Acceptable Use Policy

Core principles

You must use the Service only for lawful, professional, good-faith purposes.

Do not use Writers’ Bloc to make false claims, abuse third parties, misuse content, attack the platform, bypass controls, or create legal, financial, technical, reputational, or security risk for WB, users, or third parties.

We may monitor compliance with this AUP and take appropriate action where we reasonably believe it is being breached.

Content ownership and authority

You must not use Writers’ Bloc to:

• submit content you do not own or control;
• fingerprint content without authority;
• monitor content without authority;
• request payment for content you do not own or control;
• falsely claim authorship, ownership, licence rights, publisher rights, or enforcement rights;
• misrepresent your relationship with a writer, publisher, newsroom, client, contributor, employer, or rights-holder;
• use another person’s website, CMS, API key, account, domain, publication, or wallet without authority;
• exploit unauthorised access to someone else’s publishing systems.

You must have the necessary rights and permissions before submitting, fingerprinting, monitoring, analysing, exporting, or requesting payment in relation to any content.

We may suspend or restrict features (including monitoring and payment-request flows) where we suspect false ownership claims or abusive use.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not under any circumstances conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site, platform, or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Payment requests and communications

You must not use Writers’ Bloc to send or initiate:

• false payment demands;
• misleading payment requests;
• bad-faith settlement requests;
• abusive or threatening messages;
• defamatory allegations;
• extortionate communications;
• harassment;
• spam;
• unlawful marketing;
• impersonation;
• communications that falsely suggest WB has made a legal finding;
• communications that falsely suggest WB represents you;
• communications that falsely suggest a court, regulator, or authority has confirmed infringement;
• communications that breach law, platform terms, professional duties, or third-party rights.

You are responsible for reviewing and editing any template, email, notice, payment link, or communication before sending it.

WB may suspend or terminate accounts that misuse payment-request tools.

Harassment, abuse, and unlawful behaviour

You must not use Writers’ Bloc to harass, threaten, shame, intimidate, defame, spam, or repeatedly contact a person or organisation in bad faith.

You must not use the platform to publish, distribute, or support abusive conduct against alleged infringers, competitors, journalists, publishers, contributors, platforms, AI companies, bots, crawlers, or any third party.

You must not use the Service to send extortionate, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful communications; send mass, unsolicited, or spam payment demands; or encourage or facilitate illegal activity.

You are responsible for reviewing and editing any templates or pre-filled text before sending communications via the Service.

Technical misuse and security

You must not:

• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other accounts, or underlying infrastructure;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems without our express permission;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service (including via denial-of-service attacks, bots, or automated abuse);
• upload or distribute malware, viruses, spyware, or other malicious code;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent security or authentication measures;
• violate copyright, trademark, database rights, privacy rights, data-protection rights, publicity rights, contractual rights, or other third-party rights;
• upload or distribute illegal content;
• facilitate fraud, deception, sanctions evasion, money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, corruption, tax evasion, or other unlawful conduct;
• violate export-control, sanctions, anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorist financing, consumer, privacy, data-protection, financial-services, or intellectual-property laws;
• create, support, or conceal unlawful transactions.

Reverse engineering and platform misuse

You must not:

• reverse engineer the platform;
• decompile or disassemble WB software;
• scrape, crawl, or harvest the platform without permission;
• bypass authentication, access controls, usage limits, rate limits, billing limits, or security measures;
• interfere with platform performance;
• overload, flood, spam, or attack the platform;
• attempt unauthorised access to accounts, systems, APIs, wallets, integrations, logs, or data;
• probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities without written permission;
• use the platform to build or train a competing product;
• misuse APIs, plugins, integrations, wallet features, x402 features, or payment features;
• remove, hide, or alter proprietary notices;
• use automated tools in a way that harms WB, users, or third parties.

AI, monitoring, and reports

You must not misuse WB monitoring outputs, scores, reports, or dossiers.

You must not:

• present WB scores as legal findings;
• claim that WB has conclusively proven infringement;
• claim that WB has conclusively proven training-data use;
• claim that a blockchain record conclusively proves ownership;
• use false positives as grounds for abusive demands;
• manipulate prompts, monitoring workflows, or evidence exports to create misleading reports;
• alter screenshots, reports, snippets, timestamps, or dossiers in a misleading way.

WB outputs are tools for review. They are not legal advice or opinions.

Wallets, payments, and crypto features

You must not use WB wallet, crypto, x402, payment processor, or any other payment-related features to:

• conduct unlawful transactions;
• evade sanctions;
• launder money;
• impersonate another person or business;
• misrepresent ownership of a wallet or account;
• submit false KYC, AML, tax, bank, identity, or business information;
• request or receive payments you are not entitled to;
• manipulate payment flows;
• exploit protocol or smart-contract vulnerabilities;
• interfere with third-party provider systems.

Third-party services

You must comply with the terms and policies of third-party services connected to WB, including wallet providers, payment processors, off-ramp providers, blockchain networks, AI providers, search providers, hosting providers, publishing platforms, newsletter platforms, CMS providers, and API providers.

Breach of third-party terms may result in restriction or loss of WB functionality.

Security reporting

If you discover a vulnerability, security issue, unauthorised access, data exposure, payment issue, wallet issue, or platform weakness, report it promptly to:

Do not exploit, disclose, sell, or misuse the issue.

Do not access, copy, modify, delete, transfer, or disclose data that does not belong to you.

Sanctions and restricted jurisdictions

You must not use the Service if you:

• are subject to EU, UK, US, or UN sanctions; or
• are located in a country or region where our providers are legally prohibited from offering services.

We may restrict or terminate access where required by law or by our providers’ compliance policies.

Enforcement

WB may investigate suspected violations of this policy.

If we reasonably believe you have breached this AUP, we may take one or more of the following actions:

• warn you;
• request information;
• request proof of rights;
• remove or restrict content;
• suspend features;
• restrict payment-request tools;
• restrict wallet-related features;
• disable integrations;
• suspend or terminate accounts;
• preserve records;
• notify affected parties;
• report unlawful activity where appropriate;
• comply with legal, regulatory, court, law-enforcement, or third-party provider requests.

We may take these actions without notice where legally required or where immediate action is needed to protect the platform, users, WB, third parties, legal compliance, security, or service integrity.

Reporting misuse

To report misuse of Writers’ Bloc, contact:

Please include:

• your name and contact details;
• the relevant WB user, account, domain, record, payment request, or communication, if known;
• a description of the issue;
• supporting evidence;
• the action you are requesting.

WB may review the report but does not act as a court, regulator, arbitrator, or legal adjudicator.

Changes to this policy

WB may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time.

The updated version will be posted with a new “Effective” date.

Continued use of WB after the update takes effect means you accept the updated policy.