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AIKONIC END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT

Version 1.0 — 13 June 2026

Licensor: Hancock Technologies, Switzerland (UID: CHE-336.753.966) (“Hancock Technologies”, “we”, “us”, “our”).

This End User Licence Agreement (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you (“you”, “your”, “Licensee”) and Hancock Technologies governing your installation and use of the Aikonic software application, including the free Clarity tier and, where licensed, the paid Control tier (together, the “Software”).

BY INSTALLING, ACCESSING, OR USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE.

Note on legal review. This document has been prepared with care but has not been reviewed by a qualified Swiss or EU legal practitioner. Certain clauses — in particular the warranty disclaimers, liability limitations, and paid-tier terms — may be limited or unenforceable against consumers under mandatory Swiss and EU consumer-protection law. See Appendix A for a specific list of provisions whose enforceability is uncertain. Nothing in this Agreement waives any statutory right that cannot be waived under the law applicable to you.

1. Definitions

1.1 “Software” means the Aikonic application in object-code form, including the Tauri-based desktop application, the bundled Windows sensor service, any device drivers distributed with it, associated documentation, and any updates or upgrades provided to you under this Agreement.

1.2 “Clarity” means the free tier of the Software, providing read-only hardware monitoring with a fixed feature composition.

1.3 “Control” means the paid tier of the Software, unlocked by a valid Licence Key, adding history, alerts, customisation, process control, and other features as described in the product documentation.

1.4 “Licence Key” means the credential issued to you (automatically for Clarity, or upon purchase for Control) that activates the Software on your Device(s).

1.5 “Device” means a single physical computer on which the Software is installed and activated.

1.6 “Seat” means an entitlement to activate the Software on one Device.

1.7 “Merchant of Record” means the third party (currently Paddle.com Market Ltd and its affiliates, “Paddle”) that acts as the reseller and merchant of record for paid purchases of the Software, handling payment processing, invoicing, and applicable taxes.

2. Licence Grant

2.1 Clarity (free tier). Subject to this Agreement, Hancock Technologies grants you a personal, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to install and use Clarity on one (1) Device for your personal or internal business purposes. A Clarity Licence Key is issued automatically on first launch.

2.2 Control (paid tier). Subject to this Agreement and to your payment of the applicable fee, Hancock Technologies grants you a personal, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to install and use Control on up to the number of Devices covered by your Seats. The base Control licence includes three (3) Seats. Additional Seats may be purchased as add-ons.

2.3 Reservation of rights. The Software is licensed, not sold. Hancock Technologies and its licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all intellectual property rights. No rights are granted to you other than those expressly set out in this Agreement.

2.4 Updates. Any updates, patches, or new versions provided to you are governed by this Agreement unless accompanied by a separate licence, in which case that licence governs.

3. Eligibility

3.1 You must be at least 18 years of age, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, and capable of forming a legally binding contract, to use the Software.

3.2 If you use the Software on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation to this Agreement, and “you” refers to that organisation.

3.3 You may not use the Software if you are barred from doing so under any applicable law, including export-control or sanctions laws (see §5).

4. Restrictions and Conduct

4.1 You may not, except to the extent permitted by mandatory applicable law:

(a) reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, or attempt to derive its source code, save where such acts are expressly permitted by Article 21 of the Swiss Copyright Act or Article 6 of EU Directive 2009/24/EC (interoperability) and you have first requested the necessary information from us;

(b) modify, adapt, or create derivative works of the Software;

(c) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices;

(d) circumvent, disable, or tamper with any Licence Key, activation, or entitlement mechanism;

(e) use the Software to develop a competing product by copying its design or behaviour.

4.2 (Reserved.)

Drafting note: a “non-transferable” restriction was deliberately omitted from the Control licence grant. Under the EU principle established in UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle (C-128/11), the distribution right in a lawfully sold software copy is exhausted on first sale, and a blanket non-transfer clause is likely unenforceable against EU consumers for a one-time purchase. Resale of a Control licence (with the seller ceasing use) is therefore not prohibited.

4.3 Lawful resale. You may transfer your Control licence to a third party, provided you transfer all entitlements, retain no copies, cease all use of the Software, and the transferee agrees to this Agreement. We may require reasonable verification of the transfer to re-issue or re-bind the Licence Key.

4.4 Abuse and revocation. We may suspend or revoke a Licence Key, and terminate this Agreement under §11, where we reasonably determine that you have: materially breached §4.1 or §5; obtained or used a Licence Key fraudulently; or used the Software to harm the Software, other users, or third parties. Where lawful and practicable we will give notice and an opportunity to cure before revoking a paid Control licence.

5. Acceptable Use and Export Control

5.1 You shall use the Software only for lawful purposes and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

5.2 You shall not use the Software in violation of Swiss, EU, US, or other applicable export-control or economic-sanctions laws. You represent that you are not located in, and will not use or export the Software to, any country or person subject to such restrictions.

5.3 You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the hardware-monitoring and any control features of the Software complies with the warranties, terms, and safety guidance of your hardware and component manufacturers.

6. Hardware Interaction; No Safety-Critical Use

6.1 Nature of the Software. The Software reads hardware sensor data (and, in the Control tier where enabled, may write limited control values to supported hardware, such as fan-speed settings). Sensor readings are provided as reported by your hardware and the underlying sensor libraries, and may be incomplete, unavailable, or inaccurate for some hardware configurations. The Software makes no composite “health score”; it reports what the hardware exposes.

6.2 No safety-critical reliance. The Software is intended for general informational and enthusiast use on personal computers. It is not designed, tested, or licensed for use in any application where failure, inaccuracy, or unavailability of readings or controls could lead to death, personal injury, or physical or environmental damage (including but not limited to medical, life-support, aviation, nuclear, industrial-control, or other safety-critical systems). To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you assume all risk of any such use.

6.3 Control features and your hardware. Where the Software provides hardware-control features (for example, fan control in the Control tier), those features adjust settings on supported hardware at your direction. You are responsible for the settings you choose. Operating hardware outside its safe parameters can cause overheating, instability, data loss, or damage. The implemented safeguards described in §7.7 reduce, but do not eliminate, risk; they do not relieve you of responsibility for the configurations you set.

7. Control (Paid Tier) Terms

§7 is dormant until the Control tier is commercially released. While only Clarity is distributed, the provisions of this §7 have no application. They take effect for a Licensee upon that Licensee’s purchase of a Control licence.

7.1 Purchase via Merchant of Record. Paid purchases of Control are made through our Merchant of Record, Paddle, which is the seller of record for the transaction and is responsible for processing payment and collecting and remitting applicable taxes (including VAT/GST). Paddle’s own terms and privacy policy apply to the payment transaction in addition to this Agreement.

7.2 Fees, currency, and price changes. Fees are stated at the point of sale in the applicable currency (base currency USD). We may change prices for future purchases at any time; changes do not affect licences already purchased.

7.3 Licence model. A Control purchase grants the Seats described at the point of sale (base three Seats, plus any purchased add-on Seats), activated by Licence Key. The licence is perpetual and entitles you to all future updates and upgrades of the Software — including new major versions — at no additional charge, unless terminated under §11.

7.4 Refunds. Refunds are handled by Paddle in accordance with its refund policy and your mandatory statutory rights. Consumers in the EU/EEA and Switzerland may have a statutory right of withdrawal; where you expressly consent to immediate delivery of digital content and acknowledge the loss of the withdrawal right upon download, that right may not apply, to the extent permitted by law.

7.5 Activation and seat management. Control activation binds a Seat to a Device by a privacy-preserving device fingerprint. You may de-activate and re-activate Seats within reasonable limits to move a licence between Devices.

7.6 Licence verification. The Software may perform periodic online verification of a Control Licence Key. This verification transmits only what is necessary to validate the licence and does not constitute telemetry or collection of personal usage data (see §9). Such verification transmits only the Licence Key (or its validation status) and a privacy-preserving hashed device fingerprint; it does not transmit behavioural or usage data.

7.7 Misuse, safeguards, and allocation of risk for control features. Where Control provides hardware-control features (including fan control), the Software is built with the following safeguards: (a) sane out-of-the-box defaults, so that an unconfigured installation does not impose unsafe settings; and (b) fail-to-AUTO behaviour, whereby the Software’s control path reverts hardware to its firmware/BIOS-managed automatic mode on application exit or abnormal termination, so that a malfunction of the Software does not leave hardware in an unchosen, unmanaged state. These safeguards address the risk of a defect in the Software. They do not address user misuse: if you deliberately choose settings outside safe parameters (for example, setting fan speed to a level that causes overheating), the consequences of that choice are your responsibility and are at your own risk, to the extent permitted by mandatory law. Nothing in this clause limits our responsibility for a genuine defect in the Software to the extent such responsibility cannot be excluded under applicable law.

8. Third-Party and Open-Source Components

8.1 The Software includes third-party and open-source components licensed under their own terms. Those terms govern those components and, where required, are reproduced or referenced in the Software’s documentation or “notices” file. To the extent a third-party licence grants you rights broader than this Agreement for that component, the third-party licence prevails for that component.

9. Privacy and Network Behaviour

9.1 Privacy promise. The Software does not collect telemetry, does not transmit your personal usage data to us or any third party for analytics, and does not require an account or store your data in the cloud.

9.2 Network activity. The Software is not an offline-only product. It may make limited network connections for: (a) checking for updates when you request it; and (b) issuing and verifying Licence Keys — for all tiers, including Clarity, this comprises automatic issuance on first launch and a periodic online heartbeat thereafter, approximately daily (the same verification mechanism described for Control in §7.6). These connections transmit only the Licence Key or its validation status and a privacy-preserving, non-reversible hashed device fingerprint, and no behavioural or usage data — and do not contradict the privacy promise in §9.1.

9.3 Privacy Policy incorporated by reference. Our Privacy Policy, available at https://aikonic.app/privacy, describes our data practices in detail and is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. In the event of a conflict between this §9 and the Privacy Policy on a matter of data practice, the Privacy Policy controls.

10. Warranty Disclaimer

10.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Software is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of sensor data, or non-infringement.

10.2 We do not warrant that the Software will be error-free or uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that sensor readings or hardware controls will be accurate or available for any particular hardware configuration.

10.3 Mandatory rights preserved. Nothing in this §10 excludes or limits any warranty or guarantee that cannot be excluded or limited under the mandatory law applicable to you, including statutory consumer guarantees and the EU Digital Content Directive (2019/770) as implemented in your jurisdiction. Where such mandatory rights apply, the disclaimers in this §10 apply only to the extent permitted.

11. Term and Termination

11.1 This Agreement is effective until terminated.

11.2 It terminates automatically if you materially breach it and fail to cure the breach (where curable) within a reasonable period after notice. We may also revoke a Licence Key under §4.4.

11.3 On termination you must cease all use of the Software and destroy all copies in your control. A lawful Control purchase already made is not refunded on termination for your breach, to the extent permitted by law.

11.4 Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including §2.3, §4, §6, §10, §12, §13, §14, §15, and §16) survive.

12. Limitation of Liability

12.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Hancock Technologies be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, or hardware damage, arising out of or related to the Software or this Agreement, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

12.2 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or related to this Agreement shall not exceed the amount you actually paid for the Software in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to liability. For the free Clarity tier, for which no fee is paid, we accept no liability beyond what cannot be excluded under the mandatory law applicable to you.

12.3 Mandatory liability preserved. Nothing in this §12 excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the mandatory law applicable to you. Under Swiss law (Art. 100 of the Swiss Code of Obligations), liability for unlawful intent or gross negligence cannot be excluded in advance; under EU consumer law, certain liabilities likewise cannot be excluded against consumers. The limitations in §§12.1–12.2 apply only to the extent permitted.

13. Indemnification

13.1 To the extent permitted by applicable law, and except where you are a consumer and such an obligation would be unenforceable against you, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hancock Technologies from third-party claims arising out of your unlawful use of the Software or your breach of §4.1 or §5.

14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

14.1 This Agreement is governed by the substantive laws of Switzerland, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

14.2 The courts of the seat of Hancock Technologies (Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland) have jurisdiction, subject to §14.3.

14.3 Consumer carve-out. If you are a consumer, this choice of law and forum does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection provisions, or of the right to bring proceedings in the courts, of the country in which you are habitually resident, where applicable law so provides.

15. Changes to this Agreement

15.1 We may update this Agreement for future versions or releases of the Software. Material changes will be presented to you (for example, at install or update) and, where required by law, will apply to your continued use only after notice. Changes do not retroactively alter the terms of a Control licence already purchased in a way that materially reduces your rights, except as required by law.

16. General

16.1 Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the Privacy Policy and any third-party component licences, is the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Software.

16.2 Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed, and the remaining provisions continue in effect.

16.3 No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

16.4 Assignment. We may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. You may transfer a Control licence only as permitted by §4.3.

16.5 Language. This Agreement is provided in English. Where we provide a translation, the English version controls to the extent permitted by mandatory law applicable to you.

17. Contact

Questions about this Agreement may be sent to Hancock Technologies via the contact details published at https://aikonic.app.

18. Licensor Details

Hancock Technologies Switzerland UID: CHE-336.753.966

Appendix A — Enforceability Caveats (Non-Binding Drafting Notes)

This appendix is informational. It records provisions whose enforceability is uncertain because this Agreement has not had professional legal review. It does not form part of the operative terms.

  • §7.2 (Fees / price changes). Consumer-law transparency and price-change rules in the EU and Switzerland may require clearer notice or limit unilateral changes; the clause is drafted to apply only to future purchases to reduce this risk, but its enforceability against consumers is not assured.

  • §12 (Limitation of liability). Broad exclusions of consequential damages and the free-tier liability exclusion are frequently read down against consumers under EU law and under Art. 100 of the Swiss Code of Obligations (no advance exclusion for intent or gross negligence). §12.2 deliberately states the free-tier position as an exclusion subject to mandatory law rather than as a fixed monetary cap, so that a court reads it down to the statutory floor rather than severing a numeric figure; §12.3 preserves mandatory liability. The practical reach of §§12.1–12.2 against a consumer is nonetheless uncertain.

  • §13 (Indemnification). Consumer-facing indemnity obligations are often unenforceable against consumers; §13 is drafted with a consumer carve-out but may still be struck or read down.

  • §14 (Governing law / jurisdiction). A Swiss choice of law and forum cannot deprive a consumer of mandatory protections or home-forum rights under EU and Swiss conflict rules; §14.3 reflects this, but the clause’s effect varies by the consumer’s jurisdiction.

  • General. The warranty disclaimer (§10) and the digital-content refund treatment (§7.4) interact with the EU Digital Content Directive (2019/770) and national consumer law in ways that may limit them. A one-time review by a qualified Swiss/EU practitioner is recommended before relying on any of these clauses in a dispute.

Aikonic End User Licence Agreement — Version 1.0 — 13 June 2026. Hancock Technologies, Switzerland.