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Swage Terms of Use

Last revised: 2026-11-10.

Version 2026.11.10.1.

In short. Swage converts geodata between formats and is free. You need an account, which you open with an email address, and you must be at least 16. Your files and results are yours. We delete them within an hour after the job's time limit ends, and only if you allow it do we keep what is left of a failed job, for up to 30 days. The service is offered as it is. The full text below prevails.

1. What the service is

The Swage website and service at tryswage.com and its subdomains are provided by Dmitrii Lutskov, a sole trader registered with the Israel Tax Authority. Write to or use the contact form.

Swage is a web service that converts geodata between formats. You upload a file and choose the output format, and the service reads the source file, writes the result and verifies it against the source. Supported formats are listed on the site.

2. Your account

You need an account to use the service, and anyone can open one with an email address. You type the address on the sign-in page, or on an invite link we posted, and we send you an email with a link. The account is made when you open that link, tick the box accepting these terms and press the button. We store the version you accepted and the time. A tester account, made from a link we give the tester directly, has no email address, and its holder accepts these terms by ticking the box on the page the link opens. We store the version and the time, as for any account.

You must be at least 16 to open an account.

Use an address you control and keep the links in your emails to yourself, because anyone who uses one can sign in as you. We may limit how many new accounts are opened per day and from one network.

You can also set a password for an account that signs in with an email address, on the page you reach from the sign-up email, on the account page, or through a password reset link. A tester account has no password. We store only a one-way hash of the password, never the password itself. Choose one that no other service uses and keep it to yourself, because anyone who knows it can sign in as you. When you change your password, or set one after your account was opened, we sign out your other sessions and email a notice to your account's address. If you forget it, the emailed sign-in link still works and you can ask for a password reset link. We may limit wrong password tries and password reset emails per address and per network. If we have to restore the service from a backup, passwords stop working, so sign in by an emailed link and set a new one.

Where we offer it, you can also sign in with your Google account. Google then tells us your email address and whether it has verified it, we use nothing else of your Google account, and an address with no account yet gets one when you tick the box accepting these terms on the page you reach after Google.

Closing an account is described in section 7. What is kept and for how long is in the privacy policy.

3. What happens to your file

We use the source file to run the job you started. Beyond the job we keep keyed fingerprints of the file's layer names and content and count the job in service-wide daily totals and in the counters of your account. Only if you allow it on the job page do we also keep what is left of a failed job, for up to 30 days. The privacy policy describes each of these. The result can be downloaded for the period shown on the job screen (24 hours by default), and not while your account is closed. When the period ends, it stops opening and is deleted within the following hour.

4. Your files and what you may upload

The file and the result are yours. The service claims no rights over the content of an uploaded file or the conversion result.

Upload only files you are entitled to handle. You are responsible for the legality of a file's content, including any third-party personal data inside it (names in drawing title blocks, parcel owners in cadastral layers, addresses). If a business's files contain such data, write to us before uploading them, because processing them on the business's behalf needs a data-processing agreement first.

You may not:

5. Service "as is", limitation of liability

The service is offered as it is. We do not promise that it is available at any given time, that a feature stays, or that a result is free of errors. The loss forecast shown before writing and the "Verified" seal describe what we measured and are not a guarantee. Keep your own copies of results and check a result before you rely on it.

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for lost data, lost profit, indirect loss or decisions based on a result. Nothing in these terms limits our liability for harm caused on purpose or by gross negligence, or for death or personal injury, and nothing takes away a consumer right that the law does not let us exclude.

6. Price

The service is free. If we add paid plans, we tell you first, and nothing is charged without your separate agreement.

7. Closing an account and stopping the service

You can close your account at any time on its account page. Type its email address and, if it has a password, that password, and we email a link to that address. Open the link and press the button on the page it opens. Nothing happens to your account until you press it, so an email that never arrives changes nothing. The link works once and for a limited time, and stops working earlier if you sign out of any session, change your password or ask for a new link. We limit how many of these emails go to one account in a day. The button closes the account at once, and we delete it 7 days later, so that you can still change your mind. We email that address the exact time of deletion in UTC, and a later change to the number of days does not move that time. We also email a notice when the account is deleted, but a failure on our side can stop it arriving.

You can also ask us by email to delete your account, writing from the account's address. If you can no longer reach that mailbox, write to us from another address, and we act once we have checked that the account is yours. A tester account has no account page, so write to us with the name on your link. We then delete the account within one month, or at its set time if that comes first. We tell you when it is done. Until we do, the account stays as it is, open or waiting to be deleted. Once the account is deleted, we keep nothing that stops you from opening a new one with the same address. While a closed account waits to be deleted, signing up again with its address takes you to the page where you can keep it.

While an account waits to be deleted, we store everything it had except what ended when it was closed, so that you can keep it. That includes its address, its password hash, the terms version you accepted, your settings, the times it was closed and is to be deleted, and its jobs until each one expires. If you sign in during that time, by password or by an emailed link, you see only a page that says when the account is to be deleted, with a button that keeps it. Nothing else in the account works until you press it. If you ask for a password reset during that time, we send a sign-in link instead. You can also write to us from the account's address and ask us to keep it, and we keep it if it is still waiting to be deleted. A kept account works again, and we email a notice that it was kept. If we restore the service from a nightly copy, an account you kept after the copy was made can come back waiting to be deleted, so keep it again. The sessions, sign-in links and password reset links that ended when it was closed stay ended. Share links do not come back, so make new ones if you need them.

Closing the account does not extend your jobs' time limits. Each one is deleted at the end of its own time limit, or within the hour after the account is deleted if that comes first. Until then its results stay on our servers, but no job link opens them and we send no job emails, so download anything you need before you close the account. If you keep the account, links to its unexpired jobs open again and their emails resume, but emails missed while it was closed are not sent. A job waiting for you to choose a format stays as it is until its time limit, and you can finish it if you keep the account. A job stopped when the account was closed is not started again, and its uploaded file is deleted when it stops.

We may close and delete an account at once, without the waiting period, if it breaks section 4 or the law requires it, and we email a notice to its address if it has one. If we close an account because it broke section 4, we keep a one-way hash of its address so that the address cannot open a new account. The privacy policy says how long we keep it and how it is made.

When an account is closed, by you or by us, its sessions, sign-in links, password reset links, links to confirm closing it and unused sign-up and invite emails end at once. Its share links end too, its job links stop opening and its queued or running jobs are stopped. When an account is deleted, its jobs are wiped, and the record that stays of each job for 30 days holds nothing that points to you. A job that is still running is stopped first, and what is left of it is deleted after that.

We may stop the service for everyone. If we do, we tell account holders at least 30 days before, by email or, for a tester account, directly, unless the law or a security emergency prevents it. Accounts and what they hold are deleted within 30 days after the service stops.

8. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the law of Israel. A dispute we cannot settle by writing to each other goes before the courts of Israel. If you are a consumer in the EU, you may also bring a claim before the courts of the country where you live, and the mandatory consumer-protection rules of that country still protect you.

9. Changes to these terms

For a change that affects your rights, we email the address of your account at least 30 days before it applies. If you do not agree, close your account before that date. If you keep using the service after that date, the changed terms apply to you. A tester account has no email address, so we tell its holder directly. Small fixes that change no one's rights apply from the date at the top.