Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated:
July 15, 2020

1. Scope

This Acceptable Use and External Facing Services Policy (“Policy”) applies to customers’ use of all services offered by AspireIQ or its affiliates (“AspireIQ”).

2. Last Updated

July 15, 2020

3. Changes to Policy

AspireIQ may change this Policy by posting an updated version of the Policy on its website and such updates will be effective upon posting.

4. Violations

A customer’s violation of this Policy will be considered a material breach of the master subscription agreement and/or other agreement governing the customer’s use of the services.

5. Prohibited Material and Uses

Customers may not, and may not allow any third-party, including its users, to use 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 or violent material, and/or material advocating discrimination or intolerance against individuals or groups; and/or material related to glorification of violence and/or hate
• Obscene, excessively profane material or otherwise objectionable material;
• Material advocating or advancing criminal hacking, cracking, or phishing;
• Material related to illegal drugs or paraphernalia;
• Material related to/and or material promoting the sale and use of firearms and related accessories;
• Material related to/and or material promoting political content; including but not limited to: content that references a candidate, political party, elected or appointed government official, election, referendum, ballot measure, legislation, regulation, directive, or judicial outcome;
• Material related to/and or material promoting PACs or SuperPACs;
• Malicious material;
• Unlawful software;
• 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.

6. Prohibited Actions

Customers may not use a service to, nor allow its users or any third-party to use a service to:

• Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email (spam). Such prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
• sending communications or email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law or regulation;
• imitating or impersonating AspireIQ, another person or his, her or its email address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam;
• data mining or harvesting any web property (including any External-Facing Service) to find email addresses or other user account information;
• sending unauthorized mail via open, third-party servers;
• sending email to users who have requested to be removed from a mailing list;
• selling to, exchanging with, sharing with or distributing to a third party personal information, including the email addresses of any person without such person’s knowing and continued consent to such disclosure; or
• sending unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email addresses belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no preexisting relationship;
• Send, upload, distribute or disseminate, or offer to do the same, with respect to unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, obscene, excessively profane, hateful, violent, or otherwise objectionable material, or promote, support or facilitate unlawful, hateful, discriminatory, or violent causes;
• 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;
• Use the services in any manner that violates any applicable industry standards, third party policies or requirements that AspireIQ may communicate to its users, including all of the applicable guidelines published by the CTIA, the Mobile Marketing Association, the Self-Regulatory Principles as directed by the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative or any other generally accepted industry associations, carrier guidelines or other industry standards;
• Transmit material that may be harmful to minors;
• Illegally transmit another’s intellectual property or other proprietary information without such owner’s or licensor’s permission;
• Impersonate another person, entity or AspireIQ (via the use of an email address or otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent themselves or the source of any communication;
• Violate the rights (such as rights of privacy or publicity) of others;
• Promote, facilitate or encourage illegal activity;
• Interfere with other users’ enjoyment of a service;
• Mislead people about voting processes or census processes;
• Engage in activity in connection with illegal peer-to-peer file sharing;
• Engage in or promote gambling, or run a gambling operation;
• Sell, distribute or export illegal or prescription drugs or other controlled substances or paraphernalia;
• Access (including through any interfaces provided with a service), any AspireIQ product or service, or other service or website, in a manner that violates the terms for use of or access to such service or website;
• 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;
• Perform significant load or security testing without first obtaining AspireIQ’s written consent;
• 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 robots exclusion standard (also known as the robots.txt standard), including the crawl-delay directive; or
• Use a service in any manner that would disparage AspireIQ.

Worldwide, customers may not use a Service to transact online sales of any firearms and/or related accessories to private citizens, including, but not limited to; Firearms: automatic firearms; semi-automatic firearms that have the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any of the following: thumbhole stock, folding or telescoping stock, grenade launcher or flare launcher, flash or sound suppressor, forward pistol grip, pistol grip (in the case of a rifle) or second pistol grip (in the case of a pistol), barrel shroud; semi-automatic firearms with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds; ghost guns; 3D printed guns; firearms without serial numbers; .50 BMG rifles; firearms that use .50 BMG ammunition. Firearm Parts: magazines capable of accepting more than 10 rounds; flash or sound suppressors; multi-burst trigger devices; grenade or rocket launchers; 80% or unfinished lower receivers; blueprints for ghost guns; blueprints for 3D printed guns; barrel shrouds; thumbhole stocks; threaded barrels capable of accepting a flash suppressor or sound suppressor.

7. U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act or Similar Statutory Obligations

To the extent a customer uses the services for hosting, advertising, sending electronic messages or for the creation and hosting of, or for posting material on, websites, each customer must (i) comply with any notices received under Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (Section 512 of the U.S. Copyright Act) or similar statute in other countries (the “DMCA”), (ii) set up a process to expeditiously respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the DMCA and to implement a DMCA-compliant repeat infringers policy,

(iii) publicly display a description of its notice and takedown process under the DMCA on its instance of the services, and (iv) comply with such processes, policy(ies), and description.

It is AspireIQ’s policy to respond expeditiously to valid notices of claimed copyright infringement compliant with the DMCA. In appropriate circumstances, AspireIQ will terminate the accounts of customers who AspireIQ suspects to be repeatedly or blatantly infringing copyrights.

If AspireIQ receives a notice alleging that material on a customer’s instance of a service infringes another party’s intellectual property, AspireIQ may disable that customer’s instance of the service or remove the allegedly infringing material. If AspireIQ receives more than one such notice for the same customer, AspireIQ reserves the right to immediately terminate such customer’s subscriptions to the services as deemed necessary by AspireIQ to ensure continued protection under the safe harbor provisions under the DMCA or to prevent violations of other applicable laws or third parties’ rights.