Usage Policy

A. Account Terms

1. You are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of user IDs and passwords. Appspace cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
2. You are responsible for all Content posted on and activity that occurs under your account (even when You did not post the Content, but it is posted by others who have access, legal or otherwise, to your account, but not if the Content was posted by Appspace or any Appspace employee, contractor, or agent).
3. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the services, including your Content, may be transferred unencrypted and may involve transmissions over various networks; and may also involve changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

B. Prohibited Wrongful Activities; Inappropriate Content and Communications

1. You may not use Appspace Products or Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or to violate any applicable laws (including without limitation data, privacy, and export control laws). By way of further example this includes, but is not limited to, the following:
   
   • Any activity that violates a person’s privacy, including publishing or posting a person’s private and confidential information without their express permission, or collecting or gathering a person’s personal information (including account names or information) from our services.
   • Any activity that harms, threatens or exploits children or minors (including child pornography, which Appspace will promptly remove and report to law enforcement, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).
   • Any activity that infringes upon the rights of Appspace or others (e.g., unauthorized sharing of music, photographs, logos, or of any other copyrighted or otherwise protected materials (such as those covered by intellectual property rights, trade secrets, or moral, proprietary or contractual rights)).
   • Sending, generating, hosting, posting, or transmitting unsolicited bulk email or instant messages, i.e., spam.
   • Publicly displaying inappropriate images, such as nudity, bestiality, pornography/sexually explicit, etc.
   • Engaging in activity that is false or misleading, such as attempts to ask for money under false pretences, impersonating someone else, phishing, spoofing, etc.
   • Engaging in activity that is harmful to, or may harm, the Appspace products or others (e.g. viruses, worms, bots, any code of a destructive nature, stalking, hate speech, inciting or advocating violence against others).
   • Accessing or searching any part of the services by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, “scraping”).
   • Using meta tags or any other “hidden text” including Appspace’s, or our suppliers’, product names or trademarks.
   • Could otherwise cause damage to Appspace or any third party
2. Accounts created or registered by “bots” or any other automated methods are not permitted.
3. You may not modify, adapt, or hack the Appspace Products or Services or modify another website so as to falsely imply that such website is associated with Appspace, its website, or any Appspace Products or Services.
4. You may not use the Appspace Products or Services if you are developing software or services competitive to Appspace, monitoring the Products or Services for performance or functionality, or measuring for any other competitive purposes. Any violation of this clause will be considered a material breach and result in immediate termination of any Appspace Products and Services, and Appspace may pursue any and all remedies available to it in law or equity.
5. Verbal, physical, written, or other abuse (including stalking, harassing, threats of abuse or retribution) against any person or entity, including any Appspace customer, employee, member, or officer is not permitted and may result in immediate account termination.
6. You may not engage in activities that could interfere or compromise the integrity or performance of our systems. This could include modifying, disabling, probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of any system or network that hosts our Services.
7. You may not tamper with, reverse-engineer, or hack our services; and you may not circumvent any security or authentication measures, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, related systems, networks, or data.
8. Deciphering any transmissions to or from the servers running the Services is not permitted.
9. You may not overwhelm or attempt to overwhelm the Appspace infrastructure by imposing an unreasonably large load on our systems that consume extraordinary resources (CPUs, memory, disk space, bandwidth, etc.), such as:
   • Using “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” or other automated systems to send more request messages to our servers, such as in a DDOS attack, than a human could reasonably send in the same period of time by using a normal browser; or
   • Going far beyond the use parameters for any given service as described in its corresponding documentation.
10. You may not consume an unreasonable amount of storage for media, such as music, videos, pornography, etc., in a way that is unrelated to the purposes for which the Services were designed. Appspace, in its sole discretion, will determine whether you are consuming an unreasonable amount of storage.
11. You may not post, upload, store, share, submit, or otherwise provide Content that:
    • You do not have the right to submit;
    • Is deceptive, fraudulent, illegal, or may reasonably be perceived as obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harmful to minors, indecent, harassing, or hateful;
    • Encourages illegal or tortious conduct, or that is otherwise inappropriate;
    • Attacks others based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, or other legally protected category;
    • Contains viruses, bots, worms, scripting exploits, Malicious Code, or other similar materials;
    • Is intended to be inflammatory;
    • Contains personally identifiable information, except as necessary for the establishment of your Appspace account;
    • Contains any patient, medical or other protected health information regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 as amended, or any similar federal or state laws, rules or regulations;
    • Contains information subject to regulation or protection under specific laws such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or related rules or regulations.
12. You also may not solicit our users for commercial purposes, or promote or advertise Products or Services other than your own, unless expressly permitted by Appspace.

C. API Terms

You may access your Appspace account data via an Application Program Interface (“API”). Any use of the API, including use of the API through a third-party product that accesses Appspace, is bound by the terms of the End User Agreement (www.appspace.com/legal/user-agreement/). Abuse of the API or excessively frequent requests to Appspace via the API may result in the temporary or permanent suspension of your account access to the API. Appspace, in its sole discretion, will determine abuse or excessive usage of the API.

Without affecting any other remedies available to us, Appspace may permanently or temporarily remove content, or terminate, or suspend a user’s account or access to the services without notice or liability if Appspace, in its sole discretion, determines that a user has violated this Acceptable Use Policy. Termination or suspension of an End User’s account will not prevent your obligations to pay fees owed to Appspace.