Terms of Service.
These Terms of Service govern your use of usebench.dev. By creating an account, accessing a workbench, or using the site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
1. The service
usebench.dev provides persistent, remote Debian development environments with SSH access and preconfigured coding tools. A workbench is a shared-kernel Linux container, not a hardware-isolated virtual machine. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features, limits, images, or infrastructure.
As of the effective date, there is no self-service paid subscription or automatic recurring billing. Free access and operator-entitled paid or dedicated access may be offered under separate plan information. If self-service subscriptions are introduced, the checkout flow and the subscription terms below will apply.
2. Accounts
You must provide accurate information, protect your sign-in methods, and promptly tell us about unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity under your account and for complying with the terms of any provider or integration you connect to the service.
You may not create or use accounts to evade an eligibility limit, a suspension, or a force closure. We may require additional verification before granting or restoring access.
3. Acceptable use
You may use a workbench only for lawful development and related personal or business activities. You must not:
- use the service to violate law, court orders, sanctions, or another person’s rights;
- probe, attack, disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to systems, networks, or accounts;
- send spam, phishing, malware, ransomware, abusive automation, or unsolicited bulk traffic;
- mine cryptocurrency, operate persistent high-impact workloads, or evade resource limits;
- store or distribute content that is unlawful, fraudulent, exploitative, or infringing;
- resell, sublicense, share, or transfer access without our written permission; or
- use credentials, tokens, repositories, or third-party services without authorization.
We may investigate suspected abuse using reasonable operational and security signals. Do not place information in a workbench that you cannot risk losing or that requires a regulated hosting environment unless we have expressly agreed to those requirements in writing.
4. Your content and integrations
You retain your rights in code, files, repositories, and other content you place in a workbench. You grant us only the limited license needed to host, transmit, back up when explicitly provided, secure, and operate that content for you. You are responsible for your content, licenses, credentials, and actions taken by agents or programs running in your workbench.
Third-party agents, model providers, source-control services, and cloud integrations have their own terms and policies. We do not control them and are not responsible for their availability, decisions, charges, or handling of your data.
5. Availability and data
The service is provided without a backup, disaster-recovery, or availability guarantee. Provisioning, maintenance, host failure, security response, or a lifecycle operation may make a workbench unavailable or permanently remove its data. Keep independent copies of anything important before rebuilding, stopping, or destroying a workbench.
We use reasonable safeguards for the service, but no internet service is completely secure. Never place private keys, passwords, or other secrets in chat, tickets, repositories, or files that do not need them.
6. Suspension, termination, and force closure
We may suspend or terminate an account, restrict access, stop a workbench, remove content, or end a placement when we reasonably believe that you violated these Terms, created a security or legal risk, abused resources, used fraudulent credentials, failed to pay an amount due, or exposed us or another person to harm.
A force closure may happen immediately and without advance notice when delay could increase the risk. It may stop and permanently delete the workbench, release its storage and network resources, and prevent replacement access. We will provide notice when reasonably practical, but notice is not required for urgent security, legal, or abuse responses. Except where the law requires otherwise, a force closure for abuse does not create a refund, credit, or data-recovery obligation.
You may stop using the service at any time. Account deletion and workbench destruction are permanent; export anything you need first. Sections that should reasonably survive termination continue to apply.
7. Future subscriptions
If we offer a paid subscription, the price, billing interval, renewal date, taxes, and cancellation method will be shown before purchase. Unless the checkout terms say otherwise, a cancellation prevents the next renewal and does not automatically refund the current period.
We may cancel a subscription immediately for abuse, a material violation of these Terms, fraud, nonpayment, or a security or legal risk. We may also suspend the associated workbench and permanently remove its data under Section 6. Except where required by law or the applicable checkout terms, an abuse-related cancellation is not eligible for a refund or credit for unused time.
8. Intellectual property
The site, service software, branding, documentation, and content supplied by us belong to us or our licensors. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable right to use them only as needed to use the service. You may send feedback, and we may use it without restriction or payment.
9. Disclaimers
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” WE DISCLAIM WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, SECURITY, ACCURACY, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT A WORKBENCH WILL BE AVAILABLE, SAFE FROM ALL ATTACKS, OR SUITABLE FOR A PARTICULAR WORKLOAD.
10. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, usebench.dev and its providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business interruption. Our total liability arising from the service will not exceed the greater of the amounts you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the event or one hundred U.S. dollars. This section does not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
11. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify usebench.dev and its providers from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from your content, your use of the service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights or law.
12. Changes
We may update these Terms by posting a revised version with a new effective date. For material changes, we will provide reasonable notice through the service or to the contact information associated with your account. Continuing to use the service after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms.
13. Governing law and venue
New York law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. You and usebench.dev consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in New York County, New York, for disputes that are not otherwise required by law to be brought elsewhere.
14. General terms
These Terms are the agreement between you and usebench.dev about the service and replace earlier terms on the same subject. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, sale, or transfer of the service.
15. Contact
Authenticated users can use the Contact link in the footer for questions about these Terms.