Legal — Device Owners
Effective date: July 7, 2026 · Platform status: Private beta
These Device Owner Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement only between you, as a hardware contributor (a “Device Owner,” or “you”), and Olive Compute, Inc., a Delawarecorporation having an address at 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713 (“Olive,” the “Company,” “we,” or “us”). They govern your installation and use of the Olive desktop application (“the Olive app”) and your participation as a compute provider on the Olive network (the “Platform”).
The people who pay to runcompute jobs (“Customers”) are covered by a separate document, the Customer Terms of Service. These Terms speak only to you, the Device Owner.
By downloading, installing, running, or configuring the Olive app, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not install or run it.
All of the hardware that you contribute to Olive is individually and collectively referred to herein as the “Devices.”
By installing the Olive app, you allow Olive to schedule and run sandboxed compute jobs on your Devices:
We know the main thing you care about: that letting Olive run other people’s jobs will not expose or damage your own files. Here is exactly what is and is not true.
You are notexpected to police what runs on your Devices — that is Olive’s and the Customer’s responsibility. Olive only schedules jobs that Customers submit, and the Customer Terms prohibit harmful and illegal workloads— including malware and exploits, attacks on other systems (scanning, DDoS, command-and-control), unauthorized cryptocurrency mining, illegal content, and the other categories listed in the Customer Terms’ Acceptable Use section. Olive screens for these and runs only jobs it has signed and dispatched.
Is this an honor system? Partly, and that is normal for infrastructure. Olive does not routinely inspect the content of Customer jobs, and often cannot see it. We rely on the Customer Terms, on the limited signals we can see (job metadata, provenance, reputation, and sampled checks), and on reports. We reserve the right to investigate suspected abuse, inspect job metadata, suspend jobs or accounts, preserve information, and cooperate with valid legal process — and we comply with mandatory legal obligations, including reporting child sexual abuse material.
No screening is perfect. If you believe a job is misusing your Devices, pause Olive immediately (Section 8) and report it to support@olivecompute.com.
Olive is a third-party Platform. Olive does not guarantee or assure that your Devices will be used in any given time period, or at all. It may be that your Devices will not be used, and therefore that you will not be paid any money from Olive.
You are responsible for any taxes on what you earn through Olive. Olive does not give tax advice.
Olive is designed so it cannot take over your Devices, and you always have a way to reduce or stop its resource use:
A future release may add granular, user-adjustable CPU/RAM/disk controls; until then, Sharing Mode and Pause on Battery are the primary user-facing levers.
You may leave the network at any time. You can pause Olive, quit it, or uninstall it using your operating system’s standard uninstall process. On uninstall, any local Olive data is removed from your Devices and your node is deactivated on our scheduler.
Note that your account and earnings history are retained as described in the Privacy Policy’s Data Retention section, including after you stop using the Olive app or close your account, because we are required to keep certain payment and tax records by law.
1. AS IS: THE PLATFORM, SOFTWARE, AND SANDBOX ENVIRONMENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW IN CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, FLORIDA, AND ALL OTHER JURISDICTIONS. OLIVE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ACCESSING YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER AND FILES THROUGH A SOFTWARE SANDBOX CARRIES INHERENT TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DATA LOSS, SYSTEM CORRUPTION, MALWARE EXPOSURE, OR OPERATING SYSTEM FAILURE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, AND SECURITY OF YOUR SYSTEM RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS PLATFORM.
2. SPECIFIC LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY — WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE — SHALL OLIVE BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. THIS INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, COMPUTER FAILURE, OR HOST SYSTEM DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS.
3. SPECIAL CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 WAIVER. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT OR ACCESSING THE PLATFORM FROM CALIFORNIA, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.”
4. USER REPRESENTATION & ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF LOCAL CONTROL. YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE THE LAWFUL OWNER OR AUTHORIZED ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COMPUTERS AND OPERATING SYSTEM BEING ACCESSED THROUGH THE PLATFORM. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PLATFORM MERELY PROVIDES A SOFTWARE SANDBOX FRAMEWORK AND THAT YOU REMAIN SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING INDEPENDENT DATA BACKUPS, SYSTEM RESTORE POINTS, AND LOCAL SECURITY PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO AND DURING EVERY SESSION.
How this fits with how Olive is built. Nothing in this Section changes the protections described in Section 2. Customer jobs still run in a sealed sandbox with no network access and cannot reach your files, and Olive is still specifically designed to prevent unauthorized access to your data. This Section allocates legal risk to the fullest extent the law allows; it does not mean those protections are absent or that we expect them to fail — it is the ordinary legal backstop that sits behind them.
MANDATORY BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT, TO HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
1. BINDING ARBITRATION. YOU AND OLIVE AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE, CLAIM, OR CONTROVERSY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE PLATFORM, THE USE OF YOUR DEVICE, OR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN US — WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY — SHALL BE RESOLVED EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, RATHER THAN IN A COURT OF LAW, ADMINISTERED BY JAMS UNDER ITS STREAMLINED ARBITRATION RULES & PROCEDURES AND THE JAMS CONSUMER ARBITRATION MINIMUM STANDARDS OF PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS, SEATED IN DELAWARE. THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS THAT EITHER PARTY MAY ASSERT INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT IF THE CLAIMS QUALIFY.
2. CLASS ACTION WAIVER. YOU AND OLIVE EXPLICITLY AGREE THAT ALL DISPUTES MUST BE ARBITRATED OR LITIGATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, COORDINATED, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE BASIS. BY AGREEING TO THESE TERMS, YOU HEREBY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO FILE A CLASS ACTION, TO PARTICIPATE AS A CLASS REPRESENTATIVE, OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, MASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING AGAINST OLIVE. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON’S CLAIMS, AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF A REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD DECLARATORY OR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ONLY IN FAVOR OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING RELIEF AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO PROVIDE RELIEF WARRANTED BY THAT PARTY’S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM.
3. MASS ARBITRATION PROVISION. IF 25 OR MORE SIMILAR ARBITRATION DEMANDS ARE FILED AGAINST THE COMPANY BY THE SAME OR COORDINATED COUNSEL WITHIN A 90-DAY PERIOD, THE JAMS MASS ARBITRATION PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES WILL APPLY, INCLUDING THEIR FLAT MASS-ARBITRATION FILING FEE AND CONSOLIDATED PROCESS ADMINISTRATOR PROCEDURES. THIS PROVISION IS INTENDED TO PREVENT A COORDINATED MASS FILING FROM IMPOSING CRUSHING UPFRONT PER-CASE FEES DESIGNED TO FORCE SETTLEMENT RATHER THAN RESOLVE CLAIMS ON THE MERITS.
We may update these Terms. We will post changes with an updated effective date and, for material changes, notify you by email or in-product notice. Continued use of the Olive app after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
Olive Compute, Inc.
131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713
Email: support@olivecompute.com