End User Licence Agreement
End User Licence Agreement
Method V1 — Method HQ
Version 1.0 · Effective 2026-08-08
The English text of this Agreement is the authoritative and legally binding version. Translations are informational only.
This Agreement forms part of, and is incorporated into, the Method Terms of Service. On the subject of the scope of your rights in the Software, this Agreement prevails.
1. Definitions
"Software" means Method V1, including its code, interfaces, documentation and any update supplied under clause 6.
"Licence" means the rights granted in clause 2.
"Seat" means one identified individual authorised to use the Software.
"Method HQ", "we", "us" means Method HQ, a business established in the Republic of Panama, trading address Calle 80 Este, Panama City, Provincia de Panamá 0801, Republic of Panama.
2. Grant of licence
On payment in full, and for as long as you comply with this Agreement, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the Software for your own internal business or personal purposes.
"Perpetual" means the Licence has no expiry date and does not renew, because there is nothing to renew: this is a one-time purchase with no recurring charge. It does not mean the Licence is irrevocable — it may end under clause 9.
3. Seats and permitted users
3.1 The Licence covers 1 Seat(s) per purchase.
3.2 Where the Licence is purchased by an organisation, Seats may be reassigned between individuals when a person changes role or leaves, provided the number in concurrent use never exceeds the number purchased. Reassignment intended to circumvent the Seat count is not permitted.
3.3 No account sharing. Each Seat is for one identified individual. Credentials must not be shared, sold, published, or used by more than one person. This restriction protects the integrity of the Licence and is a material term.
3.4 You are responsible for the acts and omissions of anyone using the Software through your Licence.
4. Restrictions
Except as clause 5 expressly permits, you must not:
(a) resell, sublicense, rent, lease, lend, distribute, or otherwise make the Software available to any third party;
(b) redistribute the Software, in whole or in part, by any means, including bundling it with another product or hosting it for download;
(c) provide the Software to third parties as a service, bureau, or managed offering;
(d) copy or reproduce the Software beyond what ordinary use and reasonable backup require;
(e) modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works of the Software;
(f) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, or attempt to derive its source code;
(g) circumvent or disable any licensing, security or access-control mechanism;
(h) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary or attribution notice;
(i) use the Software to develop a product or service that competes with it; or
(j) use the Software in breach of the Acceptable Use clause of the Terms of Service.
5. Rights that cannot be restricted
5.1 Clause 4(e) and 4(f) apply only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
5.2 European Union and United Kingdom. Nothing in clause 4 restricts any act which you are entitled to perform under Articles 5(2), 5(3) and 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC on the legal protection of computer programs (or, in the United Kingdom, the corresponding provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988), including:
- making a back-up copy where necessary for your use;
- observing, studying or testing the functioning of the Software to determine the ideas and principles underlying it, while performing acts you are entitled to perform; and
- decompilation where indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve interoperability with an independently created program.
Any provision of this Agreement contrary to those Articles is, to that extent, null and void, as Article 8 of that Directive provides.
5.3 Where any other applicable law confers a comparable non-excludable right, clause 4 is read as subject to it.
6. Updates and conformity
6.1 We will provide the updates, including security updates, necessary to keep the Software in conformity with its description, for a period of not less than 24 months from your purchase, or for such longer period as the applicable law requires or as you may reasonably expect given that the Software is sold as a perpetual licence.
6.2 Updates within Method V1 are included at no additional charge and are governed by this Agreement.
6.3 A future major version may be offered as a separate product at a separate price. We will say so clearly, and it will not affect your rights in Method V1.
6.4 If you choose not to install an update made available to you, we are not responsible for a lack of conformity arising solely from that choice, provided we told you the update was available and what would follow from not installing it.
7. Your own AI key (BYOK)
7.1 The assistant features require your own Anthropic API key, which you obtain directly from Anthropic and use subject to Anthropic's terms.
7.2 Anthropic bills you directly for your usage. We take no markup and no share.
7.3 Content you submit to an assistant feature is transmitted to Anthropic under your key. See §5 of the Privacy Policy for the data flow.
7.4 You may disconnect your key at any time; the remainder of the Software continues to function.
7.5 AI output may be inaccurate. You must review it before relying on it, and it is not professional advice of any kind.
8. Ownership and your content
8.1 The Software is licensed, not sold. All right, title and interest in it, including all intellectual property rights, remain with us and our licensors.
8.2 All data and content you create with the Software remain yours. We acquire no rights in it, and — because it is stored on your device — no access to it.
8.3 If you send us feedback or suggestions, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use them without obligation to you. This does not give us any right to your data or content.
9. Term and termination
9.1 Term. The Licence begins on payment and continues perpetually unless ended under this clause.
9.2 By you. You may end the Licence at any time by ceasing use and deleting your copies.
9.3 By us, for breach. We may end the Licence if you materially breach this Agreement and, where the breach is capable of remedy, you fail to remedy it within 30 days of our written notice identifying it. Where a breach is not capable of remedy — for example, unauthorised redistribution of the Software — we may end the Licence on written notice.
9.4 Refund and chargeback. The Licence terminates automatically if you receive a refund, or if a chargeback in respect of your purchase is raised and upheld and you have not otherwise ceased use.
9.5 Proportionality. We will not exercise clause 9.3 in a manner that is disproportionate to the breach. Termination does not affect any refund you are entitled to under the Refund Policy or under applicable law.
9.6 Effect. On termination you must stop using the Software and delete all copies. Your own data remains yours and stays on your device; we neither receive nor delete it.
10. Export control and sanctions
You represent that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, any country subject to comprehensive trade sanctions, and that you are not named on any applicable restricted-party list. You must not export or re-export the Software in breach of applicable export control law.
11. Warranties, liability and disputes
Warranties, disclaimers, the limitation of liability, governing law and dispute resolution are set out in clauses 12, 13 and 15 of the Terms of Service and apply to this Agreement as if repeated here.
For the avoidance of doubt: nothing in this Agreement excludes, restricts or modifies any statutory right you have as a consumer, including your rights under Directive (EU) 2019/770, the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, or equivalent protections in your country.
12. General
This Agreement is subject to clauses 16.1 to 16.8 of the Terms of Service (entire agreement, changes, severability, waiver, assignment, third parties, force majeure and notices), which apply as if repeated here.
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