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title: Block Protocol Legal Policies & Terms
shortTitle: Legal Policies & Terms
location: /legal
topics:
- Policy
- Legal
---

# Legal

## Quick-links

### Using the Block Protocol

- [Terms of Service](terms)
- [Corporate Terms of Service](terms-corporate)
- [Terms for Additional Products and Features](terms/product)
- [Community Guidelines](community)
- [Acceptable Use Policy](acceptable-use)
- [Bullying and Harassment](acceptable-use/bullying)
- [Disruptive Behavior](acceptable-use/disruption)
- [Doxxing and Invasion](acceptable-use/doxxing)
- [Hate Speech and Discrimination](acceptable-use/discrimination)
- [Impersonation](acceptable-use/impersonation)
- [Malware and Exploits](acceptable-use/malware)
- [Misinformation and Disinformation](acceptable-use/veracity)
- [Obscene Content](acceptable-use/obscenity)
- [Violent Content](acceptable-use/violence)
- [Reporting Abuse or Spam](acceptable-use/reports)
- [Appeals Policy](acceptable-use/appeals)

### Privacy

- [Privacy Statement](privacy)
- [Data Protection Agreement](terms/dpa)
- [List of Sub-processors](privacy/subprocessors)
- [Information about Cookies](privacy/cookies)
- [Private Information Removal Policy](privacy/private-information-removal)
- [Guidelines for Legal Requests of Block Protocol User Data](privacy/user-data-legal-requests)

## Submitting requests

Please serve requests and notices to:

> HASH, Inc.
> FAO: Block Protocol Legal Counsel
> 2109 Broadway Unit 1141
> New York, NY 10023 USA
For the fastest response time, email a courtesy copy of your request to legal@hash.ai
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title: Block Protocol Acceptable Use Policy
shortTitle: Acceptable Use
location: /legal/acceptable-use
redirect_from:
- /acceptable-use-policy
- /acceptable-use
- /legal/acceptable-use-policy
topics:
- Policy
- Legal
---

**Short version:** _We host a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users 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 and conduct on the Block Protocol related to user 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 [Terms of Service](/legal/terms), [Corporate Terms of Service](/legal/terms-corporate), and [Privacy Statement](/legal/privacy). For customers subject to the [Corporate Terms of Service](/legal/terms-corporate), "you" and "your" refer to "Customer" or "Users". "We", "us", and "our" refer to "Block Protocol".

## 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](/legal/terms) and [Corporate Terms of Service](/legal/terms-corporate).

## 2. User Safety

We do not allow content or activity on the Block Protocol that:

- is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
- is [obscene](/legal/acceptable-use/obscenity) or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;
- is [discriminatory or abusive](/legal/acceptable-use/discrimination) toward any individual or group;
- [harasses or abuses](/legal/acceptable-use/bullying) another individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
- [threatens or incites violence](/legal/acceptable-use/violence) toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;
- [gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence](/legal/acceptable-use/violence), including violent images; or
- is [false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information](/legal/acceptable-use/veracity) and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);
- is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
- purports to originate from a specific individual, organization or group [other than its actual source](/legal/acceptable-use/impersonation) (i.e. false personation);
- exposes the [personal information](/legal/acceptable-use/doxxing) of users without their consent (i.e. doxxing);
- exposes users or their devices to [technical exploitation](/legal/acceptable-use/malware) (i.e. malware);
- is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly [disrupts the experience of other users](/legal/acceptable-use/disruption).

## 3. Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information

We do not allow content or activity on the Block Protocol that:

- **infringes any proprietary right of any party**, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right;
- **enables the unlawful bypassing of intellectual property rights**, including sharing unauthorized product licensing keys, software for generating unauthorized product licensing keys, or software for bypassing checks for product licensing keys, including 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 the Block Protocol, 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 on the Block Protocol

We do not allow content or activity on the Block Protocol that is:

- **automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity**, such as
- spamming
- cryptocurrency mining;
- **bulk distribution** of promotions and advertising prohibited by Block Protocol 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;
- **propagating abuse on other platforms** through the Block Protocol platform in any way;
- **phishing** or attempted phishing;
- **using our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity**, to place 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; or
- **incentivized by (or incentivizes inauthentic engagement with) rewards** such as cryptocurrency airdrops, tokens, credits, gifts or other give-aways.

## 5. Site Access and Safety

We do not allow content or activity on the Block Protocol 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 servers to disrupt or to attempt to disrupt, or to gain or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to, any service, device, data, account or network.** Please note, activities permitted under bug bounty programs, such as the [Block Protocol Bug Bounty program](/security), are not considered “unauthorized,” but must only affect the organization whose bug bounty program authorized the activity.

## 6. Services Usage Limits

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

## 7. Information Usage Restrictions

You may use information 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 webcrawler. Scraping does not refer to the collection of information through our API. Please see Section H of our [Terms of Service](/legal/terms) for our API Terms.

You may not use information from the Service (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

Your use of information from the Service must comply with the [Block Protocol Privacy Statement](/legal/privacy).

## 8. Privacy

Misuse of personal information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service must comply with the [Block Protocol Privacy Statement](/legal/privacy), particularly in regards to the collection of personal information. If you collect any personal information from the Service, you agree that you will only use that personal information for the purpose for which that User has authorized it. You agree that you will reasonably secure any 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. Excessive Bandwidth Use

The Service's bandwidth limitations vary based on the features you use. If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other users of similar features, we reserve the right to suspend your Account, throttle your file hosting, or otherwise limit your activity until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption. We also reserve the right—after providing advance notice—to delete repositories that we determine to be placing undue strain on our infrastructure. For more details on specific features' bandwidth limitations, see the [Block Protocol Additional Product Terms](/legal/terms/products).

## 10. Advertising on the Block Protocol

**Short version:** _We do not generally prohibit use of the Block Protocol for advertising. However, we expect our users to follow certain limitations, so the Block Protocol does not become a spam haven. No one wants that._

While we understand that you may want to promote your Content by posting supporters' names or logos in your Account, the primary focus of the Content posted in or through your Account to the Service should not be advertising or promotional marketing. This includes Content posted in or through Blocks, Types, Services, Pages, Packages, Projects, repositories, and all other parts of the Service. You may include static images, links, and promotional text in the README documents or project description sections associated with your Account, but they must be related to the project you are hosting on the Block Protocol. You may not advertise in other Users' Accounts, such as by posting monetized or excessive bulk content in issues.

You may not promote or distribute content or activity that is illegal or otherwise prohibited by our [Terms of Service](/legal/terms) or [Acceptable Use Policies](/legal/acceptable-use), 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 in your Account, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Guidelines on Endorsements and Testimonials. We reserve the right to remove any promotional materials or advertisements that, in our sole discretion, violate any Block Protocol terms or policies.

## 11. User Protection

You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users.

We will interpret our policies and resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole.

---

**Enforcement.** The Block Protocol retains full discretion to [take action](/legal/community#what-happens-if-someone-violates-the-block-protocols-policies) in response to a violation of these policies, including account suspension, account [termination](/legal/terms#3-block-protocol-may-terminate), or [removal](/legal/terms#2-block-protocol-may-remove-content) of content. Please also see our [Community Guidelines](/legal/community) for actions you can take if something or someone offends you.

**Reinstatement and appeal.** If your content or account has been disabled or restricted and you seek reinstatement or wish to appeal, please see our [Appeals Policy](/legal/acceptable-use/appeals) for information about the process and use our [contact form](/contact) to submit a request.
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title: Reporting Abuse or Spam on the Block Protocol
shortTitle: Reporting Abuse or Spam
intro: You can report behavior and content that violates community guidelines and terms.
location: /legal/acceptable-use/reports
redirect_from:
- /legal/terms/reports
- /legal/privacy/reports
- /legal/acceptable-use/reporting-abuse
- /privacy/reports
- /terms/reports
- /acceptable-use/reports
topics:
- Policy
- Legal
- Community
---

## Reporting Abuse

## About reporting abuse or spam

The Block Protocol provides a baseline code of conduct for everyone who uses its services. For more information, see our [Terms of Service](/legal/terms) and [Community Guidelines](/legal/community).

You can report users that have violated either of these policies through our [support form](/contact). You can also report many types of content inline from the [Block Protocol Hub](/hub) directly.

Certain types of content may also be reported directly to the project's maintainers, if they have opted in to provide a first line of moderation for their own projects and published pages.

Users in India can contact the Block Protocol's Grievance Officer for India using our [support form](/contact).

## Reporting an account

Contact us using the [support form](/contact), including a link to the user or organization's account profile page, and a complete report about the user's behavior.

## Reporting a comment or discussion thread

Contact us using the [support form](/contact), including a link to the offending user-posted comment or discussion thread, and a complete explanation of why you think it breaks any of our terms or policies.

## Reporting a block, type or service listing in the Block Protocol Hub

Contact us using the [support form](/contact), including a link to the Block Protocol Hub listing page and a complete explanation of what policy a listing contravenes.

## Any other report

Contact us using the [support form](/contact), including as much information as you can.
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title: Block Protocol Appeals Policy
shortTitle: Appeals
location: /legal/acceptable-use/appeals
redirect_from:
- /acceptable-use/appeals
- /legal/terms/appeals
- /legal/privacy/appeals
- /privacy/appeals
- /terms/appeals
topics:
- Policy
- Legal
---

## Appeal and Reinstatement

While the majority of interactions between individuals in the Block Protocol’s community fall within our [Acceptable Use Policies](/legal/acceptable-use) and [Community Guideline](/legal/community), violations of those policies do occur at times. When they do, Block Protocol personnel may need to take enforcement action to address the violations. However, in some cases there may be a basis to reverse a moderation action taken by Block Protocol personnel.

## What are appeals and reinstatements?

Both appeals and reinstatements arise in relation to disabling of content or restrictions to access an account.

**Reinstatement**: The user wishes to regain access to their account or content and is willing to make any necessary changes to address the violation and must agree not to violate our terms going forward.

**Appeal**: The user disputes that a violation occurred and can provide additional information to show that a different decision should have been reached.

## How this works

If your account or content has been hidden, disabled, or limited in any other way by the Block Protocol and you would like to request reinstatement or appeal our decision, please reach out using our [contact form](/contact).

In order to prevent unnecessary processing delays, please do not send duplicate requests and be sure to contact us from the email associated with your impacted account if possible.

Block Protocol personnel will review the information provided in the form to determine whether there is sufficient information to warrant reinstatement or granting of an appeal.

- **Reinstatement**: Where a user can agree to abide by our Acceptable Use Policies moving forward and has made the changes necessary to address the violation(s), we may choose to reinstate their account or content depending on the circumstances and severity of the initial violation.

All legitimate reinstatement requests will be reviewed initially by Block Protocol personnel and will be answered with a decision.

- **Appeal**: Where a user seeks to dispute a decision, they can use the form to explain their basis for disputing the decision and to provide any additional information regarding the alleged violation that they believe should have led to a different decision. If the information provided demonstrates that a different conclusion should have been reached, we may be able to grant an appeal.

If the Block Protocol reviewer is the same person who made the initial determination and that individual believes their initial conclusion was correct (and thus would be inclined to deny the appeal), a second Block Protocol reviewer will be called upon to independently review the appeal. All legitimate appeals will be answered with a final decision.

If your content was impacted by a DMCA notice, and you’d like to make changes or dispute that notice, please contact the Block Protocol _via HASH_ by following the [HASH DMCA counter-notice guide](https://hash.ai/legal/copyright-dmca-counter-notice).

## Transparency

We track all appeals and reinstatements. In the future, we plan to publish aggregate data surrounding these processes annually as part of our planned transparency reporting.
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