Terms

Who we are

Quarter Inch is made by Avoxy Technologies Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16613235), with its registered office at The Old Bakery, 90 Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2QP, United Kingdom. In these terms, “we” and “us” means Avoxy Technologies Limited, and “you” means the person using Quarter Inch.

These terms cover our website, quarterinch.app, and our app, app.quarterinch.app. By using the app, you agree to them. Our privacy policy explains what we do with your data. Questions: hello@quarterinch.app.

What Quarter Inch is

Quarter Inch is quilt design software that runs in your web browser, on iPad, Mac, Windows and Chromebook. There are two ways to use it:

• Free: open and view your EQ8 and EQ7 projects, with an import report for every file, keep them in your library, and export everything. There’s no time limit, and you don’t need an account just to open and look at a file.
• A founding place: the full app, for a one-time payment. See Founding places.

Your account

• You sign in with a code we email you, or with Apple or Google. Use an email address you can receive, and keep your email account secure: anyone who can read your email can sign in.
• Tell us straight away if you think someone else has got into your account.
• If you’re under 18, ask a parent or guardian before you buy anything.

Your quilts are yours

You own the quilts, blocks and files you bring into Quarter Inch or make in it. To run Quarter Inch for you, you give us permission (a license) to store, copy, read and convert them, draw them, work out their cutting and yardage, make exports and PDFs of them, and show them back to you. We use that permission only to provide Quarter Inch to you, and to help you when you ask. It ends when you delete them, apart from any copies in backups until those are replaced.

• We don’t publish or share your quilts.
• We never train AI on your designs.
• We never sell your data.

Only bring in files you have the right to use. A pattern or a fabric picture may belong to its designer or maker; bringing it into Quarter Inch for your own use doesn’t change who owns it.

The Quarter Inch software and website belong to us or to the people who license them to us. These terms let you use them; they don’t let you copy or resell them.

Using Quarter Inch fairly

Please don’t:

• break the law, or use Quarter Inch to infringe anyone else’s rights;
• try to get into anyone else’s account, or into parts of our systems that aren’t meant for you;
• upload anything harmful, such as malware, or try to overload or disrupt the service;
• copy, scrape or resell Quarter Inch, or take it apart, except as far as the law allows you to.

EQ8 files, and our independence

Quarter Inch reads the EQ8 (.pj8) and EQ7 (.pj7) project files you choose, so you can see, keep and work with your own quilts. We never change your original files. Not everything in a project always comes across exactly: each file’s import report says what came across and what, like appliqué, may need redrawing.

Quarter Inch is independent and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, The Electric Quilt Company. EQ8 and Electric Quilt are trademarks of The Electric Quilt Company. Other fabric and product names belong to their owners.

Founding places

A founding place is a one-time purchase that gives the account it’s on:

• The full app on iPad, Mac and the web: every tool for designing, cutting and printing. Today that’s new quilts from the block library, drawing your own blocks, coloring, changing quilts from EQ, yardage, cutting charts, templates, and printing at true size.
• A lifetime license: you pay once, and your account keeps the full app for as long as we run Quarter Inch, with no subscription.

Optional extras, such as sync, may come later, and may cost extra. You’ll never need them to open, view or export your own quilts.

A place belongs to the account with the email address it was bought with. A place bought on our website joins the account you sign in to with that email. If you paid with the wrong email, write to us and we’ll move it. Founding places are limited, and we may stop selling them at any time; that doesn’t affect places already bought.

Quilter, monthly or yearly

Quarter Inch has two plans. Free is free for good: open, view and export every quilt, see the fabric to buy, and design up to three quilts at once. Quilter adds cutting charts, templates, true-size printing and no limit on quilts, for a price paid monthly or yearly.

Quilter renews automatically at the end of each month or year, at the price shown when you subscribed, until you cancel. We email you a week before each yearly renewal. Cancel any time from Account and settings in the app, online, in a click: you keep Quilter to the end of the period you’ve paid for, and nothing more is charged.

• Founding member prices are offered to the first members and stay the same for as long as your subscription carries on, including when you switch between monthly and yearly. If your plan ends, so does the founding price; coming back later is at the price of the day.
• If we change Quilter’s price, we’ll tell you at least 30 days before it applies to you, and you can cancel before then.
• If a renewal payment fails, we’ll email you and try again. Quilter stays on for 14 days while you update your card; if it still can’t be paid, your plan ends.
• Your first payment is refundable for 30 days. Refund it yourself from Account and settings, or email us; refunding it ends Quilter that day. Later payments aren’t refunded, except where the law says they must be.
• When Quilter ends, your account moves to the Free plan. Nothing is deleted: every quilt stays yours to open, view and export, your three most recent (or the three you choose) stay open to design, and the rest are read-only until you’re back.

Paying, prices and tax

A founding place costs $79, paid once. The price includes tax. If you’re outside the United States, the checkout page shows the price in your own currency, and that’s what you pay. Your bank may add its own fees.

We sell founding places through Stripe’s Managed Payments. Onelink, Stripe’s store, is the merchant of record: it takes your payment, works out and pays any sales tax or VAT, and sends your receipt and invoice. Your card statement shows LINK.COM* QUARTERINCH.APP. We never see your card details. We provide Quarter Inch and your founding place, and we handle refunds as these terms say.

Refunds

A founding place is fully refundable within 30 days of purchase. Refund it yourself from Account and settings in the app, or email us. After 30 days, refunds are at our discretion. Deleting your account within the 30 days refunds your place.

• Refunds go back to the way you paid, through Stripe.
• If you pay for a second founding place with the same email by mistake, we refund the second one automatically.
• When a place is refunded, your account goes back to the free plan. You keep every quilt, and you can still open, view and export them.
• To ask for a refund by email, write to hello@quarterinch.app from the email address you paid with, or tell us which one it was.

Your legal rights. If you’re a consumer, UK law may give you 14 days to cancel a purchase made online; for digital content, that right can end once it’s supplied with your agreement. Whatever the law allows, our 30-day refund applies, however much you’ve used Quarter Inch in that time. And under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, digital content must be as described, fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality, and services must be provided with reasonable care and skill. If Quarter Inch isn’t, you may be entitled to a repair, a replacement, or some or all of your money back, at any time those rights apply. Nothing in these terms affects your legal rights. Citizens Advice can tell you more about them.

Export any time, free

Your quilts are yours, on every plan. Export one quilt or your whole library whenever you like, free: your quilts in our open format, your original files, a picture of each quilt and the import reports, with each quilt’s cutting PDF if you have a founding place. Your own quilts, and your ability to open them, are never behind a subscription.

Measurements and printing

We work every measurement out in exact fractions and check our math, and every printed page has a 1″ test square. Fabric, cutting and printers vary, though, so before you cut, measure the test square on your printout, and make a test block when you try a new pattern.

Availability and changes

We work to keep Quarter Inch running, but sometimes it may be unavailable, for maintenance or for reasons outside our control. We keep improving it, so things will change. We won’t take away the free plan’s ability to open, view and export your own quilts. If a change would significantly reduce what your founding place gives you, we’ll tell you first.

We look after your quilts carefully, but it’s still wise to export a copy from time to time.

Our responsibility to you

If we break these terms, or don’t use reasonable care and skill, we’re responsible for loss or damage you suffer that’s a foreseeable result. Loss is foreseeable if it was obvious it would happen, or if we both knew it might when you started using Quarter Inch. We’re not responsible for loss that isn’t foreseeable.

We don’t exclude or limit our responsibility where the law doesn’t allow it: for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for your legal rights as a consumer, including if digital content we supply damages your device or other digital content because we didn’t use reasonable care and skill.

Founding places are sold for personal use. If you use Quarter Inch for a business, we’re not responsible to you for loss of profit, business or business opportunity, and our total responsibility to a business is limited to what it paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time, from Account and settings. We wait 30 days in case you change your mind (sign in during that time to keep it), then delete everything, as our privacy policy describes. If you delete it within 30 days of buying a founding place, your place is refunded. Export first if you’d like a copy of your quilts.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms. Unless the law or someone’s safety stops us, we’ll tell you why first, and give you the chance to export your quilts.

If we ever close

We don’t plan to stop. If we ever close Quarter Inch, we’ll email you in good time before the app closes, so you can export everything, and we’ll publish an open viewer or format converter, so your quilts still open.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when we add something new or the law changes. We’ll post the new terms here with a new date. If a change matters to you, we’ll tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect. If you don’t agree, you can export your quilts and delete your account. A change never takes away a refund you’re already entitled to.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. You can bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales, or, if you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, in the courts where you live. If you live elsewhere, you keep any consumer protections the law where you live gives you.

Contact us

If something’s wrong, please tell us first: we’d like the chance to put it right. Email hello@quarterinch.app, or write to:

To start, open your quilts in the app.