Terms of use
It is drafted from the applicable law and from what the product actually does, but no lawyer has reviewed it yet. The project requires legal review of all legal copy before launch, and the bar is higher here than anywhere else on this site: a badly drafted clause in terms of sale is not a messaging problem, it is a contract problem.
The section that cannot be relied on without that review is 6, on price, purchase and withdrawal.
Nothing is on sale today. The PDFsigna applications are in development and have not been released. Sections 5 and 6 describe the terms intended for when they do go on sale; until then they bind nobody, because there is no purchase to govern.
1. What these terms are
These terms govern access to and use of the pdfsigna.com website and, once available, use of the PDFsigna applications for macOS and Windows. By using the site you accept them; if you don't agree with them, don't use it.
2. Who provides the service
The site and the applications are operated by Color Vivo Internet, S. L. Full identification details and a contact channel will be published on this page before the applications go on sale; they are also a legal requirement that is currently outstanding.
3. Using the website
The site is informational. You may read it, link to it and quote it. You may not use it for unlawful purposes, interfere with its operation, or extract its content in bulk in a way that degrades the service for others.
We take reasonable care to keep the site available and accurate, but we do not guarantee that it is always reachable or free of error. Third-party prices shown in the comparisons were verified on the date stated in each table and may have changed since; the source is each vendor's public website.
4. Intellectual property
The PDFsigna name, logo, icons, illustrations, text and site design belong to their owner. You may quote excerpts with attribution and a link, as is customary. You may not reuse the brand or the design to present another product as if it were this one.
Other product names mentioned here — Adobe Acrobat, PDF Expert, DocuSign, Signaturit, AutoFirma and the rest — are trademarks of their respective owners and are cited for comparative and informational purposes. PDFsigna is not affiliated with Adobe or FNMT, or with any of the others.
5. Application licence
When the applications are released, the intended licence is as follows:
- A licence to use, not a sale of the software. You acquire a personal, non-transferable right to use the application, with no time limit.
- Perpetual per major version. A Pro licence covers the major version you bought it for and all of its minor updates. The next major version is a paid upgrade, intended to cost half price.
- Paid features are not taken away. What a version does when you buy it, it keeps doing. This is stated explicitly because it is what competitors have done, and it is part of why this product exists.
- No account. Using the application requires no registration or identification of any kind.
- You may not decompile, redistribute or sublicense the application, except to the extent the law expressly allows and does not permit to be excluded by contract.
If the application is acquired through a store — the Mac App Store or the Microsoft Store — that store's terms apply in addition, and its policy governs payment, refunds and updates.
6. Price, purchase and right of withdrawal
What follows is what the law says applied to this case, and the practical consequence it has for the checkout. The final wording, the exact article references and the withdrawal form are a professional's job, not this page's.
The price
The estimated price of a Pro licence is €39, paid once. Today that is an estimate, not a price you can pay: no application has been released, no checkout is open, and the figure can still change before it is.
The 14 days of withdrawal
If the licence is sold at a distance and directly from this website to a consumer resident in the European Union — that is, outside an app store — it is a distance contract for the supply of digital content not delivered on a tangible medium, governed by the EU Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83/EU) as implemented in Spain by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007.
That means that, as a rule, you have 14 calendar days to withdraw from the contract without giving a reason and without penalty.
When that right is lost, and only then
For digital content supplied without a tangible medium, the right of withdrawal is lost only if all three conditions are met together:
- You have expressly consented to performance beginning — that is, to the licence being delivered and activated — before the 14-day period ends.
- You have expressly acknowledged that by giving that consent you lose your right of withdrawal.
- The seller has given you confirmation of that consent on a durable medium.
If any one of the three is missing, the right of withdrawal survives for the full 14 days.
What that requires building, not just writing
The practical consequence, noted here so it is not forgotten the day the checkout opens: the purchase flow will need two separate, unticked checkboxes — one for consent to immediate delivery and one for acknowledging the loss of the right — and the order confirmation email will have to record both. A single checkbox combining the two does not satisfy this, and a pre-ticked one does not either.
If the purchase is made in an app store
If the licence is acquired through the Mac App Store or the Microsoft Store, the purchase relationship is with that store and its refund policy governs; this section does not apply. Which of the two routes will be the primary one has not been decided, and until it is, this page cannot say otherwise.
Consumers outside the EU are covered by the consumer protection law of their own jurisdiction, which may give more or fewer rights than the above.
7. Warranties and liability
The applications will be supplied in conformity with consumer law, which these terms neither exclude nor limit. Beyond that, the software is provided as is: we do not warrant that it is fit for a particular purpose or free of defects.
And one warning that matters more than the usual formula: PDFsigna is a tool that produces and verifies electronic signatures, but it does not determine the legal validity of a specific document in a specific situation. The level it reports describes what kind of signature was produced, based on the certificate used and where its key is held; what effect that has in a given proceeding depends on the jurisdiction, on the type of document, and on who receives it. That needs legal advice, and this page is not it.
We are not liable for damage arising from use contrary to these terms, for the unavailability of third-party services needed in order to sign — timestamping authorities, revocation services or trusted lists — or for loss of documents from causes outside the application. Nothing in this section limits liability where the law does not permit it to be limited.
8. What PDFsigna is not
- It is not approved or certified by the European Union. No such approval exists for applications, and anyone advertising one is saying something that means nothing.
- It is not a qualified trust service provider. Certificates are issued by third parties and timestamps by a timestamping authority; PDFsigna uses them, it does not issue them.
- A visual signature is not an advanced electronic signature. That is the distinction the product rests on, and it is not relaxed even here.
9. Changes
These terms may change, particularly while the product is in development. When they do, the date at the top changes. If a change affects a purchase already made, the terms in force at the time of that purchase apply.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by Spanish law. If you are a consumer, that choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, nor of the right to bring proceedings before the courts of your own domicile.
The European Commission maintains an online dispute resolution platform available to consumers.