# Acceptable use policy

> Draft for legal review. This document has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer and may change before launch.

Spread the Word exists to help people take part in communities honestly. You must not use it to:

- Pretend to be someone you are not, run sock-puppet accounts, or have several of your personas take part in the same conversation to create a false impression of support.
- Hide a material connection to a product you promote where a platform, community or the law requires disclosure (for example the UK Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and the CMA’s guidance on online endorsements).
- Buy, sell, trade or coordinate votes, likes, reviews or other engagement.
- Post spam, the same message in many places, or content that ignores a community’s rules on self-promotion.
- Make false or misleading claims about your product or anyone else’s.
- Harass, threaten or target anyone, or post hateful, sexual or illegal content.
- Evade a ban, suspension or rate limit imposed by a platform or community.
- Scrape or collect personal data beyond what the service fetches to provide its features.
- Try to get around the service’s pacing limits, guardrails or credit limits, or access other users’ data.

## Enforcement

We may remove content, pause publishing, or suspend accounts that break this policy. Report misuse to hello@steadycircuit.com.

Updated 2026-10-15. Canonical page: https://spread-the-word.steadycircuit.com/acceptable-use