Terms of service

1. Who you are dealing with

Salpa is made by BoCo Research B.V., Leiden, the Netherlands (KvK 89932056), of which BoundaryComputing is a registered name — “we” in these terms. By installing Salpa, creating a Salpa Compute account, or using salpa.app, you agree to them. Questions: hello@salpa.app.

2. Free, and still changing

Salpa, and the monthly allowance of Salpa Compute, are provided free of charge. Both are under active development: they may have bugs, may be unavailable at times, and may change or be withdrawn. There is no service-level commitment. If any of this changes, for example if paid plans are introduced, we will say so on salpa.app before it applies.

3. The application

We grant you a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Salpa application for any lawful purpose, including commercial research. The application’s own source code is not public. The workflows and node packages on Salpa Hub, and the Salpa CLI, are published with their source, each under the licence stated with it: most under open-source licences, some for non-commercial use only. You may not redistribute modified builds of the application, or use it to circumvent the limits or authentication of Salpa Compute.

4. Your account

• You must be 16 or older to create a Salpa Compute account.
• Give accurate details, keep your credentials to yourself, and tell us if you think your account has been misused.
• One account per person. You are responsible for what is done with it.
• You can close your account at any time by emailing us; see the privacy notice for what happens to your data.

5. Quotas and capacity

Every account gets a free monthly allowance — currently one GPU-hour — and no more. The allowance counts the GPU time a job uses, including a job you stop and one that fails because of what it was given; a job that fails because of a fault on our side counts nothing. An account may have two GPU jobs in progress at a time. Jobs beyond the allowance are refused, not billed. If you need more, write to us; additional capacity is arranged case by case, and we do not sell it self-service or publish prices.

6. Your content

Everything you put into Salpa — workflows, sequences, structures, parameters — and everything it computes for you is yours. We claim no rights in it. For Salpa Compute you give us only the permission we need to process your inputs and return your results, for that job and nothing else. We keep your inputs and results only for as long as it takes to run the job and return them: a result too large to send back directly waits until your app has downloaded it, and is deleted then, or after 24 hours at the latest. We never use them to train models.

You are responsible for your content: for having the right to use it, for not submitting personal data about other people without a lawful basis, and for respecting any export-control or biosecurity rules that apply to what you send to a cloud node.

7. Fair use

You agree not to:

• use Salpa Compute for anything other than running Salpa nodes on your own data — no mining, no unrelated workloads;
• attempt to bypass quotas, authentication or access controls, or to probe the service for weaknesses without asking us first;
• send malware, or content that is illegal to hold or process;
• interfere with the service or other people’s use of it.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules, and will tell you why unless the law prevents it.

8. Results are predictions

Cloud nodes run published scientific models. Their output is a computed prediction — a structure, a pose, a sequence, a score — offered to inform your research, not as a fact, and not as medical, safety or professional advice. Verify before you rely on it. The models themselves belong to their authors and carry their own licences.

9. What we promise, and what we don’t

Salpa and Salpa Compute are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, and without a promise that they are error-free or uninterrupted. To the extent Dutch law permits, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, lost profits or lost research time, and our total liability for anything arising from a free service is limited to the amount you paid for it — which is nothing. Nothing in these terms limits liability for intent or gross negligence, or any right you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded.

10. Privacy

How we handle your data is described in the privacy notice, which is part of these terms.

11. Changes and ending

We may change these terms; when we do, the date at the top changes, and material changes are announced in the app’s “what’s new” feed and on salpa.app. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it. You can stop using Salpa at any time. We may end or suspend the service, or your access to it, if you breach these terms or if we discontinue the service.

12. Law

These terms are governed by Dutch law. Disputes go to the competent court in The Hague, the Netherlands, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer rights you have in your own country.