Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose

AskQP gives you a powerful AI workspace and ephemeral access to shared cloud GPU compute. The same capability that lets you produce a regulatory-grade research report could be misused to harm a person, a company, a community, or the platform. This AUP draws the lines we will not cross and the lines we will not let our customers cross. It exists to protect:

• People who could be harmed by misuse of generated content.
• Other AskQP customers who depend on a healthy platform.
• The integrity of our infrastructure and our relationships with payment processors and cloud providers.
• Quantum Pipes itself.

2. Scope

The AUP applies to every use of the Service, including the marketing site, the desktop application, cloud actions, the SDK, and any future surface we publish under the AskQP name. Where you use AskQP locally with your own models and never invoke a cloud action, the prohibitions in Sections 3 (Prohibited content) and 4 (Prohibited conduct) still apply to outputs you distribute, publish, or use to harm a third party. Your local-only inference is not a safe harbor for downstream misuse.

3. Prohibited content

You may not use the Service to create, generate, store, distribute, or facilitate any of the following:

• Child sexual abuse material in any form, real or synthetic, including content that sexualizes minors. Suspected CSAM is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement as required, and results in immediate termination.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated imagery depicting an identifiable person in a sexual or intimate context without that person's documented consent.
• Targeted harassment, stalking, or doxxing of a specific person or a small identifiable group.
• Content designed to incite imminent violence or genocide against a person or a group identified by race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other protected characteristic.
• Detailed instructions for weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear), including synthesis routes, weaponization steps, or delivery methods.
• Detailed operational instructions for cyber-physical attacks on critical infrastructure (power, water, transit, finance, health systems) where harm is foreseeable and the recipient has no authority to defend.
• Functional malware, exploit code targeting third parties, credential-stuffing tooling, or wormable payloads. Defensive security research on systems you own or are authorized to test is not prohibited.
• Fraudulent identity material: forged government identification, counterfeit currency, fake credentials, or content intended to enable financial fraud.
• Content that violates applicable law, including content that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights you do not have rights to use; content that violates export, sanctions, or trade-control law; and content that violates privacy law in any jurisdiction whose residents are affected.

4. Prohibited conduct

You may not use the Service to:

• Practice medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law, accounting, or any other licensed profession without proper credentials.
• Provide individualized professional advice (medical, legal, financial, tax, immigration, mental health, safety-critical) to a third party as if that advice were licensed when you do not hold the license.
• Sell, redistribute, or republish AskQP-generated outputs as human-authored advice or content where the law of the jurisdiction or the profession requires AI disclosure.
• Generate content intended to deceive a person about the identity, source, or sponsorship of a communication in elections, securities, advertising, journalism, or other contexts where authenticity is materially relevant.
• Bulk-generate disinformation or coordinated inauthentic behavior content.
• Produce voice clones, face swaps, or other synthetic media depicting a real identifiable person without that person's documented consent, except for clearly labeled satire or commentary that complies with applicable law.

5. AI-specific prohibited conduct

You may not, and may not attempt to:

• Extract, reconstruct, or copy our model weights, training data, fine-tuning data, system prompts, or routing logic.
• Conduct coordinated jailbreaking or prompt-injection campaigns against the Service. Good-faith security research, reported through hello@quantumpipes.com with the subject line "Security: prompt injection finding," is welcome and not a violation.
• Train any machine-learning model on outputs of the Service for the purpose of replicating its capabilities or evading its safety controls, without our prior written consent.
• Use the Service to bypass another platform's safety controls, content moderation, age gates, or rate limits.
• Use the Service to mass-generate copyrighted text, code, or media for redistribution where you do not hold the necessary rights.

6. Prohibited targeting

You may not use the Service to:

• Access records, accounts, networks, or systems you are not legally authorized to access.
• Process the protected health information of patients you do not have legal authority over, or whose information you are not authorized to handle under HIPAA or analogous law.
• Profile minors for advertising, behavioral targeting, or commercial inference.
• Build a database of biometric identifiers (face, voice, gait, iris) about people who have not consented.
• Conduct surveillance on a person or group in a way that violates applicable privacy law, employment law, or constitutional protection in your jurisdiction.

7. Platform abuse

You may not:

• Resell cloud-action capacity to third parties, repackage the Service, or use a single subscription to provide AskQP-like access to people outside your subscription.
• Share your account credentials, magic-link tokens, or license across organizations, or exceed the device cap of your tier by rotation.
• Run automated load against the marketing site, the auth Worker, or the cloud-actions endpoint that exceeds the limits we publish or that imposes a disproportionate share of capacity.
• Reverse-engineer the desktop binary for redistribution, defeat license verification, or remove cryptographic integrity checks.
• Probe or test the security of the Service outside the scope and rules of our Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. Good-faith research inside that scope is welcome and covered by safe harbor.
• Misrepresent yourself as Quantum Pipes, AskQP, or an authorized partner.

8. Regulated and professional use

Use of the Service in healthcare, finance, legal, defense, government, and other regulated contexts is permitted only when you hold the credentials and authority required by the jurisdiction and the profession. AskQP outputs are not a substitute for licensed professional judgment; you remain fully responsible for clinical decisions, legal advice, financial recommendations, and any other professional act.

Where your use involves protected health information, customer financial data, classified information, or other regulated categories, you are responsible for:

• Confirming, before transmitting any regulated data through a cloud action, that you have the legal authority to do so and that we have entered any required written agreement (for example, a Business Associate Agreement under HIPAA).
• Configuring your AskQP deployment in a manner consistent with your sector's regulatory requirements, including local-only operation where required.
• Maintaining your own audit, retention, and breach-response programs.

9. Reporting violations

If you believe a person or organization is using the Service in violation of this AUP, write to wecare@quantumpipes.com with as much detail as you can share. For child-safety concerns, please flag the report explicitly so we route it on the highest-priority queue.

10. Enforcement

We may take any one or more of the following actions against accounts or activity that violates this AUP:

• Warning for a minor first-time issue we believe is correctable.
• Throttling of cloud actions for usage patterns suggestive of automation, scraping, or resale.
• Suspension of cloud-action access pending review.
• License revocation for material breach, disabling cloud actions on the affected device or account.
• Termination of the subscription and account.
• Reporting to authorities where the law requires (for example, suspected CSAM or imminent threats to life).

For severe violations (CSAM, mass-harm content, weapons of mass destruction synthesis instructions, coordinated impersonation campaigns), suspension or termination may be immediate and without prior notice. Refunds in connection with AUP-based termination are at our sole discretion.

Locally stored Vault contents, conversations, and audit chains remain on your device after enforcement action; you may export them using the in-app tools.

11. Changes

The AUP may be updated as misuse patterns evolve. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent material change. To respond quickly to new misuse patterns, AUP changes take effect with at least seven (7) days' notice on the marketing site where feasible; this is a deliberate carve-out from the thirty (30) days' notice that applies to other policy changes under Terms § 20. Where harm is imminent or ongoing, restrictions may take effect immediately on posting.

12. Contact

Quantum Pipes Technologies LLC
30 N Gould St, Ste N
Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
Reports of violation: wecare@quantumpipes.com
General: hello@quantumpipes.com