Acceptable Use Policy

This acceptable use policy covers the products, services, and technologies (collectively referred to as the “Products”) provided by SquarePages under any ongoing agreement. It’s designed to protect us, our users, and the general Internet community from unethical, irresponsible, and illegal activity.

SquarePages users found engaging in activities prohibited by this acceptable use policy can be liable for service suspension and account termination. In extreme cases, we may be legally obliged to report such users to the relevant authorities.

This policy was last reviewed on 5 February 2022.

Fair use

We provide our facilities with the assumption your use will be “business as usual”, as per our offer schedule. If your use is considered to be excessive, then capacity may be restricted.

We are opposed to all forms of abuse, discrimination, rights infringement, and/or any action that harms or disadvantages any group, individual, or resource. We expect our users and, where applicable, their users (“end-users”) to likewise engage our Products with similar intent.

User accountability

We regard our users as being responsible for their own actions.

If a user violates our acceptable use policy, we reserve the right to terminate any Products associated with the offending account or the account itself or take any remedial or preventative action we deem appropriate, without notice.

Prohibited activity

Copyright infringement and access to unauthorized material

Our Products must not be used to transmit, distribute or store any material in violation of any applicable law. This includes but isn’t limited to:

1. any material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and
2. any material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat or violates export control laws.

The user is solely responsible for all material they input, upload, disseminate, transmit, create or publish through or on our Products, and for obtaining legal permission to use any works included in such material.

SPAM and unauthorized message activity

Our Products must not be used for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk or commercial messages in violation of the laws and regulations applicable to your jurisdiction (“spam”). This includes but isn’t limited to sending spam, soliciting users from spam sent from other service providers, and collecting replies to spam sent from other service providers.

Unethical, exploitative, and malicious activity

Our Products must not be used for the purpose of advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service designed to violate this acceptable use policy. This includes but isn’t limited to facilitating the means to send spam and the initiation of network sniffing, pinging, packet spoofing, flooding, mail-bombing, and denial-of-service attacks.

Our Products must not be used for purposely engaging in activities designed to harass another group or individual. Our definition of harassment includes but is not limited to denial-of-service attacks, hate-speech, advocacy of racial or ethnic intolerance, and any activity intended to threaten, abuse, infringe upon the rights of, or discriminate against any group or individual.

Other activities considered unethical, exploitative, and malicious include:

1. The unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction (or any attempt thereof) of any information about our users or end-users, by any means or device;
2. Publishing or transmitting any content of links that incite violence, depict a violent act, depict illegal content, or threaten anyone’s health and safety;
3. Any act or omission in violation of consumer protection laws and regulations;
4. Any violation of a person’s privacy.

Unauthorized use of SquarePages property

We prohibit the impersonation of SquarePages, the representation of a significant business relationship with SquarePages, or ownership of any SquarePages property (including our Products and brand) for the purpose of fraudulently gaining service, custom, patronage, or user trust.

About this policy

This policy outlines a non-exclusive list of activities and intent we deem unacceptable and incompatible with our brand.

We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time by publishing the revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective from the earlier of:

• the date the user uses our Products after we publish the revised version on our website; or
• 30 days after we publish the revised version on our website.