Offline / Air-Gapped Addendum

Scope

This Offline / Air-Gapped Addendum is part of bitfield-product-terms-2026-05-11. It applies when Bitfield runtime artifacts, Command Center, or builder products are used without continuous online activation checks.

Offline permission model

Offline use may be allowed through signed manifests, signed activation leases, release hashes, grace windows, renewal files, watermarking, audit logs, and account-approved offline terms.

A local lease or offline grant is not a permanent ownership transfer. It is a bounded permission to run the specified product release under the specified account and release policy.

Physics limits

Local software cannot fully defeat host-controlled time, virtual machine snapshots, rollback, copied bytes, or extracted files forever. Bitfield does not promise impossible offline enforcement.

The real controls are signed artifacts, lease windows, revocation on reconnect, watermarking, audit rights, and contractual limits on copying, rollback, and unauthorized use.

Customer duties

• Renew offline leases or release permissions through the approved Bitfield path before they expire.
• Do not spoof time, replay old leases, roll back activation state, clone activated machines, or copy offline grants to unauthorized environments.
• Keep required audit logs, watermark identifiers, and release evidence when your plan or builder grant requires them.
• Reconnect or provide audit evidence when Bitfield reasonably requires it for security, compliance, or renewal.

Reduced or stopped functionality

If an offline lease expires, a required renewal is missed, a release is revoked, or audit evidence is missing, protected runtime features may stop or run in a reduced mode until valid permission is restored.