Aubora: Terms of Use

Last updated: August 12, 2026

These Terms of Use cover the aubora.co website: what you may do with it, what we commit to, and what we do not. Each product we publish carries its own terms, and those govern the product.

1. Object and scope

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of the website published at aubora.co, including its pages and the files it offers for download (the “Site”). Using the Site means accepting them.

Each product we publish has its own terms or licence. For a given product, that product’s terms or licence prevail over these Terms. Meridian and MeridianDesk have their own terms; Cerno is governed by the terms published at cerno.me; the licence for Verto is set out in section 6 below. These Terms cover the Site itself.

2. Publisher

The publisher is identified at the top of this page. Aubora is a company in formation. Until it is registered it has no legal personality of its own, so the publisher today is its founder, acting on the company’s behalf. Once the company is incorporated it will take over publication of the Site, and this page will be updated.

3. Free access, no account, no user content

The Site is informational and free. Nothing is sold on it: the Verto donation link opens an external page operated by Stripe, and a donation is a gift, not a purchase. The Site has no accounts, no login, no comments, no forum, and no uploads, and it hosts no content submitted by third parties: everything on it is published by us, including material we use under licence, such as the typefaces the Site serves from its own server. Written contact goes through the addresses in section 15. The forms the Site displays, such as the MeridianDesk access request, compose an email in your own mail application: no form sends anything to a server.

4. Intellectual property

The Site, its texts, its design, and its code are protected by copyright. Under article L. 111-1 of the Code de la propriété intellectuelle, that protection exists by the sole fact of the work’s creation. No registration, deposit, or notice is needed for it to arise, and none has been made.

Aubora, Cerno, Meridian, MeridianDesk and Verto, together with the visual identity of this Site, are distinctive signs of Aubora. All rights in them are reserved. We assert every protection the law attaches to them, including against imitation, unauthorised use, and bad-faith registration, and any use of these signs beyond what the law allows without consent requires our prior written agreement.

5. Licence to use the Site

You may browse the Site, read it, and print or save pages for your own personal, non-commercial use. Beyond that personal use and the exceptions the law provides (quotation, press review, private copying, and the other limits of the Code de la propriété intellectuelle), any reproduction, republication, adaptation, extraction, or reuse of all or part of the Site requires our prior agreement, including by scraping or automated harvesting.

6. Downloading Verto

Verto is a document converter for macOS, offered free of charge. Downloading it gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and run the application on the Macs you use. Verto converts your documents locally, on your machine. We make no commitment that the download will stay available: we may change the application or stop distributing it. If you leave automatic updates on, the application periodically fetches update information from this Site, an ordinary request to our server described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Betas and the Cerno alpha

Some of what we publish is pre-release software. Cerno is in private alpha, by invitation, at cerno.me. Pre-release software moves: features appear and disappear, interfaces are reworked, things break, and a test phase can be paused or closed. We say so plainly so you can decide. Invitations are personal. This section describes how the software behaves. It excludes no liability of ours and creates no limitation beyond what section 8 provides, and it reserves us no right to modify unilaterally the terms relating to the duration, the characteristics or the price of a good to be delivered or a service to be rendered to a consumer (article R. 212-1, 3°, of the Code de la consommation).

8. Warranties and liability

a) If you are a consumer. Nothing in these Terms excludes or reduces your right to compensation for harm we cause you. Such a clause is unlawful under article R. 212-1, 6°, of the Code de la consommation, and we attempt none: our liability towards you is governed by the law. As an express savings clause, if any provision of these Terms were read as limiting a liability that cannot lawfully be limited, that provision does not apply to you and the rest of the Terms stands.

b) If you are a professional user. Where you use the Site or download Verto for business or professional purposes, the Site and its downloads are provided “as is”, without warranty that they will be uninterrupted or error-free, and without warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. In that case, and to the extent French law permits, our liability is limited to direct loss, and we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of data or loss of opportunity, whether or not such loss is characterised as direct. This paragraph does not cover gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or personal injury. It applies to professional users alone: it does not apply to consumers, nor to non-professional users (non-professionnels) within the meaning of the Code de la consommation.

9. Proof

No clause of these Terms places on you a burden of proof that the law places on us, and none restricts the means of proof available to you (article R. 212-1, 12°, and article R. 212-2, 9°, of the Code de la consommation). You may prove what you need to prove by any means.

10. External links and third-party services

The Site points to services we do not operate:

• the donation page, run by Stripe;
• the file storage run by Vercel Inc., to which the Verto download is redirected;
• cerno.me, where Cerno is made available under its own terms.

Each of these services is governed by the terms and policies of the company that runs it, which we invite you to read, and not by these Terms. We control neither their content, nor their availability, nor their practices.

11. Availability

We make best efforts to keep the Site up and reachable, but we guarantee no level of availability. Access can be interrupted by maintenance, a change of provider, a technical fault, or an event outside our control. We may add pages, revise them, or withdraw them. Nothing here reserves us a discretionary power to cut off your access: the Site is open to all and requires no account.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms. Each version carries the date shown at the top of this page. A new version applies from the day it is published and never retroactively to your earlier use.

13. Amicable resolution, and why it is optional

If something on the Site or in one of our products is wrong, write to contact@aubora.co. Most problems are settled faster that way, and we would rather hear about it.

This is an invitation, not a condition. You are free to go to court directly, without writing to us first and without attempting mediation or any other amicable settlement. French law forbids a clause making recourse to a mediator a precondition of court action for a consumer (article L. 612-4 of the Code de la consommation), and we impose none. The consumer mediation regime does not apply to us today. It covers only disputes over a contract of sale or a contract for the supply of a service for a price (article L. 611-1, 3° and 4°, of the Code de la consommation), and we sell nothing to consumers; so the duty to name a mediator (articles L. 612-1 and L. 616-1) does not arise, and there is no mediator to name here. If that changes, this section will name one.

14. Governing law and courts

These Terms are governed by French law. Where both parties contract as merchants (commerçants), the courts of Paris have jurisdiction. Against anyone else, whether a consumer, a non-professionnel, or any user who is not a merchant, that designation does not apply (article 48 of the Code de procédure civile) and the ordinary rules of territorial jurisdiction govern. Two further consumer protections apply and cannot be set aside.

First, if you are a consumer, the choice of French law cannot deprive you of the protections that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the country where you habitually reside, where we direct our activities to that country (article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, “Rome I”). On jurisdiction, you may bring proceedings against us either in the courts of your own domicile or in the French courts, and we may bring proceedings against you only in the courts of your domicile (articles 18 and 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, “Brussels I bis”).

Second, in a dispute internal to France, a consumer may choose, in addition to the courts having ordinary jurisdiction, the court of the place where they lived when the contract was concluded or where the harmful event occurred (article R. 631-3 of the Code de la consommation).

15. Contact

• The Site and these Terms: contact@aubora.co
• Personal data and the exercise of your rights: privacy@aubora.co
• Reporting a vulnerability or a security problem, and that alone: security@aubora.co

16. Privacy

How this Site handles data (server logs, cookieless analytics, the fonts your browser fetches, and email) is set out in the Privacy Policy, French version at /fr/privacy/. Each product has its own policy: Cerno, Meridian and MeridianDesk. The Site sets no cookies.

The Privacy Policy is a separate document, not part of these Terms.