End User License Agreement

This agreement is between you and CTRL Colab LLC. It covers the BigCap software itself — what you may do with it, and what we promise about it. Installing or using BigCap means you accept it. If you do not, do not install it, and ask us for a refund.

It is written to be read. Where we have had to use the formal wording, we have said what it means in ordinary language alongside it.

1. Licence Grant

CTRL Colab LLC grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use BigCap for your own purposes, whether personal or commercial, subject to the terms below.

The licence is to use the software. The software itself is licensed, not sold — see §8.

2. How Licensing Works

You buy BigCap once, and we email you a serial number. You enter it, BigCap activates it online — once — and after that the checking happens on your own computer.

Your serial arrives in the purchase email. The first time you open BigCap it asks for it, sends it to our activation server together with an anonymous machine identifier, and receives back a signed activation for that computer. That signature is checked locally, offline, every launch from then on. BigCap does not need the network to start, and it does not ask again.

Roughly once a month, when it happens to be online at launch, BigCap re-checks the serial with us in the background. The rule that check follows is deliberately one-sided: silence never locks you out. If our server is down, if your machine is offline, if this company one day is not here — BigCap carries on exactly as before, indefinitely. There is no offline time limit. The only thing that ever deactivates a copy is a signed answer from us saying the serial has been revoked, which happens when a purchase is refunded or charged back (see the Refund Policy).

We built it that way on purpose. An activation server is a thing that can go down or outlive the company, and neither is allowed to become your problem: the failure mode of every check in BigCap is "keep working". What the server adds is the other direction — a refunded purchase actually ends, instead of circulating forever — which is what lets us sell this simply, at this price, without accounts or copy protection theatrics.

Keep the email. If you lose your serial, write to us and we will send it again.

3. Permitted Installations

Install it on the computers you use.

One purchase covers up to 3 installations for one person — the intent is a desktop and a laptop, plus a spare. The same serial activates each of them.

The activation server counts to three and no further: a fourth machine is refused with a note to contact us. Machines change — hardware dies, laptops get replaced — so if you hit the limit legitimately, write to hello@ctrlcolab.com and we will free a seat. That is a conversation measured in hours, not a support ticket measured in weeks.

What the licence does not cover is deployment across an organisation from a single purchase, or handing your copy to other people. If you need BigCap for a team, write to us — that is a conversation, not a violation.

4. Versions Covered, and Upgrades

Your purchase covers version 1.x.

Because BigCap is sold directly rather than through an app store, updates come from us. When we ship 1.0.1, 1.1, or 1.4, your purchase covers them and there is nothing further to pay. A future 2.0 will be announced with its own upgrade terms at the time; existing 1.x purchases are honoured on the terms in effect at the time of purchase.

We do not promise a release schedule, and we may stop developing BigCap at any point. If we do, the copy you have keeps working; it does not expire, and it does not need us.

5. What BigCap Is, and What It Is Not

BigCap is a screenshot tool. Its captures are not warranted to be complete or accurate.

What ends up in a capture depends on the page: how it loads, whether it lazy-loads content, whether it renders differently at the width you chose, whether it responds to scrolling, whether parts of it are behind interaction BigCap cannot perform, and whether the site returns the same thing twice. Content can be missed. Content can be rendered differently from how a person would see it in a normal browser. Long pages hit hard limits in the rendering engine and are truncated. This is normal for any automated capture tool, and you should not treat a BigCap capture as an exhaustive or faithful record of what a page contained.

Specifically, and to be unambiguous about it:

• BigCap is not a web archive. It produces a picture of a page, not a preserved copy of it. It does not store the underlying HTML, scripts, or resources, and a capture cannot be replayed or re-rendered.
• BigCap is not a forensic, evidentiary, or compliance tool. Do not rely on a capture as legal evidence, as an audit record, as proof of what a page said at a moment in time, or for any purpose where a missing or altered element has consequences. Nothing in a BigCap file is signed, timestamped by a trusted authority, or tamper-evident.
• BigCap is not a backup product. It does not copy, protect, or restore anything.
• BigCap is not a monitoring or scraping service. It captures a page when you ask it to, once.

6. Capturing Other People's Websites

BigCap will capture whatever you point it at. Whether you are allowed to is your call, and your responsibility.

This is the section we would most like you to actually read. BigCap is a tool for photographing web pages, and web pages belong to other people. When you use it you are responsible for making sure that:

• you have the right to capture the page, and to keep, publish, or share the resulting file;
• your use is consistent with the site's own terms of service, which may restrict automated access;
• you are not capturing personal information about other people in a way that breaches privacy or data-protection law where you are;
• where you use Browse & Capture to sign in to a site, the account is yours to use and you are permitted to be there.

We do not police any of this and we have no way to — as §9 explains, we never learn what you captured. But the licence does not extend to using BigCap to infringe someone's copyright, breach a site's terms, harvest personal data, or break the law, and doing so ends it.

7. Restrictions

You may not:

1. copy, distribute, sublicense, rent, lease, lend, sell, or otherwise make BigCap available to anyone else, except as §3 allows;
2. modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based on BigCap;
3. reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble BigCap, or try to derive its source code, except where that restriction is prohibited by law or expressly permitted by the licence of a bundled open-source component (see §11);
4. remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice;
5. use BigCap in breach of §6.

8. Ownership — and Your Captures

We own BigCap. You own what you make with it, to the extent it was yours to make.

BigCap and everything in it belongs to CTRL Colab LLC or its licensors and is protected by copyright. This agreement gives you a licence, not ownership, and does not grant you any rights in our trademarks or logos. Rights not expressly granted are reserved.

The files BigCap produces are not ours. We claim no interest in your captures, we have no licence to them, and — as §9 explains — we never receive them. What rights you hold in a capture depends on what you captured and from whom; BigCap does not create rights in someone else's page that you did not already have. See §6.

9. No Transmission, No Data Collection

BigCap sends nothing to us. It does send requests to the site you asked it to capture, because that is the only way to capture it.

There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics service, and no telemetry. There is no update check and no crash reporter. BigCap makes exactly one kind of request to us: licence activation, and the occasional validation check §2 describes — carrying your serial number, an anonymous machine identifier, and the app version. Nothing else, ever. Your captures, your addresses, and your settings are never part of it, and if BigCap cannot reach the internet it simply keeps working.

The one thing BigCap does over the network is load the page you gave it. It fetches that page and its resources — HTML, images, fonts, scripts — directly from the site and its servers, exactly as a browser would, from your computer and your IP address. The site sees an ordinary visit. Nothing about it comes back to us.

BigCap stores your preferences and, if you use Browse & Capture, your browsing session for the sites you signed in to. All of that stays in BigCap's own folder inside your Windows user profile. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is stored, where, and how to delete it, and is the document to read on this subject.

10. System Access

BigCap is an ordinary desktop application. It runs as you, and it can read and write what your Windows account can.

It does not request administrator rights, it does not install a service or a background helper, and it does not run anything after you close it. It is not a packaged Store application, so there are no declared capabilities and no Windows privacy setting governing it — there is nothing of that kind to grant or revoke. It writes files in two places: its own folder in your user profile, and wherever you choose to save a capture.

11. Third-Party and Open-Source Components

BigCap is built on components made by other people, and they keep their own licences.

Nothing in this agreement limits, or grants you, any right you have under those separate licences. Where one of them permits something this agreement restricts, that licence wins for that component.

BigCap bundles no copyleft component that would require us to offer corresponding source, and it has no other runtime dependencies.

12. Trademarks

BigCap and CTRL Colab are our marks. This licence does not give you permission to use them. You may of course say that you use BigCap, name it in a review, or show a screenshot of it — that is ordinary descriptive use and it needs no permission from us.

13. Disclaimer of Warranty

The plain version: we have tested BigCap and we use it ourselves, but we cannot promise it will work correctly on every page or in every situation, and we are not accepting liability for what happens if it does not. Please read §5 as part of this.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. CTRL COLAB LLC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY CAPTURE WILL BE COMPLETE, ACCURATE, OR FAITHFUL TO THE PAGE AS RENDERED IN A BROWSER.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing here removes a mandatory right you have under the consumer law where you live — see §17 and the Refund Policy.

14. Limitation of Liability

The plain version: BigCap costs $4.99. If it goes wrong, we will refund you, and that is the limit of what we can sensibly take on.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, CTRL COLAB LLC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE.

This does not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded where you live.

15. Term and Termination

This licence runs until it ends. It ends automatically if you breach it, and it ends if you are refunded — see the Refund Policy. When it ends, uninstall BigCap and delete your copies.

Because BigCap verifies your licence on your own computer and never contacts us (§2), there is no switch we can throw to disable a copy remotely, and no way for us to know whether you uninstalled it. A refunded licence is added to a list that ships inside the next release, so it stops working when you next update rather than the moment the refund clears. Until then we are asking. Sections 5 through 9 and 11 through 18 survive termination.

16. Purchases, Refunds, and Taxes

BigCap is a one-time purchase of $4.99 USD. It is not a subscription: there is no renewal, no recurring charge, and nothing to cancel.

Paddle.com Market Limited is our merchant of record. Paddle is the seller on your receipt — it takes the payment, issues the receipt and invoice, and calculates and remits VAT and sales tax for your country, which may be added to the price shown depending on where you are. Whether the displayed price is inclusive of applicable VAT or sales tax depends on the merchant's configuration for your billing country; the tax added, if any, is itemised at checkout before you confirm.

Refunds are set out in full on the Refund Policy, and that page — not this one — is the authoritative statement of them. The short version is fourteen days, any reason, no justification required.

17. Governing Law

Two separate facts, which should not be read as one.

CTRL Colab LLC is a New Mexico limited liability company. That is where the company was formed.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

A choice-of-law clause does not remove mandatory consumer protections you have under the law of the country or state where you live. If the law where you are gives you a right that this agreement would otherwise take away, you keep that right.

18. General

This agreement, together with the Terms of Service and the Refund Policy, is the whole agreement between us about BigCap. Where this agreement and the Terms of Service both touch the software, this agreement prevails. The Terms of Service govern the website, the purchase, and support.

If any provision is held unenforceable, it is enforced as far as it can be and the rest stands. Our not enforcing something is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it as part of a sale or reorganisation of the business.

You agree to comply with applicable export-control law, and confirm you are not located anywhere that law prohibits the software being exported to.

19. Contact

Questions about this licence, or anything else:

hello@ctrlcolab.com

BigCap is made by CTRL Colab LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company. For legal service or postal correspondence, please contact us by email at the address above and we will provide a physical address on request.

© 2026 CTRL Colab LLC. All rights reserved. BigCap is a trademark of CTRL Colab LLC.