Acceptable Usage Policy

PART 1: COUNCILPOST DIGITAL PUBLIC GOODS AND SERVICES INFRASTRUCTURE

CouncilPost services and infrastructure maintained on the Open Constitution AI Network shall be available to the General Public in accordance with the Open Access Charter.

PART 2: SPECIAL ADDITIONS FOR LEGAL BODIES(OPEN CONSTITUTION E-TENANCY PROGRAM)

CouncilPost is a dedicated and managed services in connection with the digital public goods and services infrastructure. It can be availed of by the E Tenants of the Open Constitution Network.

PART 3: SPECIAL ADDITIONS FOR DIGITAL SERVICES CREDITS

E-tenants can benefit from the digital commons infrastructure in accordance with the Articles of Association: Legal Bodies: Open Constitution and the network guidelines of the Open Constitution E-Tenancy Program.

Read relevant Open source documentation which brings inherent characteristics to this Acceptable Usage Policy as a consequence of Open Constitution AI Network abiding by the Terms of the platform(s) mentioned in the below literature:

• Google Open Source: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference

• Gitbook Terms of Service: Terms of Service | GitBook Site Policy

• Github Terms of Service: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-policies/github-acceptable-use-policies

In this article

• 1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations

• 2. User Safety

• 3. Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information

• 4. Spam and Inauthentic Activity

• 5. Site Access and Safety

• 6. Services Usage Limits

• 7. Information Usage Restrictions

• 8. Privacy

• 9. Excessive Bandwidth Use

• 10. Advertising

• 11. User Protection

Short version: We host a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our members are able to work together in good faith. While using the Service, you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policies, which include some restrictions on content, conduct and activity in CouncilPost spaces related to member safety, intellectual property, privacy, authenticity, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.

Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in our Glossary.

1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations

You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and all of our Acceptable Use Policies. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below, as well as in our Terms of Service and Enterprise Terms of Services.

Open source intellectual property, produced as a consequence of the Open Constitution, cannot be used under any circumstances, by a public authority or a government agency of a member state of UNO for the purposes of armed conflict, including but not limited to, whether the public authority with a social, civil or economic jurisdiction of a UNO member state, supports any form of aggression over another self-sovereign public authority.

2. Member Safety

We do not allow content or activity on the CouncilPost's "infrastructure as a platform" that:

• is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;

• is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;

• is libellous, defamatory, or fraudulent;

• is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;

• is false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);

• harasses or abuses another individual or group, including our employees, officers, agents, or other users;

• threatens or incites violence toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;

• gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images; or

• is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users.

• is in violation of the Community Guidelines and Articles of Association of the Open Constitution.

3. Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information

We do not allow content or activity on the CouncilPost's "infrastructure as a platform" that:

• infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right;

• unlawfully shares unauthorized Finscale product licensing keys, software for generating unauthorized product licensing keys, or software for bypassing checks for product licensing keys, including the extension of a free license beyond its trial period;

• impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with CouncilPost, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site's purpose; or

• violates the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person's personal information without consent.

4. Spam and Inauthentic Activity

We do not allow content or activity that is:

• automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as

  • spamming

  • cryptocurrency mining;

• bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by CouncilPost terms and policies;

• inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity;

• rank abuse, such as automated starring or following;

• creation of or participation in secondary markets for the purpose of the proliferation of inauthentic activity;

• using CouncilPost as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms;

• phishing or attempted phishing; or

• using our infrastructure for any form of excessive automated bulk activity, to place an undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to relay any form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes.

5. Site Access and Safety

We do not allow content or activity on CouncilPost infrastructure and platform that:

• directly supports unlawful active attack or malware campaigns that are causing technical harms — such as using our platform to deliver malicious executables or as attack infrastructure, for example, by organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers — with no implicit or explicit dual-use purpose prior to the abuse occurring; or

• uses our platforms to disrupt or attempt to disrupt, or to gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to, any service, device, data, account or network. Please note that activities permitted under bug bounty programs, such as the Open Bounty, are not considered “unauthorized.”

6. Services Usage Limits

You will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use the Service, or access the Service without our express written permission.

7. Information Usage Restrictions

You may use information and analysis from our Service for the following reasons, regardless of whether the information was scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise:

• Researchers may use public, non-personal information from the Service for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.

• Archivists may use public information from the Service for archival purposes.

Scraping refers to extracting information from our Service via an automated process, such as a bot or web crawler. Scraping does not refer to the collection of information through APIs.

You may not use information from the Service(s) (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling User Personal Information (as defined in the CouncilPost's Privacy Policy Declaration), such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

Your use of information from the Service must comply with the CouncilPost Privacy Policy.

8. Privacy

Misuse of User Personal Information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service must comply with the CouncilPost Privacy Statement, particularly in regard to the collection of User Personal Information. If you collect any User Personal Information from the Service, you agree that you will only use that User Personal Information for the purpose for which that User has authorized it. You agree that you will reasonably secure any User Personal Information you have gathered from the Service, and you will respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and "do not contact" requests from us or other users.

9. Advertising on the CouncilPost's platform

Short version: We do not generally prohibit the use of the CouncilPost's infrastructure and platforms for advertising. However, we expect you to follow certain limitations, so CouncilPost does not become a spam haven. No one wants that.

You may not promote or distribute content or activity that is illegal or otherwise prohibited by our Terms of Service or Acceptable Use Policies, including excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), get-rich-quick schemes, and misrepresentation or deception related to your promotion.

If you decide to post any promotional materials using your Membership Account, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation the relevant and appropriate Federal Trade Commission's Guidelines on Endorsements and Testimonials(local law). We reserve the right to remove any promotional materials or advertisements that, in our sole discretion, violate any CouncilPost terms or policies.

11. User Protection

You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other subscribers, users, partners and members of the CouncilPost.

We will interpret our policies and resolve disputes in favour of protecting the majority as a whole.

Enforcement. Open Constitution AI Network retains full discretion to take action in response to a violation of these policies, including account suspension, account termination, or removal of content. Please also see our Community Guidelines for actions you can take if something or someone offends you.

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact our Legal Helpdesk. Please raise a ticket at the Open Constitution AI Governance Center. or by post to:

C/o CouncilPost, CVR: Nygade 3, 4.2 København, 1164, Denmark,