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Terms and Conditions

Your rights and obligations when using Blast Audit.

Last updated: October 14, 2026

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") govern the subscription to and use of Blast Audit, published by NEXT BP, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with a share capital of €100, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 920 753 233, whose registered office is at 127 rue de la Tour, 75016 Paris, France ("Next BP", "we"). Blast Audit includes the Excel add-in, the web dashboard, the connectors, the MCP server and the engagement agent (the "Software").

The Software is offered only to professionals acting for the purposes of their business (the "Client", "you"). The Terms are accepted when the subscription is taken out or the free trial is started.

Contract documents. The contract consists of, in decreasing order of precedence: any order form or quote signed by both parties, subject to the precedence of the DPA for the processing of personal data; the Data Processing Agreement ("DPA"); the End-User License Agreement ("EULA"); and these Terms. For everything relating to the processing of personal data, the DPA prevails over the Terms and the EULA. For the other matters relating to the use of the Software, the EULA prevails over the Terms.

1. License of Use

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and the EULA, Next BP grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use the Software for your internal professional purposes, for the term of your subscription or of your free trial.

You agree to comply with all usage restrictions set out in the EULA.

2. Subscription, Payment and Refund

2.1 Subscription, Plan and Free Trial
Full access to the Software requires an active subscription or an active free trial. We currently offer a single subscription plan, billed per user, monthly or yearly, whose details (price, term, features, included usage) are indicated on our website or in your account area. Unless terminated, your subscription automatically renews for successive periods of the same duration.
Each organization may use one free trial of 14 days. The trial requires no payment details and nothing is billed during it. At the end of the trial, access ends unless a subscription is taken out.

2.2 Payment via Stripe and VAT
Subscription payments are processed through the Stripe payment platform. By subscribing, you agree that your payments are governed by Stripe’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Prices are exclusive of taxes unless otherwise indicated. VAT and any other applicable taxes are calculated and collected by Stripe based on the information you provide (including your country and VAT number, where applicable).

2.3 Payment Terms, Late Payment and Suspension
Subscriptions are payable in advance, at the start of each billing period. Any amount not paid by its due date automatically bears, without any reminder being necessary:

late-payment penalties at three times the French legal interest rate in force applicable to professional creditors, from the day after the due date until full payment; and
the fixed indemnity of €40 for recovery costs provided for by Article L. 441-10 of the French Commercial Code. Where the recovery costs actually incurred exceed this amount, we may claim additional compensation on proof.

In the event of late payment, rejected payment or failed charge, we may also limit or suspend access to the Software until payment is regularised, and, if the situation persists, terminate your subscription under Section 13.

2.4 Usage Quotas
Your subscription includes monthly usage quotas per user, in Advanced Re-reads and in AI credits, pooled across all members of your organization. Reading the pages of your documents is included in the subscription: only Advanced Re-reads count, and the reading included in the subscription is neither counted nor sold in lots. An Advanced Re-read is the reading of a page by our advanced reader with our key, not with an API key saved by your organization. It happens when the Software treats the first reading of that page as uncertain, when you request it, or when our standard reader is not in service for your organization, your region or your version of the add-in; in that last case, every scanned page is read by our advanced reader and is an Advanced Re-read. The current quotas are stated on our pricing page, together with the price of the lots of Advanced Re-reads you can add to your subscription: the price is the price of the lot, and each lot includes a fixed number of Advanced Re-reads. A document that is fully machine‑readable when imported gives rise to no Advanced Re-read. When the quota of Advanced Re-reads is used up, the Software runs no further Advanced Re-read until the quota renews for the next monthly period or until you buy a lot; the page stays available with the result of the reading included in the subscription, and the Software flags it as uncertain. If that page has no reading included in the subscription, no other reading is run outside the quota. When another quota is used up, the features that depend on it may be limited until the quota renews for the next monthly period. We may also implement reasonable technical limitations to prevent abuse, ensure the security of our systems and provide a quality experience for all users.

2.5 Refunds
Except where required by mandatory law and except in the cases set out in Section 13.3 and in Section 12.5 of the DPA, subscription fees are non‑refundable.
An exceptional refund may be considered only if:

no effective use of the Software has been made (no document processing, no server‑side functionality used); and
this lack of use has not generated any variable costs on our side (for example, costs related to OCR, AI compute or infrastructure).

Any exceptional refund decision is at the sole discretion of Next BP.

3. Use of the Software

You agree to:

use the Software in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations;
not modify, decompile, disassemble or attempt to discover the source code of the Software, except within the limits allowed by law;
not reproduce, distribute, transfer or commercially exploit the Software beyond the rights granted to you;
not use the Software in any manner that could damage, disable or overload our servers or networks;
not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Software or any related systems.

You remain responsible for the content of the data and documents you submit to the Software, as well as for any decisions you make based on the results provided.

Reading model and use restrictions. To read the pages of scanned documents, the Software runs on Next BP's servers the Indra OCR model published by Datalab. Next BP uses the weights of that model under the modified AI Pubs OpenRAIL-M license, version 0.1 as modified (the "Weights License"), at release v3.1, revision d7c839c892bfe4b8993373db64c62f154d05d70b. Next BP is the licensee of those weights: it does not sublicense them to you or hand them over to you, and these terms do not make you a party to the license agreement with Datalab. The model is subject to paragraph 5 of the Weights License, whose Attachment A sets use restrictions. A full copy of the Weights License, including Attachment A, is published on our legal notice page. For your use of the Software, you agree not to use it in breach of applicable law or in infringement of a third party's intellectual property rights, not to reach the weights or the model outside the Software, and not to make them available to a third party. You also agree not to offer, as a separate product or service, text recognition or document extraction that competes with Datalab's offerings. Reading your documents, and delivering your workpapers, workbooks and exports to your clients, is not such an offering. Next BP does not make your right to use the Software depend on the size, revenue or funding of your organization.

4. Personal Data

When you submit documents containing personal data to the Software, Next BP processes them as your processor, under the DPA, which forms part of the contract. The personal data that Next BP processes as controller (accounts, billing, support, analytics) are described in our Privacy Policy.

5. Availability, Maintenance and Incidents

We take all reasonable steps to keep the Software available and working. This is an obligation of means (obligation de moyens). However:

the Software may be temporarily unavailable for planned maintenance operations, which we try to schedule outside business hours;
in the event of a major incident (for example, serious errors, abnormal delays, security incidents), we may block or temporarily restrict access to the Software while we fix the issue.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability or the complete absence of errors.

6. Support

We provide support by e-mail at support [at] blast-audit.com and through the messaging available in the Software for:

reporting bugs or malfunctions;
asking questions about the use of the Software.

Unless otherwise stated, support is provided on business days (excluding French public holidays), and we use reasonable efforts to respond within a reasonable time, without any guaranteed response time.

7. Intellectual Property, Client Data and Outputs

7.1 Software. The Software and all related intellectual property rights are the exclusive property of Next BP and its licensors. These Terms grant you no ownership rights over the Software, only a right of use as described herein and in the EULA.

7.2 Client Data and outputs. You keep all rights over the documents, files and data that you or your users submit to the Software (the "Client Data") and over the results the Software produces from them: extracted values, extracted document text, the positions of words and lines on the pages (the "boxes"), workpapers, workbooks, answers, classifications and exports (the "Outputs"). Next BP acquires no right over them, other than a non-exclusive right, for the term of the contract, to host, process and display them solely to provide the Software to you. The text extracted from the documents, the boxes, the workpapers and the workbooks remain your property, whichever model produced them. Article 6 of the Weights License, under which the licensor claims no right in the model's outputs, transfers none of these to Datalab. Next BP does not use Client Data or Outputs for its own purposes, does not aggregate or sell them, does not use them to train artificial intelligence models, and discloses them only to the sub-processors listed in the DPA, solely to provide the Software, and to the providers you choose yourself by saving your own API key (Section 5.7 of the DPA).

7.3 Usage metrics. Next BP may use technical usage metrics that contain no Client Data or Outputs (for example, the number of pages processed) for billing, security and the improvement of the Software.

8. Confidentiality

8.1 Confidential information. "Confidential Information" means any non-public information that a party discloses to the other in connection with the contract, in any form, and in all cases the Client Data and the Outputs.

8.2 Obligations. Each party uses the other party’s Confidential Information only to perform the contract, protects it with at least the care it gives its own confidential information, and discloses it only to its personnel, sub-processors and advisers who need it for that purpose and are bound by an equivalent obligation of confidentiality.

8.3 Professional secrecy. Next BP acknowledges that the Client may be bound by professional secrecy, statutory auditors under Article L. 821-35 of the French Commercial Code and chartered accountants under Article 21 of Ordinance No. 45-2138 of 19 September 1945. Documents entrusted to the Software may be covered by it. Next BP accesses them only to the extent strictly necessary to provide the Software, answer a support request or handle an incident, and subjects its personnel and sub-processors to a confidentiality obligation. This Section does not make Next BP a person legally entrusted with that secrecy.

8.4 Exceptions. These obligations do not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, that the receiving party already lawfully held, that it developed independently, or that it lawfully received from a third party not bound by confidentiality.

8.5 Disclosure required by law. If a party is required by law or by an authority to disclose Confidential Information, it informs the other party beforehand where the law allows it, and discloses only what is required.

8.6 Duration. These obligations apply for the term of the contract and for five (5) years after its end, and, for Client Data, for as long as Next BP holds them.

9. Reversibility and Account Deletion

9.1 Your workbooks. Workbooks remain in your own Excel files and are not affected by the end of the subscription.

9.2 Export. Before deleting your account or terminating your subscription, you are responsible for retrieving and exporting the data and results that you wish to keep and that the Software still holds (for example, engagements of the engagement agent, settings, the list of users).

9.3 Deletion. Within thirty (30) days after the end of the subscription, Next BP deletes the Client Data it still holds, in accordance with Section 7 of the DPA, and provides a certificate of deletion on request. Account and billing data are kept for the periods set out in the Privacy Policy, in particular invoices, which we must keep for 10 years.

9.4 After deletion. Once data have been deleted, they can no longer be recovered.

10. Warranties

10.1 Commitments of Next BP. Next BP undertakes to provide the Software substantially in accordance with its documentation and to correct, within a reasonable time, the reproducible defects that you report to it.

10.2 Results. The Software uses optical character recognition and artificial intelligence models, whose results may contain errors. Next BP does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of each result. Each result is linked to its source in the document so that you can check it.

10.3 No professional opinion. The Software is an assistive tool for analysis and audit and does not constitute an audit, accounting or legal opinion. You remain responsible for checking the results and for the conclusions you draw from them.

10.4 Other warranties. Except for the commitments in this Section and the mandatory provisions of law, Next BP gives no other warranty, in particular that the Software meets a need that is not described in its documentation.

11. Liability

11.1 Principle. Each party is liable for the direct and foreseeable damage that it causes to the other through a breach of its obligations. Next BP is not liable for indirect damage, such as loss of profit, turnover, clientele or business opportunity. Loss of data constitutes direct damage where it results from a breach by Next BP of its security, confidentiality or data protection obligations. It is then subject only to the applicable cap. Next BP is not liable for a loss of data caused by the Client or by a third party for whom Next BP is not answerable.

11.2 General cap. Except as provided in Sections 11.3 and 11.4, the total liability of Next BP, for all causes combined, is limited to the amounts excluding tax paid or payable by the Client for the Software during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

11.3 Specific cap for data protection and confidentiality. For damage resulting from a breach by Next BP of its personal data protection obligations (including under the DPA) or of Section 8 (Confidentiality), the total liability of Next BP is limited to two (2) times the amounts excluding tax paid or payable by the Client for the Software during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This cap applies instead of, and not in addition to, the cap in Section 11.2.

11.4 Cases without limitation. The limitations in this Section do not apply in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, in the event of death or personal injury, or in any other case where French law prohibits limiting liability.

12. Indemnification

12.1 By the Client. You indemnify Next BP against any claim by a third party, and the costs it causes, resulting from Client Data that you did not have the right to submit to the Software or from a use of the Software in breach of these Terms or the EULA.

12.2 By Next BP. Next BP defends you against any claim by a third party alleging that the Software, as provided by Next BP and used in accordance with these Terms, infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, under the conditions of the EULA.

13. Term and Termination

13.1 Term. These Terms take effect when the subscription is taken out or the free trial is started, and remain in force as long as the subscription or the trial lasts.

13.2 Termination by the Client. You may terminate your subscription at any time from your account area; termination takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

13.3 Termination for breach. Either party may terminate the contract if the other party commits a material breach of its obligations that is not remedied within thirty (30) days after a notice sent by e-mail or registered letter describing the breach. Where the Client terminates under this Section for a breach by Next BP, Next BP refunds the portion of the fees paid in advance that covers the period remaining after the effective date of termination, calculated pro rata by the number of days, within thirty (30) days and to the payment method used.

13.4 Suspension or termination by Next BP. Next BP may suspend or terminate access in the event of non-payment (Section 2.3), or suspend it immediately where a use of the Software endangers the security of the service or of other users, for the time needed to remove the risk.

13.5 Survival. Sections 2.3, 7 to 12 and 15 remain in force after the end of the contract for the time needed to apply them.

14. Changes to the Terms

We may amend these Terms. We inform you of any material change by e-mail or in the Software at least thirty (30) days before it takes effect. If you do not accept the change, you may terminate your subscription before it takes effect. Otherwise, the new Terms apply from their effective date.

15. Governing Law, Language and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by French law. They are published in French, English and Spanish; in the event of a discrepancy, the French version prevails. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or their performance shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Economic Activities Court of Paris (Tribunal des activités économiques de Paris) or, if that court has no jurisdiction over the dispute, of the Judicial Court of Paris (Tribunal judiciaire de Paris), including in the event of multiple defendants or third-party proceedings.

16. Contact

For any questions regarding these Terms, please contact us at:

contact [at] blast-audit.com