Legal

Terms & Conditions

What you may do with the tools, how refunds work, and what a calculator can and cannot be relied on for.

Effective 2 November 2026sistematikwork.comRun by Ali Gohar, ODTÜ
On this page
  1. Who you are buying from
  2. What you are buying
  3. What you may do with the files
  4. What you may not do
  5. Delivery
  6. Refunds
  7. If you are in the UK or the EU
  8. Free downloads
  9. Accuracy, and the limits of a spreadsheet
  10. Our liability
  11. Writing for the blog
  12. Certificates
  13. Using this website
  14. Our intellectual property
  15. Changes
  16. Governing law
  17. Contact
These terms apply to sistematikwork.com, the free downloads, and every tool bought through the SistematikWork store. Plain language, no traps: the parts that actually affect you are the licence, the refund window and the section on what a spreadsheet can be relied on for.

1Who you are buying from

SistematikWork is run by Ali Gohar, an industrial engineering student at ODTÜ, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

Every purchase is processed through Gumroad, which acts as the seller of record. That has a practical consequence worth knowing: your payment contract for the transaction is with Gumroad, Gumroad handles any sales tax or VAT due, and Gumroad’s own terms apply to the payment. These terms govern the licence you receive and how you may use the files.

2What you are buying

Every product is a digital file: usually a Microsoft Excel workbook, sometimes a Word document, a Notion template, a PDF or a CAD reference. Nothing is shipped. Nothing is a subscription.

You are buying a licence to use the file, not ownership of it. The copyright stays with us.

3What you may do with the files

One purchase gives one person a permanent, worldwide, non exclusive licence to:

  • Use the tool for anything, including paid work, coursework, consulting and commercial projects.
  • Change it. Add tabs, rewrite formulas, rebrand it for internal use, take it apart to see how it works.
  • Keep the results. Anything you calculate with it is yours. We claim nothing over your outputs, reports or deliverables.
  • Keep it permanently, with no expiry and no licence to renew. Store your own backup copy.

If several people at one organisation will use a tool, each of them needs a licence. If that is awkward for your team, email us and we will sort out something sensible rather than lose you over it.

4What you may not do

  • Resell, share or redistribute the files, modified or not, free or paid. That includes uploading them to file sharing sites, course platforms, Discord servers or shared drives outside your organisation.
  • Sell them as your own, or as part of a template pack, course or product you sell.
  • Sublicense them to clients. You may use a tool to do work for a client. You may not hand the client the file as something they now own.
  • Remove ownership notices and present the work as yours.

The rule behind all four is simple: use the tool as much as you like, but do not become a second source for it.

5Delivery

Delivery is immediate and automatic. Gumroad shows a download link as soon as payment clears and emails you the same link. There is nothing to wait for and nothing to post.

If a download fails, a file will not open, or the email never arrives, write to info@sistematikwork.com and we will send it to you directly.

6Refunds

Fourteen days, no explanation required. If a tool is not what you expected, email info@sistematikwork.com within 14 days of purchase with your order reference and we will refund it in full.

We would rather refund you than argue. We would honestly rather hear what was wrong with the file, because that is the only way it gets fixed for the next person.

Refunds are issued through Gumroad and return to the payment method you used. Because the files are digital, we cannot stop you keeping a copy, so a refund is given on the understanding that you stop using the tool and delete it.

7If you are in the UK or the EU

Consumer law normally gives you 14 days to change your mind about an online purchase. For digital content delivered immediately, that right ends once the download begins, and by downloading the file you agree to immediate delivery and accept that the statutory withdrawal right no longer applies.

That is the legal position. Our own 14 day refund policy above is given voluntarily and is more generous, so in practice you can still change your mind. Nothing in these terms removes rights that the law of your country gives you and does not allow to be removed.

8Free downloads

The 12 Mistakes Workbook, the IE Formula Cheat Sheet Pack and anything else we give away are covered by exactly the same licence as a paid tool, minus the payment. Use them for anything, do not redistribute them, and send people to the website rather than forwarding the file.

Taking a free download puts your email address on our list. There is an unsubscribe link in every email, and using it costs you nothing you already downloaded.

9Accuracy, and the limits of a spreadsheet

Read this one properly. It is the section that matters most in a catalogue of engineering calculators.

Every formula is checked against worked examples whose answers are established before the file is built. We take that seriously, and if you find a formula you believe is wrong we will either correct it and send you the new file or show you our working.

Even so, these tools are provided as they are. They are calculation aids, not engineering advice, financial advice or a professional opinion, and they are not a substitute for the judgement of a qualified engineer who knows your situation.

You are responsible for checking that a tool fits your problem, that your inputs are correct, and that the result makes sense, before anyone acts on it. That matters most where a wrong number could affect safety, a regulatory submission, a certification, a capital decision or anything else where being wrong is expensive. A spreadsheet does not know what it does not know, and neither of us should pretend otherwise.

We give no guarantee that a tool is fit for any particular purpose, that it will be free of errors, or that it matches the standards or practices used in your industry or country.

The manufacturing process finder on this site is a free reference tool. It shows the typical way a part is made. Many parts can be produced by more than one process depending on volume, material, size and design, so the result is the common route, not the only one and not a definitive specification. It is a guide for comparison and learning, not engineering advice, and it is not a substitute for a qualified manufacturing engineer or a supplier’s process sheet. Confirm the process, tolerances and costs for your own design before you rely on them, quote from them or commit a part. If you believe a route is wrong, use the report link in the finder or email info@sistematikwork.com, and we will look into it.

10Our liability

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything connected with a product or this website is limited to the amount you paid for that product. For free downloads, that amount is nothing.

We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss: lost profit, lost contracts, lost data, wasted time, or the cost of a decision taken on the strength of a calculation.

Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else the law does not permit to be limited.

11Writing for the blog

The blog is open to outside authors. If you contribute:

  • You keep the copyright in what you wrote.
  • You give us permission to publish it on sistematikwork.com and to quote from it when promoting the site, with your byline.
  • You confirm the work is yours, that it is not published elsewhere without saying so, and that it does not breach anyone else’s rights or any confidentiality you owe an employer.
  • We may edit for clarity, length and accuracy. Substantive changes are shown to you first.
  • Either of us may ask for removal at any time, and we will take it down.

Contributing is unpaid. What you get is a byline, a link wherever you want it pointed, editing help and a certificate.

12Certificates

Certificates of appreciation are issued to guest authors and carry an ID that anyone can check at sistematikwork.com/verify.

A certificate confirms one thing: that the named person wrote the named article, which we published on the stated date. It is not a qualification, an accreditation, an endorsement of competence or a credential recognised by any institution, and it should not be presented as one. We may withdraw a certificate if the work turns out to be plagiarised or misrepresented.

13Using this website

Use the site normally and we will never have a problem. Do not attempt to break into it, overload it, scrape it wholesale, or use it to distribute anything unlawful. We may block access if you do.

The site is provided as it is. We try to keep it available and accurate, but we do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted or that every page is current.

14Our intellectual property

The SistematikWork name, logo, the design of the website, and the tools and written content on it are ours, except for guest articles, which belong to their authors. Buying a tool does not transfer any of that.

15Changes

We may update these terms. The effective date at the top changes when we do. The terms that applied on the day you bought something govern that purchase, so a later change cannot take away a licence you already paid for.

16Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the courts of Pakistan have jurisdiction over any dispute.

If you are a consumer in another country, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws where you live, and it does not prevent you from bringing a claim there where your local law gives you that right.

17Contact

Ali Gohar, SistematikWork
info@sistematikwork.com

Questions about these terms, a licence for a team, or a problem with a purchase: that address, answered personally.

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