Acceptable Use Policy
Last updated September 2024
Speckle Acceptable Use Policies
Short version: We host a wide variety of collaborative projects 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 and conduct on Speckle related to user safety, intellectual property, privacy, authenticity, and other limitations. In short, be nice.
1. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND REGULATION
You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and this Acceptable Use Policies. You shall not use ore encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others to use the Speckle Websites and Speckle’s products and services for any illegal, harmful, or offensive use and your content must not be illegal, harmful, or offensive. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below.
2. USER SAFETY
We do not allow content or activity on Speckle Websites, its products and services that:
- is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
- is harmful to others, including Speckle, its operations or reputation;
- is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;
- is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
- is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
- is false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);
- harasses or abuses another individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
- threatens or incites violence toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;
- gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images; or
- is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users.
3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AUTHENTICITY, AND PRIVATE INFORMATION
We do not allow:
- any content or activity on Speckle Websites, its products or services that infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right;
- to imitate the “look and feel” of the Speckle Websites, its products or services;
- to change or remove any notices or notifications from the products or services that refer to intellectual property rights or brand names;
- to upload any content that is subject to a license that, as a condition of use, access, and/or modification of such content requires that any Speckle’s or Speckle partner’s software or service provided by Speckle and interacting with your content (i) are disclosed or distributed in source code form, (i) are licensed to recipients for the purpose of creating derivative work, (iii) are licensed at no charge, or (iv) are otherwise encumbered in any manner;
- to use the Speckle Websites, its products or services in a way intended to avoid or work around any use limitations and restrictions placed on the Speckle Websites, its products, or services;
- to access or use the Speckle Websites, its products or services for the purpose of conducting a performance test, building a competitive product or service;
- to access the Speckle Websites, its products or services from any location prohibited by or subject to sanctions or license requirements according to applicable sanctions and/or (re-)export controls laws and regulations;
- content or activity on Speckle Websites, its products or services that impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with Speckle, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site's purpose; or
- content or activity on Speckle Websites, its products or services that violates the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person's personal information without consent.
4. SPAM ACTIVITY
We do not allow content or activity on Speckle Websites that is:
- automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming;
- bulk distribution of promotions and advertising;
- inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity;
- using Speckle as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms;
- phishing or attempted phishing;
- using our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity, 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; or
- incentivized by (or incentivizes inauthentic engagement with) rewards such as cryptocurrency airdrops, tokens, credits, gifts or other give-aways.
5. SITE ACCESS AND SAFETY
We do not allow content or activity on Speckle Websites, products or services that:
- 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 organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers - with no implicit or explicit dual-use purpose prior to the abuse occurring; or
- uses 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. Please note, activities permitted under bug bounty programs are not considered “unauthorized,” but must only affect the organization whose bug bounty program authorized the activity.
6. PRIVACY
Misuse of personal information is prohibited.
7. USER PROTECTION
You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users. We will interpret our policies and resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole.
8. REPORTING
If you become aware of any violation of this Acceptable Use Policies, you will immediately notify us and provide us with assistance, as requested by us, to stop, mitigate, or remedy the violation.