AttoTerms of use
Short, plain-language terms for the Atto DIY kit. Not a substitute for legal advice about your own filings.
What you buy
A one-time digital product: the Mac kit (DMG + Setup guide; engine bundled in the app), optional Linux CLI and Linux desktop beta (.deb / AppImage), a soft-gate license.json after Stripe checkout, and — for buyers only — an optional MCP/CLI Python wheel from the claim page. Public kit files on youratto.com/kit (and GitHub Releases for large Linux desktop bundles) are installers only (Safe Browsing design). The paid license.json and optional wheel come only from the claim page on license.youratto.com after Stripe — the wheel is not an open public kit file.
Proprietary software · personal license
Atto (software, documentation, kit files, binaries, and related materials) is proprietary copyrighted software. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
Subject to these terms and payment where required, you receive a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to install and use Atto for your own research and organizing work on machines you control. This is a license to use the product — not a sale of the underlying IP, source, or redistribution rights.
This is a personal, non-transferable license for your own genealogy and family-history use; professional, paralegal, or commercial client work requires a separate written agreement with the copyright holder.
No redistribution
You may not redistribute, publish, resell, sublicense, or share the kit, source code, binaries, installers, Python wheel, or other product files (or substantial copies of them) with third parties, whether free or paid. Public hosting of installers for browser trust does not authorize copying or re-hosting those files elsewhere.
No reverse engineering to compete
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble Atto in order to build a competing product or to strip and rebrand the kit. (This does not limit your rights under applicable law that cannot be waived, or your right to use your own vault data.)
License is a soft gate — not a public-domain grant
A missing or invalid license never locks your vault files (blocks_vault: false). No DRM on your documents. That soft-gate design is an ethics choice about your data — it is not permission to treat Atto as open source, public domain, or freely redistributable software. Soft-gate ≠ open license.
No refunds
No refunds. Atto is a digital download. Once the kit or license claim is available to you, the sale is final — on Stripe (subject to any platform-required exception the storefront enforces).
Not legal advice · no government endorsement
Atto does not decide eligibility, file applications, book consulate appointments, or scrape archives. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government. You are responsible for your own research, filings, and counsel.
Platforms
Desktop kit (primary): Apple Silicon macOS (Apple-notarized). Linux: x86_64 CLI plus desktop beta (.deb / AppImage, unsigned). Windows is not shipped.