Skanda Inc.

Terms and Conditions

Last updated
Effective date
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skandarobotics.com and its subpages
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In force

1. Summary

This site is our public website and the place you manage your Skanda account and your subscription. You may read the public pages, quote them fairly and link to them. You may not copy them wholesale, scrape them at volume, misrepresent yourself as us, or attack them.

If you hold an account: keep your password to yourself, use the service lawfully, and pay for the plan you chose. If you stop paying, the plan stops. If you break these terms badly enough, we can suspend or close the account.

This summary is a convenience and has no legal effect. The sections below govern.

2. Acceptance of these terms

These Terms and Conditions are a binding agreement between you and Skanda Inc. By accessing or using the Site you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by them, and by the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

If you do not agree, do not use the Site. That is the only remedy required of you, and closing the page is sufficient.

If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" refers to both you and it.

3. Definitions

"Site"
The website published at skandarobotics.com, including every page, subdomain, file and asset served from it, and the account and billing pages within it.
"Content"
All material made available through the Site: text, layout, design, code, graphics, 3D models, animations, images, logos, names and the arrangement of any of them.
"Account"
The registered account you create through the Site, identified by your email address, and used both here and in the App.
"App"
Our desktop application, which you may install on your own computer and which signs in with your Account. Its own licence terms ship with it; these Terms govern the Account, the Site and the Subscription that the App relies on.
"Subscription"
A paid plan you buy through the Site, billed monthly in advance through Stripe, as described in section 7.
"we", "us", "our"
Skanda Inc., a Delaware corporation of 141 Highway 41, Suite B, Ringgold, GA 30736, United States.
"you", "your"
Any person or organisation accessing the Site, whether or not any account or contractual relationship exists.
"Terms"
This document, as amended from time to time under section 14.

4. Eligibility

The Site is a corporate information page intended for a general professional audience. It is not directed at children and contains nothing suitable only for adults.

To agree to these Terms you must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract in your jurisdiction. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may read the Site but you may not accept these Terms except through a parent or legal guardian who accepts them on your behalf.

To hold an Account you must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher. This is a stricter requirement than merely reading the Site, and it exists because an Account can incur a charge. We may close an Account we reasonably believe belongs to someone below that age, and we will refund any unused portion of a Subscription if we do.

One person, one Account. You may not create an Account on behalf of someone else without their authority, create multiple Accounts to evade a limit or a suspension, or transfer your Account to anyone else.

You may not use the Site if you are a person or entity subject to sanctions that would make doing so unlawful, or if you are barred from receiving services under the law applicable to you or to us.

5. The service

The Site does three things. It publishes information about us. It lets you create and manage an Account. It lets you buy, change and cancel a Subscription, which is what the App draws on when you are signed in.

For the avoidance of doubt:

We do not undertake that the Site or the App will be available uninterrupted or error-free. Access may be suspended for maintenance, for a fault at a supplier, or for reasons outside our control. We aim to give notice of planned maintenance where we reasonably can.

6. Your account

6.1 Registration

You register with an email address and a password, or by signing in with Google or GitHub. If you register with an email address and password we send a six-digit code to that address and the Account does not work until you enter it — this proves the address is yours and is not optional.

You must give a real email address you control, and keep it current. Notices we are required to give you go to that address, and an Account whose address no longer works is an Account we cannot reach.

6.2 Your credentials are your responsibility

You are responsible for keeping your password and any one-time code confidential, and for everything done through your Account. We hash passwords and never see them, so we cannot recover one for you and will never ask you for one — anyone who does is not us.

Subject to section 11 and to any right you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded, we are not liable for loss arising from someone else using your Account with credentials you failed to keep confidential.

6.3 Your data

What we hold about you, why, and for how long, is set out in the Privacy Policy — see in particular section 4.5 of it. You keep every right you have in your own designs, files and work product; nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of them to us, and section 8.3 is about suggestions you send us, not about your work.

6.4 Closing your account

You may close your Account at any time by writing to support@skandarobotics.com from its address. Closing it cancels any Subscription — see section 7.4 for what happens to the period you have already paid for, and section 7.5 for refunds.

7. Plans, billing and cancellation

7.1 The plans

Every Account starts on the free plan. Two paid plans are available. Each plan sets a monthly allowance of processing and a maximum request rate:

Free
No charge. Up to US$5 of processing per month, at up to 20 requests per minute.
Pro
US$50 per month. Up to US$50 of processing per month, at up to 60 requests per minute.
Team
US$200 per month. Up to US$200 of processing per month, at up to 120 requests per minute.

"Processing" is metered in the units our upstream model providers charge us in, and shown to you in your Account and in the App as a running cost against the allowance. When the allowance is used up, requests are declined until the allowance resets; nothing is silently charged on top. The rate limit is a per-minute ceiling, not an allowance — exceeding it delays a request rather than costing you anything.

Allowances reset at the end of each billing period and do not roll over. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax we are required to add, which Stripe calculates and shows you before you pay.

7.2 Billing

Paid plans are billed monthly in advance through Stripe. You enter your card on Stripe's pages; we never receive it. The Subscription begins, and these Terms bind you to it, when Stripe confirms the first payment.

By subscribing you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method the plan price each month until you cancel. Stripe will email you a receipt for each payment. You are responsible for keeping a valid payment method on file.

7.3 Renewal

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each monthly period, at the price then in force, until cancelled. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before any price increase takes effect for you; if you do not want it, cancel before it does and the increase never applies.

If a payment fails, Stripe will retry it. If it keeps failing we may downgrade the Account to the free plan. We will email you before we do.

7.4 Cancelling

You may cancel at any time, from the billing portal we open for you from your Account page, or by writing to support@skandarobotics.com. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. You keep the paid plan until then, and the Account drops to the free plan afterwards rather than being closed.

No notice period, no cancellation fee, no phone call. Cancelling in the portal is one action and takes effect immediately as a cancellation, whatever the remaining period.

7.5 Refunds

Payments are for the month ahead. Because you can cancel at any time and keep the plan for the period you paid for, we do not refund a part-used month as a matter of course.

We will refund you where the law requires it, and we will refund you where we have got something wrong — a duplicate charge, a charge after a cancellation, or a period in which the service was materially unavailable through our fault. Ask at support@skandarobotics.com and we will deal with it. If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction that gives you a statutory cancellation or cooling-off right, that right applies and nothing here limits it.

7.6 Changing plan

You may move between plans at any time in the billing portal. An upgrade takes effect immediately and Stripe prorates the difference for the remainder of the period. A downgrade takes effect at the start of the next period, so you keep what you have paid for.

Changing plan issues fresh credentials to the App and restarts the allowance for the new plan. If the App reports a credential error immediately after a plan change, signing out and back in resolves it.

8. Intellectual property

8.1 Our Content

All Content on the Site is owned by us or licensed to us, and is protected by copyright, database rights, trade mark law and other intellectual property laws. This includes the original 3D geometry, the animation timeline, the layout, the typography, the source code and the written copy.

The name "Skanda", our logo and our wordmark are our trade marks, whether or not registered. Nothing in these Terms grants you any licence to use them.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access the Site and to display it in a standard web browser for your own information. Subject to section 9.2 and to any right you have under applicable law that cannot be excluded — such as fair use, fair dealing, quotation, or news reporting — you may not:

Ordinary linking to the Site is welcome, provided the link does not imply an endorsement, approval or relationship that does not exist, and does not present the Site in a false or damaging light. We may ask you to remove a link and you agree to comply promptly.

8.2 Third-party licences

The Site incorporates the three.js library, which is not ours. three.js is copyright its authors and is made available under the MIT Licence. We vendor it and serve it from our own origin rather than from a content delivery network.

The full licence text is retained and published on this site at vendor/three-LICENSE.txt, which satisfies the attribution requirement of the MIT Licence. That licence governs your rights in the library itself, and nothing in these Terms restricts any right you have under it. Your rights in three.js are rights in three.js — they do not extend to our own Content, which merely uses it.

If we later incorporate further third-party components, their licences will be retained alongside the code in the same way.

8.3 Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas or feedback about the Site or our work, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use it for any purpose without obligation, attribution or compensation. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential or wish to keep control of; if you need to, agree confidentiality with us in writing first.

9. Acceptable use

You must use the Site lawfully, and only in ways that do not restrict or inhibit anyone else's use of it.

9.1 Prohibited conduct

You must not:

We may report any breach of this section to law enforcement and will cooperate with them, including by disclosing identity information where lawfully required. Serious breaches, particularly attempts to compromise the Site, may be a criminal offence under computer misuse legislation in your jurisdiction and in ours.

9.2 Automated access, scraping and AI training

You must not use any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, headless browser or other automated means to access, monitor, index or copy the Site, except:

Regardless of what robots.txt permits, you must not: bulk-download the Site or any substantial part of it; make requests at a rate that degrades service for others; bypass any rate limit or access control; or aggregate the Content into a competing or derivative dataset or product.

For the avoidance of doubt, we do not consent to the Content being used to train, fine-tune or ground a machine learning or generative artificial intelligence system offered on a commercial basis. Any general permission in robots.txt is a courtesy to search indexing and is not consent for that purpose.

10. No warranty

The Site and all Content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, conditions, representations and terms, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, or non-infringement.

In particular, we do not warrant that:

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, and consumers have statutory rights that cannot be excluded or limited by contract. Nothing in this section affects those rights. Where an exclusion is not permitted, it applies only to the extent that it is.

11. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or any other liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under the law that governs these Terms. These carve-outs prevail over everything else in this section.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law:

You acknowledge that these limitations are a reasonable allocation of risk between us given the price of the service and the fact that you retain control of, and responsibility for, every engineering decision you take using it, and that we would not make the service available on these terms without them.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify us, and our officers, employees and agents, and hold us harmless against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with:

We will notify you promptly of any claim to which this section applies, and will not settle it without your consent, which you must not unreasonably withhold. You may assume the defence with counsel reasonably acceptable to us; we may participate at our own expense.

This section does not apply to a person acting as a consumer where consumer protection law prohibits it.

14. Changes

14.1 Changes to the Site

The Site is under active development and will change. We may modify, suspend, restrict or discontinue any part of it, permanently or temporarily, at any time and without notice or liability to you. We are under no obligation to keep any Content available or up to date.

14.2 Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms at any time. The revised version takes effect when it is published on this page, and the "last updated" date at the top will change. Where a change is material we will make that clear rather than relying on the date alone.

Your continued use of the Site after a revision is published constitutes acceptance of it. If you hold an Account we will email you at the address on it before a material revision takes effect, and if a revision materially reduces what your paid Subscription gives you, you may cancel under section 7.4 and we will refund the unused part of the period you have paid for. If you do not hold an Account we have no way to reach you individually; please check this page if the point matters to you. Previous versions are available on request.

15. Suspension and termination

15.1 Ending it yourself

These Terms apply while you use the Site. If you have no Account, you may end them at any time by ceasing to use it. If you have an Account, close it under section 6.4; cancelling a Subscription is covered by section 7.4.

15.2 Suspension

We may suspend your Account, or restrict what it can do, where we reasonably believe that:

Except where telling you first would defeat the purpose or is unlawful, we will tell you what we have done and why, at the address on the Account, and give you a route to put it right. Where a suspension turns out to have been our mistake, we restore the Account and credit the time it was down.

15.3 Termination by us

We may close an Account, on notice to the address on it, for a serious or repeated breach of these Terms, or where a suspension under section 15.2 has not been resolved within a reasonable period. If we close a paid Account other than for your breach, we refund the unused part of the period you have paid for.

We may also block access to the Site by IP address, network range, user agent or any other technical means where we reasonably believe it is being attacked or scraped, whether or not any Account is involved. We may take that step without notifying anyone first, and doing so does not waive any other right or remedy.

15.4 Survival

Termination does not affect any right or liability that accrued before it, including any payment already due. The following survive termination for as long as their subject matter requires: section 6.2 (your credentials), section 7 so far as it concerns amounts already payable, section 8 (intellectual property), section 10 (no warranty), section 11 (limitation of liability), section 12 (indemnification), section 16 (governing law), section 17 (dispute resolution) and this sentence.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation — including non-contractual disputes and claims — are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

The state and federal courts located in the State of Delaware, United States, have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim, subject to section 17.

If you are a consumer, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence, or of any right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country where the law gives you one.

We make no representation that the Content is appropriate or available for use in any particular location. If you access the Site from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law.

17. Dispute resolution

If a dispute arises, we would like to resolve it quickly and without cost to either of us. Before commencing formal proceedings, please contact us at support@skandarobotics.com with a written description of the dispute and the outcome you seek. We will make a good-faith effort to resolve it informally within 30 days of receipt. Either of us may escalate after that period.

The binding mechanism for unresolved disputes is litigation in the courts identified in section 16. We do not require arbitration, and neither of us waives any right to a jury trial or to participate in a class action. If you are a consumer, this section does not deprive you of any right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of habitual residence where the law gives you one.

Nothing in this section prevents either of us from seeking urgent injunctive or equitable relief from a competent court to protect intellectual property or to stop an ongoing security breach.

18. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable by a court or other competent authority, that provision is to be read down to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable while preserving its commercial intent. If it cannot be read down, it is severed and deemed deleted.

The deletion or modification of a provision does not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these Terms, which continue in full force.

19. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us relating to your use of the Site, and supersede all prior agreements, understandings, representations and communications on that subject, whether written or oral.

You acknowledge that in agreeing to these Terms you do not rely on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty that is not expressly set out in them. Nothing in this section limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

These Terms do not govern any separate written contract we may enter into with you for the supply of products or services; if there is a conflict between these Terms and such a contract, that contract prevails for its subject matter.

20. Miscellaneous

No waiver
A failure or delay by us in exercising any right or remedy is not a waiver of it. A single or partial exercise does not prevent any further exercise. A waiver is effective only if given in writing.
Assignment
You may not assign, transfer, charge or subcontract any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer ours, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of assets, provided your rights are not materially prejudiced.
No partnership or agency
Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between us.
Third parties
A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to enforce any of their provisions, except that our officers, employees and agents may enforce section 12.
Force majeure
We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by an event beyond our reasonable control, including infrastructure or hosting failure, network outage, cyber-attack, act of government, natural disaster, epidemic, war or civil unrest.
Notices
Notices to us must be sent to support@skandarobotics.com or by post to our address in section 21. Because we hold no contact details for you, we give notice by publishing on this Site.
Language and headings
These Terms are drafted in English; any translation is provided for convenience and the English text prevails. Headings and section numbers are for navigation and do not affect interpretation.

21. Contact

General and legal enquiries
support@skandarobotics.com. The Site carries no contact form; post to the address below also reaches us.
Registered entity
Skanda Inc., a corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, United States
Postal address
141 Highway 41, Suite B, Ringgold, GA 30736, United States

How we handle personal data is described separately in our Privacy Policy.