Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Orbit Mesh websites, account portal, optional subscription billing, and related software — including relay, agents, and bridges (together, the “Service”). The Service is managed and operated by ScutiW AI and ScutiW Superintelligence. The software license is owned by Astro Arpanet LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our,” including affiliates and service operators). By creating an account, signing in, registering devices, running a relay, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you are signed in, the License & legal compliance page also applies. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and “you” includes that entity.

1. Nature of the Service

Orbit Mesh is a cross-device connection layer: identity, relay messaging, clipboard and handoff sync, presence, and optional robot control messages. It is application software that runs on operating systems and hardware you already control. It is not an operating system, a cloud file store, or a managed robotics platform.

We supply software and (where offered) account and billing tools on the website. We do not operate your devices, drones, robots, or facilities. You choose whether the relay runs on localhost, a tunnel, or infrastructure you operate. Availability, security, and data handling on self-hosted relays are primarily your responsibility as operator unless you use a hosted offering we expressly provide under a separate agreement.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements or be available without interruption.

The Service is not Apple Continuity, Microsoft Phone Link, KDE Connect, LocalSend, or a telecommunications carrier. We do not warrant cross-platform clipboard behavior identical to OS-integrated products, background sync on mobile operating systems, or suitability as your sole safety or business-critical communications path.

2. Software only; no professional services

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE SUPPLY SOFTWARE AND OPTIONAL HOSTED INFRASTRUCTURE ONLY. WE DO NOT PROVIDE IT CONSULTING, MANAGED SECURITY, ROBOTICS OPERATIONS, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, OR LEGAL ADVICE.

YOU ASSUME ALL RISK FROM CONFIGURATION, JOIN CODES, DEVICE APPROVAL, RELAY EXPOSURE ON THE INTERNET, AND CONTENT YOU SYNC. YOU REMAIN SOLELY LIABLE FOR YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS IN YOUR JURISDICTION (INCLUDING CANADA, THE EU, THE UK, AND THE UNITED STATES). IF MANDATORY LAW LIMITS THAT ALLOCATION, IT APPLIES ONLY TO THE MINIMUM EXTENT REQUIRED; YOU STILL OWN ALL OTHER LIABILITY.

3. Eligibility & accounts

You must provide accurate account information and keep credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity under your account, including join codes, device registrations, relay configuration, agents, sync payloads, and control messages you send. Notify us promptly via the contact form if you suspect unauthorized access.

Free and paid plans are subject to usage and device limits published in the product or on the pricing page. We may suspend or terminate access for violations of these Terms, non-payment, or security risk. You use the Service at your own risk except where mandatory consumer law applies.

4. Devices, join codes & relay operators

• A join code ties new devices to your account. Treat join codes like secrets. Do not post them publicly or share them with untrusted parties.
• You are responsible for approving, naming, revoking, and securing registered devices. Promptly remove lost or decommissioned devices.
• If you run a relay for yourself or others, you are the relay operator for that deployment. Publish who operates the service, what data the relay retains, retention TTLs, and how users can export or delete accounts where applicable.
• Optional end-to-end encryption may protect certain sync payloads; robot control and operational messages may be plaintext by design. You are responsible for what you send on the mesh.

5. No robot operations; hardware safety

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ROBOT, DRONE, OR OTHER HARDWARE OPERATIONS, MOVEMENT, OR SAFETY INCIDENTS. Control messages over Orbit Mesh are software signals only.

You remain solely responsible for physical hardware, firmware, e-stop systems, vendor safety procedures, piloting, site access, and compliance with laws that apply to your equipment. Orbit Mesh does not replace hardware emergency stop, interlocks, or professional safety review.

YOU ASSUME ALL RISK FROM SENDING OR RELYING ON HALT, RESUME, SKILL, OR OTHER CONTROL MESSAGES. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE DELIVERY, ORDERING, LATENCY, OR CORRECT BEHAVIOR ON CONNECTED HARDWARE.

6. Your content & sync payloads

• You retain ownership of content you sync (clipboard text, handoff URLs, messages, and related payloads), subject to these Terms and applicable law. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display that content only as needed to operate the Service for you (including routing through a relay, billing enforcement, and support).
• You represent that you have the right to sync and process content you send and that it does not violate law or others’ rights (including privacy and intellectual property).
• You own liability for use. You assume and remain solely liable for what you sync, hand off, or control, and for how recipients or hardware act on it. We are not a party to your workflows or client relationships.
• Do not sync malware, illegal content, or sensitive personal data unrelated to your legitimate use unless you accept the risk of processing and optional third-party transmission (for example email support or payment processing).

7. Third-party providers & subprocessors

The website and optional hosted features may use third parties (“subprocessors”). Their terms and privacy practices apply to their processing. We are not liable for their outages, security incidents, or policy changes.

• Stripe — subscription checkout, customer billing, and webhooks when enabled.
• Vercel — website and account portal hosting when deployed there.
• Neon (or equivalent Postgres) — durable portal accounts and optional relay store when configured.
• Brevo (or equivalent) — contact form, password reset, and operational email.
• Upstash (or equivalent) — distributed rate limits and one-time reset tokens on the website.
• Cloudflare (or equivalent) — TLS, tunnel, or WAF when Customer or we configure them.

We are not liable for outages, errors, or policies of third-party providers you or we rely on to operate the Service.

8. Subscriptions & billing

Paid plan status is determined from our account records and our payment processor (checkout, renewals, cancellation, past-due status). Access to paid features depends on a valid plan.

• Subscriptions renew per the payment processor’s checkout terms until cancelled. Taxes may apply.
• Cancel through the billing flow we provide to stop renewals. Refunds for product fees, if any, are handled case-by-case via the contact form.
• On hosted relays with billing enforcement enabled, non-payment may block new device registration or related features as described in the product.

9. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes. You must not:

• Circumvent device limits, billing enforcement, rate limits, or security controls.
• Abuse the relay (flooding, unauthorized access attempts, or disruption).
• Sync illegal content or use robot control features in a way that endangers people or property.
• Reverse engineer except where forbidden by law to restrict.
• Resell access without written permission.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or create security risk, without liability for resulting loss of access.

10. Intellectual property

The Service — including software, interfaces, and related intellectual property — is owned by Astro Arpanet LLC and protected by applicable law. Except for the limited rights expressly granted to use the Service, no rights are transferred to you. You shall not use Orbit Mesh trademarks or branding without prior written permission.

11. Disclaimers of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” AND WITH ALL FAULTS. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT SYNC DELIVERY, MESSAGE ORDERING, LATENCY, DATA INTEGRITY, OR THAT CONTROL MESSAGES WILL BE ACTED ON SAFELY BY HARDWARE. NEITHER WE NOR OUR LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS WILL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR FAILURE OF, OR DEFECTS IN, THE SERVICE; LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR SYNC PAYLOADS; OR DECISIONS YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY MAKE BASED ON MESSAGES OR PRESENCE INFORMATION.

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS IN THESE TERMS AND ON THE License & legal compliance PAGE (WHEN APPLICABLE) ARE AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND US AND THAT WE WOULD NOT PROVIDE THE SERVICE WITHOUT YOUR AGREEMENT TO THEM. THE LIMITATIONS APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LIABILITY.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ASTRO ARPANET LLC, ORBIT MESH, AND THEIR AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “PROTECTED PARTIES”) WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY (WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT) FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, OR GOODWILL; BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS, CORRUPTION, OR DELETION OF DATA, SYNC PAYLOADS, OR CONFIGURATION; PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE (EXCEPT WHERE MANDATORY LAW FORBIDS EXCLUSION AND ONLY AS TO OUR OWN CONDUCT); OR DAMAGES FROM EVENTS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE PROTECTED PARTIES SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO: (A) HARDWARE, ROBOT, DRONE, OR VEHICLE OPERATIONS OR MOVEMENT; (B) RELIANCE ON CLIPBOARD, HANDOFF, PRESENCE, OR CONTROL MESSAGES; (C) SELF-HOSTED, MISCONFIGURED, OR THIRD-PARTY RELAY OR NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS; (D) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS ARISING FROM LOST JOIN CODES, CREDENTIALS, DEVICES, OR SESSION TOKENS; (E) STRIPE, EMAIL, DATABASE, HOSTING, OR OTHER THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS; (F) CLAIMS BY YOUR CLIENTS, EMPLOYERS, INSURERS, OR REGULATORS; (G) YOUR VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OR APPLICABLE LAW; OR (H) FREE, TRIAL, OR UNSUBSCRIBED USE.

THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE PROTECTED PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR SOFTWARE WILL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENTS GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM FIRST OCCURRED, OR (B) FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US$50). IF YOU HAVE PAID US NOTHING, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED US$50. THE PROTECTED PARTIES ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THIRD-PARTY FEES OR FOR DAMAGES UNDER YOUR CONTRACTS WITH OTHERS.

FREE AND LOCAL-ONLY USE IS PROVIDED STRICTLY “AS IS,” WITH NO UPTIME, SUPPORT, SECURITY, OR ACCURACY COMMITMENT. YOU ARE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM FREE OR TRIAL USE.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR DELAY OR FAILURE CAUSED BY EVENTS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING INFRASTRUCTURE, NETWORK, PAYMENT, EMAIL, OR PROVIDER INTERRUPTION, LABOR DISPUTES, GOVERNMENT ACTION, OR DISASTERS.

YOU MUST BRING ANY CLAIM WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER IT ARISES, OR THE CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

EXCEPT WHERE APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES OTHERWISE, WE PROVIDE NO INDEMNITY, DEFENSE, OR HOLD-HARMLESS TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM, INCLUDING CLAIMS ABOUT THE SERVICE, SYNC CONTENT, ROBOTS, OR THIRD PARTIES.

YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SERVICE IS TO STOP USING IT AND, WHERE APPLICABLE, CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER MANDATORY LAW (INCLUDING, WHERE SUCH LAW SO REQUIRES, FRAUD, FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION, OR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE, OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE). ANY SUCH LIABILITY EXISTS ONLY TO THE MINIMUM EXTENT THE LAW FORBIDS EXCLUSION, AND ONLY FOR OUR OWN CONDUCT—NOT FOR YOUR HARDWARE, DEVICES, OR SYNC CONTENT. IF A LIMITATION IS UNENFORCEABLE, IT IS MODIFIED TO THE MINIMUM EXTENT REQUIRED; ALL OTHER LIMITATIONS REMAIN IN FORCE. IF A JURISDICTION FORBIDS A US$50 CAP, THE CAP IS THE LOWEST AMOUNT THAT JURISDICTION ALLOWS.

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Protected Parties from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to:

• your use or misuse of the Service or software;
• content, clipboard data, handoff URLs, or control messages you sync or send;
• robot, drone, or other hardware you operate or connect;
• your relay deployment or operation for yourself or others;
• your violation of these Terms, the License terms, or applicable law;
• infringement or violation of third-party rights (including privacy and IP);
• claims by your clients, users, insurers, or regulators related to your mesh or devices.

You, not the Protected Parties, own and bear such liabilities. We may participate in defense at our discretion. Your indemnity obligations survive termination.

14. Term, termination & modifications

These Terms apply from your first use until terminated. We may revise these Terms by posting an updated “Last updated” date. Continued use means you accept the updated Terms. We may suspend or terminate access for violations or to protect the Service. Disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute provisions survive termination.

15. Governing law & dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) does not apply. The English-language version controls. Except for the small-claims carve-out below, you and we agree to resolve disputes through good-faith negotiation first, then binding arbitration to the fullest extent permitted by law.

• Good-faith negotiation. Before formal proceedings, contact us via the contact form.
• Arbitration. If unresolved, disputes will be resolved by binding individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act where applicable, before a single arbitrator.
• Class action waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive any right to participate in a class, collective, representative, or private attorney general proceeding.
• Jury trial waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive any right to a jury trial.
• Small claims. Either party may bring an individual action in small claims court where permitted.
• Attorneys’ fees. Each party bears its own attorneys’ fees and costs unless an arbitrator or applicable law provides otherwise.
• Injunctive relief. Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court to stop unauthorized access, misuse of credentials, join codes, or IP infringement, to the extent permitted by law.

16. International use

The Service is offered as software. Export, sanctions, telecommunications, robotics, privacy, and safety laws of your country may apply to you and to equipment you connect. Compliance is yours alone. We are not liable for your compliance with local legal requirements.

17. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and (when applicable) the License page, are the complete agreement regarding the Service. Hosted business customers may also use the Data Processing Addendum (hosted) where offered. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. If any part is held unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect to the maximum extent permitted. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization or sale of assets. These Terms do not create third-party beneficiary rights, except that Astro Arpanet LLC and its affiliates, officers, and licensors may enforce liability, disclaimer, and indemnity provisions. If you are a consumer and mandatory law forbids a clause, that clause is limited only to the minimum extent required.

18. Contact

Questions and legal notices: use the contact form. See also our Privacy Policy.