Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy describes prohibited uses of the web services and AI endpoints offered by Cension AB.

By using the Services or accessing the Cension platform, you agree to the latest version of this Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Violation of this Policy may result in the immediate suspension or termination of your Account without a refund.

1. General Prohibitions

You may not use the Services in any manner that materially degrades, disrupts, or interferes with the Services or other customers' use of the Services. Specifically:

• Illegal & Fraudulent Activities: Any activity that violates applicable laws or regulations, including the dissemination of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), promoting fraudulent schemes (such as Ponzi or “make-money-fast” schemes), and identity theft.
• Infringing Content: Content that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property or proprietary rights of others, including wholesale copyright infringement (piracy).
• Harmful Technology: Uploading malware, Trojan horses, or any technology intended to damage systems and/or surreptitiously intercept data.

2. Artificial Intelligence, Content Integrity, and Data Abuse

Given the automated and AI-powered nature of the Cension platform, the following uses of the Services are strictly prohibited:

• Deepfakes & Deceptive Synthetics: Generating or storing synthetic media intended to deceive, manipulate, or harass, including non-consensual imagery.
• Safety Guardrails Circumvention: Using the Services to facilitate the “jailbreaking” of underlying third-party AI models or to bypass content-safety guardrails.
• Reputation & SEO Manipulation: Generating “gibberish” or nonsensical text purely for automated black-hat SEO manipulation, or creating fake reviews or social proof (for example, automated generation of fake ratings, likes, or endorsements).
• Competing AI Models: Using the Services, AI Output, generated data, or prompts to train, fine-tune, develop, or improve any AI or machine-learning model, search engine, indexing system, or ranking system that competes with Cension’s Services.
• Model Extraction & Reverse Engineering: Extracting, reconstructing, or attempting to determine the weights, embeddings, parameters, training data, or underlying system logic of any model, index, or algorithm used by the Services; or otherwise reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling the Services.
• Regulated Sensitive Data: Uploading, submitting, or otherwise processing through the Service any protected health information (PHI) subject to HIPAA or equivalent regimes, primary payment-card data (PAN / CVV) subject to PCI DSS, biometric identifiers, government-issued identifiers (such as social security or national identification numbers), or any other special-category personal data under GDPR Article 9, unless such processing has been expressly authorized in writing under a signed Enterprise Service Agreement. This mirrors the data-category restrictions set out in Annex 1 of our Data Processing Addendum (DPA).

3. Security and Network Integrity

You may not engage in any activity that threatens the structural integrity of Cension's infrastructure:

• Unauthorized Access: Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Cension system (including port scanning), outside the scope permitted by our responsible-disclosure policy.
• Denial of Service (DoS): Inundating the API with requests (including flooders, reflectors, and amplifiers) specifically designed to render it ineffective or slow.
• Proxy & Anonymization Abuse: Operating open proxies, open mail relays, or “proxy farms” used to bypass geographical restrictions or IP-based rate limits.
• Cryptocurrency Mining: Using Cension compute resources or automated functions to mine digital assets or cryptocurrencies.
• Vulnerability Disclosure: Exploiting any discovered vulnerability in the Services, or publicly disclosing a vulnerability before a fix is available. Security research and good-faith reports are welcome; all findings must be reported privately in accordance with our responsible-disclosure policy at SECURITY.md (contact security@cension.ai).

4. Account and Message Abuse

To protect the integrity of the platform and the communications channel it supports:

• Email Requirements: You may not use temporary, disposable, or “dead-drop” email addresses to create or operate a Cension account.
• Automated & Bulk Registration: Creating accounts via automated means, registering accounts in bulk, or maintaining an excessive number of accounts operated by or controlled by a single user is prohibited without Cension’s prior written permission.
• Spam & Deception: Distributing unsolicited bulk or commercial messages (“spam”), altering or spoofing mail headers to obscure the origin of a message, or collecting personal data through phishing pages or deceptive web forms.
• Infrastructure Abuse: Using the Services as a “drop-zone” for stolen data, or as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure for malware, botnets, or other malicious software.

5. Financial Crime and Regulated Goods

You may not use the Services in connection with the following categories of activity:

• Carding & Financial Fraud: Card testing, card verification, the storage of stolen financial data, or any other use in connection with unauthorized access to payment instruments.
• Illegal Trade: The sale or distribution of controlled substances, drug paraphernalia, weapons or weapon components prohibited by applicable law, or facilitating unregulated gambling and wagering activities.
• High-Risk Systems: Use of the Services in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation, life-support systems, or any other context in which failure of the Services could reasonably be expected to result in death, serious personal injury, or catastrophic environmental or property damage.

6. Monitoring and Enforcement

• Investigation and Action: Cension AB reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to investigate, suspend, or terminate access to the Services immediately and without notice if a user’s conduct violates this Policy or poses legal, regulatory, security, reputational, or operational risk to Cension, the Services, or other customers.
• Reporting: Cension may report suspected illegal activity to law enforcement, regulators, or other appropriate third parties, which may include disclosing relevant account information and cooperating with lawful investigations.
• No Monitoring Obligation: Cension has no obligation to monitor user content, accounts, or activity, and Cension does not assume responsibility for user content. The absence of monitoring in any particular case does not waive Cension’s right to enforce this Policy in any other case.

Reporting Violations

If you suspect a violation of this Acceptable Use Policy, please report it to hello@cension.ai. Security vulnerabilities should instead be reported privately to security@cension.ai in accordance with our responsible-disclosure policy.