Terms

Terms of sale and licence

Last updated 5 November 2026

These terms cover buying and using Jective's plugins (Sinew, the FX Suite, and whatever joins them) through jective.nz. Short version: you buy a licence through Paddle, you get a licence file that unlocks the plugin for you on the computers you use, you can have your money back within 30 days, and the law of New Zealand applies. The long version follows.

1. Who you are dealing with

Jective is Aidan McDonald, trading as Jective, in New Zealand. Contact: subconscious.nz@gmail.com. Jective is one person, so replies can take a day or two.

2. Buying through Paddle

Orders are processed by Paddle, which is the merchant of record for every purchase on this site. That means your purchase contract for the payment is with Paddle: Paddle takes your payment, works out and collects any sales tax, VAT or GST, issues your receipt, and handles refunds and payment disputes. Paddle's own buyer terms apply to that part; they are linked from the checkout and from your receipt. Jective supplies the software and the licence under these terms.

Prices are shown in your local currency where Paddle supports it and include tax where the law requires it. The price you see at checkout is the price you pay.

3. What you get

A licence is a signed file (a .jective file) that Jective emails to the address you gave at checkout once Paddle confirms the payment. It names you and the products it covers. Add it once to each computer you use and every Jective plugin on that computer will find it. Nothing phones home: the plugin checks the file on your computer and never contacts a server.

• Who may use it: you, the person named on the licence, on any number of computers that you personally use. A studio or a team needs one licence per person who uses the plugin.
• What you may do: make music with it, including commercially, with no royalty or credit owed to Jective.
• What you may not do: share, publish, sell or lend the licence file or the software; remove or defeat the licence check; take the software apart or copy its design beyond what the law lets you do regardless of this clause.
• Transfers: the licence is personal. If you want to pass it to someone else, write to Jective and it can usually be re-issued in their name once.
• Updates: every update to a plugin you have paid for, or that was included with one you paid for, is free, for as long as Jective makes that plugin. There is no paid upgrade, no version 2 to buy again, and no subscription. New plugins are new purchases; updates to the ones you own are not.

4. Early release

The plugins are sold as an early release. They work and they have been tested, but they are young: the product page says which operating systems, plugin formats and hosts are supported today, and some features, formats or platforms are still to come. The early-release price reflects that. Every early-release licence for Sinew also covers the FX Suite, for good: the one licence file unlocks both, and if the Suite is not yet released when you buy, it unlocks with that same file when it is. Problems are fixed in updates; if the plugin does not work for you, the 30-day refund in the refund policy is there for exactly that case.

5. Your consumer rights

If you buy as a consumer in New Zealand, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 applies and nothing in these terms takes away rights it gives you. If you buy as a consumer somewhere else, you keep whatever rights your local consumer law gives you that cannot be excluded by agreement. If you buy for business purposes, the Consumer Guarantees Act does not apply and the limits in section 6 do.

6. Limits

Apart from the rights above, the software is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, Jective's total liability to you for anything arising from the software or these terms is limited to the amount you paid for it, and Jective is not liable for indirect losses such as lost recordings, lost sessions, lost income or lost time. Keep backups: a plugin can crash a host, and no plugin maker can promise it never will.

7. Revocation

A licence can be revoked if it is refunded, charged back, or found to be shared or resold. A revoked licence stops unlocking new versions of the software; versions already installed are not reached into.

8. Changes and law

These terms may change when the products change; the date at the top says which version you are reading, and the version in force when you bought applies to your purchase. These terms are governed by the law of New Zealand and any dispute that cannot be settled by talking is for the courts of New Zealand, without taking away a consumer's right to go to their local court.