Terms of Use and License

These terms are an agreement between you and [[LEGAL NAME]], [[ADDRESS]], [[COUNTRY]] (“we”, “us”), the maker of Tidlark. They cover the Tidlark app for macOS, its updates, and this website. By installing or using Tidlark you agree to them. If you don’t agree, don’t install or use Tidlark.

1. Buying Tidlark

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. When you buy, you buy from Paddle, and Paddle’s buyer terms apply to the sale, including payment, taxes and any statutory consumer rights. These terms cover your use of Tidlark itself.

The price is a one-time payment of USD 56 (shown in your local currency at checkout, plus any applicable tax). There is no subscription and no automatic renewal.

2. Your license

When you buy Tidlark, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual license to install and use Tidlark on up to 2 Macs that you own or control, at the same time. A license is required to use Tidlark. You can move the license between Macs by deactivating it on one Mac (Settings › License › Deactivate) and activating it on another.

The license includes updates to Tidlark version 1.x that we release. We may offer a later major version as a separate purchase; if we do, the version you bought keeps working.

You may not:

• share, sell, rent or publish your license key, or use it on more Macs than allowed;
• work around license checks or other technical limits in Tidlark;
• copy, modify or redistribute Tidlark, or reverse engineer it, except where the law allows this despite this restriction;
• use Tidlark to break the law or to access files or Macs you aren’t authorised to manage.

Tidlark includes open-source components (such as Sparkle and YARA-X) under their own licenses, which take precedence for those components.

3. License activation

Activating a license connects to our license server to record which Macs use it (see the privacy policy). If a purchase is refunded or charged back, the license is revoked and can no longer be activated.

4. Using Tidlark safely

Tidlark is a maintenance tool. It finds files and settings and, only after you review and confirm, removes or changes them. Most removed items go to the Trash or to Tidlark’s Holding Area so you can restore them, and Tidlark tells you before you confirm when an item can’t be restored. You are responsible for reviewing what you choose to remove, and for keeping backups of data that matters to you (for example with Time Machine).

Threat Check scans files with detection rules for known threats. No scanner detects every threat, and Tidlark doesn’t replace the protections built into macOS.

5. Updates and changes

Tidlark can check for and install its own updates, with your approval or according to your settings. We may change or remove features in updates. We will not remove the core features you bought from the version you already have.

6. Refunds

See our refund policy. Refunds are processed by Paddle.

7. Warranty disclaimer

To the extent allowed by law, Tidlark is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t warrant that Tidlark will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that it will find every file, problem or threat.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent allowed by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits or business, arising from your use of Tidlark. Our total liability for any claim relating to Tidlark is limited to the amount you paid for your license. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can’t be limited by law, or your statutory rights as a consumer.

9. Ending the license

You can stop using Tidlark at any time and remove it (see how to uninstall). We may end your license if you seriously break these terms; if we do, you must stop using Tidlark. Sections 7, 8 and 10 continue after the license ends.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [[COUNTRY]], without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring claims in your local courts.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will post the new version here with a new date, and for significant changes we will tell you in the app or by email. Changes don’t apply to a purchase made before them where that would reduce your rights.

12. Contact

[[LEGAL NAME]], [[ADDRESS]], [[COUNTRY]]. Email: support@tidlark.com.