Software license

What this page is

This is a summary, written so that you can understand the shape of the license before anybody sends you a contract.

The document that actually binds is the End User License Agreement, published in full alongside this page, together with any negotiated agreement your organisation signs with Boreon Industries LLC and the order that sets out your scope and term. Where this summary and those documents differ, those documents govern.

The full agreement is published rather than held back until signature. It is linked at the foot of this page, and it can be read, bookmarked, sent to your counsel or pasted into a procurement questionnaire without asking anybody first.

Licensed, not sold

Boreon is proprietary software. It is licensed to you, not sold to you.

The software, its source code, its documentation and its design remain the property of Boreon Industries LLC. A license gives your organisation the right to run the product. It does not transfer ownership of what it is made of.

That distinction is ordinary for commercial software, and it is worth stating plainly rather than burying, because it is what every other clause on this page rests on.

Two editions, one product

There are two ways to hold Boreon, and the software is the same software either way.

Boreon Server

A perpetual license for the self-hosted edition, deployed into your own cloud and operated by your own team. Offered on this site as the Enterprise License.

Boreon Cloud

A subscription to the hosted edition, which Boreon runs on dedicated Infomaniak infrastructure in Geneva, Switzerland.

Neither edition is a cut-down version of the other. The applications, the semantic layer, the AI and the audit trail are identical. What changes is whose machine it sits on and whose team keeps it running.

What the perpetual license gives you

Boreon Server is deployed into infrastructure your organisation controls. Your organisation holds the bootstrap Super Admin account, and your organisation holds the secret that keys every stored credential. Boreon holds neither. That is the whole point of running it yourself.

The license is perpetual. It runs for as long as you keep it current on the yearly maintenance plan, and it does not expire on its own.

What the maintenance plan covers, and the notice period for renewing it, are set out in the agreement for your license.

If maintenance lapses, the right to run the version you already have installed continues. What stops is entitlement to further updates and to support, and both resume when maintenance does.

What the Cloud subscription gives you

Boreon Cloud is a subscription to a service we operate. We run it, patch it, and keep it current, so your team never schedules an upgrade.

Your right to use the software lasts as long as the subscription does. It is not perpetual, and it is not meant to be: you are buying an operated service rather than a copy of a program.

The term, how it renews, and the notice period for ending it are set out in the agreement for your subscription.

What happens to your data when a subscription ends is covered in the data processing addendum, not here.

What you may do with it

Run Boreon for your own organisation, against the Tableau environments and warehouses your organisation is entitled to reach, for your own governance, risk and compliance work.

• Your own people may use it, within the scope your order sets out.
• Contractors and consultants may use it while they are working for you, on the same terms, and you remain responsible for what they do with it.
• You may take the evidence it produces, including exports and reports, and give it to your auditors, your regulators and your board. It is your evidence. There is no restriction on it.

Where an evaluation is granted, its scope and duration are stated in writing at the time it is granted, and those terms apply to it.

What the license does not allow

Without a separate written agreement with Boreon Industries LLC, you may not:

• Redistribute, resell, sublicense, rent, lease or lend the software.
• Run it as a service for anybody outside your own organisation.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law expressly gives you that right and you have told us first.
• Remove, obscure or alter the notices and marks it carries.
• Use it, or what you learn from it, to build a competing product.

These limits are ordinary, and they are short on purpose. If something you want to do is not clearly permitted, ask instead of guessing. We answer that question quickly and in writing.

Third-party components

Boreon includes third-party components, including open-source ones. Those components stay under their own licenses, and nothing in our license overrides them.

Where an open-source license gives you a right, you have that right, and we do not attempt to take it away by contract.

Ask privacy@boreon.com for the third-party component notice list and we will send it.

Your content stays yours

The license gives Boreon no rights in your Tableau content, your warehouse data, your users, or the audit records the product produces. Those are yours.

We do not train models on your content and we do not use it to improve the product. On the self-hosted edition the question does not arise, because your content never reaches us at all.

How data is handled in the hosted edition is set out in the privacy notice and in the data processing addendum.

Ending a license, warranties and liability

When a license or a subscription ends, the right to use the software ends with it. For the self-hosted edition that means stopping the container and removing your copies. The evidence you already produced is yours and stays yours.

Warranties, limits of liability and indemnities live in the license agreement, where an enterprise customer can negotiate them. Nothing on this page creates a warranty, and nothing on this page limits one that agreement gives you.

The shape of it: a ninety-day warranty that the software performs substantially as documented, with correction, replacement or a refund as the remedy. Beyond that the software is supplied as is. Liability is capped at what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and indirect losses are excluded. Death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, and anything else the law will not let us limit are carved out of that cap rather than swept into it.

Boreon defends you against a claim that the software infringes somebody else’s copyright, trademark, trade secret or patent, on the usual conditions and with the usual exclusions. That indemnity is in the agreement, not on this page.

One thing worth reading twice, because it is the point of a governance product: running Boreon does not make your organisation compliant with anything. It produces evidence of what it observed, within the scope you gave it. Compliance depends on your controls, your data and your decisions, and it stays your responsibility.

Licensing questions go to privacy@boreon.com.