Vitaesmith License

1. Who grants this licence

This licence is granted by Deshenvale Ltd, trading as Pewterham ("we", "us"), a company registered in Scotland with company number SC900494, whose registered office is at 48 West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1BP. "You" means the person who bought Vitaesmith.

The licence is the same whether you bought Vitaesmith on our website, through our reseller Paddle, or on Etsy. Vitaesmith is licensed to you, not sold: we keep the copyright in the app, its templates, its starter CVs and its design. Vitaesmith is © Deshenvale Ltd 2026, apart from the fonts by other designers (section 4), which keep their own licences.

2. What you may do

• Use Vitaesmith, for as long as you like, on computers and devices you own or control, one computer at a time (section 6).
• Make as many CVs and résumés as you like, for yourself or for other people, including paid CV-writing work.
• Send, print, publish and keep the CVs you make. They are yours. No credit or link back to Vitaesmith is needed.
• Keep a private online copy of Vitaesmith for your own use (for example, to use it on a phone or tablet), as long as it is protected so only you can open it. It counts as one of your computers (section 6).
• Keep backup copies of the files you downloaded, for your own use.

3. What you may not do

• Share, give away, sell, rent, lend or sub-license Vitaesmith, or any part of it (its code, templates, starter CVs, wording or design), whether as it is or changed.
• Resell Vitaesmith in any form: as a CV builder, as a CV or résumé template pack, as a product with "resell rights" or "private label rights", or inside a bundle.
• Put Vitaesmith, or any part of it, inside another app, website, template, product or service, whether you charge for it or give it away.
• Put Vitaesmith itself online where other people can open it or download it.
• Share your activation code with anyone else, or change Vitaesmith to get round its activation.
• Remove the font licences that come with the fonts, or this licence.

4. Fonts

Vitaesmith includes fonts by other designers, shared under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Each font's licence travels with it, in the fonts folder inside Vitaesmith, and FONTS.md lists them. CVs you export as PDF carry the parts of the fonts they use, which their licence allows.

5. The CVs you make

You are responsible for what your CVs say: that it is true, and that you have the right to use every name, photo and detail in them. The starter CVs are examples only: replace their text with your own, and never claim a job, qualification or referee you don't have. Vitaesmith can't promise interviews or job offers, or say how an employer's software will read your CV.

6. Activation

• Vitaesmith needs a one-time online activation. If you bought on our website, your activation code arrives by email within 24 hours of your payment; if you bought on Etsy, it arrives by Etsy message, usually within 24 hours.
• Vitaesmith asks for the code when you first open it, and you can choose Later. Until you enter it you can use everything except one step: the first time you export your CV, Vitaesmith asks for the code again.
• A code works on one computer at a time. A "computer" means one web browser on one computer: another browser, a private window or an online copy counts as another computer.
• You can move your code to another computer yourself up to 3 times in any 12 months. "Remove this computer" in Vitaesmith frees it without using a move. If you need more, ask us.
• If the activation service can't be reached when you first enter your code, Vitaesmith gives that computer a 7-day temporary pass and confirms your code later. A temporary pass ends if the code turns out not to be valid, or is already in use on another computer.
• Once activated, Vitaesmith works offline. When you're online it checks in at most once a day; if it can't reach us, nothing changes.
• We may switch off a code after a refund or a chargeback, or if it is shared in breach of this licence.
• If we ever close the activation service, we will first release an update of Vitaesmith, at no cost, that works without activation. Until then, we'll send you an offline pass on request.

7. Updates and help

Updates to version 1 of Vitaesmith come at no extra cost. For help, email us at [email protected] or, if you bought on Etsy, message us there.

8. No warranty, and your rights

Vitaesmith is provided "as is". We work hard to make it reliable, but we can't promise it will be free of errors or suit every purpose. As far as the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the price you paid. Nothing in this licence limits the rights you have by law as a consumer, for example if Vitaesmith is faulty or not as described.

Vitaesmith is a digital download. When you bought it, you asked for it to be supplied straight away and acknowledged that once the download starts you lose the 14-day right to cancel. This doesn't affect your other legal rights. Our terms and refunds say what happens if something is wrong.

9. If these terms are broken

If you break these terms, this licence ends and you must delete your copies of Vitaesmith. CVs you made while following these terms are still yours.

10. The law

This licence is governed by the laws of Scotland. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the laws of the country where you live.

11. Privacy

Activation sends us your code, a random ID made for your browser and which app it is, and never your CV, your name or anything you type. Our privacy notice says what we keep, why, for how long, and your rights.