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Bredo licence agreement

1. The licence

When you buy Bredo you receive a perpetual licence to use the major version you bought (for example, Bredo 1) and every update to that major version (all 1.x releases), for as long as they are made.

• Personal and business use are both allowed.
• Your Macs: you may use Bredo on the Macs you personally use, one at a time. Bredo does not count or lock Macs.
• Trial: Bredo can be used without a licence until it has copied 500 clips in from cards for you. Indexing, searching and checking footage you already have does not count towards the 500. Putting a folder in order (sorting it into your library) is not part of the trial and needs a licence.
• After the trial: your library, search, playback, export and checking whether a card is safe to erase keep working, and folders already watched stay up to date. Copying new footage in, watching another folder and putting a folder in order need a licence.
• Expiry: a licence is perpetual unless it states an end date. A licence that states one stops being honoured after that date, and Bredo says so.

2. Upgrades

A later major version (for example, Bredo 2) is a paid upgrade, offered to existing owners at a discount.

• Free upgrade window: if you bought your licence within 90 days before the release date of the next major version, that version is a free upgrade.
• Updating without upgrading: a licence for an earlier major version keeps everything it included when used with a later version — importing, watching folders and organising. Only features first introduced in the later major version may require the upgrade.

3. Your footage

Your footage and everything Bredo derives from it remain yours. Bredo never claims any rights in them. Losing access to a licence never locks you out of your own catalogue.

4. Refunds

See the refund policy published on the Bredo website. Refunds are processed by our merchant of record. A refunded licence is withdrawn in a later update of Bredo; the app then says the licence was withdrawn and returns to the trial, and your catalogue and footage are unaffected.

5. What you may not do, and withdrawn licence keys

You may not:

• reverse engineer the licence checks to use Bredo without paying;
• share, publish or redistribute your licence key;
• resell the software or licence keys.

Published or leaked keys. A licence key works offline and cannot be switched off remotely. If a key is refunded, charged back, or found published or shared where anyone can use it, we may withdraw it: its order is listed in a later update of Bredo, which then no longer accepts that key.

• A withdrawn key returns Bredo to the trial on that Mac, as described in §1. Your catalogue, your footage and everything Bredo already did stay as they are.
• Updates you already installed keep accepting the key; a later update does not.

If your key was leaked without your fault (for example, someone copied it from your email or your Mac), contact [support address — to be confirmed] with your order number. Once we have confirmed the order is yours, we issue a replacement key for the same licence at no cost. The replacement carries a new identifier, so withdrawing the leaked key does not affect it. We will not refuse a replacement to a buyer whose order is genuine, but we may decline further replacements if the same order's keys are published repeatedly.

6. Warranty, backups and liability

6.1 What Bredo's verification does, and does not, do

• When Bredo copies footage, it reads the copy back and compares it with the original, file by file. Bredo says a card is "safe to erase" only when every file on it was compared with a copy just now.
• This reduces the risk of losing footage. It does not eliminate it. A drive can fail after the check, a card can hold damage that was already in the file when it was recorded, and a Mac, a cable or a drive can fail in ways no software can detect.
• Keep an independent backup — at least one copy on a separate drive that Bredo did not write, or a backup you have checked yourself — before you erase or reformat a card or delete an original. Erasing a card is your decision; Bredo never erases one.

6.2 If you buy as a consumer

If you buy Bredo as a consumer (for purposes outside your trade, business or profession) and live in Norway or elsewhere in the EEA:

• You have the rights the law of your country gives you, which this agreement cannot remove or limit. In Norway these include the rights under the Digital Services Act (digitalytelsesloven, lov 17. juni 2022 nr. 56) — among them remedies if Bredo is not delivered or does not conform to the contract (for example repair, a price reduction, termination with a refund, and compensation where the Act provides for it). Other EEA countries have equivalent rules implementing Directive (EU) 2019/770.
• Nothing in §6.3 applies to you where it would limit those rights.
• We are liable for loss caused by our intent or gross negligence, and for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, without limit.
• Otherwise, and only to the extent the law of your country allows, we are not liable for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you bought Bredo. Where the law does not allow this limit, it does not apply.
• Loss of footage is the loss §6.1 describes. Keeping an independent backup is a reasonable precaution the law may take into account when deciding what loss could have been avoided; it does not take away your statutory rights.

[Counsel: check how the Act's rules on compensation and on the consumer's duty to limit loss apply to lost footage, and whether a statement like the one above is permitted in a consumer contract, or should live only in the product's own guidance.]

6.3 If you buy as a business

If you buy or use Bredo in the course of a trade, business or profession (including as a freelancer or production company):

• As is. Bredo is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we give no warranty that it is error-free, that it will run without interruption, or that it suits a particular purpose, beyond what this agreement says it does.
• Cap. Our total liability under or in connection with this agreement is limited to the amount you paid for the licence in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
• No indirect loss. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or production time, the cost of re-shooting, and loss of or damage to footage or other data, however caused.
• Exceptions. Nothing limits liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability that cannot be limited under the applicable law.

7. Third-party software

Bredo includes open-source software and model weights under their own licences, listed in Settings → About → Licences and in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.

8. Governing law and disputes

• This agreement is governed by Norwegian law, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.
• Disputes go to [district court (tingrett) — to be confirmed] as the agreed venue.
• If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim in the courts of that country. You may also contact the Norwegian Consumer Authority (Forbrukertilsynet) or, for disputes, the Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) and the Consumer Disputes Commission (Forbrukerklageutvalget), or the consumer body in your own country.
• Before going to court, contact [support address — to be confirmed]; most problems are a key or a support question.

Questions for counsel

• Who is the seller. Purchases go through a merchant of record ([merchant of record — to be confirmed]), which is the reseller to the buyer. Check whether the consumer-law remedies in §6.2 run against the merchant, against Baustad Digital, or both, and align this agreement with the merchant's own terms.
• Right of withdrawal. The 30-day refund policy is more generous than the statutory right of withdrawal (angrerettloven). Confirm the checkout wording needed for digital content delivered immediately.
• §5 withdrawal of keys. Confirm that withdrawing a published key in a later update, with a free replacement for the genuine buyer, is compatible with the Digital Services Act for consumers, including its rules on changes to digital content.
• §6.3 cap. Whether "amount paid in the 12 months" is enforceable against business customers under Norwegian law (avtaleloven § 36) and whether a higher floor is advisable.
• Consumer or business. Many buyers are freelancers; confirm how to treat a buyer who uses Bredo for both.

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