Legal
Terms & Conditions
Athena is not yet on sale. These terms are published in advance so that they can be read before any decision to buy, and they will apply from the date of release. No payment is taken on this site at present. If you have joined the launch list, the only data held is your email address; see the Privacy Policy.
The short version, once it is on sale.
- You pay once. There is no subscription and no recurring charge.
- The licence is perpetual — the version you buy is yours to keep and keep using, forever.
- You may install it on any computer you personally use.
- Change your mind within 30 days and you get your money back, even if you have downloaded and used it.
- It runs on your machine, so it keeps working whatever happens to us.
The sections below set this out in full. Nothing in them removes any right you have under mandatory Swedish or EU consumer law.
1. Who these terms are with
These terms are an agreement between you and Jonathan Ernst, (operating as an individual in Sweden), located in Stockholm, Sweden. Referred to below as “we”, “us” and “our”.
They apply when you buy or use Athena. If you are buying as a consumer, mandatory Swedish and EU consumer law applies in addition to these terms, and where the two conflict, the law wins.
2. What you are buying
You are buying a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Athena. You are not buying the software itself; we keep ownership of it and of all intellectual property in it.
The licence is perpetual. The version you purchase continues to function for as long as you have a computer capable of running it. There is no licence server, no activation that expires and no online verification. If we cease selling Athena, cease developing it, or cease trading, your copy is unaffected: it runs locally and requires no service from us.
3. What you may do
- Install and use Athena on any computer you personally own or use, for personal or commercial work.
- Keep using it offline, indefinitely.
- Make backup copies for your own use.
- Use anything you produce with it however you like. We claim no rights over your output.
If you want to deploy Athena across an organisation, get in touch about a team licence — hello@projectathena.dev.
4. What you may not do
- Resell, sublicense, rent, lend or redistribute Athena, or share your licence key publicly.
- Remove or circumvent licensing, or distribute tools to do so.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded — including for interoperability under the EU Software Directive.
- Pass it off as your own product.
5. Price, VAT and payment
Athena costs [PRICE] as a one-time payment. There is no subscription, no recurring charge, and no card stored for future billing.
Prices shown to consumers include VAT. VAT is calculated at the rate applicable in your country and is collected through Stripe Tax at checkout. Business customers with a valid EU VAT number may be able to purchase under the reverse-charge mechanism by entering it at checkout.
Payment is taken by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. through Stripe Checkout. We never receive or store your card details. Your purchase is complete when payment is confirmed, and you will receive a receipt by email.
6. Delivery
Athena is delivered digitally. After payment you will receive an email containing a download link and your licence key, normally within a few minutes. If it has not arrived within 24 hours, check your spam folder and then email hello@projectathena.dev — we will re-send it.
Athena requires [SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS — e.g. macOS 13 or later, or Python 3.11+]. Please check before buying. If it will not run on your system, that is covered by section 7.
7. Refunds and your right of withdrawal
You may have your money back within 30 days of purchase, for any reason or none. Email hello@projectathena.dev from the address you bought with and say you want a refund. We will not ask you to justify it. Refunds are made to the original payment method, normally within 30 days.
This exceeds the statutory minimum. Under the Swedish Distance Contracts Act (distansavtalslagen), which implements the EU Consumer Rights Directive, a consumer has a 14-day right of withdrawal. For digital content delivered immediately, that right is lost once delivery begins, where the consumer has consented to immediate delivery and acknowledged the loss of the right.
We do not rely on that exclusion. The 30-day period continues to apply after you have downloaded and used Athena.
After a refund, your licence ends and you should delete your copy. Any files you created with Athena remain yours — they are on your computer and are not affected.
If Athena is faulty or does not match its description, your statutory rights under the Consumer Sales Act (konsumentköplagen) apply on top of this, and are not limited by it.
8. Updates and support
Your purchase includes [UPDATE POLICY — e.g. all updates to version 1.x, or all updates released within 12 months]. Security fixes are provided to all licence holders regardless.
If we release a major new version that is charged for separately, you are never obliged to buy it. The version you own keeps working.
Support is by email at hello@projectathena.dev. We aim to reply within 5 working days. Athena is developed by one person; this is a target rather than a contractual service level.
9. Models, keys and third-party services
Athena does not include an AI model and does not come with model access. It connects to models you provide: either ones you run locally or ones you hold an API key for.
If you use a cloud provider such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter, your relationship with that provider is separate from this one. You are responsible for their fees and bound by their terms. We have no control over their output, availability, pricing or policies, and we are not liable for them.
AI output is not reliable. Models can produce inaccurate or fabricated content. Output from Athena should not be treated as legal, medical, financial or professional advice, and should be verified before it is relied on. Where Athena can take an action, such as editing files, sending mail or running commands, it requests confirmation first, and you are responsible for what you approve.
10. Your data
Athena stores your data on your own computer. We have no access to it and hold no copy of it. Two consequences follow:
- We cannot read your data, disclose it to anyone, or lose it in a breach of our systems.
- We also cannot recover it. There is no cloud backup. Backing up your Athena data file is your responsibility.
What we hold about you as a customer is set out in the Privacy Policy.
11. Warranty and conformity
We warrant that Athena will substantially perform as described on this website. If it does not, we will remedy the defect or provide a refund.
Beyond that, and to the extent permitted by law, Athena is provided “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be free of defects or uninterrupted, or that it will meet a requirement we have not described.
If you are a consumer, this does not affect your statutory rights under konsumentköplagen, including the right to have a non-conforming product repaired, replaced, reduced in price, or refunded.
12. Liability
Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
Subject to that, our total liability arising out of or in connection with Athena is limited to the amount you paid for it. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business, or loss of data.
If you are a consumer, this clause applies only to the extent Swedish consumer law permits, and your mandatory rights are unaffected.
13. Termination
Your licence lasts indefinitely. We may terminate it only if you materially breach section 4 — for example by redistributing Athena or publishing your licence key — and only after asking you to stop and giving you a reasonable chance to do so.
You may stop using Athena at any time by deleting it.
14. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms for future purchases. The terms that apply to you are the ones published when you bought, and we will not change the licence you already hold to your disadvantage. The “last updated” date at the top shows when this version was published.
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by Swedish law. If you are a consumer resident in another EU country, you also keep the protection of any mandatory consumer law of that country.
If we cannot resolve a dispute between us, consumers in Sweden may refer it to the Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN) — arn.se, Box 174, 101 23 Stockholm — and we will take part in its proceedings. Consumers elsewhere in the EU may use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform. Otherwise, disputes go to the Swedish courts.
16. Contact
Jonathan Ernst
Stockholm, Sweden
hello@projectathena.dev