Terms of Service
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the website displayword.com, the DisplayWord user account, and the DisplayWord software ("the Software"). Please read them before creating an account or installing the Software.
The Software itself is licensed to you under a separate document, the End User Licence Agreement (EULA). Where these Terms and the EULA differ on a question about the Software, the EULA prevails.
1. Who we are
DisplayWord is operated by David Willart, an individual entrepreneur registered in Israel (osek patur), trading as DisplayWord.
Business registration number (osek): 336422357 Contact: [email protected] Postal address: available on request, by writing to the address above.
Throughout these Terms, "we", "us" and "our" refer to the above. "You" refers to the person using the website, the account or the Software.
2. What DisplayWord is
DisplayWord is presentation software for worship services. It displays song lyrics, chords and Bible text across several screens — hall, stage and speaker — controlled from one main window, and works without an internet connection.
The Software is offered in editions with different capabilities. Details and current pricing are published on displayword.com. Church is offered free of charge, permanently.
Paid editions come with 60 days of full access at no charge and with no payment details required. No account or registration is needed to use the Software during this period. When the 60 days end, the Software continues as the free Church edition unless you choose to subscribe. Nothing is charged automatically.
After that, paid editions are offered as subscriptions, billed monthly or annually.
3. Accounts
You may create an account to request a licence key, manage your subscription and download the Software.
To create an account you provide an email address and a password. We ask for nothing else at registration.
You are responsible for:
- keeping your password confidential;
- everything done through your account;
- telling us promptly at [email protected] if you believe your account has been accessed by someone else.
We may suspend or close an account that is used to breach these Terms or the EULA, to infringe the rights of others, or to attempt unauthorised access to our systems. Where the breach is not serious and can be corrected, we will contact you first.
You may close your account at any time by writing to [email protected]. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data.
4. Licence keys
Access to paid editions is granted through a licence key issued to you.
- A key is issued to a named congregation or organisation and is intended for that congregation's use.
- A key permits activation on a limited number of installations. The limit is stated when the key is issued.
- Keys must not be shared publicly, resold, or published.
- We may revoke a key that has been shared publicly, obtained by misrepresentation, or used in breach of the EULA.
Activation requires a one-time connection to our servers. What is transmitted during activation is described in the Privacy Policy.
If your key stops working and you believe this is an error, write to [email protected].
5. Subscriptions, billing and payment
5.1 Who takes your money
Payments are not processed by us directly. Purchases are handled by our authorised reseller and merchant of record, who is the seller of record for your transaction, issues your invoice, and collects any sales tax or VAT due in your country.
That reseller is Paddle.com Market Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under number 08172165, registered office 30 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AU, United Kingdom — or, depending on where you are, another company of the Paddle group. Their buyer terms apply to your purchase alongside these Terms and are published at paddle.com/legal/buyer-terms.
Subscriptions become available on this website when checkout goes live. Until then no purchase can be made here, and the provisions of this section describe how purchases will operate from that moment.
We never receive or store your card details. They do not pass through displayword.com at any point.
5.2 Renewal
Paid editions are subscriptions. Unless you cancel, a subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, and your payment method is charged.
We will always email you before we charge you. A reminder goes to the address on your account ahead of every renewal, stating the amount, the date and a direct link to cancel. If you do not want to continue, one click is enough — you never have to remember a date or find a form.
To be clear about why renewal exists at all: without it a licence key simply expires, and a congregation discovers the software has dropped to the free edition on a Sunday morning, mid-preparation. Renewal is there so that does not happen, not to make cancelling hard.
5.3 Cancelling
You may cancel at any time, from your account, in a couple of clicks — and from the direct link in every renewal reminder. Cancelling is never made harder than subscribing was.
Cancellation stops future charges. The period you have already paid for runs to its end and your licence key stays valid until then; after that the Software continues as the free Church edition, and your own content is untouched.
Cancelling does not by itself entitle you to a refund of the current period — but see the Refund Policy, which covers renewals you did not intend.
5.4 Price changes
We may change prices. A change will not affect a billing period already paid for. We will give at least 30 days' notice by email before a price change takes effect for your subscription, and you may cancel before it does.
5.5 Taxes
Prices shown may exclude sales tax or VAT applicable in your country. Any such tax is added at checkout and collected and remitted by the merchant of record.
6. What happens when a subscription ends
When a paid subscription ends or is not renewed:
- the paid edition's features stop being available;
- your own content — songbooks, service plans, settings, backgrounds you added — stays on your computer and remains yours. We do not delete it, and we have no access to it;
- you may continue to use the free Church edition.
7. Your content
Content you create or import into the Software — song texts, chords, service plans, images, media — remains yours. We claim no rights in it.
The Software stores this content locally on your device. It is not uploaded to us. We cannot see it, and we cannot recover it for you if it is lost. Keeping your own backups is your responsibility.
You are responsible for holding the necessary rights to any content you use with the Software. In particular, reproducing song lyrics during a service may require a licence from a rights organisation in your country. That is between you and the rights holder; DisplayWord does not grant any rights in third-party works.
8. Updates
The Software checks for updates and can install them. Updates may add, change or remove features. We aim not to remove features that people rely on, but where a change is unavoidable — for example because a component can no longer be distributed lawfully — we will make it.
9. Availability
We aim to keep displayword.com and the activation service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Maintenance, faults and events outside our control may cause interruptions.
The Software is designed to run offline. An interruption of our services does not stop an already-activated installation from working.
10. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to our systems, accounts, or data;
- interfere with the operation of the website or the activation service, including through automated overloading;
- circumvent or attempt to circumvent licence enforcement;
- use the website or the Software to distribute unlawful material.
11. Disclaimers and liability
The Software and the website are provided "as is". To the extent permitted by law, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
To the extent permitted by law, our total liability to you arising out of or in connection with these Terms, the website or the Software is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Where you paid nothing, our liability is limited to the amount permitted by law as a minimum.
We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of data, or disruption of a service or event.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and any statutory rights you have as a consumer in your country of residence. If you are a consumer in the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, your mandatory consumer rights continue to apply regardless of these Terms.
12. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. The current version is always published at displayword.com with its effective date.
If a change materially affects your rights, we will give notice by email to the address on your account at least 30 days before it takes effect, and you may cancel your subscription before it does. Continuing to use the Software or the website after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.
Superseded versions are kept available on request.
13. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Israel, and the courts of Israel have jurisdiction.
This does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence, and does not prevent you from bringing proceedings there where the law of your country gives you that right.
14. If part of these Terms is unenforceable
If any provision is found to be unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the unenforceable provision is applied to the greatest extent permitted by law.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms: [email protected]