START TO INVENT

Terms of Service

Updated: October 2026 · v2.5

The service and who runs it

START TO INVENT sells digital build guides: interactive steps, videos, code and print files for electronics and 3D-printing projects. Using the site, creating an account or purchasing on it means you accept these terms.

The site is operated by Start to Invent, a sole proprietorship in Israel (VAT-exempt dealer, "osek patur"). The owner's name, business number and address are shown at checkout before every payment, and in the order confirmation email.

Age & minors

  • Creating an account and purchasing requires being 18+, or a parent/guardian acting for a minor.
  • Projects are made to be built together — minors should build only with adult supervision.

Your account

  • Your account is personal. Keep your credentials safe — you are responsible for activity on it.
  • Provide accurate, up-to-date details; accounts with false details may be closed.

Digital purchases

  • Digital access only — purchases do not include a physical kit or parts. Parts are bought separately (links in every project).
  • A one-time purchase grants personal access to that project on the purchasing account, with no subscription (see "Access to purchased content").
  • Card details are entered on the secure page of the payment provider shown at checkout and never reach us. Where checkout states that the payment provider is the Merchant of Record, it is the seller in that transaction, it issues your invoice, and its buyer terms apply in addition to these. For every other purchase the seller is START TO INVENT, and we issue the receipt.
  • The price shown at checkout before payment is the final price. START TO INVENT is VAT-exempt in Israel and does not charge Israeli VAT. Purchases from outside Israel may be subject to taxes under the law of your country — if so, they are shown at checkout before payment.

Access to purchased content

  • Access bought with a one-time purchase needs no renewal or subscription. It stays on the purchasing account for as long as the service operates, subject to the next clause.
  • We update and improve projects. Access is to the current version of the project; files you already downloaded stay yours under the personal licence.
  • If we decide to shut the service down, or to remove a project you bought, we will email your account address at least 90 days in advance. During that period you can download every file the project offers for download (print files, code and the like), and they remain yours under the personal licence. The on-site steps and videos will not be available after the shutdown.
  • Access ends earlier only if the purchase was cancelled and refunded, or on a material breach of these terms (see "Breach & termination").
  • Access is personal and cannot be transferred to another account.

Subscription

  • The subscription opens every project and lesson marked as included in the subscription (✓), including new ones marked that way — for as long as the subscription is active. Some projects are sold separately and are not included in the subscription; their card says so.
  • The subscription may include a quota of projects you can open each month, as shown at checkout and on the pricing page. A project you opened stays open for as long as the subscription is active. If unused quota is shown to roll over, it rolls over up to the cap shown there. When the subscription ends, any balance is cleared.
  • We make no commitment to a pace or number of new projects. The catalog grows as we add projects, and some months may bring one new project or none at all.
  • A yearly plan, when offered, is billed upfront once a year and renews automatically each year at the price shown at checkout. Its quota stays monthly. If you cancel a yearly plan after the first 14 days, access ends within 3 business days of cancelling at the latest, and we refund the pro-rata share of what you paid for the current year, for the days left in it, counted from the cancellation date, within 14 days, to the original payment method. Prefer to keep access until the end of the paid year? Say so when you cancel, and no refund is made.
  • It renews automatically each billing period, at the price shown at checkout, until you cancel. Cancel any time from your account page in one click, or by any of the methods in "How to cancel". Cancelling from your account page takes effect immediately; any other method takes effect within 3 business days at the latest. On a monthly plan, access continues until the end of the paid month and no further charge is made; for a yearly plan, see the previous clause.
  • The catalog may change over time — projects are added, and occasionally removed or replaced. Projects you bought with a one-time purchase are not affected.
  • Files you lawfully downloaded while your subscription was active keep their personal licence (see "Personal licence") after the subscription ends. Re-downloading and access to paid steps and videos require an active subscription.
  • We may change the subscription terms, including the price, the monthly quota and rollover, at our discretion. A change for the worse is emailed at least 30 days in advance and applies only from the first billing period that starts once 30 days have passed since the notice. A period you already paid for does not change. Not for you? You can cancel before the change applies. A change in your favour may apply immediately.
  • A failed charge pauses access until payment is settled.

Free trial

  • When a trial is offered, checkout shows — before you enter a payment method — the trial length, the price charged when it ends, and the date of the first charge. The same details are emailed to you when the trial starts.
  • If you do not cancel by the end of the trial, the subscription continues automatically at the price shown, and the first charge is made on the date shown.
  • Cancelling during the trial — one click from your account page, with no charge at all.
  • We email you a reminder before the first charge.
  • One trial per person.

Cancellations & refunds

How to cancel

  • Use the online form on the Cancel a purchase page (linked at the bottom of the home page), email [email protected], or any other method listed on that page — it also lists the contact details for each method.
  • Include your full name and ID number in the cancellation notice, and if possible the order number or your account email — it helps us find the transaction quickly.
  • Money due to you after a cancellation is returned to the original payment method within 14 days of receiving the notice — usually sooner.

Digital content

  • You may cancel a one-time digital purchase for a full refund within 14 days of purchase — as long as you have not downloaded files from that project. A file download is the line: it is recorded on our side and counts as opening the paid content.
  • Downloaded files, or past the 14 days? Write to us anyway — every request is reviewed on its merits, fairly.
  • If a technical problem prevents access to content you purchased and we cannot fix it within a reasonable time — full refund, no questions asked.
  • Subscription: cancel within 14 days of joining — full refund if you downloaded no files during the subscription; if you did, a refund minus the pro-rata share of the period the subscription was active. Later cancellations apply going forward: on a monthly plan, access continues until the end of the paid month and no further charge is made; on a yearly plan, the pro-rata share of the remaining days is refunded (see "Subscription"). Duplicate or erroneous charges are always refunded.
  • A refund revokes access to the paid content, including download links already issued.
  • Fairness cuts both ways: we may decline a refund that the law does not require in cases of an abusive pattern (for example repeated purchase–download–refund cycles). Downloads are logged and serve as evidence (see the Privacy Policy).

This chapter is subject to the Israeli Consumer Protection Law, 5741-1981, and does not limit any statutory right to cancel or to a refund. Wherever it says there is no right to cancel, that does not apply in cases set by law.

Personal licence & intellectual property

  • Content, guides, videos, code and files are the property of START TO INVENT. A purchase grants a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence: build for yourself, print for yourself, and adapt the code and files for your own build.
  • Do not sell, rent, share, redistribute, upload to other sites or republish the content, code or files — in whole or in part. Do not use the content to train AI systems or include it in training datasets.
  • Selling items printed or built from our content is allowed only under an active commercial use licence, or with prior written consent.
  • Files may carry purchase-identifying markings linking them to the buyer's account, and every download is logged. Unauthorised distribution violates these terms and copyright law, and will be treated accordingly.
  • Third-party product, component and brand names mentioned on the site belong to their owners. START TO INVENT has no affiliation with, sponsorship by or endorsement from them.

Reviews & content you post

  • Reviews, forum posts and comments you publish are shown publicly with the name and profile picture you chose on the site. You allow us to display them on the site; you keep the copyright.
  • We publish positive and negative reviews alike. A review is removed or withheld only if it is abusive, unrelated to the product, exposes other people's personal details, is advertising, or breaks the law or others' rights.
  • The "Verified buyer" label appears only when the author bought the product on their account. We do not pay for reviews; if a benefit is ever given for a review, we will say so next to it.

Fair use of the site

Do not bypass access or payment controls, share accounts, scrape the site or its content, probe our systems' security uninvited, or interfere with the operation of the service. On substantiated suspicion of a breach we may restrict access while we investigate.

Safety — important

Projects involve electricity, soldering, batteries, sharp tools and moving parts. Read the safety notes in each step before you start: ventilate, wear protection; minors — only under adult supervision; components such as lithium batteries and heating elements require special care; never connect a project to household mains power unless the instructions explicitly say so. We work to keep the instructions and warnings accurate and complete; found a mistake — tell us and we will fix it. Our liability for bodily injury is determined by law, and nothing in these terms limits it.

Disclaimer & limitation of liability

The service is provided "as is", and its availability may occasionally be affected by maintenance or faults. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for anything related to the service is capped at the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages. This limitation does not apply to bodily injury, to damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, or to rights that cannot be waived under consumer law or any other law.

Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will indemnify us against third-party claims, damages and reasonable expenses arising from your breach of these terms or from commercial use of the results without a licence.

Breach & termination

A material breach of these terms — in particular redistributing paid content — allows us to suspend or close the account, including access to purchased content. Before closing an account we will email you and let you respond, unless the harm requires immediate action. Sections on licence, liability, indemnity and governing law survive termination.

Changes to these terms and the service

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes are announced on the site and emailed to account holders at least 30 days before they apply. A change never applies retroactively to a purchase already made; for subscriptions — you can cancel before the change applies. Shutting down the service or removing a purchased project — see "Access to purchased content".

Contact & law

Questions: [email protected]. These terms are governed by Israeli law, and the competent courts of Israel have jurisdiction. This does not deprive a consumer of protection that the law of their country of residence grants and that cannot be waived.