Agreement and platform terms
Effective October 11, 2026. These app-specific Terms of Use cover Goodale’s HVAC Fieldbook from Goodale Studios for iPhone, iPad, and Android, including prerelease and closed-test versions. They do not govern other Goodale Studios apps and do not replace rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.
For iPhone and iPad, these Terms supplement the Apple Standard End User License Agreement; the Apple Standard EULA controls a conflict concerning that license. Android distribution and purchases through Google Play are also subject to the applicable Google Play terms. Apple’s EULA is not the Android license. By downloading, purchasing, or using this app, you agree to these app-specific Terms and the applicable store terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.
Licensed use
Goodale Studios grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Goodale’s HVAC Fieldbook on compatible devices you own or control, subject to these Terms and the applicable store’s rules. Apple installations are additionally governed by the Apple Standard EULA; Android installations use the license described in these Terms and applicable Google Play rules.
The app is licensed, not sold. No ownership of Goodale’s HVAC Fieldbook source code, design, formulas, documentation, trademarks, or other intellectual property transfers to you.
Android purchase and closed testing
The Android release is offered as a paid, one-time app download through Google Play, without an in-app subscription or additional in-app purchase in this release. Google Play displays the applicable local price and handles payment. A purchase on Apple’s App Store does not grant a Google Play entitlement, or vice versa. Refund requests are handled under the applicable store policy and any rights provided by law.
Closed-test access requires eligibility and enrollment for the designated test and availability of the release through Google Play. A testing invitation does not itself waive the purchase price. When provided, a Google Play promotional code is subject to its redemption conditions and expiry. Testing does not guarantee production approval, a release date, or uninterrupted availability; preserve independent backups of important work.
Professional-use limitations
Goodale’s HVAC Fieldbook is a commissioning, calculation, organization, and documentation utility. A functional-test record is evidence entered by the user, not independent certification by Goodale Studios. The app is not a substitute for a licensed professional engineer, qualified technician, commissioning authority, code official, instrument manufacturer, equipment manufacturer, project specification, safety program, or legally required design process.
The app does not control equipment, monitor life-safety conditions, certify a system, approve a design, guarantee code compliance, select equipment, or determine whether work is safe. Do not rely on it as the sole basis for safety-critical, regulatory, medical, environmental, contractual, or financial decisions.
Calculations, inputs, and verification
Results depend on the values, units, signs, instrument readings, assumptions, formulas, and operating conditions you provide. Field approximations may not account for every fluid property, altitude, sensor limitation, equipment characteristic, system interaction, code requirement, or project condition.
You are responsible for checking inputs and outputs, confirming units and measurement locations, using properly maintained instruments, reviewing formula notes and limitations, and independently verifying results against current project documents, authoritative references, manufacturer data, applicable codes and standards, and professional judgment before acting on them.
Company, customer, and project information
You are responsible for having lawful authority to enter, store, use, export, and share company, customer, site, technician, witness, equipment, project, functional-test, observed-response, measurement, deficiency, instrument, approval, and signature information. Enter only information reasonably necessary for the work and follow your employer’s privacy, retention, security, and records policies.
You are responsible for reviewing every PDF, CSV, backup, functional-test record, note, measurement, and calculation before sharing it and for choosing an appropriate recipient and transmission method. Goodale Studios does not receive, witness, certify, or approve app-generated project reports.
Local storage and backups
The current release stores app records locally and does not provide Goodale Studios cloud sync, cross-device collaboration, or a developer-operated recovery service. You are responsible for device security, backups, record retention, and exporting important work before deleting records, replacing a device, or removing the app.
Android automatic cloud backup and device-transfer backup are disabled. Use Settings → Export Workspace Backup and keep a secure copy outside the app before clearing storage or uninstalling. Import & Merge Backup accepts compatible Android workspace-backup files; Android and Apple backup formats are not interchangeable. Exported and shared copies remain your responsibility after local records are deleted.
Acceptable use
You may not reverse engineer the app except where applicable law expressly permits it; interfere with its operation or security; use it to violate law or another person’s rights; misrepresent app output as a certification, approval, or guarantee; or remove proprietary notices.
Availability and changes
Goodale Studios may improve, correct, add, remove, suspend, or discontinue app features. We do not guarantee that every feature, formula, file format, operating-system version, or external link will remain available or unchanged. Keep independent copies of records needed for business, legal, warranty, or regulatory purposes.
Third-party services
Apple, Google Play, Android document providers, email providers, messaging services, cloud-storage providers, and other destinations you select operate under their own terms and privacy practices. Goodale Studios is not responsible for third-party services, their availability, or content after you choose to send or open it.
Disclaimer of warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Goodale’s HVAC Fieldbook is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, or suitability for a specific system, project, jurisdiction, or decision. Rights that cannot legally be excluded remain unaffected.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Goodale Studios and Peter Goodale will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost work, lost data, equipment damage, callbacks, project delay, business interruption, or claims arising from reliance on app inputs, outputs, reports, availability, or third-party services. Any liability that cannot be excluded is limited to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Changes, severability, and contact
We may update these Terms when the app, business model, or legal requirements change. Continued use after an update means the revised Terms apply to the extent permitted by law. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.
Questions about these Terms or Goodale’s HVAC Fieldbook may be sent to support@goodalestudios.com.
