Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose and Scope This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) defines prohibited conduct across all Northwind Studio websites, public APIs, interactive calculators, contact forms, and associated digital services.#

This policy applies to all visitors, prospective clients, automated crawlers, and API consumers. Compliance with this policy is mandatory.

2. Prohibited Security and Infrastructure Activities You may not engage in or facilitate any of the following activities:#

• Unauthorized Access Attempts: Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems or networks without explicit prior written authorization.
• Circumventing Security Controls: Bypassing authentication, tampering with CSRF tokens, decrypting sessions, or defeating access rate limits.
• Malware & Harmful Code: Uploading, transmitting, or introducing viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, or any software designed to disrupt or compromise system integrity.
• Denial of Service (DoS): Launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, bandwidth floods, or stress-testing our web infrastructure.
• Form Abuse & Spamming: Automating submissions to our contact, proposal, or estimate forms using bots, headless scripts, or unsolicited promotional payloads.

3. Prohibited Content and Social Conduct You may not use our communications channels or interactive forms to transmit:#

• Unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, or harassing material.
• Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or privacy rights of any third party.
• Phishing attempts, deceptive brand impersonation, or social engineering attacks against our team members.
• Unsolicited commercial advertising or bulk promotional campaigns.

4. Automated Access and Scraping Guidelines - **Search Engine Indexing:** Legitimate search engine crawlers are welcome provided they adhere to directives specified in our `/robots.txt` file and maintain polite crawl rates. - **Prohibited Scraping:** Bulk automated extraction, deep scraping of proprietary blueprints, or systematic harvesting of email addresses and contact information is strictly prohibited. - **AI Model Training:** Scraping this website's technical documentation, code snippets, or architecture frameworks to train commercial public foundation models without prior written agreement is prohibited.#

5. AI Services and Interactive Tools Abuse When utilizing our interactive tools, project calculators, or AI demonstrations:#

• Do not attempt prompt injection, jailbreaking, or adversarial payload attacks designed to manipulate model outputs or reveal underlying system prompts.
• Do not submit classified, secret, or third-party regulated confidential data into public interactive web forms.

6. Investigation and Enforcement Northwind Studio reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of this policy. In response to confirmed violations, we may:#

• Block offending IP addresses or network ranges.
• Terminate or throttle active sessions and API keys.
• Delete abusive form submissions or spam records.
• Report unlawful conduct to competent law enforcement and regulatory authorities.

7. Reporting Misuse To report suspected abuse, spam, or security violations, please contact our team at [support@northwindstudio.tech](mailto:support@northwindstudio.tech).#