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Terms of Service

Last updated October 18, 2026 · version 2026-10-18.2

These terms are the agreement between you and Unthrottled ("we", "us") for using the Unthrottled website, your account and the Unthrottled agent for Windows. By creating an account or using Unthrottled, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use Unthrottled.

Please read What Unthrottled is and Advice, risk and liability in particular. Our suggestions are general guidance, and any change you make to your PC is your decision and your risk.

What Unthrottled is

Unthrottled is an automated tool. It reads the sensor logs you upload or record with the agent, runs rule-based checks on them, and shows you scores, findings and suggestions. An optional AI analysis, open only to invited testers for now, can add a written review of the same findings.

• It only reads. Neither the website nor the agent changes any hardware setting. They don't change power limits, clocks, voltages, fan curves, memory profiles or firmware. If a setting changes, it's because you changed it yourself, in your BIOS or in other software.
• It isn't an inspection or a repair service. Unthrottled is not a manufacturer validation, an electrical safety inspection, a repair service or a substitute for a qualified technician. It can't see the condition of your parts, cables, connectors or power supply.
• It doesn't guarantee outcomes. We don't guarantee that a finding is a correct diagnosis, that a suggestion will improve anything, or that any setting is safe for your hardware.

Who can use Unthrottled

You must be at least 13 to use Unthrottled, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age. When you sign up, we ask for the month and year you were born to check this, and we keep only the age band it falls in, never the date itself. Accounts created before we asked are asked once, before they see their results. If you tell us you're under 13, we won't show any results and we'll review the account.

Accounts of people under 18 don't show detailed tuning steps. They still show every finding and its risks. If you're under 18, talk to a parent, guardian or qualified technician before changing any hardware settings.

You agree to these terms by ticking the box on the sign-up form. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data. We record which version of these terms you agreed to, when, and how.

Advice, risk and liability

Unthrottled's scores, findings and suggestions are general guidance worked out automatically from your sensor logs. They are not professional advice, and they may not suit your hardware. Logs can be incomplete, sensors can misreport, and our analysis can be wrong, including anything written by AI. When a run's readings look unreliable or unsafe, Unthrottled holds back tuning suggestions for it, but no check catches every problem.

Any change you make to your hardware or its settings is your own voluntary decision, made at your own risk. That includes changing power limits, voltages, clocks, memory profiles, fan curves or cooling, updating firmware, replacing parts, and acting on anything else Unthrottled suggests. Changes like these can cause instability, data loss, a shorter component life, voided warranties or permanent damage. You decide whether a change is right for your hardware, and you're responsible for checking it against the manufacturers' guidance and watching your system afterwards. Keeping your current settings is always an option.

Our hardware risks guide explains the main risks of each kind of change and what the analysis can't tell you. Please read it before acting on a suggestion.

No warranty. To the extent permitted by law, Unthrottled, including the website, the agent and everything they show, is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We don't promise that it will be accurate, complete, available without interruption, free of errors or fit for any particular purpose, or that following its suggestions will be safe for your hardware or improve its performance.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for damage to your hardware, loss of data, lost profits, or any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of Unthrottled or from acting on its advice.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for fraud, intentional misconduct or gross negligence, or any other liability that can't be excluded or limited by law. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that can't be waived.

Your responsibilities

When you use Unthrottled, you agree to:

• give accurate information about your hardware and your runs, and only upload logs as they were recorded
• only upload logs from computers you own, or that you have the owner's permission to test
• back up anything important before you change a hardware setting or update firmware
• follow your hardware makers' specifications and instructions, which come before anything Unthrottled says
• not tamper with the agent, its readings or its uploads

Your account

Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep your email address up to date. Keep your password to yourself: you're responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has got into it, change your password and let us know.

Acceptable use

When you use Unthrottled, don't:

• upload logs or other data from someone else's computer or account without their permission, or anything else you don't have the right to share
• post content that is unlawful, abusive or harassing, including in names, notes, ratings and arena titles
• use bots or scripts to scrape or bulk-download the site, other than the agent doing its normal job
• attack the service: probe it for weaknesses, overload it, get around its limits, or try to get into accounts or data that aren't yours, except for security research that follows the rules below
• upload malware, or files made to break or slow down our systems
• pretend to be someone else, or create extra accounts to get around a suspension or to game the Arena
• use Unthrottled for anything illegal

If you break these rules, we may remove content, or suspend or close your account.

Security research

If you find a security problem, we want to hear about it. Report it to the contact listed in our security.txt file. Good-faith research is welcome as long as you:

• only test against your own account and data, or accounts you created for testing
• stop as soon as you reach anyone else's data, don't keep or share it, and tell us about it
• don't disrupt the service: no denial-of-service attacks, heavy automated scanning, spam or social engineering
• give us a reasonable chance to fix the problem before you tell anyone else

Research that follows these rules doesn't break these terms, and we won't take legal action against you for it. We don't currently pay rewards for reports.

Your content

You own the logs, runs, builds, notes and other content you add to Unthrottled. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process and analyze that content, and to show it to you, so we can run the service. The license also covers:

• including averaged figures from your runs in community comparisons, unless you switch that off on your account page
• showing your Arena entries to other Arena users, as described below and in our Privacy Policy
• publishing a rating you give us, with your first name or username, if it's 75 or higher and we choose to feature it. We'll take it down if you ask.

The license ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies in our backups, which are replaced on their normal schedule. You're responsible for what you add, and for having the right to share it.

The Arena

The Arena is an invite-only beta where people put scored runs on shared leaderboards. Because it's a beta, its rules, scoring and boards may change or be reset, and we may pause or end it at any time.

Play fair. Arena runs must be real runs, recorded by the agent on hardware you own or control, under the conditions the arena sets. Don't edit or fabricate logs, tamper with the agent or its readings, or use more than one account to improve your standing.

Other Arena users can see your entries, including your first name (or username), the main parts in your build, the programs you ran and your scores. Scores come from our own calculations and aren't a guarantee of how your hardware performs. We may hide or remove entries, recalculate scores, or remove anyone from the Arena if we think an entry breaks these rules or a score is wrong.

The Windows agent

What it does. The agent reads your PC's hardware sensors while it's open, records runs when you ask it to, and uploads them to your account after you confirm. Arena runs upload automatically when their timer ends. It can also detect your hardware to set up a build, and it checks in with our server while it's open. It only reads: it never changes a hardware setting. The Privacy Policy lists exactly what it sends.

Administrator rights and the CPU sensor driver. The agent runs without administrator rights and only asks for them when you choose something that needs them. Some readings, such as CPU temperature and power, need administrator rights and a kernel driver. With your consent, the agent installs PawnIO, a signed driver made by a third party and covered by its own license. PawnIO stays installed until you remove it, even if you uninstall the agent, because other monitoring tools can use it too. To remove it, open Windows Settings, go to Apps, then Installed apps, and uninstall PawnIO.

Updates. The installed version of the agent gets its updates from our server. It checks for new versions while it's open and, depending on your settings, installs them automatically when it starts or waits for you to choose Update now. Updates can add, change or remove features, and older versions may stop working with Unthrottled. The portable version doesn't update itself.

Removing it. Uninstall the installed version from Windows Settings like any other app, or delete the folder if you use the portable version, then unlink the device on your Agent page. Runs the agent saved on your PC stay in your Documents folder until you delete them.

Software license

The agent is licensed to you, not sold. Our software license sets out what you may do with it: in short, you may install and use it on computers you own or control, with your Unthrottled account, but you may not sell or redistribute it, or modify it to send false or manipulated data. Parts of the agent come from other developers and keep their own licenses, which the software license lists. The software license is part of these terms.

Ads and paid plans

Unthrottled is free to use and supported by ads. We may also offer Premium as a paid plan, either Premium Monthly (a subscription) or Premium Lifetime (a one-time payment). If you buy a paid plan, the following applies.

Premium Monthly

• It renews every month, and you're charged each month until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from the billing portal, which you can reach from your account page. You keep Premium until the end of the period you've paid for, and you won't be charged again.
• If we change the monthly price, we'll tell you in advance, and you can cancel before the new price applies to you.
• Deleting your account cancels a Monthly subscription immediately.

Premium Lifetime

• Lifetime is a one-time payment with no renewals.
• It covers the Premium features available on the day you buy it, which are listed on the pricing page and on your account page, for as long as Unthrottled operates. Premium features added after your purchase aren't included. They come with Premium Monthly.
• If you buy Lifetime while subscribed to Monthly, your subscription stops renewing and you keep Monthly until the end of the period you paid for.
• If a Lifetime payment is refunded or reversed, the Lifetime plan ends. Lifetime belongs to your account, so deleting the account ends it.

Both plans

• We give refunds where the law requires them.
• The price you pay is the one shown at checkout, including any taxes we're required to collect.
• Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.

Availability

We work to keep Unthrottled running, but we don't guarantee any level of availability or uptime. It will sometimes be unavailable, for example during maintenance, updates or a problem at our hosting provider, and features may change or stop working. Keep your own copies of anything important: the agent saves every run it records on your PC, and you can download your data from your account page at any time.

Suspension and termination

You can stop using Unthrottled whenever you like, and delete your account from your account page.

We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you break these terms, if your use puts other people or the service at risk, or if the law requires it. Where it's reasonable, we'll tell you why. Unthrottled will also change over time, and we may add or remove features. If we decide to shut Unthrottled down, we'll try to give you notice first so you can download your data.

The section on advice, risk and liability still applies after your account ends.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as Unthrottled changes. Each version has a date and a version number at the top of this page, and earlier versions stay available. When we make a material change, we'll show you what changed and ask you to agree to the new terms before you can keep using your account. Until you agree, you can still download your data or delete your account. If you don't agree with a change, stop using Unthrottled and delete your account.

General

If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Reach us through our contact form.

All versions: 2026-10-19 (current), 2026-10-18.3, 2026-10-18.2, 2026-10-18.