QuietSafe End User License Agreement

Publisher: QuietBit Studio

Support contact: quietbitstudio@gmail.com

Effective date: 2026-06-16

License grant

The publisher grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use QuietSafe for personal or business file storage and encryption, subject to this agreement and the Microsoft Store terms that apply to your purchase.

QuietSafe is licensed, not sold. The publisher retains ownership of QuietSafe application code, branding, icons, documentation, and other original materials, except for third-party components listed in the third-party notices.

Third-party components

QuietSafe includes open-source and redistributable third-party components. Their licenses remain in effect and are not replaced by this agreement.

Permitted use

You may use QuietSafe to create encrypted vaults, import files, preview supported file types, export files, and manage your local encrypted data.

You may not reverse engineer, modify, redistribute, resell, or bypass technical protection in QuietSafe except where this restriction is not allowed by law or where third-party open-source licenses explicitly preserve those rights.

Passwords, recovery, and backups

QuietSafe is designed so that the publisher cannot recover your vault password. If you forget the master password, encrypted vault contents may be permanently unrecoverable.

You are responsible for maintaining secure backups of vault files and exported data. QuietSafe is not a cloud backup service.

You understand and agree that the publisher is not responsible for data loss, loss of access to encrypted data, forgotten passwords, damaged vault files, accidental deletion, hardware failure, operating system failure, malware, third-party software behavior, or failed backups.

Data exports

Files exported from QuietSafe are no longer protected by the vault encryption unless you protect them separately. You are responsible for exported files.

User responsibility

You use QuietSafe at your own risk. You are responsible for deciding whether QuietSafe is suitable for your files, devices, workflows, business use, and backup strategy.

Before storing important data only inside QuietSafe, you should test vault creation, unlock, import, export, password changes, backups, and recovery from backup using non-critical data.

• remembering and protecting your master password;
• keeping independent backups of vault files and important exported files;
• verifying that backups can be restored;
• protecting your device from malware, unauthorized access, and hardware failure;
• checking exported files before deleting original data;
• complying with laws and third-party rights that apply to your data.

Security limits

QuietSafe helps protect files at rest inside encrypted vaults. It cannot protect data after you export it, open it in another application, lose control of your device, disclose your password, or install malicious software.

No software can guarantee absolute security, uninterrupted access, or permanent data availability. QuietSafe should not be treated as the only copy of valuable or irreplaceable data.

QuietSafe is not designed for use in safety-critical, life-critical, medical, aviation, emergency, military, nuclear, or other high-risk environments where failure could lead to death, personal injury, severe property damage, or major financial loss.

No illegal use

You may not use QuietSafe for unlawful activity or in a way that violates applicable laws, third-party rights, or Microsoft Store policies.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, QuietSafe is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.

The publisher does not warrant that QuietSafe will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against all threats, compatible with every file, device, Windows version, third-party application, media format, storage device, or backup system, or able to recover data after password loss, file corruption, user error, malware, hardware failure, or operating system failure.

The publisher disclaims all implied warranties, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the publisher is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, loss of business, business interruption, loss of data, loss of access to data, loss of backups, damage to files, cost of substitute services, or claims by third parties arising from or related to QuietSafe.

This limitation applies whether the claim is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, warranty, statute, or any other legal theory, even if the publisher has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the publisher's total aggregate liability for all claims related to QuietSafe is limited to the amount actually paid by the user for QuietSafe through the Microsoft Store and not refunded.

If the purchase price is refunded, the user's license to use QuietSafe may terminate. The publisher is not responsible for continued access to QuietSafe after a refund, unless required by Microsoft Store rules or applicable law.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions or liability limitations. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the publisher harmless from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from your misuse of QuietSafe, unlawful use of QuietSafe, violation of this agreement, violation of third-party rights, or data you choose to store, export, share, or delete.

Third-party services and software

QuietSafe may interact with Windows, file systems, media codecs, document libraries, Qt/PySide6, and other third-party components. The publisher is not responsible for failures, limitations, vulnerabilities, changes, or behavior of third-party software, operating system components, drivers, storage devices, or services outside the publisher's control.

Termination

This license ends if you materially violate this agreement. After termination, you must stop using QuietSafe. Your rights under third-party open-source licenses remain governed by those licenses.

Governing law

This section should be reviewed before publication for the publisher's country and target markets. Consumer protection laws may give users rights that cannot be excluded by this agreement.