Terms of Sale and Licence
Last updated 14 October 2026
The short version. You buy Fovea once and it is yours to keep. Nothing renews and nothing auto-charges.
1. Who you are dealing with
Fovea is made by Deemz IT, Schuytstraat 25, 2517 XB The Hague, Netherlands (referred to below as "we" and "us"). Our full details are on the legal notice. By downloading, installing or using Fovea you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the software.
2. The trial
You can run the complete application free for 14 days. No card and no account are required.
When the 14 days are up the application stops unlocking until you buy a licence. Nothing you made is lost: your culling decisions, tags and develop settings are stored in sidecar files next to your originals on your own disk, and they are still there whenever you come back.
3. What you are buying
Fovea is sold as a one-time purchase, per major version. Payment gives you a licence key and a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use that major version of Fovea.
- You keep it. The version you bought continues to work indefinitely. There is no subscription and no kill switch.
- Future major versions are a separate purchase. Your key unlocks the major version you bought.
- The licence is for your own use. Please do not publish, share or resell your key. We may deactivate keys that are shared or used beyond reasonable personal use.
You are buying a licence to use the software, not the software itself. We keep all intellectual property in Fovea, its name and its design.
4. Your photographs are yours
We claim no ownership of, and no rights over, anything you photograph, import or edit. Photo analysis and editing happen locally on your Mac. We do not upload your photographs. See the privacy policy for exactly what happens.
5. Fair use of the service
When using Fovea, please do not:
- submit photographs you do not have the right to use, or content that is unlawful;
- tamper with licence validation;
- resell, sublicense or rebrand the service, or use it to build a competing product;
- attempt to overload, probe or disrupt our servers.
If a licence is used this way we may suspend or terminate it. Where the breach is minor and fixable we will get in touch first.
6. Paying
Purchases are processed by Polar, who act as Merchant of Record. They are the seller for the transaction, they handle payment and they account for VAT and sales tax. Their terms apply to the payment itself alongside these terms. Prices shown include tax where applicable.
7. Availability
Culling, the library and the whole develop module run entirely on your Mac and work offline, without a connection once activated.
If a previously purchased service is discontinued, we will refund the unused portion. Contact us with your receipt.
8. Warranties and liability
Fovea is provided "as is". To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim connected to Fovea is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost time, or lost or damaged photographs.
Fovea is non-destructive by design and never writes over your original files, but no software is perfect. Keep backups of your photographs.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for your statutory rights as a consumer. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, your mandatory legal rights are unaffected by anything written here.
9. Ending the agreement
You can stop using Fovea at any time and deactivate your licence from inside the app. We may terminate a licence if these terms are seriously breached. If we terminate without cause, we will refund a fair share of what you paid.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms for future purchases or for material changes in the service. The version that applies to your purchase is the one published when you bought. We will not retroactively take away rights you paid for.
11. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts.
If something goes wrong, please email us first. Most things are fixable in one message.