Terms of use

1. Accepting these terms

Using Office Utilities means you accept what is written here. If you do not, please do not use the site. We may revise these terms as the site changes; the date above shows when they were last altered, and continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the revised version.

2. What the service is

Office Utilities is a collection of document tools that run inside your web browser. There is no account to create, nothing to install, and no charge. The tools are provided as a free service and may be changed, limited or withdrawn at any time without notice.

Because the processing happens on your own device, the service depends on your browser and hardware. Large files may be slow or may fail entirely depending on the memory available to your browser, and older browsers may not support every tool.

3. Your files remain yours

We claim no ownership of, and acquire no rights in, anything you open with these tools. Files are read into your browser's memory and processed there. They are not uploaded, copied to a server, or transmitted to us or anyone else, which also means we have no copy of them and cannot recover one for you.

You are responsible for keeping your own backups. Converting a document produces a new file; it does not preserve the original for you.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Office Utilities to:

• process material you have no legal right to process, including copyrighted work you do not own or hold a licence for;
• remove access controls from documents you are not authorised to open — the password and watermark tools exist for your own files, not other people's;
• break any applicable law, or infringe anyone's rights;
• attempt to disrupt the site or the service it provides.

Since nothing you do passes through a server, we cannot monitor or police this. It rests on you.

5. No warranty

The service is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the tools will be accurate, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose.

Document conversion is lossy by nature and some of it is inference rather than reproduction. The disclaimer sets out the known limitations in detail, and you should read it before relying on any output.

6. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site — including lost, corrupted or incorrectly converted documents, lost time, lost profits, or any indirect or consequential loss.

This is a free service with no account and no payment. Nothing here is intended to exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

7. Advertising

The site is funded by advertising supplied by Google AdSense. Ads are served by Google as a third party and are subject to Google's own terms and policies, not ours. We do not control which ads appear and do not endorse what they promote.

Google sets its own cookies on your device for this purpose. What that involves is set out on the privacy page.

8. Third-party links

Some pages link to other websites, and advertisements link to destinations we do not control. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or practices of any site we link to or that an advertisement leads to.

9. Intellectual property and licence

The name, branding and written content of Office Utilities belong to their author. The source code is published under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later.

That means you are free to read it, modify it and share it. It also means that if you run a modified version as a service other people can use, you must offer those people the source of your version under the same licence. The tools are built on open-source libraries, each of which remains under its own licence.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms can go to contact@office-utilities.org, or see the contact page for the right address for other subjects.