Terms of service
The agreement covering the DreamSheets application, your license, DreamSheets Cloud, and the dreamsheets.app website.
Last updated: 13 August 2026
These terms are an agreement between you and [LEGAL ENTITY NAME — e.g. "DreamSheets, Inc., a Delaware corporation"] of [BUSINESS ADDRESS] ("DreamSheets", "we", "us"). They cover:
- the DreamSheets application you download and install;
- DreamSheets Cloud, the optional paid service for storage, sync, sharing, collaboration and version history;
- the dreamsheets.app website, including the browser editor and your account pages.
By downloading, installing or using any of these, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use DreamSheets.
Section 17 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class action waiver that affect your legal rights. Please read it. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days.
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to accept these terms. DreamSheets is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.
If you are agreeing on behalf of a company or other organization, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organization.
You agree that we may provide notices, agreements and disclosures to you electronically — by email, through your account, or in the application — and that those satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing.
1. The free trial
The application runs a 7-day trial of all desktop features. No account, payment card or personal detail is required to start it. The trial period is measured on your own device from first launch.
When the trial ends you need a license to continue using paid features. You may not attempt to restart or extend the trial by reinstalling, altering configuration files or manipulating your system clock.
2. Your desktop license
2.1 What you get
When you buy a desktop license we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the application:
- for your own purposes, personal or commercial;
- on [NUMBER — recommend 3] devices that you own or primarily use;
- by one individual per license. A license is for a named person, not a shared credential.
Organizations needing more than one user should buy one license per user, or contact us about volume licensing.
2.2 Updates
Your license includes updates within the major version you bought — for example, every 1.x release if you bought version 1. Future major versions may be a separate purchase. We are not obligated to release any particular update, or to keep supporting older versions indefinitely.
The application checks for updates and can install them when you quit. You may turn this off, but running an outdated version is at your own risk, including for security fixes.
2.3 What you may not do
You may not: resell, rent, lease, sublicense, or redistribute the application or your license key; share your license key publicly or with people outside your license; remove or circumvent the licensing mechanism; remove copyright or attribution notices; or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software.
The reverse engineering restriction does not apply where, and to the extent that, applicable law gives you a right that cannot be waived by contract, including any rights you have under the open-source licenses covering components included in the application.
2.4 The license is not a sale
The software is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in it, including all intellectual property rights. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
3. Prices, payment, taxes and refunds
3.1 Payment
Prices are shown at checkout in the stated currency. Payment is processed by Stripe on its own hosted checkout page; card details never reach our systems. You authorize us and Stripe to charge the payment method you provide, and you confirm you are authorized to use it.
3.2 Taxes
Prices exclude sales, use, VAT, GST and similar taxes, which are added at checkout where we are required to collect them. You are responsible for any other taxes arising from your purchase, other than taxes on our income.
3.3 Refunds
We will refund a desktop license within [NUMBER — recommend 30] days of purchase if DreamSheets is not right for you. Email us and say so; you do not have to give a reason. On refund, your license key is deactivated and you must stop using the software.
Cloud subscriptions may be canceled at any time and stop at the end of the billing period you have already paid for. We do not refund partial months except where the law requires it.
Except as stated here or required by law, all payments are final.
3.4 Price changes
We may change prices. A change never affects a desktop license you have already bought. For a cloud subscription we will give at least 30 days' notice by email before a price change takes effect, and you may cancel before it does.
4. DreamSheets Cloud
4.1 What it is
Cloud is an optional paid subscription providing document storage, sync across devices, sharing, real-time collaborative editing and version history. The desktop application works fully without it, and your documents remain ordinary files on your own computer.
4.2 Development status
Cloud features are under active development. Individual features may change, be withdrawn, or behave unpredictably. Where a feature is labeled beta, preview or experimental, it is provided as-is without any service commitment and you should not rely on it for critical work.
4.3 Automatic renewal and cancellation
A cloud subscription renews automatically. You are charged [$5.99] per month, in advance, to the payment method on file, and the subscription continues until you cancel it. We will send you an acknowledgment of your subscription, including these renewal terms and how to cancel, when you sign up.
You may cancel at any time, online and without contacting us, from your account page at dreamsheets.app/account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.
If we change the renewal price or terms, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before the change takes effect.
4.4 Availability
We aim to keep Cloud available and reliable, but we do not offer a service level agreement, and access may be interrupted by maintenance, third-party failures or events outside our control. Because DreamSheets is local-first, an outage does not stop you working on your local files.
4.5 If your subscription ends
You may download or export your documents at any time while the subscription is live, and you should do so before it ends. After it ends we will keep your stored documents in a read-only state for [NUMBER — recommend 30] days so you can retrieve them, then delete them. We are not a backup service: keep your own copies of anything important.
4.6 Fair use
Cloud is priced for ordinary professional use. We may apply reasonable limits on storage, document size, transfer volume or collaborator count, and will tell you before doing anything that would affect you. Automated bulk use, resale of the service, or use as general-purpose file hosting is not permitted.
5. Your content
5.1 It stays yours
You own everything you create, import or upload — your documents, data, formulas, scripts and plugins. We claim no ownership.
5.2 The permission we need
If you use Cloud, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, transmit, back up, retain versions of and display your documents, and to make them available to the people you choose to share them with. This license exists solely to operate the service you asked for, and it ends when you delete the content or close your account, subject to routine backups being overwritten on their normal cycle.
We do not inspect, index, mine, sell or publish your documents, and we do not use them to train machine learning or AI models.
5.3 You are responsible for it
You are responsible for your content: that you have the right to hold and upload it, that it does not infringe anyone's rights or break any law, and that where it contains personal information about other people you have a lawful basis for handling it. Where you store such data in Cloud, you are the data controller and we are your processor — see the privacy policy and, for business customers, our data processing agreement.
5.4 Sharing and collaboration
When you share a document you decide who gets access and at what level. Anyone you grant edit access can change the document, and their changes may overwrite yours. Version history helps you recover, but it is your responsibility to share carefully.
6. Acceptable use
You must not use DreamSheets or Cloud to: break any law or regulation; store or distribute malware; infringe intellectual property or privacy rights; harass or harm others; gain unauthorized access to any system, including ours; probe, scan or load-test our infrastructure without written permission; or circumvent our licensing, quotas or access controls.
Security researchers acting in good faith under our published disclosure policy are welcome, and we will not treat that work as a breach of these terms or pursue claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or its state equivalents for it.
7. Services and code you connect yourself
DreamSheets is built to connect to things you already use. Those connections are your own relationships, not ours.
- AI providers. You supply your own API key and your use is governed by your agreement with that provider, including whatever it does with what you send. We do not proxy, log or see those requests. AI output can be wrong; see section 8.
- External databases and cloud storage. You supply the credentials and are responsible for having authority to use them, and for anything the connection does to the systems at the other end.
- Plugins and scripts. Plugins, custom functions and Python or R scripts run on your own machine with the permissions you grant. Third-party plugins are the work and responsibility of their authors, who set their own terms. We do not review, endorse or warrant them. Install code only from sources you trust.
- Sample and bundled plugins we ship are provided as examples, as-is.
We are not liable for third-party services, third-party code, or the loss of anything caused by them.
8. Accuracy, verification and reliance
Read this section carefully — it matters more for a spreadsheet than most terms do.
DreamSheets computes formulas, imports and exports Excel workbooks, runs SQL and scripts, solves optimization models and can generate content with AI. All of this can produce results that are wrong, incomplete, or different from what another tool would produce:
- Our formula language deliberately implements Excel's semantics, but it is a separate implementation and will not match Excel in every case.
- Imported workbooks are translated. Formulas that cannot be translated faithfully are imported as static values, and the import report tells you which. Review an imported file before relying on it.
- AI-generated formulas, transformations and analyses are suggestions. They are not checked for correctness beyond what the application's own verification steps do, and you must review them.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR VERIFYING ANY OUTPUT YOU RELY ON. Do not use DreamSheets as the sole basis for financial, legal, medical, safety, regulatory or other consequential decisions without independent checking. DreamSheets is not accounting, tax, investment, legal or professional advice, is not a system of record for regulated reporting, and is not designed or certified for use in safety-critical systems.
9. Changes to the software
We may change, add or remove features. We will not deliberately remove a significant feature of the desktop application you have paid for within its major version, except where we must for legal or security reasons or because a dependency we do not control forces it.
We may discontinue Cloud with at least [NUMBER — recommend 60] days' notice, during which you can export everything, and we will refund any prepaid unused period.
10. Our intellectual property
The application, the website, our documentation, name, logo and branding are owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. These terms grant you no right to use our name or branding except to refer to the product accurately.
The application includes open-source components under their own licenses. Those licenses govern those components and nothing here restricts rights they grant you. A list of components and licenses is available on request.
If you send us feedback, suggestions or bug reports, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them freely to improve DreamSheets, with no obligation to you and without treating that feedback as confidential.
11. Copyright complaints
We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement in stored content under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
To report content stored in DreamSheets Cloud that you believe infringes your copyright, send a notice containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent:
[DESIGNATED AGENT NAME] [AGENT ADDRESS] [AGENT EMAIL]
If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address.
12. Privacy
Our handling of personal information is described in the privacy policy. Where a signed data processing agreement is in place between us, it takes precedence over these terms for the processing of personal data.
13. Disclaimer of warranties
We warrant that we will provide Cloud with reasonable care and skill, and that the application will materially perform as described in our documentation.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED ABOVE, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DREAMSHEETS AND DREAMSHEETS CLOUD ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSES.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
14. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, GOODWILL, OR LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF DREAMSHEETS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, AND (B) [AMOUNT — e.g. $100].
You are responsible for keeping backups of your documents. This is not a rhetorical clause: DreamSheets is local-first precisely so that your files remain in your own hands.
Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
These limitations are a fundamental basis of the bargain between us and apply even to a one-time purchase.
15. Indemnification
If you are using DreamSheets for business purposes, you will defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses, liabilities and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from your content, your use of the software in breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right. We will notify you of any such claim and may participate in its defense with counsel of our choosing at our own expense. This section does not apply to individual consumers using DreamSheets for personal purposes.
16. Suspension and termination
You may stop using DreamSheets at any time, and cancel a cloud subscription from your account page.
We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use presents a security risk to us or other users. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix it. We will not suspend a perpetual desktop license for non-payment of a separate cloud subscription.
On termination: your right to use Cloud ends and section 4.5 applies to your stored documents; your desktop license survives unless it was terminated for breach or refunded. Sections 2.3, 2.4, 5.3, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 18 survive termination.
17. Dispute resolution, arbitration and class action waiver
Please read this section carefully. It requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration rather than in court, and waives your right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action.
17.1 Talk to us first
Most problems can be solved by email. Before starting a formal proceeding, you agree to send a written notice of dispute to dc8curtis@gmail.com describing the problem and the relief you want, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. We will do the same before bringing a claim against you. This step is a condition of starting arbitration.
17.2 Agreement to arbitrate
If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or DreamSheets will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by [ARBITRATION PROVIDER — e.g. the American Arbitration Association] under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitrator decides all issues except the enforceability of section 17.4, which is for a court to decide.
Arbitration is less formal than a lawsuit. It uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, allows more limited discovery, and is subject to very limited review. The arbitrator can award the same individual relief a court could.
Arbitration will take place in [COUNTY, STATE], or by telephone or video, or — if you are a consumer — in your home county if you prefer. Where our costs rules or the provider's rules require, we will pay the arbitration filing and administrative fees for consumer claims.
17.3 Exceptions
Either of us may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and either of us may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property rights or to stop unauthorized access or misuse. Neither of those is a waiver of this section.
17.4 Class action and jury trial waiver
YOU AND WE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS. YOU AND WE WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.
If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request will be severed and heard in court, and the rest will proceed in arbitration.
17.5 Your right to opt out
You may opt out of section 17 within 30 days of first accepting these terms by emailing dc8curtis@gmail.com with your name and a statement that you decline arbitration. Opting out costs you nothing and affects nothing else in these terms. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts identified in section 18.
17.6 Time limit
Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, unless applicable law prohibits shortening the limitation period.
18. Governing law and venue
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of [STATE — e.g. Delaware], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as to section 17. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in [COUNTY, STATE], and waive any objection to venue there.
19. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We will change the date at the top and, for changes that materially affect you, give at least 30 days' notice by email or in the application where we can. Continuing to use DreamSheets after a change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not accept a change, stop using DreamSheets; if the change materially disadvantages a cloud subscriber, you may cancel and we will refund the unused prepaid period. A change to section 17 does not apply retroactively to a dispute already noticed.
20. Export controls, sanctions and government users
You confirm that you are not located in, and will not use or export DreamSheets to, any country subject to comprehensive U.S. trade sanctions, and that you are not on any U.S. government restricted-party list. You agree to comply with the Export Administration Regulations and applicable OFAC sanctions programs.
DreamSheets is "commercial computer software" under FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202. Any use, duplication or disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject only to the rights granted in these terms.
21. If you are outside the United States
You are responsible for complying with local law where you use DreamSheets, and for any applicable import duties or taxes.
If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, or another jurisdiction whose consumer protection law cannot be excluded by contract, you keep the mandatory rights that law gives you — including any statutory right to cancel a purchase of digital content, and any right to bring proceedings in your country of residence — and sections 13, 14, 17 and 18 apply only to the extent that law permits.
22. General
Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our written consent. We may transfer ours to an affiliate or a successor of our business, provided your rights are not reduced.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest continues in force.
No waiver. A delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.
Force majeure. We are not responsible for failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including infrastructure provider failures, network outages, labor disputes and acts of government.
Entire agreement. These terms, the privacy policy and any signed data processing agreement are the entire agreement between us about DreamSheets, and supersede anything said or written before. Nothing here limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.
No third-party beneficiaries. These terms create no rights for anyone other than you and us.
Notices. We will send notices to the email address on your account or display them in the application. You send notices to us at dc8curtis@gmail.com.
California users. Under California Civil Code § 1789.3, California residents may reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
23. Contact
[LEGAL ENTITY NAME] — dc8curtis@gmail.com
[BUSINESS ADDRESS]