Licence terms (EULA)

These terms govern your use of the TagAlly Pro software. They apply however you obtained the software — through the Adobe Creative Cloud Marketplace, directly from us or from an authorised dealer.

1. Parties and scope

This licence agreement is concluded between you (the “Licensee”) and Rupert Maier, trading as “axeptdesign” (“we”, “us”), the developer of TagAlly Pro (the “Software”). Our full postal address and contact details are given in the imprint.

Where you purchased the Software through the Adobe Creative Cloud Marketplace or from an authorised dealer, the purchase contract is concluded with the marketplace operator acting as merchant of record, or with the dealer, not with us — see section 2. This agreement governs only your use of the Software.

TagAlly Check is covered by this agreement too. It is the free edition of the Software: it checks and explains, but never repairs, exports or validates. Everything below applies to it as written, with three differences that follow from it being free. Sections 2 and 5 concern purchase, invoicing, refunds and paid updates, and are therefore without object. There is no fee, no subscription and no term — section 12 ends simply when you uninstall it. And the third-party components and optional AI features described in sections 9 and 10 are not part of TagAlly Check at all, because it never leaves your InDesign document. Where the sections below say “the Software”, read it as covering both editions.

2. Where you bought it, and who your contract partner is

This distinction matters if you ever need an invoice or a refund, so please read it once:

In every case, the licence granted below applies to the Software itself.

3. Licence granted

Subject to payment of the applicable fee — TagAlly Check is licensed free of charge — we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide right to use the Software as follows:

• Per-seat licence. One licence entitles one named person to use the Software. That person may install it on the computers they work on personally (for example a desktop and a laptop), provided it is not used on more than one of them at the same time by different people.
• Commercial use is included. You may use the Software to produce documents for clients and to charge for that work. Documents you create with it are entirely yours; we claim no rights in them.
• Duration. A subscription licence is granted for the term of your subscription; it renews for the agreed term unless cancelled, and it ends when the subscription ends. A perpetual licence, bought on invoice from us or from an authorised dealer, is granted for an unlimited time — optional maintenance affects updates (section 5), never the licence itself. TagAlly Check runs until you uninstall it.
• Trial. The version downloaded from our website may be used free of charge for thirty days without a licence key, to evaluate it. After that, its repair, export and validation functions require a licence; checking and explaining remain available.

4. What is not permitted

• Passing on, renting out, sublicensing or reselling the Software or your licence key, unless we agree in writing. Statutory rights that cannot be contracted away remain unaffected — in particular the exhaustion rule for copies sold for an unlimited time (§ 69c No. 3 UrhG).
• Reverse engineering, decompiling or disassembling the Software, except where mandatory law expressly permits it (in particular § 69e UrhG for interoperability).
• Removing or altering copyright notices, licence keys or technical protection measures.
• Using the Software to develop a competing product.

Volume, site or educational licences are available — please ask us rather than working around the per-seat rule.

5. Updates

For subscriptions, all updates are included for as long as the subscription runs, including new major versions and support for new InDesign releases. For the perpetual licence, the first year of updates is included; after that, further updates require optional maintenance (see the terms of sale) — without it the Software keeps working, on the version you have. Where you are a consumer, we additionally provide the updates required by law to keep a digital product in conformity for the duration of the contract (§§ 327f ff. BGB).

Ending the subscription does not affect the work you have already done. InDesign documents and exported PDF files are ordinary files, and reports already produced remain readable without the Software.

6. What the Software does and does not promise

This section matters more than most licence boilerplate, so it is written plainly:

• The Software checks the requirements of PDF/UA-1 that can be checked by machine, repairs a defined set of defects, and validates the result using veraPDF.
• The Software cannot determine whether an alternative text is meaningful, whether a reading order matches the intended meaning, or whether your document is comprehensible. Those are human judgements, and they remain your responsibility.
• Accordingly, we do not warrant that documents processed with the Software comply with any particular legal accessibility obligation. The conformance report documents what was checked and by whom; it is evidence, not a certificate.

7. Warranty for defects

Statutory warranty rights apply. If the Software does not have the agreed quality, we will remedy the defect — normally by providing an update. Where a defect cannot be remedied within a reasonable period, your statutory rights to reduce the price or terminate the contract remain unaffected.

For consumers, the statutory provisions on contracts for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) apply, including the update obligation set out in section 5.

8. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, for intent and gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee.

In the case of slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely — and in that case only for foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract.

Any further liability is excluded. Please keep backups of your documents; that is the ordinary care expected when working with any software that modifies files.

9. Third-party components

TagAlly Pro uses open-source components. Their licences continue to apply to those components and, where they grant you more rights than this agreement, those rights prevail:

Adobe and Adobe InDesign are trademarks of Adobe Inc. TagAlly Pro is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Adobe Inc.

10. Optional AI features

The AI alt-text feature is switched off by default. If you enable it and supply your own provider key, your relationship with that provider is governed by their terms and privacy policy — we are not a party to it and have no control over how they process the images you send. See the privacy notice for what is transmitted.

11. Data protection

The Software processes your documents locally on your computer and contains no telemetry. Details are in the privacy notice.

12. Term and termination

The licence granted in section 3 runs for the term set out there: a subscription until the subscription ends, on the terms of the channel through which you bought; the perpetual licence for an unlimited time; TagAlly Check until you uninstall it. We may terminate the licence for cause if you materially breach section 4 and do not stop after being asked to. On termination, and when a subscription ends, you must cease using the Software and delete the installed copies.

13. Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence.

If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes is our registered office.

Should any provision be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.

Version: 29 September 2026