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These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the website, Azure Marketplace offers, and consulting and managed services provided by Derek Coleman Associates Corporation, doing business as DC Associates Group ("DC Associates Group", "we", "us", or "our").
Effective date: July 11, 2026
By accessing our website or using any of our offers or services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization. If you do not agree, do not use our website, offers, or services.
We provide (a) production-ready, hardened virtual machine images and Kubernetes (container) applications and software-as-a-service offers published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace; and (b) consulting, custom development, and managed services. Our offers are deployed into, and run within, your own Microsoft Azure subscription under your control and governance.
Offers obtained through the Azure Marketplace are transacted by Microsoft as the merchant of record. Software license fees for our offers, and the underlying Azure infrastructure, are billed to you by Microsoft under the Microsoft Azure Marketplace Terms and your agreement with Microsoft. Pay-as-you-go software fees are charged only while a deployed VM is running. Consulting and managed services engagements are billed directly by us under a separate written agreement.
Our images package open-source and third-party software that is licensed to you under its own respective license terms. Those licenses govern your use of the underlying components, and nothing in these Terms limits your rights, or adds obligations, under an applicable open-source license. Third-party trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only; their use does not imply endorsement or affiliation.
You agree not to use our website, offers, or services to: violate any applicable law or regulation; infringe the intellectual property or privacy rights of others; distribute malware or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system; or interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of our services. You are responsible for securing, configuring, patching, and operating any instance you deploy, and for all activity within your Azure subscription.
The DC Associates Group name, logo, website content, image build automation, and documentation are owned by Derek Coleman Associates Corporation and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted to you to use our offers as intended, no other rights are granted.
We build our images against current security advisories and ship them without shared or default credentials. However, except as expressly stated in a signed written agreement, our website, offers, and services are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Derek Coleman Associates Corporation and its affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, or business, arising out of or related to your use of our website, offers, or services. Our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms will not exceed the amounts you paid to us (if any) for the offer or service giving rise to the claim in the twelve months preceding the claim.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Derek Coleman Associates Corporation from any claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your misuse of our website, offers, or services, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.
These Terms apply while you access or use our website, offers, or services. We may suspend or terminate access for conduct that violates these Terms or applicable law. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification — will survive.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State in which Derek Coleman Associates Corporation is organized, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The courts located in that jurisdiction will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute not subject to arbitration, to the extent permitted by law.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date above and post the updated Terms at this URL. Your continued use of our website, offers, or services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
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