Terms & Conditions

1. Who runs this site

The Site is operated by Square Software SH.P.K. ("Square Software", "we"), a limited liability company incorporated in Albania and registered with the National Business Centre (QKB) under NIPT M51418039H.

Registered office: Rruga Millosh Shutku, Nd. 14, H. 3, Ap. 17, Njësia Administrative Nr. 1, 1004 Tiranë, Albania. General enquiries: info@square.al. Privacy and data protection: privacy@square.al. You can verify the registration independently through the public register record linked at the bottom of this page.

These details are published under article 7 of Law no. 10128 of 11 May 2009 "On electronic commerce". We do not operate a shop or take payment on the Site, and we hold no licence or authorisation that would require further disclosure.

2. What the Site is, and what it is not

The Site describes what we do and how we work. Apart from the Square Tender Alerts subscription in section 11, nothing on it is an offer capable of acceptance, and nothing on it is a quotation. A price, a rate or an estimate for any other work becomes binding only in a written proposal signed by us for a specific piece of work.

We do not publish fixed prices for our services, because what a project costs depends on its scope. Any figure you see is illustrative. The one exception is Square Tender Alerts, a subscription whose prices are fixed and published on its page (section 11).

3. The calculators and the project estimator

The Site offers free tools: salary, VAT, NIPT and fiscalisation calculators, a project cost estimator and a CV builder. They are provided for orientation only.

They are not tax, legal, accounting or payroll advice, and they are not a substitute for it. Rates, thresholds and legal requirements change, sometimes retroactively, and a tool cannot know your particular circumstances. Check anything that matters with a qualified adviser or the competent authority before relying on it. We make no representation that a figure a tool produces is correct or current, and we accept no liability for a decision taken on the strength of one.

The tools run in your browser. What you type into them is not sent to us, except where you deliberately choose to send an estimate with an enquiry.

4. Personal data

How we handle personal data is set out in full in our Privacy Policy, and the cookies and browser storage the Site uses are listed in our Cookie Policy. Those two documents are the only statements we make about processing, deliberately: a summary here would be a second version of the same commitments and the two would eventually disagree.

Using the Site is not consent to anything. Where we need your consent, for example for analytics or advertising storage, we ask for it separately and you can refuse or withdraw it without losing access to any part of the Site.

5. Intellectual property

The text, design, code, graphics and logos on the Site belong to Square Software or to whoever licensed them to us, and are protected by copyright and trade mark law. The name and logo "Square Software" are ours.

You may read, print and quote from the Site for your own information, and you may link to it. You may not republish substantial parts of it, present it as your own, use it to train a commercial model, or use our name or logo in a way that suggests an endorsement or a relationship that does not exist. Product names and marks belonging to other companies appear only to identify their technologies and remain theirs.

6. Acceptable use

Use the Site lawfully and leave it working for other people. In particular, do not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of it or to the systems behind it, do not probe or test its security without our written permission, do not submit malicious content through a form, and do not use automated means to flood it or to harvest it at a rate that degrades it for others.

The contact and application forms are for genuine enquiries and applications. We rate-limit them and filter automated submissions, and we may block an address that abuses them.

7. Other sites we link to

The Site links to third-party pages, including registries, standards bodies and our own profiles on other platforms. We do not control them, we are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices, and a link is not an endorsement. Once you follow one, that site’s own terms and privacy notice apply.

8. Availability and liability

We aim to keep the Site available and accurate, but we provide it as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of anything harmful, and we may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it without notice.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit or opportunity, or for loss arising from your reliance on informational content or on a figure produced by one of the tools. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything under the data protection legislation.

9. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Albania, and the competent court is the court of Tiranë. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer rules of the country where you live.

The Site is published in several languages. Where the versions differ in meaning, the English text governs these terms; for the mutual NDA below the Albanian text prevails, as that document states.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, and the date at the top says when we last did. The version in force is the one published here when you use the Site. If a change is significant we will say so on the Site rather than rely on you noticing the date.

11. Square Tender Alerts

This section is the agreement for Square Tender Alerts, our paid subscription that emails you new public procurement notices in the categories you choose and gives you a panel that lists them. You accept it when you create an account, on behalf of the company whose NIPT you enter, and you confirm that you are authorised to do so. The rest of these terms also applies; where the two conflict, this section prevails for the service.

What the service is. We take the public export of procurement procedures that the Public Procurement Agency (APP) publishes on app.gov.al, sort it into categories by CPV code and send it to you. New notices reach us every hour from the public listings on app.gov.al, and budget and award details complete the next day from the Agency’s daily export. The data carries no closing times, and it can contain errors or omissions that are the Agency’s. We therefore do not guarantee that every procedure reaches you, that it reaches you before it closes, or that its details are complete or correct. Always check a procedure, its deadline and its documents on app.gov.al before you rely on them. We do not submit bids, we do not represent you before contracting authorities, and nothing we send is legal or procurement advice.

Free trial. A new subscription starts with a free trial of 14 days, and a payment card is required to start it. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your card is charged automatically on day 15 for the plan and billing period you chose, and then at the start of every following period until you cancel.

One trial per company. The trial is offered once per NIPT, or once per account when no NIPT is given, and an account that has had a trial gets no second one by adding a NIPT later. Because anyone can type a NIPT, this rule is applied on a best-effort basis: we also compare the fingerprint of the card used for a new trial with earlier trials, and if the same card has already been used for a trial under another NIPT, the subscription starts without a trial, as our Privacy Policy explains. If you believe your company’s trial was used by someone else, or that the check was applied to you in error, write to info@square.al with your NIPT. We will review it and, where the claim is justified, release the trial. We may ask for proof that you represent the company.

Prices and payment. The prices are those shown on the Square Tender Alerts page when you subscribe, in euro and exclusive of VAT (TVSH); where VAT applies it is added to the invoice. Payment is taken by card through our payment provider, Stripe. If a payment fails we tell you by email; access continues for a short grace period and then stops until the payment is made.

Changing your categories and plan. During the free trial the categories you chose cannot be removed or exchanged. You can add categories, but adding one ends the trial at once and the subscription is charged from that day at the new price; moving between monthly and yearly billing during the trial costs nothing. After the trial, you can add categories, or move from monthly to yearly billing, at any time: the change applies at once and you pay the difference for the rest of the current period. If you remove categories, or move from yearly to monthly billing, the change applies from the next period and you keep what you paid for until then. A category cannot be exchanged for another one. Choosing 7 or more categories moves you to the all-categories plan.

Cancellation and refunds. You can cancel at any time from the panel. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for; you keep access until then and you are not charged again. Payments already made are not refunded, in whole or in part, except where the law requires it.

Using what we send. The subscription is for the internal use of your company. You may not resell, republish or redistribute the emails, the panel or the data in them, in whole or in substantial part, or give access to your account to people outside your company. The procurement data itself is public and stays freely available on app.gov.al; what this clause protects is our selection, categorisation and presentation of it.

Liability. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for a lost opportunity, a missed deadline or a bidding decision made on the basis of what we sent, and our total liability for the service is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim.

Ending the service, and changes. We may suspend or close an account that breaches this section. We may stop offering the service by telling subscribers by email at least 30 days in advance, in which case we refund any period paid for but not yet delivered. If we change this section or the prices, we tell subscribers by email at least 30 days before the change applies to them; a price change applies from the first billing period after that notice.

The personal data processed for the service is described in section 14 of our Privacy Policy.