End-user licence agreement
About this agreement
This End-user licence agreement is a contract between you and Zeze Workshop, Kızılırmak, Dumlupınar Blv. Next Level No:3C1-160, 06510 Çankaya/Ankara, Türkiye (“we”, “us”). It covers the Laypen app for macOS (“Laypen” or “the app”), including beta versions, updates and any documentation we supply with it.
By downloading, installing or using Laypen you accept this agreement. If you do not agree, do not install or use the app, and delete any copy you have.
You must be legally able to enter into a contract. If you use Laypen on behalf of a company or other organisation, you accept this agreement for that organisation and confirm that you are authorised to do so; “you” then also means that organisation.
Use of the website laypen.app is covered by the Website terms of use. How personal data is handled is explained in the Privacy policy.
Licence
Subject to this agreement, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use Laypen on Mac computers that you own or control, for your personal use or for the internal business purposes of your organisation. The licence lasts until it ends as described under “Termination”.
You may make the copies of the app that are reasonably needed for backup.
The app is licensed, not sold. During the beta the licence is granted free of charge.
Restrictions
You may not: (a) sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, distribute or otherwise make the app available to others; (b) modify, adapt or translate the app or create derivative works from it; (c) decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the app; (d) remove or alter copyright, trademark or licence notices; (e) bypass technical protections in the app, such as its code signature or the app lock; or (f) use the app to break the law or to infringe the rights of others.
These restrictions do not take away rights that the law gives you and that cannot be excluded by contract, such as the rights to make a backup copy, to observe and test how the program works, and to decompile it where this is indispensable for interoperability (for example Article 38 of Turkish Law No. 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works, and Articles 5 and 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC).
Ownership
Laypen, including its code, design, name, logo and documentation, belongs to us or our licensors. It is protected by copyright law (in Türkiye, Law No. 5846), trademark law and international treaties.
This agreement gives you only the rights of use described in it. All other rights are reserved.
Your content
Everything you create or store in Laypen is yours. We claim no rights in it.
Laypen has no account and no sign-in. Your documents are kept in a local file in the Library folder of your Mac and are not sent to us. We cannot see, recover or restore them.
Laypen keeps seven daily backups, but they are stored on the same Mac. They will not help if the Mac or its disk is lost, damaged or erased. You are responsible for keeping your own backups, for example with Time Machine.
You are responsible for your content and for having the right to use whatever you put into Laypen.
Beta versions
Versions marked as beta, including version 0.9, are pre-release software provided for testing and evaluation. They may contain errors, be incomplete, behave unexpectedly or cause loss of data. Features and the file format may change or be removed. Do not keep the only copy of important information in a beta version.
We may end the beta, or stop providing or supporting any beta version, at any time.
The beta is currently free of charge. Your beta licence runs for 90 days, starting on the day you first open the app. A price for the final version has not been set and will be announced after the beta. This does not oblige us to release a final version, to keep any future version free, or to offer any particular feature.
Feedback
Sending us bug reports, ideas or other feedback is voluntary. If you do, we may use it to improve Laypen and our other products without restriction, without payment and without any obligation to you. To the extent your feedback is protected by intellectual property rights, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt and incorporate it for the full term of those rights.
Please do not include confidential information or other people’s personal data in feedback.
Third-party components and services
Fonts. Laypen includes the Inter and Cal Sans fonts, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The licence text is on the Licences page. That licence governs the fonts, and nothing in this agreement limits your rights under it.
Claude connection. This feature exists only in beta versions up to and including 0.9.2; later versions do not contain it. It is optional and off by default. If you turn it on, the Claude desktop app on the same Mac can read and edit your Laypen documents through a local, token-protected connection. Content you share with Claude is processed by Anthropic under Anthropic’s own terms and privacy policy, which apply between you and Anthropic. We are not a party to that relationship, we do not control Claude, and we are not responsible for what Claude does or produces, including changes it makes to your documents. Review those changes and keep backups.
Calendar. This feature is optional and off by default. If you turn it on and give permission in macOS, Laypen reads events from the macOS Calendar on your device, read-only. Whether those events are accurate and available depends on Apple and on your calendar providers, whose terms apply to their services.
Web links. When you add a web link to Stash, your Mac requests that address once, directly, to read the page’s title, description and preview image. You choose which links to add. The websites behind them are run by third parties under their own terms, and we are not responsible for their content.
macOS. Laypen runs on macOS, which you use under Apple’s licence. Laypen is distributed by us directly and not through the Mac App Store. Apple, Mac, macOS and Touch ID are trademarks of Apple Inc.; Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. Their mention does not mean that these companies endorse Laypen or are responsible for it.
Updates and support
We may provide updates, new versions and support, but, as far as the law allows, we are not obliged to. We may change or remove features in new versions.
The app checks once a day whether a new version exists and tells you; it never installs anything by itself, and you decide whether to install a new version. Updates are covered by this agreement unless they come with their own terms.
No warranty
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LAYPEN IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
In plain words: we do not promise that the app will be free of errors, will work without interruption, will meet your particular needs, will work with every Mac configuration or future macOS version, or that data will never be lost.
Laypen is a document and planning tool. It is not designed for uses in which a failure of the software could lead to death, personal injury or serious damage to property or the environment.
This section does not affect rights that you have by law and that cannot be excluded by contract. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights remain in place where they apply to you, for example under Turkish Consumer Protection Law No. 6502, under the national laws implementing Directive (EU) 2019/770 in the European Union, or under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the United Kingdom. It also does not exclude our liability for defects that we knew of and deliberately concealed.
Limitation of liability
Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits our liability: (a) for damage caused by intent or gross negligence (Article 115 of the Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098); (b) for death or personal injury; (c) for fraud; (d) under mandatory product liability law; or (e) in any other case in which liability cannot be excluded or limited by law, including the mandatory rights of consumers.
Subject to the previous paragraph, and because the app is provided free of charge, we are not liable for damage caused by slight negligence.
Subject to the first paragraph, we are also not liable for: lost profit, revenue, business or goodwill; indirect or consequential loss; loss or corruption of data that could have been avoided by keeping reasonable backups; or loss caused by third-party products and services, including Claude, calendar services and the websites you link to.
Where the law of the country where you live does not allow liability for slight negligence to be excluded completely, our liability in those cases is limited to the damage that was typical and foreseeable when you accepted this agreement.
These limits also protect our owners, employees and other people who act for us. Some countries do not allow certain exclusions or limitations; in those countries they apply only as far as the law allows.
Termination
This agreement applies from the moment you accept it until it ends.
You may end it at any time by deleting the app and all copies of it.
Your licence ends automatically if you materially breach the sections “Licence”, “Restrictions” or “Export control and sanctions”. We may also withdraw a beta version by a notice on laypen.app that gives you reasonable time to move to a newer version or to copy your content elsewhere; your licence for that beta version ends when that time has passed.
When the licence ends you must stop using the app and delete it. Your documents remain yours and stay on your Mac. The sections on ownership, your content, feedback, warranty, liability, governing law and courts, and the general provisions continue to apply.
Export control and sanctions
Laypen may be subject to export-control and sanctions laws, including those of Türkiye, the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States (such as the US Export Administration Regulations).
You may not download, use, export or re-export the app in breach of those laws. You confirm that you are not located in, or ordinarily resident in, a country or territory under a comprehensive embargo, and that you are not on a sanctions or restricted-party list that prohibits you from receiving the app.
Government users
If the app is acquired by or for the United States Government, it is “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” within the meaning of FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202, and is licensed with only the rights set out in this agreement.
Changes to this agreement
We may update this agreement, for example when we release a new version of the app or when the law changes. The date at the top shows the latest version.
An updated agreement applies to versions of Laypen that you download or install after that date. If you do not accept it, do not install the new version. You may continue to use the version you already have under the agreement that applied to it, for as long as that licence remains in force.
General
This agreement is the whole agreement between you and us about the app. It does not replace the separate licences of the third-party components mentioned above.
If a provision of this agreement is invalid or cannot be enforced, the rest of the agreement remains in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by the rule the law provides in its place.
If we do not enforce a right, that is not a waiver of it.
You may not transfer this agreement or your licence to anyone else. We may transfer this agreement to a successor that takes over Laypen, provided this does not reduce your rights.
Governing law and courts
This agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
Subject to the next paragraph, the courts and enforcement offices of Ankara, Türkiye have jurisdiction over disputes arising from this agreement or the app. If you are a merchant or a legal entity governed by public law, this jurisdiction is exclusive.
If you are a consumer, the two paragraphs above do not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings before the courts and consumer dispute bodies of that country. We will bring proceedings against you only in the country where you live. In Türkiye, you may apply to the consumer arbitration committee or the consumer court that is competent under Law No. 6502, including those of your place of residence.
Language
This agreement is written in English and is translated into other languages for your convenience. If the versions differ, the English version prevails, except where the mandatory law of the country where you live requires the local-language version to prevail or to be interpreted in your favour; in that case that version applies to that extent.
Contact
Zeze Workshop, Kızılırmak, Dumlupınar Blv. Next Level No:3C1-160, 06510 Çankaya/Ankara, Türkiye
Email: support@laypen.app
Website: zezeworkshop.com