1. Acceptance of Terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("User", "you") and Shipyard ("Shipyard", "we", "us"). By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using Shipyard, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, to create an account.
2. Description of the Service
Shipyard is an AI-powered code generation and deployment orchestration platform. The Service helps you describe software in natural language, generates source code on your behalf, commits that code to a source-control repository you own (e.g. your GitHub account), and orchestrates deployment to third-party infrastructure that you own and control (e.g. your AWS, Vercel, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Cloudflare, or similar account).
Shipyard is a tool and orchestration layer. Shipyard does not host your generated applications and is not the operator of the third-party infrastructure on which your applications run.
3. Accounts and Third-Party Integrations
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You must notify us promptly of any unauthorized use.
The Service relies on third-party providers (including GitHub, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel, Railway, AWS, and others). You are solely responsible for complying with the terms of those providers and for any fees they charge you directly. Shipyard's onboarding flows aim to provision third-party resources with safe defaults (e.g. least-privilege IAM roles, private repositories), but you remain responsible for the security configuration of accounts you control.
4. Intellectual Property — You Own the Generated Code
You own the code that Shipyard generates for you. Subject to your payment of applicable fees and your compliance with these Terms, Shipyard assigns to you all right, title, and interest in and to the source code produced by the Service in response to your prompts, to the extent such rights are assignable.
You grant Shipyard a limited, non-exclusive license to process your prompts, generated outputs, and repository contents solely for the purpose of operating and improving the Service.
Shipyard retains all rights in the Service itself — including the platform software, agent logic, prompts, UI, branding, and documentation. Nothing in these Terms transfers any rights in the Service to you.
Generated code may incorporate open-source dependencies governed by their own licenses. You are responsible for complying with those licenses.
Copyrightability of AI output. Under the current legal consensus in many jurisdictions (including the United States and Israel), purely AI-generated output may not be eligible for copyright protection without sufficient human authorship. Shipyard assigns to you whatever proprietary rights are assignable, but does not warrant that any specific fragment of generated code is itself copyrightable, novel, or unique to you.
5. Acceptable Use
You agree not to use the Service to:
- Generate, distribute, or deploy unlawful, infringing, or harmful content;
- Build software that violates Israeli law, including the Computer Law, 5755-1995, the Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, the Defamation Law, 5725-1965, or any anti-spam, consumer-protection, or export-control regulation;
- Attack, disrupt, reverse-engineer, or probe the Service or its infrastructure;
- Circumvent rate limits, billing, authentication, or access controls;
- Generate malware, phishing tools, credential stealers, or surveillance tools;
- Produce content that infringes intellectual property, violates privacy, or discriminates against protected groups;
- Use the Service to compete with Shipyard by training a substantially similar AI code-generation product.
6. Fees and Billing
During the beta period the Service may be offered free of charge or at a promotional flat rate. After general availability, Shipyard plans to charge a flat monthly subscription that includes a defined allowance of AI usage; the applicable price, allowance, and any overage rates will be shown clearly on the pricing page and in the checkout flow before you are billed. You will never be charged for AI usage that exceeds your plan's allowance without your prior in-product consent.
Third-party infrastructure costs (your AWS, Vercel, Railway, etc.) are billed by those providers directly to you — Shipyard never absorbs them and never marks them up. If you choose to bring your own AI provider API keys, usage is billed by that provider directly.
Fees are non-refundable except where required by applicable law, including consumer protections under Israeli law.
7. Suspension and Termination
You may terminate your account at any time. Because you own your code and it lives in your own repositories and infrastructure, terminating your Shipyard account does not delete or disable your deployed applications.
We may suspend or terminate your access — with or without notice — if you breach these Terms, if continued provision would violate law, or to protect the Service or other users. On termination we may delete data we store on your behalf after a reasonable retention period.
8. Beta Services
The Service is currently offered as a beta / early-access product. The platform is under active development and may contain bugs, incomplete features, or unexpected behavior. The Service may experience downtime, data loss, or interruptions without prior notice. Features may be added, modified, deprecated, or removed at any time, including without backwards compatibility, while in beta.
Service-level commitments, uptime guarantees, and formal support obligations do not apply during the beta period. You should not rely on the Service for production workloads, business-critical systems, or any use where downtime, data loss, or generation errors would cause material harm, without maintaining your own backups and contingency plans.
We may collect anonymized usage telemetry and feedback during the beta to improve the Service. By participating you agree to provide reasonable feedback on request and acknowledge that Shipyard may use such feedback without obligation to you.
9. Disclaimers
The Service and all generated code are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or that AI-generated output will be correct, secure, or suitable for production use.
You are solely responsible for reviewing, testing, and securing generated code before deploying it or relying on it.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Shipyard, its founders, employees, and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Shipyard's aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid to Shipyard in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (US$100).
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or bodily injury, or non-waivable consumer rights under Israeli law.
11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Shipyard from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your generated code, your deployments to third-party infrastructure, or your breach of these Terms.
12. Privacy
Our handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy. We process personal data in accordance with applicable law, including the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, and, where applicable, the GDPR.
13. Changes to the Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email or via the Service before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
The competent courts of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa district, Israel, will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, and you irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. This does not derogate from any non-waivable right of a consumer to bring proceedings before the courts of their place of residence.
15. Miscellaneous
These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Shipyard regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them to an affiliate or successor.
16. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Email legal@shipyard.dev.