BurnerDocs MCP Terms of Service

Version: 1 · Effective: 13 November 2026 · Previous versions: burnerdocs.dev/terms

The short version (not a substitute for the terms below)

• BurnerDocs MCP converts documents on your own computer. It never sends your documents, their contents, their names or their paths to us.
• Personal use is free. Business use has a free 30-day, one-person trial for evaluation (section 6). Paid business seats under our Business Terms are coming soon.
• The software checks in with us once a day and keeps a pass that lets it work offline for a limited time. When a pass or a 30-day business trial ends without renewal, conversions stop.
• To keep every installation safe, the software removes outdated engine versions from its own cache: 90 days after a newer version, or sooner for a security issue, even after a licence or trial ends (section 5A). You can postpone or choose manual updates.
• The conversion engine is open-source software. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under its licences.
• It comes as is. Our liability is limited, except where the law doesn't allow that. If you're a consumer in the EU or UK, you keep your legal rights.

1. Who we are, and agreeing to these terms

1.1 "We", "us" means Franklin Softworks LLC, a US company (contact: legal@franklinsoftworks.com). "You" means the person who accepts these terms (and, if you start a Business Trial, the business or organisation on whose behalf you are evaluating the Software; you confirm that you have authority to agree to these terms for that trial).

1.2 These terms cover the BurnerDocs MCP software (the "Software"), the keys, passes and engine downloads we provide for it, and our websites burnerdocs.dev, account.burnerdocs.dev and api.burnerdocs.dev (together, the "Service").

1.3 How you accept. You accept these terms by ticking the box and pressing the button on the sign-up page. You must accept these terms yourself. If an AI assistant or other software fills in the page for you, you confirm that you authorised it to accept these terms on your behalf, and that they bind you.

1.4 Age. You must be old enough to make a binding contract where you live (usually 18), or have a parent's or guardian's permission. The Service isn't for children under 13, or under 16 in the European Economic Area and the UK.

1.5 Privacy. How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Notice (burnerdocs.dev/privacy). It is information for you, not part of this contract.

1.6 The code licence. Copying, installing and running the Software's own code is also governed by the BurnerDocs MCP Code Licence (burnerdocs.dev/licenses), which comes with the Software. If the two conflict, these terms apply.

2. Definitions

• Personal Use means use by an individual for their own non-commercial purposes, not for, on behalf of, or paid for by an employer, client or organisation. A student's own coursework and personal projects are Personal Use.
• Business Use means any use that isn't Personal Use. That includes use by or for a company, a sole trader or freelancer, a non-profit, a school or university (other than a student's own coursework), or a public body.
• Business Trial means the free 30-day, one-person evaluation licence for Business Use in section 6.
• Engine means the conversion engine (LibreOffice compiled to WebAssembly, with the libraries and fonts it uses) that the Software downloads from us. It's open-source software (section 4).
• Key means the licence key we issue to you. Pass means the signed, time-limited permission the Software gets when it checks in (section 5).
• Seat and Business Terms have the meanings in our Business Terms (burnerdocs.dev/business-terms).

3. Your licence

3.1 Personal licence (free). If you signed in and declared Personal Use, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Software and the Service for Personal Use, on up to 3 computers you use yourself in any 30 days. A fourth new computer within 30 days can't get a Pass until one of the others has been unused for 30 days; the computers already in use keep working. YOUR RIGHT TO USE THE SOFTWARE ON A COMPUTER RUNS IN SUCCESSIVE PERIODS, EACH ENDING ON THE END DATE OF THE PASS THE SOFTWARE HOLDS (CURRENTLY 30 DAYS AFTER IT IS ISSUED; SEE SECTION 5). EACH RENEWAL STARTS A NEW PERIOD. Your continuing right is to receive Passes and downloads from our Service while these terms are in force.

3.2 Business Trial (free, 30 days, one person). If you signed in and declared Business Use on the sign-up page, we grant a non-exclusive, non-transferable Business Trial licence for one person to use the Software and the Service to evaluate them for your business or organisation, for the 30-day trial period and on the terms in section 6.

3.3 Business use beyond the trial needs seats. Except during a valid Business Trial (section 6), Business Use needs a paid Seat for each person, under our Business Terms (paid business plans are coming soon). You may not use a personal Key, or more than one Business Trial, for Business Use.

3.4 Your declaration. When you sign up, you tell us whether your use is Personal or Business. Please answer truthfully, and tell us if it changes. A false declaration breaches these terms.

3.5 Licensed, not sold. The Software's own code is licensed to you, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights we don't expressly grant. This doesn't apply to the Engine, whose licences give you their own rights (section 4).

3.6 Your documents and output. Your documents and converted files are yours; we claim no rights in them. Converting between formats can't always be exact, so the Software lists warnings with each result. Check important output yourself.

3.7 Your AI assistant. The Software runs on your computer and converts there. The AI assistant that calls it (for example a desktop chat app) is someone else's software. It may read your documents and send them to its own provider, under that provider's terms. We don't control that.

3.8 Fonts you add. If you point the Software at your own fonts, you're responsible for having the right to use them.

4. The open-source Engine

4.1 The Engine is open-source software under its own licences: the Mozilla Public License 2.0, the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later, and, for the PDF-import modules, the GNU General Public License version 3, together with the licences of the libraries and fonts it includes. The full texts and notices are at burnerdocs.dev/licenses. The complete corresponding source code for every Engine release is at github.com/franklin-softworks/probablyfine-document-converter-corresponding-source.

4.2 Nothing in these terms limits your rights under those licences. In particular, you may copy, modify and share the Engine as its licences allow, including modifying it and reverse-engineering it to debug your modifications. Where these terms seem to say otherwise for the Engine, the open-source licence prevails.

4.3 The Software only runs Engine releases that we have signed. That's a feature of our Software, not a limit on your rights in the Engine.

5. HOW THE LICENCE CHECK WORKS

5.1 THE SOFTWARE CONTAINS A LICENCE CHECK. You agree that we may use it, as described here:

• (a) The Software checks in with our licence service about once a day, and when it needs Engine files. What it sends is listed in our Privacy Notice and shown by the Software. It never sends your documents, their contents, their names or their paths.
• (b) Each successful check-in gives the Software a Pass. The Pass states its own end date, currently up to 30 days after it is issued. For a Business Trial, it never runs beyond the end of the Trial (section 6). For a business Seat, it never runs beyond the end of the paid term plus 14 days. This lets the Software work offline until then.
• (c) WHEN A PASS REACHES ITS END DATE WITHOUT BEING RENEWED, THE SOFTWARE STOPS CONVERTING until it gets a new Pass.
• (d) We renew Passes while your licence continues and the Software can reach us.

5.2 The licence check never reads, changes, blocks or deletes your own files, documents or data.

5.3 We may replace an earlier version of the Software or Engine files when we deliver a new version you install or the Software downloads.

5A. SECURITY UPDATES AND THE LIFETIME OF ENGINE VERSIONS

TO KEEP EVERY INSTALLATION SAFE, YOU AGREE THAT:

• (a) EACH VERSION OF THE ENGINE FILES THE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS EXPIRES 90 DAYS AFTER WE PUBLISH A NEWER VERSION.
• (b) IF WE LIST A VERSION IN A SIGNED SECURITY ADVISORY, IT EXPIRES WHEN THE SOFTWARE NEXT SEES THE ADVISORY.
• (c) WHEN A VERSION EXPIRES, THE SOFTWARE STOPS USING IT AND DELETES ITS UNMODIFIED COPY FROM ITS CACHE FOLDER. IF YOU HAVE A CURRENT LICENCE, THE SOFTWARE FIRST DOWNLOADS AND VERIFIES THE NEWER VERSION.
• (d) THIS APPLIES TO EVERY INSTALLATION IN THE SAME WAY, INCLUDING AFTER A LICENCE OR TRIAL HAS ENDED.
• (e) IF A SECURITY ADVISORY LISTS THE SOFTWARE'S OWN VERSION, IT STOPS CONVERTING AND TELLS YOU HOW TO UPDATE.
• (f) YOUR CHOICES: YOU CAN POSTPONE AN UPDATE UNTIL THE END OF THE 90 DAYS, OR CHOOSE MANUAL UPDATES. WITH MANUAL UPDATES THE SOFTWARE DOESN'T DOWNLOAD OR DELETE ENGINE VERSIONS AUTOMATICALLY, BUT IT STOPS RUNNING A SUPERSEDED VERSION 90 DAYS AFTER A NEWER ONE IS PUBLISHED, AND A VERSION LISTED IN A SECURITY ADVISORY AT ONCE, UNTIL YOU UPDATE.
• (g) IF YOU TURN OFF UPDATE CHECKS, THE SOFTWARE STOPS FETCHING OUR PUBLIC LIST OF VERSIONS AND ADVISORIES. A LICENSED INSTALLATION STILL RECEIVES THAT INFORMATION WITH ITS LICENCE CHECK-IN, AND APPLIES (a) TO (f). AN INSTALLATION WITHOUT A CURRENT LICENCE DOESN'T RUN THE ENGINE AT ALL.

The Software never deletes or changes your documents, converted files, fonts, settings or logs. It never deletes or changes anything outside its own cache folder. Inside that folder it deletes only engine files that exactly match a version we published. Any engine file that doesn't match (for example one you have modified, or one that is damaged) is moved to a quarantine folder inside the cache. It is never run there, and never deleted, so you can keep it or remove it yourself. The Software never deletes itself. It does this housekeeping only while it's running. We'll tell you in the Software's messages before a version expires (at least 14 days ahead, except for security advisories) and when it is removed. Our security advisories and support policy are at burnerdocs.dev/security.

The engine is open-source software. This cache policy applies only to the unmodified copies in the Software's own cache folder. You may copy the engine files elsewhere, modify them, and keep and use them under their licences.

6. BUSINESS TRIAL

6.1 Evaluation use by one person for 30 days. A Business Trial lets one person (one seat) use the Software and Service to evaluate them for your business or organisation, on up to 3 computers you use yourself in any 30 days (a fourth new computer within 30 days can't get a Pass until one of the others has been unused for 30 days; existing computers keep working). THE BUSINESS TRIAL LASTS 30 DAYS FROM WHEN YOUR TRIAL KEY IS ISSUED (unless we extend its end date at your request).

6.2 One trial per account. We offer one Business Trial per account. Deleting your account and signing up again does not give a second Business Trial: when an account is deleted, our deletion tombstone records that the account already had a Business Trial (see our Privacy Notice).

6.3 No charge, and no promise of a paid plan or future prices. The Business Trial is free. Paid business plans are coming soon and are not yet open for purchase. Starting a Business Trial does not oblige you to buy anything, and it does not oblige us to offer a paid plan, any particular features, or any particular price when paid business plans open. Nothing on our website, in the Software or in our emails is a promise of a future price or of a paid plan.

6.4 How the Business Trial ends. WHEN YOUR 30-DAY BUSINESS TRIAL ENDS (OR AT THE END OF ANY EXTENSION WE GRANT), WE STOP RENEWING YOUR TRIAL KEY AND PASS, YOUR PASS EXPIRES, AND THE SOFTWARE STOPS CONVERTING, showing a message with our sales contact (support@franklinsoftworks.com and burnerdocs.dev/business). Ending a Business Trial never deletes or changes your documents, converted files, fonts, settings or logs, and does not delete the Engine (the normal security-update and version-lifetime rules in section 5A still apply).

7. Using the Service fairly

You agree not to:

• (a) share, publish or sell your Key or Passes, or let anyone else use them, except as the Business Terms allow;
• (b) use a personal Key for Business Use, or obtain more than one Business Trial (including by creating multiple accounts or deleting and re-creating an account);
• (c) interfere with, overload, probe or attack our servers, or access them other than through the Software or our websites;
• (d) use the Service in breach of any law, including sanctions and export laws (section 13);
• (e) misrepresent who you are, or your Personal or Business status;
• (f) copy, modify or run the Software to build, improve or provide a product or service that competes with BurnerDocs MCP. This doesn't stop you independently developing competing software without copying our code, and it doesn't limit your rights in the open-source Engine.

This section doesn't restrict anything the Engine's open-source licences allow you to do with the Engine.

8. When your licence ends

8.1 You can stop at any time. Uninstall the Software, and close your account from your account page (or ask us).

8.2 Business Trial. A Business Trial licence ends automatically at the end of its 30-day period, or at the end of any extension we grant (section 6).

8.3 Ending a personal licence or Business Trial for any reason. WE MAY END YOUR PERSONAL LICENCE OR BUSINESS TRIAL, OR STOP OFFERING FREE LICENCES OR TRIALS, BY GIVING YOU AT LEAST 30 DAYS' NOTICE BY EMAIL (OR UNTIL THE END OF YOUR BUSINESS TRIAL, IF SOONER). After the notice period we stop renewing your Pass, and your current Pass runs to its end date.

8.4 If you break these terms. If you materially break these terms, for example by using a personal Key for Business Use or sharing your Key:

• (a) we may stop renewing your Pass and stop serving downloads and check-ins for your Key;
• (b) we don't remotely disable or delete the Software or the Engine on your computer because of a breach. Your current Pass runs to its end date;
• (c) unless the law prevents it, we'll tell you by email what we think you did, and you can reply within 14 days. If you put it right, or show we were wrong, we'll restore renewal;
• (d) where the law requires us to stop at once (for example sanctions law), we will.

8.5 Leaked keys. If your Key appears to be exposed, we may issue you a new one and stop renewing the old one.

8.6 Business seat keys (when paid business plans open) are governed by the Business Terms.

8.7 After your licence ends, the Software stops converting when its last Pass ends. Engine files stay on your computer, except under the version-lifetime rules (section 5A), and you may delete them. Your rights under the Engine's licences continue. Sections 3.5, 4, 5A, 6.3, 9 to 15 and 17 survive.

9. Fees

The Personal licence and the Business Trial are free. Paid Seats (when available) will be offered under the Business Terms. We may start charging for something that is free today, or change our prices, but only for the future and after at least 30 days' notice by email (see also sections 8.3 and 10.1). We'll never charge you unless you agree to pay. Nothing on our website, in the Software or in our emails is a promise of a future price or of a paid plan.

10. Changes

10.1 Changes to the Software or Service. We improve and change the Software and Service. If a change would materially reduce what you get under a free licence, we'll tell you at least 30 days ahead, unless we have to act sooner for security or legal reasons.

10.2 Changes to these terms. If we change these terms materially, we'll tell you at least 30 days before the change, by email if we have your address and through the Software's messages. You'll be asked to accept the new version before your next Pass renewal after the change takes effect. If you don't accept, we stop renewing your Pass, and your current Pass runs to its end date. Minor changes (wording, contact details, changes that only benefit you) take effect when posted. Every version stays available at burnerdocs.dev/terms.

10.3 If you're a consumer in the EU, section 16 adds to this.

11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

EXCEPT AS SECTION 16 OR THE LAW REQUIRES, THE SOFTWARE, THE ENGINE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR SYSTEM INTEGRATION. EXCEPT FOR EXPRESS WARRANTIES STATED IN THESE TERMS, IF ANY, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITH ALL FAULTS, AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU. THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT THIS INFORMATION, OUR EFFORTS, OR THE SYSTEM WILL FULFILL ANY OF YOUR PARTICULAR PURPOSES OR NEEDS. THERE IS NO WARRANTY AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE INFORMATION OR AGAINST INFRINGEMENT. WE DON'T WARRANT THAT CONVERSIONS WILL BE EXACT, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

12.1 TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, AND EXCEPT AS SECTION 16 PROVIDES:

• (a) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL;
• (b) FOR THE FREE PERSONAL LICENCE AND THE FREE BUSINESS TRIAL, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IS LIMITED TO US$50;
• (c) FOR BUSINESS SEATS, THE BUSINESS TERMS SET THE LIMIT.

12.2 THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITS IN THIS SECTION ARE INDEPENDENT OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY IN THESE TERMS, AND APPLY EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

12.3 Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or any other liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited.

13. Sanctions and export

13.1 You confirm that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or acting for anyone in a country or region subject to comprehensive US sanctions (currently Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and the Crimea, so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic regions of Ukraine). You also confirm that you are not on, or owned or controlled by anyone on, a US government restricted-party list such as OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals list.

13.2 You won't export or re-export the Software in breach of US or other applicable export or sanctions laws.

13.3 We may refuse, suspend or end the Service where these laws require. We don't offer the Service in the regions listed in 13.1. As a matter of our own policy, we currently also don't offer the Service in Russia or Belarus.

14. Governing law and disputes

14.1 These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, USA, and applicable US federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods doesn't apply.

14.2 Disputes go to the state or federal courts located in Maryland. Either of us may instead bring a claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction.

14.3 If you're a consumer, you keep any right to bring proceedings in the courts where you live, and the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live (section 16). If you live in Switzerland, Swiss law applies to these terms to the extent Swiss private international law requires.

14.4 There's no mandatory arbitration.

14.5 If you live in a US state whose law doesn't let a contract choose the law of a state that has adopted the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, your state's law governs these terms to the extent its law requires.

15. General

15.1 Entire agreement. These terms (with the Business Terms, if you have Seats, and the Code Licence) are the whole agreement about the Service.

15.2 Severability. If any part is unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and that part is applied as far as the law allows.

15.3 Transfer. You may not transfer these terms. We may transfer them to someone who takes over the Service, if your rights aren't reduced. We'll tell you if that happens.

15.4 No waiver. Not enforcing a term isn't a waiver of it.

15.5 Notices. We give notices by email to the address on your account, through the Software's messages, or on burnerdocs.dev. You agree to receive them electronically. Send notices to us at legal@franklinsoftworks.com.

15.6 Language. These terms are in English. Any translation is for convenience.

15.7 Events beyond control. Neither of us is liable for delays caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

16. Consumers in the European Union, the EEA and the United Kingdom

This section applies if you are a consumer living in the EU, the EEA or the UK (using the Personal licence, since a Business Trial is for Business Use), and it prevails over anything else in these terms.

16.1 Your legal rights. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under the consumer law of the country where you live, which can't be excluded by contract. Sections 11 and 12 apply only as far as that law allows.

16.2 EU: digital content provided in exchange for personal data. Where the Personal licence is supplied in exchange for personal data, the EU rules on digital content apply (Directive (EU) 2019/770, as implemented where you live):

• (a) we'll provide the Software and Service as described, keep them in conformity, and provide the updates, including security updates, needed to keep them in conformity for as long as we provide the Service to you;
• (b) if they aren't in conformity, you can ask us to bring them into conformity, free of charge and within a reasonable time. If we don't, or can't, or the problem is serious, you can end the contract. Because the Personal licence has no price, you can end it even for a minor lack of conformity;
• (c) we'll change the Software or Service beyond what's needed for conformity only for a valid reason: for example security, legal requirements, technical changes, or improving or adapting the Service. Such changes cost you nothing, and we'll tell you about them clearly in advance, by email (a durable medium). If a change has more than a minor negative effect on your use, you can end the contract free of charge within 30 days of the change or our notice, whichever is later;
• (d) when the contract ends, we'll stop using the personal data you gave us, except as the GDPR allows (see our Privacy Notice).

16.3 Right of withdrawal (EU). We start supplying the Service as soon as you receive your Key. Under EU law, the 14-day right of withdrawal from a contract for digital content ends once supply has begun. You can still stop using the Service and close your account at any time (section 8.1).

16.4 UK. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights. Where the law makes us responsible for damage to your device or other digital content caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill (Consumer Rights Act 2015, s.46), we remain responsible.

16.5 Who we are. Franklin Softworks LLC, 306 W Redwood St, Ste 201, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, legal@franklinsoftworks.com. Complaints: legal@franklinsoftworks.com. We aim to reply within 14 days.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@franklinsoftworks.com.

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