Acceptable Use Policy

You may not:

• Send threatening, abusive, or harassing messages to other users.
• Bully, intimidate, or demean other users in any context.
• Continue contacting a user who has asked you to stop.
• Coordinate harassment campaigns against individuals.
• Post content targeting individuals based on protected characteristics (race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, national origin).

You may not:

• Send mass or bulk connection requests for non-networking purposes.
• Send unsolicited promotional messages, advertisements, or sales pitches via direct messages.
• Post repetitive, low-quality, or promotional content in the feed or community chats.
• Artificially inflate engagement metrics using secondary accounts.
• Use the platform to distribute marketing emails or communication campaigns.

You may not:

• Create a fake profile, use a false name, or misrepresent your professional background.
• Claim credentials, roles, companies, or experiences you do not have.
• Impersonate any real person, company, brand, or organization.
• Conduct investment fraud, financial scams, or pyramid schemes.
• Solicit money, loans, or financial instruments from other users.
• Offer fake job opportunities, co-founder positions, or project roles.

You may not post, share, or transmit:

• Content promoting, glorifying, or facilitating violence or terrorism.
• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in any form — reported to law enforcement immediately.
• Content promoting self-harm or suicide in a non-supportive context.
• Content facilitating illegal drug trade, human trafficking, or other criminal activity.
• Defamatory content about identifiable individuals.
• Content infringing third-party intellectual property rights.

You may not:

• Share another user's private information without consent ("doxxing").
• Publish private messages or screenshots of conversations without consent.
• Collect or store personal information about other users beyond their public profile.
• Use information from the platform to contact users outside RiseNet without consent.

You may not:

• Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service without authorization.
• Use bots, scripts, or automated tools to interact with the platform.
• Attempt to bypass authentication, rate limits, or security controls.
• Probe or scan the security of the platform without explicit written authorization.
• Reverse-engineer the platform's AI matching algorithms or APIs.
• Access or attempt to access another user's account.
• Upload malware, viruses, or other harmful code.
• Exploit bugs for unauthorized access — report them to [SECURITY_EMAIL] instead.

You may not:

• Reproduce, duplicate, sell, or resell any part of the Service or its content.
• Use the platform to recruit users to competing networking platforms.
• Build competing products using data or insights derived from the Service.
• Use RiseNet's AI matching outputs for commercial purposes without our consent.