# Terms and Conditions
- All instances including their persistent storage will be resetted twice a year: 1st of March and 1st of September.
- The Sandbox may cancel or suspend your access to Sandbox services at any time and for any reason without notice. Upon cancellation or suspension, your right to use the service will stop immediately. You may not have access to data that you stored on the service after we suspend or terminate the service.
- You are solely responsible for all content on your account. You agree to immediately notify the Sandbox Team of any unauthorised use of your account or any other breach of security.
- The Sandbox is not responsible for any loss or damage arising from hardware failures or misbehaviour of any users.
- You are responsible for backing-up your data that you use with the service.
- You agree that any violations listed in our Acceptable Usage Policy are considered prohibited usage and may result in immediate account suspension and/or termination without compensation.
- Intentional or Malicious violations of our Acceptable Usage Policy will result in immediate termination, and a ban from any further service.
- Any usage of the service will be tracked in order to ensure a stable infrastructure.
# Acceptable use Policy
**Failure to comply will result in removal of the active service.**
- Services will be terminated if the client is found to be hosting illegal content or content of offensive nature (Child porn, extremist sites, terrorist sites, copyright protected data etc).
- Any type of script, code, or other file that performs harmful action, either to the user affected or as a bulk action triggered by the user.
- Knowingly permitting or hosting malicious content is grounds for immediate termination, and a permanent ban from any future service.
- Streaming of audio or video files is grounds for immediate termination.
- All abuse notices will have to be responded to within 24hours to avoid the service being suspended, unresolved abuse cases will result in termination of the service after 72hours.
- The terms on this page are subject to change at our sole discretion, it is always the clients responsibility to stay updated on the current regulations.
# Contact
## Sub-Team Lead
- Prof. Dr. Peter Thies
## Technical Assistants
- Cornelius Specht
- Malte Grosse
# Imprint
See [hdm-stuttgart.de](https://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/impressum)
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