Terms of Use

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Ahrorbek Abdullaev, an independent software developer ("the Developer", "we"), governing the MD Reader application and this website. By downloading, installing, launching or using the App, or by using the Site, you accept these Terms in full. If you do not accept them, do not install or use the App.

2. Definitions

"App" means the MD Reader software application in any version, including updates. "Site" means this website and all its pages. "Pro" means the set of paid features unlocked by an in-app purchase. "Trial" means the time-limited period during which paid features are available without payment. "Store" means the digital storefront through which the App is distributed.

3. Licence

The App is licensed to you, not sold. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, the Developer grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to install and use the App on devices you own or control, for your own personal or internal business purposes.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Developer. No ownership of any kind is transferred to you.

4. Restrictions

You may not: (a) copy, distribute, sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense or otherwise make the App available to third parties; (b) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the limited extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction; (c) modify, adapt or create derivative works of the App; (d) remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice; (e) circumvent, disable or interfere with any licensing, trial or feature limitation mechanism, or use the App with any tool intended to do so; (f) use the App for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any applicable law; or (g) use the App in any way that could damage, disable or impair it.

5. Free features, trial and Pro

The App offers a set of features at no cost and a further set of features ("Pro") that require a purchase. A Trial may be offered, at the Developer's discretion, granting temporary access to Pro features. The Trial is provided as a courtesy, is limited to one period per device or per installation as determined by the Developer, and may be shortened, extended, modified or withdrawn at any time without notice.

Which features belong to the free set, to the Trial and to Pro is determined solely by the Developer and may be changed at any time, including moving a feature between sets in either direction. No specific feature is promised, guaranteed or warranted to remain available, free or paid, in any future version.

6. Purchases and subscriptions

All purchases are made through and processed by the Store operator, not by the Developer. The Developer is not a party to the payment transaction and never receives your payment details. Your purchase is additionally governed by the Store operator's own terms.

A subscription renews automatically for successive periods at the then-current price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancellation, renewal and billing are managed in your Store account settings, not by the Developer.

A "lifetime" purchase means a one-time payment granting access to the Pro features of the App for as long as the App exists and remains compatible with your device and operating system. It is not a promise of perpetual service, perpetual updates, perpetual availability, or of any specific future feature, and it does not survive the discontinuation of the App.

Refunds, cancellations and chargebacks are handled exclusively by the Store operator under its own policy. The Developer cannot grant, deny, accelerate or influence a refund and accepts no obligation in respect of any refund request.

7. Changes to prices, plans and features

The Developer may, at their sole and absolute discretion and at any time, without prior notice and without incurring any liability whatsoever:

• set, raise, lower or restructure prices in any or all territories and currencies;
• introduce, rename, merge, split, or withdraw any plan, tier or purchase option;
• change what any plan or tier contains, including moving features between free and paid;
• introduce, change or withdraw promotions, discounts, offers and trial periods;
• add, change, degrade, restrict, suspend or permanently remove any feature or functionality;
• change the supported operating system versions, hardware or platforms;
• suspend or discontinue the App, the Site or any part of them, permanently or temporarily.

You agree that the Developer shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any such change, and that no such change entitles you to any refund, credit, compensation or damages, except where a mandatory law provides otherwise. A price change never applies retroactively to a purchase already completed.

8. Your content and backups

You retain all rights to the files you create, open or edit with the App. The Developer claims no ownership over them, has no access to them, and does not review, moderate or store them.

You are solely responsible for the lawfulness of your files and for maintaining complete and current backups. The App modifies files in place. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Developer is not liable for any loss, corruption, overwriting, deletion or inability to recover any file or data, whether caused by the App, by a defect, by a system failure, by your own action or by any other cause.

9. Availability and roadmap

The App is currently offered for macOS only. Any reference on the Site, in marketing material, in a changelog or in correspondence to future platforms (including Windows, iOS, iPadOS or Android), future features, dates or plans is a statement of present intention only. It is not a commitment, promise, warranty or contractual obligation, may change or be abandoned at any time without notice, and must not be relied upon when deciding whether to purchase.

The Developer does not warrant that the App will remain available in any particular territory or Store, or that it will remain compatible with any future operating system version.

10. Third-party software

The App includes open-source components licensed by their respective authors. Those components remain subject to their own licences, which prevail over these Terms in respect of those components. The Developer provides no warranty and accepts no liability for any third-party component, service, website or content, including any site reached through a link inside a document you open.

11. Intellectual property

The App, the Site, their design, source code, name, logo and all related materials are owned by the Developer or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws. These Terms grant you no trademark rights and no right to use the name or logo of the App.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App and the Site are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. The Developer expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including any implied warranty of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, quiet enjoyment and non-infringement.

The Developer does not warrant that the App will meet your requirements, that its operation will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that any data will be preserved, or that results obtained from its use will be accurate or reliable. No advice or information, oral or written, obtained from the Developer or through the App or the Site creates any warranty not expressly stated here.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case such warranties are limited to the minimum duration and scope permitted by law.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Developer be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with the App, the Site, these Terms, their use or the inability to use them, on any theory of liability (contract, tort including negligence, strict liability or otherwise), even if the Developer has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a limited remedy is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Developer's total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the App, the Site or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you actually paid for the App in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) five United States dollars (US$5.00).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply to the extent they cannot be excluded by agreement.

14. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Developer from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost and expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the App or the Site, your files, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

15. Termination

This licence is effective until terminated. It terminates automatically, without notice, if you breach any provision of these Terms. The Developer may also suspend or terminate your licence at any time where required by law, by a Store operator, or to prevent abuse or circumvention of licensing controls. Upon termination you must stop using the App and delete all copies. Termination does not entitle you to a refund. Sections 8, 10–14 and 17–21 survive termination.

16. Apple terms

This section applies where you obtained the App from the Apple App Store, and prevails over any conflicting provision in these Terms.

16.1 Acknowledgement

These Terms are concluded between you and the Developer only, and not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). The Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.

16.2 Scope of licence

The licence granted for the App is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the App on any Apple-branded product that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

16.3 Maintenance and support

The Developer is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the App. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services.

16.4 Warranty

The Developer is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the App to you; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.

16.5 Product claims

The Developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.

16.6 Intellectual property claims

In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, the Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.

16.7 Third-party beneficiary

You acknowledge that Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

17. Legal and export compliance

You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to an embargo by the government of the United States or designated by it as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You agree to comply with all applicable export control and sanctions laws when using the App.

18. Changes to these Terms

The Developer may amend these Terms at any time, at their sole discretion. The amended version is published on this page with a new version number and effective date, and applies from publication. Your continued use of the App or the Site after publication constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept an amended version, your only remedy is to stop using the App.

19. General

Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed, and the remaining provisions remain in full force.

No waiver. Failure or delay by the Developer in exercising any right is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms. The Developer may assign them freely, including in connection with a transfer of the App.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Developer regarding the App and supersede all prior statements, whether oral or written, including any marketing or roadmap statement.

Language. These Terms are published in several languages for convenience. In the event of any discrepancy, the English version prevails, except where mandatory law requires otherwise.

Force majeure. The Developer is not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond their reasonable control.

20. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable at the Developer's place of residence, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and the courts competent at that place have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may also bring proceedings in the courts of that country where mandatory law so provides.

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