End User License Agreement
Effective Nov 12, 2026.
This agreement is between you and Jie Zhang, trading as Chord Ink, the maker of Space (“we” or “us”). By installing or using Space, you agree to it.
The license
When you buy Space, you get a key. The key lets you use Space on one Mac at a time, for personal or business use. To move Space to another Mac, deactivate it in Settings first, while the Mac is online. If 14 days have passed without a successful check, verify the license in Settings first, then deactivate it. If the old Mac is lost, write to support and we free the key.
Plugins that Space installs from its Settings are covered by this agreement too.
What you may not do
You may not sell, rent or share your key or copies of Space, or remove its license check. You may not reverse engineer Space, except where the law allows it.
Activation and checks
Space activates your key with our server, sending the key and a hash of your Mac’s hardware ID, never the ID itself. After that, it checks the license there at least every 14 days with the signed token the server gave it. If 14 days pass without a successful check, Space stops opening files and answering the space bar, and plugins and languages can’t be installed or updated, until it can check again. Your key stays saved, and Space still installs its own updates. If our license server ever closes for good, we’ll release a last update that removes the check, so your license keeps working. The privacy policy has the details.
Updates
Space checks for updates and installs them when you allow it. Updates are covered by this agreement.
Refunds
A refund you ask for ends the license for the keys it covers, and they stop working. This includes a refund that support approves after 7 days. A full refund ends every key in the order. Support may offer a partial refund instead of a full one. If you accept it, your keys keep working, and it counts as the order’s one refund, so you can’t ask for another refund on that order. See the refund policy.
Revoked keys
If you break this agreement, for example by sharing or selling a key or by removing Space’s license check, we can revoke the keys in that order. We can also revoke them when a payment is reversed, such as by a chargeback. A revoked key stops working. If you think we revoked a key by mistake, write to us.
No warranty
Space is provided as it is, without any warranty, as far as the law allows. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, the legal guarantee that digital content matches its description and works as it should still applies to Space. Keep backups of files that matter to you.
Limit of liability
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for any loss of data, profit or other indirect damage from using Space. Our total liability is limited to what you paid for Space.
Changes to this agreement
We may update this agreement. Changes that reduce your rights are posted on this page 30 days before they take effect. Other changes take effect when they are posted. The effective date at the top of this page shows when the current agreement took effect.
Governing law
The laws of the State of Delaware, USA, govern this agreement and any dispute about it or about Space, wherever you or we live, without regard to rules that would apply the laws of another place. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
Disputes go only to the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction.
If you use Space as a consumer, for example in the EU or the UK, this section does not take away the protections that the laws of the country where you live give you and that an agreement cannot waive, or your right to bring a claim in the courts there.