Software licence.

1. Agreement

This licence is an agreement between you and HyperCon Ltd., 167–169 Great Portland Street, Fifth Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom, Company No. 13485343. By downloading, installing, copying or using HyperBook, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software.

2. Ownership

HyperBook is licensed, not sold. HyperCon retains its rights in the executable code, interface, documentation, original artwork and branding, subject to the separate rights and licences of third parties. This licence does not provide the source code or transfer intellectual property ownership.

3. Licence grant

Subject to these terms, HyperCon grants you a free, limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to install and use HyperBook on devices you own or control for personal use and internal professional or business use. A trusted technician may install it for you but receives no right to redistribute it. You may keep a backup copy needed for lawful use and recovery.

4. Free local core and optional services

HyperBook’s local core is free of charge and advertising. HyperCon may offer optional paid services, such as synchronisation, encrypted backup or multi-device features, under separate terms. Ending a paid service will not remove access to your local library or locally stored core data. No announced feature or future online service is guaranteed until released.

5. Restrictions

Except where these terms or mandatory law allow it, you may not:

• redistribute, publicly host, sublicense, sell, rent or provide HyperBook as part of another product or service without written permission;
• modify, translate, adapt or create derivative works from proprietary HyperBook code or materials;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or bypass protection except to the extent applicable law cannot exclude that right;
• remove copyright, trademark, licensing or attribution notices;
• use HyperBook or HyperCon branding in a way that suggests approval, partnership or the origin of another product;
• use the software unlawfully or to infringe another person’s rights.

6. Rights preserved by law

Nothing in this licence limits a right to make a necessary backup, observe or test the operation of the program, or decompile it where and only where mandatory law grants that right and its conditions are met.

7. Your audiobooks and data

HyperBook does not sell or license the audiobooks in your library. You are responsible for having the right to store and play the material you add. HyperCon acquires no rights in your audiobooks, covers, tags, shelves, bookmarks or notes. The current application stores them locally and does not upload them to HyperCon.

8. Third-party components

Independent components and assets remain governed by their own licences, identified in the application and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. Those terms prevail for the relevant component and this licence does not reduce rights granted by an open-source licence.

9. Updates

HyperCon may provide security fixes, bug fixes and new versions through its signed APT repository, the Snap Store or another official channel. An update may replace an earlier version. Materially different terms will be presented when required by law.

10. Privacy

The separate HyperBook Privacy Policy explains data handling. The local core requires no account and sends no listening telemetry.

11. Availability and support

HyperCon uses reasonable care to support the systems identified on the download page but cannot guarantee compatibility with every device, operating-system configuration, codec or audio file. The free licence does not include a guaranteed support response time unless agreed separately.

12. Statutory rights and warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HyperBook is supplied as available without additional warranties of uninterrupted or error-free operation. Nothing in this licence excludes consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, including applicable rights concerning description, satisfactory quality and fitness for an agreed purpose.

13. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HyperCon is not liable for indirect loss, lost profit or data loss caused by misuse, incompatible files, device failure or third-party software. Nothing excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Keep an independent backup of important audio and data; HyperBook is not storage for original audio files.

14. Termination

You may end this licence by uninstalling HyperBook. HyperCon may terminate it for a material breach that is not remedied within 14 days after notice where a remedy is possible. Immediate termination may apply where required by law or for a deliberate breach that cannot be remedied. Termination does not transfer rights in your local audiobooks or notes to HyperCon.

15. Governing law

This licence is governed by the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you retain the protection of mandatory law and the courts available to you in the country of your habitual residence.

16. General and contact

If a term is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms continue. A delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver. Separate paid services may have additional terms. Licensing enquiries: app@hypercon.tech.