Acceptable Use Policy

1. Scope

This policy is part of the Terms of Service. It applies to everyone who uses Archon, to agents acting for them, and to every app, site, repository and file hosted or run through Archon. Workspace owners are responsible for the use of their workspace.

2. Illegal and harmful content

• Child sexual abuse material, or any content that sexualises minors. We remove it, preserve evidence as the law requires, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement.
• Content or activity that is illegal where it is published or accessed, including terrorist content, sale of illegal goods and non-consensual intimate imagery.
• Content that infringes copyright, trademark or other rights. See Report abuse for notices.
• Harassment, threats, incitement to violence, or hateful content targeting people for a protected characteristic.

3. Security abuse

• Creating, hosting or distributing malware, ransomware, spyware, botnets or command-and-control servers.
• Phishing, credential harvesting, impersonating a person or organisation, or fraud.
• Scanning, probing or attacking systems you are not authorised to test, including denial-of-service attacks. Testing Archon itself is welcome under our disclosure policy.
• Getting around access controls, rate limits, usage limits, the spend limit or sanctions blocks, or accessing another customer's data.
• Running open proxies, VPN exit nodes or anonymising networks on Archon hosting.

4. Hosting and resources

• Cryptocurrency mining, proof-of-work or proof-of-space workloads.
• Running proxies, VPN exit points or open relays.
• Scanning networks or systems you do not own or have permission to test.
• Getting around plan limits, for example by splitting one workspace across several.
• Sending spam or bulk unsolicited messages, or hosting pages advertised by spam.
• Using hosting mainly for file storage or content distribution unrelated to an app, or load that degrades the Service for others.
• Creating many accounts or workspaces to get more free usage.

5. AI models

When you use AI models through Archon you must also follow the provider's rules, including:

• the Anthropic Usage Policy, the OpenAI Usage Policies, the Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, and the policy of any other provider you use;
• no use of models to develop weapons, to deceive people about talking to an AI where disclosure is required, or to make unlawful automated decisions about people;
• no attempts to extract model weights, bypass a model's safety measures, or use output to train a competing model where the provider forbids it.

6. Data you may not put into Archon

Protected health information under HIPAA, payment card data in scope of PCI DSS, classified information, and special categories of personal data, unless you have a lawful basis and we have agreed in writing.

7. How we enforce this policy

We act on reports, on signals from our providers and on our own checks. Depending on how serious and how likely to recur the issue is, we may remove content, pause an app, limit features, suspend a workspace or account, or close it, and we may report illegal activity to the authorities. We act at once when there is a risk of harm; otherwise we warn first where we can.

When we act, we send the account owner a statement of reasons: what we did, the facts, the rule broken, whether automated means were involved, and how to appeal (EU Digital Services Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, art. 17). Appeal by replying or writing to abuse@joinarchon.com within six months; a person not involved in the first decision reviews it.

8. Reporting

Report abuse at app.joinarchon.com/abuse or abuse@joinarchon.com. Report security vulnerabilities to security@joinarchon.com.