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Terms of Service

Version 2026-11-09. Last updated: November 9, 2026

These Terms govern your use of fdeacademy.dev and the FDE Academy course (the "Service"), operated by 14328507 Canada Inc. ("we", "us"). By creating an account or subscribing you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. What the Service is

FDE Academy is an educational course with interactive lessons about AI engineering, model inference and customer-facing engineering. It is general information for learning. It is not professional, legal, financial, security or career advice, and it does not guarantee that you will get a job, a particular salary, or any specific result.

2. Accounts

You sign in with Google or an email link. You must provide a valid email address, be at least 16 years old, and keep your sign-in method secure. You are responsible for activity on your account. The licence is for your personal learning. We do not police occasionally sharing your login with a colleague, but you must not publish or sell access or share it widely, and we may suspend accounts that do.

3. Subscriptions and billing

• Plans. Monthly at $10 USD per month or annual at $79 USD per year (US dollars), or the price shown at checkout. Taxes may be added where they apply.
• Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically each period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal on your Account page. Cancelling stops future charges, and you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for.
• Payment. Payments are processed by Stripe, which acts as merchant of record. We do not see your card details.
• Failed payments. If a renewal fails, we allow a short grace period (currently 3 days) before paid access pauses. Access resumes when payment succeeds.
• Price changes. We may change prices for future periods with advance notice. You can cancel before a new price applies.
• What is included. Access to all paid chapters, labs and scenarios, and to updates and new chapters released while your subscription is active. Chapters and features may be added, revised or retired over time.

4. Refunds

You can request a full refund within 24 hours of your first payment by emailing admin@fdeacademy.dev. After that window, payments are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. Cancelling stops future charges, and you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for. Where the law gives you a right to a refund or cancellation, those rights are not affected by these Terms.

5. Licence and acceptable use

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and use the Service for your own learning while your account is in good standing. You agree not to:

• copy, republish, resell, sublicense or distribute the content, including by sharing paid pages, files or screenshots publicly;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the Service, or use automated tools to extract content;
• use the content to build or train a competing course or a machine-learning model;
• remove or tamper with identifiers embedded in paid content, or attempt to bypass sign-in, rate limits or other protections;
• interfere with the Service or other users, or use it unlawfully.

Paid pages carry an identifier linked to your account so that unauthorised copies can be traced. We may suspend or end accounts that breach these rules. Free chapters may be linked to and shared by link, but may not be republished.

6. Our content and third-party material

We and our licensors own the course content, design, code and logo. Company names, logos and job postings shown on the site belong to their owners, are used only to identify employers and public information, and do not imply any affiliation or endorsement. Job listings and pay figures come from public job boards as of the snapshot date shown, change often, and are not an offer or promise. Always confirm details on the employer's own posting. The inference module follows the topic scope of the book Inference Engineering by Philip Kiely; the course text is independently written and is not endorsed by the author or Baseten.

7. Your own AI keys

Some labs let you use your own AI provider API key. The key stays in your browser and is not sent to us. You are responsible for your provider's charges and terms, and we recommend using a key with a spending limit.

8. Accuracy and disclaimers

AI tools, models and hardware change quickly. We work to keep content accurate and current, but we do not guarantee it is complete, error-free or suitable for your situation, and simulated numbers in labs are illustrative. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" to the extent the law allows. Test anything yourself before using it in production or with customer data.

9. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for lost profits, data or opportunities, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or any statutory consumer rights you have.

10. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time (cancel any active subscription first). We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms or misuse the Service, or if we discontinue the Service, in which case we will give notice and a fair refund for any prepaid period we cannot honour.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If the changes are material we will notify you and ask you to accept the new version before you continue. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept it.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, and disputes will be decided by the courts there, subject to any mandatory consumer protections where you live.

13. Contact

Questions: admin@fdeacademy.dev.