CogNeed Acceptable Use Policies

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Short version: 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. Capitalised terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy : "you" and "your" refer to "Customer" or "Users" and "We", "us", "our" refer to "CogNeed".

I. 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.

II. Content Restrictions

Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content that:

• Is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
• Is or contains sexually obscene content;
• Is libellous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
• Is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
• Gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images;
• Is or contains false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information that is likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);
• Directly supports unlawful active attack or malware campaigns that are causing technical harms — such as using our platform to deliver malicious executables or as attack infrastructure, for example by organising denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers — with no implicit or explicit dual-use purpose prior to the abuse occurring; or
• Shares unauthorised product licensing keys, software for generating unauthorised product licensing keys, or software for bypassing checks for product licensing keys, including extension of a free licence beyond its trial period; or
• Infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right.

III. 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;
• Post off-topic content, or interact with platform features, in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of 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 unauthorised 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 CogNeed, 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.

IV. Spam and Inauthentic Activity on CogNeed

Automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming, are prohibited on CogNeed. Prohibited activities include:

• Bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by CogNeed terms and policies
• Inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity
• Using CogNeed as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms
• Phishing or attempted phishing

V. 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.

VI. Information Usage Restrictions

You may use information from our Service for the following reasons, regardless of whether the information was scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise:

• Researchers may use public, non-personal information from the Service for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.
• Archivists may use public information from the Service for archival purposes.

Scraping refers to extracting information from our Service via an automated process, such as a bot or web-crawler. Scraping does not refer to the collection of information through our API. Please see our Terms of Service for our API Terms.

You may not use information from the Service (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling User Personal Information (as defined in our Privacy Policy), such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

Your use of information from the Service must comply with our Privacy Policy.

VII. Privacy

Misuse of User Personal Information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service must comply with the Privacy Policy, 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 authorised 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.

VIII. 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.

IX. Advertising on CogNeed

Short version: We do not generally prohibit use of CogNeed for advertising. However, we expect our users to follow certain limitations, so CogNeed does not become a spam haven. No one wants that.

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You may include static images, links, and promotional text in Your Content, but they must be related to the project you are hosting on CogNeed. You may not advertise in other Users' Accounts, such as by posting monetised or excessive bulk content in issues.

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You may not promote or distribute content or activity that is illegal or otherwise prohibited by our Terms of Service or Acceptable Use Policy, including excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), get-rich-quick schemes, and misrepresentation or deception related to your promotion.

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If you decide to post any promotional materials in your Account, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws and regulations. We reserve the right to remove any promotional materials or advertisements that, in our sole discretion, violate any CogNeed terms or policies.

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CogNeed reserves the right to remove any Content in violation of this policy.

X. User Protection

You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users. We will resolve disputes in favour of protecting users as a whole.