Legal

End User License Agreement

Last updated 2026-07-31 · applies to 3D PrintVault 1.0.0 and later 1.x releases

The short version: you bought a copy for yourself. Activate it on 2 computers you own, use it for personal or commercial work, keep it forever. Change or rebuild a PC and we will move your activation across free of charge. Don't resell it or post your key publicly. Your files stay yours — we claim nothing in them, and nothing is uploaded to us.

This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you ("you" or "Licensee") and Philaform3DSD LLC ("we", "us" or "Licensor") governing your use of the 3D PrintVault software and any updates, documentation and related materials (together, the "Software").

By installing or using the Software you agree to this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not install or use the Software, and request a refund under the Terms of Sale.

1. License granted

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and payment of the applicable fee, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Software.

Under a standard single license you may:

  • Install and activate the Software on up to 2 computers that you own or that are under your primary control;
  • Use the Software for personal purposes and for commercial purposes, including organizing files used in work that you sell;
  • Make a reasonable number of backup copies of the installer for your own archival use.

The license is granted to a single named person. If additional people need to use the Software, each requires their own license. Additional licenses are available for $10 each, and multi-seat or organizational licenses are available — contact us.

2. Activation and transfers

The Software is activated with a license key issued to you at purchase. On activation it records a fingerprint derived from the computer's hardware and binds your key to that machine.

Because activation is offline (see below), that binding is a record, not a lock: we do not claim the Software is technically incapable of running on more computers than your license covers. The limit above is a term of this Agreement, and installing beyond it is a breach of it, whether or not the Software stops you.

Activation is performed entirely on your own computer. The Software does not contact us, or any other server, to validate your license. It does not require an internet connection to activate or to run, and it does not transmit your hardware fingerprint, your license key or any other information to us.

Transfers are free. If you replace, rebuild, repair or upgrade a computer — including changing a motherboard, drive or operating system — your activation may no longer match. Email us and we will re-issue it for the replacement machine at no charge. Moving the Software between computers you own is an expected part of normal use, not a new purchase.

You may not share, publish, sell or otherwise distribute your license key, or use it to activate computers belonging to other people. Doing so is a material breach of this Agreement.

3. Restrictions

You may not:

  • Sell, rent, lease, sublicense, lend or otherwise distribute the Software or your license key to any third party;
  • Publish, share or post a license key, or circumvent or attempt to circumvent any licensing or activation mechanism;
  • Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this limitation;
  • Modify or create derivative works of the Software for distribution, or use it to develop a competing product;
  • Remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;
  • Use the Software in any way that breaks applicable law, or to organize, store or distribute material you have no right to.

4. Your files and your content

You retain all rights to your files. The 3D models, designs, documents and other content you organize with the Software remain entirely yours. We claim no ownership, license or interest in them.

The Software runs locally on your computer and does not transmit your files to us or to any third party. See the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for your own backups. While the Software is designed conservatively — it journals every file operation, provides undo, and contains no delete function — you should maintain independent backups of important data, as you would with any software that manages files.

5. Provenance, source links and license records

This section describes the limits of the features that record where files came from and what terms attach to them. Please read it.

The Software can record and display information about your models, including a download source URL recovered from file metadata, license information you enter, and ownership or creation records you keep in the Creator Vault. These features exist to help you document and find that information. They are record-keeping and organizational tools.

They are not a legal compliance service, and we make no warranty about them. Specifically:

  • Source URLs are recovered from metadata your operating system happened to record. That metadata is frequently absent or incomplete, or points to a content server rather than to the original listing. Its presence or absence proves nothing.
  • License and permitted-use information shown by the Software is information that you or the source files supplied. The Software does not verify it, does not interpret it, and cannot determine whether any particular use is lawful.
  • Nothing the Software displays constitutes advice that a model may or may not be printed, sold, modified or redistributed. Only the actual license granted by the rights holder governs that.
  • Creator Vault records help you keep your own work separate, dated and attributable. They are organizational records. They do not register, establish, perfect or defend any intellectual property right, and they are not a substitute for registration or for legal advice.

You remain solely responsible for determining and complying with the terms that apply to every file you use, print, sell or distribute. We accept no liability for any claim arising from your use of a model, however that model was categorized, labelled or displayed by the Software.

6. Ownership

The Software is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to the Software, including all intellectual property rights. This Agreement grants you no rights other than the license expressly described in Section 1.

The Software includes third-party open-source components, each governed by its own license. Those licenses continue to apply to those components and nothing in this Agreement limits your rights under them. Attribution and license texts are included with the Software.

7. Updates and support

Your purchase includes lifetime access to the version you purchased, and ongoing standard updates within the same major version line (1.x), at no additional cost. We are not obliged to produce any particular update or to implement any particular feature.

Future major versions (2.0 and beyond) may be offered as separate paid upgrades. Your license for the version you purchased does not expire and continues to work regardless.

Email support is provided on a reasonable-efforts basis to licensees in good standing. It does not constitute a guaranteed response time or a service level agreement.

8. Term and termination

This Agreement takes effect when you first install the Software and continues indefinitely unless terminated.

You may terminate at any time by uninstalling the Software and destroying all copies. We may terminate this Agreement if you materially breach it and do not cure the breach within 30 days of written notice. On termination you must stop using the Software and remove all copies. Your files are unaffected and remain yours.

Sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 survive termination.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

The Software is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Software will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that it will meet your requirements, or that any information it displays about a file's origin or license terms is accurate or complete.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will we be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, files, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to the Software or this Agreement, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Software or this Agreement, on any theory of liability, will not exceed the amount you actually paid for the Software.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where you deal as a consumer, this Agreement does not affect your statutory rights.

11. Governing law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of your country of residence.

12. General

Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the Terms of Sale and Privacy Policy, is the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Software and supersedes any prior understandings.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in full force and the unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement or your license. We may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

Changes. We may update this Agreement for future versions or new purchases. Changes do not apply retroactively to a license you have already bought; the version in force when you purchased continues to govern that license.

13. Contact

Questions about this Agreement, or to request an activation transfer: contact us or email support@3dprintvault.app.