Legal

End-User License Agreement

Last updated: 10 August 2026

This End-User License Agreement (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you (“User”, “you”) and CVumi, represented by Eric Tchepanou, Erna-Eckstein-Straße 3, 81245 München, Germany (“Licensor”, “we”, “us”). It governs your use of the CVumi desktop software (“Software”). By installing, activating, or using the Software, you agree to this Agreement. If you are a consumer, nothing in this Agreement limits your statutory rights, in particular your warranty rights for digital products under §§ 327 ff. of the German Civil Code (BGB).

1. Subject and relationship to your purchase

You buy CVumi through Lemon Squeezy as Merchant of Record; the purchase transaction (payment, invoice, taxes, refund processing) is governed by your contract with Lemon Squeezy and our Terms of Service. This Agreement governs the licence itself: what you may do with the Software. The two together are designed so that there is no gap between them: the commitments in this Agreement (conformity, updates, activation) apply to you regardless of how duties are allocated between us and Lemon Squeezy.

2. License grant

Subject to payment of the applicable fee, we grant you a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to install and use the CVumi edition stated in your order (Standard or Student) in the major version current at the time of your purchase, including all minor releases of that major version (for example, all 1.x releases if you buy while version 1 is current), on up to 3 devices that you own or control, activated at the same time. You may deactivate the Software on one device and activate it on another; activation is described in Section 9. The licence is granted for your personal use or your own internal business use.

The Software requires a valid licence key issued through our payment provider to function fully. The student edition is the same software at a discounted price, offered on trust for people currently enrolled at a school or university.

3. Permitted use and its limits

The licence covers preparing your own applications and, within one household or team using the same activated devices, occasionally helping another person with theirs. It does not cover operating a business on the Software’s output for third parties. In particular, you may not:

4. Ownership and your content

The Software is licensed, not sold. We retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all intellectual property rights. You do not acquire any ownership rights in the Software or its source code. Documents, CVs, and other content you create with the Software remain your property.

We claim no licence to your content, and this Agreement grants us none: we do not need one, because your CVs, cover letters, and other career documents never reach our servers. They are stored on your device, and any AI processing you start goes directly from your device to the provider you chose (Section 6).

5. License restrictions

You may not:

What always remains permitted. §§ 69d and 69e of the German Copyright Act (UrhG) cannot be contracted away, and we do not try: you may make a backup copy where necessary to secure your use; you may observe, study, and test the functioning of the Software while loading, displaying, running, transmitting, or storing it as licensed, in order to determine its underlying ideas and principles; and you may decompile the Software within the limits of § 69e UrhG where that is indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created program, if that information is not made available on request. If you need interoperability information, ask us first at legal@cvumi.com; that is usually faster.

6. Your own API key and third-party AI providers

AI features in CVumi are strictly bring-your-own-key: if you want them, you connect your own account with an AI provider of your choice. The contract for that AI service exists exclusively between you and the provider. We are not a party to it, we do not resell AI capacity, and we receive no share of the provider’s fees. You are responsible for complying with the provider’s terms and acceptable-use policies, and you bear the provider’s charges. We are not responsible for the provider’s availability, pricing, output quality, or data handling.

The Software allows you to use your own API keys with third-party AI providers. AI features are optional. Before sending text, the Software attempts to replace detected names, contact details, and selected career identifiers with local placeholders. The replacement map remains on your device. The chosen provider processes the resulting text under its own terms and privacy policy. You are responsible for the provider account, API key, charges, privacy settings, and your decision to submit text. We do not receive or store the prompt or response.

Identity redaction is a risk-reduction measure and is not a guarantee of anonymity or complete removal of personal data. Automated detection may miss duplicated, unusually formatted, contextual, or indirect identifiers, and a third party may be able to infer or re-identify a person by combining information. You must review the text and the provider’s terms before using an AI feature.

7. AI features: transparency, intended purpose, and your responsibility

This section describes what the AI features are and are not. It is a description of the service you bought, not a disclaimer of your statutory rights.

Transparency. AI in CVumi never runs in the background: every AI feature is started by you, and its results are shown to you as AI-generated drafts. When you use an AI feature, you are interacting with an AI system: the model of the provider you configured.

Intended purpose. CVumi is intended for job seekers preparing their own application documents. It is not intended for, and must not be used for, evaluating, filtering, ranking, or selecting third-party candidates or their applications in recruitment or in similar decisions about other people.

AI output can be wrong. AI-generated content is provided for informational and assistive purposes only. It may be inaccurate, incomplete, inappropriate for a particular job or employer, or not free from bias, and language models can state wrong things confidently. You are solely responsible for reviewing, editing, and verifying all AI-generated content before using it in a real application.

Truthfulness. You warrant that the information you provide about yourself is truthful and that you hold the rights to the content you use. You must not use the Software to fabricate qualifications, employment history, credentials, or references. If an AI draft embellishes beyond the facts you provided, correct it before use.

Fit analysis is a heuristic. Scores and fit analyses that the Software computes or requests from your AI provider are heuristic aids based on your documents and the job description. They are estimates meant to help you improve your application, not predictions of employer decisions and not reproductions of any specific employer’s screening system.

No outcome promise, no professional advice. The Software does not guarantee interviews, offers, or any employment outcome; outcomes depend on many factors beyond application documents. The Software provides tools, not professional career, legal, or HR advice.

Our commitments. We design the AI features so that you stay in control: nothing is sent anywhere without your action, every output is visible and editable before use, and we train no models on your content. Exports currently carry no machine-readable AI-provenance metadata; if that changes, we will document it in the changelog.

8. Updates, versions, and beta features

Updates come in three layers, and it matters which one you are looking at:

Updates are never installed automatically: you download and install them when you choose.

Beta features. We may label individual features as beta or experimental. Beta features are provided for testing, are not part of the promised feature set of your purchase, and may change or be removed.

9. Activation and offline use

Activation ties your licence key to a device: the Software sends your licence key and a device identifier via cvumi.com to our licensing provider, which counts your activations (up to 3 concurrent devices) and lets you deactivate a device to free a slot. Apart from activation and the AI requests you start yourself, the Software works offline and phones nowhere.

Our activation commitment. If we ever discontinue the activation service, we will provide, before switch-off, a final update or an activation-free mechanism so that licensed copies keep working offline. Your purchased licence does not depend on our servers staying online forever.

10. Warranty

If you are a consumer, your statutory warranty rights for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) apply to the Software without restriction: the Software must conform to the contract, and if it does not, you have the statutory remedies (cure, price reduction, termination, damages). This Agreement does not exclude, shorten, or modify those rights.

So that expectations are honest in both directions: the Software is a tool for preparing applications. Sections 6 and 7 describe what the AI features can and cannot do; the Software does not owe any particular employment result, and AI output requires your review. These statements describe the agreed quality of the product, they do not waive any right you have when the Software itself is defective.

If you use the Software as a business (not as a consumer), the statutory warranty under general contract law applies with a limitation period of twelve months from delivery, except in the cases listed in the first paragraph of Section 11, where the statutory period applies.

11. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body or health that are based on a breach of duty by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents, as well as for damages caused intentionally or by gross negligence, in the event of fraudulent concealment of a defect, under a guarantee we have given, and under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).

For slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations (Kardinalpflichten), that is, obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of this Agreement possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely, such as delivering a working licence key and providing the statutory updates, and in that case only for the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded. To the extent our liability is limited under the preceding paragraph and such a cap is permissible, our total liability per damaging event is limited to the price you paid for the licence.

Your data, your backups. The Software stores your documents locally, and you are responsible for backing up your device, including the CVumi data folder, in line with ordinary care. If we are liable for the loss of data under the preceding paragraphs, our liability is limited to the effort of restoring the data that would have been necessary if you had made proper backups.

These limitations also apply in favour of our legal representatives and vicarious agents.

12. Term, termination, and enforcement

This Agreement runs for an unlimited time; the licence you bought is perpetual. You may end this Agreement at any time by deleting your copies.

We may terminate this Agreement for cause (§ 314 BGB). Cause exists in particular if you share, publish, or redistribute the Software or a licence key, or circumvent the licence mechanism; in these cases we may terminate without prior warning. For other breaches, we will warn you first in text form and give you a reasonable period to stop the breach; only if that fails may we terminate. Upon termination, the licence ends, you must cease all use of the Software and destroy all copies in your possession, and we may disable the affected licence key. Termination for cause does not entitle you to a refund of the licence fee, and it does not affect any statutory rights or claims that arose before termination.

Any breach of Sections 4 or 5, including sharing or redistributing the Software or a licence key, infringes our intellectual property rights. We actively enforce this Agreement: we may disable licence keys involved in a breach, and we reserve the right to pursue all legal remedies available, including injunctive relief, damages, and recovery of enforcement costs to the extent permitted by law. Unauthorized distribution of copyrighted software may also carry civil and criminal penalties under applicable copyright law.

13. Changes to this Agreement

We may adapt this Agreement with effect for the future only where valid reasons require it (in particular changes in the law or case law, security requirements, or technical changes such as new operating-system versions or a change of licensing provider) and only to the extent the adaptation is reasonable for you. The core of what you bought is off limits: a change will never remove your perpetual licence to the purchased major version, reduce your 3 activations, or curtail the statutory updates.

We will announce changes at least six weeks before they take effect in text form (for example by email to the address from your purchase, or as a notice in the Software). If you do not object within six weeks of the announcement, the change is deemed accepted; in every announcement we will separately point out this consequence and your right to object. If you object, the Agreement continues under the previous terms; if a change was legally indispensable and you object, we may terminate the parts of the Agreement it concerned with reasonable notice, but never your licence core as described above.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer with your habitual residence in another state, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of that state remain unaffected by this choice of law (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation).

If you are a merchant, a legal person under public law, or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is Munich, Germany. If you are a consumer, the statutory rules on jurisdiction apply; in particular, you may sue us at our seat or at your own domicile, and we may sue you only at your domicile.

15. Severability and survival

If any provision of this Agreement is or becomes invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect; the invalid provision is replaced by the statutory rules. Sections 4 and 5 (ownership and restrictions), Section 11 (liability), Section 12 (enforcement), and Section 14 (governing law) survive the end of this Agreement.

16. Contact

CVumi, represented by Eric Tchepanou
Erna-Eckstein-Straße 3, 81245 München, Germany
Email: legal@cvumi.com

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