CoCAD End User License Agreement
This document is published in French and in English.
This End User License Agreement (this "Agreement") is a license from CoCAD LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company ("we," "us," or the "Company"), to the person or entity installing or using the CoCAD desktop software (the "Software"). CoCAD LLC owns the copyright in the Software and licenses the install. You pay Paddle at checkout. Paddle is the merchant of record and the seller of the checkout. CoCAD LLC is not the checkout seller. By installing or using the Software, you agree to this Agreement. If you are accepting on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it.
This Agreement covers the CoCAD desktop Software for Microsoft Windows, worldwide, subject to export and sanctions law. Builds for other operating systems are not licensed unless we later ship one and say so. This Agreement does not license the public website or the waitlist.
Summary
There is one product. You may use it for personal work or commercial work. Pay once at entry. You license that install. A license bought before 12:00 a.m. U.S. Central Time (UTC−6) on January 1, 2027 costs $79, the launch price. From that moment on, new licenses cost $129. That purchase includes one year of latest downloads from the paid download site. Another year of latest downloads and Paid Site Access is $29 for everyone. After a Download Year ends, the last build you already have keeps working. You pay again only if you want another year of latest downloads and Paid Site Access. This is not a rental and not a forced subscription. There is no automatic renewal. Installed copies are never time-locked or remotely disabled. One named user. That named user may also use their own AI assistants with the Software on devices that user owns or controls. That is the same seat, not a second license. If we owe you money under this Agreement, the most we owe is the greater of the Entry Price you paid for that license and what you last paid for a Download Year on it, except where the law will not let us cap it. Your designs are yours. You pay Paddle at checkout. CoCAD LLC grants the license. If you are a Consumer, mandatory law where you live can give you more than this page, and you keep it.
1. Definitions
"Software" means the CoCAD desktop application, its bundled core engine and components, and any updates we make available to you.
"License File" means a signed file we may issue after a purchase that identifies your license and your Download Year. The Software reads it locally to decide which updates to offer you. It never limits what an installed copy can do. It is not a CoCAD password account, and the Software does not need it, an account, or a license server to run.
"Launch Price" means $79, the Entry Price for a license whose checkout Paddle records as completed before 12:00 a.m. U.S. Central Time (UTC−6) on January 1, 2027. It applies only to that first purchase. It gives no discount on, and no right to, any later Download Year or any later purchase.
"Entry Price" means the price of the first paid checkout for a license: the Launch Price of $79 if Paddle records the checkout as completed before 12:00 a.m. U.S. Central Time (UTC−6) on January 1, 2027, or $129 if it is completed at or after that time. It is not a later Download Year. Prices are in U.S. dollars, before any tax Paddle adds. Paddle may show the price in your local currency. Paddle's record of when a checkout was completed decides which price applies.
"Download Year" means a one-year period during which you may download the then-current version of the Software and all updates released in that period from the paid download site, and use Paid Site Access tied to that year. The first Download Year is included in the Entry Price and begins on the date of that paid purchase. A later Download Year costs $29 and begins only if you buy one. If you buy it while a Download Year is current, it begins when the current one ends. If none is current, it begins on the date of that paid purchase. A Download Year ends one calendar year after it begins (if that date does not exist, on the last day of February). It is not an automatic renewal. The public waitlist is not a Download Year. A Download Year is for an existing CoCAD license. If you buy one on an email that has no license, we refund it.
"Paid Site Access" means the paid download pages, including any one-time download link we send to the email you paid with, used during a Download Year to obtain Licensed Versions. It is not a CoCAD password account. We do not promise Paid Site Access will exist after a Download Year ends, or if we stop selling. Licensed Versions you already installed keep working.
"Licensed Versions" means every version of the Software you download, or are entitled to download, during a paid Download Year.
"Paddle" means the Paddle company that is merchant of record for that checkout. Paddle uses more than one contracting entity by buyer location. We do not pick the entity. See your receipt.
"Your Content" means the documents, models, designs, and any other files or data you create, import, or modify with the Software.
"Consumer" means an individual buying primarily for personal, family, or household use, or a person whom the mandatory consumer law of their residence treats as a consumer. "Business" means any other buyer.
2. License grant
Subject to this Agreement and payment of the applicable fee to Paddle, CoCAD LLC grants you a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the Licensed Versions on Microsoft Windows, for any lawful purpose, including commercial use, by one named user, on devices that user owns or controls. An organization that buys still names one human as that user. The fee is the Entry Price for the first purchase, and $29 for each later Download Year. That named user may also use their own AI assistants with the Software on devices that user owns or controls, including through an automation interface that performs the same actions the person uses. That is the same seat, not a second license. Another person needs their own license. Do not share your License File with another person.
Your license is version-gated, never time-gated. Versions you have downloaded keep working indefinitely. The end of a Download Year never disables, degrades, or time-locks an installed copy. We have no right to remotely disable installed Licensed Versions.
Copyright in the Software stays with CoCAD LLC. "You license that install" means pay once, the installed Licensed Versions keep working, and you may move them among devices this Agreement permits. It is not a transfer of our copyright, and it is not a right to sell, rent, or publish the Software.
3. Download Year; updates
During each paid Download Year you may download every update we release from the paid download site and use the Paid Site Access that year includes. After a Download Year ends, your Licensed Versions continue to work. A version released after your last paid Download Year requires a new purchase through Paddle. That later year is $29. If you buy it before your current Download Year ends, it starts when the current one ends, so you lose no time. A later Download Year is a new purchase you choose. It is not an automatic renewal. We may release fixes for serious defects in Licensed Versions at our discretion.
4. Offline use; License File; backups
The Software does not require a CoCAD account, a License File, or a license server to run, including on air-gapped systems. After a purchase we may issue a License File. When we do, the Software reads it locally to decide which updates to offer you; it never limits what an installed copy can do. You may back it up and move it to any device this Agreement permits, and you may keep backup copies of the installers for your Licensed Versions. You may not share a License File with another person or publish it. Downloading a new build during a Download Year may use the email you paid with. That step is not a CoCAD account and is not required to keep using Licensed Versions you already have.
5. Your Content and files
You own Your Content and your files. We claim no ownership of, license to, or rights over them. The Software stores them on your systems. We have no copy of them and no means of accessing them. Using your own AI assistants on your machine does not give us any right in those files. Nothing in this Agreement restricts you from using, copying, exporting, converting, or otherwise working with your own files. We do not promise a published file-format specification or an open-source reader. We do not promise that the Software, or any AI you use with it, is correct. Independent verification in Section 10 still applies.
6. Third-party components
The Software includes third-party components listed in the THIRD-PARTY NOTICES file distributed with the Software, including components licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License ("LGPL") that are dynamically linked (including Open CASCADE Technology and PlaneGCS). Nothing in this Agreement limits, and Section 7 does not restrict, any rights granted to you by the license of a third-party component, including your right under the LGPL to modify an LGPL-licensed library and relink it with the Software for your own use. For at least three years after we last distribute a version of the Software, we will provide the complete corresponding source code of those LGPL components, including any changes we made to them, on written request to support@cocad.ai, for no more than our cost of providing it.
7. Restrictions
Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement, by Section 6, or by applicable law, you will not:
- redistribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or host the Software for third parties;
- share, publish, or transfer your License File, or circumvent the License File's signature check;
- remove or alter proprietary notices in the Software;
- use the Software in violation of applicable law.
8. Privacy
The Software does not send your designs, models, or files to us. A support bundle is created only when you create one, and you can inspect it before sending it. What the Software sends when it checks for updates, and all other information handling, is described in the CoCAD Privacy Policy.
9. Pre-release software
This Agreement does not authorize a paid beta. Unpaid testers, if any, are under a separate agreement, not this Agreement. Do not use pre-release builds for work you cannot afford to lose.
10. Engineering responsibility
The Software is a design tool. You are solely responsible for Your Content and for anything designed, manufactured, assembled, or used based on it, including dimensions, tolerances, fits, clearances, material choices, structural adequacy, and compliance with applicable standards. Outputs must be independently verified by a qualified person before being relied upon. The Software is not designed or licensed as the sole basis of design for safety-critical applications, including life support, medical devices, aviation, nuclear facilities, or load-bearing structures whose failure could cause injury, without independent professional verification.
11. Refunds
Checkout refunds are handled by Paddle under the CoCAD refund policy in force on the date of your purchase and Paddle's buyer terms. This Agreement does not itself set a refund schedule. Starting a download does not take away the 14-day CoCAD grant stated in that refund policy. A Consumer also keeps any longer or stronger right the law of their residence will not let us take.
12. Disclaimer of warranties
IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDENT IN QUEBEC, THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT THE QUEBEC CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT OR THE CIVIL CODE OF QUÉBEC DOES NOT ALLOW IT, AND THE LEGAL WARRANTIES THOSE LAWS GIVE YOU, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF QUALITY AND THE WARRANTY AGAINST LATENT DEFECTS, STILL APPLY.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED. THIS DISCLAIMER DOES NOT COVER LEGAL WARRANTIES THE LAW DOES NOT LET US EXCLUDE, INCLUDING, FOR A CONSUMER, ANY LEGAL GUARANTEE OF CONFORMITY AND THE WARRANTY AGAINST LATENT (HIDDEN) DEFECTS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS SECTION DOES NOT LIMIT THE CoCAD REFUND POLICY. IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER, THIS SECTION DOES NOT TAKE AWAY A NON-EXCLUDABLE GUARANTEE THE LAW OF YOUR RESIDENCE GIVES YOU.
13. Limitation of liability
IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDENT IN QUEBEC, THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT THE QUEBEC CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT OR THE CIVIL CODE OF QUÉBEC DOES NOT ALLOW IT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT; AND (B) OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE ENTRY PRICE YOU PAID FOR THE LICENSE THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE CLAIM AND THE MOST RECENT DOWNLOAD YEAR CHARGE FOR THAT LICENSE. A LAPSED DOWNLOAD YEAR DOES NOT REDUCE THE CAP TO ZERO. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT EXCLUDES LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FRAUD, DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE WHERE THAT CANNOT BE CAPPED, OR A CONSUMER RIGHT THE LAW OF YOUR RESIDENCE WILL NOT LET US TAKE.
14. Termination
This Agreement continues until terminated. We may terminate it if you materially breach it and do not cure the breach within thirty (30) days of written notice. If a charge is fully refunded or charged back, what that charge paid for ends. If it was the Entry Price, the license ends, including any later Download Years bought for it (we refund those Download Years at the same time), and you must stop using the Software and delete it and any License File. If it was a later Download Year, only that Download Year ends: versions you first became entitled to through it are no longer Licensed Versions, and you must delete them and any License File issued for that charge. Versions from your earlier paid Download Years stay licensed. A partial refund does not end a license or a Download Year. On termination for breach, your license ends and you must stop using the Software and destroy your copies and any License File. Sections 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 16 survive termination. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except where required by law. Termination is a legal duty on you. We have no right to remotely disable installed Licensed Versions.
15. Consumers; local law
If you are a Consumer, nothing in this Agreement limits a right or remedy you have under mandatory consumer, privacy, or product law in your country or U.S. state of residence that we cannot take away. That includes a longer refund or withdrawal window, a non-excludable guarantee, and a right to sue where you live. Where this Agreement and that mandatory law conflict, that law wins for you.
16. General
You represent that you are at least the age of majority where you live, or that a parent or guardian agrees on your behalf. The Software is not directed to children under 13.
You will comply with applicable export control and sanctions laws. You will not use or download the Software if you are in a comprehensively sanctioned country, if you are a listed restricted party, or for a prohibited end use. We may refuse or block downloads, updates, or support where U.S. law does not allow them, including from countries and regions subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions. We have not published an export classification for the Software.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, United States, without regard to conflicts rules, except that if you are a Consumer, mandatory consumer-protection or privacy law in your country or U.S. state of residence applies to the extent it cannot be waived and gives you greater protection. Exclusive venue for a Business is the state and federal courts located in Minnesota. If you are a Consumer, you may also bring a claim in the courts of the place where you live. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
You may not assign this Agreement without our consent, except you may assign it as part of a sale of substantially all your assets with notice to us. We may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale.
This Agreement and the third-party notices distributed with the Software are the entire agreement about the Software license. If a provision is unenforceable, the remainder stands. A failure to enforce is not a waiver. This Agreement does not cover the public website or the waitlist. Paddle's buyer terms govern the checkout sale and are not this license. The CoCAD Privacy Policy covers information handling only. The CoCAD refund policy covers money back. This Agreement is published in English and in French. You accept it in the language you choose. The version in that language governs your agreement with us. If you are a Consumer, and that version is unclear or differs from the other version, the meaning more favorable to you applies.
A new version of this Agreement applies only to versions of the Software released after the change. It never retroactively changes the terms of a Licensed Version you already have.
The version of this Agreement that comes with a version of the Software governs that version.
Notices to us are effective when sent to support@cocad.ai, or mailed to the address below.
17. Contact
Licensor: CoCAD LLC — PO Box 42, Chanhassen, MN 55317, USA — support@cocad.ai
Checkout seller: Paddle, as merchant of record. See your receipt for the Paddle company.