Onvilo Terms of Use

Effective date: August 18, 2026
Last updated: August 28, 2026
Terms version: 1.0.6
Operator: Latech
Sole proprietor’s legal name: Disclosed without delay on request before purchase through support@onvilo.app
Geographic address: Disclosed without delay on request before purchase through support@onvilo.app
Telephone: Disclosed without delay on request before purchase through support@onvilo.app
Japanese Qualified Invoice Issuer registration number: T8810483333248
Application: Onvilo (Bundle ID: com.latech.Onvilo)

These Terms apply commonly to Onvilo sales in Japan, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and any other country or region shown at checkout. Sales in countries or regions not shown at checkout are not available.

1. Scope and acceptance

These Terms of Use govern the macOS application Onvilo, its updates, accompanying documentation, distribution pages, purchase process, support, and related services provided by the operator.

Before a purchase or download, the operator will state that these Terms form part of the contract and provide a link that allows the purchaser to review, save, and reproduce them.

You accept these Terms by selecting the relevant acceptance box in the purchase flow, activating a purchase or download button that clearly states the effect of acceptance, or completing an equivalent express action.

Onvilo is offered only to a natural person contracting in their own name and responsibility. The named individual’s private, business, and professional use is permitted. Purchases by or on behalf of a company, organisation, team, or other entity, as well as sharing and resale, are not available. A “consumer” has the meaning given by the applicable law.

For Hong Kong, the Traditional Chinese interface uses Taiwan Mandarin (zh-TW) for speech recognition. Cantonese speech recognition is not currently supported. This limitation is disclosed before purchase.

An employer or another third party may reimburse or pay the purchase price without changing the contract if the named purchaser contracts in their own name and responsibility and remains the only licensed user. Purchases in a company or organisation name, company-specific agreements, multi-user purchases, and organisation-wide licence sharing are not available in v1.0.

You must be old enough to enter into a binding contract under the law of your place of residence. If you cannot enter into the contract on your own, you must obtain the consent of a parent, guardian, or other legal representative.

The countries and regions in which Onvilo is offered are shown during checkout. The operator may restrict purchases or supply for legal, export-control, sanctions, payment, support, security, or other reasonable reasons.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts any right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted, including mandatory consumer rights in your country or region.

2. Perpetual licence and device limit

Unless checkout expressly states otherwise, Onvilo is supplied under a one-time-purchase licence with no recurring subscription fee.

Subject to these Terms, the operator grants the purchaser, or the one user identified at purchase, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use Onvilo.

One licence may be installed and used on up to three Macs owned or continuously controlled by the same user.

Each virtualised macOS environment counts as one Mac.

When replacing a Mac, you may move an activation to the replacement after removing Onvilo from the former Mac or deactivating the former installation.

You may use Onvilo for your private use or for your own business, professional, or side-business activity. Purchase by or on behalf of an organisation, or sharing the licence with another person, is not available.

Your right to use the purchased major version has no fixed end date, unless the licence ends under section 17.

Free trial

When you first launch a distributed build, you may use all Onvilo features before purchasing for a cumulative 20 minutes without providing a payment method. The quota does not expire after it starts, does not convert automatically into a paid contract, and does not result in an automatic charge. The quota is consumed according to active dictation recording time.

The trial is generally limited to one trial per Mac and per major version. To enforce this limit, Onvilo uses an HMAC of a randomly generated installation ID. It does not collect the Mac serial number or another permanent hardware identifier.

After the free quota is used up, dictation and translation remain unavailable until you activate a valid licence key.

3. Intellectual property

Onvilo, its source and object code, design, documentation, images, and names are owned by the operator or their respective rights holders.

Except for the limited licence expressly granted in section 2, these Terms do not transfer or license any intellectual-property right to you.

4. System requirements, functionality, and permissions

Current system requirements are stated on the sales or distribution page before purchase.

The planned requirements for the first public release are macOS 26 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac.

The Onvilo interface supports Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. Actual availability of speech recognition, text processing, and translation depends on the macOS version, device, region, downloaded models, and Apple’s support.

When dictation language is set to Automatic, Onvilo selects a language using your preferred macOS languages and Apple Speech availability. It does not detect the language of every utterance. Select the language explicitly in Settings when speaking another language.

Speech recognition and translation may require macOS to download additional model data.

Apple Intelligence is required for Foundation Models text correction. If Apple Intelligence is unavailable, Onvilo may provide transcription with only basic formatting and without AI correction.

Onvilo uses microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring permissions only to the extent required for its features. Some or all features will not work if the required permission is missing.

Onvilo has no geographic restriction on use after a valid licence is activated, except where applicable law, export controls, sanctions, or a platform restriction requires otherwise. One licence is limited to the one user and three Macs described above.

5. Your content and privacy

You or the relevant rights holder retain all rights in audio, text, vocabulary, and other content that you provide to Onvilo.

During normal use, Onvilo processes speech recognition, text correction, and translation on your Mac. It does not send recorded audio, transcripts, corrected text, translated text, translations, or registered vocabulary to the operator’s servers.

For copying and automatic paste, Onvilo may write generated text to the general macOS pasteboard. Pasteboard history, Universal Clipboard, a pasteboard manager, the operating system, or other software may store, read, process, or synchronise that text.

After text is inserted into a frontmost application, that application’s terms and privacy notice govern any subsequent cloud or other processing by that application or service.

The Privacy Policy explains the processing of website, trial, purchase, licence, update, email, and support data.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the rights and permissions necessary for the content you process with Onvilo.

6. Local data and backup

If you enable history, Onvilo stores transcripts, corrected text, corrections, and related information locally on your Mac.

Turning history off does not automatically delete history that was already saved.

Local data may be lost because of device failure, an operating-system update, deletion of the application, a settings change, or another event. You are responsible for any backup you need.

The operator cannot access data stored only on your Mac and cannot restore it for you.

7. Prohibited conduct

You must not:

violate applicable law or public policy;
infringe another person’s copyright, privacy, trade secret, or other right;
distribute, sell, lend, share, sublicense, publicly transmit, or otherwise make Onvilo or a copy available without permission;
incorporate Onvilo into a service offered to third parties without permission;
analyse, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer Onvilo beyond the extent expressly permitted by applicable law;
bypass or disable a technical restriction, signature, update, licence, or security feature;
gain unauthorised access to, or interfere with, Onvilo’s distribution, payment, support, or related systems; or
engage in conduct equivalent to the above that materially harms the provision of Onvilo or the rights and interests of another person.

8. Updates, upgrades, and support

The operator may update Onvilo to improve features, address security, or support operating-system and Apple framework changes.

Onvilo connects to the Onvilo distribution on Cloudflare (updates.onvilo.app) to check for and download updates. Cloudflare may process ordinary connection data, such as IP address, connection time, requested URL, and a User-Agent that includes Onvilo and update-component versions. Onvilo does not send recorded audio, transcripts, corrected text, translated text, translations, or vocabulary through this update connection.

Updates within the same major version as the purchased version are included without an additional charge for as long as they are provided.

A new major version, separate product, or add-on may require a separate purchase.

A one-time-purchase licence does not promise every future feature or upgrade, updates for a fixed period, or permanent compatibility with future versions of macOS.

An update may change features, appearance, requirements, behaviour, or a local storage format. Material changes will be announced through the distribution page, release notes, or the application.

Product support is available in Japanese or English through the support contact during the published support hours, primarily for the currently distributed version, on a commercially reasonable basis. The operator does not guarantee a response or resolution by a particular deadline.

This section does not limit any update, security, conformity, after-sales, or support obligation imposed by mandatory consumer law.

9. Price, payment, and voluntary refund

The Onvilo release price is USD 19.99, inclusive of applicable tax shown by Onvilo. No end date has been set. If the price changes, the updated price is shown on the sales page and in the final checkout review. If tax, currency, or the final total varies by country or region, the final checkout review controls.

Your card issuer or payment provider may charge a currency-conversion or foreign-transaction fee that is not charged or controlled by the operator.

Onvilo purchases use Stripe Managed Payments (SMP) for eligible products, countries, and transactions. Where SMP applies, SMP is the merchant of record and handles payment, applicable indirect taxes, receipts and invoices, refund notifications, fraud prevention, and transaction-level disputes and support. This applies only to eligible products, countries, and transactions covered by Managed Payments. If coverage or the applicable responsibility allocation cannot be confirmed, we may hold licence delivery after payment, stop the sale, or refund the payment. Latech remains responsible for the Onvilo product, licences, downloads, product-level support, product defects, statutory remedies, and these Terms.

See Stripe Managed Payments.

Stripe or Link may handle payment, receipts, invoices, tax, refunds, fraud prevention, disputes, and other transaction-level support. The operator handles Onvilo features, requirements, product defects, licences, downloads, statutory remedies, and product support.

Latech is a Japanese consumption-tax taxable business and a registered Japanese Qualified Invoice Issuer (registration number T8810483333248). Where Managed Payments applies, Stripe handles the applicable transaction-level indirect tax, receipt, and invoice processing. Coverage, displayed amounts, and responsibility allocation follow Stripe’s eligibility determination for the product, country, and transaction and the final checkout review. If required information or coverage cannot be confirmed, the operator may hold the transaction after payment, stop the sale, or refund the payment. A natural person using Onvilo for their own business or professional activity may use the Stripe / Link receipt or invoice generated after payment. The operator retains the Invoice ID and other transaction records.

Purchases by or on behalf of companies, organisations, teams, or other entities are not available in any country or region. Employer reimbursement or payment is allowed when the named purchaser remains the contracting natural person and the only licensed user.

For your first purchase, you may request a voluntary refund within 14 days after purchase by contacting the address in section 23. The refund is made through the original payment method.

The voluntary refund is limited to one refund for the same user or substantially the same purchaser. The operator may refuse abuse, including licence resale or sharing, repeated purchase-and-refund behaviour, or fraud. A decision may use the purchase email, transaction ID, licence information, and other reasonable purchase or usage-status information, but not recorded audio or transcript contents. If a request is refused, the reason will be provided.

When a refund is completed, the licence ends and you must delete Onvilo and its copies.

The voluntary refund policy is additional to, and does not replace or limit, any statutory right relating to non-conformity, failure to supply, withdrawal, cancellation, repair, replacement, price reduction, termination, damages, or another mandatory remedy.

10. EU and UK withdrawal or cancellation rights

Consumers in the EU and the United Kingdom generally have a 14-day right to withdraw from or cancel a distance contract for digital content before supply begins.

Onvilo normally supplies the licence and download immediately after payment and no later than 24 hours. If supply is not completed within 24 hours, you may choose resupply or a full tax-inclusive refund. In a separate, initially unticked checkbox, checkout asks you to:

give prior express consent for supply of the digital content to begin during the statutory withdrawal or cancellation period; and
acknowledge that you lose the statutory right of withdrawal or cancellation when supply begins.

The purchase confirmation email repeats this consent and acknowledgement and includes copies of the legal documents shown at purchase.

Where applicable law permits and all legal conditions are satisfied, the statutory withdrawal or cancellation right ends when supply begins. This does not affect Onvilo’s voluntary 14-day refund policy or any right that cannot be waived.

If valid consent, acknowledgement, confirmation, or supply is absent and applicable law preserves the withdrawal or cancellation right, you may exercise that right by sending a clear statement to support@onvilo.app. You may, but are not required to, use this model wording:

To Latech, address disclosed on request, support@onvilo.app: I hereby give notice that I withdraw from or cancel my contract for the supply of Onvilo, ordered on ____________. Consumer name: ____________. Consumer address: ____________. Date: ____________.

11. EU legal guarantee for digital content

If EU consumer law applies, Onvilo must be supplied and remain in conformity as required by the law implementing Directive (EU) 2019/770 in your country.

For a one-off purchase, EU rules generally provide a minimum two-year legal guarantee where digital content is faulty, not as advertised, or does not work as reasonably expected. National law may provide more protection.

Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may require Onvilo to be brought into conformity within a reasonable time, free of charge, and without significant inconvenience. Where the legal conditions are met, you may also have a right to a proportionate price reduction or to terminate the contract and receive reimbursement.

Mandatory obligations concerning supply, compatibility, functionality, security and other updates, third-party rights, proof, reimbursement, and remedies continue to apply notwithstanding any disclaimer, liability limit, update policy, or licence-termination term in these Terms.

12. UK statutory rights for digital content

If UK consumer law applies, Onvilo must be of satisfactory quality, fit for a particular purpose made known to the trader, and as described, subject to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and other applicable law.

Where the statutory conditions are met, you may have rights to repair or replacement, a price reduction, reimbursement, or compensation for damage to a device or other digital content caused by a failure to exercise reasonable care and skill.

These rights are not replaced or reduced by the free trial, the voluntary 14-day refund policy, a warranty disclaimer, a liability limit, or another provision of these Terms.

13. Changes to Onvilo

The operator may change features, appearance, requirements, or delivery methods without defeating the purpose of Onvilo.

Where a change materially disadvantages users, the operator will provide reasonable advance notice unless an urgent security response or another unavoidable circumstance requires faster action.

Any mandatory consumer right concerning modifications, continued conformity, updates, notice, maintaining an unmodified version, price reduction, or termination takes priority over this section.

14. Interruption and discontinuation

The operator may interrupt or end distribution, re-download, updates, or support for maintenance, security, legal or platform changes, disaster, or another reasonable reason.

Except in an emergency, the operator will give reasonable notice before discontinuation.

After discontinuation, you may continue using a purchased version for as long as it remains technically usable, but the operator does not promise re-downloads, updates, support, or operation on future versions of macOS.

This section does not limit any mandatory obligation to supply, remedy non-conformity, provide necessary updates, or reimburse a consumer.

15. Warranty scope

Subject to mandatory law, the operator does not guarantee that speech recognition, text correction, translation, or automatic paste will always be accurate, complete, uninterrupted, or suitable for every purpose.

You must review Onvilo’s output and correct it when necessary before relying on, sending, publishing, recording, signing, applying, paying, or otherwise acting on it.

Onvilo is not designed as the sole basis for medical, emergency, transport, financial, legal-filing, or other high-impact decisions where an error could directly cause injury, loss of legal rights, or substantial financial loss. Do not automatically finalise such a decision or action without human review.

Subject to mandatory law, you are responsible for the consequences of using output without the review described above.

The operator does not guarantee identical operation in every application, input field, audio environment, device, or language expression.

Nothing in this section excludes a statutory term, guarantee, warranty, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded.

16. Limitation of liability

The operator is responsible in accordance with applicable law for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence.

To the extent permitted by law, liability for damage caused by ordinary negligence is limited to ordinary and direct damage. The operator is not liable for special, indirect, consequential, lost-profit, or data-loss damage to the extent such liability may lawfully be excluded.

To the extent permitted by law, the aggregate liability described in the preceding paragraph is limited to the total purchase price you actually paid for Onvilo before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limitations do not apply to death or personal injury, fraud, damage that applicable digital-content law requires the operator to remedy, or any liability that consumer or other mandatory law does not allow to be excluded or limited.

17. Licence termination

If you materially breach these Terms and do not cure the breach within a reasonable period after notice, the operator may terminate the licence or support.

The operator may terminate without advance notice where immediate action is reasonably necessary to prevent serious harm, including unauthorised access, fraudulent licence sharing, or bypassing security controls.

When the licence ends, you must delete Onvilo and its copies.

Termination does not remove a consumer right or remedy that survives under mandatory law.

18. Changes to these Terms

The operator may change these Terms where the change benefits users generally or is reasonable in light of the contract’s purpose, the need for the change, its substance, its effect on users, and measures taken to reduce disadvantage.

The operator will announce the revised terms and effective date in advance on the distribution page or in the application.

Versioned copies of terms applicable at purchase and after later changes will be preserved and made available for the life of the relevant licence and for a reasonable period afterwards.

A disadvantageous change will receive reasonable advance notice unless an urgent security response or another unavoidable circumstance requires faster action.

Revised terms apply prospectively from the announced date. They will not impose a retroactive disadvantage on a completed purchase unless applicable law permits it or you expressly agree.

19. Exclusion of antisocial forces

You and the operator represent that neither is an organised crime group or similar antisocial force, and that neither uses, funds, or otherwise participates in such a force.

Either party may terminate the contract without notice if the other violates this section.

20. Severability

If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect. An invalid provision will be interpreted or limited only to the minimum extent necessary under applicable law.

21. Governing law and courts

These Terms and the contract are governed by the laws of Japan.

Subject to mandatory law, the Tokyo District Court has exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance over disputes concerning Onvilo or these Terms.

This choice does not deprive a consumer of mandatory protections under the law that would apply without the choice, including protections of the consumer’s habitual residence where applicable. It also does not prevent a consumer from bringing proceedings in a court that mandatory jurisdiction rules make available, including a competent court in the consumer’s place of residence where applicable.

22. Languages

The Japanese and English versions are intended to express the same agreement.

If they conflict, the Japanese version controls only to the extent permitted by applicable law and only for resolving the discrepancy. The priority clause must not be used to narrow the ordinary meaning reasonably conveyed by the English version, create a material term not disclosed in English, or remove a mandatory consumer right.

Where mandatory law requires the English version, the language presented at checkout, or another interpretation to control, that law takes priority.

23. Contact and complaints

Questions about these Terms, refunds, licences, privacy, or complaints may be sent to:

Operator/controller: Latech
Sole proprietor’s legal name: Disclosed without delay on request before purchase through support@onvilo.app
Geographic address: Disclosed without delay on request before purchase through support@onvilo.app
Telephone: Disclosed without delay on request before purchase through support@onvilo.app
Japanese Qualified Invoice Issuer registration number: T8810483333248
Email: support@onvilo.app
Product help: https://onvilo.app/en/help/
Support hours: weekdays, 10:00–17:00 Japan Standard Time, excluding Japanese public holidays and announced closures
EU representative: Not applicable while EU sales are unavailable; reviewed before any reopening.
UK representative: Not applicable while UK sales are unavailable; reviewed before any reopening.

EU consumers may also contact the consumer-protection or data-protection authority competent in their country. UK consumers may contact the relevant consumer authority and, for data protection matters, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The former European Online Dispute Resolution platform was discontinued in 2025 and is not an available complaint channel.