### Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) forms part of Ventrilo’s [Terms of Use](/content/terms-of-use/index.html) (the “Terms”) and governs the use of Ventrilo’s Services. This AUP is intended to help you use our Services in a legal, safe, and responsible way and describes activities that are prohibited in connection with your use of the Services. Violating this AUP could result in action against your access to the Services, or suspension or termination as further described in this AUP and/or the Terms.

We cannot predict all acceptable or unacceptable uses of our technology, particularly as it relates to the AI-Powered Agent’s ability to access and analyze Input, such as Browser Content, which is why the prohibited or restricted conduct in this AUP is not exhaustive. If we detect or reasonably suspect a violation of this AUP by you or through your account, we may throttle, suspend, or terminate your access to our products and services.

We may update this AUP from time to time in our sole discretion. Your continued use of the Services following such update will constitute your acceptance of the applicable updates. All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Terms.

1. **General Use Restrictions.**

When using or interacting with any of our products or services, you may not contribute anything (including any Inputs such as conversations, Document Content, Browser Content, training data, or user-generated content) or otherwise use our products or services in ways that:

1. **Violate Rights or Laws**
   - infringe or violate the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including ours);
   - violate any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control, sanctions, and trade compliance laws, privacy and data protection laws, and laws related to consumer and child protection, SPAM, obscenity or defamation;
   - facilitate the production, acquisition, or distribution of counterfeit or illicitly acquired goods;
   - promote or facilitate the generation or distribution of spam;
   - generate content for fraudulent activities, schemes, scams, phishing, or malware that can result in direct financial or psychological harm;
   - create falsified documents including fake IDs, licenses, currency, or other government documents;
   - attempt to defraud, deceive, or impersonate any other person or entity, misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, hide your identity, or otherwise use the Services for any invasive or fraudulent purpose.

2. **Threaten Security or Privacy**
   - jeopardize the security of your account or anyone else’s (such as allowing someone else to log in to our products or services as you);
   - attempt, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user;
   - violate or bypass the security of any computer network, or crack any passwords or security encryption codes, circumvent safeguards or safety mitigations in our products or services, or engage in unauthorized activities that violate the security of any service or system;
   - violate privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws, such as sharing personal information without consent or accessing personal data unlawfully;
   - misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access without permission to private information such as non-public contact details, health data, biometric or neural data (including facial recognition);
   - gain unauthorized access to systems, networks, applications, or devices through technical attacks or social engineering;
   - create or distribute malware, ransomware, or other types of malicious code;
   - develop or use tools for denial-of-service, interception, or unauthorized monitoring/device control;
   - bypass security controls such as authenticated systems, endpoint protection, or monitoring tools;
   - use of someone’s likeness, including their photorealistic image or voice, without their consent in ways that could confuse authenticity.

3. **Misuse Our Services or Technology**
   - “crawl,” “scrape,” or “spider” or otherwise extract data or output from our products or services (through use of manual or automated or programmatic means), other than via our documented APIs for our products and services;
   - reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code or underlying structure, ideas or algorithms of our products, services, APIs;
   - take any action that imposes, or may impose (as determined by us, in our sole discretion), an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
   - create similar or competitive products or services as our products or services or otherwise compete with us;
   - circumvent bans using different accounts or sharing access with previously banned entities;
   - intentionally bypass model restrictions (e.g., jailbreaking, prompt injection);
   - use Inputs/Outputs to train or improve an AI model without authorization (“model scraping” or “model distillation”);
   - deploy the AI-Powered Agent in a manner that imposes unreasonable burdens on third-party websites or services;
   - use Output to create datasets, train competing AI models, or develop competitive products or services;

4. **Engage or Promote Illegal or Harmful Activities**
   - use the AI-Powered Agent to access, collect, or analyze content from websites hosting illegal content or facilitating illegal activities;
   - engage in or promote any illegal activity such as terrorism, cybersecurity crime, organized crime, or child sexual exploitation;
   - create, distribute, or facilitate sexually explicit content, including depictions of sex acts/fetishes;
   - produce/modify/design/acquire weapons, explosives, or hazardous materials;
   - attempt to gain unauthorized access to critical systems;
   - engage in or facilitate real money gambling.

5. **Engage in Deceptive Conduct**
   - generate deceptive or misleading content such as fake reviews, comments, or media;
   - engage in or facilitate academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism or submitting AI-assisted work without attribution/permission;
   - misrepresent the AI-Powered Agent’s capabilities or Outputs as human-generated analysis or human browsing activity;

6. **Incite Harm or Discrimination, or Exploit Vulnerable Populations**
   - incite or promote violence, hatred, or discriminatory behavior;
   - spread false, misleading, or harmful information;
   - exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a person (e.g., age, disability, or socio-economic situation);

7. **Fail to disclose AI involvement, Browser Content access, or related risks**
   - fail to disclose that information or recommendations were informed or generated by AI or derived from Browser Content accessed via the AI-Powered Agent when necessary or reasonable to mitigate risks.

2. **AI Agent Transparency and Browser Content**

When using Ventrilo’s AI-Powered Agent, you acknowledge and agree that you may not use the AI-Powered Agent to access, collect, or analyze Browser Content from:

- Websites where you do not have authorized access or where automated access is prohibited;
- Password-protected areas of websites where you have agreed not to use automated tools;

3. **Prohibited Use Cases**

In addition to the above general use restrictions, when using our AI-Powered Agent and related products specifically, we prohibit the following use cases:

1. **Interference in Elections or Surveillance; Impair Civil Rights**
   - interfere in political campaigns or election processes;
   - engage in surveillance: tracking, targeting, or reporting on identity, facial recognition;

2. **Automated Scoring or Decision-Making**
   - assign social/behavioral “scores” to individuals (social scoring) without consent;

3. **Prohibited or Hazardous Applications**
   - any use that is sensitive, critical, unsafe, high-risk, or hazardous.

4. **Unauthorized Website Access and Content Harvesting**
   - use the AI-Powered Agent for large-scale or systematic harvesting of content from third-party websites beyond individual personal use;

5. **High-Risk Use Case Requirements**
If you are using or deploying our products and services as part of providing legal, medical, or financial advice or other professional services to consumers, we require that you implement the additional safety measures listed below:

- Human-in-the-loop: You must ensure that the final decision complies with all applicable laws related to such use, including any requirements for human review, special audits and testing, consent, notice, or disclosure. 
- Disclosure: you must disclose to your end users or customers that you are using our services to help inform your decisions or recommendations.
- Transparency: you may not misrepresent the origin of any response or Output from our AI-Powered Agent or related product by claiming or implying such Output was created by a human.