FlipMole Acceptable Use Policy
Version 1.0 (draft) · Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE]
This policy is part of our Terms of Service. It applies to everyone who uses FlipMole, including team members. "Prohibited" means you must not do it, help anyone do it, or use FlipMole's outputs to do it.
1. Your responsibility
You're responsible for making sure everything you do with FlipMole, and everything you buy, sell, list, message or publish with its help, complies with the law where you and the other party are, each Marketplace's terms and policies, and other people's rights. Rules about some goods differ by country, province and state; it's your job to check them.
2. Illegal, fraudulent and deceptive activity (prohibited)
- Fraud, theft, scams, phishing, identity theft or impersonation (including posing as a seller, buyer or business).
- Buying or selling goods you know or suspect are stolen, or ignoring clear signs that they are.
- Buying or selling counterfeit or pirated goods, or misrepresenting an item's brand, origin, authenticity or condition.
- Money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, or structuring payments to avoid reporting.
- Deceptive commercial practices, including misleading resale listings, fake reviews, or false urgency.
- Trading as an unlicensed dealer where a licence or registration is required (for example motor vehicle dealer registration such as OMVIC in Ontario), or avoiding taxes owed on your trading.
- Any other activity that is unlawful where you or the other party are.
3. Restricted and high-risk goods (prohibited where unlawful or where a Marketplace forbids them)
Don't use FlipMole to facilitate unlawful transactions involving: weapons, firearms, ammunition, explosives or prohibited weapon parts; drugs, controlled substances, drug paraphernalia or prescription medicines; hazardous or regulated materials; recalled or unsafe products; animals or animal products restricted by law (including ivory and other protected species items); human remains or body parts; stolen property; counterfeit currency or documents; alcohol, tobacco or cannabis without the required licence; items requiring a licence or certification you don't have; or anything else a law or the relevant Marketplace restricts. Lawfulness can depend on where you are and who's buying; when in doubt, don't.
4. Marketplace and third-party rules (prohibited)
- Breaking a Marketplace's terms of service, community rules or prohibited-items policies.
- Scraping, crawling, bulk-collecting, or automating access to a Marketplace or any third-party site using FlipMole.
- Bypassing a site's rate limits, login walls, CAPTCHAs or other technical measures.
- Accessing accounts you aren't authorized to use, or misusing a Marketplace's API or credentials.
- Spamming sellers, sending automated or bulk messages, or harassing anyone you contact.
5. Misusing FlipMole (prohibited)
- Creating or using more than one account, email alias, card or device to get more free analyses, or to get around a limit, suspension or ban.
- Sharing, selling or transferring an account; sharing a seat between people.
- Circumventing plan limits, analysis limits, the cost safeguards, refund limits or other usage controls, or deliberately causing analyses to fail.
- Automated or scripted use of the Service or its API other than as we expressly allow, or sending traffic designed to overload it.
- Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or attempting to extract source code, models, prompts, system instructions or data; prompt injection or other attempts to manipulate our AI into ignoring its instructions.
- Probing, scanning or testing our security without written permission, or introducing malware.
- Copying, reselling, redistributing or publishing in bulk FlipMole outputs or data, or using them to build a competing product, dataset or model.
6. Harmful conduct (prohibited)
Harassment, threats, hate or discrimination; doxxing or publishing others' personal information; stalking sellers or visiting them in an intimidating way; collecting personal information about sellers or buyers beyond what a single transaction needs; and infringing intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.
7. Content you submit
Only upload listings, photos, receipts and notes you have the right to use for your own evaluation, and keep personal information about other people to what's needed. Don't upload illegal content, malware, or other people's sensitive information.
8. Reporting and enforcement
Report abuse or security issues to [SUPPORT EMAIL] / [SECURITY EMAIL]. We may investigate suspected breaches, remove content, reverse analyses or free allowances obtained in breach, restrict features, suspend or close accounts, and cooperate with Marketplaces, payment providers and law enforcement as permitted by law. We decide proportionately and, where practical and lawful, tell you why and let you respond.