Terms of Service

The terms and conditions that govern your use of the Pencilroads platform.

Service Availability

PencilRoads provides computational workflow services on a commercially reasonable, best-effort basis.

No guaranteed uptime SLA.

During periods of high demand, jobs may be queued and executed in order of submission.

PencilRoads reserves the right to implement job scheduling priorities, including queue ordering, concurrent job limits per organization, and maximum job duration policies.

Any scheduling policies change will be communicated with at least 14 days' written notice.

Pricing

Pricing as set forth on the pricing page at the time of purchase.

PencilRoads may adjust pricing with at least 60 days' prior written notice.

Customer may terminate without penalty if they do not agree to adjusted pricing.

Founding Partner discounted rates are locked for the duration of the Founding Partner term and are not subject to pricing adjustments.

Fair Use Policy

Included cpu-hours are intended for normal engineering simulation workflows. The following are considered outside fair use:

Sustained usage exceeding 10x the included allocation in any rolling 7-day period.

Automated or programmatic job submission designed to monopolize compute capacity without prior arrangement.

Cryptocurrency mining, unrelated model training, or resale of compute capacity.

Customers regularly exceeding their allocation are encouraged to contact us for dedicated capacity arrangements. At least 7 days' written notice will be given before enforcing restrictions, except for cryptocurrency mining or resale of compute capacity where immediate action may be taken.

Data Location

All customer data is processed and stored exclusively within the European Union (Hetzner Cloud, Europe).

No data transfers outside the EU unless explicitly requested by the customer in writing.

AI Fair Use Policy

PencilRoads includes AI-assisted features as part of the platform at no additional cost. These features are subject to a fair use policy.

AI features are provided for legitimate engineering work within the platform.

We reserve the right to limit or suspend access to AI features in cases of excessive automated usage, scripting against the AI API, or abusive patterns.

Fair use limits are generous and designed to accommodate normal professional workflows. Typical users will never encounter them.

If your usage is flagged, we will notify you before taking any action.

Acceptable Use

Users must not use the platform for illegal activities.

Users must not attempt to circumvent security measures.

Users must not share credentials or access tokens.

Users are responsible for content they upload and workflows they run.

Data & Privacy

For details on how we handle your data, infrastructure, and security practices, see our Security & Trust page.

Questions?

Questions about our terms? Reach out to us and we'll be happy to help.

hello@pencilroads.com

Last updated: March 2026

These terms may be updated from time to time. We will notify registered users of material changes via email.