NeuroCognica

End User Licence Agreement

Licensor: Michael Holt, trading as NeuroCognica ("we", "us") Product: ChronoSophia (also referred to as ChronoSophia) Version of these terms: 1.1 Effective: 2026-08-03

Read this before installing. By installing or using ChronoSophia you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install the software, and request a refund under the Refund Policy.

1. What you are buying

A perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use one copy of ChronoSophia on one computer, for one named user (you, or if you bought it for a company, one named individual within it).

"Perpetual" means the version you buy does not expire and does not stop working if you stop paying. There is no subscription, no licence server that can switch you off, and no phone-home check required to keep using it. If we vanish tomorrow, your installed copy keeps running.

What "one computer" means in practice: install and use it on one machine at a time. If that machine dies, is replaced, or is rebuilt, remove or retire the old installation and install it on the replacement — you do not owe us anything for that. You may not keep active installations on two machines or use one copy for two people without a separate written licence.

2. What you may do

• Install and run the software for any purpose, including commercial work.
• Create, sell, and distribute anything you make with it — see section 4.
• Make backup copies of the installer.
• Reinstall as often as you need, on your machine or its replacement.
• Modify configuration, workflows, prompts, and scene data for your own use.

3. What you may not do

3.1 Licence restrictions

• Redistribute, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, or publish the software itself.
• Share your licence with another person or organisation.
• Remove or obscure copyright, licence, or attribution notices.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, except where that restriction is void under law that applies to you (for example, the interoperability rights under EU Directive 2009/24/EC, or UK CDPA s50B).
• Represent the software as your own product, or offer it as a hosted service to third parties, without a separate written agreement with us.

3.2 Prohibited use

You may not use ChronoSophia, or anything it produces, to create, refine, distribute, or assist in producing material in any of the four categories below. These are the same four categories the software itself enforces, and they carry the same identifiers, so that what this agreement forbids and what the product refuses are one policy and not two:

• NC-EXPL-001 — Exploitation or sexual abuse material. Sexual or sexualised depiction of a minor, whether the depiction is of a real person or entirely synthetic. This prohibition is absolute. There is no creative, educational, research, artistic, or fictional exception to it, and there is no appeal.
• NC-NCII-002 — Non-consensual intimate imagery, or impersonation of a real person. Intimate, nude, or sexual imagery of a real identifiable person produced without that person's consent; and synthetic likenesses of a real person presented as, or reasonably mistakable for, that person.
• NC-THRT-003 — Credible threats, targeted harassment, or material enabling serious wrongdoing. Content directed at intimidating, threatening, or harassing an identifiable person or group, and depictions or instructions whose evident purpose is to enable serious physical harm.
• NC-FRUD-004 — Fraud, deceptive identity use, or forged evidence. Synthetic material made to be passed off as an authentic record — forged documents, fabricated evidence, counterfeit identity or credential imagery, or images intended to deceive in a transaction or a legal, financial, or journalistic context.

You also may not use the software to break the law, or to produce material that is illegal where you are, whether or not it falls in a category above.

3.3 What is not prohibited

The categories in 3.2 are specific, and they are the whole list. This agreement does not restrict ordinary creative work, and the product's safety gate carries a matching protected boundary (NC-FICT-005) whose purpose is to stop that gate overreaching. Fantasy and mythological subjects, fictional violence and battle, horror, weapons and armour as subject matter, symbolic and religious imagery, satire and political caricature, historical depiction, medical, anatomical and educational work, and consensual adult themes involving adults are permitted uses. We would rather occasionally allow something tasteless than routinely refuse something legitimate, and the policy is written that way on purpose.

3.4 How section 3.2 is enforced — and what that enforcement is not

Enforcement is both technical and contractual, and we describe the technical half precisely because it is easy to overstate:

• What the software does. ChronoSophia evaluates every creation request made through its own interface against the categories in 3.2 before any image, scene, render, or file is produced. A request in a prohibited category is refused and nothing is generated. The check runs entirely on your machine, it fails closed — if the checker is unavailable, the request is held rather than passed — and each decision is sealed into your local ledger.
• What the software does not do. It does not monitor you, does not transmit your prompts, renders, or decisions to us or to anyone else, and contains no remote kill switch. We cannot see what you make. The refusal records are yours and stay on your disk (section 8).
• It is a gate on this product, not on your computer. ChronoSophia is installed alongside independent third-party tools (section 5) — notably ComfyUI, Blender, and Ollama — which have their own interfaces, run under their own licences, and are not mediated by this software. Using those tools directly to produce material described in 3.2 is outside what ChronoSophia can technically prevent, and it remains a breach of this agreement all the same.
• Circumvention is itself a breach. Disabling, replacing, spoofing, or routing around the safety evaluator in order to produce material described in 3.2 breaches this agreement independently of what you then produce.
• Consequences. Use in breach of 3.2 terminates this licence immediately under section 12, without refund. Nothing in this agreement makes us responsible for what you choose to create, and material that is criminal where you are is a matter for the authorities there, not for us.

4. Your work is yours

We claim no ownership of anything you make with ChronoSophia. Renders, .blend files, textures, scene plans, sealed artifacts, and the contents of your local ledger are yours. No licence back to us, no portfolio rights, no right for us to reuse your work. You do not owe us royalties on anything you create or sell.

This is unaffected by the fact that the software seals provenance records — those records are stored locally on your machine and are never transmitted to us.

Two boundaries that come from outside this agreement, not from us:

• AI model licences. The image checkpoints you supply carry their own terms. Most permit commercial use; FLUX.1-dev does not permit commercial use of the model. See MODEL_LICENSES.md. Choosing and complying with those licences is your responsibility, and we cannot grant rights to models we do not own.
• Blender's GPL does not cover your artwork. Per the Blender Foundation, what you create with Blender is your sole property.

5. Third-party components

ChronoSophia orchestrates independent third-party tools — Blender, ComfyUI, Ollama, Python, PyTorch and others — which are not licensed to you under this agreement. They are installed from their own publishers under their own licences, which are listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Nothing in this agreement limits any right you hold under those licences. Where any term here conflicts with a third-party open-source licence as applied to that component, that licence prevails for that component.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of those projects.

6. What the software requires — disclosed before you buy

You are buying software that depends on a substantial local toolchain. This is disclosed here because it is the most common reason a purchase disappoints:

• The optional dependency setup downloads and installs roughly 15–30 GB of third-party software from those vendors' own channels, with your consent.
• Practical use of the image-generation paths requires an NVIDIA GPU; CPU-only operation works but is materially slower.
• AI image checkpoints are not included in the installer binary. The setup task may, with your explicit consent, download or reuse the documented model files; their third-party licenses still govern those files.
• See WHAT_YOU_GET.md and SYSTEM_REQUIREMENTS.md for the complete, honest specification.

If your hardware cannot run it, the Refund Policy covers you.

7. Installer signing status — disclosed

At the time of writing, the Windows installer is not code-signed, because no code-signing certificate has been procured. Consequence for you: Windows SmartScreen will warn on launch, and Windows Defender has been observed to quarantine the unsigned installer as a heuristic false positive.

We disclose this rather than let you discover it. Verify your download's SHA-256 against the published value before installing — see VERIFY_DOWNLOAD.md. When a certificate is in place, signed builds will be published and the in-app updater already refuses to apply unsigned updates on the stable and beta channels.

8. Privacy

ChronoSophia is local-first. Your prompts, renders, models, and ledger stay on your machine. Telemetry is opt-in and off by default beyond basic operational records. Full detail: PRIVACY.md.

9. Support and updates

What is included, and for how long, is set out in SUPPORT_AND_UPDATES.md. In short: you get the version you bought, plus patch and minor updates within the same major version, and best-effort support from a one-person company. We do not promise an enterprise SLA, because we could not honour one.

10. No warranty

The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will produce any particular creative result.

Statutory rights that cannot be excluded are not excluded. If you are a consumer, you keep every right your local consumer-protection law gives you, and nothing here reduces them.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the software or this agreement is limited to the amount you actually paid for the licence.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, even if advised of the possibility.

Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Back up your work. The software seals provenance records but is not a backup system.

12. Term and termination

This licence is perpetual and terminates only if you materially breach it — principally by redistributing the software or sharing your licence (section 3.1), or by using it for a prohibited use (section 3.2). If that happens we may terminate on written notice, and you must stop using and remove the software. Termination for a section 3.2 breach carries no refund.

Anything you lawfully created with the software before termination remains yours (section 4); termination does not retroactively claim your work.

We cannot remotely disable your installed copy, and we will not try to.

13. Changes to these terms

These terms are the ones in force for the version you purchased. We may publish revised terms for future versions; those apply to purchases made after they are published, not retroactively to yours. The copy of this document shipped with your installed version is your reference.

14. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Licensor is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory law in your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts.

15. Contact

Licensing questions, transfers, or disputes: see SUPPORT.md.

If a court finds any provision unenforceable, the rest remains in force and the provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary.