Terms of use

1. What this covers

cadvan is a Mac app for planning projects (the “App”) with an online service at plan.cadvan.app for working together (the “Service”). Provider details are on the Contact page.

The App is licensed under Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA). We are the licensor, not Apple. These terms supplement it for the Service and for purchases. How we handle data is described under Privacy.

If you are a consumer, you keep every right the mandatory law of your country of residence gives you, in Norway for example under the Digital Services Act (digitalytelsesloven) and the Cancellation Act (angrerettloven). Nothing in these terms or in Apple’s EULA limits them.

2. What you get

The App works without an account; your projects then stay on your Mac. With an account you can share projects and work on them together, in the App and in the browser. We keep developing cadvan.

3. Your account

• You must be at least 16. If you are under 18, you need a parent’s consent for purchases.
• Use an email address that belongs to you and a name your members will recognise. An account belongs to exactly one person.
• Keep your password secret. We recommend a second factor.
• You can delete your account yourself at any time.

4. Shared projects

Whoever shares a project owns it and invites members with a role. Every change appears in the history with a name. Only invite people who can expect an invitation from you, and send no bulk or promotional invitations.

The members who add content to a project are responsible for it. Members settle disputes about content or access among themselves; we only step in where section 6 or the law requires it. Before you delete your account, hand over shared projects you own to another member.

5. Your content

Your content belongs to you. You only allow us to store, back up, transmit and show it to your members so that the Service works. We do not look at it unless you ask us to, a report under section 6 makes it necessary or the law requires it. Keep your own copy of anything important; the App can export projects at any time.

6. What is not allowed, and reports

Do not use cadvan for unlawful content, to harass others, for malware, attacks or getting around protections, for automated use beyond the usual, for resale or for spam.

If you believe content in the Service is unlawful, write to hello@cadvan.app with the subject “Report”: where the content is, why it is unlawful, and your name and address. We confirm receipt, review it promptly and tell you the outcome.

For breaches we choose the mildest effective measure: block content, revoke an invitation, suspend an account temporarily, or in serious cases end the contract. We tell the person affected why, as far as the law allows. They can object, and we review again.

7. Purchases and subscriptions

Some features cost money. What a purchase includes and what it costs is shown in the App before you buy. Apple handles purchases in the App; Apple’s terms apply to payment, billing and refunds.

• Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase.
• A subscription renews automatically for the same term unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. The renewal is charged within 24 hours before the end.
• Manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID settings (Apple’s instructions). Cancelling takes effect at the end of the paid term.
• A free trial ends automatically. If you buy a subscription during the trial, the rest of the trial is forfeited.
• Request refunds from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription with Apple; cancel it there.

If we later offer purchases on our website, separate information applies, which we show you before you buy.

8. Availability

We run the Service with care, but without guaranteed availability or fixed response times. Where possible we announce maintenance. We back up data daily; a restore may lose changes made since the last backup. The App remains usable without the Service.

9. Changes

We only change the Service for a good reason, such as security, new features or changes in the law, and at no extra cost to you. If your access gets worse more than trivially, or these terms change, we tell you by email at least 30 days in advance. You can then cancel free of charge.

10. Ending the contract

You can stop at any time by deleting your account. We can end a free account by email with 30 days’ notice, and suspend or end an account immediately for serious or repeated breaches; we tell you why. If we shut down the Service, we tell you at least 30 days in advance so that you can export your projects.

11. Defects and liability

If the Service is defective, you have the statutory remedies as a consumer, in Norway under digitalytelsesloven. Our liability is unlimited for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health and wherever mandatory law requires it. For ordinary negligence we are liable for foreseeable, typical damage.

If you use cadvan for business, our liability for ordinary negligence is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the damage, and excludes lost profit and indirect damage. The liability limits in Apple’s EULA apply to consumers only as far as mandatory law allows.

12. Law and disputes

Norwegian law applies. As a consumer you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of your country of residence and can sue where you live. Write to us first; almost everything can be settled that way. Consumers in Norway can contact Forbrukerrådet and then Forbrukerklageutvalget; consumers in the EU can contact the European Consumer Centre in their country.

13. Final provisions

If a provision is invalid, the rest remains valid. These terms are available in German, English and Norwegian; all versions are equally binding. Where they differ, the version more favourable to you applies.