Terms and conditions
Last updated 8 August 2026.
This is a translation of the Dutch algemene voorwaarden, provided for convenience. In case of any discrepancy, the Dutch text prevails.
Who sells
CourtMerge is a product of Ronagold, trading name of Joachim Ally, Moerkerkse Steenweg 454 bus A000, 8310 Bruges, Belgium, company and VAT number BE 0789.226.345. Joachim Ally is the legal person behind CourtMerge; Ronagold is the name he trades under.
You buy directly from Joachim Ally, with no intermediary. He is your legal counterparty for the purchase, he sends the invoice, and he delivers the licence.
What you buy
- A licence for the full version of CourtMerge, €149, one-off.
- No VAT — Belgium's small-business exemption scheme. The amount above is therefore the full amount; nothing is added.
- The version you buy keeps working. There is no expiry date and no activation server that can be switched off.
- Updates are included for as long as they are released. No period is promised and there is no obligation to release updates. A future major version may be paid for; your existing licence remains fully valid for the version you have.
- There is one edition. No limited or free variant of the product exists.
How your order becomes a contract
The order form is a request, not a binding order. We check it — is the buyer type right, is the company number or address correct, is everything filled in — and the contract is only formed the moment we send you the invoice. If something is missing, we email you back first instead of invoicing right away.
Your licence code follows only once payment has been received, within 48 hours, by email. Nothing is delivered before payment reaches us.
The trial
You may use the complete product for three case files, unlimited in time, without registering and without a watermark. A case file is one project file. Within such a case file you may rebuild as often as you like; that does not count. Only a fourth case file calls for a licence.
What the licence covers
One licence is held by one named user. That person may use CourtMerge on every device he works on himself — office PC, laptop and home computer all fall under one licence. Nothing is tied to a device and there is no activation counting how often you install.
What one licence does not cover is a second person. If two colleagues work with CourtMerge, that is two licences, even on the same device.
The licence is transferable within the same firm. If the named user leaves, the firm may pass the licence to a successor; let us know and a licence file will be issued in the new name. Reselling it or passing it to a different firm is not permitted.
What the software does, and what it does not
CourtMerge merges PDF files into a single bundle, numbers and labels the pages, and builds an index page with cross-references. Everything happens on your own computer; the application makes no network connection whatsoever. See the privacy statement.
The software does not automatically check the resulting bundle against the originals, and does not assess the content of your exhibits. Reviewing the bundle before you file it remains your own work.
What can go wrong
CourtMerge turns your exhibits into a new document. On some points it deliberately departs from your originals, and on others it relies on what the software derives rather than checks.
- Scanned images are recalculated to 150 dpi and JPEG quality 60 by default. A signature, a stamp, a handwritten note or a fine line on a plan may end up less sharp than in the original. If you switch on grayscale conversion, the colour disappears entirely.
- Normalising pages to A4 is on by default. For a plan or a technical drawing it means the dimensions on the sheet no longer hold.
- Page numbers, exhibit numbers and the references in the index are calculated, not read back out of the finished bundle.
- The party per exhibit is guessed from the file name. You can change it afterwards per exhibit, but the first guess comes from the file name.
- An unticked row does not go into the bundle, and a file that cannot be read arrives unticked automatically. An exhibit can therefore drop out unnoticed.
- The label is stamped onto the page itself and can cover content in the corner where you place it.
- This work usually happens just before a deadline. If something goes wrong then, the consequence is not just a faulty bundle.
Liability
CourtMerge is supplied as it is. There is no guarantee that the bundle is free of errors, that the numbering and the index are correct, that the legibility or the scale of every exhibit is preserved, or that the program will work at the moment you need it.
Joachim Ally is not liable for damage arising from the use of CourtMerge or from its output. That covers an incorrectly assembled or incomplete bundle, errors in the numbering or the index, loss of legibility or of scale, a missed filing deadline and what follows from it, and loss of data or of time.
If liability nevertheless remains, it is limited in total to what you paid for your licence. For the trial version that is zero euros.
Belgian law does not allow intent, fraud and personal injury to be excluded. The above does not apply to those.
Refunds
See the refund policy.
Governing law
These terms, and the purchase itself, are governed by Belgian law. Mandatory provisions available to you in your own country continue to apply in full.