In plain words. The free plan is free forever. Chronolane Pro is an optional paid upgrade, bought through our reseller Polar, that you can cancel at any time. Your spreadsheets stay yours. Don’t abuse the service, and we’ll do our best to keep it working — but it comes without guarantees beyond what the law requires.
1. The agreement
These terms are a contract between you and BYTE IDEA S.R.L. (“we”). They apply when you install or use the Chronolane add-in for Microsoft Excel (“the add-in”) or this website. By using them you accept these terms; if you use them for an organisation, you confirm you may accept on its behalf. How we handle personal data is described in the Privacy policy.
2. Licence
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the add-in in Microsoft Excel for your own or your organisation’s purposes, including commercial work: free of charge for the free plan, and for as long as you have Pro for the Pro features. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, resell or make the add-in available to third parties, except where the law allows it regardless of this clause.
3. Free plan and Pro
Free plan. Chronolane is free to install and use without an account. The features that are free when you start using them stay free for you.
Chronolane Pro adds the features listed on our pricing section. It is offered as:
- a monthly subscription (€9 a month) or a yearly subscription (€59 a year), renewed automatically at the end of each period until you cancel; and
- a lifetime licence (€149, paid once) that includes Pro and every future update to it for as long as we offer Chronolane.
Prices include VAT for buyers in the European Union; the checkout shows the final price for your country before you pay. We may change prices for new purchases and renewals; a change to a running subscription is announced by e-mail at least 30 days before the renewal it applies to, and you can cancel before then.
Free trial. You can try Pro once, for 7 days, without a card. When the trial ends the add-in returns to the free plan unless you buy Pro. One trial per person; we may refuse a trial that repeats one already used.
4. Your account
Pro needs an account, which you open by signing in on chronolane.eu with Google, Microsoft or a one-time code sent to your e-mail address. The account is for one person: don’t share it, its codes or the codes that link Excel to it. It can use Pro on up to three devices at a time (each Excel installation counts as one); you can sign devices out, and replace one with another up to five times in 30 days. We may suspend an account that is used to get around these limits, after telling you why. You can delete your account at any time on your account page (chronolane.eu/account); cancel an active subscription first.
5. Buying Pro
Pro is sold by Polar Software, Inc. as our reseller and merchant of record: Polar is the seller on your invoice, takes the payment, charges VAT and handles refunds, under its own Checkout Buyer Terms, which you accept at checkout. These terms still govern the add-in and the licence.
Cancelling. Cancel a subscription at any time in the customer portal (chronolane.eu/account › Manage subscription and invoices). Pro stays on until the end of the period you have paid for, and is not renewed.
Refunds and your right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the European Union, you may withdraw from a Pro purchase within 14 days of paying and get a full refund, by writing to us or to Polar. Pro ends when the refund is made. Nothing in these terms limits your other rights as a consumer.
When Pro ends — after a cancelled period, a refund or the trial — the add-in returns to the free plan. Nothing in your workbooks is changed or removed: timelines drawn with Pro stay as they are and can still be opened by anyone.
6. Acceptable use
Don’t use Chronolane to break the law, to infringe others’ rights, to probe or disrupt our systems or the services we rely on, or to build a competing product by copying it. We may block use that does.
7. Your content
Everything in your workbooks is yours. We claim no rights to it, we don’t receive it (see the Privacy policy), and we have no responsibility for it. You are responsible for backing up your files; History snapshots inside the workbook are a convenience, not a backup.
8. Our intellectual property
The add-in, this website, the templates, illustrations, icons and the Chronolane name and logo belong to us or our licensors. Templates may be used freely in your own workbooks, including for commercial work, but not redistributed as templates.
9. Microsoft services
Chronolane runs inside Microsoft Excel and is distributed through Microsoft AppSource. Your use of Excel and AppSource is governed by Microsoft’s own terms. Microsoft is not a party to these terms and is not responsible for Chronolane, for support or for purchases of Chronolane Pro.
10. Warranty and liability
The add-in is provided “as is”. We don’t promise it will be error-free or always available, and we don’t promise it fits a particular purpose. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for Chronolane in the 12 months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect losses such as lost profits or lost data. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for intent or gross negligence and the rights of consumers in the EU.
11. Changes and termination
You can stop using Chronolane at any time by removing the add-in. We may change the add-in, and we may discontinue it with at least 90 days’ notice on this site and, if you have Pro, by e-mail. If we do, subscriptions stop renewing and we refund the unused part of any period you have paid for. We may update these terms; the date and version at the top of this page show which version applies, and material changes are announced on this site before they take effect. Timelines already drawn in your workbooks stay there whatever happens to the add-in.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Romania. Disputes go to the courts of Bucharest, Romania, unless you are a consumer with a right to bring proceedings where you live.
13. Contact
BYTE IDEA S.R.L., Str. Dinicu Golescu nr. 7, parter, spațiu comercial 3, Sector 1, București, Romania · support@chronolane.eu.