These Terms of Service govern your use of Slidingbox.ai and its API endpoints (the "Service"), operated by SLIDINGBOX LLC ("Slidingbox," "we," or "us"). By using the Service, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. The Service
Slidingbox provides a pay-per-request API for temporarily relaying client-encrypted data to automated systems. The current service lets clients store encrypted data temporarily and retrieve it once. Slidingbox receives ciphertext and an initialization vector, but not your plaintext or encryption keys.
2. Who may use the Service
The Service is a machine-to-machine developer utility offered only to businesses, developers, and the automated systems they operate, in each case acting for purposes related to a trade, business, craft, or profession. It is not offered, marketed, or sold to consumers for personal, family, or household use, and it is not directed to anyone under 18.
By using the Service you represent that you are at least 18 years old, that you have authority to accept these terms on behalf of the organization you represent, and that you are acting for business purposes. Consumer-protection rules that apply only to consumer contracts are therefore not intended to apply, without limiting any right you hold that cannot lawfully be waived.
3. Eligibility and sanctions compliance
You represent and warrant, each time you use the Service, that you and any party on whose behalf you act:
- are not listed on the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List or any other U.S., EU, UK, or United Nations sanctions or restricted-party list, including the U.S. Commerce Department's Denied Persons List;
- are not owned or controlled, at 50 percent or more in the aggregate, by any such listed party;
- are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction, currently including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; and
- will not use the Service to facilitate any transaction or activity involving a sanctioned party or jurisdiction, or otherwise in breach of applicable sanctions, export-control, anti-money-laundering, or counter-terrorist-financing law.
Before a paid request is settled, we screen the originating payer wallet address against the digital-currency addresses published on the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, and we refuse the request where the address appears on that list. No payment is taken and no item is delivered on a refused request.
That screening is narrow, and its limits matter. It compares one address against a periodically refreshed copy of a single list. It does not trace the provenance of funds, apply blockchain-analytics or risk-scoring tools, screen any list other than the SDN list, or identify you. It cannot detect an address that is not itself listed. We reserve the right, but do not undertake any obligation, to screen more broadly, by other means, or at all, and you may not rely on our screening as a control of your own: responsibility for complying with sanctions and anti-money-laundering law rests with you. Where we become aware of a sanctions concern, or where applicable law or a payment provider requires it, we may block, refuse, delay, or terminate access without notice. We may report activity to competent authorities where legally required and may be prohibited from telling you that we have done so.
4. Acceptable use
Your use of the Service is governed by our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these terms. In summary, you must not use the Service for unlawful, harmful, abusive, infringing, deceptive, or fraudulent activity; to distribute malware or stage stolen data or credentials; to support ransomware, intrusion, or command-and-control operations; or to disrupt, overload, probe, or bypass the Service or its rate limits.
5. Your responsibilities
- You are responsible for encrypting data before submitting it, protecting encryption keys and pointers, and confirming that your use complies with applicable law.
- You are responsible for the lawful basis on which you submit any data, including obtaining any consent or providing any notice that applies to data about identifiable people.
- You must not submit protected health information, payment-card data, or data regulated by HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, PCI DSS, or a similar sector-specific regime. The Service is not offered for regulated-data use cases, and we do not enter into Business Associate Agreements.
- You are responsible for all activity conducted through your API keys and payment wallets, including activity by automated agents you operate or authorize.
6. Ephemeral, one-time retrieval
The Service is designed to delete stored items after the first successful retrieval or when their limited time-to-live expires. You are responsible for ensuring that the intended recipient retrieves an item before it expires or is consumed. Lost keys, expired items, and previously retrieved items cannot be recovered by us.
7. Payments
Storing an encrypted item is currently free. Retrieval may use a valid evaluation key or require the per-request payment presented by the Service. Prices are quoted in USDC, a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin, and are exclusive of taxes. You authorize the displayed charge when you submit a valid payment, and you agree that performance begins immediately on submission. Blockchain transactions are generally irreversible. If a payment settles but the requested operation is not delivered because of a verified service error, contact support@slidingbox.ai. We will review the transaction and provide an appropriate remedy where technically and legally feasible. You are responsible for network fees and taxes that may apply.
Payments are processed by third-party payment and blockchain service providers, and settlement is recorded on a public blockchain that we do not control. Our Refund and Dispute Policy forms part of these terms and describes how to request a remedy, the timelines we commit to, and why card-style chargebacks are not available.
8. We are not a financial service
SLIDINGBOX LLC provides software and API services. It does not provide cryptocurrency exchange, custody, brokerage, investment, lending, or money-transmission services, does not hold or control customer funds or wallets, and does not act as an intermediary in the transfer of value between users. Payment is consideration for a digital service you buy from us, not a transfer we make on your behalf.
9. Abuse reports and legal process
Report abuse of the Service to abuse@slidingbox.ai. Our Law Enforcement and Abuse Policy explains what we can and cannot produce, and how to submit legal process. Because the Service is designed so that we never receive plaintext or encryption keys and retain very little for very long, the information we are able to produce is limited.
10. Availability and changes
We may rate-limit, suspend, change, or discontinue any part of the Service to protect the Service, comply with law, or operate the business. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability, and we do not offer a service-level agreement.
11. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate access immediately, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if required by law or by a payment or infrastructure provider, or to protect the Service or third parties from harm. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections 3, 5, 7, 8, and 12 through 18 survive termination.
12. Export control and encryption
The Service transmits and stores data encrypted by you and is subject to U.S. export-control laws, including the Export Administration Regulations. You must not access or use the Service in violation of those laws, and you are responsible for confirming that your use of encryption is lawful in your jurisdiction and in any jurisdiction into which you transmit data.
13. Disclaimer
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Expiry and one-time deletion are how the Service is designed to behave. Delivery is best-effort, and we do not warrant that any stored item will be retrievable before it expires or is consumed. Data loss through expiry, prior retrieval, or a lost encryption key is an expected characteristic of the Service, not a defect.
14. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SLIDINGBOX LLC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR GOODWILL. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR A CLAIM WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT PAID FOR THE OPERATION GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR US $50.
Nothing in this section limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
15. Indemnification
You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SLIDINGBOX LLC and its members, officers, and agents from and against any third-party claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the Service, the data you submit through it, your breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or your violation of applicable law or the rights of a third party.
16. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Nothing in these terms limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived.
Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at support@slidingbox.ai and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Sheridan County, Wyoming, and you and we consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. Each party may bring claims only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective, or representative proceeding.
17. General
You may not assign these terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. Neither party is liable for a failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control. These terms, together with the Acceptable Use Policy, Refund and Dispute Policy, Law Enforcement and Abuse Policy, and Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
18. Changes and contact
We may update these terms by posting a revised version with a new effective date. Your continued use of the Service after an update takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the Service. Questions may be sent to support@slidingbox.ai, or by mail to SLIDINGBOX LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801.