Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") explains how you may and may not use Othr. It is part of our Terms of Service. Breaking these rules may lead to a blocked request, a suspended account, a permanent ban, or a report to the authorities — depending on the seriousness.

The spirit of this policy is simple: use Othr thoughtfully, don't hurt anyone, and don't try to break the system.

1. Be lawful

You must not use Othr to do or facilitate anything that is illegal under the laws that apply to you or to us, including UK law.

2. Do not harm people

You must not use Othr to:

• Harass, threaten, intimidate, defame, dox, stalk or target any person or group.
• Promote or glorify violence, terrorism, mass casualty events, or violent extremism.
• Encourage or instruct self-harm or suicide.
• Generate or distribute hate speech against people based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, caste or any other protected characteristic.
• Generate content that sexualises minors in any form, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This is a permanent zero-tolerance ban and will be reported.
• Generate non-consensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes of real people.

3. Do not enable serious crime or harm

You must not use Othr to plan, instruct or facilitate:

• Weapons of mass destruction — chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear.
• Attacks on critical infrastructure (power, water, transport, healthcare, finance).
• The manufacture or trafficking of controlled drugs, firearms or illegal goods.
• Human trafficking, exploitation or modern slavery.

4. Do not compromise systems or people

You must not use Othr to:

• Create or distribute malware, ransomware, spyware, rootkits or credential stealers.
• Build phishing kits, social-engineering scripts targeting specific individuals, or fraudulent payment flows.
• Probe, scan or attempt to penetrate systems you do not own or have explicit permission to test.
• Spam, scrape, mass-harvest or send unsolicited bulk communications.

5. Do not deceive

You must not use Othr to:

• Impersonate real people, public officials, public figures or organisations in a way designed to mislead.
• Generate fabricated quotes, statements or images attributed to real, identifiable people.
• Create political disinformation, election-manipulation content, or fake "news" framed to deceive readers about its origin.
• Generate fraudulent reviews, fake testimonials, or content used to manipulate marketplaces.
• Pass off AI-generated outputs as the work of qualified human professionals (for example, presenting Othr's output as medical, legal, financial or psychological advice from a regulated practitioner).

6. Respect rights

• Do not upload content you do not have the right to use, including copyrighted text, images, code or trade secrets belonging to someone else.
• Do not upload personal data of others without a lawful basis.
• Do not use Othr to infringe trademarks, patents or other intellectual property rights.

7. Respect the service

• Do not reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract model weights, system prompts or training data from Othr or its upstream providers.
• Do not bypass or attempt to bypass rate limits, plan limits, safety filters, authentication or any access control.
• Do not run automated agents, bots or scripts against the Service in a way that materially degrades performance for other users.
• Do not resell, sublicense, rebrand or wrap Othr as your own product without our written permission.
• Do not share your account credentials, or use a single subscription across many people in different households or organisations.

8. High-risk and regulated uses

Othr is general-purpose AI software, not a regulated professional service. You must not rely on it — and you must not let your end-users rely on it — for:

• Medical diagnosis, treatment, prescribing or triage.
• Mental-health treatment, therapy or crisis response.
• Legal advice that creates a regulated client relationship.
• Personal financial, tax or investment advice.
• Decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on people (for example, employment, credit, insurance, immigration, benefits eligibility) without meaningful human review.
• Operation of safety-critical systems where an AI failure could cause physical harm.

If you build a product that integrates Othr-style outputs into any of the above areas, you are responsible for the appropriate human oversight, disclaimers and regulatory compliance.

9. Reporting abuse

If you believe someone is using Othr in a way that breaks this policy — or if you've received content from someone that you believe was generated abusively with Othr — please tell us at contact@askothr.com. Include as much detail as you safely can. We take reports seriously and investigate them.

10. Enforcement

Depending on the seriousness of the breach we may, without prior notice:

• Refuse to process a specific request.
• Block a feature for your account.
• Issue a warning.
• Suspend or permanently terminate your account.
• Retain evidence as needed to defend a claim or comply with the law.
• Report the matter to the police, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) or other appropriate authorities.

We try to apply this policy fairly and proportionately. If you believe an enforcement action against your account was wrong, you can appeal by writing to contact@askothr.com.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this AUP to reflect new risks, new product features or new legal requirements. The "Last updated" date at the top shows the current version. Material changes will be announced in the product.