Acceptable use policy

This policy is part of our Terms of service. It applies to everything you run on Ownkube, on Ownkube Compute or in your own cloud account, and to anyone who uses your apps through it. You are responsible for what your apps and your users do.

1. Illegal or harmful activity

• Anything that breaks the law where you, your users or we operate.
• Content that sexualizes or endangers minors.
• Promoting terrorism, violent extremism or human trafficking.
• Selling illegal goods or services, or content that infringes privacy or publicity rights.

2. Abuse of people

• Sharing intimate images of someone without their consent.
• Harassment, threats, stalking or doxxing.
• Content that incites violence or hatred against people for who they are.

3. Fraud and deception

• Phishing pages or apps that collect credentials under false pretenses.
• Payment fraud, carding or money laundering.
• Impersonating a person, brand or organization.
• Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes and other investment scams.

4. Piracy

• Hosting or distributing content you have no right to share, including pirated software, media and courses.

5. Attacks and unauthorized access

• Malware, ransomware, spyware or command-and-control servers.
• Denial-of-service attacks, botnets or stress testers aimed at systems you do not own.
• Scanning, probing or breaking into systems without the owner's permission.
• Spoofing network traffic or forging email headers.

6. Spam

• Unsolicited bulk email, messages or notifications.
• Running or relaying through open mail servers.

7. Platform abuse

• Mining cryptocurrency, or any proof-of-work or plotting workload.
• BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer file sharing.
• Open proxies, VPN exit nodes or anonymization services for others.
• Scrapers that ignore a site's terms or overload it.
• Reselling Ownkube compute as your own hosting without a written agreement with us.
• Getting around plan limits, billing or abuse controls, including with multiple accounts.
• Workloads that degrade the platform for other customers.

8. Enforcement

If something breaks this policy we may remove it, stop or scale down the workload, or suspend the account, without notice when harm is ongoing. Serious cases may be reported to the authorities. Fees for usage up to that point remain due.

9. Not sure, or reporting abuse

If you are unsure whether your use case is allowed, ask us before you deploy. To report abuse running on Ownkube, email support@ownkube.io with the address and what you saw.