Plain rules of the road. If anything is unclear, mail us — we'd rather rewrite this than litigate it.
CommonSense is operated by DruidaLabs, a small studio registered in England and Wales. When you install the app, fetch the catalog, or buy an algorithm, your counterparty under these terms is DruidaLabs.
CommonSense is a desktop application that parses DNA files you provide and runs analysis algorithms locally against them. The results it produces are for education, curiosity, and self-knowledge. They are not medical advice. They are not diagnostic. They are not a substitute for a healthcare professional.
If a CommonSense result surprises you or worries you, talk to a clinician. Don't make a medical decision on the basis of a single SNP lookup, no matter how well-typeset the report.
The app itself is free to install and use. The source for the host runtime, the sandbox, the CLI, and the website is open and MIT-licensed. You can fork it, audit it, run your own copy of the marketplace against it — that's all by design.
We may release updates from time to time. You're not obligated to install them; the app will keep working with whatever version of the catalog it last fetched. If we ever discontinue the hosted catalog, the app's installed algorithms continue to run against your existing samples — the cryptographic identity is local, so the catalog disappearing doesn't break what you already have.
Some algorithms in the catalog are paid; most launch items are free. Paid items are sold by DruidaLabs, charged via Stripe, in the currency the listing shows. Prices include UK VAT where applicable; if you're outside the UK, your bank may apply a foreign transaction fee that we don't see and can't reverse.
What you're buying is a perpetual, personal-use license to run that algorithm version against samples in your own vault. You can run it as many times as you like, on as many samples as you like, on as many machines as you've installed CommonSense on. You can't resell the algorithm or extract its code for redistribution.
UK and EU consumer law gives you a 14-day right to cancel a digital purchase. Because installing an algorithm is an immediate digital download that you can run right away, the strict letter of that right ends the moment you click Install. In practice:
Refund route: druidas@druidalabs.com. Include the session id from your purchase receipt (the app shows it; the email Stripe sent you contains it). Refunds are returned through Stripe to the original card and typically clear in 5-10 working days.
If you publish an algorithm to the catalog via commonsc-devkit publish, additional terms apply — collected in the Contribute page. Short version: you keep the rights to your algorithm, you grant CommonSense a non-exclusive licence to distribute the signed bundle, you take responsibility for the accuracy of what your algorithm claims about a genome.
You agree not to use CommonSense to:
The app doesn't enforce these socially — there's no surveillance layer that would let us — but if we become aware of misuse, we will refuse service.
The app and the algorithms are provided "as is". We test them; publishers test them; the gate runs on every publish. Genetics is messy and algorithms make assumptions. Treat results as starting points, not conclusions.
To the extent permitted by law, DruidaLabs is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of CommonSense. Our maximum liability for any direct loss is the total amount you paid for the algorithm or algorithms involved in that loss.
If we change these terms in a way that materially affects your rights, we'll surface the change in the app on next launch and post the dated diff at the top of this page. You can stop using the app at any time, with no cancellation fee, and your installed algorithms keep working.
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Disputes that can't be resolved by email will go to the English courts.
Anything about these terms, including disputes: druidas@druidalabs.com.