpose — and nothing in them takes away the rights you have as a consumer.
0. Who you are: Consumer vs Business User
Two sets of rules run through this agreement, because the law treats consumers and businesses differently and we will not pretend otherwise.
- "Consumer" means a natural person who acquires or uses SealedBrief mainly outside their trade, business, or profession — including a consumidor under the Brazilian Consumer Defence Code (Lei 8.078/90, "CDC"), and the equivalent under EU, UK, Australian, Canadian, and US law.
- "Business User" means a person or entity that acquires the licence as an input to its own economic activity — typically a Professional- tier licensee doing paid client work.
Where a clause below treats Consumers and Business Users differently, the split is deliberate. The consumer carve-outs (warranty savings in §6, liability carve-outs in §7, home-forum rights in §8, cancellation rights in §9) apply to you if you are a Consumer and prevail over any conflicting wording. The full-strength limitations (the "as is" default, the liability cap, and the exclusive São Paulo forum) apply in full only to Business Users, and even then never exclude fraud, wilful misconduct, or gross negligence. When in doubt, the more protective Consumer treatment applies.
1. The licence
On payment, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable licence to install and run SealedBrief on machines you control, for a three-year term beginning on the date the licence is issued. The licence is single-user — one human. The number of devices it covers is set by your tier: Personal covers one device for your own personal, non-commercial use; Professional covers up to three devices and is required for paid client work.
This is a one-time purchase for a three-year term. We do not automatically renew your licence or auto-charge you. Near the end of your term we may email a renewal offer you can accept or ignore.
What happens at term end — and why it is not data loss. When the three-year term ends, SealedBrief does not lock you out of your own work. It continues to open your existing vault in read-only mode: you can open the app, view your conversations and documents, run local searches over what you have already ingested, and export your existing conversations (Markdown and PDF; audit-log export is available on the Professional tier). What read-only mode blocks is new work — ingesting new documents and generating new answers. Your vault and everything already processed stay accessible to you; this is not a loss of your data. Purchasing a new term restores full functionality and starts a fresh three-year cycle. The licence may also terminate earlier under §5. This three-year term and read-only behaviour are disclosed at the point of sale, not only here.
2. What you may do
- Install and run SealedBrief on the number of devices your tier permits — Personal on one device, Professional on up to three.
- Process documents on your own machines. Use for paid client work requires the Professional tier; the Personal tier is licensed for your own personal, non-commercial use.
- Use SealedBrief over any documents you lawfully possess and have the right to access. You are responsible for the legality of what you process; we do not pre-clear your inputs, and by design we never receive them.
- Take SealedBrief with you across job changes — the licence follows the human, not the employer.
- Make backups of the installer.
"Paid client work" means work performed for a third party for which you or your employer are compensated, including billable professional services. The Personal tier covers only your own personal, non-commercial use. Tier pricing is on the pricing page; this agreement stays price-agnostic.
3. What you may not do
- Resell, redistribute, or sublicense SealedBrief or its installer to third parties.
- Reverse-engineer the binary for the purpose of creating a competing product, or to remove license-validation logic — except to the extent applicable law expressly permits despite this prohibition, including statutory interoperability and decompilation rights that cannot be waived (for example, EU Software Directive Art. 6).
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Share your
license_idwith others. If two concurrent activations of the same licence are observed, both may be suspended pending investigation.
4. Transfer
The licence follows the human and is transferable. You may
transfer it to another person on written request to
support@sealedbrief.com. We will
rebind the license_id to the new licensee within 5 business days.
There is no fee for transfer. You may not transfer the licence except through
this process, and you may not share your license_id in lieu of a
transfer.
5. Termination and revocation
Your licence terminates immediately and automatically if your
license_id is added to the certificate revocation list (CRL) — the
mechanism by which we revoke licences for chargebacks, fraud, or refund
processing.
We will not use revocation to punish your legitimate exercise of a statutory right. Revocation for a chargeback does not apply where the chargeback is your exercise of a statutory consumer right (the EU/UK 14-day withdrawal right, the Brazilian CDC art. 49 seven-day right of regret, or a defect remedy). A consumer who validly exercises one of those keeps eligibility to re-purchase. Where a revocation was made in error, or the underlying ground is resolved, we will reinstate the licence in good faith; we reserve permanent, non-recoverable revocation for demonstrated fraud.
On termination you must uninstall SealedBrief from machines you control within 30 days. Documents you have already processed remain yours; termination ends the right to use the software, not your ownership of the data. Sections 6, 7, and 8 survive termination.
6. Warranties — and the rights we do not take away
LLM-output accuracy (applies to everyone). SealedBrief uses large language models to generate answers from your documents. Outputs from large language models can be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading. You are responsible for verifying any output before relying on it for a consequential decision (legal, financial, medical, or otherwise). SealedBrief is a research and productivity tool, not a substitute for professional judgment and not professional advice. The privacy and security claims we publish are honest descriptions of the product's design, not legal guarantees of outcome under adversarial conditions.
Your non-waivable consumer rights. Except for the mandatory statutory rights of consumers, which we do not exclude or limit, the software is provided "as is" and "as available," and to the extent permitted by law we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing in this section affects non-waivable consumer rights, including the EU Digital Content Directive (2019/770) and Sale of Goods Directive (2019/771), the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Brazilian Consumer Defence Code (Lei 8.078/90, arts. 18, 24, 25, 26 — garantia legal), the Australian Consumer Law, and equivalent national law. Where you are a consumer, those rights prevail over this section.
US consumers. Some of the limitations in this section do not apply to consumers; any implied warranty that cannot be disclaimed is limited in duration to the shortest period your state allows or 90 days, whichever is longer. The full "as is" disclaimer applies in full only to Business Users, to the extent applicable law permits.
7. Limitation of liability
What we never limit. Nothing in this agreement limits or excludes our liability for (a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation (dolo); (c) gross negligence or wilful misconduct (culpa grave); (d) our indemnification obligations under §13; or (e) any liability that cannot be limited under applicable mandatory law, including a consumer's statutory conformity rights, the right to full reparation including moral damages under Brazilian CDC arts. 6, VI and 51, and liability under data-protection law (for example GDPR Art. 82 / LGPD).
The cap. Subject to those carve-outs, our aggregate liability under this licence — in contract, tort, or any other theory — shall not exceed the greater of (i) the total fees you paid for your current licence term, or (ii) USD 100. The floor means the cap is never illusory, and we base it on what you actually paid for your term rather than a rolling window.
To the extent permitted by law, and subject to the carve-outs above, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow this limitation; there it applies only to the maximum extent the law permits.
8. Governing law and where you can sue
If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country or state of residence applies, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your home jurisdiction — nothing here requires you to litigate in Brazil. This includes consumers protected by the Brazilian Código de Defesa do Consumidor (art. 101, I — the forum of your own domicílio), the EU (Rome I Art. 6 / Brussels Ia), the UK, Australia, and Canada.
If you are a Business User, this agreement is governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, where the Licensor is resident, and any dispute is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of São Paulo, SP. We do not require consumers to arbitrate, and this agreement contains no mandatory consumer-arbitration clause.
9. Your statutory cancellation rights
These rights are in addition to, and do not replace, the 30-day money-back guarantee in our Refund Policy.
EU/EEA and UK — 14-day right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or the UK, you have a 14-day right of withdrawal for digital content under the Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83/EU) and the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations, using the model withdrawal form below — unless at checkout you asked us to make the download available immediately and acknowledged that you lose the 14-day right once the download begins. We capture that consent as a separate, un-ticked checkbox at checkout and confirm it to you by email (a durable medium).
Brazil — 7-day right of regret (CDC art. 49). If you are a consumer and bought online, art. 49 of the Código de Defesa do Consumidor gives you 7 days from purchase or first access to cancel for any reason and receive a full refund of all amounts paid, monetarily updated. Inside this 7-day window the full amount you were charged is refunded — the Refund Policy's discounted-price and currency-shift notes yield to the full charged amount for art. 49 cancellations.
Model withdrawal form (complete and return only if you wish to withdraw): To Algorythm Solutions Ashade, support@sealedbrief.com — I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the SealedBrief licence. Ordered on / received on: ____. Name: ____. Address: ____. Date: ____.
10. Updates and support
Year 1 of each term includes all updates and support in the purchase price. Years 2–3 of each term require the applicable annual support fee to keep receiving updates, model refreshes, and support. Support is best-effort email for Personal and priority / SLA for Professional. We give at least 90 days' advance notice before discontinuing a release line, and your read-only vault access (§1) is preserved regardless.
11. Refunds and your remedy if you disagree
Our Refund Policy gives a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked, which sits on top of your statutory rights in §9. If you do not agree to these terms when you first launch SealedBrief, do not accept the agreement gate, and request a refund within 30 days — that refund is your remedy for disagreeing with these terms. When a refund is processed your licence is revoked and the app gives you a 7-day window to view and export your existing conversations and documents (Markdown and PDF), after which it locks until you re-license — distinct from the indefinite read-only access at natural term end in §1.
12. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference. In summary: the document-processing engine (the "Compute Plane") makes no outbound network connection and we never receive your documents; the user-interface process (the "Presentation Plane") performs minimal, disclosed traffic — licence validation and opt-in update checks. "Zero egress" describes the Compute Plane, not the whole application. The canonical sub-processor list is in the Privacy Policy, which governs if any marketing summary diverges.
13. Intellectual property
SealedBrief remains our intellectual property; this agreement licenses it to you and does not transfer ownership. You retain all rights to your inputs and to the outputs generated from them; we claim no ownership of, and no licence over, the documents you process or the outputs produced from them. We will defend and indemnify you against third-party claims that the unmodified software as supplied by us infringes their intellectual property, given prompt notice and reasonable cooperation.
14. Export controls
SealedBrief incorporates strong cryptography (AES-256) and large-language-model weights, which may be subject to export-control law (for example the US EAR and the Wassenaar Arrangement). You agree not to export, re-export, or use the software where doing so would violate applicable export-control or sanctions law.
15. General
- Entire agreement. This agreement, with the Refund Policy and Privacy Policy, is the entire agreement regarding SealedBrief.
- Severability. If any clause is struck, it is severed and the rest stays in force — in particular, if a consumer court strikes the cap (§7) or the business-user forum (§8), the remainder survives.
- No waiver. Not enforcing a clause is not a waiver of it.
- Assignment. You may assign only through the §4 transfer process; we may assign to a successor entity on a merger or sale of assets without prejudice to your §4 transfer right.
- Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, except payment obligations.
- Changes. We may update these terms; the updated version applies to new purchases. Existing licence holders keep the version published when their licence was issued, available on request.
16. Contact
Algorythm Solutions Ashade, São Paulo, Brazil. For licensing or transfer questions write to support@sealedbrief.com; for privacy requests see the Privacy Policy.
For consumers resident in Brazil, where a Portuguese-language version of this agreement is provided, the Portuguese version prevails.