PCBJam built on KiCad

Terms of Service

Last updated: 16 July 2026

The short version (summary)

This summary helps you understand the Terms at a glance. It is not a substitute for the full text below, which is what legally applies — and where this summary and the detailed terms differ, the detailed terms govern.

  • What this is. PCBJam is a browser-based PCB-design application, built on the open-source KiCad EDA toolchain, operated by Emergence-Engineering Kft. (“PCBJam”, “we”, “us”). These Terms are the agreement between you and us for using it.
  • Your designs are yours. You keep all ownership of the PCB projects and files you create or upload. You give us only a limited licence to host, store, process, back up, and display them so we can run the service for you. (How we handle the personal data in them is covered by our Privacy Policy.)
  • Free and paid. There’s a free tier and paid subscription plans. Payments are sold and processed by Paddle as “Merchant of Record” — when you buy a plan, your purchase contract for that transaction is with Paddle, who handles billing, VAT/tax, invoices, and refunds. We provide the software and service to you under these Terms.
  • Cooling-off. If you’re a consumer in the EU/EEA, you generally have a 14-day right to cancel a paid plan. Asking for immediate access doesn’t take that right away for a subscription: if you cancel within the 14 days, you pay only a fair share for the time you had, and the rest is refunded (see §9).
  • Refunds — anytime. Ask for a refund at any time and we’ll refund the unused remainder of your current billing period, pro-rata to what you paid, and downgrade your plan — nothing is deleted, but content over the free limits goes read-only (see §9.3.2). This sits on top of the cooling-off right, not instead of it.
  • It’s a tool — verify your work. PCBJam helps you design, but you are responsible for checking your designs, exports, and manufacturing files before you rely on them. The service is provided “as is” to the extent the law allows.
  • Your rights as a consumer stay intact. Nothing in these Terms takes away the mandatory statutory rights you have under Hungarian/EU consumer law, and we don’t try to exclude liability we’re not allowed to exclude.
  • Open source. PCBJam is built on KiCad and other open-source software, which stay under their own licences (including the GNU GPLv3). These Terms don’t restrict your rights under those licences. See §12.
  • Contact. hello@pcbjam.com.

1. Who we are and how to contact us

PCBJam is operated by:

  • Legal entity: Emergence-Engineering Kft.
  • Registered office: 1123 Budapest, Nagyenyed utca 5. pinceszint, Hungary
  • Company registration number: Cg. 01-09-380162 (registered at Fővárosi Törvényszék Cégbírósága)
  • VAT number: HU29043424 (adószám: 29043424-2-43)
  • Country of establishment: Hungary
  • Email (general/support): hello@pcbjam.com
  • Email (legal/notices): contact@emergence-engineering.com
  • Email (abuse / illegal-content reports / point of contact): contact@emergence-engineering.com

PCBJam is a product of Emergence Engineering. “PCBJam” is the product; Emergence-Engineering Kft. is the legal entity behind it. The contact addresses above are also our official electronic point of contact for users and authorities.

2. About these Terms, and your acceptance

2.1 These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Emergence-Engineering Kft. governing your access to and use of the PCBJam website at https://pcbjam.com, the PCBJam web application, and related services (together, the “Service”).

2.2 By creating an account, clicking “I agree”, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2.3 These Terms cover your use of the Service. They are separate from, and do not replace:

  • our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which explain how we handle personal data and cookies and form part of your agreement with us by reference;
  • the purchase/payment contract with Paddle that applies when you buy a paid plan (see §8); and
  • the open-source licences that apply to KiCad and other open-source components (see §12).

2.4 Consumers vs. business users. Some provisions apply differently depending on whether you use the Service as a consumer (a natural person acting outside your trade, business, craft, or profession) or as a business (a “trader”/organisation). Where a clause is marked “If you are a consumer” or “If you are a business”, it applies only to that group. Mandatory consumer-protection rules always prevail over anything in these Terms to the contrary (see §2.6 and §13.1).

2.5 Eligibility. You must be at least 16 years old (or older, if your country sets a higher age for entering into this kind of contract or for the digital age of consent) and able to form a binding contract. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

2.6 Your statutory rights are not affected. If you are a consumer, you have rights under mandatory consumer-protection law (including the EU Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU and Digital Content and Digital Services Directive (EU) 2019/770, as transposed in Hungary, e.g. Government Decree 45/2014 (II.26.) and the Hungarian Civil Code). Nothing in these Terms limits or waives those rights, and any term that conflicts with them does not apply to you to that extent.

3. The Service — what PCBJam is (and isn’t)

3.1 PCBJam lets you create, edit, store, render, check, compile, export, share, and collaborate on printed-circuit-board (PCB) designs in your web browser, using a build of the open-source KiCad EDA toolchain compiled to WebAssembly, together with our own hosting, storage, collaboration, and account features.

3.2 The Service is a design aid, not a guarantee of a working board. Outputs such as design-rule-check (DRC) results, 3D previews, netlists, Gerbers, drill files, bills of materials, and other exports are generated automatically and may contain errors or omissions. You are solely responsible for independently reviewing, verifying, and validating your designs and any files you generate before relying on them, sending them for manufacture, or using them in any product. We are not your engineer and do not certify fitness, safety, regulatory compliance, or manufacturability of any design. (This does not exclude liability we may not exclude — see §15.)

3.3 Beta and evolving features. Parts of the Service may be labelled beta, preview, or experimental, or may change as the product develops. Subject to your consumer rights and §14 (changes to the Service), we may add, change, or remove features.

3.4 Your responsibilities for access. You need a compatible, up-to-date browser and your own internet connection and equipment. You are responsible for keeping your own backups of anything important to you, in addition to the storage the Service provides.

4. Your account

4.1 To use most features you must create an account and provide accurate, current information, and keep it up to date.

4.2 You are responsible for your account and credentials. Keep your password (or third-party login) confidential, and do not let others use your account. Tell us promptly at hello@pcbjam.com if you suspect unauthorised use. We are not liable for losses caused by someone using your credentials with your permission or through your failure to keep them secure, except to the extent the loss is caused by us (see §15).

4.3 You may have one account unless we agree otherwise. You must not impersonate others or create an account using someone else’s identity or details.

5. Your content and your intellectual property

5.1 You own your content. As between you and us, you (or your licensors) retain all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual-property rights, in and to the projects, schematics, layouts, design files, libraries, text, and other materials you create or upload (your “Content”), regardless of the fact that it is stored or processed on our systems. We do not claim ownership of your Content, and to the extent we might otherwise be deemed to acquire any ownership interest in it, we assign that interest back to you.

5.2 The licence you give us (so the Service can work). You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, back up, transmit, reproduce, render, process, adapt (for technical purposes such as format conversion and compilation), and display your Content — solely to the extent necessary to operate, secure, maintain, and provide the Service to you and to anyone you choose to share or collaborate with. This licence exists only to run the Service for you; it ends when you delete the relevant Content or close your account, except for: (a) copies in routine backups, for a limited period; (b) contributions you made to projects owned by other users — a project is a single shared workspace, so your contributions become part of it and remain there until that project’s owner deletes them (your rights over any personal data involved are unaffected — see the Privacy Policy); and (c) copies others have already made of content you chose to make public (see §5.3).

5.3 Sharing is your choice. Projects are private by default. You decide whether to invite collaborators, create share links, or publish a project. A project is a single shared workspace: collaborators you invite work in your project and do not receive their own copies, and if you delete a project you own, collaborators lose access to it. Conversely, contributions you make to someone else’s project become part of that project and remain in it if you later leave it or close your account (see §5.2). If you make Content public or share it, you authorise us to make it available accordingly. Public content can be viewed, copied, downloaded, indexed by search engines, and re-shared, and you may not be able to fully recall it once others have copied it.

5.4 Aggregated/derived data. We may create and use aggregated, anonymised, or de-identified statistics and metadata derived from use of the Service (for example, performance and usage metrics), provided this does not identify you or reveal the substantive content of your designs. This data is not your Content.

5.5 Your warranties about your Content. You are responsible for your Content. You confirm that you have the rights necessary to upload and use it on the Service and to grant the licence in §5.2, and that your Content and your use of it do not infringe anyone’s rights or break the law or §6.

5.6 Removing content. We may remove, disable, or restrict access to Content that we reasonably believe infringes a third party’s rights, is unlawful, or breaches these Terms — see §11 (illegal content and notices) and §17 (suspension and termination, with safeguards for consumers).

5.7 Exporting and deleting your data. While your account is open and for 30 days after it closes, you can export your projects in standard KiCad formats. After your account is closed (or after a long period of inactivity, with notice), we will delete or anonymise your Content within the period stated in our Privacy Policy, except where we must keep some data longer to meet a legal obligation.

5.8 Personal data. How we process the personal data contained in or associated with your Content (including any personal data you put into title blocks or comments) is governed by our Privacy Policy, not by this section.

6. Acceptable use

6.1 You agree not to, and not to allow anyone else to:

  • use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or to store, create, or share unlawful content or content that infringes intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights;
  • upload or distribute malware, or use the Service to attack, disrupt, gain unauthorised access to, or test the security of any system without authorisation;
  • interfere with, overload, or place an undue burden on the Service or its infrastructure, or circumvent rate limits, quotas, usage limits, or access controls;
  • scrape, harvest, or bulk-download from the Service except as expressly permitted, or use automated means in a way that disrupts the Service or other users;
  • resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service itself, or access it to build a competing service, except where mandatory law (including the open-source licences in §12) allows;
  • remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notices, or misrepresent your affiliation with us;
  • use the Service in breach of applicable export-control or economic-sanctions rules, or if you are (or act for) a person or entity subject to EU, UN, or other applicable sanctions, or in a territory subject to a comprehensive embargo; or
  • harass, threaten, defraud, or harm others, or violate the rights or safety of others.

6.2 Open-source rights are preserved. Nothing in §6.1 restricts any right you have under the open-source licences that apply to the open-source components of the Service (see §12). The restriction on reverse-engineering and on “building a competing service” applies to our proprietary materials, not to the GPL-licensed or other open-source code, which you remain free to use under its own licence.

6.3 Fair use of resources. The Service (including any free tier) is for ordinary interactive design use. We may apply reasonable storage, compute, rate, or usage limits, and may take proportionate action if your use materially exceeds them or threatens the stability or security of the Service (see §17).

7. Free tier and paid subscriptions

7.1 Free tier. We may offer a free tier with limited features, storage, or usage. We may change or withdraw the free tier, subject to your consumer rights and §14; for consumers on the free tier, the mandatory protections of Directive (EU) 2019/770 (as transposed) still apply where you provide personal data to use it.

7.2 Paid plans. Paid subscription plans give you access to additional features, capacity, or usage for a recurring fee, billed per the plan you select (e.g. monthly or annually). The features and limits of each plan are described at checkout or on our pricing page, which forms part of these Terms when you subscribe.

7.3 Auto-renewal. Unless stated otherwise, paid subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price for that plan, until cancelled. You can cancel renewal at any time as described in §9; cancellation stops future renewals and takes effect at the end of the current paid period (you keep access until then). We (or Paddle) will give the advance reminders required by law before a renewal where applicable.

7.4 Price changes. We may change subscription prices. For consumers, any change to the price of an ongoing subscription will be notified in advance and will take effect only from your next billing period after the notice; if you do not accept the new price, you may cancel before it takes effect.

7.5 Taxes. Prices are shown inclusive or exclusive of VAT/sales tax as indicated at checkout. Applicable taxes are calculated, charged, and remitted by Paddle as Merchant of Record (see §8).

8. Billing and payments — Paddle is the Merchant of Record

8.1 Paddle is the seller/Merchant of Record. Payments for paid plans are handled by Paddle (Paddle.com Market Limited and/or its relevant group entity), which acts as the authorised reseller and Merchant of Record for our products. This means that when you buy a paid plan, you are entering into the purchase/payment transaction with Paddle, not directly with Emergence-Engineering Kft. Paddle is the seller of record for that transaction, and Paddle’s name (or “Paddle.net” / a similar descriptor) will appear on your payment statement.

8.2 What Paddle does. As Merchant of Record, Paddle is responsible for: processing your payment; charging, collecting, and remitting the correct VAT/sales tax/GST where legally required; issuing invoices/receipts; currency handling; and managing refunds and payment-dispute/chargeback handling. Paddle assumes the tax-compliance responsibility for these transactions — we do not separately collect that tax from you.

8.3 Paddle’s terms apply to the purchase. Your purchase is also subject to Paddle’s Checkout Buyer Terms and Paddle’s Refund Policy (paddle.com/legal/checkout-buyer-terms · paddle.com/legal/refund-policy). Under those terms, Paddle resells our software and makes it available to you under our Terms (which Paddle refers to as the “Supplier Agreement”). This split means: Paddle handles the sale; Emergence-Engineering Kft. licenses and provides the Service to you under these Terms.

8.4 Your relationship with us continues. Although the payment contract is with Paddle, your right to use the Service, and the licence to the software, are granted by us under these Terms. If we terminate your access for breach of these Terms, that may affect your ability to use a plan you paid for, subject to your statutory rights and any refund due.

8.5 Payment information. You must provide valid, authorised payment details and keep them current. If a payment fails or is reversed, we or Paddle may suspend or downgrade paid features until it is resolved, subject to §17 and your consumer rights.

8.6 Personal data in payments. For the personal data involved in payments, Paddle acts as an independent data controller (not our processor). See our Privacy Policy §8 and Paddle’s Buyer Privacy Notice.

9. Right of withdrawal, cancellation, and refunds

9.1 If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA — your 14-day right of withdrawal

9.1.1 Buying a paid plan online is a distance contract. As a consumer, you generally have the right to withdraw within 14 days of entering into it, without giving any reason, and receive a refund. You can do this by contacting Paddle and/or us (the model withdrawal form and instructions are made available at checkout and in your confirmation).

9.1.2 Subscriptions are digital services — immediate access and pro-rata payment. A PCBJam paid plan is a subscription to an ongoing digital service. If you want access straight away (before the 14-day period ends), we (or Paddle) will ask you to expressly request that the service starts immediately. Starting early does not, by itself, take away your right of withdrawal:

(a) you can still withdraw within the 14 days. If you do, you pay only an amount proportionate to the part of the service already supplied before you told us you were withdrawing, and the rest of what you paid is refunded; (b) you owe nothing for the period before withdrawal if we (or Paddle) did not obtain your express request to start early, or did not give you the legally required information about your withdrawal right; and (c) your right of withdrawal ends early only once the contracted service has been fully performed, and — because you pay for the plan — only if performance began with your prior express consent and your acknowledgment that you would lose the right once the service was fully performed.

9.1.3 One-off digital content. If we ever supply you one-off digital content not on a tangible medium (for example, a standalone downloadable item bought outside a subscription), the rules differ: you lose the right of withdrawal when supply begins, but only if all three of the following happen — (a) you gave your prior express consent to begin before the 14-day period ends; (b) you acknowledged that you thereby lose the right of withdrawal; and (c) you received confirmation of that consent and acknowledgment on a durable medium (e.g. by email). If any of these is missing, you keep the right to withdraw without paying. Where it is unclear whether something is a digital service or digital content, the service rules in §9.1.2 — which are more favourable to you — apply.

9.1.4 Your statutory withdrawal right is separate from and in addition to simply cancelling auto-renewal (§7.3) and to our refund promise in §9.3.2.

9.2 Cancelling your subscription

You can cancel renewal of a paid plan at any time from your account settings or via Paddle. Cancellation stops future charges; unless a refund is due under §9.1 or by law, you keep access until the end of your current paid period. If you would rather stop now and get the unused part of the period back, request a refund instead (§9.3.2).

9.3 Refunds

9.3.1 Paddle processes refunds. Because Paddle is the Merchant of Record, refunds are processed by Paddle under Paddle’s Refund Policy and the statutory rights above. Paddle’s policy recognises the EU/EEA/UK 14-day statutory right of withdrawal; on withdrawal the refund is full or — where §9.1.2(a) applies because you asked for immediate access to a subscription — proportionate to the unused part of the period. To request a refund, contact us at hello@pcbjam.com or Paddle’s buyer support.

9.3.2 Our refund promise — anytime, pro-rata. Separately from, and on top of, your statutory rights: you can ask for a refund of a paid plan at any time, for any reason. If you do:

(a) we will refund (via Paddle) the unused remainder of your current billing period, calculated pro-rata by time against the price you actually paid for that period — for example, three months into a yearly plan, you get back nine-twelfths of what you paid for that year; and (b) your plan is downgraded when the refund is made: paid features end at that point, and your account or team falls back as described on our pricing page — nothing is deleted, and content that exceeds the free limits becomes read-only.

9.3.3 Fair use of the promise. We may refuse or limit the promise in §9.3.2 only where it is being abused — for example, repeated cycles of subscribing, using the Service, and refunding, or fraud. Refusing it never affects your statutory rights, which apply in full regardless.

9.3.4 Your statutory withdrawal right applies regardless of any general “no refunds” wording, and nothing in this §9.3 limits it.

10. Service availability and support

10.1 We aim to keep the Service available and working well, but unless we have agreed a separate written service-level agreement (SLA) with you, the Service is provided without any guaranteed uptime. It may be unavailable from time to time for maintenance, updates, or reasons beyond our control (see §20.6, force majeure).

10.2 We may suspend access temporarily, with as much notice as is reasonable in the circumstances, to maintain, repair, update, or protect the security of the Service.

10.3 Support is provided as described on our site or your plan. Nothing in this section limits the statutory conformity rights consumers have for paid (and qualifying free) digital services (§13).

11. Illegal content, notices, and content moderation

11.1 Report illegal content. If you believe Content on the Service is illegal or infringes your rights, contact our point of contact at contact@emergence-engineering.com with enough detail to identify the content and the legal basis of your complaint (a “notice”). We operate a notice-and-action process and will act on valid notices.

11.2 What we may do. Where we identify content or conduct that is illegal, infringing, or in breach of these Terms, we may remove or disable access to it, restrict or suspend the relevant account, or take other proportionate measures. Where required, we will give the affected user a statement of reasons and information about how to complain or seek redress.

11.3 Complaints about our decisions. If you think we wrongly removed your Content or restricted your account, you can contest the decision by contacting contact@emergence-engineering.com; we will review it. This does not affect any out-of-court dispute-resolution or court rights you have (§19).

11.4 Trusted-flagger, authority, and transparency obligations. We will comply with applicable obligations under the EU Digital Services Act and Hungarian law regarding illegal content, orders from competent authorities, and transparency, to the extent they apply to us.

12. Intellectual property in the Service, and open-source software

12.1 Our materials. Except for your Content (§5) and the open-source components (§12.3), the Service — including the PCBJam name and logo, the website, our user interface, our server-side and proprietary code, and our documentation — is owned by Emergence-Engineering Kft. or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose under these Terms. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

12.2 Trademarks. “PCBJam” and our logos are our trademarks. “KiCad” and related marks are trademarks of their respective owners; PCBJam is an independent product built on KiCad and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the KiCad project or its trademark holders.

12.3 Open-source components. PCBJam is built on KiCad and other open-source software, which remain licensed to you under their own open-source licences — including the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3) for KiCad, and other licences for other components. These Terms govern the hosted PCBJam Service and our proprietary materials; they do not modify, replace, or restrict the open-source licences, and nothing in these Terms limits any right you have under those licences with respect to the open-source components themselves. Where any conflict exists between these Terms and an applicable open-source licence as to the open-source component, the open-source licence governs that component.

12.4 Source availability. To the extent the Service delivers GPL-licensed software (for example, the KiCad WebAssembly build that runs in your browser) to you, you are entitled under the GPL to the corresponding source code and the applicable licence texts and notices. These are made available at https://github.com/emergence-engineering/pcbjam (and/or linked from within the application). We do not claim ownership of, and do not purport to relicense, the open-source components.

13. Warranties, disclaimers, and your statutory rights

13.1 Your statutory consumer rights come first. If you are a consumer, you have legal guarantees that the Service (and paid, and qualifying free, digital content/services) will be in conformity with the contract under Directive (EU) 2019/770 (as transposed in Hungary) and other mandatory law, with remedies if it is not. Nothing in this section excludes or limits those rights, and the disclaimers below apply only so far as the law permits.

13.2 “As is” (subject to §13.1). Except for the statutory rights in §13.1, for express commitments we make in these Terms, and as otherwise required by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, and to the maximum extent permitted by law we disclaim all other warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of satisfactory quality, merchantability, accuracy of results, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that outputs (DRC, exports, manufacturing files, etc.) are correct or fit for manufacture — you remain responsible for verifying them (§3.2).

13.3 Business users. If you use the Service as a business, the disclaimer in §13.2 applies in full to the extent the law allows, and statutory or implied terms are excluded to the maximum extent permitted for non-consumers.

14. Changes to, and discontinuation of, the Service

14.1 We may update, improve, or modify the Service over time. We may also change, restrict, or discontinue features.

14.2 Protections for consumers (digital-content rules). If you are a consumer, where we change the Service beyond what is needed to keep it in conformity (e.g. beyond bug-fixes, security, and maintenance), we will do so only where (a) these Terms allow it and give a valid reason, (b) the change is made at no additional cost to you, and (c) we inform you clearly. If such a change negatively affects your access to or use of the Service more than minorly, we will tell you in advance on a durable medium, and you may terminate the affected subscription free of charge within 30 days (or keep using an unchanged version where we offer one).

14.3 We will not exercise any right to change the Service or these Terms in a way that is unfair to consumers within the meaning of mandatory consumer law (see §2.6).

15. Limitation of liability

This section is subject to §15.1 and to your statutory consumer rights; read it together with §13.1. It is written to be read down in your favour wherever mandatory law requires.

15.1 Liability we never exclude. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes, in particular, liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for harm to life, bodily integrity, or health, for our intentional (wilful) misconduct or gross negligence, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and any mandatory statutory liability to consumers that cannot be limited (under Hungarian law, including Civil Code §6:152, exclusions of liability for harm to life/bodily integrity/health and for intentionally-caused harm are void). Your non-waivable statutory consumer rights (§13.1) are unaffected.

15.2 If you are a consumer. Subject to §15.1, we are liable for foreseeable loss and damage caused by our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill, but we are not liable for loss or damage that was not foreseeable, or that arises from your own breach of these Terms or your failure to follow our reasonable instructions (including your responsibility to verify your designs under §3.2). Your mandatory statutory remedies for non-conformity (§13.1) remain available.

15.3 If you are a business. Subject to §15.1, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • (a) Excluded losses. We will not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, anticipated savings, goodwill, or data, however caused, even if we were advised of the possibility.
  • (b) Liability cap. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service and these Terms in any 12-month period will not exceed the greater of (i) the total fees you paid for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the liability, or (ii) EUR 100. Because free-tier use involves no fees, our aggregate liability to free-tier-only users is limited to EUR 100, except where §15.1 applies.

15.4 The limitations in §15.2 and §15.3 allocate risk between us in exchange for the pricing of the Service and do not apply to the matters in §15.1.

16. Indemnity (business users)

16.1 If you are a business, you will defend and indemnify Emergence-Engineering Kft. against third-party claims, and reasonable costs, arising from (a) your Content, (b) your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or the law, or (c) your infringement of a third party’s rights — except to the extent the claim results from our own breach or wrongdoing. We will notify you of the claim, let you control the defence (without settling in a way that admits our liability or imposes obligations on us without our consent), and reasonably cooperate.

16.2 If you are a consumer, §16.1 does not apply to you. You are responsible for your own Content and conduct (§5.5, §6) and for loss you cause us through your breach, but only to the extent provided by, and within the limits of, mandatory law.

17. Suspension and termination

17.1 By you. You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. Cancelling paid plans is covered by §9. Closing your account does not by itself entitle you to a refund except as provided in §9 or by law.

17.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your access, in whole or in part:

  • immediately, where required by law or a competent authority, or where necessary to protect the Service, other users, or third parties from material harm or a serious security risk;
  • where you materially breach these Terms (including §6) and, if the breach can be fixed, you do not fix it within a reasonable period after we ask; or
  • for non-payment of fees due, after notice and a reasonable chance to pay.

Where we can do so without compromising the purpose of the action or breaching the law, we will give you reasonable prior notice and a chance to respond, and we will act proportionately. We will not use suspension or termination to deprive you of your mandatory consumer rights or of access to your Content without a fair opportunity to export it (see §5.7).

17.3 Effect of termination. On termination: your right to use the Service ends; we will provide a reasonable window to export your Content (§5.7) unless prevented by law; and we will then delete or anonymise your Content as described in the Privacy Policy, except data we must keep for legal reasons. Sections that by their nature should survive (including §5.1, §12, §13, §15, §16, §19, and §20) survive termination.

18. Changes to these Terms

18.1 We may change these Terms — for example to reflect changes to the Service, our business, or the law. The current version is always posted at https://pcbjam.com with the “Last updated” date.

18.2 Notice and your choices. For material changes, we will give you reasonable advance notice (e.g. by email or in-app) before they take effect. If you are a consumer and do not accept a material change, you may reject it by closing your account / cancelling before it takes effect, and the change will not be applied to you retroactively. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. We will not rely on this clause to make changes that are unfair to consumers under mandatory law, and changes will not reduce your already-accrued rights.

19. Governing law, disputes, and how to complain

19.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or the Service are governed by the law of Hungary (excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods).

19.2 Consumers keep home protections. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-law rules of your country of habitual residence (Article 6, Rome I Regulation (EC) No 593/2008). You also keep any right under EU law to bring proceedings in, and any protection from being sued outside, the courts of your country of residence (Brussels Ia Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012). For business users, the courts of Hungary have exclusive jurisdiction.

19.3 Talk to us first. Please contact us at hello@pcbjam.com or contact@emergence-engineering.com so we can try to resolve any problem informally first.

19.4 Out-of-court dispute resolution (consumers). If you are a consumer in Hungary and we cannot resolve a dispute directly, you may turn to the territorially competent conciliation board (békéltető testület) for out-of-court resolution — e.g. Budapesti Békéltető Testület (1016 Budapest, Krisztina krt. 99.; bekeltet.bkik.hu) — or to the consumer-protection authority. Consumers in other EU/EEA countries may use the equivalent body in their own country. (Note: the European Commission’s online dispute-resolution (ODR) platform was discontinued in 2025; use the national bodies above.) Using these options does not affect your right to go to court.

20. General

  • 20.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, any plan/pricing details, and (for purchases) Paddle’s buyer terms, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service, and replace any earlier agreement on that subject. This does not exclude liability for anything said fraudulently.
  • 20.2 Severability. If any provision is found unfair, invalid, or unenforceable (for example, against a consumer under mandatory law), it is severed or read down to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest of the Terms continue in force.
  • 20.3 No waiver. If we do not enforce a right or provision, that is not a waiver of it.
  • 20.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent. We may assign or transfer ours to a group company or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, provided this does not reduce your rights under these Terms; if you are a consumer and the assignment would reduce your rights, you may cancel.
  • 20.5 No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency, or employment relationship between you and us. Paddle is an independent reseller, not our agent for these Terms (see §8).
  • 20.6 Force majeure. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control (e.g. outages of upstream providers, internet or power failures, natural events, war, or governmental action), except that this does not affect your statutory consumer rights or §15.1.
  • 20.7 Notices. We may give you notices by email to your account address or by posting in the Service; you can reach us at the addresses in §1.
  • 20.8 Language. These Terms are provided in English. If we later provide translations, the English version prevails to the extent the law allows, except that consumers may rely on the version in the language in which the Service was marketed to them.
  • 20.9 Headings. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

21. Contact

PCBJam is built on the open-source KiCad EDA suite and is operated by Emergence-Engineering Kft. These Terms cover the PCBJam service; they do not cover the KiCad project itself or other third parties. For how we handle your personal data, see our Privacy Policy.