Terms & Conditions
These terms govern access to and use of the compute rental platform, render farm, engineering and advertising services, and investment programme operated by Sundancæ Research Inc. ("Sundancæ", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Services, you agree to these terms.
1. The Services
Sundancæ provides on-demand, reserved and bare metal GPU compute, a managed render farm, flat-retainer engineering and advertising services, and, separately, an investment programme described on our Investments page. Access to compute and render capacity is billed per second unless a reserved or bare metal term states otherwise.
2. Accounts and eligibility
You must provide accurate account and billing information and keep it current. You're responsible for activity on your account, including usage that accrues charges, whether or not you authorised it, unless it results from our failure to secure the platform.
3. Acceptable use
You agree not to use the Services to:
- Violate any applicable law, or the rights of any third party;
- Mine cryptocurrency in a way that breaches a specific plan's stated terms;
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to another customer's instance, data or account;
- Run workloads intended to disrupt, degrade or probe the security of our infrastructure or that of any third party;
- Resell raw compute capacity without a separate written agreement with us.
We may suspend an instance or account that we reasonably believe breaches this section, and will tell you why as soon as it's practical to do so.
4. Billing
On-demand usage is billed per second in arrears, in USD, with a 60-second minimum per session. Reserved and bare metal terms are billed at the start of each term, at the discount published on the Rentals page for that term length. Engineering and advertising retainers are billed monthly in advance, with a three-month minimum term, cancellable on 30 days' written notice after that. Compute consumed as part of a retainer is billed separately at the public rental rate.
5. Data and intellectual property
You retain all rights to data, models and content you run on or store with the Services. For engineering engagements, source code, infrastructure-as-code and documentation produced for you become yours on delivery, as set out in the applicable statement of work. We retain rights to our own platform, scheduler, tooling and pre-existing intellectual property used to deliver any engagement.
6. Render farm submissions
You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to any scene files, assets and plugins you submit to the render farm, and that your use of any third-party renderer or plugin complies with that vendor's own licensing terms.
7. Service availability
We aim for high availability across both sites but don't guarantee uninterrupted service. Planned maintenance affecting reserved or bare metal capacity will be communicated in advance where reasonably possible.
8. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, Sundancæ's aggregate liability arising out of the Services is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months preceding the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost data, except where that limitation isn't permitted by law.
9. Termination
You may stop using on-demand Services at any time. Reserved terms, bare metal terms and retainers follow the notice periods described in Section 4. We may terminate access for material breach of these terms that isn't cured within a reasonable period after notice.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the contracting entity's jurisdiction, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer or data protection law that applies in your jurisdiction.
11. Changes
We may update these terms from time to time. We'll update the date at the top of this page and, for material changes, notify active account holders by email before the change takes effect.
Contact
Questions about these terms can go to legal@sundancae.com.