Marketplace Terms

1. About these terms

Pramaan Marketplace is where publishers sell software made with Pramaan, and where anyone can get it. These Marketplace Terms apply to everyone who lists, buys, tries or reports an app on it. They add to our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy; where they conflict on a Marketplace matter, these terms win.

2. How the Marketplace works

• A listing's card on the PramaanStore contract holds the app's name, category, price, licence term, trial length, storefront address and the SHA-256 of its full listing. The website checks every listing it shows against that hash.
• When a buyer presses Get, their own Pramaan reads their computer's public device key. The publisher's storefront seals a licence to that key and the buyer downloads it straight from the publisher.
• Paid purchases are made to the contract, which pays the publisher and Pramaan in the same transaction (section 5).
• We never hold a copy of the software, except the review copy described in section 4, and we never hold buyers' money.

3. Rules for publishers

Who may publish

• You need a Pramaan account and a publisher address registered on the chain, and you must be at least 18 or the age of majority where you live.
• You must have every right needed to distribute the app and everything in it, including third-party and open-source components under their own licences.

What your listing must do

• Describe the app truthfully: what it does, what it needs to run, and what it changes on the buyer's computer.
• Say plainly if the app collects personal data, connects to the internet, shows advertising or needs an account elsewhere, and link your own privacy policy where it does.
• Use screenshots of the real app, and only names and artwork you have the right to use.
• Tell buyers that each copy may carry its own fingerprint, if you fingerprint your releases.

What you must never publish

• Malware of any kind: viruses, ransomware, spyware, keyloggers, credential stealers, back doors, or cryptocurrency miners the buyer did not clearly agree to.
• Software that hides what it does, or does something different from its listing.
• Software or content you do not have the rights to, including cracked, pirated or repackaged copies of someone else's work.
• Anything unlawful where it is offered, or that is designed to harm, harass or surveil people.
• Anything else prohibited by the Acceptable use section of our Terms.

Your storefront, your support

• Your storefront runs on your computer. Buyers can only get your app, start a trial or fetch an update while it is reachable. Keep it running, or unlist the app while it can't be.
• You are responsible for supporting your app, for your own licence terms shown on the listing, and for refunds to your buyers (section 5).
• You must keep the keys and saved releases that let your buyers' licences be issued and your copies traced. We cannot recover them.

4. Review of every release

Nothing reaches buyers until we have reviewed it: every new app and every update.

1. When you submit, your card waits on the chain as pending. Buyers keep getting the version approved before, if there is one.
2. Your storefront seals a review copy to a computer we have registered on the contract as a reviewer. Only those computers can open it. We unpack the exact files a buyer would get and scan them with anti-malware tools. A file's SHA-256 may be checked against public malware databases; the file itself is not uploaded anywhere.
3. We approve the exact listing we reviewed, by its hash, or reject it with a reason you will see in your dashboard. You can fix it and submit again.

We delete review copies when we no longer need them for the review, a report or a dispute, and in any case within [90] days of our decision.

5. Prices, fees and payouts

• You set your app's price in one currency Pramaan accepts (USDC, USDT, ETH, or BTC as a wrapped token on the same network), or make it free. Pramaan may stop accepting a currency for new sales; a sale already paid always completes in the currency it was paid in.
• A buyer pays through the PramaanStore contract, from their Pramaan Wallet or another wallet. In the same transaction the contract sends Pramaan's fee to Pramaan's treasury and the rest to your publisher address, in the app's currency. Nothing is held in between.
• Pramaan's fee is 15% of the price, unless we have agreed a different rate with you in writing. The contract enforces a hard ceiling of 30%, which no one, including us, can exceed.
• We will give at least [30] days' notice before raising the fee. A change applies only to sales after it takes effect.
• Free apps carry no fee. Free trials carry no fee; a sale after a trial is charged as any other sale.
• Network transaction fees (“gas”) are paid by whoever sends the transaction, directly to the network.
• You are responsible for taxes on your sales and for any invoice your buyers need. We are responsible for taxes on our fee.

Refunds of a Marketplace purchase

A payment on the chain cannot be reversed by us. If a buyer is owed a refund, the publisher pays it back to the buyer's address. Where a publisher refunds a sale in full within [14] days and tells us, we return our fee on that sale to the publisher. Details are in our Refund Policy.

6. Rules for buyers

• You are buying from the publisher. The publisher made the app and is responsible for it, its support and any refund. Read the listing before you pay.
• A licence is for one computer. Your copy is sealed to your computer's security chip and works only there, for the term shown: yours to keep, one year, or 30 days. To move it to another computer, ask the publisher.
• Your copy may be marked as yours. Publishers can fingerprint each copy so a leaked copy names the licence it came from. Sharing your copy can be traced back to you.
• Payments are final on the chain. Check the price and your wallet before confirming. You pay the network's transaction fee.
• You must not resell, share, unpack or tamper with a licence except as the publisher's terms or the law allow.
• If Pramaan suspends an app you have, your Library warns you and tells you why. We recommend removing a suspended app.

7. Free trials

• A publisher may offer a free trial of 7, 14 or 30 days on a paid app.
• One trial per computer. The publisher's storefront remembers each computer's device key, so reinstalling does not start another trial.
• When the trial ends, the app stops opening. The end is checked on your computer, offline. Buy it to keep using it; your trial copy is replaced by a full licence.
• A trial does not commit you to buy, and nothing is charged when it ends.

8. Licence resale

Where a publisher's plan allows it, someone who holds a licence can sell it on to someone else. Because every copy is sealed to one computer, a resale can't be a simple handover: the publisher has to seal the licence again, to the buyer's computer. The resale contract holds the buyer's payment until the buyer has checked that worked.

1. Listing. The owner lists the licence at a price in a currency Pramaan accepts. The publisher's royalty (8% unless the publisher sets another rate for that release, never more than 30%), Pramaan's commission (a fixed 2%), the time the publisher has to deliver (7 days by default) and the time the buyer has to check it (3 days by default) are fixed on the listing, and the buyer sees them before paying. If the publisher later lowers their rate, a sale not yet paid gets the lower one.
2. Paying. The buyer pays the exact price into escrow and names the computer the licence is for. From then on the seller can't cancel the sale.
3. Delivering. The publisher seals the licence to that computer, makes the package available, and records its fingerprint (SHA-256) on the chain. This pays nobody.
4. Checking. The buyer's Pramaan fetches the package, checks it matches the fingerprint, and checks it opens on their computer. If it does, the buyer confirms: the seller is paid (less the royalty and the commission) and the licence is the buyer's. If it doesn't, or it never arrives, the buyer disputes within their window and is refunded in full; the seller keeps the licence.
5. Time limits. Nothing delivered by the publisher's deadline: the payment goes back to the buyer. Delivered, and the buyer neither confirms nor disputes in their window: the payment is released to the seller. Anyone may trigger either; the money only ever goes to whom it belongs.
6. Declining. The publisher may refuse a sale at any point before it completes, for example because the licence was revoked or can't be resold. The buyer is refunded in full.

• Pramaan's only cut is a fixed 2% commission, and Pramaan never holds the money. The contract does, and no one, including us, can move it except as above. The commission and the royalty come out of the seller's proceeds, only when a sale completes; a refunded sale pays neither. The 2% is written into the contract and can't be raised.
• Much of it happens by itself. Unless they switch it off, the publisher's Pramaan delivers a paid resale (or declines it, refunding the buyer, if it can't be resold), the buyer's Pramaan checks a delivered licence and confirms it once it opens, and Pramaan refunds or releases sales whose time is up. These are the same steps anyone could take by hand, under the same rules.
• Each sale has a conversation. The buyer, seller, publisher and Pramaan's mediator can write to each other about a sale in Pramaan. Messages are encrypted on each person's computer; the relay that carries them can't read them. Keep payment talk there: Pramaan can help only with what it can see.
• Disputes are public. Each dispute is recorded on the chain and counted against the buyer's address. Dispute only a licence that really doesn't work: a disputed licence that did open keeps working only until its offline allowance runs out.
• After a sale completes, the seller's own copy stops working once its offline allowance runs out. A resold licence is still one licence, with what is left of its term.
• If an address refuses a payment (some contract wallets do, and token issuers can freeze addresses), its share is held for it in the contract and can be collected later, to another address if need be.

9. Reports and takedowns

If you think an app is malicious, misleading, or infringes your rights, tell us:

• Report this app on the app's page records your report on the chain, with the reason you give. It is public, and the small transaction fee keeps out spam.
• Or write to hello@aiteleresearch.com. Email is private, and the right choice for anything personal.

Intellectual property complaints

Send us: the work you say is infringed, the app and listing that infringe it, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and a statement that your notice is accurate and that you own the rights or may act for the owner. We will review it, may suspend the app while we do, and will tell the publisher, who may reply. We suspend publishers who infringe repeatedly.

Grievance officer

Complaints about content on the Marketplace may be sent to our Grievance Officer, [NAME], at hello@aiteleresearch.com. We acknowledge complaints within [24 hours] and aim to resolve them within [15 days].

10. Suspension

• We may suspend an app at any time if we believe it breaks these terms, puts buyers at risk, or must come down by law. It disappears from the Marketplace, can't be bought or licensed, and every buyer's Library shows the reason.
• We may suspend a publisher, which stops every app of theirs and refuses their new submissions.
• Where it is safe to, we will tell the publisher first. For malware, or serious and ongoing harm, we act at once.
• A publisher who disagrees can write to us with their reasons. Only the contract owner can lift a suspension.
• Licences already sealed to buyers' computers keep working offline; a suspension stops new copies, and warns those who have one.

11. What is public

Free apps and trials are not recorded on the chain; the publisher's storefront keeps its own record of them on the publisher's computer. Our Privacy Policy says more.

12. Our role and liability

We run the contract, review releases and act on reports. We are not the seller of any app, we do not make or control publishers' software, and we are not a party to the licence between a publisher and a buyer. Disputes about an app, its support or a refund are between the publisher and the buyer, though we will share the public chain record with either.

Our liability for the Marketplace is limited as set out in our Terms of Service. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have as a consumer that the law does not allow to be limited.

13. Changes

We may change these terms as the Marketplace changes. We will post the new version here with its date and, for material changes, tell publishers at least [30] days ahead. A change never alters a sale already made.

14. Contact

Aitele Research LLP
Registered office: 105/104 Sandilya, Sardanagar Para, Sitamarhi, Bihar 843302, India
Head office: F-109, CRS Tower, Chattarpur, New Delhi 110074, India
Marketplace, reports and takedowns: hello@aiteleresearch.com