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End-User Licence Agreement and Terms of Use
Version 1.0 — 2 November 2026. Applies to all S-AlgoL software, including SteelMatrix.
This agreement is between you and S-Algol Consulting and Software Inc., a corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act, with its office in Toronto, Ontario ("S-AlgoL", "we", "us"). It covers the software, its documentation, calculation templates and updates (the "Software"). By installing, activating or using the Software you accept this agreement. If you accept it for a company or other organization, you confirm that you may bind that organization, and "you" includes it.
1. Licence
- We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use one copy of the Software on one computer (the "Licensed Computer") for each licence key, for the term of your trial or subscription.
- You may use the Software for your own professional work, including paid engineering work for your clients.
- The Software is licensed, not sold. We and our suppliers keep all rights not expressly granted.
2. Trial
The trial lasts 30 days from activation, is limited to one trial per computer and is free of charge. It is for evaluating the Software. When it ends, the Software stops working until a subscription key is activated.
3. Subscription
- A subscription runs for one year from purchase. Renewal and cancellation follow the terms shown at checkout.
- When a subscription ends, the Software stops working on the Licensed Computer until it is renewed. Files you created remain yours.
- Prices are in US dollars and include applicable taxes (such as GST/HST), which are shown on your receipt.
4. Activation and online checks
The Software must be activated over the internet and checks its licence with our licence server from time to time. These checks send the information described in our Privacy Policy. They do not send your project files or design data. You must not disable, bypass or tamper with activation or the licence checks.
5. Moving the licence to another computer
- You may move your licence to a different computer once in any 12-month period, using Help > Licence > Move licence in the Software. The licence then ends on the old computer.
- Further moves, for example after a hardware failure when the old computer can no longer release the licence, are at our discretion. Contact support.
6. Restrictions
You must not, except where the law expressly allows it despite this restriction:
- copy the Software except for normal installation and backup;
- rent, lend, share, sublicense, sell or otherwise transfer the Software or a licence key;
- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software;
- remove or alter copyright, licence or attribution notices;
- use the Software in breach of export-control or sanctions laws.
7. Professional responsibility
The Software is a tool to assist qualified professionals. It does not replace engineering judgement and is not a substitute for independent checking. You, and the engineer of record for any project, are solely responsible for:
- the input data, assumptions and modelling choices;
- deciding whether the Software, the methods it uses and the code editions it implements apply to your project;
- checking and verifying every result before relying on it;
- every design, drawing, specification, report and decision based on the Software or its output; and
- compliance with the codes, standards and regulations that apply where the work is built.
Results depend on the methods, code editions and limitations described in the documentation. Software can contain errors, and design codes are revised. Reliance on any result is at your own risk.
8. No warranty
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Software is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty or condition of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, or that the Software will be error-free or uninterrupted.
9. Limitation of liability
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, S-AlgoL and its directors, officers, employees and suppliers will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising out of or related to the Software, its results or this agreement. This includes direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, loss of profits, revenue, data or business, the cost of remedial work, and claims arising from structural failure, property damage, personal injury or death. It applies however the damages are caused and under any theory of liability, including negligence, even if we were told such damages were possible.
- If, despite section 9.1, we are found liable, our total liability for all claims together is limited to the fees you paid us for the licence concerned in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. For a free trial that amount is zero.
- Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
10. Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold harmless S-AlgoL and its directors, officers and employees against third-party claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your projects, designs or deliverables, or from your breach of this agreement.
11. Third-party components
The Software includes components from third parties, listed in the Third-party notices and in Help > Acknowledgements. Those components are used under their own licences, which apply to them as stated there.
12. Updates and support
During an active subscription we may provide updates for the licensed version at our discretion. Support is provided by e-mail at support@S-AlgoL.com. Updates may change features.
13. Termination
This agreement ends automatically if you breach it. When it ends, you must stop using the Software and remove it. Sections 7 to 10, 14 and 15 continue after it ends.
14. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Toronto, Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
15. General
We may update this agreement. The version in force when you buy or renew applies to that term. If any part of this agreement is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. This agreement is the entire agreement between you and us about the Software.
Contact: S-Algol Consulting and Software Inc., 1229 Warden Avenue, Toronto, ON M1R 2R4, Canada — support@S-AlgoL.com