Licence agreement

This End User Licence Agreement (“Agreement”) is between you and Syed Ali, trading as PIXL Foundation (“PIXL Foundation”, “we”, “us”; see “Who we are” below), and covers Pixl Playroom, including its updates and documentation (the “Software”). By installing or using the Software, you agree to this Agreement. If you don’t agree, don’t install or use it.

1. Your licence

When you buy a licence, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual licence to install and use the Software, for personal or commercial work, on up to three (3) devices at a time, all used by you.

Your licence belongs to your PIXL account; there is no licence key. Sign in to the Software with that account on each device. You can free a device from the Software or from your account page and use another at any time, as long as no more than three are in use at once. The Software checks your account when it starts and about once a day, and works offline for up to 30 days between checks.

2. Free trial

You may use the Software free of charge for 14 days from the day you start a trial, with every feature available, to decide whether to buy it. A trial needs a PIXL account (no payment details) and is available once per account and once per device. The trial is for evaluation. When it ends, exporting is locked until you buy a licence; browsing and editing your photos keep working.

3. Updates

Your licence includes every update to the major version you bought (for example, every 1.x release). A later major version (for example, 2.0) may be offered as a paid upgrade. The Software checks for updates automatically; you can choose the update channel in Settings.

4. What you may not do

You may not:

• share, sell, rent, lend or sublicense your licence or your account, or use it on more devices than your licence allows;
• remove or change any copyright, trademark or licence notice in the Software;
• work around the Software’s licence checks;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, except where the law allows it despite this restriction, or where a third-party licence that applies to part of the Software allows it (see section 6).

5. Your photos and your work

Your photos, edits and everything you make with the Software are yours. We claim no rights in them. The Software works on your own computer and does not upload your photos. If you choose an optional online service (section 7), its own terms say what is sent and why.

6. Third-party software

The Software includes open-source components, each under its own licence. Those licences are listed, with their full texts, in the Third-party notices that come with the Software and on our Third-party notices page. Where a third-party licence gives you rights this Agreement would otherwise limit (for example, the GNU LGPL’s rights to replace a library and to reverse engineer in order to debug such changes), that licence prevails for that component.

7. Optional online services

Future optional services, such as cloud features or an AI editing agent sold as credits or a subscription, will have their own terms. The Software never requires them.

8. Refunds

[Refund policy to be decided, in line with our payment provider’s terms and consumer law where you live.]

9. No warranty

The Software is provided “as is”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise the Software will be error-free or uninterrupted. Keep backups of your photos.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, profits or revenue, arising from your use of the Software. Our total liability is limited to the amount you paid for your licence. Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

11. Termination

This Agreement ends automatically if you break it. When it ends, you must stop using the Software and delete it. Sections 5, 6, 9, 10 and 12 survive.

12. General

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction over any dispute about it, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it in your local courts. If a part of it can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. It is the whole agreement between us about the Software. We may update it for future versions; the version that came with your copy applies to that copy.

Who we are

“PIXL Foundation” is the trading name of Syed Ali (xuckless on GitHub), an independent developer in Ontario, Canada, who designed and built the PIXL engine, Pixl Playroom, Space Pixl and our websites. Despite the word “Foundation”, PIXL Foundation is a for-profit business: not a charity, a non-profit or a registered foundation. It is not yet registered as a company; Syed intends to register one soon. When that happens, this document, your PIXL account and any beta access, trial or licence carry over to the company, and our legal name may change, as may the names PIXL, PIXL Foundation, Pixl Playroom and Space Pixl (a rebrand). We will tell you about any such change.

Names and trademarks

Names of cameras, lenses, file formats, software and companies that appear in our apps or on our websites belong to their owners. We use them only to say what our apps work with, and their use doesn’t mean their owners endorse us. If you believe a name, mark or anything else we use infringes your trademark or other rights, email support@pixlfoundation.com and we will look into it promptly.

Contact

Questions about this Agreement: hello@pixlfoundation.com.