Terms of service

These terms are the contract between you and Movastruct for the use of Movastruct — the website, the web application and anything we ship alongside them. By creating an account or using the software, you accept them.

If you are accepting on behalf of a university, a practice or any other organisation, you are telling us you have the authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

Our privacy policy explains what we do with your data, and forms part of this agreement.

You need an account to use Movastruct. Give us accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and tell us promptly if you think someone else has got into your account. What happens under your login is your responsibility.

One account is for one person. Do not share a login with a colleague or a coursemate — if a team or a class needs access, talk to us rather than passing a password around.

Use it for structural analysis and design, learning, teaching and professional work. What you may not do:

• Break the law with it, or use it to harm someone.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile or scrape the software, or try to extract the models behind it.
• Resell, sublicense or white-label Movastruct, or run a competing service on top of it, without our written agreement.
• Automate access beyond what a person could reasonably do, or hammer the service in a way that degrades it for others.
• Upload malware, or content you have no right to upload.
• Present Movastruct output as certified or checked by us — it is neither.

Where your work is bound by a professional code of conduct or by a university's rules on academic honesty, those rules still apply. We built a tool that shows its working precisely so that you can learn from it and stand behind it — not so it can be handed in unread.

This is the clause that matters most, so we will not bury it in capitals at the bottom of the page.

Movastruct is a calculation aid, not an engineer. Every result it produces — analysis, design, drawings, reports — must be reviewed and verified by a competent engineer before it is relied on, issued, submitted or built from. You remain the engineer of record. We are not.

Software has bugs. Models make assumptions. AI can be confidently wrong, and an input can be misread. You are responsible for the inputs you give it, for checking the outputs against the code and against your own judgement, and for the decisions you take from them.

We work to BS 8110 and to Eurocode 2, and we show our working so that it can be checked. That is an invitation to verify, not a promise you will not have to.

Your work belongs to you. The descriptions you write, and the models, results and reports Movastruct produces from them, are yours, and nothing here transfers ownership of them to us.

You give us the narrow licence we need to run the service — to store your content, process it and display it back to you. That licence exists to operate Movastruct and for nothing else, and it ends when you delete the content or when your account closes.

We do not use your content to train our models. If we ever want to, we will ask you first, and you will be free to say no.

You are responsible for keeping your own copies of work you cannot afford to lose. Export the reports you need.

Some of what we ship is labelled beta, preview or experimental. Those features are exactly that: unfinished. They can be wrong, they can break, and they can disappear.

They are provided as-is, they carry no warranty of any kind, and the verification duty in section 04 applies to them twice over. If a beta feature is not fit for the job in front of you, do not use it for that job.

We work to keep Movastruct up, but we do not promise uninterrupted service. Maintenance, outages at our providers, and the ordinary hazards of the internet all happen.

The product will keep changing. We add features, we improve them, and occasionally we retire one. If we withdraw something you depend on, we will give you reasonable notice and, where we can, a way to get your work out.

Movastruct — the software, the models, the interface, the name and the marks — belongs to us. Your account gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use it while that account is in good standing. It does not give you the software itself.

If you send us feedback or a feature request, we may act on it freely and without owing you anything for it. We would rather have the feedback than the silence.

You can ask us to close your account at any time. We can suspend or close it if you break these terms, or if your use puts the service or other users at risk. Where the circumstances allow it, we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right.

When an account closes, access ends and we deal with your data as set out in the privacy policy. Export what you need before you go.

Beyond the promises we have made in plain words on this page, Movastruct is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular project, and we disclaim the implied warranties the law allows us to disclaim.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — including for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.

We will update these terms as the product changes. When we do, we will move the last-updated date at the top, and if the change materially affects your rights we will put a notice in the app before it takes effect. Using Movastruct after that means you accept the new terms; if you do not, stop using Movastruct before they apply.