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Rotulus Beta Test Agreement

Version 1.2 — 2026-10-12

This agreement is between Mathusek Technologies LLC, a Utah limited liability company at 10939 N Alpine Hwy PMB 119, Highland, UT 84003 ("Licensor", which includes any successor to whom this agreement is transferred under section 19), and the person who accepts it ("you" or "Tester"). It covers pre-release versions of Rotulus, the desktop teleprompter software for Windows and macOS, during the closed beta.

1. Words used in this agreement

Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning the EULA gives them.

2. Who can be a tester

Licensor relies on what you tell it about your age and where you live.

3. How you accept this agreement

  1. Licensor sends you this agreement by email. The email names the version and attaches a copy that you can keep and print. The attached copy is the same as the version published at https://rotulus.io/beta-agreement/ on the day Licensor sends it.
  2. You accept by replying to that email with the words "I agree". By replying, you agree to make this agreement by email, and your reply is your signature.
  3. Licensor sends the download link for the Beta Software, with your beta key (section 4), only after your reply.
  4. Licensor keeps a record of your acceptance: your name, the email address you replied from, the version you accepted, a copy of the file sent to you and the time Licensor sent it, and your reply, kept with its email headers and the time it arrived.
  5. When Licensor publishes a new version of this agreement, it tells you by email and sends you the new version in the same way. To keep testing, you must accept the new version in the same way: Licensor sends new beta builds only to testers who have accepted the newest version. The new version applies to you once you accept it. Until then, the version you accepted still applies to you. Licensor never treats your continued use of Rotulus as acceptance of a new version.

The newest version of this agreement is published at https://rotulus.io/beta-agreement/, with its version number and date.

4. What you get during the beta

Licensor gives you a free, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Beta Software during the Beta Period, for any purpose, including paid shows. You may use it on computers you own or control, and on a client's or employer's computer that you are allowed to use. During the Beta Period, you can present or otherwise play back a script, use Show Sync and serve the live view in Share Script in a Browser with a free beta key, without buying a License Key. If you complete the beta, you also get a free Tester License (section 16).

Your beta key. After you accept this agreement, Licensor checks you against the US government's Consolidated Screening List, as it does before issuing any License Key, and then emails you a free beta key with the download link. A listed party gets no License Key, and this agreement then ends. The beta key is issued in your name and works on two computers at a time, like any License Key, in every version of Rotulus, beta and released, through the Beta End Date. If Licensor extends the beta while this agreement is in effect, and you have accepted its newest version, it emails you a new beta key that works through the new Beta End Date (section 15). Keep your beta key private, like any License Key (section 7).

The EULA also applies to the Beta Software. Where this agreement and the EULA conflict, this agreement controls, except for the EULA's export and sanctions terms (its section "Export and sanctions"), which always apply.

5. What you agree to do

You agree to:

  1. use the Beta Software in realistic ways, on the shows, rehearsals and computers you have (Windows, macOS or both);
  2. tell Licensor about problems you find, at support@rotulus.io, with the steps to reproduce a problem where you can and the version of the Beta Software you used; and
  3. follow section 6 (Talking about Rotulus in public) and section 7 (What stays private).

There are no required hours and no assigned tasks. You test on your own shows, in your own way and on your own schedule. You are not Licensor's employee, contractor or agent, and you cannot act or speak for Licensor.

6. Talking about Rotulus in public

You are welcome, and encouraged, to talk about Rotulus in public: to post, stream, review, rate and demonstrate it, with screenshots and video, and to say what you like and what you don't. Nothing in this agreement limits your honest opinions or reviews of Rotulus. Licensor will never withhold or withdraw your Tester License, or end this agreement, because of anything you say about Rotulus, good or bad.

When you talk about Rotulus in public, please follow these five rules:

  1. Say that you are a tester. In the post, video or talk itself, near the start, say that you are a Rotulus beta tester and that testers get a free license. For example: "I'm a Rotulus beta tester, and testers get a free license." Say it every time, on every platform, from your first post, even before you have a Tester License. A note in your profile alone is not enough. After the beta, while you use a Tester License, say that you were a Rotulus beta tester and received a free license.
  2. Never show client material. Use your own test content. Keep your clients' scripts, names, logos and show details out of every post, screenshot, stream and recording.
  3. Report security problems privately first, as section 7 explains.
  4. Don't share builds, download links or License Keys, as section 7 explains.
  5. Keep information that Licensor marks as private to yourself, as section 7 explains.

Please speak from your own use of Rotulus. During the beta, Licensor looks for public posts about Rotulus every two weeks and keeps a record of each check. If a post is missing the disclosure in rule 1, Licensor will ask you to add it. If Licensor sees a factual mistake about what Rotulus does, Licensor may tell you.

7. What stays private

Only these things are confidential:

  1. Builds, download links and License Keys. Licensor sends them to each tester directly. Don't share the Beta Software, its download links or any License Key with anyone, and don't post them.
  2. Private business information. Information about Licensor's business that Licensor marks as private in writing when it tells you, such as prices, dates and plans that have not been announced. It stays private until Licensor announces it, until it becomes public through no fault of yours, or for 12 months after Licensor tells you, whichever comes first.
  3. Security problems, for a limited time. If you find a security problem in Rotulus or on rotulus.io, report it privately to support@rotulus.io first. Please don't publish details that would let someone exploit it until it is fixed or 90 days after your report, whichever comes first. You may say at any time that you reported a security problem.

This section does not cover information that is public, or becomes public through no fault of yours; information you already knew or got lawfully from someone else; your own opinions, reviews and experience of Rotulus; or anything the law requires you to disclose.

Notice under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. 1833(b)). An individual is not held liable under any federal or state trade secret law for disclosing a trade secret (a) in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (b) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if that filing is made under seal.

8. Feedback

Apart from telling Licensor about problems you find (section 5) and the feedback call, which is needed only for the Tester License (section 16), you don't have to give feedback. "Feedback" means the suggestions, ideas, bug reports and comments you send Licensor directly, by email or in a feedback call. It does not include what you post in public.

You keep ownership of your feedback. You give Licensor a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license, for the full term of any rights in your feedback, to use, copy, change and build on it for any purpose, without payment or credit. This license covers your ideas and suggestions. It does not let Licensor publish your words, name, image or voice; that needs your separate written permission (section 10). You also keep ownership of your scripts and files.

9. Feedback calls and recordings

10. Testimonials and reposts

A testimonial is optional. Licensor uses your words, name, photo, logo, voice or video to promote Rotulus only with your separate written permission, given in a Rotulus Testimonial Release that names exactly what may be used and where. Every testimonial is shown with a note next to it saying that you are a Rotulus beta tester and that testers receive a free license, or, once your Tester License is issued, that you received one. Giving or refusing a testimonial never affects your Tester License. A Testimonial Release lasts 2 years unless you confirm it again by email, and you can withdraw a testimonial for future use at any time, as the Testimonial Release explains.

Reposts. Licensor reposts, quote-posts or shares one of your own public posts about Rotulus on Licensor's accounts only with your written OK for that post, given by email before it is shared (a one-line reply is enough). Each OK covers only the post it names. The repost keeps your disclosure next to it. Refusing never affects your Tester License.

11. Your scripts and files

12. Beta software can fail, especially at a live event

Beta Software is unfinished and may contain serious defects, including ones that lose or damage data or stop the display during a show. You agree:

This rule applies to you during the beta even where the support page at https://rotulus.io/support/ lists a backup computer as a fallback.

13. Support during the beta

Support is by email, as described at https://rotulus.io/support/. Licensor aims to reply to every request within 24 hours, weekends included. Reply times are goals, not promises. Requests about a show that is running now, or that starts within 24 hours, are read first, but no faster reply is promised. Licensor does not operate, attend or monitor your events, and does not promise that a problem will be fixed, or fixed by a particular time. Fixes arrive as new beta builds, and Licensor sends their download links by email. This section does not change section 12 (Beta software can fail, especially at a live event) or section 14 (No warranty; limit of liability).

14. No warranty; limit of liability

THE BETA SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LICENSOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LICENSOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST DATA, LOST PROFITS, LOST FEES OR ANY COST OF A CANCELED, DELAYED OR DISRUPTED EVENT, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE BETA SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LICENSOR'S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE BETA SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT IS LIMITED TO US $50.

NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT EXCLUDES OR LIMITS ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, SUCH AS LIABILITY FOR FRAUD OR FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE.

15. The Beta Period and how it ends

16. The Tester License

  1. How you earn it. You complete the beta when you have used the Beta Software on at least one real show or full rehearsal during the Beta Period and taken part in one feedback call with Licensor (about 20 minutes). The call counts if it is held during the Beta Period, or if you booked it on or before the Beta End Date and it is held within 14 days after the Beta End Date. Licensor confirms completion to you by email.
  2. When it is issued. You do not have to wait for the call. Once you have used the Beta Software on a real show or full rehearsal during the Beta Period and booked a feedback call that can count under item 1, tell Licensor: Licensor confirms both by email and issues the License Key within one business day of that confirmation. If you have done both on or before the Beta End Date, Licensor issues it on or before the Beta End Date. If the call is then not held, the Tester License may be withdrawn (item 8). Before issuing it, Licensor checks the person or organization it is issued to against the US government's Consolidated Screening List, as it does before issuing any License Key; a listed party gets no License Key.
  3. What it is. An Annual License under the EULA, issued in your name as a Personal License, on the same terms as a purchased one: only you may use it, on any two computers at a time, including a client's or employer's computer while you work for them, and you remove the License Key from a computer you don't own when the job ends. If your employer's rules don't allow you to accept the Tester License, tell Licensor, and Licensor issues it to your employer as an Organization License instead, with the same 12 months of access; it then follows the EULA's rules for an Organization License, except that item 6 still applies.
  4. 12 months of access. For 12 months from the day the License Key is issued, it covers presenting, Show Sync, the live view in Share Script in a Browser, and updates. Licensor emails a reminder 30, 7 and 1 day before the key expires, and during the last 30 days Rotulus also shows a reminder in edit mode each day. For 14 days after it expires, you may keep presenting, using Show Sync and serving the live view; Rotulus shows a banner asking you to renew. After those 14 days, presenting, Show Sync and the live view need a renewed key, while opening, editing, importing, exporting and linking Google Docs keep working. A show that is already running is never stopped for a licensing reason. Unless you renew it, the Tester License gives no right to present, use Show Sync or serve the live view after it expires and the 14 days of grace have ended.
  5. Renewal. You can renew at any time at the standard renewal price, currently $149, stated in the Terms of Sale at https://rotulus.io/terms-of-sale/. A renewal is bought by hand and is never charged automatically. It adds 12 months to the key's current expiry date, so renewing early loses no time. If the key has already expired, the 12 months start on the day you buy the renewal. A renewal can be refunded within 14 days under the Rotulus Terms of Sale.
  6. One per tester. The Tester License cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged for money. There is one per tester.
  7. It never depends on what you say. You get it whether or not you post, review or give a testimonial, and whatever you say about Rotulus.
  8. When it can be withheld or withdrawn. Before Licensor issues the Tester License, Licensor may withhold it only if you shared the Beta Software, a download link or a License Key in breach of section 7, or where the EULA's export and sanctions terms require it. After it is issued, Licensor may refuse or withdraw it only if the check in item 2 finds a listed party, if no feedback call is held by the last day on which a call can count under item 1 (or by a later date Licensor agrees to by email), or on the grounds on which the EULA allows any License Key to be withdrawn. Missing a booked time is not enough on its own: you can book the call again before that day, and Licensor reminds you by email before it. Licensor never withholds, refuses or withdraws it because of anything you say about Rotulus.
  9. If the beta or this agreement ends first. If the Beta End Date comes after your show but before your feedback call, a call held as item 1 allows still completes the beta. Otherwise, no Tester License is due if this agreement ends before you have done your show or rehearsal and booked the call. But if Licensor ends this agreement for a reason other than a breach of section 7 after you have used the Beta Software on a real show or full rehearsal, Licensor still offers you the feedback call, and the Tester License is due once the call is booked. Once the Tester License has been issued, it stays yours if this agreement ends later, unless it is withdrawn under item 8.
  10. Taxes. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to you on the Tester License.

17. Your information

The Privacy Policy describes the information the beta involves: your beta application, if you sent one; the record of your acceptance (section 3); the record of your beta key, with the screening check made before it is issued (section 4); your feedback-call booking through Zoho Bookings and the Google Calendar connected to it, with your answer about recording, and the notes and any recording of the call (section 9); the record of your show or rehearsal, your booking and your completion of the beta; your Tester License record; Licensor's record of the public posts about Rotulus it checks (section 6); any written OK you give for a repost (section 10); automatic error reports, if you turn them on; and any testimonial you allow. It also says how long each is kept and how to ask to see, correct or delete it. Privacy requests go to privacy@rotulus.io.

18. Law and courts

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Utah, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute about it will be decided only by the state and federal courts located in the State of Utah, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction over it, including one in the county where you live. Nothing in this agreement limits any right you have under the consumer protection laws of the place where you live that cannot be waived or limited by contract.

19. General

Change log

VersionDateWhat changed
1.22026-10-12First version that any tester accepts. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 reached no tester.