Acceptable Use Policy — HSAM.net

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Acceptable Use Policy

HSAM.net is maintained by the Institute for Civil Memory, the nonprofit section of GLC / Gwyn Legacy. This policy protects public websites, applications, APIs, dashboards, prototypes, client systems, research contexts, and support channels from misuse.

Last Updated: May 8, 2026

Do not use services for harm

  • Illegal activity, fraud, rights violations, or deceptive conduct.
  • Spam, phishing, credential theft, impersonation, social engineering, or account abuse.
  • Malware, botnets, exploit delivery, ransomware, unauthorized crypto-mining, or harmful automation.
  • Harassment, threats, abuse, stalking, hate, doxxing, or targeted intimidation.
  • Scraping, crawling, rate-limit bypass, bulk harvesting, or data extraction that harms availability, privacy, or rights.
  • Unauthorized access, privilege escalation, credential attacks, vulnerability exploitation, or security testing without permission.
  • Misuse of health, research, clinical, memory, education, or sensitive systems, including attempts to identify private participants or upload regulated data without authorization.

Responsible disclosure only

Good-faith security research should avoid privacy harm, data destruction, persistence, lateral movement, service disruption, social engineering, extortion, public disclosure before remediation, or accessing data that is not yours. Report suspected issues through Security or Support.

Response and remediation

HSAM.net, the Institute for Civil Memory, GLC / Gwyn Legacy, and their service providers may throttle, block, suspend, remove content, preserve logs, contact affected parties, or report conduct to providers or authorities when needed to protect users, participants, systems, collaborators, or legal obligations.