Acceptable Use Policy

1. Who this applies to

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") applies to everyone who uses Knowledge Commons — including contributing organisations, account holders, anonymous visitors, and automated clients.

2. Prohibited content and conduct

You may not use Knowledge Commons to upload, publish, store, share, or transmit:

• Content that is unlawful, that infringes third-party rights (including copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity), or that you do not have the right to share;
• Content depicting the sexual exploitation or abuse of minors (CSAM) — we will report such content to the competent authorities;
• Content that incites violence, terrorism, or genocide; content that promotes hatred against a protected group; or content that constitutes harassment;
• Personal data of identifiable individuals processed without a lawful basis;
• Malware, exploit code, phishing material, or technical attacks on the platform or its users;
• Deliberately false or misleading material presented as factual reporting (excluding satire, parody, and clearly-labelled opinion);
• Spam, mass commercial solicitation, or undisclosed paid promotion.

3. Technical abuse

• Do not scrape, crawl, or fetch the surface at a rate that materially burdens it. Reasonable use of the public search API and assistant is welcome.
• Do not attempt to bypass authentication, rate-limiting, or access controls.
• Do not probe for or exploit vulnerabilities outside a coordinated disclosure process.

4. Enforcement

We may, at our discretion and without prior notice, remove content, suspend or terminate accounts, terminate contributor agreements, rate-limit clients, or refer matters to competent authorities. We will act proportionately and prefer the least-restrictive measure that resolves a violation.

Repeat or severe violations result in permanent termination.

5. Reporting abuse

Report violations to abuse@knowledge-commons.example. Include URLs and a brief description. We acknowledge receipt within five working days.

For copyright complaints specifically, use the procedure at /dmca.