Lawful activity
Use the website, forms, services, and delivered systems only for lawful business, organizational, support, or project-related purposes.
Acceptable Use Policy
Responsible use of websites, apps, platforms, and digital systems.
This Acceptable Use Policy explains the types of activity that are not allowed when using the CommunityStack website, communication channels, services, or delivered digital systems.
It is designed to protect users, clients, hosting providers, platforms, intellectual property owners, and the integrity of systems built or supported by CommunityStack.
Lawful use
Platform safety
Policy purpose
Digital systems must be used lawfully and responsibly
CommunityStack provides technology services for legitimate websites, mobile apps, business systems, dashboards, platforms, support work, and digital operations.
Clients, visitors, users, and third parties must not use CommunityStack services, forms, systems, hosting-related work, or delivered technology for unlawful, harmful, abusive, misleading, infringing, or unauthorized activity.
Authorized content
Submit only text, images, files, logos, trademarks, media, data, and materials that are owned, licensed, or authorized for the intended use.
System safety
Do not attempt to misuse, overload, bypass, damage, or compromise websites, apps, accounts, databases, storage, hosting, or security controls.
Prohibited activity
Uses that are not allowed
CommunityStack may refuse, suspend, review, remove, or decline work connected to prohibited or high-risk activity.
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Illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, abusive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, exploitative, or harmful activity.
02
Phishing, impersonation, scam pages, unauthorized credential collection, malware, spam, bot abuse, or unauthorized automation.
03
Unauthorized access attempts, security bypassing, scraping abuse, vulnerability exploitation, database tampering, or interference with hosting and platform controls.
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Submission or publication of content that infringes copyright, trademarks, privacy rights, confidentiality obligations, licenses, or other third-party rights.
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Requests to build, support, or promote systems used for unlawful surveillance, unauthorized data harvesting, counterfeit activity, or violation of platform rules.
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Use of delivered systems in a way that violates applicable law, app store rules, hosting terms, payment provider rules, domain policies, or third-party service terms.
Content responsibility
Clients remain responsible for what they provide and operate
CommunityStack can design, build, maintain, and support technical systems, but clients remain responsible for their business activity, submitted materials, published content, user data, permissions, approvals, and legal compliance.
- Provide accurate project details, business information, and user requirements
- Use only authorized images, logos, documents, text, media, and data
- Maintain lawful operation of any website, app, dashboard, platform, or database
- Follow applicable hosting, domain, payment, email, app store, and third-party platform rules
- Respond promptly to compliance, copyright, privacy, security, or abuse concerns
- Report concerns to info@communitystack.org with enough detail for review
Review and action
How CommunityStack may respond
When a concern is reported or identified, CommunityStack may take reasonable steps based on the nature, urgency, risk, and available information.
Request clarification
CommunityStack may ask for more information, proof of authorization, project context, or corrective action before continuing work.
Decline or suspend work
CommunityStack may decline, pause, limit, or end work connected to prohibited activity, unresolved risk, or non-compliant instructions.
Remove or restrict material
Where appropriate, material may be removed, disabled, hidden, or restricted while ownership, authorization, abuse, or compliance issues are reviewed.
Cooperate where required
CommunityStack may cooperate with valid legal, regulatory, hosting, domain, platform, security, or rights-holder requests where required or appropriate.
Related policies
This Acceptable Use Policy should be read together with the Legal and Compliance page, Copyright and IP Complaint Policy, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service. Those pages provide additional information about content ownership, privacy, client responsibilities, service limitations, and complaint handling.
Changes and important disclaimer
This Acceptable Use Policy may be updated when necessary. This page is provided for general website, service, and business communication purposes and is not legal advice. Clients should seek qualified legal guidance where specific legal, regulatory, platform, privacy, or compliance requirements apply to their business or project.
Questions about acceptable use?
Contact CommunityStack if you need to report a concern or clarify whether a planned website, app, platform, content item, or system use is acceptable.