Software licence terms
Last updated 29 September 2026. These terms govern use of the ActaSeal software, which is licensed for installation on your own infrastructure. There is no hosted ActaSeal service.
ActaSeal is operated by Xavier Goshi.
1. What you are licensed to do
On payment of the fees for your tier, you receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and run the ActaSeal software on infrastructure you control, for your own internal business purposes, for the term you have paid for. The licence is enforced by a licence file issued to you, which your installation validates offline.
Your tier sets the number of archived engagements per year and the feature set available to you. Exceeding it does not disable your installation or your existing evidence; it puts you on the next tier at renewal.
2. What you may not do
You may not sublicense, resell or provide the software as a service to third parties, remove or circumvent the licence check, or publish benchmark results that identify the software without giving us the chance to reproduce them first. You may run the software for entities in your own corporate group.
3. The verifier is separate, and this agreement does not restrict it
The standalone offline verifier is published as its own repository under the Apache License 2.0. Nothing in these terms restricts your rights, or anyone else's rights, under that licence. You may give the verifier to an auditor, a regulator, an opposing party or the public, and they may run it without any agreement with us.
4. What happens when the licence ends
This is the clause that matters most, so it is stated plainly. When your licence expires or is terminated, the software stops minting new receipts. Every packet, receipt and ledger export you produced while licensed remains verifiable, permanently, using the Apache-2.0 verifier and the public key embedded in the packet itself. No lookup against us, no live service, no agreement with us is required. We cannot revoke your ability to verify evidence you already hold, and we have designed the system so that we could not do so even if we wanted to.
The packet format is frozen per schema version. A packet that verifies today verifies against any future verifier build that still understands that schema version; new fields are added in new schema versions, never by changing what an existing version's fields mean.
5. Fees, term and renewal
Fees are annual and invoiced in advance at the rates published on our pricing page or as set out in your order. The term is twelve months and renews for successive twelve-month terms unless either party gives thirty days' notice before the renewal date. Fees are exclusive of taxes. Late payment does not disable your installation mid-term.
6. Your data
The software runs on your infrastructure. We do not receive your evidence, your ledger, your policies or the contents of your receipts. Where the software can send anything to us at all, it is off unless you configure it on, and what it sends is described in our privacy policy.
7. Support
Support is provided by email at sales@actaseal.com. We do not publish a response-time commitment we have not yet demonstrated, and we will not sign one into a contract before we can meet it. If your procurement requires a service level, say so and we will negotiate one we can actually hold.
8. Warranty and liability
We warrant that the software will perform materially as described in our documentation, and that the verification properties described in clause 4 hold. Beyond that the software is provided as is, without implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability under this agreement is limited to the fees you paid in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud.
ActaSeal produces evidence. It does not provide legal, audit or regulatory advice, and using it is not a substitute for your own professional judgment about what your obligations are.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Mumbai, unless your order specifies otherwise. For customers outside India we will agree an alternative governing law where your procurement requires it.