End User License Agreement

This End User License Agreement (the “Agreement”) is a binding contract between you (“you”) and Elsewares, doing business as Elsewares, LLC of 7010 N Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois (“Elsewares,” “we,” “us”), governing your use of the Abstractica desktop application, its updates, and its bundled content (the “Software”).

By installing, activating, or using the Software you accept this Agreement. If you do not accept it, do not install or use the Software, and delete any copy you hold.

1. What the Software is

Abstractica is a locally installed desktop application for solo and journaling tabletop roleplaying games. It runs on your own computer and stores your work in a directory on your own disk (by default ~/.abstractica, or a location you choose). It is not a hosted service, and we do not operate servers that hold your campaign data.

The Software is licensed, not sold. You acquire the rights set out in this Agreement and no others.

2. License grant

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, we grant you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software for your own personal or internal business purposes.

2.1 Unlicensed (free) use

You may install and use the Software without purchasing a license key. In this mode the Software limits you to one campaign. Campaigns you created before the limit applied to your installation remain fully usable and editable; only the creation of additional campaigns is blocked.

2.2 Licensed use

A valid license key removes the campaign limit. Unless the offer you purchased states otherwise, a license key is:

perpetual — it does not expire, and it does not renew or recur;
for a single user — you, the purchaser;
limited to two (2) device activations at any one time.

The license covers the version you receive and any updates we make available to you under Section 7. It does not entitle you to future products we may sell separately.

3. License keys, activation, and validation

To use a license key you must activate it, which requires an internet connection on that occasion. Activation and periodic re-validation transmit only:

the license key you entered;
our Polar organisation identifier (a constant compiled into the Software);
a random identifier generated once by your installation and stored locally (used to count device activations); and
the fixed label Abstractica.

No campaign content, file names, notes, personal profile, or usage analytics are transmitted. The Software contains no telemetry or analytics.

On successful activation the Software caches a signed entitlement so it will continue to work offline. That entitlement is re-checked periodically (roughly every 30 days) when a connection is available, and a grace period applies when it cannot be reached, so ordinary offline use is not interrupted. If a re-check reports that the license is no longer granted — for example after a refund, chargeback, or revocation under Section 10 — the Software reverts to the unlicensed tier described in Section 2.1. Your existing data is never deleted by this change.

You are responsible for keeping your license key confidential. Activations are limited, and we are not obliged to reset or reissue activations that were used on devices you no longer control, though we will usually help if you ask.

4. Restrictions

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

copy, distribute, resell, rent, lease, lend, or host the Software, or make it available to third parties, except as expressly permitted here;
share, publish, or resell a license key, or use one for more devices or users than Section 2.2 allows;
circumvent, disable, or interfere with the licensing, activation, or validation mechanisms, or the limits of the unlicensed tier, or distribute tools or instructions to do so;
reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits this notwithstanding this restriction, and then only to the extent so permitted;
remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, license, or attribution notice in or on the Software or its bundled content;
use the Software or its bundled content in a way that infringes the rights of third parties, including the third-party licenses described in Section 6; or
use the “Abstractica” or “Elsewares” names, logos, or other marks except to refer accurately to the Software.

Nothing in this Section limits rights you have under an open-source or Creative Commons license that applies to a component of the Software; where such a license grants you broader rights over that component, it governs that component.

5. Your content

Anything you create with the Software — campaigns, journals, characters, notes, custom sheets, tables, oracles, generators, procedures, and other material you author (“Your Content”) — belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it and no license to it.

Your Content is stored on your own device. The Software does not upload it to us or to anyone else. Because of that:

Backups are your responsibility. We cannot recover data you lose.
Sharing Your Content with others, or importing material from others, is your decision and your responsibility, including in respect of any third-party rights in that material.

6. Third-party content and notices

The Software bundles content and components licensed from third parties. Those materials remain the property of their respective owners and are provided to you under their own licenses, which are reproduced in the Software’s distribution and in the accompanying notices. They include, without limitation:

Ironsworn game content by Shawn Tomkin, adapted from the Datasworn data set under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Ironsworn: Starforged game content by Shawn Tomkin: material from the Reference Guide and Asset Cards under CC BY 4.0, and material from the rulebook (setting truths and related content) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Blades in the Dark derived content, based on the work of John Harper (One Seven Design) under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0).
Typefaces licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and other font licenses, as set out in the bundled fonts notice.
Open-source software libraries under their respective licenses.

Elsewares is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shawn Tomkin, One Seven Design, or any other rightsholder named above. Game titles and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used to identify compatible content.

Your rights in that third-party content are those the applicable third-party license gives you. In particular, content carrying a NonCommercial or ShareAlike term is subject to those terms in your hands as well as ours.

7. Updates

We may make updates, bug fixes, and new versions of the Software available. The Software may check for updates and, where you confirm, download and install them. We are not obliged to provide updates, support, or maintenance, and we may change or discontinue features. We will not, however, use an update to remotely disable a validly licensed installation except as permitted by Section 11.

8. Support

Support is provided on a reasonable-efforts basis through the channels published on the Abstractica website and the public issue tracker. No specific response time or resolution is promised.

9. Purchases, price, and taxes

License keys are sold through Polar Software Inc. (“Polar”), which acts as merchant of record for the transaction. Your purchase is therefore also subject to Polar’s terms and privacy notice, and Polar — not Elsewares — handles payment, invoicing, and applicable sales tax or VAT. Prices are stated at checkout and may change for future purchases.

10. Refunds and revocation

Refund requests are handled through Polar in accordance with Polar’s refund process and any statutory right of withdrawal that applies to you. We honor refund requests made within 14 days of purchase.

If a purchase is refunded, charged back, or otherwise reversed, the associated license key is revoked, and the Software reverts to the unlicensed tier at the next validation as described in Section 3. Your data remains yours and is not deleted.

11. Term and termination

This Agreement takes effect when you first install or use the Software and continues until terminated.

You may terminate at any time by uninstalling the Software and deleting your copies. We may terminate this Agreement, and revoke your license key, if you materially breach it — in particular Section 4 — and, where the breach can be cured, fail to cure it within 30 days of our notice.

On termination, you must stop using the Software and delete your copies. Sections 4 through 6 and 12 through 17 survive termination. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except where required by law or where we terminate without cause.

12. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ELSEWARES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF DATA LOSS, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this Section may not apply to you. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including, for consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, statutory rights in respect of digital content, and, for consumers in Australia, the Australian Consumer Law guarantees.

13. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ELSEWARES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, AND (B) FIFTY US DOLLARS (US$50).

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

14. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold Elsewares harmless from any third-party claim arising out of Your Content, or out of your use of the Software in breach of this Agreement or of applicable law. This Section does not apply to consumers to the extent prohibited by the law that applies to them.

15. Privacy

Our handling of the limited data described in Section 3 is set out in the Abstractica Privacy Policy, published at https://abstractica.io/privacy, which forms part of this Agreement. In summary: the Software contains no analytics or telemetry, your campaign data never leaves your device through the Software, and the only data transmitted is what activation and license validation require.

16. Compliance with law

You may not use or export the Software in violation of applicable export control or sanctions laws, and you represent that you are not located in, or ordinarily resident in, a territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, and are not on any applicable restricted-party list.

If you are a US government end user, the Software is “commercial computer software” and is provided with only the rights granted to all other end users under this Agreement, per FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202.

17. General

Changes. We may amend this Agreement for future versions of the Software or for future purchases, and will post the amended Agreement with a new version and effective date. Material changes will not apply retroactively to a license you have already purchased; continuing to use a version of the Software released after a change constitutes acceptance of that change.

Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement without our written consent. We may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Governing law and venue. This Agreement is governed by the laws of Illinois, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts of Chicago, Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction — except that if you are a consumer, you retain the benefit of any mandatory protections and the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.

Severability and waiver. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest remains in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the Privacy Policy and the third-party licenses referenced in Section 6, is the entire agreement between us regarding the Software and supersedes any prior understanding.

18. Contact

Questions about this Agreement: [email protected]

Abstractica is published by Elsewares, LLC (Elsewares), 7010 N Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois 60626.