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 you can post, conduct on the service, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.

Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in our Terms of Service, Corporate Terms of Service, and Privacy Statement. For customers subject to the Corporate Terms of Service, “you” and “your” refer to “Customer” or “Users”. “We”, “us”, and “our” refer to “HASH”.

1. 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 and Corporate Terms of Service.

2. Content Restrictions

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

• is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
• is or contains sexually obscene content;
• is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
• is discriminatory, harassing, or abusive toward any individual or group;
• gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images;
• contains or installs any active malware or exploits, or uses our platform for exploit delivery (such as part of a command and control system); or
• infringes on any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other rights.

3. 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;
• use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), or relay any other form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;
• attempt to disrupt or tamper with our servers in ways that could harm our Service, to place undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to access the Service in ways that exceed your authorization (other than those authorized by the HASH Bug Bounty program);
• attempt to compromise the security of the Service (except as authorized by the HASH Bug Bounty program);
• attempt to steal any digital content;
• attempt to modify of reverse engineer any part of the Service;
• sell the Service to any third-party except with the explicit consent of HASH;
• impersonate any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with HASH, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity, intended use of the Service, or site’s purpose; or
• violate the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person’s personal information without consent.

4. 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.

5. Scraping and API Usage Restrictions

Scraping refers to extracting data from our Service via an automated process, such as a bot or webcrawler. It does not refer to the collection of information through our API. Please see Section H of our Terms of Service and Corporate Terms of Service for our API Terms. You may not scrape the website for any purpose without first obtaining written permission, except and unless:

• You are a researcher acting in a not-for-profit capacity scraping only public, non-personal information from the Service for research purposes, and only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.

You may not scrape the Service for any other purpose, including spamming purposes, or for the purposes of selling User Personal Information (as defined in the HASH Privacy Statement), such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

All use of data gathered through scraping must comply with the HASH Privacy Statement.

6. Privacy

Misuse of User Personal Information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service must comply with the HASH Privacy Statement, 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 authorized 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.

7. Excessive Bandwidth Use & Blockchain Mining

If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other users, we reserve the right to suspend your Account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.

Under no circumstances may you use the Website or Service to mine cryptocurrencies, cryptoassets, or generate or provide “proof of work” to any blockchain.

8. Advertising on HASH

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

1. HASH Index Listings: HASH Index Listings are intended to host Content. You may include static images, links, and promotional text in the README documentation associated with your listing, but they must be related to the project you are hosting on HASH. You may not advertise in other Users’ repositories, such as by posting monetized or excessive bulk content in comments.

2. Spamming and Inappropriate Use of HASH: Advertising Content, like all Content, must not violate the law or HASH’s Global Terms of Service or Corporate Terms of Service, for example through excessive bulk activity such as spamming. We reserve the right to remove any advertisements that, in our sole discretion, violate any HASH terms or policies.

9. User Protection

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