Terms of service

These terms cover the Floodtide app for macOS and this website, both made by an independent developer trading as Bhop Studio ("we"). Bhop Studio is a trading name, not a registered company; your agreement is with the developer personally. Buying a licence or using the app means you agree to these terms. Nothing in them removes rights that consumer law gives you and cannot be taken away.

Contact: raf@bhopstudio.com.

What Floodtide is

Floodtide finds updates for the apps installed on your Mac and installs them. It reads public catalogues and vendors' own update feeds, downloads updates from the vendors' own servers, verifies what it downloaded, keeps a backup of the version it replaces, and can undo. The third-party apps it updates are not ours: your licence for each of them is between you and that vendor, and Floodtide installing an update does not change it.

The licence

One licence covers up to 3 Macs that you own or control. Activation counts seats; deactivating a Mac frees one.
The price is paid once. Every 1.x update is included. If there is ever a 2.0, it is half price for existing licence holders.
The licence is personal and non-transferable. Don't share the key beyond your own Macs, resell it, or publish it. We may revoke keys that are shared publicly, bought fraudulently or refunded.
The 14-day trial is the full app, no card and no account. After it, the scanner keeps working free; installing requires a licence.

Refunds

If Floodtide is not for you, email raf@bhopstudio.com within 14 days of purchase and the payment is returned through Stripe. A refund ends the licence and the key stops activating.

Referrals

Sharing your referral link credits you when someone buys through it; three credited sales make your next major version free. Credits are not cash, cannot be sold, and buying through your own link credits nothing. We may end or change the programme for future purchases, not retroactively.

What you should know before relying on it

Coverage changes. Whether an app can be updated depends on what its vendor and public catalogues publish. We do not promise that any particular app is covered or will stay covered.
Updates are the vendors' software. We verify downloads against the vendor's own published signatures and checksums, but we do not author the updates and cannot warrant their contents.
The privileged helper is optional. Password-free installs use a helper that you approve in System Settings and can remove at any time. It verifies payload trust independently and refuses anything unsigned.
Beta builds. Versions numbered 0.x are beta. They are honest about what they cannot do, and things may still break. Back up your Mac the way you would anyway.

Acceptable use

Don't probe, overload or attack the service, scrape the licence API, forge requests, or use the app to distribute software you have no right to. That is grounds for revocation without refund.

Liability

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your statutory consumer rights. Subject to that: the app and site are provided as described but otherwise "as is", we are not liable for indirect losses, and our total liability for anything arising from Floodtide is capped at the amount you paid for it. If you are a consumer, the digital content laws of your country may give you more, and those win.

Housekeeping

We may update these terms; material changes are dated here and noted in the release notes, and continued use after that is acceptance. If a court finds one clause unenforceable, the rest stand. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and consumers keep the protection of the law of the country they live in.