Kuro Licence Agreement

Version 1.0 · Last updated 12 November 2026

This agreement is between you and ANT-Palvelut Oy (business ID 2237315-8, VAT number FI22373158), Tietotaajamansuora 16, 04300 Tuusula, Finland, info@kurodock.com ("we", "us"). We make Kuro. It covers the Kuro app for Windows and macOS, its updates and its documentation (together, "Kuro").

You accept it by clicking "I agree" in the installer, or by installing or using Kuro. If you accept for a company or other organisation, you confirm that you may bind it, and "you" then means that organisation.

If you are a consumer, nothing here takes away or limits the rights that consumer law gives you, in particular the Finnish Consumer Protection Act (kuluttajansuojalaki 38/1978, including chapter 5a on digital content) or the mandatory consumer law of the EU country where you live. If a term below conflicts with those rights, those rights apply instead.

The short version

• Kuro Free is free for good. Every new install gets 14 days of Pro to try, with no key and no sign-up.
• Pro is a one-time purchase. One licence covers you on two computers, Windows or Mac.
• You can change your mind for 14 days after buying and get your money back.
• Your clipboard, notes, chats and files stay on your computer. We don't get a copy.
• Luni and the picture maker are AI. They can be wrong, so check what they give you.

1. Who does what

• ANT-Palvelut Oy makes Kuro and gives you the licence to use it (this agreement).
• Polar Software, Inc. (polar.sh) sells Kuro Pro for us as merchant of record. When you buy Pro, Polar is the seller: it takes the payment, charges the VAT, sends the receipt and issues your licence key. Polar's buyer terms apply to the payment itself.
• You can come to us with anything about Kuro: questions, faults, refunds. We deal with them directly, together with Polar where a payment is involved. This does not limit any rights you have against Polar as the seller.

2. What you get

2.1 Kuro Free. Free, for as long as you like: the clipboard (clips kept for up to 30 days), GIFs, emoji, up to five notes, web tabs, the search bar and the Island.

2.2 Trial. On a new computer, every Pro feature works for 14 days from the first launch. When the trial ends Kuro becomes Kuro Free. Nothing you made is deleted, and Pro features come back as they were if you buy Pro.

2.3 Kuro Pro. A one-time purchase, not a subscription. The price is shown, with VAT included, before you pay: 29 € launch price until 31 January 2027, then 39 €. Pro includes every Kuro 1.x update. Whether a later major version (2.0 and on) is included, or is a paid upgrade, will be stated when that version comes out. You can always keep using the version you have.

2.4 System requirements. Kuro for Windows needs Windows 10 version 2004 or later, or Windows 11. Kuro for macOS will be released later and its requirements will be stated then. An internet connection is needed to activate a licence key and for the online features in section 7. Some AI features need a computer with enough memory and disk space to run AI models. Kuro tells you before it downloads one.

3. Your licence

3.1 We give you a non-exclusive licence to install and use Kuro in the form we supply it, for as long as this agreement lasts:

• Personal licence (consumers): for you, on up to 2 computers that you own or control.
• Business licence: for one named person per licence bought, on up to 2 computers used by that person. You may move a licence to another person when someone leaves or changes role, but not share it between more people at once than you bought licences for.
• Free and trial: on any number of your own computers.

3.2 Kuro is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights in Kuro. Any right not given to you here is kept by us.

4. Licence keys and checks

4.1 After buying Pro you get a licence key from Polar. You enter it in Kuro (Settings › Kuro Pro). Kuro then registers that computer with Polar's licence service. To move Pro to another computer, choose "Move Pro to another PC" on the old one first, which frees its place. If the old computer is lost or broken, write to us and we will free its place.

4.2 Kuro checks the key with Polar about once a week in the background. If Kuro cannot reach Polar, Pro keeps working. Kuro needs to reach Polar successfully at least once every 60 days. If it has not for longer than that, Pro pauses until the next successful check. Nothing is deleted while it is paused. Section 6 of the privacy policy says what a check sends.

4.3 If a purchase is refunded or charged back, the key is disabled. The next check that reaches Polar then turns Pro off on that computer, and Kuro carries on as Kuro Free.

4.4 If the licence service we use ever closes for good, we will release an update so that keys already sold keep working without it.

5. Passing your licence on

You may give your Pro licence as a whole to someone else, for example with a computer you sell. To do so, remove it from your computers, stop using Pro, and tell us at info@kurodock.com who the new owner is, so the key can be moved to them. The new owner takes over this agreement. You may not split a licence or keep using it after passing it on.

6. What you may not do

Except where this agreement or the law allows it, you may not:

1. copy Kuro, other than to install it as section 3 allows and for normal backups;
2. sell, rent or lend Kuro or a licence key, or publish a key, except as section 5 allows;
3. modify Kuro or make works based on it;
4. reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble Kuro, except where the law allows this anyway (for example to make another program work with it, under the Finnish Copyright Act (tekijänoikeuslaki 404/1961) and articles 5–6 of Directive 2009/24/EC);
5. remove or change copyright and licence notices, or the marks Kuro adds to AI-generated pictures (section 8.5);
6. get around the licence checks; or
7. use Kuro to break the law, to infringe anyone's rights, to harm the security of a computer or network, or to collect other people's personal data without a lawful basis.

7. Open-source parts and services you choose

7.1 Open-source parts. Kuro contains open-source components. When you ask, it can download further open-source programs and AI models (for example llama.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp, whisper.cpp and the Gemma and Z-Image-Turbo models). They are listed with their licences in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, which comes with Kuro and is at https://kurodock.com/notices. Each is covered by its own licence, and nothing here limits what that licence allows you.

7.2 Online services. Some features connect to services run by others, but only when you use those features. Examples are a cloud AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI or Google) with your own API key, your email account, KLIPY for GIFs, MET Norway for weather, and Hugging Face and GitHub for model downloads. The privacy policy lists them all. Those services are run by their operators under their own terms. When you use a cloud AI provider with your own key, you are that provider's customer and it bills you directly.

7.3 We do not control those services. If one changes or closes, the feature that uses it may stop working. We will tell you where we can, and adapt Kuro where it is reasonable. If you are a consumer and Kuro then no longer matches what was agreed, your rights in section 11 apply.

8. AI features

8.1 Luni (the assistant), the picture maker and voice input use machine-learning models. Kuro tells you when you are dealing with AI. Their output is made automatically and can be wrong, incomplete, out of date or inappropriate, even when it sounds sure. It is not professional advice (for example legal, medical or financial).

8.2 Check before you rely on it. Check AI output before you use, send or publish it, or act on it. When Luni offers to do something on your computer, for example save or move a file, write a note, run a macro, open a page or read your email, read what it is about to do before you approve it.

8.3 Beta. Luni and the wallpaper builder are labelled Beta. They are still being developed and may change or be less reliable than the rest of Kuro. If you are a consumer, the Beta label does not reduce your rights for what you paid for.

8.4 Fair use. Do not use the AI features to make or spread illegal content, content that sexualises minors, or content that harasses, defames or impersonates real people or infringes others' rights. If you publish an AI picture, video or sound that shows real people, places or events as if they were real, say that it is AI-generated where the law requires it (for example Article 50 of the EU AI Act).

8.5 Marks on AI pictures. Kuro writes a machine-readable mark into every picture it generates, saying that the picture is AI-generated (IPTC Digital Source Type "trainedAlgorithmicMedia"). Do not remove it to pass a generated picture off as real.

8.6 What you make is yours to use. We claim no rights in the output you generate. You may use it as you wish, within the law and the licences of the models used (THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md). AI output may not be protected by copyright and may resemble existing works, so we cannot promise that it is free of other people's rights.

9. Your data

Kuro works on your computer. Your clipboard history, notes, chats, files and settings are stored there, and we do not get a copy. Kuro deletes things when you tell it to, and clips when they are older than the period you chose. Please keep backups of anything important. The privacy policy (https://kurodock.com/privacy, also included with Kuro) explains what goes over the internet and when.

10. Updates

10.1 Kuro checks our update list about once a day and tells you when a new version is out. You can turn this off in Settings. Updates install only when you choose to install them.

10.2 We provide Kuro 1.x updates, including security fixes, for as long as you can reasonably expect for software of this kind, and in any case for at least two years after you buy Pro. If you don't install an update we told you about, we are not responsible for a fault caused only by that. This applies only if we told you what not installing it would mean.

10.3 Updates may also add, change or improve features, for example for security, changes in the law, changes in the services Kuro uses, or new ideas. If an update would remove or clearly worsen something you paid for, we will say so before you install it, and you can keep using the version you have. This does not affect your rights in section 11.

11. If something is wrong (consumers)

11.1 Kuro must match this agreement and what we said about it, and work the way you can reasonably expect from software of this kind. If it doesn't, you have the rights in chapter 5a of the Consumer Protection Act, which include:

• having the fault fixed within a reasonable time, free of charge;
• if it can't or isn't fixed, a price reduction, or ending the contract and getting your money back (a refund within 14 days);
• compensation for loss the fault causes you (section 13.2).

11.2 A fault that shows up within one year of when you got Kuro is presumed to have been there from the start, unless we show otherwise. Please tell us at info@kurodock.com and help us find out whether the problem lies with Kuro or with something else on your computer.

12. Changing your mind: 14 days

12.1 You can cancel your Pro purchase within 14 days of the day you bought it, for any reason, and get all your money back.

12.2 To cancel, write to info@kurodock.com with your name and your order number or licence key, for example: "I am cancelling my purchase of Kuro Pro, order no. …, bought on …". Where Polar's customer portal offers a cancellation or refund option for your order, you can use that instead. We confirm your cancellation by email.

12.3 We refund within 14 days of your cancellation, through Polar, to the payment method you used, at no cost to you. Your key is then disabled and Kuro goes back to Kuro Free on your computers (section 4.3). Nothing you made is deleted.

13. Liability

13.1 For everyone. Nothing in this agreement limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for damage caused on purpose or by gross negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that the law does not allow to be limited.

13.2 Consumers. We are liable to you as chapter 5a of the Consumer Protection Act provides. In short, we compensate the direct loss a fault causes you. We compensate indirect loss, such as lost income, only where the fault or the loss is due to our negligence, or where Kuro lacked a quality we specifically promised. Compensation can be reduced if you did not take reasonable steps to limit the loss, for example by keeping backups of important files.

13.3 Business customers. As far as the law allows:

• Kuro is provided "as is". For 30 days after purchase we will, at our choice, fix a material fault you report or refund the price. Apart from that we give no warranty that Kuro is free of errors, uninterrupted or fit for a particular purpose;
• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, such as lost profit, revenue, business, goodwill or data; and
• our total liability under this agreement is limited to what you paid for Kuro in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim.

13.4 Kuro works closely with Windows and macOS (the clipboard, shortcuts, windows, the taskbar). Updates to those systems by Microsoft or Apple can change how a feature behaves. We will adapt Kuro where we reasonably can. For consumers, section 11 still applies.

14. Ending this agreement

14.1 You can end this agreement at any time by uninstalling Kuro. Ending it does not by itself give you a refund, except as sections 11 and 12 say.

14.2 We may end it by email only if you seriously break it, for example by publishing your key or reselling copies of Kuro, and you have not put it right within 14 days of our email asking you to. When it ends you must stop using Kuro.

14.3 Sections 3.2, 6, 8.6, 13 and 15–17 continue after the agreement ends.

15. Law and disputes

15.1 Finnish law applies to this agreement, without its conflict-of-law rules and without the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer living in another EU country, you also keep the protection of that country's mandatory consumer law.

15.2 Consumers. Please write to us first. Most problems can be solved that way. If we can't agree, you can take the matter to the Finnish Consumer Disputes Board (Kuluttajariitalautakunta, https://www.kuluttajariita.fi). Contact the consumer advisory service (Kuluttajaneuvonta, https://www.kkv.fi/en/consumer-affairs/consumer-advisory-services/) first. If you live in another EU country, the European Consumer Centre in your country can help. You can also go to court. In Finland that is the district court of the place where you live.

15.3 Business customers. Disputes are settled in the District Court of Helsinki (Helsingin käräjäoikeus).

16. Changes to this agreement

We may update this agreement for new versions of Kuro, or for good reasons such as changes in the law or in Kuro's features. We will tell you about important changes in Kuro or by email before they apply. Changes never reduce your rights for a purchase you have already made unless you agree to them.

17. General

17.1 This agreement, together with the privacy policy, is the whole agreement between you and us about Kuro. Polar's buyer terms cover the payment.

17.2 If a court finds a term invalid, the rest of the agreement still applies. For business customers, the invalid term is replaced by a valid one that comes as close as possible to its purpose.

17.3 We may transfer this agreement to a company that takes over Kuro, if your rights under it stay the same. You may pass it on as section 5 describes.

17.4 Microsoft and Apple are not parties to this agreement and are not responsible for Kuro.

17.5 Sanctions: you may not use or export Kuro in breach of EU, UN or other sanctions or export-control law that applies to you.

17.6 This agreement is written in English. If we publish a translation and it differs, the version in a consumer's own language applies where the law requires it, and otherwise the English version applies.

18. Contact

ANT-Palvelut Oy Business ID (Y-tunnus): 2237315-8 VAT number: FI22373158 Tietotaajamansuora 16, 04300 Tuusula, Finland Email: info@kurodock.com Web: https://kurodock.com