Terms of use

1.1“Discovera”, “we” or “us” means Discovera S.r.l., a company incorporated in Italy with its registered office in Verona.

1.2“Software” means DiscoveraVS, including the application, the off-target models distributed with it, and any documentation supplied. It does not include the Third-Party Components identified in clause 6.

1.3“Seat” means one licence to use the Software, activated to a named user and bound to a limited number of machines as set out in clause 3.

1.4“Output” means any data the Software produces from your inputs: scores, poses, fingerprints, filtered sets, export bundles and reports.

2.1Subject to payment and to these terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the Software for your internal research purposes.

2.2The licence is granted per Seat. The number of Seats, the term (annual or perpetual), and any academic or site pricing are as stated in your order.

2.3You may not resell, rent, sublicense or provide the Software as a service to third parties, nor remove or obscure any notice of authorship or licensing within it.

2.4You may not attempt to circumvent the licensing mechanism. Reverse engineering is permitted only to the extent Article 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC (interoperability) allows and cannot be excluded by contract.

3.1Activation writes a licence record to your own machine. There is no account server: the Software does not report usage, does not check in periodically, and continues to function without a network connection.

3.2One Seat may be activated on up to the number of machines stated in your order. A machine may be released from within the application, which frees the activation for use elsewhere.

3.3Because the licence record is a file on your disk, you are responsible for it as you are for any other file. We will reissue a licence on reasonable request where a machine has been lost, wiped or replaced.

4.1We do not hand out the installed build for self-service trial. If you need to evaluate it on your own equipment before buying, ask us: an evaluation is agreed in writing, for a stated period, one group at a time.

4.2What you can have today without paying and without payment details is the free tier of the hosted service: 1,000 compounds in any rolling 30 days, one screen running at a time, with no expiry date. It runs the same screens on the same models as the paid tier and the results are yours. The hosted service has its own terms, as the scope note above says; our refund policy covers both it and the licence.

4.3Anything supplied for evaluation is provided without warranty of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by clause 8.

5.1You own your inputs and your Output. We claim no right in the compounds, structures, targets or results you process, and we acquire no licence over them.

5.2The Software processes your data locally. It transmits no compound, structure or result to us or to any third party. The only outbound requests it makes are public structure lookups by public identifier, described in full in our privacy policy and disabled entirely by the --offline flag.

5.3Output may be used, published and commercialised without restriction or attribution requirement. If you wish to cite the Software, the export bundle contains the version and component versions needed to do so accurately.

6.1The Software is distributed alongside independent open-source programs, each licensed to you by its own authors under its own terms, not by us under this agreement. These include components under the GNU General Public License version 2 (Open Babel), version 3 (MolScrub), the Lesser General Public License (MDAnalysis, Meeko, PROPKA), and permissive licences (RDKit, smina, ProLIF, CatBoost, PDB2PQR, Ketcher, 3Dmol.js).

6.2The components licensed under the GNU General Public License are invoked as separate processes. The Software does not link against them and does not incorporate their code. Components under the Lesser General Public License and permissive licences may be imported by the Software in the ordinary way their licences permit.

6.3Where the GPL or LGPL applies, its terms govern that component and prevail over anything in this agreement to the contrary, including your right to obtain the corresponding source. Ask us and we will send you the list of components in the build you hold and the licence each one is under.

6.4Nothing in this agreement restricts any right you have under those licences.

7.1The Software is a research instrument. It produces computational predictions, not measurements.

7.2The off-target panel returns screening triage flags derived from public activity data at a 10 µM threshold. It is not an assay and must not be relied upon as a safety assessment.

7.3Docking scores rank poses within a target. They are empirical scores and are not binding free energies; they do not transfer between targets.

7.4The Software is not a medical device and is not intended for clinical diagnosis, treatment decisions, or any purpose regulated as such. You are responsible for the experimental and regulatory validation of any conclusion you draw from Output.

7.5Performance figures we publish are cross-validated and are stated with their protocol and their limitations on the science page. They are not a warranty of performance on your chemistry.

8.1We warrant that the Software will perform substantially as described in its documentation for 90 days from delivery, and that we have the right to grant the licence in clause 2.

8.2Your exclusive remedy for breach of clause 8.1 is, at our option, repair, replacement, or refund of the fees paid for the affected Seat.

8.3Beyond clause 8.1 and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Software is provided “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, nor that any scientific result will be obtained.

9.1Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for wilful misconduct (dolo) or gross negligence (colpa grave), or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Article 1229 of the Italian Civil Code is expressly acknowledged.

9.2Subject to clause 9.1, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this agreement is limited to the fees you paid for the Seats concerned in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

9.3Subject to clause 9.1, we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of data, or for any indirect or consequential loss.

9.4Clause 9.2 does not apply where you are a consumer; clause 11 governs instead.

10.1An annual Seat includes updates and support by email for the term. A perpetual Seat includes updates for twelve months from purchase; the Software continues to function indefinitely thereafter.

10.2We aim to respond to support requests within two working days. The application can produce a diagnostics bundle for this purpose; it contains no compound structures, and you can read it before sending it.

10.3Either party may terminate for material breach not remedied within 30 days of written notice. On termination you must cease using the Software; clauses 5, 6, 7, 9 and 13 survive.

10.4Refunds are governed by our refund policy, which forms part of these terms.

11.1If you acquire the Software outside your trade, business, craft or profession, you are a consumer under Italian Legislative Decree 206/2005 (the Consumer Code) and under Directive (EU) 2019/770.

11.2Your statutory rights are unaffected by anything in this agreement. Where a term here gives you less than the law provides, the law applies.

11.3You have a right of withdrawal within 14 days, and it is unconditional. The law would let us disapply it for digital content you have already been supplied; we do not, so the right survives your installing and running the Software. Clause 2 of our refund policy says the same and says how to exercise it.

11.4You may bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence, and may use the European Commission’s online dispute resolution platform.

13.1These terms, your order and the refund policy are the entire agreement between us on their subject matter.

13.2This agreement is governed by Italian law. The courts of Verona have exclusive jurisdiction, save that a consumer retains the rights in clause 11.4.

13.3If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder continues in force.

13.4We may amend these terms for future purchases and renewals. The version in force when you purchased continues to govern that purchase; we keep every published version, and on request we will send you the wording that was in force on the day you bought.