SERVICE TERMS / VERSION 2026-11-06
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These terms are between Jordan Rule, operating as ShieldVPC (“ShieldVPC,” “we”) and the person or organization accepting them (“you”). Contact: legal@shieldvpc.com. You must be at least 18 and authorized to bind any organization you represent.
Current service: free control-plane preview. Registration, chat, offer discovery and proposals do not rent GPUs, collect payment or create financial obligations. Live rental execution and confidential GPU capacity are unavailable. A separate, explicit paid order is required before any future paid service.
1. Accounts and access
Use accurate account information, verify your email, protect your login and enable available multi-factor authentication. Do not share accounts or attempt to access another workspace. Google and email/password authentication are provided through Google Firebase Authentication; those providers' applicable terms also govern your use of their services. Account creation does not guarantee capacity, paid-service eligibility or a service-level agreement.
2. Intended resale service and future orders
ShieldVPC intends to procure capacity through Vast.ai and resell a managed service to customers. You do not receive our marketplace account or credentials. Availability depends on provider approval, commercial authorization and deployment controls. These terms do not represent that Vast.ai has authorized resale or that any particular offer has been approved.
Before a future paid rental, we must present an order stating the GPU configuration, region, provider/trust class, duration or termination rules, the ShieldVPC price and any taxes, storage, transfer or other charges, cancellation/refund terms, and applicable provider conditions. You must expressly accept that order. Marketplace discovery prices are estimates, not ShieldVPC quotes. We will not automatically convert this preview to paid service or charge for an unaccepted order.
3. Security boundaries and permitted data
Read the Security Architecture. Cloudflare protects selected access and control-plane boundaries; GPU workloads would run on third-party hosts outside Cloudflare. Private networking, containers, VMs, encryption at rest and host badges do not by themselves protect active data from a host operator. No confidential GPU service is offered without a separately verified attestation and key-release chain.
For this preview, do not submit secrets, credentials, personal datasets, regulated data, confidential customer material or workloads requiring host confidentiality. Use public or synthetic inputs only. Do not rely on agent output as security, financial, legal or operational authorization. A proposal is not an executed action.
4. Acceptable use
Use the service lawfully and only with rights to the data, models and software you use. Do not use it for unauthorized access, malware, fraud, credential theft, network abuse, unsolicited bulk messaging, prohibited surveillance, intellectual-property infringement, or circumvention of sanctions, export controls or provider restrictions. Do not interfere with other users or resell access to your ShieldVPC account without our written agreement. We may investigate abuse and suspend access when reasonably necessary to protect people, providers, the service or legal obligations.
5. Your content and agent processing
You retain your rights to your content. You grant us only the permissions reasonably necessary to operate the requested service, secure it and process your instructions. Agent messages and tool output may be processed and retained by the Shield assistant and its configured model service as described in the Privacy Notice. Do not include information you are not permitted to disclose to those services. AI output may be inaccurate; review it before use.
6. Availability, support and changes
The preview is provided on an “as available” basis without promised uptime, reserved capacity, backup, durability or response-time commitments. Do not use it for critical production operations. Contact support@shieldvpc.com for support. We may change or discontinue preview features and will endeavor to give reasonable notice of material changes where practicable. Material revisions to these terms will be versioned and require renewed acceptance before continued workspace use; they will not retroactively create charges.
7. Suspension, closure and data requests
You may stop using the preview at any time and request account deletion through Account & privacy. Deletion requests revoke workspace access and tool credentials, then undergo operator review for identity/agent-provider deletion and lawful retention. Assigned rentals, if introduced under a later paid order, must be terminated and reconciled before closure; closing an account is not a substitute for terminating a rental. We may retain limited records as described in the Privacy Notice and applicable law.
8. Warranties and responsibility
To the extent permitted by law, the preview is supplied without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted operation or non-infringement. You are responsible for evaluating suitability and keeping independent copies of material you need. We do not exclude statutory warranties or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
9. Liability
To the extent permitted by law, neither party is liable under these terms for indirect, consequential or special losses, or lost profits or business opportunities. ShieldVPC's total liability arising from the free preview is limited to US$100. These limitations do not limit liability for fraud, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or remedy that applicable law does not permit to be limited. Future paid-service liability must be addressed in the applicable order or written agreement.
10. General provisions and disputes
Contact legal@shieldvpc.com first to attempt a good-faith resolution. These terms do not impose arbitration or waive mandatory consumer rights. Applicable law and courts with lawful jurisdiction determine disputes unless a later signed business agreement lawfully specifies otherwise. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent lawful. These terms, incorporated security/data notices and any expressly accepted order form the relevant agreement; an agent cannot amend it or make an order on your behalf merely by describing one.
Last updated November 6, 2026. These initial terms should receive jurisdiction-specific legal review before paid resale or regulated-data processing.