This is the agreement between you and Zero-Point Ventures, LLC for the Transom app. It is short on purpose. Downloading, installing, or using Transom means you accept it. If you don't, don't install it, and if you already did, delete it and nothing further is owed either way.
Transom is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. There is no account, no server holding your data, and nothing to cancel. What we owe you is a working app and honest answers; what you owe us is not reselling it. The rest of this page is the detail behind those two sentences.
What your license covers
One license is for one person, on up to three Macs you personally use. Work Mac, home Mac, the laptop you travel with, that's the shape of it. The license is yours, not the machine's; replace a Mac and the license moves with you.
The app itself stays ours. You're buying the right to use it, not ownership of the code, the name, or the logo.
The trial
Seven days, free, no card, every feature unlocked. Nothing charges automatically at the end because we never had your card. When the seven days are up, Transom asks for a license key and stops triaging until it gets one; your VIP lists and settings stay exactly where you left them, so a key entered later picks up where you stopped.
Paying, and refunds
Transom is $29 once, in US dollars. Checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy, who is the merchant of record: they take the payment, handle any sales tax or VAT, and their terms cover the transaction itself. They pass us your name, email, and license key so we can support you, which is all we ever hold.
If you buy and change your mind within 14 days, email us and we refund it. No forms, no exit survey, no asking you to justify it. The seven-day trial is there so it rarely comes to that, and the refund window is there because a trial can't tell you everything. Where your local consumer law gives you a longer or stronger right, that law wins over this paragraph.
Updates
Transom checks for updates and installs them with your say-so. Updates within version 1 are included in what you paid, and we don't promise a schedule; some months bring several, some bring none. If a future major version is ever a paid upgrade, we'll say so plainly before it ships, never by quietly disabling what you already bought. We may change or retire individual features as macOS changes underneath us; the changelog records every one of those.
Your data, and your Mac
Transom runs entirely on your Mac and keeps what it knows there. What that means in detail is on the privacy page, and it is part of this agreement. Two things follow from it: we cannot recover your settings, VIP lists, or notification history if you lose them, because we never had a copy, and the permissions you grant, Full Disk Access above all, are yours to grant and yours to revoke in System Settings whenever you want.
The local API
Transom can accept cards from your own scripts, Shortcuts, and apps through the transom:// URL scheme and a local HTTP endpoint that listens only on your Mac's loopback address. It's documented in the API docs and it's yours to use freely, including in commercial tools you build.
If you bring your own AI key
Reply suggestions are off until you turn them on and add a key from a provider you chose. That account is between you and them: their terms, their privacy policy, their bill. Transom sends the message you're replying to and gets a suggestion back; it doesn't add a markup, doesn't proxy the request through us, and doesn't see the response. We can't be responsible for what a model writes, what it costs you, or a provider changing its pricing or shutting a model off. A local model on your Mac is the same deal without the network.
Services we don't control
Email VIPs talk to Google with credentials you supply. Live lyrics come from lrclib.net. Checkout and license validation run through Lemon Squeezy. macOS itself owns Messages, Contacts, Calendar, and the permission prompts. Any of them can change an interface, rate-limit us, or go down, and when that happens the affected feature stops working until we adapt. We'll adapt as fast as we can, but we can't warrant somebody else's service, and an outage on their side isn't a defect in yours.
What we don't promise
Transom is provided as it is. We've tested the triage rules hard because getting them wrong is the whole failure mode, but we can't promise the app is free of bugs, that it will never miss a message, or that it fits a particular purpose you have in mind. Don't rely on it as the only path for anything where a missed message is dangerous, medical alerts, on-call paging, safety systems. It's a filter on top of macOS notifications, not a replacement for them.
Limits on liability
To the extent the law allows it, our total liability to you for anything connected to Transom is capped at what you paid for it, and we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses: lost profits, lost data, a missed message and what followed from it. Some places don't allow limits like this, and where that's true, this paragraph applies only as far as it legally can.
Ending it
You can stop at any time by deleting the app; nothing to cancel, nothing to notify. We can end a license if it's being resold, shared broadly, or used to work around payment, and we'd contact you first unless it's plainly deliberate. If we ever stop selling or supporting Transom, the copy you have keeps running, and we'll say so on the site rather than letting you find out.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change in a way that matters, this page and its date change with it, and material changes get a note in the app's release notes. Changes apply going forward, never retroactively to a purchase you already made.
The legal footing
This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute belongs in the state or federal courts located in Florida. If a court finds one part of this unenforceable, the rest still stands. This page and the privacy policy are the entire agreement between us about Transom, and they replace anything said earlier.