Terms and Conditions

Effective May 15, 2026 · Last updated October 12, 2026

Version 2026-10-12.1

These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your purchase and use of our software products, including the Tangle rack and its modules, inside the rack and as standalone plugins, and any other Weaver Audio software you hold a licence for (together, the "Software"). The Software is provided by Weaver Audio Pty Ltd (ACN 678 376 086) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — "Weaver Audio", "we", "us" or "our" throughout these Terms. By installing, activating, or using the Software, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Software.

1. Licence Grant

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of any applicable fees, Weaver Audio grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Software for your personal or internal business purposes. There are three ways to hold that licence — free, owned and all-access — set out in section 1.4. An owned licence is perpetual, and is revocable only in the two cases set out in section 1.3. All-access is a subscription and lasts while it is paid for (section 1.5).

1.1 Permitted Use

• Install the Software on computers you own or control, up to the number section 1.4 gives for the kind of licence you hold.
• Use the Software to make and process audio — for personal, educational, research, or commercial use.
• Retain full ownership of any audio output or other work you create using the Software.

1.2 Restrictions

You may not:

• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except where permitted by applicable law.
• Distribute, sublicense, lease, rent, or sell the Software to any third party.
• Remove or alter any proprietary notices, trademarks, or labels.
• Use the Software to violate any law or infringe any third party's intellectual property rights.
• Circumvent licence activation, copy protection, or any other security mechanism.
• Use the Software to create a competing product.

1.3 Owned licences: how long they last, what updates you get, and when they can be revoked

This section covers every licence you own: a module you bought on its own, each module in a bundle you bought, and anything else your receipt calls a perpetual software licence. This is what perpetual means.

• Perpetual. The licence does not expire. You may keep using the version of the Software supplied to you for as long as you like, on the number of computers section 1.4 allows. A module that came in a bundle is owned exactly as if you had bought it on its own.
• It checks in periodically. The Software confirms your licence with our server when you activate it, and re-confirms roughly every three months. Between those checks it works normally with no internet connection, so ordinary offline sessions are unaffected. If it has not been able to reach us for about three months it will ask you to reconnect once; your purchase is unaffected and reconnecting restores it immediately. If we ever retire the licence server, we will first publish a release of the Software that does not require it — a licence you paid for will not stop working because we changed our infrastructure.
• Point releases are included. Every release within the same major version as the one you bought — for example 1.0 through 1.9, including bug fixes, compatibility fixes and improvements — is included at no extra cost.
• Major upgrades may be paid. A new major version (for example 2.0) may be offered as a paid upgrade. We will say so when it is released. You are never obliged to upgrade, and if you do not, the version you have keeps working under this licence.
• Old versions are licensed as supplied. Operating systems, host applications (DAWs) and plug-in formats change. We support current releases; we do not undertake to make a version we supplied earlier run on a platform released after it. That is a limit on support, not on your licence.
• Revocation, in full. We may revoke an owned licence in two cases and no others: (a) you breach these Terms (see section 9); or (b) the purchase is refunded, reversed or charged back, in which case the licence that payment bought ends (see section 5). We do not otherwise switch off a licence you have paid for, and if we stop selling or supporting a product the licences already issued for it keep working. Cancelling all-access, a failed all-access payment, or all-access ending for any other reason never touches a licence you own.

1.4 Three ways to hold a licence, and two ways to use a module without one

• Free. The Tangle rack is a free download, together with the modules it marks as free: a set of starter audio modules and its modulation and clock modules. They need no account and no payment, and they are yours to keep: a module that is free in the version of the rack you downloaded stays free in that version.
• Owned. Any other module can be bought once, at the price shown at checkout, on its own or in a bundle. A bundle gives you an owned licence for each module it includes, as described where you bought it. Owned licences never expire (section 1.3).
• All-access. A monthly subscription that licenses every module for as long as it is paid for (section 1.5).

An owned or all-access licence covers a module both inside the Tangle rack and as its own standalone plugin. An owned licence may be active on up to two computers at a time, and an all-access licence on up to three. You can free one up by deactivating it on a computer from your account page.

You can also use a module for a limited time without holding a licence for it:

• Free trial. Each module's standalone plugin can be tried free for 14 days, once per computer for each plugin. Starting a trial needs a free Weaver Audio account; no payment details are asked for, and nothing is charged when it ends. A trial of a standalone plugin does not unlock that module in the Tangle rack.
• The monthly pack. When we run one, a month's pack of modules is free to everyone for that calendar month (UTC), both in the rack and as standalone plugins. It is not a trial: it needs no account, and a trial you have already used makes no difference to it. When the month ends those modules stop working unless you own them or hold all-access. Buying the pack, or any module in it, is what keeps them.

1.5 All-access

• What it covers. Every Tangle module, inside the rack and as standalone plugins, for as long as the subscription is active. All-access is held on a Weaver Audio account; if you subscribe without one, we create one from the email address you give at checkout.
• Billing. All-access is billed monthly in advance, at the price shown at checkout, through our payment processor, Stripe. It renews automatically each month until you cancel.
• Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from your account page, or email [email protected] and we will cancel it for you. Cancelling stops the next renewal. All-access keeps working until the end of the period you have already paid for, and then ends.
• Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, all-access keeps working while our payment processor retries the charge, and you can update your card from your account page. If the payment is not recovered, the subscription ends and all-access ends with it.
• When it ends. The modules all-access covered stop working unless you own them or they are free. Because all-access is paid for month by month, the Software re-confirms it about once a week rather than every three months, so a computer that has not checked in since a paid period ended locks those modules a few days later, until it reconnects. If you subscribe again, they come back.
• What it never touches. Cancelling, a failed payment or the end of all-access never affects a licence you own or a free module. All-access ending is the subscription running its course, not a revocation under section 1.3.
• Price changes. We may change the all-access price for new subscribers at any time. We will not change the price of an existing subscription without emailing you first, and you can cancel before the new price applies.

2. Ownership

The Software, including all source code, designs, trademarks, and documentation, is owned by Weaver Audio and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any ownership rights in the Software.

You retain ownership of all audio and other content you produce using the Software.

3. Third-Party Content and Plugins

The Software runs inside third-party host applications (DAWs) and interacts with third-party plugins, audio files, and online resources. You are solely responsible for:

• Ensuring you have valid licences for any third-party plugins you use.
• Ensuring you have rights to any audio content you process.
• Complying with the terms of service of any external websites or services accessed through the Software.

Weaver Audio is not responsible for any third-party content, plugin behavior, or external service.

4. Licence Activation and Updates

• Paid licences and trials require online activation. You agree to allow the Software to communicate with our servers for licence validation and for the update check below, as described in our Privacy Policy.
• Update check. The Software fetches one small public file from our website listing the current released version, and compares it on your machine. The request sends nothing about you or your installation — not the product, not the version you are running, not your operating system, and no licence serial, email address or account identifier. It can be switched off inside the plugin. See section 1.2 of the Privacy Policy.
• We may release updates, patches, or new versions. Installing them is your choice: the version you have keeps working, as set out in section 1.3. Where a change on our side means an older build can no longer validate its licence, the update that restores it is free within your major version.
• We revoke an owned licence only in the two cases listed in section 1.3. All-access ends only as described in section 1.5.

5. Fees and Refunds

• Prices are as shown at checkout. All-access is billed as described in section 1.5.
• Your proof of purchase is a receipt. We email it to you when a purchase completes, and if you bought while signed in to an account it is also on your account page, where you can print it or save it as a PDF. Monthly all-access renewals are recorded on your account page, each with its own receipt; we do not email one every month, but will if you ask.
• 30-day money back, no questions. If a purchase is not for you, email [email protected] within 30 days of buying it and we will refund it in full. Refunds are made to the original payment method. When we refund a purchase, the licence it paid for ends: stop using that Software, remove it from your machines, and we may revoke the serial. Refunding an all-access payment does not by itself cancel the subscription; cancel it as well (section 1.5) if you do not want it to renew.
• The Tangle rack and its free modules cost nothing, and every module's standalone plugin has a free trial (section 1.4), so you can run them on your own system before you buy. The 30-day refund is in addition to the trial, not a substitute for it.
• We may change pricing for new purchases at any time. Licences you already own are not affected. For an existing all-access subscription, see section 1.5.

5.1 Your consumer rights come first

The refund policy above sits on top of the rights the law gives you. It does not replace them, and nothing in these Terms takes them away.

If you are in Australia, our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if they fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.

Nothing in these Terms — including the 30-day window above, the disclaimers in section 6, or the limits in section 7 — excludes, restricts, or modifies those guarantees, or any equivalent right you have under a consumer law in your own country that cannot be contracted out of. A remedy under those guarantees is not limited to 30 days and does not depend on anything in this section.

6. Disclaimers

This section is subject to section 5.1: it does not exclude any consumer guarantee that cannot be excluded by law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that:

• The Software will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components.
• The Software will meet your specific requirements.
• Any audio output produced by the Software will be suitable for any particular purpose.

7. Limitation of Liability

This section is subject to section 5.1: it does not limit any liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for breach of a consumer guarantee.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL WEAVER AUDIO BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR DAMAGE TO AUDIO EQUIPMENT, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SOFTWARE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE LICENCE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.

Audio Safety Notice: You are solely responsible for monitoring playback levels. Improper use of the Software may produce loud or sudden audio output that could damage hearing or equipment. Always start with low monitoring levels.

8. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Weaver Audio from any claims, damages, or expenses arising out of (a) your use of the Software, (b) your violation of these Terms, or (c) your infringement of any third party's rights.

9. Termination

These Terms remain in effect until terminated. We may terminate your licence immediately if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, you must cease all use of the Software and destroy all copies. Sections 2, 6, 7, 8, and 11 survive termination.

10. Export Compliance

You agree to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations and not to export the Software to any jurisdiction prohibited by such laws.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. You and Weaver Audio submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria and of the courts that hear appeals from them.

"Non-exclusive" is deliberate, and section 5.1 governs: nothing here stops you bringing a claim where a consumer law that applies to you gives you that right, and nothing here excludes, restricts or modifies a guarantee that cannot be contracted out of.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated through the Software or via email. Continued use of the Software after changes constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.

13. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the End User Licence Agreement and the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Weaver Audio regarding the Software, superseding any prior agreements.

14. Contact

For questions about these Terms:

Weaver Audio Pty Ltd (ACN 678 376 086) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Email: [email protected]