Rise Canvas —
Licence & Terms of Use

1. What Rise Canvas is

Rise Canvas is a web-based tool that lets you build custom HTML components (such as flip cards, labelled graphics, sorting activities, accordions and similar) for use in Articulate Rise 360 courses. You build components in the tool and export self-contained HTML to paste into a Rise code block.

Rise Canvas is hosted online and accessed through a subscriber login. We may update, improve, add to, or change the tool and its components over time.

2. Your licence to use Rise Canvas

While you hold a valid, paid subscription, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use Rise Canvas for the purpose of building and exporting components for your own e-learning work.

This licence is for one named individual. A single subscription may not be used by, shared with, or accessed by more than one person. If more than one person needs access, contact us about named seats or a team licence.

3. What you may do with what you build ("your output")

The components you create and export using Rise Canvas ("your output") are yours to use. You may:

• Use your output in any e-learning course you build, including courses you build for paying clients or your employer;

• Edit, adapt and incorporate your output into your courses freely.

We claim no ownership over the courses you build or the content you put into your components (your text, images, branding and so on).

4. What you may not do

You may not:

• Share, sell, lend, or transfer your login or subscription to anyone else;

• Resell, redistribute, sublicense, or make Rise Canvas (the tool, the builders, or their underlying code) available to others as a product or service, whether free or paid;

• Copy, reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code or build logic of Rise Canvas in order to recreate or compete with it;

• Remove, obscure, or alter any ownership, copyright, or attribution notices in the tool;

• Use Rise Canvas to build content that is unlawful, infringing, or harmful;

• Use automated means to access the tool in a way that places unreasonable load on it, or attempt to circumvent its access controls.

For clarity: the distinction is simple — the components you export are yours; the tool that makes them is ours.

5. Subscriptions, billing and renewal

• Rise Canvas is offered on a monthly or annual subscription. Current prices are shown on the Pricing page and are in pounds sterling (GBP).

• Payment is taken at the start of each billing period through our payment provider (Stripe, via Wix). By subscribing, you authorise us to charge the applicable fee on a recurring basis until you cancel.

• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period (monthly or annually) at the then-current price, unless you cancel before the renewal date.

• We may change our prices from time to time. Any price change will apply from your next renewal, not mid-period, and we will give you reasonable notice.

6. Cancelling and refunds

• You can cancel at any time through your account on the website, or by emailing support@dsecdesign.co.uk.

• When you cancel, your subscription remains active until the end of the period you have already paid for. After that, it will not renew and your access to the builders ends.

• Except where required by law, fees already paid are non-refundable, and we do not provide partial refunds for unused time within a period.

• Your statutory rights are not affected. If you are a consumer in the UK, you may have a legal right to cancel a new subscription within 14 days of purchase (the "cooling-off period") under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Where you ask to start using Rise Canvas immediately, you acknowledge that this right may be lost or reduced once the service has been provided. To exercise a statutory cancellation right, contact support@dsecdesign.co.uk.

(Note for you, David: decide and confirm your refund stance — e.g. whether you offer a no-questions 14-day refund on annual plans as goodwill. The clause above is a fair, lawful default; a solicitor should confirm the consumer-cancellation wording.)

7. What happens to your courses if your subscription ends

Components you have already exported are self-contained HTML that lives inside your Rise course. They will continue to work after your subscription ends. What you lose access to is the builders themselves and any future updates — you will not be able to create new components or edit existing ones in the tool without an active subscription.

8. Availability and changes

We aim to keep Rise Canvas available and working, but we provide it on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at all times. We may carry out maintenance, make changes, add or remove components, or modify how the tool works.

We may suspend or withdraw access if you breach these terms.

9. Our intellectual property

Rise Canvas — including the tool, its builders, its user interface, and its underlying code — is owned by DSEC Design and protected by intellectual property law. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of Rise Canvas to you; you receive only the limited licence described above.

10. Independence from Articulate

Rise Canvas is an independent tool that produces content for use in Articulate Rise. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise connected to Articulate Global, LLC. "Articulate", "Rise" and "Rise 360" are trademarks of their respective owner, used here only to describe compatibility. You are responsible for using your output in accordance with Articulate's own terms for their products.

11. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for anything that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded — including death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

Subject to that, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of data, or loss arising from your use of (or inability to use) Rise Canvas or your output;

• Our total liability to you in connection with Rise Canvas will not exceed the total amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

If you are a consumer, this section does not affect your statutory rights.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version will always be posted on our website with a "last updated" date. For material changes, we will give reasonable notice (for example, by email or a notice on the site). Continuing to use Rise Canvas after changes take effect means you accept the updated terms.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales will have jurisdiction — except that, if you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts, and mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence still apply.