Terms & Conditions

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

These Terms & Conditions (the "Terms") govern your use of the MechaHandbook application for Apple devices (iPhone, iPad and Mac) and for Android devices (the "App"), and of this website at mechahandbook.com (the "Website"). The App and the Website are together referred to as the "Service".

The Service is provided by:
Matteo Dallapiccola
Via Stramaiolo 2, Bedollo (TN), Italy
Email: info@mechahandbook.com
(the "Operator", "we", "us" or "our").

How we handle personal data is described separately in our Privacy Policy, which should be read alongside these Terms.

2. Acceptance of these Terms

By downloading, installing or using the App, or by browsing the Website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with them, do not use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these Terms on its behalf.

The Service is a technical reference tool and is not specifically directed at children. If you are not legally able to enter into these Terms on your own, you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian where required by applicable law.

3. What MechaHandbook is

MechaHandbook is a mechanical-engineering reference tool. It provides reference material, data tables, formulas and interactive calculators for consultation. The App is designed to work without an internet connection and without a user account: it does not ask you to register or sign in.

The Service is provided for general information and educational purposes. It is a convenience aid to your own work and judgement, not a replacement for them.

4. Engineering content — important disclaimer

The reference content, values, tables, formulas and calculator results provided by the Service are offered on an "as is" basis for general guidance. Despite our care in preparing them, we do not warrant that they are accurate, complete, current or suitable for any particular purpose.

The Service is not a substitute for:

• the exercise of professional engineering judgement by a qualified person;
• the official text of technical standards, codes and regulations (such as those published by ISO, EN, DIN, ASME or other bodies), which always prevail over any summary or extract shown in the Service;
• the current data, tolerances and specifications provided by manufacturers and material suppliers for the specific components you use;
• independent verification, testing, calculation checks and, where required, review or sign-off by an appropriately qualified professional.

You are solely responsible for any design, analysis, manufacturing, purchasing, safety or other decision you make, and for verifying any value or result before relying on it. Do not use the Service as the sole basis for decisions that could affect safety, health, property or regulatory compliance.

5. Licence to use the Service

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install and use the App on devices you own or control, and to access the Website, for your own personal or internal professional use.

You may not:

• sell, rent, sub-licence, redistribute or otherwise make the Service, or its content, available to third parties as a stand-alone product or dataset;
• copy, scrape, extract or systematically download the content of the Service in order to build or populate a competing product, database or service;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;
• use the Service in any way that breaches applicable law, infringes the rights of others, or interferes with or disrupts the Service or the servers and networks used to provide it.

Reasonable, occasional use of individual values or results in the course of your own engineering work is permitted and is not restricted by the points above.

6. Intellectual property

The Service, including its text, layout, graphics, user interface, the selection and arrangement of its reference material, and the software and calculators it contains, is owned by the Operator or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws. "MechaHandbook" and the MechaHandbook logo are marks of the Operator.

Technical standards, and the trademarks and copyrights of standards bodies, manufacturers and other third parties that may be referenced within the Service, remain the property of their respective owners. Their mention does not imply any endorsement or affiliation.

Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership right to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

7. The App and the app stores

The App is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play. Your use of those stores is also subject to their own terms, and the App must be used in accordance with the App Store Terms of Service or the Google Play Terms of Service that apply to you.

The following applies to the extent you obtained the App from the Apple App Store:

• these Terms are concluded between you and the Operator only, and not with Apple. The Operator, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content;
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the App;
• in the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any) for the App; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App;
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the App, including product-liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection or similar legislation;
• Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement or discharge of any third-party claim that the App infringes that party's intellectual-property rights;
• you represent that you are not located in a country subject to a relevant embargo and that you are not on a relevant list of prohibited or restricted parties;
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce them against you.

8. Paid features, in-app purchases and subscriptions

The App may offer paid features, in the form of one-off in-app purchases and/or subscriptions. Where it does, the price and the main features are shown in the App before you confirm.

All purchases and billing are handled exclusively by Apple or Google through their respective app stores and payment systems. We do not process payments and never receive or store your payment details. Your purchase is therefore also governed by the terms and the privacy policy of the store you use.

Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled before the next renewal in accordance with the rules of the app store through which you purchased them. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings. Uninstalling the App does not cancel a subscription.

Refund requests are handled by Apple or Google in accordance with their policies. We may change the price or the composition of the paid features for the future; where a change affects an active subscription, it applies from the next renewal and you will be given notice and the opportunity to cancel as required by the store and by applicable law.

9. Right of withdrawal for consumers

If you are a consumer, you may have a statutory right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days, subject to the exceptions and conditions provided by applicable consumer law.

For digital content and digital services, the right of withdrawal may in certain circumstances be lost once supply or performance has begun, where you have expressly agreed to this and acknowledged the resulting loss of the right of withdrawal as required by law.

Purchases made through the Apple App Store or Google Play are processed through the relevant store. Requests concerning cancellation, withdrawal or refunds should therefore normally be made using the procedures provided by that store, without prejudice to any mandatory rights you have under applicable law.

10. Availability and changes to the Service

We may update, change, suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service, add or remove features, or stop supporting a particular platform or operating system version, at any time. The Website may be temporarily unavailable for maintenance or for reasons outside our control.

We are not obliged to keep any particular content, table or calculator available, or to keep it unchanged. Any such changes are subject to applicable law and will not affect rights you may have in relation to paid digital content or digital services. Where a change materially reduces paid features you have an active subscription to, Section 8 also applies.

11. Third-party services and links

The Service relies on third parties to operate — including Cloudflare for website hosting and Brevo for the launch mailing list (see the Privacy Policy) — and the App is delivered through Apple and Google. The Website may also contain links to third-party sites, such as the websites of standards bodies or manufacturers. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices. Their own terms and privacy policies apply to your use of them.

12. Mailing list

If you choose to leave your email address on the Website to be notified when the App launches, you may unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email. We use the address only to send that notification. See the Privacy Policy for details.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and except for any statutory guarantees or rights that cannot be excluded, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not guarantee that all content will always be accurate, complete, current or uninterrupted, or that every defect will be corrected.

This Section applies to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and does not exclude or limit any warranty or right that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you, including mandatory consumer protections.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator will not be liable for:

• any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damage, or any loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunity;
• any loss or damage arising from your reliance on the reference content, values or calculator results of the Service, or from any inaccuracy, incompleteness or unavailability of the Service;
• any loss or damage arising from a design, analysis, manufacturing, purchasing or safety decision made in whole or in part on the basis of the Service.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, and your mandatory statutory rights and the mandatory rules of your country of residence remain unaffected.

If you use the Service for business or professional purposes and are not acting as a consumer, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service shall not exceed the amount you paid for the Service during the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

15. Your responsibilities and indemnity

You are responsible for using the Service in accordance with these Terms and with applicable law, and for the decisions you make using it. If you are not a consumer, you agree to hold the Operator harmless from third-party claims, losses and reasonable expenses arising from your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or of applicable law.

16. Suspension and termination

These Terms apply for as long as you use the Service. You may stop using the Service, and uninstall the App, at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms, or where required to comply with the law or a request of a competent authority.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including those on intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law — continue to apply.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves or as legal requirements change. The date at the top of this page reflects the most recent version. Where a change is material, we will give reasonable notice by appropriate means, such as a notice in the App or on the Website. Where your agreement to the updated Terms is required by law, we will ask for it before the change applies to you; otherwise the updated Terms apply to your use of the Service from the date they are published.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the Service, are governed by Italian law, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country; disputes with consumers are otherwise subject to the courts of the consumer's place of residence or domicile, where located in Italy. For any other user, the courts of Trento, Italy, have exclusive jurisdiction.

Consumers may have access to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures provided under applicable consumer law. Information about recognised consumer ADR bodies is available from the competent national authorities. We do not currently commit to participating in an ADR procedure unless required by applicable law.

19. General

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its intended effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer ours to a successor of the Service, without reducing your rights.

These Terms, together with any terms shown at the point of a purchase, are the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the Service. Our Privacy Policy applies to personal data as described in it.

20. Contact

For any question about these Terms, contact us at:
info@mechahandbook.com