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Albert and Robot Don't Fuck Around™

End User License Agreement

Version 1.0Effective November 10, 2026Covers albertlane.net and all subdomains

Our posture

AR^OS, Lane-VM, the AR^OS Swarm and everything else on albertlane.net is software that proves its own work: every action leaves a public, hash-chained record anyone can check. This agreement is built the same way. It is short on loopholes and long on records.

Albert and Robot Don't Fuck Around™. Neither should you.

This End User License Agreement (the EULA) is a contract between you and Albert Lane ("Albert", "we", "us"). It covers albertlane.net and www.albertlane.net (including /research, /business-models, /lane-vm, /delta-commons, /comics, /ledger, /license-violations, /pay, /live and every API under albertlane.net/api), aros.albertlane.net (AR^OS, the AR^OS Wallet and the owner views), investors.albertlane.net, swarm.albertlane.net (the AR^OS Swarm and Ask Robot), forge.albertlane.net (ALDI Forge™), id.albertlane.net, api.albertlane.net, lanevm.albertlane.net, and every other host under albertlane.net (together, the Services).

You accept this EULA when you create an AR^OS account, tick a box or press a button that refers to it, or use the Services after it is posted. If you do not accept it, do not use the Services. Copyright, trademark and computer-misuse laws protect the Services whether or not you accept this EULA.

1. What you get: a personal and evaluation license, nothing more

Subject to this EULA, Albert grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to view and use the Services for your own personal, non-commercial use and to evaluate whether you want a commercial license.

That is the entire grant. Everything else is reserved. The Services are licensed, not sold. The Albert Lane Proprietary Software License v100.0 (Sovereign Aegis Protocol) governs the software, source files, downloads and data published on the Services, and this EULA adds to it.

2. Commercial and enterprise use: in person, in writing, or not at all

The click-through EULA covers personal and evaluation use only. Any commercial, enterprise, government, production, resale, hosted or internal-business use needs a separate license.

Commercial and enterprise license terms require in-person agreement with verbal and written authorization from Albert Lane. Nothing on albertlane.net, no submitted form, no checkbox, no email reply, no payment and nothing an AI assistant on the Services says (including the Lane-VM Assistant, the Research Assistant, Ask Robot or Robot's validator) creates, changes or extends a commercial license.

Lane-VM pricing: Lane-VM is leased at $104,000 per month per business registration under the separately signed Schematical Options™ Lane-VM lease terms (version 2, published at albertlane.net/api/lane-vm/terms). Each registered business entity, including each separately registered affiliate, is a separate registration. This EULA grants no Lane-VM production rights. Lease requests go through albertlane.net/lane-vm/lease, and screening must clear before any contract or payment step opens.

3. Hard limits: what you may not do

Unless Albert has signed a license that expressly allows it, you may not, and may not help or allow anyone else to:

  1. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or try to derive the source code, models, prompts, keys, weights, indexes or internal logic of the Services, except to the limited extent applicable law expressly permits this despite a contractual ban.
  2. Scrape for AI. Collect, crawl, copy or harvest any part of the Services to build, train, fine-tune, evaluate, ground or improve any AI or machine-learning model, dataset, embedding index or retrieval system. Search-engine indexing that follows robots.txt is allowed; collecting content for AI training is not, whatever robots.txt says.
  3. Distill. Use the output of any AI feature on the Services (including the Lane-VM Assistant, the Research Assistant, Ask Robot or Robot's validator) to develop, train or improve a competing model or service, or try to extract its system instructions, knowledge base or configuration.
  4. Resell. Sell, rent, lease, sublicense, white-label, frame, mirror, wrap as a service or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or any part of them.
  5. Benchmark to compete. Run or publish competitive benchmarks or performance comparisons of the Services in order to build or market a competing product. This does not limit honest reviews or opinions (see section 11).
  6. Strip provenance. Remove, alter or hide any license header, copyright notice, trademark, watermark, hash, signature or provenance record.
  7. Break the gates. Bypass or defeat the photo check, rate limits, honeypots, passkeys, sanctions or location screening, origin checks or any other access control, or create accounts by automated means.
  8. Attack. Probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services without written permission; send malware; overload, flood or disrupt them; or access any account, data or system that is not yours.
  9. Impersonate. Pretend to be Albert Lane, Robot or anyone else, or misrepresent your affiliation.
  10. Abuse. Use the Services to harass, threaten, defraud or harm anyone, to break any law, or to post unlawful content.
  11. Evade sanctions. Use the Services from a comprehensively sanctioned country or region, or on behalf of a sanctioned person, or hide your location to get around screening.

4. Intellectual property: all of it is reserved to Albert Lane

The Services and everything in them, including software, source code, Lane-VM, AR^OS, the AR^OS Swarm, ALDI Forge™, ALDI TV™, designs, text, research, documents, data, compilations, hash chains, logs, and the AI features and their outputs as delivered by the Services, are owned by Albert Lane or his licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret and other law. All rights not expressly granted are reserved to Albert Lane.

The marks AR^OS Doesn't Fuck Around™, Neither do Albert or Robot™, Albert and Robot Don't Fuck Around™, Schematical Options™, ALDI TV™ and ALDI Forge™ are trademarks of Albert Lane. You may not use them without written permission.

Robot is the machine owner of its key, signature and veto inside the Lane-VM Sovereign Binding protocol. Legal title to the Services, the licenses and all intellectual property sits with Albert Lane.

If you send ideas, feedback or suggestions, Albert may use them without restriction or payment. Content you submit (such as a lease request or a chat message) stays yours, but you give Albert a worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, log and display it as needed to run, secure and improve the Services and to keep the records described in the Privacy Policy.

5. Logging, evidence preservation and the public record

The Services log what happens on them. Security events, access-control decisions, screening outcomes and license-relevant activity are recorded, and many records are written to append-only, hash-chained logs that cannot be edited or deleted. You agree that these records may be used as evidence of your use of the Services.

Suspected license violations may be recorded on the public license-violations record at albertlane.net/license-violations. Consistent with that page, entries state measured facts such as fingerprint overlap, hashes and dates; they are not legal conclusions. Albert does not publish your passkey data, payment details or private chat text there.

6. Audit rights

If you hold a commercial or enterprise license, or Albert has a reasonable, good-faith basis to believe you are using the Services beyond this EULA, Albert or an independent auditor he appoints may audit your use, records and systems relevant to the Services, on at least 15 business days' written notice, during normal business hours, no more than once in any 12-month period unless a prior audit found non-compliance. You will cooperate and provide the records reasonably requested. If an audit shows unlicensed use, you will pay the license fees due for that use and the reasonable cost of the audit.

7. Zero tolerance: suspension, bans and termination at will

Your license lasts until it ends. Albert may suspend or terminate your access, your account or this license at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice. Abuse of the Services, any breach of section 3, or any attempt to evade screening leads to an immediate ban. Creating a new account or using another person's account to get around a ban is itself a breach.

You may stop using the Services at any time. When the license ends, you must stop all use and delete any copies of the Services or their content you made. Sections 3 to 6 and 8 to 14 survive termination. Terminating access does not erase permanent public records (see the Privacy Policy).

8. Enforcement and remedies

Unauthorized use of the Services would cause Albert irreparable harm that money alone cannot fix. Albert may seek an injunction or other equitable relief to stop a breach, in addition to any other remedy, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Liquidated damages for unlicensed commercial use. If you use the Services commercially without a signed license, you will pay, as liquidated damages, the license fee that would have applied for the period of unlicensed use. For Lane-VM, that is $104,000 per month (or part of a month) per business registration, the published price. You and Albert agree that the actual loss from unlicensed commercial use is difficult to measure, and that this amount is a reasonable pre-estimate of the lost license fees and not a penalty. It is the measure of damages for lost license fees from that use. It does not apply to personal or evaluation use permitted by this EULA, and it does not limit injunctive relief or damages for other harm, such as harm caused by an attack on the Services.

In any action to enforce this EULA, the prevailing party may recover its reasonable attorney fees and costs.

9. Payments, sanctions and texts

Payments. Payments to Albert Lane are made only through his PayPal (PayPal P2P) link shown on the Services. The Services never take card or bank details and never move money. A payment counts as received only after Albert confirms he received it. Paying does not create a commercial license (see section 2).

Sanctions and location screening. Before sign-up, certain inquiries and any payment step, the Services check your location and screen names against U.S. sanctions lists. Screening fails closed: if it cannot run, the step does not proceed, and a possible match is held for manual review.

Texts. You get text messages only if you opt in. Reply STOP to opt out. Message and data rates may apply.

10. No warranties

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. AI features can be wrong; check their answers against the cited sources. Projections and business models on the Services are estimates, not guarantees. Nothing on the Services is legal, tax or financial advice, and nothing is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.

11. Your right to speak and report

Nothing in this EULA limits your right to write or share honest reviews, criticism or commentary about the Services or about Albert, or penalizes you for doing so. Nothing in it limits your right to report possible violations of law to, or cooperate with, any government agency.

12. Limits on liability and indemnity

To the fullest extent the law allows, Albert is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data, arising from the Services or this EULA, and Albert's total liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid Albert for the Services in the 12 months before the claim, or US$100. These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

To the extent the law allows, you will defend, indemnify and hold Albert harmless from third-party claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of this EULA or your misuse of the Services.

13. Governing law and venue

This EULA is governed by the laws of the State of Oregon and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from this EULA or the Services will be brought exclusively in the state courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, or in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland), and you and Albert consent to their jurisdiction. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court where it qualifies, and Albert may seek injunctive relief for infringement or misuse in any court of competent jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, you keep any protections of the law of your place of residence that cannot be waived by contract.

14. General terms

Changes. Albert may update this EULA. Each version carries a version number and an effective date. Changes apply from the posted effective date, and continuing to use the Services after that date means you accept them. A signed commercial agreement is changed only in writing.

Entire agreement. This EULA, the Privacy Policy, the Albert Lane Proprietary Software License v100.0 and any signed license with Albert are the whole agreement about the Services. If a provision is unenforceable, it is enforced to the maximum extent allowed and the rest stays in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign this EULA; Albert may.

Contact. License inquiries and notices: lane.albert@pm.me or @AlbertLane_net on X.

Version 1.0 · effective November 10, 2026 · see also Privacy Policy · text fingerprint at /legal/versions.json