Version 1.3 · in force from 2026-09-07
Effective date: 1 September 2026
1. Who you are contracting with
CELCO GROUNDWORKS & CONSTRUCTION LIMITED, trading as CostTakeoff, is a private company limited by shares registered in Ireland under company number 823396, with its registered office at 40 Bay Meadows Avenue, Dublin 15, D15 Y66T, Ireland ("we", "us", "our"). CostTakeoff is a registered business name of that company.
These Terms govern your use of the CostTakeoff software service available at costtakeoff.com (the "Service").
Payments for the Service are processed by Paddle.com Market Limited and its affiliates, which act as Merchant of Record. Paddle is the seller of record for your subscription. Paddle's own buyer terms apply to the payment transaction in addition to these Terms. Where Paddle's terms and these Terms conflict on a matter of payment, Paddle's terms govern that matter.
Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns.
2. Business use only
The Service is offered to businesses, sole traders and professionals acting in the course of their trade, business, craft or profession. It is not offered to consumers.
By subscribing you confirm that you are acquiring the Service for business purposes and not as a consumer. That confirmation describes who the Service is for. It does not take away any right the law gives you that cannot be excluded, and it does not narrow our Refund and Cancellation Policy, which gives every subscriber a full refund of any payment within 14 days of it, with no conditions.
If you are not acquiring the Service for business purposes, do not subscribe.
3. What the Service is, and what it is not
CostTakeoff is software. It provides tools for measuring drawings, recording quantities, and producing quotations, invoices, applications, claims, statements and related documents from figures, rates, wording and settings that you supply.
We do not provide professional services. We are not quantity surveyors, cost consultants, estimators, accountants, tax advisers or lawyers, and nothing produced by the Service is professional advice of any kind.
The Service prints what you tell it to print. It performs arithmetic on the figures you enter and reproduces the wording, rates, tax treatments and descriptions that you supply or select. It does not verify that your figures are correct, that your rates are current, that your tax treatment is correct for your jurisdiction, that your measurements match the drawings, or that any document it produces is fit for the purpose you intend.
Where the Service offers jurisdiction-specific features, those features assist you in applying a treatment you have chosen. They do not determine the correct treatment for your circumstances. You remain solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, legality and professional adequacy of every measurement, figure, rate, document and statement produced using the Service, and for meeting any professional, statutory or contractual obligation that applies to you.
You should check every output before you rely on it or issue it to anyone.
4. Your account
You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current. You are responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping your credentials confidential. Tell us promptly at info@costtakeoff.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your authority.
You must be at least 18 years old to hold an account.
Where your subscription includes seats for other users, you are responsible for their use of the Service and for ensuring they comply with these Terms.
5. Subscriptions, fees and renewal
Subscription plans, seat counts and prices are as shown at the point of purchase. Fees are payable in advance for each billing period.
Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price for your plan, unless cancelled before renewal. You may cancel at any time from your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period then in progress, and the Service remains available to you until that period ends.
When a subscription ends — by cancellation, by a payment that is not recovered, or at the end of a free trial — your account becomes read-only: you can still open and export your work, but not create or edit. It stays read-only for six months, and we email you before anything is deleted. Nothing is deleted while you are on a paid plan.
We may change prices. Any price change takes effect at your next renewal after we have given you notice, and you may cancel before that renewal if you do not accept it.
Refunds are governed by our Refund and Cancellation Policy.
6. Your data and your content
You retain all rights in the drawings, measurements, figures, documents and other material you upload to or create within the Service ("Your Content"). We claim no ownership of it.
You grant us a limited licence to host, store, process, transmit and display Your Content solely to provide the Service to you, to keep backups, and to do what these Terms otherwise permit.
You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to upload Your Content, including any drawing or document belonging to a client or third party.
Keeping your own records is your responsibility. The Service is not a statutory record-keeping system and we are not your archive. If you are required by law, by your professional body or by contract to retain invoices, claims, statements or other records, you must keep your own copies. Export your work before you cancel or delete anything. We do not undertake to hold or restore Your Content after your account ends, and we are not responsible for any record you fail to retain.
7. Deletion of your account
You may delete your account at any time. When you do, Your Content is deleted from the live Service and removed from our backups in the ordinary course of their rotation, as described in our Privacy Policy.
Deletion is permanent and we cannot reverse it. Export anything you need first.
8. Acceptable use
You must not:
- use the Service unlawfully, or to produce a document you know to be false or misleading;
- upload anything unlawful, or anything you have no right to upload;
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other accounts, or the systems on which the Service runs;
- interfere with, disrupt or place unreasonable load on the Service;
- copy, reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source of the Service, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law;
- resell, sublicense or make the Service available to anyone outside your subscription; or
- circumvent seat limits, storage limits or other technical restrictions.
9. Availability
We aim to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. The Service may be unavailable during maintenance, and may be interrupted by matters outside our control.
We do not offer a service level agreement and we give no availability commitment.
10. Warranties
The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations that are not expressly set out in these Terms, whether implied by statute, common law or otherwise. In particular, and without limiting that exclusion, we do not warrant that the Service, or any output produced using it, is accurate, complete, error-free, current, compliant with any law or professional standard, or fit for any particular purpose.
We hold no professional indemnity insurance in respect of the Service, and none is implied by these Terms.
11. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.
Subject to that:
(a) We are not liable for loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of contract, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goodwill, loss of or corruption of data, or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.
(b) We are not liable for any loss arising from a figure, rate, measurement, tax treatment, description or document that you produced, entered, selected or issued using the Service, including any loss arising from a tender, quotation, invoice, application, claim or statement that proves to be incorrect.
(c) Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms and your use of the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited to the total fees you paid for the Service in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
You acknowledge that the fees for the Service reflect this allocation of risk, and that you have the opportunity to insure against the losses excluded by this clause.
12. Indemnity
You will indemnify us against any claim brought against us by a third party arising from Your Content, from your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, or from any document you produced or issued using the Service.
13. Our intellectual property
We and our licensors own all rights in the Service, including its software, design, documentation and branding. These Terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service during your subscription, and nothing more.
14. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if payment fails and is not remedied, or if we are required to do so by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will give you notice and an opportunity to put the matter right first.
We may discontinue the Service. If we do, we will give you reasonable notice and refund any fees you have paid for a period after discontinuation.
On termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Clauses 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 17 survive.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may amend these Terms. Where an amendment materially affects your rights, we will give you notice before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the amended Terms. If you do not accept them, cancel before they take effect.
16. Third party rights
A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to enforce any of them.
17. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, including any non-contractual dispute or claim, are governed by the laws of Ireland.
The courts of Ireland have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim.
18. General
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the rest remain in force.
Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Refund and Cancellation Policy, are the entire agreement between us in relation to the Service.
You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor of our business.
19. Contact
info@costtakeoff.com CELCO GROUNDWORKS & CONSTRUCTION LIMITED, trading as CostTakeoff 40 Bay Meadows Avenue, Dublin 15, D15 Y66T, Ireland