Effective Date: June 10, 2025
This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) applies to customers’ use of all services offered by INK Content, Inc, a Delaware corporation (“INK”), including, but not limited to, products that incorporate artificial intelligence such as SmythOS. Capitalized terms used below but not defined in this Policy have the meaning set forth in the Terms of Service (“Agreement”). We refer to “our services” throughout – this means all services (including related websites) owned or operated by INK.
We reserve the right to take any action we believe is appropriate to enforce this Policy. We may take action to prevent use of our services which goes against the spirit of this Policy, even if that use is not expressly forbidden. A customer’s violation of this Policy will be considered a material breach of the Agreement and/or other agreement governing the customer’s use of the services.
By using our services, you agree to abide by the latest version of this Policy, which we may modify at any time.
1. In order to foster an open and welcoming environment for all users, you must not, and may not allow any third party, including its users, to:
- Create, upload, submit, execute, transmit, or host anything that:
- Is off-topic or otherwise disruptive;
- Is vulgar, obscene, or pornographic, or gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence.
- Use our Services to violate the privacy of others or misuse the personal data of other users.
- Do anything contrary to the Code of Conduct available at https://smythos.com/legal/ .
2. To keep INK, our users, and others safe you must not use our Services to display, store, process, or transmit, or permit use of services to display, store, process, or transmit:
- Material that infringes or misappropriates a third party’s intellectual property or proprietary rights;
- Hate-related material, and/or material advocating discrimination against individuals or groups;
- Material advocating or advancing violent causes, including terrorism or violent extremism;
- Obscene, excessively profane material or otherwise objectionable material;
- Material advocating or advancing criminal hacking, cracking, or phishing;
- Material related to illegal drugs or paraphernalia;
- Malicious material;
- In a deceptive or fraudulent manner, to impersonate others, or to falsely imply endorsement;
- Malicious code, such as viruses, worms, time bombs, Trojan horses, and other harmful or malicious files, scripts, agents, or programs; or
- Material that violates, encourages, or furthers conduct that would violate any applicable laws, including any criminal laws, or any third-party rights, including publicity or privacy rights.
- Promote, support, or facilitate unlawful, hateful, discriminatory, or violent causes, including terrorism or violent extremism or practice discrimination, harassment, or violence towards people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identify, religious affiliation, age, disability, disease, or immigration status;
- Intentionally distribute viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or deceptive nature;
- Conduct or forward multi-level marketing, such as pyramid schemes and the like;
- Generate or facilitate SMS, MMS, or other text messages or push notifications in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act, or any other applicable law including anti- spam, telemarketing, or telephone consumer protection laws or regulations;
- Intentionally or unintentionally interfere with the availability of the service for other users, including, but not limited to, engaging in usage practices prohibited by INK;
- Mislead people about voting processes or census processes;
- Engage in activity in connection with illegal peer-to-peer file sharing;
- Sell, distribute, or export illegal or prescription drugs or other controlled substances or paraphernalia;
- Operate an “open proxy” or any other form of Internet proxy service that is capable of forwarding requests to any end user or third-party-supplied Internet host;
- Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the service or reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the service’s administration display;
- Access a third-party web property for the purposes of web scraping, web crawling, web monitoring, or other similar activity through a web client that does not take commercially reasonable efforts to identify itself via a unique User Agent string describing the purpose of the web client and obey the robot’s exclusion standard (also known as the robots.txt standard), including the crawl-delay directive;
- Use a service in any manner that would disparage INK;
- Engage in high-risk activity where the use or failure of a service may result in the death or serious bodily harm of a person, or in significant damage to property.
3. In order for our Services, and those of others, run securely, and without disruption, you must not:
- Do anything to compromise, overburden, or otherwise impair our Services or those of others, including using our Services to mine or demonstrate proof-of-work for a cryptocurrency or blockchain, or for the primary purpose of distributing content.
- Use our Services such that your usage significantly exceeds that of other users of similar features, or in any other way that may impact our Services’ stability or availability.
- Interfere with the security or integrity of, or seek to obtain unauthorized access to, any system, data or device.
- Udertake any unauthorized scans, attacks, or penetration testing on our services or INK users.
- Use our Services to transmit spam or undertake phishing.
4. In addition, if you use any of our Services that are based on artificial intelligence (including any third-party product, application or functionality which interoperates with our Services that incorporates Artificial Intelligence, including Generative Artificial Intelligence or machine learning) technologies (our “AI-powered services”), you cannot use these Services:
- To attempt to circumvent any AI-powered services’ safety filters, or intentionally drive the AI-powered service to respond in a manner that violates this Policy.
- To falsely represent that output generated by our AI-powered services was solely human-generated.
- To train an AI model without INK’s prior written consent (e.g. “model scraping” of INK prompts and outputs).
- To make any automated decision that impacts material or individual rights or well-being (e.g. to assign scores or ratings to individuals based on an assessment of their trustworthiness or social behavior).
- To influence domains that are vital to public welfare and social equity.
- To provide any personal data in an input to INK.
- To post output to social media, or otherwise demonstrate our AI-powered services to groups of people, unless you:
- Manually review all output before sharing.
- Attribute the output to your name or organization.
- To publish content, you authored that was created in part with our AI-powered services unless you attribute the content to your name or organization.
- In any of the following fields:
- Medical applications.
- Provision of legal or financial services.
- Censorship or surveillance (e.g. tracking, locating, or monitoring an individual).
- Administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes.
- Designing, modifying, promoting, or distributing weapons or other illegal, highly regulated, or dangerous materials.
- Gambling or sports betting.
- Adult industries or sexually explicit content and services.
- Emotional recognition systems that are used to infer people’s emotions.
- Biometric categorization systems for categorizing people based on their biometric data to infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation.
Customers may not deceive end users or consumers by misrepresenting content generated through automated means as human generated or original content.