DRAFTLY · LEGAL

Terms of Service

Effective May 16, 2026. Last updated July 27, 2026.

1. The agreement

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Tyler Thompson, doing business as Draftly ("Draftly," "we," "us"), and govern your use of the Draftly application, the marketing site at draftlycad.com, and all related services (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Draftly. If you're using Draftly on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

3. Your account

You're responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for activity that happens under your account.
Notify us at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized use.
You must give us accurate information (a valid email address) and keep it current.
You may delete your account at any time from Settings, or by emailing us.

4. The service

Draftly is a computer-aided drafting application for designing 2D plans, layouts, and technical drawings. The Service is provided on an as-is basis and we may add, change, or remove features over time. We aim to give reasonable notice of material changes that affect paying users.

5. Free trial and Pro subscription

A 14-day Pro trial is available once per account and starts when you ask for it — by pressing Start free trial in Draftly — not when the account is created. No payment method is required. The trial runs for 14 consecutive days and its end date is shown in the app under Settings → Account. When it ends your account reverts to the free tier. Nothing is charged at any point during or after the trial unless you separately buy a paid plan.

Pro is currently sold as a monthly subscription, an annual subscription, or a one-time "Founding Drafter" lifetime purchase. Prices and feature lists are published on the pricing page and may change with reasonable notice. Existing subscriptions remain at their original price for the billing period you've paid for.

What "lifetime" means. A Founding Drafter purchase grants Pro features for as long as Draftly publishes an application compatible with your seat. It is not a promise that any particular hosted service runs indefinitely, and it does not exempt you from the rest of these Terms. Specifically:

Cloud services are separate. Cloud sync, snapshot history and server-side export need connectivity and a running Draftly backend. If we ever discontinue a hosted service we will give notice and your local files remain openable and exportable.
Updates. A lifetime seat includes the updates we ship to the application it entitles. It does not guarantee any specific future feature, platform, or release schedule.
Support. Support for every plan, lifetime included, is email to [email protected]. We aim to reply within two business days. We do not offer a contractual response time, phone support, or an account manager.
Offline verification. Pro entitlements — lifetime ones included — are re-checked with Draftly when the app starts. When your device cannot reach us, a signed licence keeps Pro working offline for a bounded window: up to 14 days on a subscription and up to 90 days on a lifetime seat, and no longer than the paid period itself. After that window a device that still cannot reach us falls back to the free tier until it can. Your drawings are never affected by that fallback.
Not transferable. A seat is tied to the Draftly account that bought it. It cannot be sold, assigned, or moved to another person, and it ends if that account is deleted.
Availability. The Founding Drafter offer is sold until Draftly reaches general availability and is withdrawn then. It is not limited to a fixed number of seats. A seat is issued when your payment clears.

6. Billing and refunds

Everything sold on draftlycad.com — monthly, annual, and the lifetime Founding Drafter seat — is charged by Stripe, which processes those purchases. Your receipt is issued and emailed by Stripe. Draftly never receives or stores your card number.
If and when Draftly is published on the Apple App Store or Google Play, purchases made there will be processed by Apple or Google and their billing and refund policies will apply. No Draftly app is published on either store today, so no purchase can be made through them.
RevenueCat is the service Draftly uses to reconcile store entitlements across platforms. It is not a payment processor for anything sold on this site and it does not charge you.
Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled. You can cancel anytime in Settings or in the store where you bought. Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period — we don't pro-rate partial months unless required by law.
Refunds for the App Store and Google Play go through those stores. For direct web purchases, contact us within 14 days of purchase and we'll work it out.

If a Pro charge is wrong or unauthorized, email us at [email protected] before disputing with your card issuer — we'll usually resolve it within a day or two.

7. Your content

Drawings, project files, and other content you create using Draftly ("Your Content") belong to you. We don't claim ownership of Your Content.

You grant Draftly a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, and transmit Your Content solely so we can operate the Service for you (for example, syncing your drawings across your devices). This license ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except where retention is required by law.

You are responsible for Your Content and for keeping your own backups. Draftly takes reasonable steps to protect data we store, but we strongly recommend exporting important drawings periodically. See the Privacy Policy for retention details.

We do not use Your Content to train AI or machine-learning models.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

Use the Service to violate any law or another person's rights.
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service except where the law permits it notwithstanding this restriction.
Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service in a way not contemplated by these Terms.
Interfere with or disrupt the Service, including using bots, scrapers, or denial-of-service techniques.
Use the Service to store or transmit malware, infringing material, or content that is unlawful, defamatory, or harassing.
Attempt to access another user's account or data without permission.
Probe or test the Service for vulnerabilities except under a documented, good-faith security disclosure (see contact section below).

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.

9. Intellectual property

The Draftly name, logo, marketing site, application code, design library, and the look-and-feel of the product are owned by us and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms.

Draftly is independent and not affiliated with Autodesk or AutoCAD. AutoCAD is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc.; we reference it only for compatibility and comparison purposes.

10. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers (listed in our Privacy Policy) for hosting, authentication, email, and payment. Your use of those services is also governed by their terms. We're not responsible for actions taken by those providers that are outside our control.

11. Beta and preview features

Some features may be released as beta, preview, or experimental. Those features may change or be removed without notice, are provided as-is, and may have higher rates of bugs or downtime. Don't use beta features for mission-critical work without a backup of your file.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DRAFTLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error- free, or free of harmful components, nor that it will produce drawings that conform to any specific code, standard, or regulatory requirement. You are responsible for verifying that drawings you produce meet the codes, standards, and professional-licensure requirements that apply to your work.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DRAFTLY AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (a) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID DRAFTLY IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (b) USD $100.

Some jurisdictions don't allow certain disclaimers or limitations, in which case the above will apply to the extent permitted by law.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Draftly and its operator from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of (a) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law, (b) Your Content, or (c) your infringement of any third party's rights.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service or delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or if we're required to do so by law, with reasonable notice where practical. On termination, your right to use the Service ends, but the sections that by their nature should survive — including Sections 7 (last paragraph), 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19 — will continue to apply.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the product evolves. For material changes affecting paid users, we'll notify you by email or in-app notice before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. If you don't accept them, stop using the Service and cancel any active subscription.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under these Terms, except where local consumer-protection law gives you a non-waivable right to bring claims in your home jurisdiction.

Before filing a formal claim, please email us at [email protected] and give us 30 days to resolve it informally.

18. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, plus the Privacy Policy and any in-product notices, are the entire agreement between you and Draftly.
No waiver. If we don't enforce a provision, that's not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Severability. If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest of the Terms remain in effect.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of our assets.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events outside its reasonable control.

19. Our commitments to you

The four promises published on the Draftly home page under "our no-rug-pull promise" are contractual commitments, not marketing copy. They are reproduced here in full and are enforceable against us as part of these Terms. Where the home page and this section differ in wording, this section governs.

The free tier stays free. Drawing, editing, up to five layers, and local files will not be moved behind a paywall for existing or new users. We may add new paid capabilities; we will not take these away from the free tier.
Your files are yours. The .drft format is readable JSON and export to PDF, SVG and DXF is available to the tiers stated on the pricing page. Nothing you have drawn is withheld from you because a subscription lapsed. Local files remain openable and exportable.
No account is required to draft. Creating, opening, editing, saving, recovering and exporting local free-tier drawings never requires an account or a network connection. Signing in is required only for cloud sync, the trial, buying or restoring Pro, and account management.
If a paid feature ever moves to free, you keep it. Pricing changes are applied forward. We will not reclassify something you already paid for as an extra charge.

These commitments are subject to the disclaimers and liability limits in Sections 12 and 13 and to Section 16, except that a change to these Terms may not withdraw commitments 1–4 for anyone who accepted them before the change took effect. Nothing here promises that any particular hosted service, platform or feature will exist forever; see Section 5 for what a lifetime seat does and does not include.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms, billing, or anything else? [email protected].

Security disclosures: same address, subject line starting with "SECURITY:".