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Terms of use

Last updated: 28 July 2026

These terms govern the use of the DNIe for Mac application for macOS and of the macdnie.com website. By installing or using the app you accept them. They are written to be read — if anything is unclear, write to us.

1.Who is behind this

DNIe for Mac is a product of NEXO APEX S.L. ("nexoapex"), the software studio that publishes the app and this site. More about us on the about page.

Company: NEXO APEX S.L.
Spanish tax ID (NIF): B55467146
Registered address: Edificio Camí Reial, c/ Camí Reial 13-17, 3a planta, 43700 El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain
Email: macdnie@nexoapex.com
Phone: +34 659 696 741

2.Unofficial product

DNIe for Mac is a third-party, unofficial application. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the Dirección General de la Policía, the Ministry of the Interior or the Government of Spain. DNIe for Mac does not issue certificates and does not provide trust services: it is a tool with which you use, on your Mac, the DNIe and the certificates the Spanish administration has already issued to you.

3.What DNIe for Mac is and what you need

DNIe for Mac lets you read the data and photograph on your DNIe, identify yourself with it on online services, and sign documents electronically (PAdES, CAdES, XAdES). To use it you need a Mac running macOS 13 or later, a compatible contact card reader, a working DNIe and its PIN. Operation depends on elements outside nexoapex's control — the state of your card and its certificates, government services, browsers and macOS itself — which may change without notice.

4.License and purchases

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app on the devices tied to your Apple account, under these terms and under Apple's standard licensed application EULA that governs App Store apps.
Using the app is free and does not expire for reading the DNIe, signing in PAdES, CAdES and XAdES, and validating signed documents. There is no account to create and no trial period counting down on those features.
There is a single paid feature, DNIe Pro, which adds signing in with the DNIe from Safari, Chrome and Edge. It comes in two plans, both via native Apple In-App Purchase: the annual subscription (€9.99/year), which renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the period from your App Store settings, and the lifetime license (€149.99, one-time), which unlocks DNIe Pro permanently for your Apple account.
The annual subscription includes a 3-day free trial of DNIe Pro, likewise handled through your Apple account. When the trial period ends, one of the two plans above is required to keep using DNIe Pro; the free features remain available either way. The status of your purchases and subscriptions —the trial included— can be reviewed and changed at any time from your Apple account's App Store settings.
Payments, refunds and billing are handled by Apple under its Media Services terms: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes. "Restore Purchases" is available in the app.
You may not resell the license, circumvent the app's unlock, or use the app to provide services the law reserves for qualified trust service providers.

5.Your responsibility: the signature is yours

An electronic signature made with your DNIe certificates binds you legally, just like your handwritten signature. Therefore:

Read every document before signing it. DNIe for Mac performs the signature you order; deciding what you sign is up to you.
Guard your card and your PIN. Do not share them; you are responsible for how they are used.
Check the recipient's requirements. Some bodies demand specific signature formats or profiles; make sure the one you choose is the one they ask for.

6.No warranty and limitation of liability

DNIe for Mac is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by law, nexoapex does not warrant that the app is error-free or that it will work uninterrupted with every combination of card, reader, browser or government service, and is not liable for indirect damages arising from its use — for instance, a filing not submitted on time. If you are a consumer, nothing above limits the rights that Spanish and European law grants you and that cannot be waived, including the statutory guarantees applicable to digital content and services.

7.Intellectual property

The application, this site, their design and their copy belong to nexoapex or its licensors. "DNIe" and the names of public bodies belong to their owners and are used here solely to describe the product's compatibility.

8.Use by AI systems (RSL licence)

You may crawl, index, quote and use the editorial content of macdnie.com — the guides, the glossary and the informational pages — including to train artificial-intelligence systems, free of charge and with no conditions attached. Where the use is indexing, search or generating answers from this content, we ask one thing: attribute the source, citing "DNIe for Mac (macdnie.com)" with a link to the originating page wherever the format allows. The two are separated deliberately: a citation is possible in an answer, not in a training run.

This permission does not cover the application itself, its code, its trade marks or the site's design, and it does not make us answerable for the accuracy of whatever a third party generates from this content. The same terms are published in machine-readable form under the RSL 1.0 standard at /license.xml, referenced from robots.txt and from every page's <head>.

9.Changes to these terms

We may update these terms — for example, when the app gains new features. The current version, with its date, will always be published here; changes do not apply retroactively.

10.Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of Spain. Any dispute will be submitted to the courts determined by law; if you act as a consumer, to the courts of your place of residence in Spain.

11.Contact

For any question about these terms: macdnie@nexoapex.com.