Short version: We supports a wide variety of users from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users are able to work together in good faith. While using the Service, you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policies, which include some restrictions on content you can post, conduct on the service, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.
Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement.
1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations
You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and all of our Acceptable Use Policies. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below, as well as in our Terms of Service.
2. Content Restrictions
Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content to any repositories that:
is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
is or contains sexually obscene content;
is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images;
contains or installs any active malware or exploits, or uses our platform for exploit delivery (such as part of a command and control system); or
infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right.
3. Conduct Restrictions
While using the Service, under no circumstances will you:
harass, abuse, threaten, or incite violence towards any individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming or cryptocurrency mining), to place undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to relay any form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;
use our servers to disrupt or to attempt to disrupt, or to gain or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to, any service, device, data, account or network.
impersonate any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with Hack42, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site’s purpose; or
violate the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person’s personal information without consent.
4. Services Usage Limits
You will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without our express written permission.
5. Scraping and API Usage Restrictions
Scraping refers to extracting data from our Service via an automated process, such as a bot or webcrawler. It does not refer to the collection of information through our API. Please see Section H of our Terms of Service for our API Terms. You may scrape the website for the following reasons:
- Researchers may scrape public, non-personal information from the Service for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.
- Archivists may scrape the Service for public data for archival purposes.
You may not scrape the Service to download data or Content from Hack42 for commercial use or commercial research without the proper license. You may not scrape the Service for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling User Personal Information (as defined in the Hack42 Privacy Statement), such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.
All use of data gathered through scraping must comply with the Hack42 Privacy Statement.
6. Privacy
Misuse of User Personal Information is prohibited.
Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service must comply with the Hack42 Privacy Statement, particularly in regards to the collection of User Personal Information. If you collect any User Personal Information from the Service, you agree that you will only use that User Personal Information for the purpose for which that User has authorized it. You agree that you will reasonably secure any User Personal Information you have gathered from the Service, and you will respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and “do not contact” requests from us or other users.
7. Excessive Bandwidth Use
The Service’s bandwidth limitations vary based on the features you use. If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other users of similar features, we reserve the right to suspend your Account, throttle your file hosting, or otherwise limit your activity until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption. See the Hack42 Additional Product Terms for more details on specific features’ bandwidth limitations.
8. Advertising on Hack42
Short version: We do not allow the use of Hack42 for advertising.
You may not advertise or post promotional materials in your Account.
Hack42 reserves the right to remove any Content in violation of this policy.
9. Spam and Inauthentic Activity on Hack42
Automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming, are prohibited on Hack42. Prohibited activities include: * bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by Hack42 terms and policies * inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity * rank abuse, such as automated starring or following * creation of or participation in secondary markets for the purpose of the proliferation of inauthentic activity * using Hack42 as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms * phishing or attempted phishing
Hack42 reserves the right to remove any Content in violation of this policy.
10. User Protection
You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users. We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole.