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Terms

Last updated November 13, 2026

These terms cover renting a Mac from Covekeel and hosting a Mac for Covekeel. By creating an account or paying for a plan you agree to them.

What you rent

Each plan is a whole Mac mini, used by your account alone, for the period you pay for. Plans are monthly, quarterly or yearly; the shortest rental is one month. You get an administrator account on macOS and remote access by browser, WireGuard (Screen Sharing and SSH) and RustDesk.

The Mac runs Apple's macOS. By using it you accept Apple's software license agreement for macOS and the license terms of any other software on it, including software we preinstall. The Mac is provided for developer use: building and testing software, running developer tools, and automation.

Billing, renewal and cancellation

• Plans renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel in billing. Prices are shown before you pay and charged in US dollars through Stripe.
• When you cancel, your Mac stays available until the end of the period you already paid for.
• If a renewal payment fails or a plan ends, remote access is turned off after a 24 hour grace period. The Mac and its data are kept for 48 more hours; renewing in that time reconnects it unchanged. After that the Mac is erased and goes back to the pool. Copy anything you want to keep before your plan ends.
• If we cannot provide a Mac you paid for, we refund the unused part of the period.

Acceptable use

You may not use a Covekeel Mac to:

• mine cryptocurrency, or run sustained compute jobs for third parties;
• send spam or bulk messages, including through Messages or email;
• resell, sublet or share access to the Mac, or run a proxy, VPN or relay service for others;
• share or resell accounts or subscriptions of any third party service, or get around a service's regional availability or usage rules;
• break the law, infringe others' rights, or attack, scan or probe other systems.

You are responsible for following the terms of every service you use from the Mac. We may suspend a Mac that breaks these rules; for clear abuse such as mining, spam or attacks we may end the plan without a refund.

Your data

We do not look at your screen or your files. Our software on the Mac reports only whether it is online and healthy (disk space, temperature, versions) and applies the passwords and settings for your plan. Back up anything important: a Mac is a single machine and hardware can fail. If it does, we move you to another Mac; the data on the failed one may not be recoverable.

Some Macs are run by vetted hosts at their own premises in the United States. Those Macs use FileVault disk encryption and hosts have no account on them. Every Mac is erased before it goes to the next renter.

Hosting a Mac

If you host a Mac for Covekeel, you earn the share shown in your host dashboard of the rent collected for that Mac in each calendar month, after refunds: 60% when it runs in our server room and 75% when it runs at your place. Statements close on the 2nd of the following month. A Mac at your place must stay on a wired connection, with no more than 3 Covekeel Macs on one internet connection, and you may not access it or its data while it is enrolled.

Availability and liability

We work to keep every Mac online but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. To the extent the law allows, Covekeel is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Changes and contact

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will email account owners before the change takes effect. Questions: support@covekeel.com.

Mac, Mac mini, macOS, FileVault and Xcode are trademarks of Apple Inc. Covekeel is not affiliated with Apple.