End User Licence Agreement
The short version. You bought Plotloft once and it's yours to use for good. Everything you write in it belongs to you and stays on your own computer — we never see it. Don't resell the app or share your licence key. The software is provided as it is, but nothing here takes away the consumer rights your local law gives you. The plain-English boxes are the summary; the full clauses below are what actually governs.
This End User Licence Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you ("you", "the User") and Plotloft ("Plotloft", "we", "us"), the provider of the Plotloft desktop application and related software (the "Software"). By downloading, installing, activating, or using the Software, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not install or use the Software.
Plotloft is sold through our online reseller Paddle (Paddle.com Market Ltd), which is the Merchant of Record for your purchase. Your purchase transaction is also subject to Paddle's Buyer Terms; this Agreement governs your use of the Software itself.
1. Licence grant
In exchange for your one-time purchase, we grant you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual licence to install and use the Software for your own creative work. "Perpetual" means the licence does not expire and the Software does not stop working — there is no subscription, no recurring fee, and no server that has to stay online for the Software to keep running.
You may install and use the Software on the reasonable number of computers that you personally own or control. This is a licence for one person; a single licence is not intended to be shared across a team or organisation.
2. Your licence key
Your purchase entitles you to a licence key that activates the Software. The key is issued in your name and carries the name and email address associated with your purchase. Because the key identifies you, please keep it private and do not share or publish it — a shared key is traceable back to the buyer.
The Software verifies your key on your own device. It does not "phone home", require an account, or contact any activation server — see our Privacy Policy. We may issue replacement keys (for example if you lose yours) at our discretion.
3. What you may not do
You agree not to:
- resell, rent, lease, sublicense, or redistribute the Software or your licence key;
- remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or licensing notices;
- circumvent or disable the licensing mechanism, or attempt to generate licence keys; or
- copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Software, or reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it — except to the extent that applicable law (including your rights under EU/UK law regarding interoperability and permitted analysis) expressly allows this regardless of this Agreement.
4. Your work is yours
This is the important one. Plotloft claims no ownership of anything you create. Your manuscripts, outlines, characters, and notes are stored as files on your own device. We do not upload them, host them, read them, analyse them, or train anything on them.
You retain all rights, title, and interest in the content you create with the Software (your "Work"). Nothing in this Agreement transfers any ownership of your Work to us or grants us any licence to it. The Software stores your Work locally on your device in files that you control.
You are responsible for your own backups. Because your Work lives on your device and not on our servers, keeping copies is up to you. We are not responsible for any loss of your Work, however caused. We strongly recommend regular backups (for example to an external drive or a folder-sync service).
5. Updates and versions
We may release updates, improvements, and fixes from time to time. During early
access the Software carries a 0.x version number and is under active
development; features may change. Your licence covers updates we choose to make
available, but we are under no obligation to provide any particular update, feature,
or continued development.
6. Ownership of the Software
The Software is licensed, not sold. We (and our licensors) retain all rights, title, and interest in the Software itself, including all intellectual property rights. The Software includes third-party open-source components that are provided under their own licences; those licences continue to apply to those components and, where they grant you rights, this Agreement does not restrict them.
7. Disclaimer of warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Software is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Software will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of defects.
This does not affect your statutory rights. If you are a consumer, you have legal rights in relation to the Software that cannot be excluded or limited, and nothing in this Agreement removes or reduces those rights. See also our Refund Policy.
8. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, and except for liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law (such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or your non-excludable statutory consumer rights), we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses, or for any loss of data or loss of your Work. Our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to the Software or this Agreement is limited to the amount you paid for your licence.
9. Term and termination
This Agreement applies for as long as you use the Software. It terminates automatically if you materially breach it (for example by redistributing the Software or your key). On termination you must stop using the Software; your Work remains yours and on your device. Sections 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 survive termination.
10. Governing law
This Agreement is governed by the laws of Spain, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. If you are a consumer, you also benefit from any mandatory protections of the law of the country in which you live, and this clause does not deprive you of them.
11. Changes to this Agreement
We may update this Agreement for future versions of the Software or for legal reasons. The version that applied when you purchased continues to govern your use of the version you purchased. Material changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
12. Contact
Questions about this Agreement? Email us at hello@plotloft.com.
Plotloft · End User Licence Agreement · Version 1.0 · Last updated 19 July 2026.