Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

By using helvety.com or any Helvety product that links to these Terms ("the Services"), you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. Helvety by Rubin is the provider. The Services are intended for customers in Switzerland.

2. Products

Current Helvety offerings include:

• Helvety PDF, Helvety Image Editor, and Helvety OCR: browser tools on helvety.com that process files on your device under the current architecture.
• Helvety Store: catalog and public downloads (for example Helvety SPO Explorer packages and Helvety Power Platform Tools ZIPs).
• Power Platform Configurator: Choose classic or new designer for Power Automate flow/run URLs. Control survey flags. Reveal or enable Power Apps form elements. Power Automate: choose Classic Designer, New Designer, or Paused; Hide sets v3survey=false on rewrites, while Show only normalizes an existing parameter. Power Apps: reveal hidden tabs, sections, and controls or enable disabled controls on supported model-driven record forms. Distributed via the Chrome Web Store.
• Helvety SPO Explorer, Helvety Screen Tools, and Helvety Power Platform Tools: Microsoft 365 and Windows products distributed separately from the browser tools above.

Public tools and Store listings are currently offered free of charge. Swiss law does not provide a general statutory right of withdrawal for these free public offerings. Features may change or be withdrawn. Enterprise add-ins and extensions you install into Microsoft 365 or a browser follow the host platform's rules in addition to these Terms.

3. Geographic Eligibility

The Services (including helvety.com public browser tools and the Store) are intended for customers in Switzerland. We do not offer the Services to persons or entities located in the European Union or the European Economic Area (EU/EEA). You must not use the Services if you are located in the EU/EEA, or on behalf of a person or entity located there. Technical reachability of a public URL from outside Switzerland is not an offer of the Services in the EU/EEA.

Helvety may refuse, suspend, or terminate access if it reasonably believes you are located in the EU/EEA, are using the Services on behalf of a person or entity located there, or that continued use would place Helvety under obligations it does not intend to assume.

4. Minimum Age

The Services are not directed to children under 16. You must be at least 16 years old to use the Services. Helvety may refuse, suspend, or terminate access if it reasonably believes you are under 16.

5. Access and Availability

Product Access Characteristics

• Helvety PDF never asks you to log in for routine PDF edits.
• Helvety Image Editor does not require login for the standard annotation flow.
• Helvety OCR does not require login for the standard text-extraction flow.
• Helvety Store catalog browsing and public downloads do not require a Helvety account.

Product Access and Availability: We aim for reliable uptime but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service. Maintenance, outages, rate limits, and third-party platform changes (Microsoft, Google Chrome Web Store, hosting, GitHub Releases) may affect access.

6. Acceptable Use

You may use the Services only for lawful purposes. You must not:

• Probe, overload, or disrupt our infrastructure or downloads
• Circumvent rate limits, account limits, or security controls
• Use the Services to distribute malware, spam, or infringe others' rights
• Misrepresent affiliation with Helvety or misuse Helvety trademarks

You are responsible for the lawfulness of content you process and for compliance with applicable law. If Helvety reasonably believes your use creates legal risk or harms the Service or others, Helvety may suspend or terminate access without prior notice when urgency reasonably requires it. Abuse reports: Impressum (Abuse) or contact@helvety.com.

7. Your Content and Local Tools

7.1 Your files

You remain responsible for files and content you open in Helvety PDF, Helvety Image Editor, Helvety OCR, Screen Tools, or similar local software. You confirm you have the rights to process that content.

7.2 License to Us

Under the current architecture, Helvety PDF, Helvety Image Editor, and Helvety OCR keep PDF contents, or extracted text, and images on your device for routine processing. You do not grant us a license to use that local content for our own products or AI training. If you email us attachments or text for support, you grant us a limited license to use that material only to respond and improve support quality.

7.3 Your Responsibilities

Keep backups of important PDFs and images. Verify extracted text and edited exports before relying on them. Local tools can fail or lose unsaved work if the browser tab closes.

8. Transparency and Law Enforcement

Helvety responds to valid Swiss court orders and binding legal requests under applicable Swiss law. For helvety.com public tools and the Store, Helvety generally holds only technical metadata (for example IP addresses, timestamps, and download records), not user profiles. Abuse and law-enforcement contact details are in the Impressum (Abuse).

9. Intellectual Property and Source

Helvety branding and product names are used as trademarks by Helvety by Rubin. The helvety.com monorepo source is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPL-3.0) or later. Other Helvety repositories may use different licenses, including MIT. Always check the repository LICENSE file or release source link for the package you obtain. Chrome Web Store listings and Microsoft 365 packages remain subject to those platforms' policies. Subject to these Terms and Acceptable Use, Helvety grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Services for lawful purposes.

10. Disclaimers and Liability

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by Swiss law. We do not warrant fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, or that results (including OCR text or PDF edits) will be accurate or complete.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Helvety by Rubin and Caspar Camille Rubin (as sole proprietor) are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or loss of data, profits, revenue, goodwill, or business, arising from use of the Services. Our aggregate liability for claims relating to the Services is limited to CHF 0 for free offerings, or the greater of CHF 100 or the amounts you paid Helvety for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the claim. Nothing excludes liability that cannot be limited under mandatory Swiss law (or other mandatory consumer protections that apply to you), including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence where such limitation is prohibited, or for fraud or willful misconduct.

You will defend and indemnify Helvety against claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the Services, your content, or your breach of these Terms, except to the extent caused by Helvety's willful misconduct.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the substantive laws of Switzerland, excluding conflict-of-law rules. Exclusive jurisdiction is Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, except where mandatory law provides otherwise. Mandatory consumer rights that cannot be waived under applicable law remain unaffected. We do not offer the Services in the EU/EEA (see Geographic Eligibility).

12. Changes

We may update these Terms by posting a revised version on this page. Continued use after the "Last reviewed" date means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Contact

Questions: contact@helvety.com. See also the Impressum.