Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose of This Document

1.1. This Acceptable Use Policy (the “Policy”) defines which uses of VOSCOM.ONLINE are permitted and which are prohibited.

1.2. The purpose of this Policy is to protect the platform, users, infrastructure, rights holders, contractors, and third parties from unlawful, unsafe, destructive, fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise unacceptable use.

1.3. This Policy applies to all users, visitors, account administrators, developers, contributors, API clients, enterprise customers, participants in community sections, and any persons using the service directly or indirectly through integrations, access keys, APIs, shared workspaces, or other mechanisms.

2. General Principle of Acceptable Use

2.1. You may use the platform only for lawful, good-faith, and technically safe purposes that comply with the Terms of Use, the Privacy Notice, the Platform License, applicable law, export control rules, sanctions restrictions, and mandatory safety requirements.

2.2. If a specific action is not expressly described here but reasonably creates a risk to the platform, its infrastructure, users, equipment, security, third-party rights, or legal compliance, we may treat such action as a violation of this Policy.

3. Prohibited Illegal and Harmful Activities

3.1. You are prohibited from using the service for any illegal activity, including, without limitation:

• violating applicable criminal, administrative, sanctions, export, customs, consumer protection, licensing, labor, tax, or other mandatory laws;
• circumventing sanctions, export control, trade restrictions, or country-specific compliance requirements;
• violating intellectual property rights, trade secrets, confidentiality obligations, database rights, trademark rights, image rights, personal data rights, or other third-party rights;
• using the platform for fraud, impersonation, phishing, deceptive practices, fictitious registration, facilitation of money laundering, unlawful procurement, or other fraudulent schemes;
• using the service to distribute, publish, store, generate, or support materials that are unlawful, defamatory, threatening, extremist, discriminatory, harassing, abusive, or otherwise prohibited by law.

4. Infrastructure Security and Platform Abuse

4.1. You are prohibited from disrupting, testing without authorization, bypassing, or overloading the platform’s technical and organizational security measures.

4.2. In particular, you are prohibited from:

• attempting to obtain unauthorized access to servers, containers, build environments, queues, source artifacts, logs, tokens, other users’ accounts, projects, administrative interfaces, secrets, API keys, or payment systems;
• guessing passwords, performing credential stuffing, using compromised credentials, hijacking sessions, escalating privileges, conducting SSRF, RCE, SQL injection, exploit chains, or other attacks;
• posting, uploading, generating, sending, or executing malware, trojans, worms, ransomware, spyware, botnet components, malicious macros, destructive payloads, or code intended to bypass security protections;
• performing automated data collection, bulk extraction, unauthorized performance testing, mass copying, metadata harvesting, rate-limit circumvention, queue abuse, API abuse, denial of service, resource exhaustion, or other actions that place a disproportionate load on the platform;
• using automated tools, headless agents, scripts, bots, relay accounts, rotating identities, or proxy networks to an extent or in a manner not permitted by our documentation or written authorization.

4.3. Security testing, penetration testing, red teaming, fuzzing, reverse engineering beyond the scope permitted by mandatory law, and disclosure of security vulnerabilities are allowed only with our prior written authorization or under an officially announced program.

5. Data, Privacy, and Uploading Third-Party Materials

5.1. You are prohibited from uploading, processing, transmitting, or otherwise using through the service any data, materials, or datasets unless you have a lawful right to do so.

5.2. In particular, you are prohibited from:

• uploading personal data of third parties without a proper lawful basis, notice, consent, or other legal conditions required by applicable law;
• using the platform as an environment for unauthorized processing of regulated datasets, special-category data, health data, children’s data, state secrets, technical data subject to export control, banking credentials, keys, secrets, or other sensitive data, unless permitted by a separate written agreement;
• uploading materials that violate NDAs, provider terms, confidentiality obligations to customers, or your organization’s internal policies;
• using the international VOSCOM.ONLINE segment to process personal data of individuals located in the territory of the Russian Federation, or for any other activity that results in a violation of applicable data localization rules, unless expressly permitted by a separate written agreement.

6. Prohibited Scenarios for AI, Firmware, and Engineering Results

6.1. The platform provides auxiliary tools for designing, generating configurations, manifests, code suggestions, firmware-related artifacts, explanations, and other engineering materials. The platform is not intended for autonomous critical engineering decision-making without your own review.

6.2. You are prohibited from using the platform:

• as the sole or final source of engineering truth without independent review, testing, and validation of the result;
• for direct deployment of results into industrial equipment, field deployments, industrial control environments, or remote devices without appropriate engineering review, laboratory testing, rollback planning, and safety controls;
• for automated control of systems where an error, delay, false compatibility indication, incorrect firmware, or incorrect calculation may result in death, injury, environmental pollution, fire, explosion, property destruction, mass downtime, a threat to public safety, or serious economic damage, unless otherwise agreed in a separate written agreement;
• for the development, modification, optimization, operation, or facilitation of weapons, guidance systems, ammunition, unlawful surveillance systems, homemade dangerous devices, destructive tools, or other prohibited end uses;
• for circumventing industry regulatory requirements, mandatory certification, laboratory verification, personnel qualification, functional safety requirements, cybersecurity certification, electromagnetic compatibility requirements, hazardous-environment requirements, or other mandatory approval regimes.

6.3. If you use platform results in an engineering or industrial environment, you must ensure human review, traceability, testing, qualification, rollback capability, and compliance with applicable standards and regulatory requirements.

7. Community, Communications, and Public Materials

7.1. If the platform includes comments, issue tracking, forums, community channels, internal messages, project sharing, or other user sections, you are prohibited from:

• spamming, flooding, simulating mass support, artificially amplifying content, manipulating ratings, review systems, reputation metrics, badges, leaderboards, or other trust metrics;
• publishing misleading case studies, fabricated performance tests, false certificates, fraudulent compatibility claims, or other misleading materials;
• posting harassment, bullying, threats, hate speech, doxing, stalking, intimidation, discriminatory behavior, or other abusive content;
• impersonating a VOSCOM representative, partner, integrator, auditor, certification body, or any other person without authorization;
• using community sections for sales, brokerage services, hiring fraud, payment diversion outside the platform, pyramid schemes, or unauthorized advertising.

8. Intellectual Property, Open Source, and Third-Party Content

8.1. You are prohibited from uploading or distributing through the platform any materials that infringe third-party intellectual property rights or violate the terms of applicable open-source licenses.

8.2. You are prohibited from:

• concealing the origin of third-party code, removing license notices, attribution notices, copyright notices, or NOTICE files where such notices are required;
• falsely claiming that you are the author, rights holder, certification body, or owner of rights in a module, library, diagram, material, or datasheet-derived content where this is not true;
• using the service to systematically copy, republish, or commercially extract third-party libraries, documentation, diagrams, SDKs, or datasheet summaries in violation of rights or contractual restrictions.

9. Account, Access, and Commercial Rules Circumvention Restrictions

9.1. You are prohibited from:

• creating accounts on behalf of another person without that person’s permission;
• creating multiple accounts for the purpose of circumventing limits, billing, rate limits, trial access rules, suspensions, sanctions screening, geographic restrictions, age gates, access-rights verification, or other restrictions;
• transferring access to an account, tokens, build quotas, seats, or enterprise rights to persons who are not authorized to have such access;
• using stolen payment methods, disputed cards, fraudulent orders, unauthorized API keys, or other unlawful means of obtaining access.

10. Minors

10.1. If the platform Terms of Use provide that access is available only to persons aged 18 or older, you are prohibited from creating an account, using the service, or bypassing age verification if you do not meet these requirements.

10.2. You are prohibited from creating an account for a minor, granting a minor shared access, transferring your account to a minor, or using the service on behalf of a minor without a mode expressly permitted by us.

11. Geographic Restrictions and Compliance Requirements

11.1. If the Terms of Use or other service rules restrict use of the platform by country, territory, user category, sanctions list, export regime, industry segment, or type of end use, you are prohibited from circumventing such restrictions by technical, organizational, or contractual means.

11.2. You are prohibited from using VPNs, proxy chains, relays, nominee accounts, false statements of residence, false organization information, or other means of concealing the actual territory of use where the purpose of such action is to circumvent our legal, export, sanctions, territorial, age, payment, or other restrictions.

11.3. The international VOSCOM.ONLINE segment must not be used as the Russian segment. If you are located in the Russian Federation, act as a Russian user, or intend to process data relating to the Russian segment, you must use VOSCOM.RU after that segment is launched and must not circumvent the separation of domains, databases, payments, consents, and infrastructure.

12. Marketplace, Seller Activity, and Future Commercial Features

12.1. If the platform provides a catalog, marketplace, project cards, seller accounts, certification pages, partner placements, lead distribution, bounty boards, revenue sharing, payout tools, or other commercial features, you are prohibited from:

• listing false products, making false compatibility claims, using fake certificates, making fictitious availability or status claims, or providing misleading pricing terms;
• circumventing platform fees, escrow logic, buyer protection rules, payout compliance requirements, KYC/KYB checks, or invoicing requirements;
• collecting payment outside the platform in circumvention of the rules, if the relevant model is prohibited by the platform terms;
• selling goods, services, firmware, datasets, tools, or integrations that are unlawful, dangerous, infringe third-party rights, or are subject to export, sanctions, or other mandatory restrictions;
• using seller features without the required status, registration, tax basis, or other mandatory authorizations, where such requirements are established by the platform terms or applicable law.

13. Compliance Monitoring and Response Measures

13.1. If we suspect a violation of this Policy, we may, at our discretion and subject to mandatory law:

• request explanations, documents, proof of authority, confirmation of age, address, country of use, technical scenario, or lawful basis for data processing;
• remove, hide, block, or isolate content, projects, uploads, results, builds, listings, comments, or other materials;
• temporarily restrict access to an account, API, community features, build queues, uploads, marketplace features, or other functionality;
• suspend or terminate an account, license, subscription, access rights, or seller access;
• retain relevant logs, metadata, artifacts, and evidence for investigation, abuse prevention, rights protection, security, and compliance with legal obligations;
• notify hosting providers, payment providers, rights holders, affected users, compliance service providers, auditors, regulators, or law enforcement authorities where required by law, security considerations, or reasonable protection of the platform and third parties.

13.2. We are not required to provide advance notice of every action if doing so may increase risk, interfere with an investigation, violate the law, or endanger the security of the platform or third parties.

14. Duty to Cooperate

14.1. If we reasonably request information from you that is necessary to verify compliance with this Policy, you must provide such information in good faith and in a timely manner, to the extent not prohibited by mandatory law.

14.2. Refusal to cooperate, provision of false information, intentional concealment of material information, or circumvention of verification procedures may be treated as a separate violation of this Policy.

15. Reports of Violations and Security Issues

15.1. If you become aware of a violation of this Policy, abuse of the service, suspicious activity, a security incident, data disclosure, malicious content, rights infringement, or prohibited use, please report it to: admin@voscom.online.

15.2. Reports of security vulnerabilities, if made in good faith and within the limits of the authorized disclosure process, should be sent to: admin@voscom.online.

15.3. We may take reasonable measures to review reports, but we do not guarantee an individual response to every report unless otherwise provided under a separate disclosure program.

16. Changes to This Policy

16.1. We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the platform, technologies, risks, law enforcement expectations, export rules, sanctions, privacy obligations, and business model.

16.2. The updated version takes effect as of the date stated in the document, unless another effective date is specified. Your continued use of the platform after the changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated version of the Policy.

17. Contact

17.1. For general questions regarding compliance with platform rules, please contact: support@voscom.online.

17.2. For matters involving abuse, misuse, listings, prohibited content, and urgent reports, please contact: admin@voscom.online.

Effective date: April 12, 2026.