Acceptable Use Policy

Thank you for the trust you place in Whenn. In exchange, we trust you to use our services responsibly.

You agree not to misuse the Whenn services ("Services") or help anyone else to do so. For example, you must not even try to do any of the following in connection with the Services:

  • probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or network, unless done in compliance with our Hacker Programme;

  • breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures;

  • access, tamper with or use non-public areas or parts of the Services, or shared areas of the Services you have not been invited to;

  • interfere with or disrupt any user, host or network, for example by sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming or mail-bombing any part of the Services;

  • access, search or create accounts for the Services by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example "scraping" or creating accounts in bulk);

  • send unsolicited communications, promotions or advertisements, or spam;

  • send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information, including "spoofing" or "phishing";

  • promote or advertise products or services other than your own without appropriate authorisation;

  • abuse referrals or promotions to get more storage space than deserved or to sell storage space received from referrals or promotions;

  • circumvent storage space limits;

  • sell the Services unless specifically authorised to do so, or purchase the Services from an unauthorised seller;

  • publish, share or store materials that constitute child sexually exploitative material (including material which may not be illegal child sexual abuse material but which nonetheless sexually exploits or promotes the sexual exploitation of minors) or unlawful pornography or are otherwise indecent;

  • publish, share or store content that contains or promotes extreme acts of violence or terrorist activity, including terror or violent extremist propaganda;

  • advocate bigotry, hatred or the incitement of violence against any person or group of people based on their race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, impairment or any other characteristic(s) associated with systemic discrimination or marginalisation;

  • harass or abuse Whenn personnel or representatives or agents performing services on behalf of Whenn;

  • violate the law in any way, including storing, publishing or sharing material that is fraudulent, defamatory or misleading or that violates the intellectual property rights of others;

  • violate the privacy or infringe the rights of others, including publishing, sharing or storing other people’s confidential or identifying information without authorisation for the purposes of harassing, exposing, harming or exploiting them;

  • use the Services to back up, or as infrastructure for, your own cloud services;

  • use the storage space provided by the Services as the basis for cryptographic proof-of-space or proof-of-storage, or any similar proof system;

  • engage in any type of payment fraud, including unauthorised use of credit cards or other payment methods, illegitimate chargebacks or any other method of obtaining the Services without required payment.

We reserve the right to take appropriate action in response to violations of this policy, which could include removing or disabling access to content, suspending a user’s access to the Services or terminating an account.