Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: May 2026 · Version: 1.0

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is incorporated into and forms part of the Terms of Service governing your use of CoreDeck ("Service"). It describes activities that are prohibited when using the Service. By using the Service, you agree to comply with this AUP.

CoreDeck reserves the right to determine, in its reasonable discretion, whether any use of the Service violates this AUP, and to take enforcement action accordingly.

1. Prohibited Uses

You may not use the Service to:

1.1 Illegal Activity

• Engage in any activity that violates applicable law, regulation, or third-party right
• Promote, facilitate, or encourage illegal activity
• Provide false or misleading information to government authorities
• Violate sanctions or export control regimes

1.2 Harmful or Malicious Content

• Distribute, transmit, or store malware, viruses, ransomware, spyware, worms, trojans, or other malicious code
• Engage in phishing, social engineering, or impersonation of individuals or organizations
• Harvest, collect, or scrape personal information about other users without consent
• Conduct unauthorized vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, or security probing of CoreDeck infrastructure or third-party systems

1.3 Child Safety

• Create, store, transmit, generate, request, or distribute Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) or any content sexualizing minors
• Use the Service in any manner that exploits, endangers, or solicits children
• Generate content with the intent to groom, deceive, or harm minors

1.4 Harassment and Hate

• Threaten, harass, intimidate, stalk, or incite violence against any individual or group
• Generate or distribute content that promotes hatred or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics
• Distribute non-consensual intimate imagery

1.5 Intellectual Property Infringement

• Infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or publicity rights
• Deliberately generate content intended to reproduce, mimic, or closely imitate specific copyrighted works, trademarked materials, or the distinctive style of identifiable creators without authorization
• Generate content for commercial use without independently verifying that such use does not infringe third-party rights
• Circumvent any safety, watermarking, or attribution mechanisms built into the Service or its underlying AI models
• Generate or distribute outputs that you know or should reasonably know infringe third-party intellectual property rights

1.6 Disinformation and Deception

• Create, distribute, or amplify false or misleading information with intent to deceive
• Generate deepfakes, synthetic media, or other content designed to impersonate real persons in misleading ways
• Manipulate elections, public opinion, or political processes through coordinated inauthentic behavior
• Generate fraudulent documents, false identification, forged signatures, or counterfeit materials

1.7 Privacy Violations

• Collect, store, or share personal information about others without their consent or in violation of applicable privacy laws
• Generate content that reveals private or sensitive information about identifiable individuals
• Use the Service for unauthorized surveillance or tracking

1.8 Spam and Unsolicited Communications

• Send spam, unsolicited bulk messages, or unsolicited commercial communications
• Generate content for use in spam campaigns
• Use the Service to bypass anti-spam protections of third-party services

1.9 Abuse of the Service

• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code from the Service
• Bypass, disable, or circumvent rate limits, usage quotas, or other technical limitations of the Service
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or related infrastructure without authorization
• Use automated means (bots, scrapers, crawlers) to access the Service except as expressly permitted
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service, servers, or networks connected to the Service

2. AI-Specific Prohibitions

In addition to the prohibitions above, when using AI features of the Service, you may not:

2.1 Model Misuse

• Use outputs from the Service to develop, train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence model that competes with the AI providers underlying the Service (including but not limited to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google)
• Use the Service to substitute, replace, or circumvent the use of these AI providers' models
• Use the Service to create or improve models substantially similar to the AI providers' models

2.2 Adversarial Use

• Use prompt injection, jailbreaking, or similar techniques to bypass the Service's safety measures or those of underlying AI models
• Attempt to extract training data, model weights, or system prompts from underlying AI models
• Use the Service to generate content designed to evade content moderation systems

2.3 High-Risk Domains Without Independent Verification

You may not rely on outputs of the Service as the sole basis for decisions in domains with significant legal, financial, medical, or safety consequences. Examples include:

• Medical diagnosis, treatment, or prescription
• Legal advice or legal document drafting for binding use
• Financial investment decisions or tax filings
• Safety-critical engineering, infrastructure, or industrial control
• Hiring, lending, or other consequential decisions about individuals

You may use the Service to assist or accelerate work in these domains, but outputs must be independently verified by a qualified human professional before being relied upon.

3. Account Use Restrictions

You may not:

• Share your account credentials with any other person
• Allow any other person to access or use your account
• Transfer or assign your account to any other person
• Create or maintain multiple accounts to circumvent rate limits, plan restrictions, free tiers, or other Service limitations

These restrictions are detailed further in Section 4.2 of the Terms of Service.

4. General Prohibitions

In addition to the specific prohibitions above, you may not use the Service in any manner that:

1. is intended to or likely to cause harm to any person, organization, or property, or to the integrity or operation of the Service;
2. violates any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right;
3. is fraudulent, deceptive, abusive, or otherwise objectionable; or
4. is, in CoreDeck's reasonable judgment, harmful, malicious, or inconsistent with the lawful purpose of the Service.

5. Reporting Violations

If you become aware of any violation of this AUP, please report it to [email protected]. Include as much detail as possible, including any relevant account identifiers, content, or context.

For copyright infringement notices, please contact [email protected] in accordance with our Copyright Policy.

For security issues, please contact [email protected].

6. Enforcement

CoreDeck reserves the right to determine, in its reasonable discretion, whether any use of the Service violates this AUP.

6.1 Enforcement Actions

Depending on the nature and severity of a violation, CoreDeck may:

• Issue a warning to the account holder
• Suspend access to the Service temporarily
• Restrict specific features or functionality
• Remove or disable access to specific content
• Permanently terminate the account
• Report violations to law enforcement or relevant authorities

The general progression for non-severe violations is warn → suspend → terminate. For severe violations (including but not limited to CSAM, threats of violence, large-scale fraud, or coordinated abuse), CoreDeck reserves the right to terminate the account immediately and without prior notice.

6.2 Cooperation with Authorities

CoreDeck may cooperate with law enforcement, regulatory authorities, and rights holders in investigating violations. We may preserve and disclose user information, content, and activity records as required or permitted by applicable law.

6.3 No Refund for Termination Due to Violation

Termination of your account due to a violation of this AUP does not entitle you to a refund of any fees paid.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP from time to time to reflect changes in our Service, applicable law, or industry practices. When we make material changes, we will notify you in accordance with the notification process described in our Terms of Service.

8. Contact

Questions about this AUP can be sent to [email protected].