REGISTRATION AND
CONTACTING
ALCHEMY MINDWORKS






This page deals with registration options. If you wish to enter your registration code into a previously-installed copy of this software, you need to close this browser and select Setup from the File menu of the application to be registered.

If you like Screen Saver Construction Set and you find it useful, you are requested to register it. The current registration fee is $30.00 - plus $5.00 shipping if you'd like the latest version sent to you on CD-ROM. This will entitle you to telephone support, notification of updates, a free copy of the latest version of this software and other worthwhile things. It will also avail you of a registration number to shut off the closing beg notice. More to the point, though, it'll make you feel good. We've not infested Screen Saver Construction Set with excessive beg notices, crippled it or had it verbally insult you after ten days. We trust you to support this software if you like it.

When you register Screen Saver Construction Set, you will be e-mailed your registration code as soon as your order is processed. Enter your code into a downloaded copy of Screen Saver Construction Set and it will become a registered copy, identical to what you would receive on CD-ROM. If you want to save the $5.00 shipping fee, select the NO SHIPPING option when you order. Note that absolutely nothing is shipped for NO SHIPPING orders - not even a receipt.

If you want to see additional features in Screen Saver Construction Set, register it. If we had an Arcturian mega-dollar for everyone who has said they'd most certainly register their copy if we'd add just one more thing to it, we could buy ourselves a universe and retire.


NOTE: Should you fail to support this program and continue to use it, a leather winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that.


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Order On Line


You can order on line at our web page https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html or visit our main page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html and click on any of the blue key icons, shown here, to access the secure server.




Order by Phone


Call our toll-free order desk at 1-800-263-1138 from Canada and the United States. Call 0800-89-7355 from Great Britain. Call 1-800-554-082 from Australia. Callers from other countries can reach the order desk at 1-905-936-9500. The order desk is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page for our new numbers. This will not affect our toll-free ordering numbers.


NOTE: The order desk only takes credit card orders. They cannot provide you with order status, modify or cancel previously submitted orders, provide product information or help you out with technical support. They cannot transfer you to someone who can. See the section of this document on Contacting Alchemy Mindworks if you need to get in touch with us for something other than ordering.





Order by FAX


You can FAX your order to 1-905-936-9502. Please use the order form included with this software. Note that because the order form is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.

Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page for our new numbers. This will not affect our toll-free ordering numbers.




Order by Snail-mail


You can mail your order to:

Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
P.O. Box 500
Beeton, Ontario
L0G 1A0
CANADA

Please use the order form included with this software.

If you're paying by a cheque drawn on a bank outside North America, please be sure to make your cheque payable in US dollars. Your cheque must have the address of a North American clearing office and a bank transit number printed on it. Please do not send us Eurocheques - they cannot be cleared outside Europe.

Note that when you send us your order - and then when we send you your software - two distinct post offices get to deal with the ensuing mail. It can take a few weeks for things to get through this system - we ask that you be patient. We don't fully understand why it takes less time for a package to get to Australia than it does to send one to Cleveland. Some things are best left as mysteries.




Paying by Plastic


We can accept credit card payments by:




Registration Fee


The registration fee for Screen Saver Construction Set is $30.00 (US). Please add $5.00 shipping if you'd like your software sent to you on a CD-ROM – the alternative is to save the shipping fee and download the software from our web page. This shipping fee is applicable to orders shipped to anywhere on Earth.

If you're ordering from outside North America, please make sure your payment is in US dollars. Cheques, bank drafts and money orders must be drawn on a bank with a North American clearing office – please do not send Eurocheques, as they can only be cashed in Europe.

Canadian users: If you're paying by cheque or money order, you can send us the equivalent of the US dollar price for this software in Canadian dollars, plus GST. To work this out:

  1. Call 1-800-769-2511. This is the Royal Bank's automated information service.
  2. Select the language you want to hear the rest of your call in – at present this is 1 for English and 2 for French.
  3. Select the Foreign Exchange option – at present this is 3.
  4. Select the Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate option – at present this is 1.
  5. Select the Foreign Exchange option – at present this is 1.
  6. The US dollar rate is the first item in the foreign exchange list. Record the Buying rate.
  7. Multiply the US dollar price of the software you wish to order (plus applicable GST and shipping) by the US dollar buying rate to obtain the correct number of Canadian dollars.

If you're paying by credit card, the exchange will be calculated by your bank when your order is processed.

All orders are processed immediately. Please see the Terms, Conditions and Legal Dogma document included with this software for complete ordering details and all the stuff the lawyers made us say.




Update Policy


Having registered Screen Saver Construction Set, you're welcome to download the current shareware version whenever you like and install it. It will locate your existing registration code and become a registered copy. All the 2.0 series releases of Screen Saver Construction Set are free downloadable upgrades for registered users of the Screen Saver Construction Set software.

We invite you to add your e-mail address to the e-mail update list at our web page, http://www.mindworkshop.com/cgi-bin/maillist - you'll be notified by e-mail wherever we update Screen Saver Construction Set.




Contacting Alchemy Mindworks


The best way to get in touch with us is by e-mail to alchemy@mindworkshop.com. Except in conditions of flood, famine or mental-health days, our e-mail is answered within a few hours.

Technical support and customer service are available at 1-905-936-9501, 10:00am to 5:00pm EST most business days. If you encounter our answering machine - it does happen occasionally - please try back later. One of the considerations in offering very low cost software is that we are unable to return calls for technical support.

Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page for our new numbers.

If you are an unregistered user of this software, we will at our discretion assist you to the extent required for you to ascertain whether this software is suitable for your application.

Callers who are rude, abusive or pig-headed with our technical support staff will wind up as demon-chow.

Please do not call our 800 number for technical support. The people who answer our sales line can put a credit card machine into warp drive, but they know less about software than most cats know about quantum mechanics. They are unable to transfer your call.

You can contact us by snail-mail at:

Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
P.O. Box 500
Beeton, Ontario
L0G 1A0
CANADA

Our FAX number is 1-905-936-9502.

Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page for our new numbers. This will not affect our toll-free ordering numbers.

We are unable to provide technical support by FAX or snail-mail.

The fabled Alchemy Mindworks BBS - poor, barnacle-encrusted antique that it was - has finally bit the dust. Alchemy Mindworks no longer maintains a BBS.

We ask that in contacting us you appreciate that we are a small company with limited resources. If you have not registered this software we will not tell you to go to hell, but please don't ask us for half an hour of free technical support. We have not built the price of technical support into the cost of Screen Saver Construction Set, as few users require it. We believe very strongly in not making everyone pay for something that only a small group needs. If our various governments felt the same way, our various economies wouldn't be in the midst of melting down.

This document and all the other documentation included with Screen Saver Construction Set is copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Alchemy Mindworks Inc. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part or transmitted in any form save as a component part of the Screen Saver Construction Set software without the explicit written permission of the copyright holder. Unauthorized use of this document or any portion thereof may result in severe criminal and civil penalties. Alchemy Mindworks Inc. accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or expense caused by your use of the information in this document, however it occurs.