Cadence Reader · End User License Agreement
The terms under which Cadence Reader is licensed to you. Plain, fair, and short.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a legal agreement between you and Subverting Complexity ("we", "us", "our") governing your use of the Cadence Reader application ("the app"). They incorporate, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy.
We grant you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download and use Cadence Reader on devices you own or control, in accordance with these Terms and with the usage rules of the app store from which you obtained it. This is a licence, not a sale — we retain all rights in the app.
Cadence Reader contains no advertising, no in-app purchases, and no subscriptions.
You agree that you will not:
Cadence Reader lets you import your own documents, eBooks, and recordings for personal reading and listening. You are solely responsible for the files you import and must ensure you have the legal right to use them. You agree to import only content that you own, have created, or are otherwise authorised to use, and to use it in a manner consistent with the rights of the copyright holder. We do not access, host, or distribute your files — they stay on your device.
The app is designed for DRM-free files. It does not remove or bypass DRM, and DRM-protected titles from stores such as Kindle, Apple Books, and Kobo cannot be opened.
Cadence Reader reads text aloud using the text-to-speech voices provided by your operating system. Those voices, their availability, their quality, and their own licence terms are supplied and controlled by Apple, Google, or your device manufacturer — not by us. Spoken audio generated on your device is for your personal use; you are responsible for ensuring that any further use complies with the rights in the underlying work and with the voice provider's terms.
The app, including its design, code, branding, and all related intellectual property, is owned by Subverting Complexity and is protected by copyright and other laws. These Terms do not grant you any rights in our trademarks or branding.
The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, that every file will import or parse correctly, or that defects will be corrected. You use the app at your own risk. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any rights you may have as a consumer under the Consumer Protection Act, 2008 or other applicable law that cannot lawfully be excluded.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Subverting Complexity will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the app. Because Cadence Reader stores your library locally, we strongly recommend you keep your own backups of any important files; we are not responsible for data lost through device failure, deletion, or uninstalling the app.
Your use of the app is also subject to the terms of the platform from which you downloaded it.
These Terms are between you and Subverting Complexity only, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. To the extent these Terms provide a licence, that licence is subject to Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (Standard EULA); where these Terms conflict with that EULA, the Apple Standard EULA governs for App Store downloads. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
Your use of the app obtained through Google Play is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service.
The optional iCloud Sync feature on iOS and iPadOS uses your own Apple iCloud account and is subject to Apple's iCloud terms. Availability, storage, and retention of that data are controlled by Apple.
This licence remains in effect until terminated. It terminates automatically if you breach these Terms. You may terminate it at any time by uninstalling the app and deleting all copies.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, including the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. You agree to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the South African courts, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights in your country of residence.
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The current version will always be posted at this URL with an updated date. Continued use of the app after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
Questions about these Terms? Contact us at:
Subverting Complexity
Email: [email protected]
Web: subvertingcomplexity.com