Terms of Sale and Licence Agreement
In short:
- You buy a licence to use Aleph on one computer per seat; you don't buy the software itself.
- Subscriptions renew until you cancel. Perpetual licences keep working forever on the versions they cover.
- Aleph is a calculation tool. The engineer who signs the design is responsible for checking its results and for code compliance.
- Our liability is limited to what you paid us in the last 12 months.
The full terms below are what apply.
1. Who these terms are between
These terms are an agreement between 2336002 Alberta Ltd., a corporation incorporated in Alberta, Canada, trading as Aleph ("Aleph", "we", "us"), and the person or organisation that buys, downloads or uses the Aleph software ("you"). If you accept these terms for an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.
You accept these terms by buying a licence, activating Aleph, or using it.
2. Who sells to you
- In Canada, you buy directly from Aleph. Card payments are processed by Stripe. GST or HST is added at checkout, and provincial sales tax (PST or RST) where Aleph is registered to collect it.
- Outside Canada, our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all those orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns for them, and Paddle's buyer terms also apply to your purchase. Paddle adds any sales tax or VAT that applies.
3. The licence
When you pay, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Aleph for your own design work, within your organisation, under the tier you bought:
| Tier | What you may use | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | The Essentials features listed on our pricing page | The paid period (monthly or yearly), renewing until cancelled |
| Pro | All features | The paid period (monthly or yearly), renewing until cancelled |
| Project Pass | All features | 30 days from purchase; it does not renew |
| Perpetual | All features of the versions released up to the end of your updates period | No end date |
| Trial | All features, with "Trial" on reports | 30 days, once per computer |
| Reader | Opening files and viewing or printing reports | Free, with no end date |
- Seats. Each seat lets Aleph be activated on one computer at a time. You may move a seat to another computer by deactivating the old one (Help › Licence › Deactivate this computer) or by asking us.
- Activation. Aleph activates once with your licence key and then works offline. When it is online, it checks with our licence service about once a day so renewals and changes reach it. A computer without internet can use a licence file from our offline activation page instead.
- The Trial and Project Pass are for evaluating Aleph and for occasional projects. Report footers on a Trial show that it is a trial.
4. What you may not do
- Share your licence key outside your organisation, or use more computers at once than you have seats.
- Copy, sell, rent, sublicense or distribute Aleph, except for backup copies of the installer.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or modify Aleph, or bypass its licensing, except where the law allows this despite this restriction.
- Use Aleph to build a competing product, or remove copyright and trademark notices.
5. Ownership and your files
Aleph, including its code, calculation methods and documentation, is owned by us and our licensors and is protected by copyright. Everything not expressly licensed here is reserved.
Your vessel files and reports are yours. Aleph saves them on your computer; they are never sent to us. If your licence ends, Aleph still opens and prints your files in Reader mode.
6. Engineering responsibility
Aleph is a tool to help qualified people perform pressure vessel calculations. It does not replace engineering judgement.
- You are responsible for your inputs, for checking Aleph's results, and for deciding whether they are suitable for your design.
- You are responsible for compliance with the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, jurisdictional requirements, and your client's specifications. The engineer of record, or the person who certifies the design, remains responsible for it.
- Code editions and requirements change. Check which edition Aleph applies and whether it is accepted where the vessel will be used.
- ASME is a registered trademark of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Aleph is not affiliated with or endorsed by ASME.
7. Payment, renewal and cancellation
- Prices are those on our website at the time of purchase: Canadian dollars in Canada, US dollars elsewhere, plus applicable taxes.
- Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each monthly or yearly period, and the payment method on file is charged, until you cancel.
- You can cancel any time. Your licence then runs to the end of the period you have paid for and does not renew.
- Price changes to an existing subscription apply from your next renewal. We tell you by email at least 30 days before.
- Invoices. Orders paid by invoice are due within 30 days unless we agree otherwise. The licence is issued once payment is received.
- Refunds are covered by our refund policy.
8. Updates and support
During a subscription, and during a Perpetual licence's updates period, you may install new versions of Aleph as we release them. We aim to correct reproducible calculation errors reported to us promptly. Support is by email at sales@alephvessel.com.
9. Warranty
We will make reasonable efforts to keep Aleph's calculations consistent with the Code paragraphs it cites. Apart from that, and to the extent the law allows, Aleph is provided "as is". We give no other warranties, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or that Aleph will be error-free or uninterrupted. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be excluded; in that case they are limited to the shortest period the law allows.
10. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows:
- Our total liability arising from Aleph or these terms is limited to the amount you paid us for Aleph in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim.
- We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue, data, business or goodwill, or for the cost of design rework, fabrication, repair, replacement or delay, even if we were told they might happen.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
11. Ending the licence
You may stop using Aleph at any time. We may end or suspend your licence if you seriously breach these terms (for example by sharing a key) or if a payment is refunded or reversed. Aleph then switches to Reader mode. Sections 5, 6, 9, 10 and 13 continue after the licence ends.
12. Export and sanctions
You may not use, export or supply Aleph in breach of Canadian, US or other applicable export controls or sanctions, including to sanctioned countries or persons.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Alberta have jurisdiction over any dispute, unless the law of the country where you live as a consumer requires otherwise. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
14. Changes and the rest of the agreement
- We may update these terms. Changes apply to purchases and renewals after we post them; for a subscription in progress, we tell you by email first.
- These terms, the order you place and our refund and privacy policies are the whole agreement about Aleph. If a part of them can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
- You may not transfer this licence without our written consent.
15. Contact
2336002 Alberta Ltd., trading as Aleph · 407 Crescent Blvd SW, Calgary, Alberta T2S 1K6, Canada · sales@alephvessel.com