Updated 28 August 2026
Terms of Service
These terms govern the Bandicot website at https://bandicot.app, related account and billing services, and the native Bandicot applications that talk to it. They are not legal advice. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the paid website services.
Bandicot is a local-first agent harness. The native app (desktop, terminal) runs on your machine. That host is the execution authority. This website is a public surface for documentation, accounts, plan capacity, and device linking, not a second agent runtime.
1. Who these terms cover
“You” means the person or organization using the site or native apps. “We” means the operator of this website. We have not named a separate legal entity in these pages; contact hi@apparatdynamics.com for operator identity questions.
2. The product, honestly
- Native Bandicot executes locally. Sessions, tools, files, memory, and the event ledger live with the host unless you send a turn to a model provider you configured.
- A website account is optional for local use. It is required for website billing, profile plan sync from this site, and optional GitHub or Google device linking.
- Model providers (OpenAI-compatible endpoints, local models, cloud labs) are third parties. Their terms apply to prompts and outputs you send them. Bandicot does not grant a model permission to spend, change privacy, or declare success on your behalf.
- We do not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GDPR “certification.” We describe how the software actually behaves.
3. Accounts
You must provide an accurate email. Passwords on this site are stored as bcrypt hashes, not plaintext. You are responsible for credentials, per-profile passwords in the native app, and for the people who use profiles under your account’s capacity.
We may refuse, suspend, or delete an account that abuses the service, attempts unauthorized access, or uses the product to harm others. We will not invent a dummy password or bypass authentication for you.
4. Plans and payment
Published prices on /pricing are USD list prices for website account profile capacity (Solo 1, Team 3, Family 6, Business 25, then metered Enterprise). They match the native plan ladder’s profile counts. They are not a separate collaboration-seat product; FEATURES still treat extra collaboration pricing as an explicit future decision.
Paid plans are billed through Stripe when checkout is configured. Taxes may apply. Yearly billing is discounted relative to monthly as shown on the pricing page. Enterprise counts above 100 are “talk to sales” ( hi@apparatdynamics.com), not a self-serve guarantee.
Refunds, if any, are handled case by case. Downgrades take effect at period end unless we state otherwise in checkout. You remain responsible for usage you authorized on model providers, so Bandicot’s plan fee is not your model bill.
5. Acceptable use
Do not use Bandicot to:
- attack, scan, or exploit systems you do not own or have permission to test
- violate others’ privacy, IP, or applicable criminal law
- circumvent approvals, budgets, or tenancy isolation in the harness
- abuse email verification, device codes, or password-reset endpoints
The native host fail-closes unapproved writes. That is a product rule, not a license to disable safety.
6. Software license
Bandicot software — the native host, clients, and this website — is owned by Bandicot and provided under these Terms. Except for the rights these Terms grant, all other rights are reserved. For licensing questions, email hi@apparatdynamics.com.
The site, marks, and documentation are provided as-is. You may not imply we certify your deployment, your model vendor, or your compliance program.
7. Availability
The website may go down. The native host does not require this website to run a local session. Device linking and Stripe checkout do require the website and its database.
We do not currently publish a status page. Outages may be unannounced.
8. Disclaimers
THE SOFTWARE AND WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Agent output can be wrong. You review approvals before writes land.
9. Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or lost-profit damages, or for model-provider charges, data loss on your disk, or decisions you make from agent output. Our aggregate liability for website services in a twelve-month period is limited to the fees you paid us for those services in that period, or fifty US dollars if you paid nothing.
10. Indemnity
You will defend and indemnify us against claims arising from your content, your prompts to third-party models, your misuse of the product, or your violation of these terms.
11. Changes
We may update these terms. The date at the top is the current version. Continued use of the website account after a material change means you accept the new terms. Native app licenses follow the repository.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws applicable where the website operator is established. We have not named a forum state here because we have not published an incorporation jurisdiction on this site. If a dispute cannot be resolved at hi@apparatdynamics.com, it may be brought in a competent court with jurisdiction over the operator.