Terms of Service

You must be able to enter this agreement. If you are under 18, you may use Composery Cloud only with a parent or legal guardian's involvement and permission; that adult must agree to the paid subscription. Keep account credentials secure and provide accurate information. You are responsible for activity under your account and must promptly report suspected unauthorised access.

Composery Cloud provides a hosted cloud computer and browser-based development environment. You retain ownership of content you place in a box. You give Composery the limited permission needed to host, transmit, back up, secure, and otherwise operate that content for you. You are responsible for your content, workloads, backups beyond the included snapshot schedule, and compliance with laws that apply to your use.

Polar is the merchant of record and authorised reseller. You buy the subscription from Polar and license the service from Composery under these Terms. Polar checkout shows the price, taxes, billing interval, renewal terms, and its buyer terms before payment. Each box renews until cancelled.

A box stays on the plan it was bought on for its lifetime; plans cannot be switched after purchase. Plans differ in the machine behind the box and in how many snapshots it keeps, and those figures are the ones shown on the pricing page at the time of sale.

Normal cancellation through Polar stops renewal and keeps the box available until the end of the period already paid for. It does not automatically refund that period. An immediate revocation stops access now and is also separate from any refund. Refund and cancellation requests are handled through Polar, subject to Polar's buyer terms, applicable law, and protections against fraud, abuse, and misuse.

If Composery cannot complete initial delivery of a paid box, we revoke the subscription and ask Polar to refund the full remaining refundable amount of that order. A full refund ends access to the corresponding box; a partial refund alone does not. Nothing here limits a mandatory consumer right or remedy.

Each plan includes a fixed disk and a monthly outbound traffic allowance. Both figures are on the pricing page at the time of sale and on the box's own page while it runs. Traffic arriving at a box is not counted, and the outbound counter starts again at the beginning of the box's billing month.

Composery emails you at 80% and again at 95% of either allowance, at the address on your account. Passing an allowance does not by itself switch a box off. Where use stays materially above what the plan includes, we will contact you and agree a larger allowance, a charge for the excess, or a cut in use before taking any other step, and we will not charge for excess we did not tell you about first.

Separately from these allowances, a box sending at a high rate for a sustained period may be suspended automatically under Acceptable use below. That protects the service and other customers, and it is measured on rate rather than on a monthly total.

Do not use the service to break the law or others' rights; distribute malware; gain unauthorised access; facilitate abuse, fraud, spam, or harassment; mine cryptocurrency; attack or materially disrupt networks; or consume resources in a way that threatens the service or others. Do not resell access without written permission. We may investigate, rate-limit, suspend, or remove affected boxes when reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, or service integrity, and will give reasons where law requires.

We aim to provide a reliable service but do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. Features may change. Where we modify the service in a way that negatively affects your access to or use of it by more than a minor degree, or discontinue it, we will email you reasonably in advance with what is changing, when it takes effect, and your right to end the agreement free of charge within 30 days of that email or of the change itself, whichever is later. That right does not arise where we let you keep the service unmodified at no extra cost.

We may update these terms prospectively. We will email you about a material change rather than rely on you noticing this page, and no update retroactively rewrites a right that has already accrued.

Nothing in these terms excludes rights or liability that cannot legally be excluded, including mandatory consumer rights, fraud, or liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Otherwise, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided as available; implied warranties are excluded, and Composery is not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Composery's aggregate liability arising from the paid service is limited to the fees you paid for it in the 12 months before the event, except where that limit is prohibited by law.

You may stop using the site at any time and can delete your account from the user menu. Account deletion immediately revokes subscriptions and does not itself refund unused time. It permanently removes box contents, servers, credentials, and snapshots. Any refund still required by applicable law or agreed through Polar remains unaffected. Minimized security, lifecycle, and billing records remain only for the periods and purposes described in the Privacy Policy. We may end access for a material or repeated breach, non-payment, legal requirement, or serious security risk. Terms which by nature survive termination, including payment, ownership, disclaimers, and liability terms, remain effective.

Irish law governs these terms and Irish courts have jurisdiction, without depriving a consumer of mandatory protections or courts available in their home country.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data.