End-User License Agreement

This End-User License Agreement (the “Agreement”) is a contract between you and Craft & System (“we,” “us,” or the “Company”) covering The Author's Blueprint, our offline desktop writing app for macOS and Windows (the “Software”). By installing, activating, or using the Software, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, don't install or use it — and if you bought it, see our Refund Policy.

We've tried to write this in plain English. The short version: you buy a license to use the app on your own devices, we keep the rights to the app itself, and you keep every word you write in it.

1. What you're buying

The Author's Blueprint is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Your purchase grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use one copy of the Software for your own writing. You are not buying the Software itself — you are buying the right to use it under this Agreement.

Within the version you purchased, updates are free: bug fixes, refinements, and minor improvements arrive at no extra cost. A future major version may be a separate paid upgrade, and if so we'll say so clearly before you buy it.

2. License keys, activation, and the 3-device limit

Each purchase comes with a license key. That key may be activated on up to three (3) devices that you own or control — for example, your desktop, your laptop, and a backup machine. If you replace a device, you can deactivate the old one and free up a slot, or email us and we'll help.

Licensing is enforced by our own license server. When you activate, the server issues an Ed25519-signed token that the Software verifies on your machine. Because the verification happens locally, the app keeps working offline: you get a 14-day offline grace period during which no internet connection is required at all. After that window, the app checks in once to confirm your license is still valid, then returns to working offline.

3. What you may do

• Install and use the Software on up to three of your own devices per license key.
• Write, edit, export, and publish your own manuscripts and creative work created with it.
• Make a reasonable backup copy of the installer for your personal use.
• Move your license to a new device of your own by deactivating an old one.

4. What you may not do

• Redistribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or give away the Software or its installer.
• Share, publish, resell, or transfer your license key to anyone else.
• Use one license key beyond the 3-device limit, or try to activate it for other people.
• Circumvent, disable, or tamper with the license check, activation, or the signed-token verification.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except to the limited extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.
• Remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or proprietary notices in the Software.
• Use the Software in any unlawful way or to infringe anyone else's rights.

5. You own your work

This is important to us, so we'll be blunt about it: everything you create with The Author's Blueprint is yours. Your manuscripts, outlines, characters, notes, and exports belong entirely to you. We claim no ownership of, and no license to, your creative work. Because the app is offline-first, your writing stays on your own machine — we never upload, read, or store it. We could not take a license to your work even if we wanted to, because we never see it.

6. What we own

We (and our licensors) retain all rights, title, and interest in the Software itself — the code, design, interface, name, logo, and documentation. This Agreement grants you a license to use the Software, not any ownership of it. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved.

7. Updates

We may release updates to the Software from time to time. Updates within the version you bought are free and are governed by this Agreement. An update may add, change, or remove features, and we may stop supporting older operating-system versions when keeping them working is no longer practical. You don't have to install updates, but we recommend it.

8. Term and termination

This Agreement applies for as long as you use the Software. It ends automatically if you materially breach it — for example, by sharing your key, exceeding the device limit, or circumventing the licensing.

If a license is revoked for breach, the app does not simply lock you out of your own work. Instead it switches to a read-only mode: you can still open your projects and export your manuscripts so that nothing you wrote is held hostage, but you can no longer create or edit new content under that license. Your files always remain yours and remain on your machine.

9. No warranty

The Software is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Software will be error-free or uninterrupted. We strongly recommend you keep your own backups of your manuscripts. Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or related to the Software or this Agreement. Our total liability for any claim will not exceed the amount you paid for the Software. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Export compliance

You agree to use the Software in compliance with all applicable export and sanctions laws, and you represent that you are not located in a country subject to a comprehensive embargo and are not on any restricted-party list that would prohibit you from receiving the Software.

12. Governing law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which the Company is organized, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

13. Changes to this Agreement

We may update this Agreement for new versions of the Software or to reflect changes in law or practice. The version that applied when you purchased governs your purchased version, and we'll post the current text here with an updated date.