Acceptable Use Policy

1. Your Responsibility

You are responsible for the websites, content, files, products, services, communications, and activities you publish or operate through RuledWeb. You must ensure that your use of the Service complies with applicable law, the RuledWeb Terms & Conditions, and this Acceptable Use Policy.

2. Prohibited Content and Websites

You may not use RuledWeb to create, host, publish, distribute, promote, sell, facilitate, or support content or activities involving:

• Illegal activities or content prohibited by applicable law.
• Fraud, phishing, impersonation, scams, financial deception, or other deceptive practices.
• Sexual exploitation, abuse, or endangerment of minors.
• Pornography or sexually explicit adult content.
• Human trafficking, exploitation, or facilitation of trafficking.
• Terrorism, violent extremist activity, or material support for prohibited violent organizations.
• Promotion or sale of illegal drugs, unlawful weapons, or prohibited goods.
• Unlawful gambling, betting, or wagering services.
• Hate content that promotes violence or unlawful discrimination against protected groups.
• Harassment, threats, stalking, doxxing, or targeted abuse.
• Unauthorized collection, publication, sale, or disclosure of personal, confidential, or sensitive information.
• Copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property infringement.
• Malware, malicious downloads, credential theft, or content intended to compromise users or systems.
• Spam, abusive unsolicited communications, or deceptive traffic-generation schemes.
• Websites created primarily to conceal their true identity, affiliation, ownership, or purpose in order to deceive users.
• Any content or activity that exposes RuledWeb, its users, infrastructure, service providers, or third parties to material legal, security, safety, or operational risk.

3. Security and Technical Abuse

You may not use RuledWeb in a way that harms, disrupts, circumvents, or attempts to gain unauthorized access to RuledWeb, its infrastructure, other users, or third-party systems.

• Attempting to access accounts, systems, data, APIs, storage, networks, or infrastructure without authorization.
• Introducing malware, viruses, backdoors, malicious scripts, credential-stealing code, or other harmful software.
• Bypassing security controls, usage limits, rate limits, authentication, billing controls, or access restrictions.
• Scanning, probing, attacking, exploiting, or testing vulnerabilities without explicit authorization.
• Using RuledWeb to attack, interfere with, or compromise another service or network.

4. Platform and Resource Abuse

You may not use the Service in a manner that materially degrades the experience or availability of RuledWeb for other users.

• Automated abuse, excessive requests, artificial traffic, or intentionally wasteful consumption of compute, bandwidth, storage, forms, email, or other resources.
• Using the Service to operate unauthorized proxies, relays, scraping systems, bot networks, or similar infrastructure that creates unreasonable load or risk.
• Activities intended to disrupt availability, degrade performance, or interfere with another user's website or RuledWeb service.

5. Deceptive, Fraudulent, or Misleading Use

RuledWeb may not be used for websites or activities that are primarily designed to mislead, defraud, impersonate, manipulate, or deceive visitors.

• Phishing pages, fake login pages, credential collection, or fraudulent payment flows.
• False claims of affiliation, endorsement, certification, authority, or identity.
• Impersonating another person, company, public authority, brand, or organization without authorization.
• Misrepresenting the purpose of a website, product, service, transaction, fundraising activity, or communication.

6. Intellectual Property and Privacy

You may not publish or distribute content that infringes copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights of another person or organization. You must have the rights and permissions necessary for content you upload or publish.

7. Regulated and High-Risk Activities

You are responsible for ensuring that any regulated products, services, advice, promotions, transactions, or other high-risk activities offered through your website are lawful in the jurisdictions in which you operate. RuledWeb may restrict or remove activities that create material legal, safety, payment, infrastructure, or reputational risk to the Service.

8. Enforcement

RuledWeb may investigate suspected violations and take action where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect users, third parties, the Service, or comply with law.

• Restrict, unpublish, quarantine, or remove content, pages, marketplace assets, or websites.
• Suspend or terminate access to accounts or services.
• Limit traffic, functionality, resource usage, or distribution.
• Preserve or disclose information where required by applicable law, legal process, or valid requests.
• Act without prior notice in cases involving serious abuse, security incidents, unlawful activity, fraud, imminent harm, or urgent operational risk.
• Permanently delete hosted websites or content where necessary or permitted under the Terms and applicable law.

9. Reports and Complaints

If you believe a RuledWeb-hosted website violates this Acceptable Use Policy, infringes intellectual property rights, or presents a material security or legal concern, contact pradeep@ruledweb.com with the website URL and enough information for us to review the issue.

10. Changes to this Policy

RuledWeb may update this Acceptable Use Policy as the Service, applicable law, abuse patterns, or platform risks evolve. The current version will be published on this page with its latest update date.