Terms of Service
These terms govern your use of the Deduplo application and this website. By downloading, installing or using Deduplo, you agree to them.
Last updated: 9 August 2026
1. Who you are contracting with
Deduplo is provided by Deduplo, a sole proprietorship registered in India ("we", "us"). You can reach us at [email protected].
Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Paddle's own buyer terms apply to the payment transaction itself; these terms govern your use of the software.
2. The free version
Deduplo can be downloaded and used free of charge, with no sign-up and nothing to enter. Finding duplicates is free for ever — scanning, grouping and reviewing your results are never time-limited. A licence is required to act on what was found: removing, moving, renaming, copying, zipping, exporting reports and saving a scan to open later. Without a licence you may still clean up five clean-up credits in total — an ordinary duplicate set costs one, an unusually large set more — so a removal can be seen working, and undone, before you decide. Nothing you have already done is undone, and no file of yours is ever held hostage.
3. What your licence grants
When you buy Deduplo you receive a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the version you purchased. The licence does not expire: your key is verified with our licensing server when you enter it and periodically afterwards, and the app keeps working even when it cannot reach that server.
One licence covers one named person and up to three computers that person personally uses. Reinstalling Windows can make a computer look like a new one to us; if that uses up your allowance, write to us and we will reset it. If Deduplo will be installed for multiple people or across an organisation, please contact us for a volume licence.
Every update to version 1 is included at no extra cost — bug fixes and new features alike, for as long as version 1 is maintained, with no time limit. A future major version (version 2) is a separate product and may be offered to existing licence holders as a paid upgrade. Your licence never stops working when a new version ships: the version you bought remains yours, and keeps running.
4. What you may not do
- Resell, sublicense, rent, lend or publish your licence key, or share it outside the people covered by clause 3.
- Circumvent, disable or tamper with the licensing mechanism, or distribute tools or keys that do so.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the application, except to the extent that such a restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
- Redistribute the application as your own product, or bundle it into another product, without our written permission.
A licence key that is published, shared or obtained fraudulently may be revoked without a refund.
5. Your files are your responsibility
Deduplo deletes files. It is built to make that safe — removals go to the Recycle Bin or Trash by default, every batch can be undone, a set is never emptied of its last remaining copy, and each file is re-checked immediately before it is touched. Even so, you decide what gets deleted, and you are responsible for having a backup.
Before running a large clean-up on an irreplaceable collection, make sure you have a current backup. We cannot recover a file for you: your files never leave your computer and we hold no copy of anything on your machine.
6. No warranty
Deduplo is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the software will be error-free, that it will identify every duplicate, or that every file it groups together is in fact a duplicate — duplicate detection is a judgement made from image content, and reviewing the results before deleting is part of how the product is meant to be used.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, files, profits or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of Deduplo — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to Deduplo is limited to the amount you actually paid for your licence in the twelve months before the claim arose.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are not affected.
8. Payment, tax and refunds
Prices are shown at checkout in your local currency where supported, and any applicable sales tax, VAT or GST is calculated and collected by Paddle as Merchant of Record. Refunds are covered by our Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms.
9. Third-party components
Deduplo includes open-source components, each under its own licence. These are listed on the Third-party licences page and inside the application under Settings ▸ License ▸ Third-party licenses. Nothing in these terms restricts your rights under those licences.
10. Termination
Your licence ends if you materially breach these terms — in particular clause 4. You may stop using Deduplo at any time by uninstalling it; clauses 5 through 7 survive.
11. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The current version always lives at this address with its date at the top. Changes are not retroactive: the terms in force when you bought your licence continue to govern that purchase.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have exclusive jurisdiction — except that if you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protections and the right to bring proceedings in your own country of residence.