Status
No SparkBench product is offered, licensed or sold through this website. The website terms below apply to reading this site. The licence section is a draft structure with its undecided terms marked; it is not in force and does not become in force by being published here.
Website terms of use
- Operator
Pending. The operator's legal identity has not yet been published on this preview. It will be stated here before these terms are relied on for any product.
- Purpose of the site
To describe a product in development and to host the support, privacy and terms pages that will apply to it. Content describes intentions and tested behaviour as dated; it is not a specification, a commitment to release, or advice.
- Accuracy
We try to keep every statement here true and dated. Statements about what has been tested refer to bounded synthetic tests described on the status page. We do not warrant that the site is error-free. If something is wrong, tell us through the support page.
- Your use
You may read, link to and quote this site with attribution. Do not misrepresent its contents as a released product, an endorsement, or a guarantee.
- Names and marks
The SparkBench name and the bench-and-spark symbol identify this project. Microsoft, Excel and Microsoft 365 are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies; SparkBench is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
- Third-party components
The typefaces Bricolage Grotesque and Atkinson Hyperlegible are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the licence texts are served with the fonts at /assets/fonts/bricolage-grotesque/OFL.txt and /assets/fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible/OFL.txt. The site uses no other third-party code or imagery.
- Links to other sites
Links to Microsoft documentation and standards pages are provided for reference. Those sites have their own terms.
- Governing law
Pending. Governing law and venue for these website terms will be stated together with the operator's identity.
Add-in licence: draft structure
When the SparkBench add-in is offered, a licence agreement will govern its use. The headings below are the structure that agreement will follow. Each heading states the design intention where one exists and marks the commercial or legal content as pending. Nothing here grants a licence today.
- Parties
The publisher (identity pending, as above) and the customer, who may be an individual or an organisation acting through its administrator.
- Licence grant and scope
Pending. Whether the licence is per user, per organisation or otherwise, and any seat limits, have not been decided. No scope should be inferred from this website.
- Fees
Pending. No prices are published or offered. The publisher expects that use of a remote AI will have a cost separate from the add-in itself; who pays it and how depends on the undecided access route described in the administrator notes. Any charges, currency and limits will be disclosed where the product is acquired before any payment is due.
- Third-party AI services
The add-in depends on a remote AI service to write jobs. The provider, the account route and the provider's terms are pending. The customer's use of that service will be subject to those terms, which will be identified here when chosen.
- Data handling
Governed by the privacy policy. The design rule is that only the approved task description, data structure and shareable development material are sent to the AI; workbook contents and private-derived results stay on the user's device. The licence will restate this as an obligation on the publisher, once the implementation has been verified against it.
- Acceptable use
Intended terms: use the add-in with data you are entitled to process; do not use it to attempt to extract or exfiltrate data from a workbook you are not authorised to read; do not attempt to defeat the local-execution boundary or tenant controls. Final wording pending.
- Development status and warranty
Pending. Any pre-release or pilot programme will carry explicit pre-release terms. Warranty and liability terms have not been drafted and are not implied by anything on this site.
- Support
Pending. No service levels or response times are committed. The support page describes what is available during development.
- Term and termination
Pending.
- Governing law and disputes
Pending.
Licensing route
If SparkBench is offered through Microsoft's add-in store, the publisher must either provide its own licence agreement at a public address or adopt Microsoft's standard contract for the store. Microsoft documents that the standard-contract choice cannot be reversed after publication. That choice has deliberately not been made, and this page does not make it. This address is reserved so that whichever route is chosen can be published here.
What is not yet decided
- The publisher's legal identity and registration number.
- Governing law and venue.
- Licence model, seat rules and fees.
- The AI provider, account route and third-party terms.
- Warranty, liability, support commitments, term and termination.
- Whether to use a custom licence or Microsoft's standard store contract.
These items block any commercial offer. They do not block an honest description of a product in development, which is what this website is.