JEP Terms and Licence

1. Who supplies JEP and when these terms apply

JEP (Just Enough Privacy) is supplied by Mark Wright, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Contact help@justenoughprivacy.com. These terms cover the free and paid app. Accept them in the app before setup or normal use. Downloading or buying alone is not the app's acceptance step.

If you decline, you can quit or authenticate to restore, recover and remove already-managed folders and prepare to uninstall. Existing relock and recovery safety operations continue while JEP is running and at startup. Using those limited functions does not mean you accept new terms.

2. Your licence

JEP is proprietary software, licensed rather than sold. You receive a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for lawful use on computers you reasonably own or control. One licence is for one person; do not share a key publicly or across an organization. Contact us about household or small-team use. We do not enforce a machine count. Mac and Windows are separate platform licences, tied to your email rather than a specific machine.

A paid licence is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. All version 1 updates are included. A future major version may be a paid upgrade; upgrading is optional. The free tier has no trial expiry and permits one locked folder with no subfolders. The same terms, warranty qualifications and liability limits apply to free and paid users.

Use JEP only on folders you are entitled to manage. Do not distribute, resell, sublicense or repackage JEP, share your key, or circumvent free-tier limits. These restrictions do not limit rights that applicable law gives you. Third-party components remain governed by their own licences and bundled notices; this proprietary licence does not replace or restrict those rights.

3. Understand the file risks

JEP hides and scrambles selected folders for casual local concealment. The recommended default, Hide + scramble names, modifies filenames, folder names and visibility metadata in place while leaving file contents unchanged. Someone who finds those files may still recognize, preview and open them. Existing installations keep their saved concealment setting. JEP is not a backup product. You must maintain independent, usable backups of files you manage with it.

Optional content scrambling modifies the first 8 bytes, 4 KB or 64 KB of each file in place. This can make file types, previews and some content harder to recognize, but does not guarantee that result or conceal the rest of larger files. Interrupted writes or interference from other software can damage files. Keep independent, usable backups before enabling these options.

Software defects, interruption, hardware, storage or filesystem failures, unavailable volumes, and interference from other software or people can cause incomplete operations, corruption, inaccessible files, data loss or private-file exposure. Close files before locking and check reported results. Use beta and test builds with additional caution and only independently backed-up or disposable files.

JEP is not encryption, a secure vault, forensic protection, administrator/root access control, malware protection, secure deletion or full-disk protection. Its scrambling is deliberately weak. The PIN is stored in plaintext in local app data; someone with access to that data can retrieve it. Do not rely on JEP for high-stakes security.

External copies, backups, cloud history and existing previews or search indexes are outside JEP's control. Hiding and scrambling a selected folder does not remove those copies or guarantee that files cannot be recognized, found or accessed. macOS or Windows changes, Finder or Explorer, Spotlight or Windows Search, antivirus tools, backup and cloud-sync clients, NAS/SMB implementations, removable storage and filesystem drivers can interfere with JEP's operation. JEP cannot control those systems or guarantee compatibility with every configuration.

Automatic relocking runs in-process while JEP is open, with recovery and catch-up attempts at startup. There is no external watchdog or scheduled relock service. Relocking can fail or be delayed by app or operating-system failure, sleep or shutdown, files held open, filesystem errors, device failure or an unavailable volume. Quitting may leave files exposed if locking fails or you choose to quit without locking.

Every clean lock must include a usable .jep-recovery sidecar. This is an engineering requirement, not a guarantee of successful recovery. Recovery features reduce risk but cannot guarantee restoration after damage, missing metadata or other failures. Re-adoption after reinstall needs intact recovery information and the same PIN. The sidecar is not a substitute for the PIN or an independent backup. If local app data remains readable, the stored PIN can be retrieved; otherwise recovery may be impossible.

4. Refunds

You may request a refund within 14 days of purchase, no questions asked. Email help@justenoughprivacy.com with your Gumroad order number or use the refund request link in your receipt. Gumroad processes checkout refunds; bank processing times vary.

This voluntary policy supplements your statutory rights. After 14 days, additional voluntary refunds are discretionary; mandatory refund rights and other remedies remain available. A refund ends the paid licence. JEP does not remotely alter, disable or lock your folders. Restore and remove managed folders before deleting the app; contact us if you need help.

5. Warranties and liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits mandatory consumer rights, warranties, refunds or remedies under applicable law. The exclusions and cap below apply only to the extent that law permits.

Subject to those protections and our express commitments in these terms, JEP is provided "as is" and "as available", without other express or implied warranties, including merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation, complete security, compatibility with every filesystem or storage configuration, successful concealment or relocking, or recovery of every file.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude liability for data corruption or loss, inability to access files, private-file exposure, failed concealment or relocking, lost profits, business interruption, and indirect, consequential, incidental or special damages arising from JEP.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, our aggregate liability arising out of JEP or the applicable licence, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, is capped at the greater of the amount actually paid for that licence or CAD $50. This cap applies to both free and paid users.

These exclusions and this cap do not apply to fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence or liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited. They do not reduce the refunds we promise above or any mandatory remedy.

6. Ending use

We may end a paid licence after a material breach, refund or payment dispute, which may prevent future paid activation. This does not give us remote access to your app or folders or delete local recovery information. You retain the limited access described in section 1 to restore, recover and remove managed folders and stop using JEP.

7. Governing law and changes

The laws of Prince Edward Island and the applicable laws of Canada govern these terms, subject to mandatory protections that apply where you live. Nothing here takes away available proceedings, courts or remedies in your jurisdiction. You may contact us about a dispute, but doing so is not a prerequisite to exercising your rights.

Material revisions require renewed affirmative acceptance before normal use. Routine app updates do not require acceptance when the terms version is unchanged. New terms apply prospectively upon acceptance, not to earlier events or claims. If you decline a revision, the limited restoration and safety access described above remains available.

JEP keeps the accepted version, exact wording and acceptance timestamp locally. Settings provides offline access to the terms and accepted copies. The local record is not tamper-proof and does not by itself establish legal enforceability.