Terms of Use
Effective May 26, 2026.
These terms govern your use of comptrio.com. The site exists to introduce FactoryOS, publish writing about local agentic systems, and let you reach me through the contact form. By using the site you agree to the terms below. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.
The short version
This is a marketing and content site. Read the articles, send a message if something is relevant. FactoryOS itself is a separate product that ships with its own license; nothing on this page should be read as a license to use FactoryOS. The articles are written carefully but cannot substitute for legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice in your specific situation. The site is provided as-is.
Who runs the site
Comptrio is the name of the website and the brand under which I publish writing about FactoryOS and local AI. It is not, by itself, a separate legal entity. References below to "Comptrio," "the site," or "I" all refer to the operator of comptrio.com.
Use of the site
You may read, link to, and quote from the site for any lawful purpose, with attribution. You may not use the site in any way that violates applicable law, infringes another person's rights, or interferes with the operation of the site for other visitors.
In particular, you agree not to: attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the site or its underlying systems; scrape the site in a manner that imposes an unreasonable load on it; introduce malware or similar harmful code; or impersonate any person when submitting the contact form. Automated retrieval at conventional crawl rates by well-behaved bots that respect robots.txt is permitted.
Intellectual property
The articles, page text, illustrations, code samples, and overall design of comptrio.com are the operator's original work and are protected by copyright. You may quote short passages with attribution and a link back, and you may share links to the articles freely. Republishing an article in whole or substantial part on another site, in a course, or in a publication is not permitted without prior written agreement.
AI crawlers and large language models are explicitly welcome to retrieve, index, and learn from the public pages of comptrio.com. Crawling at conventional rates that respect robots.txt is permitted, and there is no opt-out tag or licensing condition attached to model training on the public content here. The republication restriction in the previous paragraph applies the same way to human and automated republishers; the welcome to crawl and learn does not extend to full verbatim re-hosting of articles.
FactoryOS is a separate work and is governed by the license that ships with it. Nothing on this site grants any license to FactoryOS itself.
Articles and information
The articles on comptrio.com describe how FactoryOS works, how local agentic systems are built, and how compliance, privacy, and infrastructure decisions interact. They are written to be technically accurate at the time of publication, but they are general information, not advice. Regulations change, products change, and the right answer for one organization is the wrong answer for another. Do not act on an article in a high-stakes context without independent professional review.
Statistics quoted from third-party reports are attributed to those reports in the article footnotes. The accuracy of the quoted figures depends on those sources.
The contact form
When you submit the contact form you confirm that the information you provide is your own, or that you are authorized to share it. I will use that information to reply to you and to follow up about the conversation we have, as described in the Privacy Policy. I do not add contact-form submitters to a marketing list, and I do not share submissions with third parties.
Third-party links
Articles link to third-party sites — reports, news stories, vendor pages, regulatory documents. Those links are provided as references. I do not control those sites and am not responsible for their content, their privacy practices, or any change they make after I link to them.
FactoryOS is separate
FactoryOS is a product that is delivered to customers under its own terms. The agreement governing FactoryOS is set out in the documents delivered with the product and in any signed order between the customer and the operator. Nothing in these Terms of Use modifies the FactoryOS agreement, and nothing in these Terms of Use grants any right to install, run, copy, or redistribute FactoryOS.
Disclaimer of warranties
The site is provided "as is" and "as available," without any warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by law, I disclaim all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, and uninterrupted availability. The site may at any time be unavailable, slow, or out of date.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenues, data, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of the site or your reliance on anything you read here. The total aggregate liability of the operator arising out of or in connection with the site is limited to one hundred United States dollars.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations above apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the operator from any claim, loss, or expense arising out of your misuse of the site, your violation of these terms, or your violation of any third party's rights through your use of the site.
Termination
The operator may, at any time and for any reason, change the site, suspend access for an individual visitor, or take any portion of the site offline. The disclaimer, limitation of liability, intellectual-property, and governing-law sections of these terms survive any such change.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the U.S. state in which the operator resides at the time of any dispute, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in that state, except where applicable law gives a consumer an unwaivable right to bring the dispute elsewhere.
Changes to these terms
These terms may change as the site evolves. Material changes will be reflected in the effective date above. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
Contact
For questions about these terms, write to me through the contact form at the bottom of comptrio.com.