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Licence terms

These terms are the agreement between you and Innovative Solutions GRUP SRL, Bucharest, Romania ("we"), for the SPECTRA software, its updates and the services it uses (activation, update checks, support, health certificates). By installing or using SPECTRA you accept them. If you use SPECTRA for an organisation, you accept them for it and confirm you may.

1. The licence

SPECTRA is licensed, not sold. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use it as the edition you hold allows, for as long as that edition is valid. All other rights stay with us; SPECTRA and its logo are our trademarks.

2. The editions

  • Free - for personal, non-commercial use, on any number of computers you own or use at home. No key, no time limit.
  • Pro - the same personal, non-commercial use, with the Pro features, on up to 3 computers per licence (each computer where the key is activated takes one seat). Yearly, or lifetime.
  • Technician - Pro plus commercial use by one named person, on any number of computers that person checks, repairs, builds, sells or services for others, including SPECTRA Portable run from a removable drive. The licence belongs to the person, not to the computers serviced, and may not be shared between technicians.
  • Business - Technician plus use by an organisation on its own computers: 25 computers per licence, and licences add up. Covers the remote-monitoring and fleet functions for those computers.

Every new installation can use every feature free for 14 days. When a trial or a yearly licence ends, SPECTRA continues as Free; nothing you saved is removed.

3. Commercial use

Commercial use means using SPECTRA in the course of paid work or for an organisation: checking, repairing, building, selling or supporting other people's computers; producing reports or certificates for customers; managing an organisation's computers; or any use on a computer owned by an employer or a business. Commercial use needs a Technician or Business licence. Free and Pro may not be used commercially.

4. What you may not do

  • share, publish, sell or give away a licence key, or let more computers or people use one than it covers;
  • get round the licence checks, the activation, or the limits of your edition;
  • modify, decompile or reverse-engineer SPECTRA, except where the law allows it regardless of this term;
  • rent, lend or resell SPECTRA, or offer it as a hosted service to others;
  • use the kernel driver or any part of SPECTRA apart from SPECTRA itself.

5. Buying, renewing and refunds

Licences are sold through 2Checkout (Verifone), which processes the payment as reseller; its terms of sale apply to the purchase itself. Prices are in euro and VAT is added where it applies. A yearly licence is not renewed automatically: nothing is charged again unless you buy a renewal, which extends the same key. A lifetime licence does not expire.

Refunds: if SPECTRA does not do what you bought it for, write to us within 30 days of the purchase and we will refund it in full; the key is then withdrawn. A refunded, charged-back or reversed payment withdraws the licence. This does not limit any right you have as a consumer under the law of your country.

6. Activation, updates and the services

A key is activated once per computer (per removable drive for SPECTRA Portable) against our licence server; after that the licence is checked on the computer, offline. Updates, including security fixes, are free for every edition and are installed automatically by the installed version. What SPECTRA sends to us and why is described in the privacy notice.

We aim to keep the activation, update and certificate services running, but do not guarantee they are always available. If we ever stop offering SPECTRA, activated licences keep working on the computers they are on.

7. Health certificates, reports and remote access

A health certificate is issued under your licence and kept on our server, where anyone with its number can read it; you are responsible for what it says, for issuing it only for computers you checked, and for withdrawing it when it no longer applies. We may remove certificates that are misleading or abusive. Client reports are produced on your computer and are yours. If you turn on remote access or alert delivery, you are responsible for the networks, tokens and accounts you connect it to.

8. The driver and your computer

The installed version uses a signed kernel driver that only reads hardware sensors. Benchmarks and the stress test load the computer heavily on purpose; run them only on computers that may be loaded that way, with their cooling working. Keep backups: SPECTRA reports on drives and batteries but cannot prevent their failure.

9. No warranty

SPECTRA is provided as it is. As far as the law allows, we give no warranty that it is free of errors, that every reading is exact, or that it suits a particular purpose. Readings come from the hardware and its drivers and can be wrong; do not rely on them alone for safety-critical decisions.

10. Liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, profits or business, and our total liability is limited to what you paid for SPECTRA in the twelve months before the claim (for Free, nothing). Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or any liability that cannot be limited by law.

11. Ending the licence

You may stop using SPECTRA at any time; removing the licence in Settings frees its seat. If you breach these terms, we may withdraw the licence after telling you why; a withdrawn licence makes SPECTRA run as Free.

12. Law and changes

These terms are governed by Romanian law, and the courts of Bucharest decide disputes, except that consumers keep the protection and the courts of the country they live in. We may update these terms for new versions; the terms in force when you obtained a version apply to that version, and a change that takes away something you paid for does not apply to a licence you already hold.

13. Contact

Write to us from SPECTRA (Settings, Support) or at sales@innovative-sol.com.

Innovative Solutions GRUP SRL, Bucharest, Romania.