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# Shared Responsibility Model

> How responsibility for security, privacy, and operations is divided between you and Nscale across our AI Services.

export const NA = () => <span className="text-zinc-400 dark:text-zinc-500">n/a</span>;

export const Nscale = () => <span className="inline-flex items-center justify-center rounded-md bg-blue-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium text-blue-800 dark:bg-blue-900/40 dark:text-blue-200">
		Nscale
	</span>;

export const Shared = () => <span className="inline-flex items-center justify-center rounded-md bg-emerald-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium text-emerald-800 dark:bg-emerald-900/40 dark:text-emerald-200">
		Shared
	</span>;

export const Yours = () => <span className="inline-flex items-center justify-center rounded-md bg-purple-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium text-purple-800 dark:bg-purple-900/40 dark:text-purple-200">
		Yours
	</span>;

Nscale operates and secures the AI Services platform. You own the content, configuration, and access decisions inside your account. The matrix below sets out where each responsibility sits across Serverless inference, Fine-tuning, and Datasets.

<Note>
  This page covers AI Services. Compute, networking, and storage products have separate boundaries — contact [helpdesk@nscale.com](mailto:helpdesk@nscale.com) for product-specific guidance.
</Note>

## Legend

| Marker     | Meaning                                                |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| <Yours />  | You configure, supply, or operate this control.        |
| <Shared /> | Both parties contribute; obligations are split.        |
| <Nscale /> | Nscale implements, operates, and assures this control. |
| <NA />     | Not applicable to this service.                        |

## Your layer

Controls you configure, supply, or operate. Nscale has no visibility into the substance of these decisions and cannot assume responsibility for them.

| Control                                 | Serverless inference | Fine-tuning |  Datasets |
| --------------------------------------- | :------------------: | :---------: | :-------: |
| Prompt & query content                  |       <Yours />      |    <NA />   |   <NA />  |
| Training data content & quality         |        <NA />        |  <Yours />  | <Yours /> |
| Service tokens & access control         |       <Yours />      |  <Yours />  | <Yours /> |
| Application & integration code          |       <Yours />      |  <Yours />  |   <NA />  |
| Input / output data retention & privacy |       <Yours />      |  <Yours />  | <Yours /> |
| Regulatory & legal compliance           |       <Yours />      |  <Yours />  | <Yours /> |
| Model & inference parameters            |       <Yours />      |    <NA />   |   <NA />  |
| Fine-tuning job configuration           |        <NA />        |  <Yours />  |   <NA />  |

## Boundary

Controls where obligations are split. Nscale provides the underlying capability; you are responsible for using it correctly within your application and operational processes.

| Control                          | Serverless inference | Fine-tuning |  Datasets  |
| -------------------------------- | :------------------: | :---------: | :--------: |
| Encryption in transit (TLS)      |      <Shared />      |  <Shared /> | <Shared /> |
| Billing & usage monitoring       |      <Shared />      |  <Shared /> | <Shared /> |
| Incident response & notification |      <Shared />      |  <Shared /> | <Shared /> |

## Nscale layer

Controls Nscale implements, operates, and assures on your behalf as part of the managed service.

| Control                               | Serverless inference | Fine-tuning |  Datasets  |
| ------------------------------------- | :------------------: | :---------: | :--------: |
| Base model weights & updates          |      <Nscale />      |  <Nscale /> |   <NA />   |
| Inference serving runtime             |      <Nscale />      |  <Nscale /> |   <NA />   |
| Fine-tuning compute & runtime         |        <NA />        |  <Nscale /> |   <NA />   |
| Dataset storage & integrity           |        <NA />        |  <Nscale /> | <Nscale /> |
| Autoscaling & availability SLA        |      <Nscale />      |  <Nscale /> | <Nscale /> |
| GPU compute & virtualisation          |      <Nscale />      |  <Nscale /> |   <NA />   |
| Network security & DDoS protection    |      <Nscale />      |  <Nscale /> | <Nscale /> |
| Physical infrastructure & data center |      <Nscale />      |  <Nscale /> | <Nscale /> |

## Related

* [Service Level Objectives](/docs/help/service-level-objectives) — support hours, response targets, and incident priority definitions.
* [Terms](/docs/help/terms) — contractual terms governing your use of Nscale services.