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Terms of Service

Last updated: July 11, 2026

Effective date: April 2, 2026.

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you ("you," "Builder," or "Customer") and Farther Shore, Inc. ("Farther Shore," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of the Farther Shore platform — the hosted dashboard, customer frontends, API gateway, billing integrations, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, accessing the Service, or clicking "I agree" when prompted, you agree to these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and "you" refers to that entity.

1. The Service

Farther Shore provides infrastructure that lets Builders publish software products — including authentication, gateway routing, rate limiting, usage metering, billing, hosted customer frontends, and operational tooling. The Service is offered as a hosted SaaS product. We may add, change, or remove features over time; material changes will be communicated through the dashboard or by email.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of entering into a binding contract to use the Service. The Service is intended for business use only; it is not intended for personal or household use.

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account, including the actions of any team members or collaborators you invite. Notify us promptly at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized access.

3. Builder responsibilities

You retain ownership of, and full responsibility for, the APIs, documentation, plans, branding, and other content you publish through the Service (collectively, "Your Products"). Specifically:

  • Your relationship with subscribers. Subscribers to Your Products are your customers, not Farther Shore's. You are the merchant of record for payments processed for Your Products through your connected Stripe account, unless we agree otherwise in writing.
  • Your legal compliance. You are responsible for ensuring that Your Products comply with applicable laws, that you have all necessary rights to offer them, and that you publish your own terms of service, privacy policy, and (where applicable) consumer disclosures to the subscribers of Your Products.
  • Your support obligations. You are responsible for supporting the subscribers of Your Products and for resolving any disputes with them, including refunds, chargebacks, and service-quality complaints.
  • Tax obligations. You are responsible for determining, collecting, and remitting any taxes due on transactions for Your Products. We may surface tax-collection tooling (such as Stripe Tax) but using it does not shift the legal obligation away from you.

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4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

  • violate any law, infringe any third party's rights, or facilitate illegal activity;
  • distribute malware, run denial-of-service attacks, or otherwise interfere with the Service or other Builders' use of it;
  • attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract source code from the Service except where applicable law expressly permits;
  • circumvent rate limits, billing controls, or other technical protections;
  • offer through Your Products any content or functionality that is fraudulent, deceptive, hateful, sexually explicit involving minors, or otherwise prohibited by our Acceptable Use Policy.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that put the platform, its infrastructure providers, or other Builders at risk.

5. Fees and billing

Our pricing is presented in the dashboard. By choosing a paid plan, you authorize us to bill you (or your designated payment method) for the applicable fees on the schedule shown at checkout. We bill through Stripe; Stripe's own terms apply to the processing of your payments.

Fees for Your Products are processed through your own connected Stripe account, separate from any fees you pay us. We may deduct platform fees, processing fees, or revenue share as disclosed in your plan.

Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated by us in writing. We may change our pricing on at least 30 days' notice; changes take effect at the start of your next billing period.

If a payment fails or is reversed, we may suspend access to paid features until the balance is resolved.

6. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of Your Products and any content, code, or data you submit to the Service. You grant Farther Shore a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, transmit, process, and display that content solely as needed to operate and improve the Service for you. We will not access your data except as needed to provide the Service, respond to support requests, ensure security, or comply with law.

The Service itself, including our software, dashboards, branding, and documentation, is owned by Farther Shore and licensed to you on a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable basis for the term of your subscription. You may not resell or sublicense the Service.

Feedback you provide is non-confidential, and we may use it without restriction or compensation.

7. Third-party services

The Service integrates with third-party services we rely on to deliver core functionality, including but not limited to:

  • Stripe (payments and Connect),
  • Cloudflare (CDN, edge gateway, DNS),
  • Clerk (authentication),
  • PostHog (product analytics),
  • Polar (subscription and usage reporting).

Your use of those integrated services is also governed by their respective terms. Farther Shore is not responsible for the acts or omissions of these third parties, but we will choose them carefully and disclose our subprocessors in the Privacy Policy.

8. Confidentiality

Each party agrees to protect the other's non-public information disclosed in connection with the Service with at least the same degree of care it uses for its own confidential information, and in any event no less than reasonable care. This obligation does not apply to information that is public, already known to the receiving party, or independently developed.

9. Term and termination

These Terms remain in effect for as long as you use the Service. You may terminate your account at any time from the dashboard or by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you materially breach these Terms, fail to pay fees when due, create risk for the platform, or as otherwise required by law.

On termination, your right to use the Service ends. We will retain records of completed transactions as required by law and our Privacy Policy. We may delete other account data after a reasonable wind-down period.

10. Service availability and changes

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. We may perform scheduled or emergency maintenance, and we may add, change, or remove features over time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to communicate material changes in advance.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FARTHER SHORE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100). THIS LIMITATION APPLIES IN THE AGGREGATE TO ALL CLAIMS, NOT PER-INCIDENT.

13. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Farther Shore and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of (a) Your Products or your relationship with subscribers; (b) your breach of these Terms; or (c) your violation of any law or third-party right.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The current version will always be posted at this URL with a new effective date. For material changes, we will give you reasonable advance notice (for example, by email or in-dashboard banner). Continued use of the Service after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and the parties consent to personal jurisdiction there. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

16. Miscellaneous

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Farther Shore regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on the subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms do not create an agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship.

Force majeure: neither party is liable for failures or delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, labor disruptions, internet or telecommunications outages, or acts of third-party service providers.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms? [email protected].