Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”) governs your use of the BrowserRoster Service. It supplements our Terms of Service. We maintain a deliberately narrow scope of permitted use because the underlying technology, while broadly useful for legitimate workflows, can be misused for fraud and abuse. We are explicit about what we will not allow.

Violation of this AUP is grounds for immediate suspension or termination of your account without refund and, where appropriate, referral to law enforcement and regulators.

You may use the Service for legitimate business purposes including:

• Ad verification across geographies and device classes for campaigns you operate or are authorized to audit;
• Quality assurance and regression testing of web applications across device profiles, locales, and session states;
• Localization, internationalization, and SEO verification across regions you target;
• Management of multiple legitimate brand or client accounts on platforms that permit multi-account use, where each account belongs to you or to a client who has authorized your access;
• Market research and competitive intelligence using publicly available information;
• Web automation and data collection that complies with the target site’s terms of service, robots.txt, and applicable law;
• Security research conducted under written authorization or within the scope of a bug bounty or vulnerability disclosure program;
• Personal privacy and compartmentalization of your own browsing activity.

You may not use the Service, directly or indirectly, in connection with any of the following:

Financial fraud and identity manipulation

• Bypassing Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Know-Your-Business (KYB), anti-money-laundering (AML), or sanctions screening operated by any bank, credit union, payment processor, brokerage, lender, cryptocurrency exchange, or other regulated financial institution;
• Opening, operating, or transacting through financial accounts under false, synthetic, or stolen identities;
• Applying for credit, loans, mortgages, insurance, or government benefits under any identity other than your own true identity;
• Operating mule accounts, layering transactions to obscure source of funds, or facilitating any form of money laundering;
• Evading sanctions, including conducting transactions on behalf of sanctioned individuals or entities;
• Tax evasion or filing fraudulent tax returns or financial disclosures.

Identity verification circumvention

• Bypassing identity verification systems operated by Persona, Onfido, Jumio, ThreatMetrix, iProov, Veriff, Trulioo, Stripe Identity, Plaid Identity, Sumsub, or any equivalent provider;
• Submitting falsified or stolen identity documents to any verification system;
• Using face, voice, or other biometric data of a person other than yourself, including deepfake or synthetic media, to pass biometric verification.

Government, healthcare, and protected services

• Accessing government services (tax authorities, social services, immigration portals, voting systems, court systems) under any identity other than your own;
• Accessing healthcare portals, prescription systems, or HIPAA-protected records that you are not authorized to access;
• Accessing services subject to COPPA or analogous children’s privacy laws;
• Accessing educational systems (LMS, registration, financial aid) under any identity other than your own.

Evasion of platform enforcement

• Evading account suspensions, bans, or other enforcement actions imposed by third-party platforms for fraud, abuse, harassment, intellectual property infringement, hate speech, or violation of those platforms’ terms of service;
• Circumventing rate limits, anti-bot controls, or fraud-prevention measures of platforms in a manner that violates those platforms’ terms.

Abuse and harm to others

• Harassment, stalking, doxxing, or intimidation of any individual;
• Creation or distribution of malware, ransomware, spyware, or any code intended to damage or gain unauthorized access to systems;
• Phishing or other social engineering campaigns;
• Unauthorized security testing, including unsolicited penetration testing against systems you do not own or are not authorized to test;
• Coordinated inauthentic behavior, including fake reviews, fake engagement, vote manipulation, astroturfing, and disinformation campaigns;
• Generation, distribution, or solicitation of sexual content involving minors or non-consenting adults;
• Promotion of terrorism, violent extremism, or organized hate activity.

Service abuse

• Reverse engineering, decompiling, or attempting to extract the source code of the Service;
• Reselling, sublicensing, or commercially exploiting the Service without written authorization;
• Sharing license keys or account credentials with parties outside your contracted seat allowance;
• Attempting to interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Service or any of our service providers;
• Submitting fraudulent payment information or initiating chargebacks without first attempting to resolve disputes with us in good faith.

• You are responsible for the lawfulness of every action you take using the Service.
• You must comply with the terms of service of every third-party platform you access through the Service.
• You must comply with applicable privacy law, including PIPEDA (Canada), GDPR (EU/UK), CCPA/CPRA (California), and any other law applicable to your jurisdiction or to the individuals whose data you process.
• If you process personal data of third parties using the Service, you must have a lawful basis to do so.

We may investigate suspected violations of this AUP using available telemetry, including license activation patterns, IP and HWID fingerprints associated with activations, payment metadata, and third-party abuse reports. We may suspend or terminate access without notice if we reasonably believe a violation is occurring or has occurred.

Where required by law, or where we reasonably believe a violation involves serious harm (including financial fraud, child safety, or terrorism), we will report the activity and cooperate with law enforcement and relevant regulators.

If you become aware of activity that may violate this AUP, please report it to abuse@browserroster.com. We investigate reports promptly and keep reporter identity confidential where requested and lawful.

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be announced at least 14 days before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.