The Service is in early access. Today it provides network registration, a hosted name, a signed endpoint record, and a public directory of networks and published resources. Managed capacity (Cloud Agents) is not yet provisioned, nothing on the site takes payment, and no account carries a Credit balance.

We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the Service, including features described on this site as planned, and we may do so without notice while the Service is in early access. Prices and rates shown on the product page are indicative until billing opens; nothing becomes payable without your express action at that time.

You need an account for anything that acts as you. Accounts are created with a phone number and a one-time code; we may add other sign-in methods. You are responsible for the device and number that receive those codes, and for everything done with your account.

You must be at least 16 years old, must give accurate contact details, and must not share an account with someone whose actions you are not prepared to answer for. One person or organisation may hold more than one account.

Your network's identity is a keypair your own installation generates. We hold only the public half. We therefore cannot sign on your behalf, cannot recover a lost private key, and cannot restore a network whose key you no longer have. That is a property of the design, not a support limitation — and it is the same property that stops anyone who compromises us from impersonating you.

A hosted name (you@batoncloud.org) is a label we resolve for you, not property you own. We may reclaim a name that is unused, that impersonates someone, that was registered to resell, or that we are required to reclaim. If you use your own domain instead, we are not involved in your naming at all.

Anything you publish to the public directory — a network listing, a workspace template, a skill, a summary — is public. You keep ownership of it. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and serve it for as long as you keep it published, and to serve the technical records (name, fingerprint, endpoint) that make it findable.

You must have the right to publish what you publish, and you must honour the licence you attach to it. We do not review listings before they appear; we may remove anything that breaks these terms, and we may do so without notice where there is a risk to others.

You may not use the Service to:

• break the law, or help someone else break it;
• publish malware, credential stealers, or content designed to deceive the person who installs it;
• impersonate another network, person or organisation, including by registering a name chosen for that purpose;
• attack, overload or probe the Service or anyone reachable through it, beyond what you are authorised to test;
• scrape the directory in a way that degrades it for others, or republish it as your own registry;
• use the Service to send unsolicited bulk messages, or to relay traffic you would not send under your own name.

Agents act for you. Work done by an agent you run is your use of the Service, and these rules apply to it exactly as they apply to you.

Nothing is charged today. When billing opens, consumption is metered in Credits, which are prepaid service credits: credit toward running agents on BatonCloud. Credits are not transferable, not tradable, not exchangeable for cash, and are not a security, token or currency. Final rates will be published before billing starts, and you will be told before any charge is made.

Taxes are yours where they apply. Refund and expiry terms will be stated with the commercial terms published at that time; these early-access terms create no payment obligation.

There is no SLA. The Service is provided during early access without any commitment to uptime, durability, retention or support response time. We run it carefully and we publish what we do about security, but you should not place work on it that cannot tolerate it being unavailable.

This is the one place where the open-source model is doing real work for you: Baton runs the same way on your own hardware, every node model, API, CLI verb and snapshot format is identical, and moving off us is a tested path. Nothing you need lives behind this Service.

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from the console or by writing to us. Deleting an account unpublishes your directory listings and removes your hosted name; networks that already hold your public key keep working, because they never needed us.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms, that is being used to harm others, or where we are required to. Where it is safe and lawful to do so, we will say why and give you a chance to export what is yours.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the directory is accurate or complete — it relays what networks publish, and a checksum is not a signature.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost data or lost agent work. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the three months before the claim, or CAD 100. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including under applicable Canadian consumer protection legislation.

We may change these terms. When we change something substantive we will move the effective date above and, for a material change affecting account holders, tell you through the console or the contact you gave us. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction — except that consumers keep whatever rights the law of their own residence gives them.

GentosAI Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada · service@batoncloud.ai