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End User Licence Agreement

Version 1.3 · 10 August 2026 · Thanadet Sribandit

ZHiCK products
End User Licence Agreement

Version 1.3, 10 August 2026

Vendor:        Thanadet Sribandit, trading as ZHiCK (sole trader, Thailand)
Contact:       zhickstudio@gmail.com
Governing law: Thailand

This agreement covers any ZHiCK product you buy a licence for — a plugin
today, and anything else sold under the ZHiCK name later. Tools given away
free, including ZHiCK Hub, are not licensed under this agreement; their use is
covered by the terms of sale instead.

The terms of sale, and the current version of this agreement, are at
https://zhickstudio.com/terms

Sections 7 and 8 describe how a plugin behaves inside a host application, and
apply only to products that are plugins. Everything else applies to every paid
product.

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1. Licence, not sale
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The software is licensed to you, not sold. ZHiCK retains all rights, title and
interest in it, including all intellectual property rights.

Subject to your compliance with this agreement and payment of the applicable
fee, ZHiCK grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and
use the software on the number of machines stated on the licence you bought.
That number is shown on the product page, on your receipt, and in your account.

A seat may be moved to another machine at any time, from your account.
Re-activating a machine you have already activated does not consume a second
seat, and reinstalling or losing the licence file costs you nothing.

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2. Which licence you need
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Licences come in two kinds. Which one applies depends on who pays for it, not
on what you use it for.

An Individual licence is bought by one person, with their own money. You may
use it on client work, on commercials, on features, on anything at all — there
is no restriction whatsoever on the work you produce with it. What an
Individual licence does not cover is a company buying it on your behalf, or
reimbursing you for it afterwards.

A Studio licence is bought by a company or other organisation, and covers up to
the number of machines stated on it. If the cost is met from a business
account, this is the licence that applies — whether the software ends up
running on five machines or on one.

Dividing them this way is what keeps the individual price where it is. If your
circumstances change after you buy, because you join a studio or a client takes
over the cost, write to the address above and the difference will be settled
sensibly.

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3. What you may not do
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You may not redistribute, resell, rent, lease, sublicense or publish the
software; remove or alter any notice in it; or reverse engineer, decompile or
disassemble it, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits this
despite the restriction.

A licence covers you, or the organisation named on it — see section 2. It may
not be shared with another company or bundled into something else without
written permission.

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4. Your output is yours
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ZHiCK claims no rights over images, sequences, projects or any other output you
produce using the software. You may use that output commercially without
restriction or attribution.

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5. Updates and support
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A licence includes updates within the same major version — a 1.x licence
receives every 1.x release — at no further cost. Support is by email, at the
address above.

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6. Trial, and no refunds
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Purchases are final and are not refunded. This is why a free trial of the
complete product is offered first: every control, your own footage, nothing
held back. Please confirm the product does what you need, in the application
and version you actually use, before buying.

Where the law of your country gives you a refund right that cannot be waived,
that right is unaffected by this clause.

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7. Supported applications  (plugins only)
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Each plugin states which applications it is supported in, on its product page
and in ZHiCK Hub. Support means the plugin has been run there and is expected
to keep working there.

A plugin will not load in an application it does not list — it refuses rather
than appearing where it cannot work properly. Applications not listed are not
supported, whether or not the plugin happens to run in them.

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8. If a licence cannot be verified  (plugins only)
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The plugin checks its licence on your machine, offline. It never contacts a
server to do so.

If no valid licence is found — during a trial, after one expires, or if the
licence file is missing — the plugin still loads and still renders the complete
effect, with a faint "ZHiCK STUDIO" watermark across the output. It does not
disappear from the plugin list and does not fail a render. A licensing problem
should cost you an obviously marked frame, never a farm job or a deadline.

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9. No warranty
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The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or
implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability,
fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. You are responsible for
verifying its output before using it in delivered work.

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10. Limitation of liability
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To the maximum extent permitted by law, ZHiCK's total liability arising out of
or relating to this agreement is limited to the amount you paid for the
licence. ZHiCK is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or
consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or missed deadlines.

Nothing in this agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

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11. Termination
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This licence ends automatically if you breach it. On termination you must stop
using the software and remove all copies.

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12. Third-party software
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The software includes third-party components licensed under their own terms.
See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt, distributed with the product.

This copy is the same text that ships inside every plugin bundle, at Contents/Resources/LICENSE.txt. The terms of sale are on the terms page, and questions go to zhickstudio@gmail.com.