Acceptable Use

This policy forms part of the Subscription Terms, and you agree to it when you create your account.

What CloudVerdict is for

Comparing the cost of object storage for workloads you are responsible for, as part of your own business decisions.

You must not

Share your account. A subscription belongs to one person. You must not share your sign-in details, let anybody else use your account, or buy a subscription to be used by somebody other than you. A company wanting several people buys several subscriptions.

Resell what you are shown. You must not resell, sublicense, or provide CloudVerdict results, or the PDFs and CSVs you export, as a service to others. Using a result in your own advice to your own client is fine; putting CloudVerdict behind a product you charge for is not.

Scrape, or automate around the interface. You must not use automated means to extract prices, results, or provider data at scale, bypass the limits of your tier, or make more requests than a person using the product would.

Copy the pricing data out as a dataset. The comparison is yours to use. The compiled pricing data behind it is a database we made, and it is not yours to extract and redistribute as a dataset of its own. Nor may you rebuild it from what you export: you must not gather PDFs or CSVs, across use cases, versions, or accounts, into a collection of prices or rates, or of results other than your own, or work rates out of an export, such as by dividing a total by a volume, to reproduce what we compile. Reading your own export into a spreadsheet to work with it is fine.

Interfere with the service. No attempt to gain unauthorised access, to reach another subscriber's data, to probe or test security without our written permission, to introduce malicious code, or to disrupt availability.

Misrepresent what a result is. You must not present a CloudVerdict result as a quotation, an offer, or a price any provider has agreed. It is an estimate built from published list prices, and it should be described as one.

Use it unlawfully. No use that breaks the law, infringes anybody's rights, or breaches an agreement you have with a cloud provider.

Deceive us, or pay with what is not yours. You must not give a false identity, impersonate anybody, or pay with a card or account you are not entitled to use.

Open accounts to get around a limit or a decision. You must not hold more than 1 open account at a time, or open an account to get around a tier's limits, a suspension, or a closure.

Take it apart, or build on it. You must not copy, decompile, or reverse engineer CloudVerdict, except as the law allows, or use CloudVerdict, the pricing data as we compile it, or anything you export from it, alone or gathered with other exports, to build, train, or improve a product or service that compares or estimates the cost of cloud services, or to supply one with data other than your own. Taking your own workloads and results with you to another service is fine.

Use it where the law forbids it. You must not use CloudVerdict if you are, or act for, a person subject to sanctions under the law of the United Kingdom, or from a country or for a purpose that such law prohibits.

Harass our staff. Correspondence with us must not be abusive or threatening.

Security testing

We welcome security reports. Please email security@apexedgesalesengineering.com before testing anything, and never test against another subscriber's account or data.

If this policy is breached

We may suspend or close your subscription under the Subscription Terms. Where it is reasonable to do so we will tell you first and give you the chance to put it right. Where a breach is serious, or continuing, or unlawful, or involves fraud, we may act immediately and without notice. We may keep a record of a breach and how we dealt with it, report unlawful activity to the authorities, and give information to them where the law requires or allows it.

Reporting misuse

Report suspected misuse to legal@apexedgesalesengineering.com, or a security problem to security@apexedgesalesengineering.com.

Contact points

Each kind of correspondence has its own address. Using the right one matters: a data rights request has a statutory clock running on it, and a security report should not wait in a support queue.