Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”) sets out the categories of business, content, and conduct that are prohibited on Inferio (the “Service”). It supplements and is incorporated into the Terms of Service. Violation of this AUP is a material breach of the Terms and may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account as described in Terms § 14 (Enforcement & investigations).

Inferio is non-custodial software infrastructure made available globally over the public internet. We do not custody funds, but we decide who may use our software. The list below is not exhaustive; we reserve the right to refuse service to any business or transaction category that, in our reasonable judgement, exposes the Service, our team, or other users to material legal, regulatory, reputational, or operational risk. Each merchant remains solely responsible for ensuring that its use of the Service is lawful in the merchant’s own jurisdiction and in any jurisdiction where the merchant offers goods or services.

1. Restricted businesses

You may not use the Service to accept payment for, advertise, or otherwise facilitate any of the following, anywhere in the world, even if the activity is legal in some jurisdictions:

Gambling, gaming & speculation

• Casinos, sportsbooks, betting exchanges, online poker, slots, bingo, and other games of chance played for value.
• Lotteries, raffles, sweepstakes, and skill-based contests with cash or token prizes that are regulated as gambling in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Daily fantasy sports, prediction markets, binary options, and other wager-like products where buyers risk value on an uncertain outcome.
• Unregulated investment schemes, including unregistered token sales, high-yield investment programs, pump-and-dump groups, and pyramid or Ponzi-style structures.

Illicit finance & sanctions

• Money laundering, structuring, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, tax evasion, and any activity that obscures the origin or destination of funds.
• Unlicensed money transmission, remittance, currency exchange, or virtual-asset-service-provider (VASP) activity.
• Cryptocurrency mixers, tumblers, coin-join coordinators, and similar services whose primary purpose is to obscure the provenance of funds.
• Business operated from, or directed at users in, jurisdictions subject to comprehensive sanctions by the United Nations, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the European Union, or the United Kingdom.

Regulated & dangerous goods

• Firearms, ammunition, explosives, and weapon accessories.
• Illegal drugs, controlled substances, drug precursors, drug paraphernalia, and unregulated cannabis, kratom, or similar products.
• Tobacco, e-cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine products sold without the age-verification and licensing required in the buyer’s jurisdiction.
• Prescription medications, steroids, and other pharmaceuticals sold without a valid prescription or licensed pharmacy relationship.
• Counterfeit goods, replicas of branded items, and any merchandise that infringes another party’s intellectual property.

Adult content & exploitative material

• Pornography, escort services, in-person sexual services, and any adult content where age or consent of all depicted parties cannot be verified.
• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), content that sexualises minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, and content that exploits or endangers vulnerable people. This is a permanent ban and we will report to law-enforcement.
• Hate speech, content that incites violence against a person or group, terrorist propaganda, and recruitment material for designated terrorist organisations.

Fraud, deception & consumer harm

• Phishing kits, account-takeover services, fake-identity services, synthetic-identity fraud, and sale of stolen credentials, payment cards, or personal data.
• Deepfake or impersonation services marketed to defraud, deceive, or harass identifiable people.
• Multi-level-marketing schemes whose primary income comes from recruitment rather than from genuine sale of goods or services.
• Get-rich-quick programs, “guaranteed return” trading signals, and unregistered financial advisory or asset-management services.
• Goods or services advertised with material misrepresentations about health, safety, financial outcomes, or regulatory status.

Cyber abuse

• Malware, ransomware, spyware, stalkerware, exploit kits, and any software designed to compromise systems or people without consent.
• DDoS-for-hire (booter / stresser) services, hacking-as-a-service, and unauthorised penetration-testing offerings.
• Networks or services used to send unsolicited bulk communications (spam) in violation of applicable laws.

2. Prohibited conduct

Whatever your business category, you may not:

• attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, clone, or resell the Service or its documentation without our prior written consent;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service except through a coordinated disclosure to [email protected];
• circumvent rate limits, fraud controls, or access controls, or use another merchant’s account, API keys, or webhooks;
• misrepresent who you are, who is operating the merchant account, or the nature of the underlying goods or services;
• use the Service to harass, dox, threaten, or facilitate violence against any person.

3. Compliance you must do yourself

• Maintain any licences your business requires (money transmitter, VASP, gaming, pharmacy, broker-dealer, etc.) in every jurisdiction you operate in.
• Conduct appropriate KYC and sanctions screening on your end-buyers and counterparties where required by law.
• Keep records sufficient to demonstrate compliance with AML / CTF / tax obligations applicable to your business.
• Honour refund, chargeback, and consumer-protection obligations you owe to your buyers.

4. Reporting a violation

If you believe a merchant, transaction, payment link, or other activity on the Service violates this AUP or applicable law, write to [email protected] with the subject line “Abuse report”. Please include:

• the URL, payment-link ID, transaction hash, or merchant identifier;
• a description of what you believe is wrong;
• any evidence (screenshots, on-chain hashes) you can share;
• your contact details if you would like a response.

We aim to acknowledge credible reports within 5 business days. Reports relating to imminent physical harm, CSAM, or active fraud are prioritised and may be escalated to law-enforcement.

5. Enforcement & unilateral termination

If we determine, in our reasonable judgement, that a merchant has violated this AUP or any applicable law in any jurisdiction, we may unilaterally and immediately, with or without prior notice, take any of the actions described in Terms § 14, including revoking API keys, suspending or terminating the merchant’s account, pausing or blocking affected transactions or payment links, and cooperating with law-enforcement. Termination on these grounds does not require an opportunity to cure and is in addition to any other rights and remedies available to Inferio under the Terms or at law. You may appeal an enforcement decision by writing to [email protected] within 15 days of receiving notice.

Inferio disclaims any responsibility or liability for the legal, regulatory, financial, or reputational consequences to a merchant of the merchant’s wilful or deliberate violation of law, including any losses arising from enforcement actions taken in response to such violations.

6. Changes to this AUP

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be posted here with a new “Last updated” date.

7. Contact

Compliance questions, abuse reports, and appeals: [email protected].