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Acceptable Use Policy

Overview

This Usage Policy (also referred to as our "Acceptable Use Policy" or "AUP") applies to anyone who uses Novus Inc.'s products and services and is intended to help our users stay safe and ensure our products and services are being used responsibly.

The Usage Policy is categorized according to who can use our products and for what purposes. We reserve the right to update our policy as our technology and the associated risks evolve or as we learn about unanticipated risks from our users.

This Application and the Service may only be used within the scope of what they are provided for, under these Terms and applicable law.

Users are solely responsible for making sure that their use of this Application and/or the Service violates no applicable law, regulations or third-party rights.

Therefore, the Owner reserves the right to take any appropriate measure to protect its legitimate interests including denying Users access to this Application or the Service, terminating contracts, reporting any misconduct performed through this Application or the Service to the competent authorities — such as judicial or administrative authorities — whenever Users are suspected to be in violation of any laws, regulations, third-party rights and/or these Terms, including, but not limited to, by engaging in any of the activities set out below.

Universal Usage Standards

Do Not Compromise Children's Safety

This includes using our products or services to:

• Create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material. We strictly prohibit and will report to relevant authorities and organizations where appropriate any content that exploits or abuses minors.
• Facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of a minor.
• Facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor.
• Facilitate or depict child abuse of any form, including instructions for how to conceal abuse.
• Promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay with the model.
• Fetishize minors.

Creating, uploading, or distributing content that facilitates the exploitation or abuse of children is expressly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, all forms of child sexual abuse material.

Do Not Compromise Critical Infrastructure

This includes using our products or services to:

• Facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure such as power grids, water treatment facilities, telecommunication networks, or air traffic control systems.
• Obtain unauthorized access to critical systems such as voting machines, healthcare databases, and financial markets.
• Interfere with the operation of military bases and related infrastructure.

Do Not Incite Violence or Hateful Behavior

This includes using our products or services to:

• Incite, facilitate, or promote violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior.
• Depict support for organizations or individuals associated with violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior.
• Facilitate or promote any act of violence or intimidation targeting individuals, groups, animals, or property.
• Promote discriminatory practices or behaviors against individuals or groups on the basis of one or more protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or any other identifying trait.
• Defame, abuse, harass, use threatening practices, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights of others in any way.
• Promote activity that may endanger the User's life or the life of any other User, or lead to physical harm. This includes, but is not limited to, suicide threats or instigations, intentional physical trauma, the use of illegal drugs, or excessive drinking. Under no circumstance is any User allowed to post any content promoting, encouraging, or showing self-destructive or violent behavior.
• Promote, either directly or indirectly, hate, racism, discrimination, pornography, or violence.

Do Not Compromise Someone's Privacy or Identity

This includes using our products or services to:

• Compromise security or gain unauthorized access to computer systems or networks, including spoofing and social engineering.
• Violate the security, integrity, or availability of any user, network, computer, device, or communications system, software application, or network or computing device.
• Violate any person's privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws, such as sharing personal information without consent, accessing private data unlawfully, or violating any relevant privacy regulations.
• Misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access to private information without permission such as non-public contact details, health data, biometric or neural data (including facial recognition), or confidential or proprietary data.
• Impersonate a human by presenting results as human-generated, or using results in a manner intended to convince a natural person that they are communicating with a natural person when they are not.
• Pretend to fulfill any condition or requirement for accessing this Application and/or using the Services, such as being an adult according to law or qualifying as a Consumer.
• Conceal your identity, steal someone else's identity, or pretend to be or represent a third party where not allowed to do so by such third party.
• Manipulate identifiers to disguise or otherwise conceal the origin of your messages or of the content posted.
• Misappropriate any account in use by another User.
• Harvest or collect any personally identifying information of other Users, including but not limited to their email addresses or contact information, by circumventing the privacy settings of other Users' accounts on this Application or by any other means.
• Use any information relating to other Users, including personal or contact data, for purposes other than those this Application is intended for.

Do Not Create or Facilitate the Exchange of Illegal or Highly Regulated Weapons or Goods

This includes using our products or services to:

• Produce, modify, design, market, or distribute weapons, explosives, dangerous materials or other systems designed to cause harm to or loss of human life.
• Engage in or facilitate any illegal activity, such as the use, acquisition, or exchange of illegal and controlled substances, or the facilitation of human trafficking and prostitution.

Do Not Create Psychologically or Emotionally Harmful Content

This includes using our products or services to:

• Facilitate or conceal any form of self-harm, including disordered eating and unhealthy or compulsive exercise.
• Engage in behaviors that promote unhealthy or unattainable body image or beauty standards, such as using the model to critique anyone's body shape or size.
• Shame, humiliate, intimidate, bully, harass, or celebrate the suffering of individuals.
• Coordinate the harassment or intimidation of an individual or group.
• Generate content depicting sexual violence.
• Generate content depicting animal cruelty or abuse.
• Generate violent or gory content that is inspired by real acts of violence.
• Promote, trivialize, or depict graphic violence or gratuitous gore.
• Develop a product, or support an existing service that facilitates deceptive techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm.

Do Not Spread Misinformation

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

• Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information about a group, entity or person.
• Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information about laws, regulations, procedures, practices, standards established by an institution, entity or governing body.
• Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information with the intention of targeting specific groups or persons with the misleading content.
• Create and advance conspiratorial narratives meant to target a specific group, individual or entity.
• Impersonate real entities or create fake personas to falsely attribute content or mislead others about its origin without consent or legal right.
• Provide false or misleading information related to medical, health or science issues.
• Disseminate or publish content that is unlawful, obscene, illegitimate, libelous, or inappropriate.
• Disseminate or publish content that is false or may create unjustified alarm.

Do Not Create Political Campaigns or Interfere in Elections

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

• Promote or advocate for a particular political candidate, party, issue or position. This includes soliciting votes, financial contributions, or public support for a political entity.
• Engage in political lobbying to actively influence the decisions of government officials, legislators, or regulatory agencies on legislative, regulatory, or policy matters. This includes advocacy or direct communication with officials or campaigns to sway public opinion on specific legislation or policies.
• Engage in campaigns, including political campaigns, that promote false or misleading information to discredit or undermine individuals, groups, entities or institutions.
• Incite, glorify or facilitate the disruption of electoral or civic processes, such as targeting voting machines, or obstructing the counting or certification of votes.
• Generate false or misleading information on election laws, procedures and security, candidate information, how to participate, or discouraging participation in an election.

Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Censorship or Surveillance Purposes

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

• Make determinations on criminal justice applications, including making decisions about or determining eligibility for parole or sentencing.
• Target or track a person's physical location, emotional state, or communication without their consent, including using our products for facial recognition, battlefield management applications or predictive policing.
• Utilize Novus to assign scores or ratings to individuals based on an assessment of their trustworthiness or social behavior.
• Build or support emotional recognition systems or techniques that are used to infer people's emotions.
• Analyze or identify specific content to censor on behalf of a government organization.
• Utilize Novus as part of any biometric categorization system for categorizing people based on their biometric data to infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation.
• Use the model for any official local, state or national law enforcement application. Except for the following permitted applications by law enforcement organizations:
  • Back office uses including internal training, call center support, document summarization, and accounting.
  • Analysis of data for the location of missing persons, including in human trafficking cases, and other related applications, provided that such applications do not otherwise violate or impair the liberty, civil liberties, or human rights of natural persons.

Do Not Engage in Fraudulent, Abusive, or Predatory Practices

This includes using our products or services to:

• Facilitate the production, acquisition, or distribution of counterfeit or illicitly acquired goods.
• Promote or facilitate the generation or distribution of spam.
• Generate content for fraudulent activities, schemes, scams, phishing, or malware that can result in direct financial or psychological harm.
• Generate content for the purposes of developing or promoting the sale or distribution of fraudulent or deceptive products.
• Generate deceptive or misleading digital content such as fake reviews, comments, or media.
• Engage in or facilitate multi-level marketing, pyramid schemes, or other deceptive business models that use high-pressure sales tactics or exploit participants.
• Promote or facilitate payday loans, title loans, or other high-interest, short-term lending practices that exploit vulnerable individuals.
• Engage in deceptive, abusive behaviors, practices, or campaigns that exploits people due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation.
• Promote or facilitate the use of abusive or harassing debt collection practices.
• Develop a product, or support an existing service that deploys subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort behavior by impairing decision-making.
• Plagiarize or engage in academic dishonesty.
• Disrupt, interrupt, harm, or otherwise violate the integrity of this Application or another User's experience or devices, including through spamming, distributing unauthorized advertisements, phishing, defrauding others, or spreading malware or viruses.
• Publish, disseminate, or otherwise provide content protected by intellectual property laws, including but not limited to patent, trademark or copyright law, unlawfully and without the legitimate right-holder's consent.
• Publish, disseminate, or otherwise make available any other content that infringes on any third-party rights, including but not limited to state, military, trade or professional secrets and personal data.

Do Not Abuse our Platform

This includes using our products or services to:

• Coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts such as creating multiple accounts to avoid detection or circumvent product guardrails or generating identical or similar prompts that otherwise violate our Usage Policy.
• Utilize automation in account creation or to engage in spammy behavior.
• Circumvent a ban through the use of a different account, such as the creation of a new account, use of an existing account, or providing access to a person or entity that was previously banned.
• Facilitate or provide account access to Novus to persons or entities who are located in unsupported locations.
• Intentionally bypass capabilities or restrictions established within our products for the purposes of instructing the model to produce harmful outputs (e.g., jailbreaking or prompt injection) without an authorized use-case approved by Novus Inc.
• Unauthorized utilization of prompts and completions to train an AI model (e.g., "model scraping").
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of this Application, including the Services or any network connected to it, or breach its security or authentication measures.
• Install, embed, upload, or otherwise incorporate any malware into or via this Application.
• Use this Application or its technical infrastructure in an abusive, excessive, or otherwise inappropriate way (for example, for spamming purposes).
• Attempt to disrupt or tamper with the technical infrastructure in a manner that harms or places an undue burden on this Application or the Service.

Do Not Generate Sexually Explicit Content

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

• Depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts.
• Generate content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies.
• Facilitate, promote, or depict incest or bestiality.
• Facilitate, produce, distribute, or promote any form of sexual exploitation.
• Impersonate or depict an adult as a minor.

Inputs, Outputs, Actions, and Materials

You may be allowed to interact with our Services in a variety of formats (we call these "Inputs"). Our Services may generate responses (we call these "Outputs"), or enable the Services to take actions on your behalf, such as software manipulation, data processing, and system interactions (we call these "Actions"), based on your Inputs. Inputs and Outputs collectively are referred to as "Materials."

Rights and Responsibilities

You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and all Actions. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms and to provide the Services to you, including for example, to integrate with third-party services, to share Materials with others at your direction, and to take Actions.

You also represent and warrant that your submitting Inputs to us or directing Novus to take Actions will not violate our Terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, or any laws or regulations applicable to those Inputs or Actions.

As between you and Novus Inc., and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain any right, title, and interest that you have in the Inputs you submit. Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.

Reliance on Outputs and Actions

Artificial intelligence and large language models are frontier technologies that are still improving in accuracy, reliability, and safety. When you use our Services, you acknowledge and agree:

• Outputs may not always be accurate and may contain material inaccuracies even if they appear accurate because of their level of detail or specificity.
• Actions may not be error-free or operate as you intended.
• You should not rely on any Outputs or Actions without independently confirming their accuracy.
• The Services and any Outputs may not reflect correct, current, or complete information.
• Outputs may contain content that is inconsistent with Novus Inc.'s views.

Our use of Materials

We use Materials only to provide and operate the Services. We do not sell your Materials or use them for advertising. Novus does not build or train its own AI models, and we do not train AI models on your Materials. Where AI features rely on third-party providers, your Inputs are processed by those providers under their own terms.

Content Moderation and Reporting

We are committed to your privacy. We do not proactively monitor, screen, or moderate the content that Users create, send, or share through the Services, and we do not monitor the content of private communications — including messages exchanged between consenting Users, or conversations between a User and the AI.

We do provide tools that allow Users to report content and to block other Users. When content is reported to us, or when we otherwise become aware that content violates these Terms or our Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to remove or restrict that content and to suspend or terminate the responsible account. We will act promptly on such reports. Where required by applicable app store policies (including the Apple App Store), we will remove reported content that is objectionable within 24 hours and bar the responsible User from the Service.

Regardless of the foregoing, certain content is never permitted under any circumstances, including in private communications: child sexual abuse and exploitation material, and other content prohibited by our Acceptable Use Policy or by applicable law. Whenever we become aware of such content we will remove it and report it to the relevant authorities as required by law.

This section, together with our Acceptable Use Policy, governs content moderation and prevails over any more general provision in these Terms.