NOVATerms of Sale and Use
Last updated: November 7, 2026
Who we are
NOVA is sold by NovaTuned, United States ("we"). Payments are processed by Stripe; prices include or add sales tax / VAT where it applies, shown at checkout.
Your license
Buying NOVA gives you a personal, non-transferable license to use it on one Windows PC at a time. You can move the license to another PC you own using the app or your account page. Trial keys work until the end date shown when they're issued. You may not share, resell, sublicense, or try to bypass the license check, and you may not copy NOVA except for a reasonable backup.
Without a license, NOVA runs as its free version: it reads and measures your PC (the Checkup, the benchmarks, Proof mode and the network tests) and can undo changes it made before, but doesn't apply fixes. The free version costs nothing, and these terms apply to it apart from those about payment and refunds.
NOVA is licensed, not sold, under a restricted license. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law expressly allows it. These terms apply to NOVA as first downloaded and to every update you install afterwards.
What NOVA does
NOVA changes Windows, driver and device settings on your PC at your request. It backs up the original values so you can undo changes, and can create a Windows restore point. Some options (marked Advanced) change security or hardware settings and show a warning first; you choose whether to use them.
Controller overclocking installs a third-party signed filter driver (hidusbf). Graphics tuning changes settings through your graphics driver. Overclocking and higher power limits can make a system unstable; use the built-in stability test and undo any change that causes problems.
No warranty
NOVA is provided "as is". Results depend on your hardware and configuration, and we don't promise any particular performance gain. To the extent allowed by law, we are not liable for data loss, hardware issues or other damages arising from using NOVA. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that can't be excluded.
Third-party games and services
NOVA does not modify a game's program files or run inside games; its optional per-game settings edit a game's own settings file, while the game is closed. The one exception is ReShade, if you choose to add it to a game: NOVA then puts ReShade's files and its own look next to the game's program, and removes exactly those files when you ask. ReShade runs inside the game. Some games and anti-cheat systems block ReShade or ban accounts that use it, and a game's rules can change with a patch; checking that a game allows ReShade before you add it is your responsibility, and we are not responsible for action a game's publisher takes against your account because you added it. NOVA refuses the games ReShade's own installer refuses. ReShade comes from reshade.me under its own license. We are not affiliated with any game publisher, anti-cheat vendor, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Sony or Microsoft, and can't control their policies.
Third-party components
NOVA includes or works with components from other companies, each under its own license. The full notices ship with NOVA in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.
- Intel PresentMon (MIT license) for frame capture, and the Intel Graphics Control Library for Intel graphics settings.
- hidusbf by SweetLow (public domain) for controller and mouse polling.
- AMD ADLX SDK code for Radeon settings. That code is licensed to us by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ("AMD"), is subject to a restricted license, and may only be used with AMD hardware. AMD is a third-party beneficiary of these terms. AMD and our other licensors provide their components "as is", without warranty of any kind, and are not liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising from their use; AMD's total liability to you will not exceed US$100.
Export
You agree to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations, including those of the United States, and not to export or use NOVA in violation of them.
Refunds
If NOVA won't run on your PC and we can't fix it together, we refund you in full when you ask within 3 days of purchase; other purchases aren't refunded except where the law requires. If you buy from the EU or UK, you ask at checkout for your key to be delivered straight away and confirm that this ends the 14-day right to cancel once it's delivered. The full refund policy.