Terms of Service — Aleph Developments

Please read this first. Aleph Developments is a one-person independent studio, and this document was drafted in-house rather than by a qualified lawyer. It is an honest and specific description of how the software actually works — every technical claim in it was checked against the source code — but it has not been reviewed by counsel in Myanmar or anywhere else. If you are relying on it for a business decision, or if you are subject to the GDPR, the CCPA or a similar regime, treat it as a starting point and get it reviewed.

1. Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Aleph Developments, an independent software studio operated by Macrae Myint in Yangon, Myanmar ("we", "us"). They cover this website, the Aleph Creative Studios hub, and all six applications in the suite — Aleph Vector, Aleph Photo, Aleph Lumen, Aleph Motion, Aleph Pages and Aleph Draft — together with any future Aleph Developments product that points here. By using any of it, you accept these terms. If you do not, please do not use the service.

2. What the service is

A set of creative applications that run in your web browser. The editing work happens on your own device rather than on our servers; we host the code that does it, and a small sign-in and billing layer around it. The service is offered as-is and is under active development, which is a real statement about its maturity and not a formality.

3. Free access

Every feature of every tool is free to use. This is not a trial. There is no card on file, no expiry countdown inside the apps and no feature held back behind an upgrade prompt.

There is no paid plan at this time. If that ever changes, we will not convert you to a paid plan automatically — there is nothing to charge, and it would require you to subscribe deliberately. Anything you make remains yours, in the files you export, regardless.

4. Accounts

An account needs a working email address and nothing else. Sign-in is by a six-digit code we email you; there is no password. That means access to your email is access to your account, so keep your inbox secure. Accounts are for one person — please do not share credentials — and you are responsible for what happens under yours. Tell us promptly at this address if you think someone else has gained access.

Note that most of the tools work without an account at all. Signing in exists to carry entitlements, not to gate the editor.

5. Your work is yours

You keep every right you already had in the documents, images, videos, layouts and designs you create with our tools. We claim no licence over them, not even the "limited licence to operate the service" that usually appears here — and the reason is not generosity but architecture: your files never reach us, so there is nothing for us to be licensed to do. Commercial use of your output is fine and needs no permission from us.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

use the service to create or distribute material that is unlawful where you are, including material that infringes someone else's copyright or trademark;
create content that sexualises or endangers children, or that is designed to harass, defraud or impersonate;
attempt to gain access to another person's account, our servers, or any part of the system you have not been granted;
probe, scan or load-test the service without written permission — see the security page, which explains how to do this properly and grants safe harbour for good-faith research;
abuse the sign-in email endpoint, for example by requesting codes in bulk or for addresses that are not yours;
resell, sublicense or rebrand the service itself as your own product, or remove our notices from it;
use automated means to access the service in a way that degrades it for others.

7. Files you bring

You are responsible for having the right to open, edit and export whatever you bring into the tools. Importing a font, photograph, stock asset or PDF does not change its licence, and we do not check. Some tools also read third-party formats such as PSD and AI; we support them for interoperability and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Adobe or any other vendor. Names of other products appear in our descriptions only to say what class of tool ours belongs to.

8. Availability and change

There is no uptime commitment. This is one person's studio, not a company with an on-call rotation, and pretending otherwise in a contract would be dishonest. We may add, change or remove features, and we may discontinue a product. Where a change would break work you rely on, we will give as much notice as we practically can, on this site and by email to account holders. Export your work and you are insulated from all of it.

9. Backups are your responsibility

This is the clause most likely to cost you something, so please read it. Because everything happens on your device, your in-progress work lives in your browser's storage and your exported work lives in your own filesystem. If you clear your browser data, use private browsing, switch device, or lose the machine, that work is gone. We cannot restore it — there is no copy on our side, by design. Export finished work to a real file, and keep your own backups.

10. Our intellectual property

The Aleph and Aleph Developments names, the Aleph mark, and the software, source code, interface design and copy of our products belong to us. Using the service does not transfer any of that to you. You may not copy the applications themselves, reverse-engineer them to build a competing product, or use our name or mark in a way that suggests we endorse you.

11. Warranty disclaimer

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any file it produces will be free of defects or accepted by any third-party system, printer or platform. Where the law where you live does not permit some of these exclusions, they do not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business or lost or corrupted data or files, arising out of your use of the service — even if we were told such damage was possible.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or twenty-five United States dollars. During the free-access window that amount is, in practice, twenty-five dollars. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, damages and reasonable costs arising from your use of the service in breach of these terms, or from content you create or distribute with it — including a claim that something you made or something you imported infringes another person's rights.

14. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the service at any time, and can ask us to delete your account by emailing us. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use threatens the service for other people. Where circumstances allow we will warn you first. If we terminate your account while you are on a paid plan and you were not in breach, we will refund the unused portion of your current period.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The "last updated" date at the top will change, and for material changes we will post notice on this site before they take effect and email account holders. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept the new version; if you do not, stop using the service and ask us to close your account.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and the courts of Yangon have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of any protection or forum that the mandatory law of your own country of residence gives you. Before filing anything, please email us — nearly everything is faster to fix than to litigate.

17. General

If any provision here is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to a successor of the business. Together with the Privacy Policy and the Cookies & Local Storage page, these terms are the entire agreement between us about the service.

18. Contact

Aleph Developments, Yangon, Myanmar · Email us

19. Language

These documents are written in English. If they are ever translated, the English version is the one that governs. The tools themselves are localised into seven languages; the legal documents deliberately are not, because a mistranslated clause is worse than a clause you have to read in a second language.