SHAMPOO Licence v1.0 · 19 September 2026
The licence in full.
Draft for legal review. This text is AKADATA's working draft of the SHAMPOO Licence, not yet settled by solicitors; where this page states licence terms, the settled published documents will be the controlling legal terms when released.
Section 1
Definitions
Software means the Saphira Memory binaries supplied by AKADATA LIMITED, in whatever package you received them. Licence classes are FREE, FAMILY, BUSINESS, SITE, CORPORATE and PLATFORM. You are the licence holder. Premises means one named physical address. Legal entity means one company, partnership, sole trader, charity or other body recognised in law.
Section 2
Ownership
The Software is proprietary, closed-source software distributed in binary form. AKADATA LIMITED owns the Software and all intellectual property in it. Downloading the Software does not transfer ownership of it to you.
The Software contains third-party components. The absence of source rights in this Licence refers to AKADATA proprietary code only; the licences of third-party components remain controlling for those components.
Section 3
Grant
Subject to this Licence, AKADATA grants you a non-exclusive right to install and use the Software for the purposes of your class. Every class is perpetual unless terminated under this Licence. There is no rent, no renewal and no subscription. The Software does not technically enforce class limits; compliance is a condition of the Licence.
FREE (no fee): single individual personal use in a home setting, with no connection to a business and no money made from the use. Private, personal and educational Free use has no time limit.
Businesses and other commercial users may evaluate the Software commercially for up to 30 consecutive days beginning with its first commercial use. Continued commercial use after that evaluation period requires the appropriate purchased commercial licence.
FAMILY: use by members of one family unit in a home setting; not friends and not outside the unit. The one-off licence fee and the total amount payable, including applicable VAT, are displayed before purchase and confirmed in the order record.
BUSINESS: commercial use by one legal entity at one named premises.
SITE: commercial use across the whole of one named premises and its operating teams.
CORPORATE: commercial use by one organisation across one or more sites and regions.
PLATFORM: using the Software as part of something supplied to third parties, on terms agreed directly with AKADATA.
Commercial use is commercial use: if money is made from the use of the Software, that is a business activity and needs a business class licence. No databases are counted and no copies are metered in any class.
The Software is available FREE so you can evaluate it before buying; buyers are expected to have tested it and found it useful. That opportunity does not limit any statutory right described in section 6.
Section 4
Restrictions
You must not copy the Software (except one backup copy necessary for lawful use), redistribute it, publish it, rent, lend, lease or commercially host it, modify it, create derivatives of it, or attempt to derive its source code, except as this Licence expressly permits. Every copy of the Software comes from AKADATA only.
Except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law and incapable of contractual restriction, You must not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or attempt to derive the source code of the Software. Nothing in this Licence restricts a lawful user's rights under sections 50A, 50B or 50BA of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Algorithm protection covers copied implementation and protected material: you must not reproduce the Software's coordination or memory implementation from the binaries. It does not cover ideas you develop independently, nor the statutory activities preserved by section 296A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
You must not circumvent, bypass or interfere with the Software's encryption, authentication or access controls. Client-to-server traffic is encrypted by design; defeating that protection is circumvention, not study.
Section 5
Warranty
The software is supplied "as is" to the fullest extent permitted by law, without any promise that operation will be uninterrupted or error-free. Users remain responsible for backups, replication, restore testing and validation of stored data. Liability exclusions and limits are defined in the applicable SHAMPOO Licence terms. Nothing excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful.
Section 6
Liability
For BUSINESS, SITE, CORPORATE and PLATFORM: AKADATA's total liability is limited to the pro-rata portion of the licence fee paid for the period of use, calculated as the fee divided by twelve for each whole month of use, up to a maximum of the fee paid. A claim under this paragraph requires certified destruction of the Software and of data it produced.
Nothing in this Licence limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Business-class limits remain subject to the reasonableness requirement.
For FAMILY: statutory remedies override the "as is" wording and the cap in this section. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (including section 47), key digital-content rights to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, correspondence with description and pre-contract information cannot be restricted, faulty content is remedied by repair, replacement or an appropriate price reduction including the short-term right to reject, and no remedy under this schedule is conditional on onerous terms. The destruction certificate applies to business classes only, never to FAMILY.
Section 7
Term and termination
Each licence is perpetual unless terminated under this Licence. AKADATA may terminate on material breach with 30 days' written notice and opportunity to remedy. On termination you must stop using the Software and delete all copies; for business classes you must also supply the destruction certificate described in section 6.
You may terminate at any time by stopping use and deleting all copies.
Section 8
Whole-licence transfer
You may permanently transfer your entire licence to a recipient who agrees to this Licence. Partial transfers are not permitted. There is no redistribution beyond such a transfer.
Section 9
Consumer information (FAMILY)
Before purchase you consent to immediate download and acknowledge that the cancellation right ends once supply begins, as required by Regulation 37 of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. The checkout records that consent separately from payment.
After purchase AKADATA gives confirmation on a durable medium (email) containing the order details, the exact versioned licence attached to your purchase, and the recorded consent and acknowledgement, as required by Regulation 16 of the same Regulations with its Schedule 2 information.
Section 10
Governing law
This Licence is governed by the law of England and Wales, whose courts have exclusive jurisdiction.