Last updated: October 24, 2026

Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Stored object storage service operated by FairForge LLC ("we", "us", "Stored"). By creating an account or using our service, you agree to these Terms.

Contents

• Service Description
• Account Requirements
• Acceptable Use
• Usage Limits
• Service Level Agreement
• Data Ownership
• Billing and Payment
• Termination
• Limitation of Liability
• Governing Law and Disputes
• Changes to These Terms
• Contact

Service Description

Stored provides S3-compatible object storage. You can store, retrieve, and manage objects (files) via our API, dashboard, or any S3-compatible client. The service includes:

• S3-compatible API for object operations (GET, PUT, DELETE, LIST, HEAD).
• Web dashboard for account management, bucket configuration, and usage monitoring.
• API key management with scoped access control.
• CDN delivery for public buckets.

Account Requirements

• You must provide a valid email address to create an account.
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials, API keys, and access tokens.
• You must be at least 16 years old (or the minimum age in your jurisdiction) to use this service.
• One person or entity may maintain multiple accounts, but each account must have a unique email address.

Acceptable Use

Your use of Stored is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy, which prohibits storing illegal content, distributing malware, and other abusive activities. Violations may result in immediate suspension or termination.

Usage Limits

Storage is sold as a quota in whole terabytes at a flat per-terabyte rate (the free tier is 5 GB). Your quota and egress allowance are displayed on your dashboard. There are no overage charges:

• A write that would exceed your quota is refused with a quota error until you resize the quota (up or down, prorated) or delete data. Existing data stays readable.
• Egress is never billed. Your monthly egress allowance is keyed to your quota (2× the Standard quota plus 1× the Vault quota) and is shown on your dashboard. Past the allowance, downloads are rate-limited to about the pace of one more allowance per month until it resets on the 1st (UTC); they are never billed. It is one allowance for the whole account: Standard downloads and Vault restores draw on the same number and the same rate limit, and there is no separate restore queue. While an account is rate-limited it may hold a limited number of concurrent downloads; requests beyond that are answered with a retryable error. Uploads, listings and deletions are not rate-limited for bandwidth.
• We may rate-limit management API requests (100 per minute per account).
• We will notify you before taking any action that affects your ability to access stored data.

Service Level Agreement

We target 99.5% monthly availability for the Stored API, measured as the percentage of successful requests (non-5xx responses) relative to total requests in a calendar month, excluding scheduled maintenance (announced at least 48 hours in advance), force majeure and client-side misconfiguration or abuse. We publish a status page and write incident reports. We do not yet offer a contractual service-level agreement or service credits; we will introduce them once the service runs from a second site, and will say so here and in the changelog.

Data Ownership

You own your data. We claim no ownership rights over any content you upload to Stored. You retain all rights, title, and interest in your objects and metadata. We will not access, use, or disclose the content of your stored objects except:

• As necessary to provide the service (storage, delivery, caching).
• As required by law (with notice to you where permitted).

Billing and Payment

• Paid quotas are billed in advance via Stripe, monthly or annually as you choose at checkout.
• You may resize your quota up or down at any time through the billing page; changes are prorated.
• A full refund is available within 30 days of your first purchase, no questions asked; later refunds are handled case by case, contact support.
• If a payment fails, Stripe retries it on its schedule and e-mails you. If the subscription is cancelled for non-payment, your quota returns to the free tier: stored data is preserved and stays readable, and writes above the free quota are refused until you subscribe again.

Termination

• By you: You may delete your account at any time through your account settings. Account deletion enters a 30-day grace period during which you can cancel the deletion and recover your data. On the date the grace period ends, the account is closed, any subscription is cancelled and our deletion job erases your objects, keys and account records; backups age out within 30 days. Large objects are stored in deduplicated blocks: the blocks of your objects are released on that date and deleted by the storage collector once its seven-day safety period has passed, except a block that is byte-for-byte identical to one another customer stores, which remains as that customer's data.
• By us (AUP violation): We may suspend or terminate your account immediately for Acceptable Use Policy violations. For severe violations (malware, CSAM, phishing), data may be deleted immediately without a grace period.
• By us (non-payment): A subscription cancelled for non-payment returns the account to the free tier; data is preserved and remains readable. We will contact you before taking any further action on the account.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• Stored is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
• Our total liability for any claims arising from or related to this service shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim.
• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of data, revenue, or business opportunities.
• We recommend maintaining independent backups of critical data.

Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any disputes shall be resolved through:

1. Good-faith negotiation between the parties (30-day period).
2. If unresolved, binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, conducted in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via email at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Contact

For questions about these Terms:

• Email: support@stored.cloud
• Entity: FairForge LLC
• Jurisdiction: State of Utah, United States