Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between you (“User,” “you,” or “your”) and Portage Development Services LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), the operator of Shroud (shroud.us). By accessing or using Shroud, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not access or use our services.

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via email or prominent notice on the platform at least 14 days before taking effect. Continued use of Shroud after such notice constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Shroud is a confidential GPU compute and AI inference platform. We provide:

• • AI inference access via API, processed within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for hardware-level confidentiality
• • Open-source and proprietary model inference services
• • Raw GPU compute rental for user-defined workloads
• • Compute Unit (CU) billing and balance management, including auto-topup

Shroud is currently in open beta. Features, availability, pricing, and functionality may change without prior notice during this period. We make no guarantees of continuous or uninterrupted availability.

You must be at least 18 years of age and have the legal capacity to enter into binding contracts in your jurisdiction to use Shroud. By using our services, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements.

You agree to:

• • Provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration
• • Maintain the security of your account credentials and API keys
• • Notify us immediately at info@alphaton.capital of any unauthorized access to your account
• • Accept responsibility for all activity conducted under your account

We reserve the right to refuse registration or suspend accounts at our sole discretion.

You agree to use Shroud only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not use Shroud to:

• • Violate any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation
• • Generate, transmit, or store content that is illegal, abusive, defamatory, obscene, or that facilitates harm to any person
• • Produce, distribute, or solicit child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any content that sexually exploits minors
• • Develop or deploy systems intended to conduct cyberattacks, exploit vulnerabilities, or circumvent security controls
• • Resell, sublicense, or redistribute access to Shroud without our prior written consent
• • Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract model weights, system prompts, TEE image contents, or infrastructure configurations
• • Engage in scraping, bulk data extraction, or automated abuse of our API beyond documented rate limits
• • Violate Stripe’s Acceptable Use Policy with respect to any payment activity on the platform
• • Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of Shroud or its underlying infrastructure

Violation of this policy may result in immediate account suspension or termination without refund.

Shroud uses a Selective Disclosure Protocol that gives you control over which usage metadata the Shroud gateway (shroud-go) can observe. This is enforced at the hardware level by the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) — not by policy alone.

By default, only the minimum required field (total_tokens, model) is disclosed to the gateway. You may configure additional fields to be disclosed (such as prompt_tokens) via the SDK. The TEE enforces this configuration; the gateway cannot access fields you have not permitted.

Full usage data (all token counts, costs, and timing) is always available to you via the encrypted SDK channel.

This architecture is described in detail in our technical documentation at shroud.us.

All intellectual property rights in Shroud, including software, infrastructure, documentation, trademarks, and proprietary AI models, are owned by Portage Development Services LLC or its licensors. Nothing in these Terms grants you any ownership rights.

You retain ownership of any input data you submit to Shroud. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process your input data solely for the purpose of delivering the services you request.

Outputs generated by Shroud in response to your inputs are provided subject to any applicable open-source model licenses. We make no representation that outputs are free from third-party intellectual property claims.

We may suspend or terminate your account and access to Shroud at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases immediately. Sections 7, 9, 10, 12, and 13 survive termination.

You may close your account at any time by contacting info@alphaton.capital. Any unused CU balance remaining at termination will be evaluated for refund at our discretion, subject to Section 4.4.

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts of Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction therein.

For disputes under USD $10,000, you agree to attempt informal resolution by contacting info@alphaton.capital before initiating formal proceedings. Nothing in this section limits your rights under applicable consumer protection laws in your country of residence.

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