StarCAT

End User License Agreement

Last updated October 17, 2026

Northline Software LLC, 145 Pine Haven Shores, Suite 1000-A, Shelburne, VT 05482, USA

Please read this agreement before installing StarCAT. By installing or using StarCAT you agree to it. If you do not agree, do not install or use StarCAT.

1. License

Northline Software LLC ("Northline", "we") grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use StarCAT on computers you own or control, for as many users as your license or subscription covers. StarCAT is licensed, not sold. Northline keeps all rights, title and interest in StarCAT, including its code, design, names and logos. Any right not granted here is reserved.

2. What you may not do

You may not, and may not let anyone else:

  1. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or otherwise try to derive the source code, file formats, protocols or underlying ideas of StarCAT, except where applicable law expressly permits it despite this limitation;
  2. modify, translate, adapt or make derivative works of StarCAT;
  3. copy StarCAT except to install it as this agreement allows and for ordinary backups;
  4. sell, resell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, share, publish or otherwise distribute StarCAT or your license key;
  5. remove, bypass or interfere with license checks, activation, copy protection or any notice of ownership;
  6. use StarCAT, or anything learned from studying it, to build a competing product or service.

3. Your work

Your jobs, transcripts, dictionaries, audio and other files are yours. Northline claims no ownership of them. If you send us a bug report or a file for support, we use it only to answer you and fix StarCAT.

You are responsible for reviewing, correcting and certifying every transcript you produce. StarCAT is a tool; it does not replace your own judgment as a reporter, captioner or scopist.

4. Online features

Team Editing, Send to Proofreader, bug reports and license activation use our servers.

  1. Share a job only if you have the right to. You are responsible for the confidentiality rules, court rules and agreements that apply to your work, and for whom you give a session password or proofreader code.
  2. Anyone with a proofreader code can open that job. Treat it like a key.
  3. A job sent to a proofreader is deleted from our server after 30 days. Keep your own copy.
  4. Use our servers only for StarCAT's own features. Do not try to overload, probe or break into them.
  5. We may change, limit or stop an online feature at any time.

What we collect and keep is in our Privacy Policy.

5. Other software inside StarCAT

StarCAT includes open source components, each under its own license, and those licenses ship with StarCAT. Nothing in this agreement limits any right you have under them, and section 2 does not apply to those components.

6. Updates

We may provide updates that add, change or remove features. This agreement covers them unless an update comes with its own terms.

7. Ending this agreement

This agreement lasts until it ends. It ends automatically if you break it. You may end it at any time by uninstalling StarCAT. When it ends you must stop using StarCAT and delete your copies of it. Your own files stay yours. Sections 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 11 survive the end of this agreement.

8. No warranty

STARCAT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT STARCAT WILL BE ERROR FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT IT WILL NOT LOSE DATA. KEEP YOUR OWN BACKUPS.

9. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, NORTHLINE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST WORK OR LOST BUSINESS, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE STARCAT, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR STARCAT IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. SOME PLACES DO NOT ALLOW THESE LIMITS, SO THEY MAY NOT ALL APPLY TO YOU.

10. Claims caused by your use

If someone makes a claim against Northline because of how you used StarCAT, or because you shared material you had no right to share, you will cover Northline's reasonable costs from that claim, including legal fees.

11. General

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Vermont, USA, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and any dispute belongs in the state or federal courts located in Vermont. You must follow all export laws that apply to StarCAT. If any part of this agreement cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. This is the whole agreement between you and Northline about StarCAT. We may update it; the version that comes with a release of StarCAT applies to that release.

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