Terms of Use
The short version. RIVET comes from the Microsoft Store under Microsoft's standard licence, and we don't add to it. Pro is a one-off purchase; Microsoft handles payment and refunds. RIVET only changes your PC when you confirm, and it tells you when something can't be undone. Your rights as a consumer are never affected.
1. Who we are
RIVET and RIVET XP are made by William Edward Kirby, trading as Kirby Systems, in the United Kingdom. Contact: [email protected].
2. Getting the apps
RIVET and RIVET XP are distributed only through the Microsoft Store. Your licence to use them is Microsoft's Standard Application License Terms; Kirby Systems does not add terms to that licence. Downloads from anywhere else are not from us.
3. Free, trial and Pro
- RIVET is free to install. Features marked Pro are unlocked for a 14-day trial, once per computer; reinstalling doesn't restart it. When the trial ends nothing is locked or undone, and the free version keeps working.
- RIVET Pro is a one-time purchase, with no subscription, made through the Microsoft Store. Payment, receipts and refunds are handled by Microsoft under its own policies. We never see your payment details.
- Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected by anything in these terms.
4. Changes RIVET makes to your PC
RIVET can change your system when you tell it to: stop services, end processes, change Windows settings, disable startup apps and delete cache files.
- Every change is shown to you before it runs, and only happens after you confirm it.
- Most changes can be undone. Some cannot: deleted files and ended processes don't come back, and RIVET says so before you confirm.
- You are responsible for the changes you choose to make. Keep backups of anything important, and don't change settings on a computer you aren't allowed to manage, such as a work or school PC.
5. The on-device assistant
Ask RIVET's answers are generated by a language model running on your own PC, so they can be wrong. RIVET shows the readings an answer is based on and never lets the model make a change on its own. Don't rely on an answer alone for anything important. You can report a bad answer from inside the app.
6. Privacy
How RIVET handles data is set out in the Privacy Policy. In short: no account, no telemetry, no ads, and the only internet connection RIVET makes is the optional one-off model download.
7. Liability
We make RIVET carefully, but we can't promise it will be error-free or suit every PC. To the extent the law allows, Kirby Systems is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss caused by changes you chose to make, and our total liability to you for anything else is limited to the amount you paid for RIVET Pro.
Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under UK law, and nothing here takes away your statutory rights as a consumer.
8. This website
You may read, link to and share this site. Please don't copy its design, text or screenshots to pass off another product as RIVET. RIVET and the RIVET logo are trademarks of Kirby Systems. Links to other sites (the Microsoft Store, GitHub, itch.io) are there for convenience; we don't control them.
9. Changes to these terms
If these terms change, the new version will be published here with a new date. Changes don't apply retroactively to a purchase you've already made.
10. Law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live elsewhere in the UK or the EU, you also keep the protections of your local consumer law.