Usage Rights
Most of this document is a grid. The first one states the licence in five lines; the second sets the permitted uses beside the ones that fall outside it, so the boundary can be seen rather than pieced together. Immediately after the boundary comes the condition attached to everything inside it, and the clauses from there fill in delivery, the term, updates and ownership. Read it with the Purchase Terms, which it sits under rather than replaces.
The licence in five lines
| Granted to | The person or business named on the order, and nobody they pass it to. Granted by Planet Algo. |
| Granted over | The one orbit of the one engine your order names. Other orbits and other engines need their own purchase. |
| Granted for | 12 months, counted from the day the charge cleared. Nothing is open-ended and nothing renews itself. |
| Granted where | Two running copies at a time: the terminal on your own machine and one hosted terminal you rent. |
| Lost by | Letting the file reach another person. That ends the licence on the spot, with no money returned. |
1.Yes and no
- 1.1
The grid is the boundary. A use that appears in neither column is settled by one email rather than by guesswork, and the closing clause says where to send it.
Inside the licence Outside it Trading your own money with it, on any account you personally control. Handing the engine to another person, whether sold, rented, lent, gifted or sublicensed. Two terminals running at once: your own machine and one rented server. Putting the file anywhere a stranger could fetch it, from a download site to an invitation-only chat. New builds of your orbit, for as long as the term has left to run. Taking the build apart — by decompiler, by disassembler, by any other means — or getting past the code that verifies a licence. One archived copy, kept privately, in case a disk dies. Wrapping it inside something else that you then sell. Changing the inputs within the range the flight manual prints. Removing, hiding or rewording the ownership notices inside it. Showing it to a friend over your shoulder. Working it on money that belongs to someone else: a client's account, a copy feed, a subscription of signals.
2.As it stands, and the risk with it
- 2.1
Everything inside the left-hand column comes with one condition attached. The engine is licensed as it stands: no profit is promised, no particular outcome is promised, and software that trades a leveraged market can lose money. The Risk Notice and About Our Figures are part of this document in full, not background reading.
3.Sharing ends it
- 3.1
Everything you paid for fits inside one compiled file. Once a copy of it is loose there is nothing further we can withhold, so the licence terminates that same instant, the order closes, and no part of the price travels back.
- 3.2
That clause is not written for effect. Withdrawal is the one lever we hold, and holding it is what keeps an orbit priced where it is instead of several times higher.
In ordinary wordsKeep the ZIP to yourself and none of this ever applies to you.
4.What is in the box
- 4.1
One ZIP, opened by the dock as soon as the charge clears: the compiled engine for your orbit, and the flight manual that records the profile that orbit is licensed to fly.
- 4.2
Two references travel with the licence — the Orbit Key and the order reference — and both appear on the dock and again in the docking email. Neither is typed into the engine; they exist so that one line of an email identifies your order to the Mission Desk. Keep them where you can find them.
5.Counting the months, and the day they run out
- 5.1
Day one is the day the charge cleared. The licence runs 12 months from it and stops on the matching calendar day, which your dock prints from the first minute.
- 5.2
Nothing in this document stretches that date. We sell no permanent right to the software, and an orbit that has expired is an orbit to buy again or to leave alone.
- 5.3
When the date arrives the permission lapses with it: the engine comes off the charts and your copies go in the bin, archive included.
- 5.4
Nothing renews and no card is charged unless you choose to buy again. One email goes out before the date with a plain offer of another term at whatever an orbit costs by then; ignoring it costs nothing.
6.We keep the software, you keep a permission
- 6.1
What changes hands is permission to run the engine, not the engine itself. Every right, title and interest in it, intellectual property included, stays with Planet Algo, and this document moves none of it.
7.Updates, and their limits
- 7.1
Anything we publish for your orbit during the term arrives under this same document, at no further cost.
- 7.2
Terminal builds and broker contract specifications change on a schedule nobody here sets. Each change gets looked at when it happens: often the engine carries on untouched, sometimes a rebuild follows, occasionally an instrument stops being one this orbit should be pointed at. Nothing in this document commits us to a fix for every such change.
8.What outlives the licence
- 8.1
The licence ends on its date, or earlier if you break it. Either way the engine stops and the copies go.
- 8.2
Three things carry on past that: our ownership of the software, the uses shut out by the grid above, and the ceiling on what we can owe you. Anything the grid does not obviously cover is worth one email to [email protected] before you rely on it — written permission from us beats an interpretation of this page, and permission is granted more often than not.