Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of Carbone for Mac (“the app”), published by Magenta Creations. Carbone is distributed through the App Store, so Apple's Standard End User Licence Agreement also applies. Where the two conflict, Apple's terms take precedence.

1. Licence

You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the app on Apple-branded devices you own or control, in line with the App Store Terms of Service. Carbone Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks additional features on the Apple Account that bought it.

2. Restrictions

You may not sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it except to the extent that law expressly permits; or remove any proprietary notices it contains.

3. Ownership

The app is licensed, not sold. Magenta Creations retains all right, title and interest in it. Your documents, the Markdown made from them and everything you export remain entirely yours: we claim no rights over them, and we never receive them.

4. Third-party components

Carbone ships no third-party models. It reads PDFs with Apple's PDFKit and scans with Apple's Vision framework, both part of macOS and covered by Apple's licence for it rather than by these terms. If a later version downloads models published by others, each comes under its own licence, named here and in the app.

5. Updates

Updates are delivered through the App Store and are covered by this licence. Features may be added, changed or removed between releases. Anything described as planned is a statement of intent, not a commitment.

6. Accuracy and fitness

OCR makes mistakes, and so does recovering a document's structure. Accuracy varies with the scan, the layout, the language and the engine: a digit can be misread, a table cell lost, a heading taken for a paragraph. Where an error would matter (a figure in an accounting file, a clause in a contract, a dose in a medical letter) check the Markdown against the page.

7. Disclaimer of warranty

The app is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Magenta Creations is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for lost data or lost profits, arising from your use of the app. Total liability is limited to the amount you paid for it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

9. Termination

This licence ends if you breach these terms. On termination you must stop using the app and delete it. Sections 3, 6, 7 and 8 survive.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by French law, and the courts of Paris, France have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.

11. Changes

These terms may change with a new release. The current version is always the one published on this page, with its effective date.

12. Contact

support@mgcrea.io, or through the support page.