Terms
Terms and Conditions
These terms are a contract between you and us (the company named in the margin, “we”, “us”, “BroadPaper”). They cover this website, the public demo, the documentation, your account, and the BroadPaper software and licence keys we supply. By using any of them you agree to these terms. If you are accepting on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.
If you do not agree, do not use the website or the software.
1. Definitions
- Software means the BroadPaper packages we publish (including
@broadpaper/core,@broadpaper/blocks,@broadpaper/renderer,@broadpaper/forme,@broadpaper/pdf,@broadpaper/server,@broadpaper/editor,@broadpaper/react,@broadpaper/angularand the .NET client), their documentation, updates and any licence key. - Product means one application you make available to your users under one name, whatever platforms it runs on.
- Licence Year means the twelve months from the date a paid licence is issued or renewed.
- Tier means Professional or Enterprise, as described on the pricing page at the time of purchase.
- Internal User means someone who works for you: an employee, an officer, or a contractor engaged by you and working under your direction.
- External User means anyone who is not an Internal User, including your customers, your clients, their staff, your partners and the public.
- Order means a purchase made through your account or a written agreement with us.
2. The website, demo and documentation
We provide the website, the demo and the documentation free of charge for information and evaluation. You may use them for any lawful purpose. You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of them, interfere with their operation, or use automated means to extract their content at a rate that burdens them.
The demo runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you design in it is sent to us, and we make no promise to keep anything you leave in it: it is stored in your own browser’s storage and may be cleared at any time.
We may change or withdraw the website, the demo or the documentation at any time. We try to keep the documentation accurate but it is provided as guidance, not as a warranty about the Software.
3. Your account
You may create an account by signing in through one of the identity providers we offer. You are responsible for that account and for everything done through it. Tell us promptly at the address in the margin if you believe it has been used without your permission. We may suspend or close an account that is used in breach of these terms.
4. Licence grants
4.1 Evaluation
Subject to these terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide licence to install and use the Software, without a paid licence key and free of charge, for development, testing and evaluation. Every feature is enabled so that you can build the real thing before you buy. This licence does not permit use in production: the moment the Software is used in a Product that is live, whether or not you charge for it, you need a Professional or Enterprise licence.
4.2 Professional tier
Subject to payment and these terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide licence to install and use the Software in one Product, for an unlimited number of Internal Users, documents and renders.
A Professional licence does not permit you to make the designer available to External Users. Documents your Product produces may of course be sent to anyone; what the tier controls is who may open the designer itself.
The licence lasts for the Licence Year. When it ends you may continue to use, in that Product, any version of the Software released during a Licence Year you paid for, indefinitely and under these terms, but you will not receive further updates or support unless you renew.
4.3 Enterprise tier
An Enterprise licence is the Professional licence with one difference: you may also make the designer available to External Users, in any number, in the licensed Product. Everything else — the features, the unlimited documents, the Licence Year and what happens when it ends — is identical.
Where you sign a separate written agreement with us, that agreement prevails over these terms to the extent it differs.
4.4 Moving between tiers
You may move from Professional to Enterprise at any time by paying the difference in the then-current prices, pro-rated to the end of your Licence Year. Nothing in the Software or in your saved templates changes.
4.5 Redistribution
You may redistribute the Software only as a compiled, integrated part of your Product. You may not distribute the Software on its own, offer it as a component for others to build with, or make its functionality available as a stand-alone report-design service to third parties. Your Product’s end users do not need their own licence.
4.6 Licence keys
A licence key identifies your Product and Tier and is verified locally by the Software. You must keep it confidential, use it only in the Product it was issued for, and not attempt to circumvent, remove or alter it or any feature gate.
4.7 What you may not do
Except as expressly permitted, you may not: copy, modify, translate or create derivative works of the Software beyond what integrating it into your Product requires; reverse engineer it beyond what applicable law allows; remove any proprietary notices; use it to build a competing report designer; or use it in breach of any law, including in the generation of documents intended to deceive.
5. Intellectual property
The Software and everything on this website are owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright and other rights. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership to you. Your templates, your data, your themes and the documents your Product produces are yours; we claim no rights in them and, because the Software makes no calls to us, we never receive them.
The Software incorporates third-party components under their own licences, which are listed in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md file distributed with each package. Those licences apply to those components.
6. Orders, prices and payment
Prices are shown on the pricing page in US dollars and exclude any sales tax or VAT, which is added where applicable. An Order is accepted when we issue the licence key. We may change prices for future Licence Years with at least thirty days’ notice before your renewal date. Payment is due at the time of the Order unless we have agreed invoice terms in writing. Where we agree invoice terms, payment is due within thirty days of invoice and we may charge statutory interest on late payment.
Refunds are governed by our refund policy.
7. Renewal and termination
A paid licence renews automatically at the end of each Licence Year, at the price then current, unless you turn off renewal in your account before the renewal date. You may terminate at any time; the licence continues to the end of the paid Licence Year and section 4.2 applies afterwards.
We may terminate your licence with immediate effect if you materially breach these terms and do not cure the breach within fourteen days of our written notice, or if the breach cannot be cured. On termination for breach your rights under sections 4.2 and 4.3 end and you must stop using the Software.
8. Support and updates
Paid licences include email support during the Licence Year at the address in the margin, with a target first response within two business days. Support covers the use of the Software as documented; it does not include writing your Product for you. Where a separate written agreement provides for more, that agreement applies.
Updates released during your Licence Year are included. We decide what an update contains and when it is released.
9. Warranties
We warrant that, for ninety days from an Order, the Software will perform substantially as described in the documentation. If it does not, tell us and we will use reasonable efforts to fix it; if we cannot, you may terminate and we will refund the fee for the current Licence Year. This is your only remedy for breach of this warranty.
Otherwise the Software, the website, the demo and the documentation are provided as is. To the extent the law allows, we exclude all other warranties, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Software is error-free or that any document it produces meets a regulatory or legal requirement that applies to you: that remains your responsibility.
10. Liability
Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.
Subject to that, we are not liable for any loss of profit, revenue, business, data or goodwill, or for any indirect or consequential loss, however arising. Our total liability to you in connection with these terms, in any twelve-month period, is limited to the amount you paid us in that period, or $100 if you paid nothing.
You will indemnify us against claims by third parties arising from your Product or from your use of the Software in breach of these terms.
11. Data protection
We process personal data as described in our privacy policy. The Software itself does not send us any personal data.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. For paid licences, changes take effect at your next renewal, and we will give you at least thirty days’ notice by email. For everything else, changes take effect when published here. The date at the top is the date of the current version.
13. General
These terms are the whole agreement between us about their subject matter. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stands. Neither of us is liable for delay caused by events outside our reasonable control. You may not assign these terms without our written consent; we may assign them to a successor to our business. No third party has rights under these terms.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that we may enforce our intellectual property rights in any court that has jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, nothing here removes rights that the law of your country of residence gives you.
14. Contact
Questions about these terms go to the address in the margin.