Terms of Service — Storage Studio

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a contract between you and Techtonic Systems Media and Research LLC, a limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States ("Techtonic", "we", "us", "our"). They govern your use of Storage Studio and the services described in §1.

Storage Studio is developed by DNS Stack Private Limited, a private limited company incorporated in India ("DNS Stack"), which owns the Software and licenses it to Techtonic. Techtonic sells Storage Studio, runs the website and is the merchant for every payment. DNS Stack also provides development, support and operations to Techtonic, from India, under an agreement between the two companies. Both companies are owned by the same founder.

By installing, launching or using the Software or the Services, you ("you") agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not install or use them, and uninstall the Software if it is already installed.

What changed in this version

Version 3.0.1 (29 October 2026):

Who we are. Names both companies: Techtonic (a Wyoming company, USA) sells Storage Studio and is the company you contract with; DNS Stack (India) develops it and supports it.
Governing law and disputes. These Terms are now governed by the laws of India, and disputes go to arbitration seated in Chandigarh, India, which can be held online (§15). Consumer protections in your own country still apply (§16).
Storage Studio Bridge. New section on the Bridge app that connects your other devices to your Mac (§8).
Your content, Delta services and keys only you hold. New sections on what you store and share, and on recovery kits and locked folders (§7 and §9).
Payments. Prices, renewals, refunds and the failed-payment steps (§5) are unchanged in substance. §5.2 now names Techtonic as the seller, §5.3 mentions the activation link we email you, §5.6 adds UK and UAE consumer law, and §5.8 says a disputed charge suspends a licence while it is investigated.
Removes the "draft" notice.

1. The Software and the Services

Storage Studio (the "Software") is an application for macOS that manages your storage in one place: your Mac and its drives, cloud accounts you connect, and other devices you pair. It runs on your Mac.

With it, and on our website, we offer:

Storage Studio Bridge ("Bridge") — a companion app for other computers and phones that links them to Storage Studio on your Mac (§8);
the Delta storage services — Delta Trust (backups) and Delta Drive (working files) on storage we run, and My Drive (the same drive features on storage you own) — described in §5.10 and §9;
our website at storagestudio.us, your account pages there, and Tuhi, the assistant in the app and on the website.

Together these are the "Services". Cloud accounts and storage you connect yourself stay governed by their providers' own terms.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least eighteen (18) years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to accept these Terms or buy anything from us. If you accept these Terms for an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organisation.

3. Licence

Subject to these Terms and to payment of any fees that apply, we grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the Software, and to use Bridge, on devices you own or control, for your own purposes. We grant this licence with DNS Stack's authority as the owner of the Software.

Open-source components included in the Software and Bridge are licensed under their own licences, listed in our Third-Party Notices. Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under those licences.

4. Restrictions

You may not, and may not let anyone else: (a) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software or Bridge, except as far as applicable law expressly allows despite this restriction; (b) remove or alter any proprietary notice; (c) sublicense, rent, lease, lend, sell or redistribute the Software, Bridge or the Services, except through the Storage Studio Partner Program under its own agreement; (d) use the Services to break any law or anyone's rights; (e) use the Services to build a competing product; (f) get around any licence check, usage limit or security measure; or (g) interfere with, overload or attack the Services or anyone else's use of them.

5. License, activation, and payment

5.1 Plans

(a) Free trial. Every new installation begins a free trial of the length shown in the Software and on our website when the trial starts. No payment information is required to start the trial. The trial is bound to your specific Device, identified by a one-way hashed machine fingerprint, and a trial may be started only once per Device. Reinstalling the Software does not reset the trial.

(b) Monthly plan. A recurring subscription that renews every month at the price stated at checkout, until cancelled. Each monthly renewal is a separate transaction.

(c) Annual plan. A recurring subscription that renews every twelve (12) months at the price stated at checkout, until cancelled. The Annual plan is priced below twelve months of the Monthly plan as a discount for committing to a longer term.

(d) Lifetime plan. A one-time purchase that entitles you to a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use the Software on Devices you own or control, including all future updates we release for the Software.

In these Terms, a "Device" is a computer on which you install the Software.

5.2 Seller and payment processor

Techtonic is the seller and the merchant of record for every purchase. Payments, invoices and refunds are processed by Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe") under Stripe's own terms of service and privacy policy. We do not receive or store your full payment card details.

5.3 Activation

After payment we email you an activation link, and Stripe sends you a receipt with a transaction identifier — pi_… for Lifetime, or sub_… for Monthly or Annual. You activate the Software with the activation link, or by entering your purchaser email address and the transaction identifier in the Software, as the Software offers. You do not need to tell us which plan you bought.

(a) You may use the same license credential on Devices that you own or personally control.

(b) You may not share, sell, transfer, sublicense, or otherwise make your transaction identifier or license credential available to any third party.

(c) We may invalidate license credentials that we determine in good faith have been shared, leaked, fraudulently obtained, or used in violation of these Terms.

5.4 Renewal and cancellation (Monthly and Annual plans)

(a) The Monthly plan renews automatically each month, and the Annual plan renews automatically every twelve months, using the payment method you provided to Stripe, until you cancel.

(b) You may cancel at any time through the Stripe Customer Portal (reached from your account at storagestudio.us or from the Software). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current billing period (the next monthly or annual anniversary); you retain full access until that period ends.

(d) You may switch plans at any time by cancelling the current subscription in the Stripe Customer Portal and purchasing the new plan. We do not pro-rate or refund the unused portion of the cancelled subscription.

5.5 No refunds — important

Please read carefully. This section affects your right to a refund. Mandatory consumer-protection rights are preserved in §5.6 below.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all payments for the Software are final and non-refundable, including but not limited to:

(a) the one-time Lifetime plan purchase, in whole or in part, once you have activated the Software using the corresponding transaction identifier or activation link;

(b) any past or current Monthly plan or Annual plan billing period, including the most recent renewal at the time of your cancellation, regardless of how much time remains in that period;

(c) periods during which you did not use the Software, did not install the Software, were prevented from using the Software by your own action or inaction, or were unable to use the Software because of a failure of your own hardware, network, operating system, or third-party services;

(d) duplicate or unintended purchases that you do not report to us within seven (7) days of the charge appearing on your statement.

We offer the free trial described in §5.1(a) specifically so that you can fully evaluate the Software before paying. By choosing to pay rather than continue evaluating during the trial, you confirm that you are satisfied that the Software is suitable for your needs, except as required by mandatory law.

5.6 Mandatory consumer-protection rights (carve-out)

Nothing in §5.5 limits or excludes any statutory right you have as a consumer under the mandatory consumer-protection laws of the place where you live that cannot be waived by contract — including the EU/UK 14-day right of withdrawal (subject to the Article 16(m) waiver below), the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Indian Consumer Protection Act, 2019, the UAE Federal Law No. 15 of 2020 on Consumer Protection, the Australian Consumer Law, and any applicable US state consumer-protection statute.

By activating the Software, EU/UK consumers expressly consent to the immediate supply of the digital content and acknowledge that they thereby lose their statutory right of withdrawal under Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU (and the UK equivalent). If you do not wish to give up this right, do not activate the Software, and ask us for a refund within fourteen (14) days of purchase.

Where a mandatory statutory right applies, we will honour it. Contact us at support@storagestudio.us with your Stripe receipt and the legal basis for your request.

5.7 Discretionary refunds

In a small number of exceptional cases — for example, a documented defect that prevents the Software from launching at all on a supported configuration, a duplicate or accidental purchase reported within seven (7) days, or a clear billing error on our part — we may, at our sole discretion, issue a partial or full refund as a gesture of goodwill, without admitting liability and without establishing a precedent. To request a discretionary refund, contact us at support@storagestudio.us within thirty (30) days of the charge, including your Stripe receipt and a description of the issue.

5.8 Chargebacks and disputes

If you have a concern about a charge, please contact us first so we can attempt to resolve it. Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute through your card issuer or bank without first contacting us may, at our discretion and to the extent permitted by applicable law, cause your license to be suspended for the duration of the investigation, and — if the chargeback succeeds without legitimate basis — cause your license to be permanently revoked and your purchaser email and machine fingerprint to be flagged to prevent re-activation.

Nothing in §5.8 limits your statutory right to dispute a charge where you have a legitimate basis to do so.

5.9 Taxes

Stripe collects applicable sales tax, VAT, GST, or equivalent taxes at checkout based on your billing address. Stripe-issued invoices include all information required for VAT/GST recovery in most jurisdictions.

5.10 Delta storage subscriptions

Delta storage plans (and combined plans that include the Software and Delta storage) are recurring subscriptions. §5.2, §5.4, §5.5–§5.9 and §5.11 apply to them as to the Monthly and Annual plans. Each plan has the storage allowance stated at checkout; what happens above it (an additional charge per the published rate, or new uploads pausing) is stated for that plan. Delta storage keeps the copies and history described for the plan; it does not replace your obligation in our Disclaimer to keep your own backup of anything important.

5.11 Failed payments

If a renewal payment for a subscription fails and remains unpaid, we follow the steps below. "Day 0" is the date of the oldest unpaid invoice. At every step you can pay the amount owed from the link in our emails, in your account at storagestudio.us, or from the Software; once it is paid, everything we restricted is restored automatically. Stripe may also retry the payment on its own schedule. We send reminders by email during the day in your time zone, and the Software and your account show the same information.

(a) Storage Studio (the app licence).

From Day 0: everything keeps working; we tell you there is a payment problem.
Suspension: for a Monthly plan, when a second invoice is also unpaid (or on Day 35 if no second invoice is issued); for an Annual plan, on Day 30. New premium work is paused; moves and transfers already completed keep working, and nothing on your Mac or your drives is deleted.
Day 90: the licence ends. You can buy again at any time.
While you have unpaid Delta storage that has not been deleted, the app licence is not suspended or ended, because the Software is how you download and restore that data.

(b) Delta storage. Because unpaid storage costs us every day it is kept, this ladder is shorter:

From Day 0: your Delta storage becomes read-only — you can download and restore everything, but cannot add to it.
Day 15: access is locked except for paying.
Scheduled for deletion: 15 days after a second unpaid invoice (for a monthly plan, 15 days after the next renewal date if that invoice is not issued; for an annual plan, Day 45), and never before the lock. The Delta licence is removed at this step; the subscription stays payable.
Deletion: no sooner than fourteen (14) days after it is scheduled, the stored data may be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. Paying any time before deletion restores access.

(c) These steps do not apply to the one-time Lifetime plan. Dates are shown in your emails and account as they approach. We may give more time than described here, in individual cases or generally; we will not give less without updating these Terms. Nothing in this section limits §5.6.

6. Updates

We publish updates to the Software and Bridge from time to time. Some updates may be required to keep using paid features or to keep connecting to our servers — for example when we retire an older licence-signing method; the Software tells you when that is the case. Updates are covered by these Terms unless we say otherwise.

7. Your content and how you use the Services

Your content stays yours. Files and other material you move, store, back up, sync, share or send through the Services ("your content") remain yours. You give us only the permission we need to store, copy, transmit and display your content in order to provide the Services to you and to the people you choose to share it with.

You are responsible for your content. You confirm you have the right to store, share and transfer your content, and that doing so is lawful. You must not use the Services to store, share or send content that is unlawful, infringes anyone's rights, is malware, or exploits children.

Sharing. When you share a file, a folder or a link (for example a Delta Drive share link), anyone who has it can do what you allowed. You choose who receives it and you are responsible for that choice.

We don't look at your files, but we act on reports. We do not review your content as a matter of course, and we cannot read Delta Trust backups at all (§9). If we receive a credible report, or are required by law, we may disable a share link, restrict an account or remove content we are able to remove, and we may report illegal content to the authorities. Report abuse to <abuse@storagestudio.us>.

Fair use. Plans and features have stated limits (for example storage allowances, the number of storage accounts and connection attempts). We may limit use that threatens the stability of the Services for others.

8. Storage Studio Bridge

What it is. Bridge is an app for other computers and phones (for example Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, as published on our website). It pairs with Storage Studio on your Mac so that the two can share the clipboard, files and folders, show the other device's files, and move items between them. Bridge does not need a licence of its own; what you can do with it depends on Storage Studio on the Mac it is paired with.

Pairing. You pair a device by entering the connecting code shown on the other device. Over the internet, both screens also show a short code you must confirm. Only pair devices that you own or are allowed to use, and never share a connecting code with anyone you don't want to connect. You are responsible for the devices you pair and for what is sent to them. Remove a pairing you no longer want from either device.

How it connects. Bridge connects your devices directly when it can, on your local network or over the internet. When a direct connection isn't possible, traffic passes through a relay run for us. What is sent between your devices is end-to-end encrypted. Our Privacy Policy explains what our servers and the relay see.

Acceptable use. You must not use Bridge or our relay to send unlawful content or content you have no right to send; to reach a device you are not allowed to use; to use the relay for anything other than connecting your own paired devices (including using it as a general proxy or VPN, or to carry other traffic); or to probe, overload or disrupt the relay, our servers or other people's connections. We may limit or block a device that does.

No promise that a transfer succeeds. Connections depend on your networks, routers, operating systems and devices, which we don't control. We do not promise that a connection can be made, or that any clipboard item, file or folder will arrive complete or at all. Keep the original until you have checked the copy.

9. Delta services, My Drive and keys only you hold

Delta Trust keeps backups on storage we run. Backups are encrypted on your Mac before they leave it, and the 24-word recovery kit you are given when you set up a vault is the only way to reach the vault if your Mac is lost, replaced or repaired. If you lose it, your backups can never be recovered — not even by Storage Studio.

Locked folders. If you lock a folder with a PIN and forget the PIN, you can open it only with the recovery kit you chose to make for it. If you have no recovery kit, the folder can never be opened again; Storage Studio can't recover it.

Delta Drive keeps your working files on storage we run. My Drive offers the same features on storage you own (for example an S3-compatible bucket). With My Drive, your storage provider is your own supplier: its terms and charges apply, and we act on your instructions when we read and write your bucket.

Neither Delta service, nor My Drive, is a guarantee that a file can always be recovered. Keep your own backup (see our Disclaimer).

10. Third-party services

The Software works with services that other companies provide, such as cloud storage accounts you connect, macOS features including Apple Intelligence (which runs on your Mac), and the storage you own. Your use of them is governed by their terms. We are not responsible for them, for changes they make, or for their availability.

11. Privacy

How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy. Your files are processed on your Mac. They leave it through the Services only when you choose a feature that sends them somewhere — for example a Delta service, My Drive, a cloud account you connect, Bridge, or a share link.

12. Ownership and feedback

DNS Stack owns the Software, Bridge and all intellectual property in them, and Techtonic is licensed to sell them. "Storage Studio", its logo and related names are trade marks used by us. These Terms give you no rights in them except the licence in §3. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without any obligation to you.

13. Term and termination

These Terms apply until ended. You may end them at any time by stopping all use of the Services and uninstalling the Software and Bridge; ending a paid subscription is done as described in §5.4. We may suspend or end your licence or access if you seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms (including by sharing a licence credential, getting around licence checks, or misusing Bridge or the relay), or where the law requires. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem and to download your data. Sections that by their nature should continue after termination (including §7, §9, §12, §14–§16 and §18) continue.

14. Disclaimer of warranties; limitation of liability

The disclaimer of warranties and the limitation of liability that apply to the Services are set out in our Disclaimer & Limitation of Liability, which forms part of these Terms. It protects both Techtonic and DNS Stack.

15. Governing law and disputes

15.1 Governing law. These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Services (including non-contractual disputes), are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. This is subject to §16.

15.2 Talk to us first. Before starting arbitration, please email <legal@storagestudio.us> describing the dispute. We will try in good faith to resolve it within thirty (30) days.

15.3 Arbitration. Any dispute not resolved under §15.2 will be finally resolved by binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (India), as amended. The tribunal will be a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement between you and us or, failing agreement within thirty (30) days of a written request, appointed in accordance with that Act. The seat and venue of the arbitration is Chandigarh, India. The arbitration will be conducted in English. Hearings may be held online or by video conference, and documents may be filed electronically, so that neither party needs to travel. The award is final and binding.

15.4 Courts. Subject to §15.3 and §16, the courts at Chandigarh, India have exclusive jurisdiction over any application relating to the arbitration, including interim measures and the setting aside or enforcement of an award. Either party may ask any competent court for urgent interim relief to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

15.5 Individual claims only. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you and we may bring claims against each other only in an individual capacity, and not as a claimant or class member in any class, collective or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims of different people or preside over a representative proceeding.

15.6 Time limit. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a claim must be started within one (1) year after the facts giving rise to it became known to the claimant, or it is barred.

16. Your rights as a consumer

If you use the Services as a consumer, the following apply despite anything in §15, and nothing in these Terms takes away a right that the law of the place where you live gives you and that cannot be excluded by contract:

European Union and United Kingdom. You keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country instead of arbitration.
India. You may file a complaint before the Consumer Commission that has jurisdiction under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, instead of arbitration.
United States. You may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction, instead of arbitration, and you keep any right under the law of your state that cannot be waived.
United Arab Emirates. You keep your rights under Federal Law No. 15 of 2020 on Consumer Protection and its implementing regulations, including the right to complain to the competent consumer-protection authority.
Elsewhere. You keep any right the mandatory law of the place where you live gives you.

17. Export controls and sanctions

You must comply with the export-control and sanctions laws that apply to you and to the Services, including those of India and the United States. You confirm that you are not a person with whom we are prohibited from dealing under those laws, and that you will not use or send the Services to a place or person to which that is prohibited.

18. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Disclaimer, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services. Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them to a company in our group, including DNS Stack, or to a buyer of the business, provided your rights are not reduced. Subcontracting. We may use DNS Stack and other service providers to provide the Services; we remain responsible to you for them. Severability. If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. No waiver. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Language. These Terms are written in English; any translation is for convenience, and the English version controls where the law allows.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The version and effective date are shown at the top of this page, and every version lists what changed. For a material change we will tell you in the Software or by email before it takes effect, and the Software asks you to accept the new version before you continue. If you do not agree, stop using the Services before the change takes effect; for a subscription, you may cancel as described in §5.4. Where the law requires your agreement to a change, we will ask for it.

20. Contact and company details

Questions about these Terms: <support@storagestudio.us>. Legal notices and disputes: <legal@storagestudio.us>.

Techtonic Systems Media and Research LLC — the seller and the company you contract with. A limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States. Wyoming Secretary of State Original ID 2024-001396411 (Articles of Organization filed 22 January 2024). Registered agent: FBRA LLC, 1603 Capitol Ave Ste 413A No 2932, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001, United States. Principal office: 701 Tillery Street Unit 12, 2368, Austin, Texas 78702, United States.

DNS Stack Private Limited — the developer and owner of the Software, and Techtonic's service provider for development, support and operations. A private limited company incorporated in India (CIN U62099UP2025PTC223463). Registered office: 117/N/270 C, Tulsi Nagar, Naveen Nagar, Kanpur Nagar 208025, Uttar Pradesh, India. Operations office: 2nd Floor, Kalkat Bhawan, Punjab Innovation Mission, GMADA Aerocity, SAS Nagar, Mohali 140306, Punjab, India.