Terms of Service

The terms that govern your use of the RAD platform and our services.

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Last Updated: 19 August 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the RAD (Rapid Application Deployment) platform, our websites, and related services (together, the "Services") provided by Tech Equity ("we," "our," or "us"). By accessing or using the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are using the Services on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" refers to that organisation.


1. The Services

RAD is a web application that simplifies the deployment and management of enterprise-grade cloud platforms. RAD deploys infrastructure using pre-built blueprints into Google Cloud, which is the only cloud provider the Services currently support. Support for further providers may be offered in future, but no such support forms part of the Services unless and until we state otherwise in writing. Depending on your subscription, deployments may run in Google Cloud projects that you own and control, or in projects provisioned and managed by us on your behalf. Where we provision and manage the project, the additional terms in Section 14 also apply, and they describe controls and automated actions that do not apply to projects you hold directly with Google.

Beta release. The Services are currently offered as a beta release, ahead of general availability. Features are under active development: some are incomplete, may change or be withdrawn without notice, and may not function as described. Interfaces, pricing structures, credit mechanics, and the module and solution catalogue may change between releases. You should not rely on the Services for production workloads without independently satisfying yourself that they meet your requirements, and you should maintain your own backups and recovery arrangements for anything you deploy. The disclaimers in Section 9 and the limitations in Section 10 apply with particular force during the beta period.


2. Third-Party Cloud Provider Terms

The Services are built on, and in some cases resell, third-party cloud infrastructure. Your use of the Services is therefore additionally subject to the terms of the underlying cloud provider:

  • Google Cloud. Where the Services are delivered on, or resold through, Google Cloud, we pass through to you — and your use of the Services is subject to — the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service, including the documents incorporated into those terms (such as the Service Specific Terms and Acceptable Use Policy). These are incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where these Terms conflict with the Google Cloud terms in respect of the Google Cloud services themselves, the Google Cloud terms control.
  • Customer-managed projects. Where RAD deploys into a Google Cloud project that you hold directly with Google, your agreement with Google governs your use of Google's services. You are responsible for maintaining that agreement and for all fees Google charges to your account.
  • Third-party and open-source software deployed by modules. The modules and solutions in our catalogue install third-party software, most of it open source, which is licensed to you by its own authors on its own terms — not by us. Your use of that software is governed by those licences, and it is your responsibility to review and comply with them, including any obligation that attaches to running the software as a service or to redistributing it. We do not grant any licence to that software, give any warranty in respect of it, and are not responsible for its content, security, or availability. A module may also require you to accept a third party's own terms, or to supply your own licence key or credentials, before it will function.

We do not control, and are not responsible for, changes the cloud providers make to their services or terms. We will pass through provider terms as they are updated by the provider.


3. Accounts and Registration

To use the RAD platform you must create an account with accurate, complete information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly at admin@techequity.cloud if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.


4. Subscriptions, Fees and Payment

The Services are offered under the subscription tiers described on our pricing page. Subscription fees are billed in advance for each billing period and are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated otherwise. We may change our fees with notice effective from your next billing period.

Cloud infrastructure consumption charges are separate from RAD subscription fees. Where infrastructure runs in your own cloud account, the provider bills you directly. Where we resell cloud services to you, infrastructure charges are invoiced by us on the applicable provider's pass-through pricing terms.


5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:

  • use the Services in violation of applicable law, these Terms, or the applicable cloud provider's acceptable use policy;
  • attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other customers' environments, or the systems of our cloud providers;
  • use the Services to distribute malware, conduct denial-of-service attacks, send unsolicited communications, or infringe the rights of others;
  • resell, sublicense, or provide the Services to third parties except as expressly permitted by your subscription;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Services, except to the extent permitted by law.


6. Your Content and Data

You retain all rights to the data, configurations, and content you submit to or deploy through the Services ("Customer Content"). You grant us the limited rights needed to operate the Services on your behalf, including deploying Customer Content to the cloud environments you designate. You are responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights to the Customer Content and that its use with the Services complies with applicable law. Our collection and use of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.


7. Intellectual Property

We and our licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Services, including the RAD platform, blueprints, software, and documentation. No rights are granted to you other than as expressly set out in these Terms. Open-source components included in or deployed by the Services (such as OpenTofu) are licensed under their respective open-source licenses.


8. Service Availability and Support

We work to keep the Services available and performant, but the Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis unless a separate written agreement with us states otherwise. During the beta period described in Section 1, availability may additionally be affected by ongoing development work, and we do not offer an availability commitment or service level agreement unless one is set out in a separate written agreement with you. Scheduled maintenance, provider outages, and factors outside our reasonable control may affect availability. Support terms, where applicable, are described in your subscription tier.


9. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that any feature will reach general availability or be retained in its current form, or that deployment durations, credit costs or other figures observed elsewhere will be reproduced in your environment.


10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, or business opportunity; and (b) our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the amounts you paid to us for the Services in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.


11. Termination

You may cancel your subscription at any time, effective at the end of the current billing period. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services for material breach of these Terms (including non-payment or violation of the acceptable use provisions) if the breach is not cured within a reasonable period after notice, or immediately where required to protect the Services, other customers, or our cloud providers. Upon termination, your right to use the Services ceases; provisions that by their nature should survive (including Sections 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12) survive termination. Infrastructure deployed into your own cloud accounts remains yours and is unaffected by termination of your RAD subscription, though you become responsible for managing it directly.


12. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms, except where applicable law provides otherwise.


13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated Terms on this page and revise the "Last Updated" date above. For material changes, we will provide notice by email or through the Services before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.


14. RAD-Managed Google Cloud Projects — Additional Terms

This Section applies only where you deploy into a Google Cloud project that we provision and manage for you (a "RAD-Managed Project"), which you select when you deploy. It does not apply to deployments into a Google Cloud project you hold directly with Google. Where this Section conflicts with the rest of these Terms, this Section controls for RAD-Managed Projects.

14.1 The project is ours; what runs in it is yours. A RAD-Managed Project is created under our Google Cloud organisation and billed to our Google Cloud billing account. You do not hold a direct agreement with Google in respect of it, and you do not own the project itself. You retain your rights in the Customer Content you deploy into it under Section 6. Because the project is ours, the controls and automated actions described below are available to us, and they are the price of not having to hold your own cloud account.

14.2 Tiers. RAD-Managed Projects are offered in tiers. Each tier carries a monthly Google Cloud budget, a minimum purchased-credit balance you must hold before a project on that tier can be created, and its own set of restrictions. The tiers available to you, and the figures applicable to each, are shown in the platform at the point of deployment. We may change those figures with notice under Section 13.

14.3 Restrictions we apply. RAD-Managed Projects are created with organisational policies and guardrails that constrain what can run in them. These include, and may not be limited to: a restricted set of Google Cloud services and APIs; a restricted set of deployment regions; and a limit on how many RAD-Managed Projects you may hold at one time. Each tier also carries a monthly Google Cloud budget, which raises spend alerts; a budget notifies and does not block, so it is not a cap and we do not describe it as one. The control that actually interrupts a project is the automated suspension in Section 14.4. Some modules and solutions in our catalogue cannot be deployed into a RAD-Managed Project at all, either because they require a service the guardrails do not permit or because they are unsuited to the tier. These restrictions exist to bound the cost and blast radius of a project billed to us, they may change as we tune them, and a change may mean a module or region that worked previously is no longer available.

14.4 Automated suspension of billing. Where your purchased credit balance falls below zero, we may automatically disable Google Cloud billing on your RAD-Managed Project. This is done by an automated process without prior notice to you, and it will interrupt everything running in that project: services will stop, and resources that depend on continuous operation may be degraded or lost. Billing is re-enabled automatically once your purchased credit balance is restored, but we do not guarantee that any resource or data in the project survives the interruption, and restoring your balance does not restore anything that was lost while billing was disabled. You are responsible for maintaining a sufficient balance and for your own backups.

14.5 Retention — when a dormant deployment record is removed. We remove our records of a deployment only when all of the following are true. Each is a separate condition, and any one of them keeps your record:

  • the deployment has not been created, changed, or otherwise acted on within the retention period applicable to your subscription, which is shown in the platform;
  • you have not signed in to RAD within that same period;
  • you hold no purchased credits — that is, no subscription or top-up balance. Awarded credits do not count, since they were granted rather than bought; and
  • we have sent you a notice at the address on your account, and a further grace period has since passed. We do not remove a record without having notified you first. If we cannot reach you, we keep the record.

Records of RAD-Managed Projects themselves are excluded from this process entirely and are not removed by it.

What removal does and does not do. Removal deletes our records — the deployment record and the infrastructure-as-code state we hold for it. It does not stop, delete, or otherwise affect the cloud resources themselves. They continue to run, and:

  • In a project you hold directly with Google, Google continues to bill you for them. Once our records are gone we can no longer manage or remove them on your behalf, and you will need to remove them yourself in the Google Cloud console.
  • In a RAD-Managed Project, the project is ours and we may delete it, and everything in it, when your subscription ends or where these Terms otherwise permit — for example following the suspension in Section 14.4. Such deletion is permanent and unrecoverable, so export anything you need before your subscription ends.

14.6 Not for production, and no availability commitment. RAD-Managed Projects on our lower tiers are intended for evaluation, development, and training. They carry a monthly Google Cloud budget that raises alerts as spend approaches and exceeds it — alerts notify, and do not stop a workload — they are subject to the automated suspension in Section 14.4, which is the control that does interrupt a project, and no availability commitment or service level agreement applies to them. Do not place production workloads, personal data you cannot afford to lose, or anything requiring continuous availability into a RAD-Managed Project unless a separate written agreement with us says otherwise.

14.7 Deployments made for you by another user. Where an administrator, trainer, or organisation provisions a deployment on your behalf — for example for a training cohort — the credits for that deployment are drawn from your balance, not theirs, and the deployment is recorded as yours. The person who created it can view and remove the deployments they created for you; they cannot view or remove deployments you create yourself. If you do not want deployments provisioned on your behalf, do not join a cohort or accept an invitation to one.


15. Contact

Questions about these Terms should be sent to admin@techequity.cloud with "Terms of Service" in the subject line, or by post to:

Tech Equity
16 Carew Close
Grays, Essex, RM16 6RZ
United Kingdom