Acceptable Use Policy — The AI Check

1. Introduction

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs your use of The AI Check ("AIC," "we," "us," or "our") and is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Service. By using the Service, you agree to comply with this AUP. Violations may result in warning, suspension, or permanent termination of your account.

AIC operates under a zero-knowledge architecture. Because we cannot read your encrypted vault content, we cannot monitor or moderate it. Enforcement of this AUP relies on observable metadata (such as sync patterns, API call frequency, and resource consumption), user reports, and information available to us outside the encrypted vault.

2. Permitted Uses

You may use the Service for the following purposes:

Importing your own AI chat history. Using the Universal Bridge Extension to capture conversation history from AI platforms (Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok) where you hold an active, authenticated account.
Generating AI responses via BYOK. Using the Bring Your Own Key feature with your own API keys to generate AI responses within the AIC dashboard.
Searching, organizing, and referencing. Using AIC's search, tagging, and organization features to manage your archived content for personal or professional use.
Exporting your data. Using AIC's export features to download your archived content in standard formats.
Enterprise shared workspace. For Enterprise customers, enabling authorized members of your organization to access a shared AIC workspace per your organization's access policies.

3. Prohibited Uses

You must not use the Service in any of the following ways:

3.1 Scraping Third-Party Data

The Universal Bridge Extension may only be used on AI platforms where you hold an active, authenticated account to import your own conversation history. You must not:

Use the Extension to scrape, capture, or archive conversations from accounts belonging to other people.
Operate the Extension on behalf of a third party unless you are an authorized administrator of an Enterprise workspace acting within the scope of your organization's policies.
Use the Extension to systematically collect data from AI platforms for purposes other than personal archiving of your own conversations.

3.2 Violating AI Platform Terms of Service

AIC does not warrant, encourage, or endorse any activity that violates the terms of service of Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, or any other AI platform. You are solely responsible for compliance with each platform's terms. AIC is not a party to your agreements with those platforms.

We recommend that you review each platform's terms of service before using the Extension. If an AI platform's terms prohibit or restrict the type of data export that the Extension performs, it is your responsibility to comply with those restrictions.

Third-party account risk: Using automated browser extensions to export data from AI platforms carries a risk that the platform may temporarily or permanently suspend or ban your account on that platform. You assume 100% of this risk. AIC is not liable for any loss of access to, or loss of data on, any third-party AI platform resulting from your use of the Extension.

3.3 Illegal Content

You must not use the Service to store, transmit, or process content that is illegal under applicable law, including but not limited to:

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Content that violates export control laws or trade sanctions.
Content that infringes third-party intellectual property rights.
Content used to facilitate fraud, identity theft, or financial crime.

While AIC cannot inspect encrypted vault content due to our zero-knowledge architecture, we reserve the right to cooperate with law enforcement to the extent required by applicable law and to terminate accounts where we have reasonable evidence of illegal use based on non-encrypted data, user reports, or legal process.

3.4 Circumventing Encryption or Security Controls

You must not:

Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise derive the source code of AIC's encryption implementation, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits such activity notwithstanding this restriction.
Attempt to exploit, bypass, or weaken AIC's encryption, authentication, or access control mechanisms.
Attempt to access, decrypt, or tamper with other users' encrypted data.
Interfere with or circumvent Row Level Security policies, API rate limits, or other security controls.

Responsible disclosure: If you discover a vulnerability in AIC's systems, we welcome and encourage responsible disclosure. Please report vulnerabilities to [email protected]. We will not take enforcement action against good-faith security researchers who comply with responsible disclosure practices.

3.5 Account Sharing and Key Misuse

Free and Pro accounts are for individual use only. You must not:

Share your AIC account credentials with other people.
Allow multiple individuals to access a single Free or Pro account.
Input API keys belonging to third parties into the BYOK feature without the key owner's explicit written authorization.
Share, distribute, or sell your master encryption key or Recovery Kit.

Enterprise customers may have multiple authorized users under a single organizational workspace. Enterprise user management is governed by the applicable Master Services Agreement.

3.6 Automated High-Volume Scraping

The Universal Bridge Extension is designed for individual personal use. You must not:

Use automated tools, scripts, or bots to operate the Extension at a frequency or volume beyond normal personal use.
Run the Extension in a manner designed to systematically overwhelm, burden, or degrade AI platform infrastructure.
Operate multiple Extension instances simultaneously to circumvent rate limits.
Modify the Extension to remove or bypass built-in rate limiting, throttling, or safety mechanisms.

AIC employs automated rate-limiting across its infrastructure. AIC reserves the right to immediately and without prior notice throttle, suspend, or terminate accounts that threaten the stability, performance, or financial limits of the platform's infrastructure — including but not limited to excessive database operations, serverless function invocations, or bandwidth consumption.

3.7 Service Abuse

You must not:

Attempt denial-of-service attacks against AIC or any third-party service connected to AIC.
Attempt to access other users' accounts, encrypted data, or session tokens.
Use the Service to relay, proxy, or tunnel traffic for purposes unrelated to the intended functionality of AIC.
Exploit AIC infrastructure (including Supabase, Vercel, or Stripe integrations) for purposes outside the scope of the Service.
Create multiple Free accounts to circumvent tier limitations.

3.8 Misrepresentation

You must not:

Impersonate AIC staff, representatives, or affiliates.
Impersonate other AIC users.
Use AIC to facilitate phishing, social engineering, or fraud.
Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or the source of data stored in your vault.
Falsely claim that content generated via BYOK is endorsed by, reviewed by, or associated with AIC.

3.9 BYOK Output Liability

You are solely responsible for all content generated through the Bring Your Own Key feature, including the prompts you submit and the responses you receive. AIC acts only as a conduit — your BYOK API calls are sent directly from your browser to the AI provider using your own API key. You must not use BYOK to:

Generate content that is illegal under applicable law, including content that infringes third-party copyrights or intellectual property rights.
Generate content that violates the acceptable use policy or terms of service of the underlying AI provider.
Generate content intended to harass, threaten, defame, or harm any person.

AIC does not review, moderate, or filter BYOK-generated content. If your use of the BYOK feature results in a claim, dispute, or legal action by a third party or AI provider, the liability falls entirely on you. See also Section 9 (Indemnification) of our Terms of Service.

4. Enforcement

AIC may take the following actions in response to AUP violations, at our sole discretion:

Warning: Written notice identifying the violation and requesting corrective action.
Temporary suspension: Suspension of account access for a defined period while the issue is investigated or resolved.
Permanent termination: Permanent deletion of the account for serious or repeated violations.

Due to our zero-knowledge architecture, AIC cannot enforce this AUP based on inspection of encrypted vault content. Enforcement relies on:

Observable metadata and system logs (sync frequency, API call patterns, resource consumption).
Reports from other users or third parties.
Information provided through valid legal process.
Information visible in unencrypted account data (email, profile, billing).

Where possible, we will provide notice before taking enforcement action and give you an opportunity to address the issue. However, we reserve the right to act immediately and without prior notice in cases involving illegal activity, threats to other users, or significant risk to AIC infrastructure.

Data access during enforcement: Because AIC operates under a zero-knowledge architecture, suspending or terminating your account means you lose access to ciphertext that only you can decrypt. For most violations, AIC will provide a 72-hour data export window before permanent account deletion, during which you may download your encrypted data using the self-service export feature. This export window does not apply to violations involving illegal content (such as CSAM), valid legal process requiring immediate preservation or deletion, or activity that poses an imminent threat to other users or AIC infrastructure — in those cases, account termination and cryptographic erasure may be immediate and without prior notice.

5. Reporting Violations

If you believe another user is violating this AUP, please report it to [email protected]. Include as much detail as possible, including the nature of the violation and any relevant evidence. We will investigate all credible reports.

For security vulnerabilities, use [email protected] instead.

6. Copyright and DMCA

AIC respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. Due to our zero-knowledge architecture, AIC cannot inspect or monitor encrypted vault content for copyright infringement. However, if you export data from your vault and publish it, or use the BYOK feature to generate content that infringes third-party copyrights, you are solely responsible.

Reporting infringement: If you are a copyright owner or authorized agent and believe that content accessible through AIC infringes your copyright, you may submit a notice to:

Email: [email protected]
Subject line: DMCA Takedown Notice

Your notice should include: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed, (b) identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit AIC to locate it, (c) your contact information, (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, and (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Repeat infringer policy: AIC will terminate the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat infringers of third-party copyrights. This policy is a condition of maintaining safe harbor protections under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Copyright Modernization Act (Canada), and equivalent legislation in other jurisdictions.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide at least 30 days' notice via email and an in-app notification before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of an updated AUP constitutes acceptance.

The current version of this AUP is always available at theaicheck.com/legal/acceptable-use.

8. Contact

If you have questions about this Acceptable Use Policy, contact us at [email protected].

This document was last updated on March 27, 2026. It is a pre-launch draft and will be reviewed by legal counsel before becoming effective.