Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and 8bit Company, LLC ("8bit," "we," "us," or "our"). They apply to the My 8bit account, Workspace Wizard, workspace-generation and revision tools, publishing tools, hosted websites, deployment credentials, related APIs, and associated support features (collectively, the "Service").

Separate written agreements or product-specific licenses govern consulting services and separately licensed products such as 8bit Groundwork or 8bit Career. If a signed agreement expressly conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement controls only for its stated subject matter.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a contract. If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organization. The Service is not directed to children under 13.

You must provide accurate account and billing information, keep credentials and deployment tokens confidential, use reasonable security, and promptly notify us of suspected compromise. You may provide account access only to named individuals acting on behalf of you or your organization. You remain responsible for their activity and may not share credentials or account access to circumvent plan limits. You may not otherwise sell, rent, transfer, or share account access. We may require identity, authority, ownership, or payment verification.

Parental-control and filtering products are commercially available and may help limit access to material harmful to minors. Current options include controls offered by device and operating-system providers such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Workspace Wizard creates a downloadable desktop-workspace build prompt from information and instructions you provide. You supply and choose any AI service used to act on that prompt or work with the resulting workspace. 8bit does not provide, license, or guarantee an AI model or its outputs. Hosted websites are static releases published from supported workspace site files. The Service does not include an internet connection, domain registration, email hosting, database, server-side application runtime, payment processing for your visitors, compliance program, or backup service unless we expressly say otherwise in writing.

You are responsible for reviewing every workspace and website before using or publishing it. Generated materials may be incomplete, inaccurate, insecure, or unsuitable for your circumstances. Publishing is an external action that you must intentionally initiate; it is never a substitute for your own legal, security, accessibility, content, or quality review.

The applicable numerical plan allowances are the limits disclosed when you purchase, in your account, or in an order form. The disclosed limits govern for the current subscription term. Changes shown on published pricing pages apply prospectively at renewal.

Workspace-creation and publish allowances renew monthly even on annual plans. A workspace generation consumes an allowance when successfully created. A deployment that results in a live published URL consumes a publish allowance. Shared storage includes retained and reserved release data across your account, and suspended or retained sites may continue to count until deleted. We determine usage using our systems and records.

Uploads must contain a root index.html, use supported static file types, contain no symbolic links or special files, use paths no longer than 240 characters and no deeper than 20 levels, and stay within security controls such as compression-ratio limits. We may reject encrypted, hidden, executable, credential, configuration, or otherwise unsafe files even if a file extension appears supported.

A missing numerical traffic quota does not promise unlimited bandwidth, requests, compute, cache use, or availability. We may rate-limit, throttle, cache, block, suspend, or require a different arrangement when traffic or resource use creates security risk, unreasonable load, degraded service, or disproportionate cost. We may also apply reasonable technical and operational limits not listed in your disclosed plan limits.

The plan limits disclosed when you purchase, in your account, or in an order form govern for that subscription term. Changes to limits shown on a published pricing page apply prospectively at renewal and do not modify an active subscription term. We may change limits prospectively for operational, security, legal, or business reasons. You may not evade limits by creating multiple accounts, automating account creation, or misrepresenting ownership or use.

You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not harm 8bit, the Service, our providers, other customers, or any person. You may not use, help others use, or allow the Service to be used for:

• Illegal activity or content; content that violates court orders; or content that infringes intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights.
• Child sexual abuse material, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, nonconsensual intimate imagery, or content that facilitates abuse or exploitation of any person.
• Threats, targeted harassment, stalking, doxxing, incitement of violence, or content intended to intimidate or endanger a person or protected group.
• Phishing, impersonation, fraud, deceptive affiliation claims, credential theft, malware, spyware, ransomware, cryptomining, botnets, vulnerability exploitation, or instructions primarily intended to compromise systems or evade security controls.
• Unsolicited bulk messaging, abusive redirects, cloaking, fabricated engagement, search manipulation, or any site whose primary purpose is spam or deceptive traffic acquisition.
• Unauthorized access, probing, scanning, load testing, scraping, interference, reverse engineering of security controls, or attempts to bypass quotas, access controls, suspension, or account restrictions.
• Unlawful sale or promotion of regulated goods or services, illegal gambling, unlawful financial activity, or content that would require 8bit to hold a license, registration, certification, or regulatory approval it does not hold.
• Collection, publication, or storage of passwords, authentication secrets, payment-card data, Social Security numbers, health records, financial-account credentials, export-controlled data, or similarly sensitive or regulated information unless 8bit has expressly agreed in writing to support that use.
• Operating a customer website directed to children under 13, or knowingly collecting personal information through a customer website from children under 13, without 8bit's prior written approval and all legally required notices, consent, and safeguards.
• Use as an emergency, life-safety, medical, legal, financial, employment, critical-infrastructure, or other high-risk decision system where an error, delay, outage, or inaccurate output could cause serious harm.
• Traffic, storage, publishing patterns, automation, or other activity that creates unreasonable load, degrades the Service, imposes disproportionate cost, or interferes with other customers, whether or not a numerical traffic allowance is displayed.

You must maintain all notices, consents, licenses, disclosures, age gates, privacy practices, and security measures required for your website and its audience. If your site links to or uses forms, analytics, advertising, ecommerce, embeds, scripts, APIs, or other third-party tools, you are responsible for their legality, configuration, and disclosures.

8bit has no obligation to host, publish, continue serving, or preserve any website or content. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we may review, scan, refuse, block, limit, unpublish, redirect, quarantine, suspend, disable access to, or delete any website, deployment, file, link, slug, token, content, feature, or account at any time, with or without prior notice, for any lawful reason or for no stated reason, in our sole discretion.

Reasons may include suspected Terms violations; legal requests; safety, security, fraud, abuse, reputation, or operational risk; excessive resource use; payment issues; third-party complaints; protecting people or systems; provider requirements; or discontinuing a feature or business relationship. We are not required to pre-screen or monitor content, explain or reverse a decision, or host competing, controversial, objectionable, or high-risk material. Hosting content does not mean we endorse it.

We may preserve evidence, cooperate with lawful process, and report suspected illegal activity or imminent harm to appropriate authorities or organizations. Nothing in these Terms requires us to take an action prohibited by law.

As between you and 8bit, you retain ownership of information, files, text, images, code, domains, and other material you submit, generate, or publish through the Service ("Your Content"). You grant 8bit and our service providers a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, store, cache, transmit, display, format, scan, modify solely for technical delivery, and otherwise process Your Content as needed to operate, secure, support, improve, and enforce the Service and comply with law. This license lasts while needed for those purposes, including reasonable backup, security, and legal-retention periods. Improvement use means analyzing Your Content and how it moves through the Service to diagnose failures, refine templates, prompts, and generation logic, and raise output quality. We do not use Your Content to train or fine-tune AI models, we do not send it to a third-party AI provider for that purpose, and we do not use it for advertising or to build a competing product. We may retain aggregated or deidentified insights that do not identify you or reveal the substance of Your Content.

You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights, permissions, and lawful bases needed for Your Content and our permitted processing; that Your Content and its use do not violate law or third-party rights; and that you will pay any royalties, fees, or other amounts owed. You are solely responsible for Your Content and any claim, transaction, representation, offer, or interaction arising from your website.

You must not publish secrets or material you do not intend the selected audience to receive. A "private" hosted site uses access controls but is not a guarantee of secrecy, confidentiality, legal privilege, or immunity from copying, screenshots, forwarding, misconfiguration, compromised accounts, or lawful access. Viewer invitations may be sent to the wrong person or shared by recipients.

You are responsible for choosing visibility, managing viewers and deployment tokens, revoking access, protecting local workspace files, keeping independent backups, and exporting anything you need. The Service is not your system of record, archive, disaster-recovery system, or sole copy. No transmission or storage system is completely secure, and we do not guarantee that unauthorized access, loss, or corruption will never occur.

Our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.

Paid plans are recurring subscriptions billed monthly or annually as selected. Unless you cancel before renewal, your subscription automatically renews for the same billing interval and you authorize our payment provider to charge the then-current price plus applicable taxes. We will make legally required renewal and price-change disclosures.

You may cancel online through the billing portal in your account. Cancellation stops future renewals; paid access ordinarily continues through the current paid period. Fees are nonrefundable and we do not provide prorated credits for cancellation, partial periods, unused allowances, removed content, or account suspension, except where required by law or expressly promised in writing.

You authorize us and our payment provider to use updated payment credentials supplied by your financial institution. You must keep payment information current. Failed renewals currently receive a seven-day payment grace period, but we may restrict features during that period and may suspend immediately for fraud, chargebacks, abuse, or security risk.

Plan changes may take effect immediately or at the next renewal as shown during the change. Before a downgrade, you must reduce usage to the new limits. If retained sites or storage exceed the new plan, we may block the change or suspend sites and new activity until usage fits.

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access immediately, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, created risk or potential legal exposure, failed to pay, caused a chargeback, abandoned the account, or if we discontinue the Service or our relationship with you. We may also terminate for convenience to the maximum extent permitted by law.

When paid hosting access ends, hosted sites are suspended and currently retained for 30 days before permanent deletion. Deletion may occur sooner for a Terms violation, security event, legal requirement, your request, or when continued retention creates risk. Recovery is not guaranteed during any retention period. Workspace downloads may remain available after cancellation, but we do not promise indefinite storage or access; export and back up your files.

Provisions that by their nature should survive termination do survive, including ownership, content licenses needed for wind-down or legal compliance, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, dispute terms, and general provisions.

The Service may depend on or link to payment processors, infrastructure providers, AI tools, domain providers, browsers, analytics, repositories, or other third parties. Their services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices. 8bit does not control and is not responsible for their availability, security, pricing, outputs, actions, or content. Your use of third-party services is at your own risk.

The Service, software, APIs, designs, documentation, templates, prompts, rules, branding, and other 8bit materials are owned by 8bit or its licensors and protected by law. Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, 8bit grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the Service for its intended purpose. No other rights are granted.

You may not copy, sell, sublicense, redistribute, frame, mirror, or create a competing service from 8bit materials; remove proprietary notices; or reverse engineer the Service except where applicable law prohibits that restriction. If you provide feedback, you grant 8bit a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation.

If you believe a hosted site infringes your copyright, email a written notice to info@8bitcompany.com identifying the copyrighted work, the exact hosted URL or material, your contact information, a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act, and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove material and terminate repeat infringers. False notices may create liability.

We do not warrant that the Service or any workspace, output, deployment, URL, access control, or hosted site will be accurate, complete, secure, uninterrupted, error-free, compatible, preserved, or free from harmful components; that defects will be corrected; that content will not be copied; or that the Service will meet your requirements or produce any business, employment, financial, legal, technical, search-ranking, traffic, or other result. No service-level agreement or uptime commitment applies unless signed by 8bit.

These exclusions and limits are an essential basis of the agreement and apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so they apply only to the extent permitted by law. Nothing limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless 8bit and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, and providers from claims, demands, investigations, proceedings, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of or relating to Your Content; your websites, products, services, visitors, or transactions; your use or misuse of the Service; your violation of these Terms or law; your infringement of rights; or a dispute between you and any third party.

We may control the defense and settlement of a covered claim with counsel of our choice. You will cooperate and may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault by or imposes an obligation on 8bit without our written consent.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service. We may update these Terms by posting a revised version and changing the effective date. If a change is material, we will provide notice as required by law. For free users and people who begin using the Service after a revision, changes apply prospectively when posted or on the stated date. For an active paid subscriber, a material change takes effect at the start of the subscriber's next renewal term. The subscriber may cancel before that renewal if they do not agree. Continuing to use the Service after an applicable effective date means you accept the revised Terms.

Before filing a claim, you and 8bit agree to send written notice describing the dispute and requested resolution and to try in good faith for 30 days to resolve it informally. Notices to 8bit must be sent to info@8bitcompany.com. This requirement does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or meeting a legal deadline.

California law governs these Terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. To the maximum extent permitted by law, venue lies in the state and federal courts located in Monterey County, California, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. Nothing in these Terms waives a consumer's non-waivable right to bring a claim in the courts of the consumer's home jurisdiction. Mandatory consumer protections of that jurisdiction remain applicable to the extent they cannot lawfully be waived.

Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, including internet or utility failures, provider outages, cyberattacks, labor disputes, disasters, epidemics, war, civil unrest, or government action. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, sale, or transfer of the Service or business.

These Terms and incorporated written terms are the entire agreement about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the rest remains effective. A waiver must be written and applies only to that instance. Headings are for convenience. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, fiduciary, or franchise relationship is created. You are responsible for complying with export controls, sanctions, and all laws applicable to your use.

Questions or legal notices about these Terms may be sent to info@8bitcompany.com. Include your account email and enough detail for us to identify the issue. Payment cancellation should be completed through the billing portal in your account.

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