ynotPDF Licence Agreement

Version 1.6. Last updated 6 October 2026.

ynotPDF asks you to accept this agreement before you first use it. By using ynotPDF, you accept it.

Summary

There are two kinds of licence. Each covers two computers at a time, and everyone who uses them. You can move it to another computer as often as you need, and remove a lost or stolen one from your account.

One-time licence: you pay once, and version 1 is yours to keep. It has no end date. It includes 12 months of updates and email support, and security fixes for version 1 for at least 5 years. Version 2 will be a paid upgrade, at 50% off for version 1 owners.
Subscription: you pay every year. While it is active, you have every version, including new major versions, and priority support. We email you 14 days before each renewal. When it ends after 3 or more paid years, you keep the full editor at the version you have, with security fixes; before that, ynotPDF goes back to the Free Reader.

Beta: before version 1.0, ynotPDF is tested in public (versions 0.5 to 0.9). A free beta licence gives you the full editor until the beta ends (7 January 2027); ynotPDF then becomes the Free Reader (section 2A).
ynotPDF works offline after activation. Connect to the internet at least once every 60 days, or editing and signing pause until you do. ynotPDF warns you 14 days before.
Without a licence, ynotPDF is the Free Reader. It needs no licence key and no account, and it does not expire. You can read, search, print and listen to documents; read notes and comments; open attachments; check the signatures in signed PDFs; and browse PDF Portfolios, preview the files inside and take them out. The Free Reader cannot edit, comment or sign, and it has no Help assistant. Editing and adding signatures need an activated licence.
As a consumer, you have a 2-year legal guarantee. If ynotPDF does not work as described, we fix it free, lower the price or refund you.
You can have a full refund within 14 days of buying a one-time licence, starting a subscription or a yearly renewal, without giving a reason, wherever you live (section 9).
The open-source parts of ynotPDF keep their own licences.
Spanish law applies. You keep the legal protections of the country where you live.
Questions or complaints: support@ynotpdf.com. We reply within 15 days.

1. Who we are

ynotPDF is made by Anthony Baynes, a self-employed trader in Spain who trades as ynot-Apps.com.

Email: support@ynotpdf.com
Our postal address and tax number (NIF) are in the legal notice at ynotpdf.com.

In this agreement, "we" and "us" mean Anthony Baynes. "You" means the person or business that uses ynotPDF. Where a section is about a licence, "you" means the person or business that bought it.

Who sells it to you. You buy ynotPDF from Paddle, which resells it for us. Paddle is the seller. It takes payment, charges VAT, issues invoices, gives refunds and handles your right to change your mind (section 9). We are responsible for ynotPDF itself: that it works as described (section 8) and that you get updates (section 7). Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle's buyer terms (www.paddle.com/legal/checkout-buyer-terms) also apply to your purchase. Where they or this agreement give you more rights, you have the greater rights.

2. Using ynotPDF without a licence: the Free Reader

Anyone may use ynotPDF without a licence, free of charge, with no licence key, no account and no time limit. It then works as the Free Reader.
In the Free Reader you can read, search, print and listen to documents; read notes and comments; open attachments; check the signatures in PDFs that are already signed; and browse PDF Portfolios, preview the files inside and take them out. The Free Reader cannot edit, comment or sign, and it has no Help assistant.
Editing and adding a digital or handwritten signature need an activated licence. Every paid licence includes all signing, with no paid "Pro" signing tier.
The limits in section 4 apply to you too.
The guarantee in section 8 is for buyers. The rights the law gives you still apply.

2A. Beta licences (before version 1.0)

Before version 1.0, ynotPDF is tested in public as a beta: versions 0.5 to 0.9.
During the beta you can have a free beta licence. It gives you the full ynotPDF on up to two computers, as section 3 describes, except as this section says.
When it ends. The beta ends on 7 January 2027. A beta licence ends on that day, shown with it in ynotPDF and in your account. ynotPDF on your computers then becomes the Free Reader (section 2). Your documents are never locked: they stay yours, and they open as before.
Test versions. Beta versions are not finished. They can have faults, and features can change, or be removed, before version 1.0. Keep copies of your important files.
Updates. ynotPDF offers each beta update as section 7 describes. Please install them: each one fixes faults found in the beta.
Your feedback. If you send us reports or ideas, we may use them to improve ynotPDF, free of charge.
A beta licence is for you alone: you cannot give or sell it to anyone else.
We may end the beta early. If we do, we email you at least 14 days before.
A beta licence is free, so sections 8 (the guarantee for buyers) and 9 (refunds) do not apply to it. Section 10 does, and so do the rights the law gives you.

3. What your licence lets you do

There are two kinds of licence. Both give you the full ynotPDF, on the same terms, except for how long they last, which versions they cover and the support that comes with them:

One-time licence. You pay once. You may use version 1 (every 1.x release) for as long as you like: the licence has no end date. It includes the updates and the email support in section 7. It does not include version 2: when version 2 is released, you can upgrade to it at 50% off (section 7).
Subscription. You pay every year, and it renews each year until you cancel it. We email you 14 days before each renewal, and before a subscription ends. You can cancel at any time; it then runs to the end of the year you paid for. If a renewal payment fails, you have 14 days to put it right before editing switches off. While it is active, you may use every version, including new major versions, and you have priority support (section 7). When it ends:

after 3 or more paid years, you keep the full editor at the version you have on the day it ends, for as long as you like, with that version's security fixes (section 7). New features and support stop;
after fewer than 3 paid years, your computers go back to the Free Reader.

Either way your documents are never locked, and you can subscribe again at any time. A year that was refunded does not count as paid. If the price of the subscription changes, Paddle tells you before your next renewal and asks for your agreement before charging the new price.

With either kind, you may:

Use ynotPDF on up to two computers at a time. Each activated computer uses one seat.
Let every user account on an activated computer use it. They all share that computer's seat.
Use it for private work or for business.
Keep a backup copy of the installer.
Move a seat to another computer:

in ynotPDF, choose Deactivate this computer;
for a computer you no longer have, use your account at ynotpdf.com.

Move a seat as often as you need. There is no limit.
Remove a lost, stolen or broken computer from your account at ynotpdf.com. Its seat is freed at once, and the next time that computer connects, ynotPDF on it becomes the Free Reader; if it never connects, that happens when its 60 days run out (section 6). If you cannot sign in, email us and we remove it for you. If a computer has not connected for more than 60 days, it is removed automatically, which frees its place.
Give or sell your licence to someone else:

deactivate it on all your computers and stop using it;
email us from your account address, with the new owner's email address;
we move the licence to them within 5 working days.

We own ynotPDF. You receive a licence to use it. You do not own the program.

4. What you may not do

Use ynotPDF, our website or our activation service for anything unlawful, such as fraud, spam or infringing someone else's rights.
Attack, probe, overload or scrape our website or our activation service, or use them to spread malware.
Use one licence on more than two computers at once.
Let people use your licence on computers that are not your two activated ones.
Give your licence key to anyone else, except when you pass the licence on (section 3).
Get round, switch off or fake the activation.
Rent out or lend ynotPDF.
Copy, change or decompile the program. This does not apply where the law allows it, for example to make ynotPDF work with other software.
Remove copyright or licence notices.

FFmpeg. ynotPDF uses the FFmpeg library under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1. As far as that licence requires, you may change ynotPDF for your own use and reverse engineer it to debug those changes. This includes replacing FFmpeg.

Nothing in this section limits the rights the law already gives you.

5. Open-source software and LibreOffice

ynotPDF includes open-source components, and each keeps its own licence.
Where this agreement and a component's licence differ, the component's licence applies to that component.
The components are listed in Help → Open-source software, in the file THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt and in the file LICENSES.chromium.html. Both files are installed with ynotPDF.
The open-source authors give no guarantee. The guarantee in section 8 is ours alone.
Converting Office files needs LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a separate program: you install it yourself, and its own licence applies. We do not supply it.
We are responsible for ynotPDF working with the LibreOffice versions listed in the system requirements.

6. Activation

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Activation links your licence to a computer. Each time a computer is activated, we email the licence's owner, so a licence used where you did not expect it does not go unnoticed.
To activate, ynotPDF sends your licence key and a few hardware identifiers. Each identifier is first turned into a hash: a short fingerprint that cannot be turned back. The privacy notice gives the details.
Reinstalling the system, or changing a part, keeps the same seat. A virtual machine counts as one computer, and may be one of your two.
After activation, ynotPDF runs offline. It quietly checks your licence when ynotPDF starts, and about once a day while it is connected.
If our server cannot be reached for a while, ynotPDF keeps working. If the activation cannot be renewed for 60 days, editing and signing pause until the computer connects again. ynotPDF warns you 14 days before. You can still read, search, print and listen to documents, and browse PDF Portfolios or open and save the files inside, and open already signed PDFs, view their signatures and check them.
After you sign in through your confirmed backup email, you must wait 24 hours before deactivating computers or changing your main email address. We tell every email address on the account; the other address receives a link to cancel the recovery.
For a computer that can never go online, email us and we send you a licence file for it.
If we ever stop running the activation service, we will first release an update so that activated copies keep working without it.
We cannot promise that our website or our activation service will always be available or free of faults. When they are not, ynotPDF keeps working as this section describes, and your legal guarantee (section 8) still applies.

7. Updates and support

We provide updates, including security updates, that keep ynotPDF working as described.
We provide them for as long as you can reasonably expect, and for at least 2 years from your purchase.
With a one-time licence you also get:

every version 1 update (1.1, 1.2 and so on) released in the 12 months after your purchase, with new features and fixes, and changes for new versions of Windows, macOS and Linux;
security fixes for version 1 for at least 5 years from its release, as the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires;
12 months of email support.

Version 2 and later are not part of a one-time licence for version 1. When version 2 is released, you can buy it at 50% off. Version 1 keeps working either way.
With a subscription you get every update, including new major versions (2.0, 3.0 and later), and priority support, for as long as the subscription is active. If it ends after 3 or more paid years, the version you keep gets security fixes as a one-time licence's does: for at least 5 years from that version's release.
Support is help by email with installing ynotPDF, activating your licence and reporting faults. It does not include repairing individual documents, or remote sessions on your computer. Your legal guarantee (section 8) does not depend on support: a fault is fixed whenever it is covered.
ynotPDF tells you when an update is ready, unless you turn that off. If you have an account, we also email you about security updates.
Nothing downloads unless you choose it. An update you download installs the next time you close ynotPDF.
Suppose we told you about an update and what happens if you do not install it, and our installation instructions were clear. If you then do not install it, we are not responsible for a fault that the update would have fixed.

8. Your legal guarantee (if you are a consumer)

ynotPDF must match its description. It must work on the system requirements we publish before you buy. It must be as secure and reliable as you can reasonably expect.
The system requirements are at ynotpdf.com/requirements.
The guarantee lasts 2 years from the day you receive the licence.
A fault that appears in the first year is treated as present from the start. This does not apply if your computer does not meet the published system requirements.
If ynotPDF does not conform, you can ask us to fix it. Fixes are free.
You can have a lower price, or end the contract and get your money back, if:

we cannot fix it, or do not fix it in reasonable time;
the fault comes back after a fix;
the fault is serious;
we refuse to fix it.

Paddle, the seller, gives the price cut or the refund, within 14 days.
To find a fault, we only ask for the simplest kind of help, such as a description, a screenshot or ynotPDF's log file.
You can claim for up to 5 years after a fault appears.
If you buy for a business, we give you the same guarantee by choice.

This guarantee is your legal right. Nothing in this agreement reduces it.

9. Refunds, and changing your mind (withdrawal)

Our refund promise. Within 14 days of buying a one-time licence, starting a subscription or a yearly renewal, you can have a full refund of that payment, without giving a reason, wherever you live and whether you buy for yourself or for a business. The licence, or the subscription, then ends, and your computers go back to the Free Reader.

Renewals. We email you 14 days before each yearly renewal, so you can cancel in time. The refund promise above covers each renewal too.

Your legal right to withdraw. If you buy as a consumer, the law may also give you 14 days to withdraw from the contract. Our refund promise gives you at least as much, and you keep it even though your licence is delivered at once.

How to ask. Paddle, the seller, handles refunds and withdrawal:

use the link in the receipt email Paddle sent you; or
go to paddle.net, choose Request refund, and give your order number or email address.

You may use the form at the end of this agreement, but you do not have to. Paddle confirms by email and refunds you within 14 days, to the payment method you used. Your computers then go back to the Free Reader. If you are not sure how to withdraw, email support@ynotpdf.com and we will help.

10. Our liability

If you are a consumer:

We are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of either of these:

our breaking this agreement;
our failing to take reasonable care.

We are not responsible for loss that nobody could foresee.
Please keep copies of your important files. This advice does not reduce your rights.

If you buy for a business:

Our total liability is limited to the price you paid for the licence. For a subscription, that is what you paid in the 12 months before the claim.
We are not responsible for:

lost profit or lost business;
business data;
indirect loss.

For everyone: nothing in this agreement limits our liability for:

death or personal injury;
fraud or deliberate wrongdoing;
gross negligence;
your legal guarantee;
defective products, including loss of or damage to files you use privately, not for work;
anything else that the law does not allow us to limit.

11. Ending the licence

You can stop using ynotPDF at any time.
We can end your licence in these cases only:

you seriously break section 4, for example by using one licence on more than two computers or by getting round activation, and you do not put it right within 14 days of our email;
its payment is reversed or never completed, for example after a chargeback, and you do not put it right within 14 days of our email;
it was bought fraudulently, for example with someone else's card.

If the licence ends, editing and adding signatures stop on your computers. You may keep using the Free Reader, including opening already signed PDFs, viewing their signatures and checking them.
Your rights under consumer law are not affected.

12. Changes to this agreement

The agreement you accepted when you bought ynotPDF applies to your licence.
We will not change it to your disadvantage.
A new major version may come with new terms. They apply only if you accept them.

13. Law and courts

Spanish law applies to this agreement.
If you are a consumer: you keep all the protections of the law of the country where you live.

If you live in the EU, you can bring a claim in the courts where you live, or in Spain. We can bring a claim against you only in the courts where you live.
If you live outside the EU, the courts of Spain decide, unless the law where you live says otherwise.

If you buy for a business: the courts of Barcelona decide disputes.

14. Complaints

by email to support@ynotpdf.com;
through the help and support section at ynotpdf.com;
through Paddle, which sold you ynotPDF.

We give you a reference number and a written receipt.
We reply within 15 days at most.
If we cannot settle your complaint, we will write to you. We will name at least one independent dispute-resolution (ADR) body and say whether we will take part.
We are not a member of any ADR scheme.
Your regional consumer office can advise you. Consumer arbitration (the Juntas Arbitrales de Consumo) is possible if we agree to it for your case.
You can always go to court instead.

15. Languages

This agreement is available in English and Spanish. In Catalonia, it is also available in Catalan on request.
All versions are equally valid.
Where a term is unclear, the meaning that is best for you applies.

Model withdrawal form

Fill in and return this form only if you want to withdraw from the contract.

To: Paddle, the seller, at the address on your receipt email
I give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the supply of this digital content: a ynotPDF licence.
Licence key or order number:
Ordered on:
Name:
Address:
Signature (only if you send this form on paper):
Date: