Acceptable Use Policy

UniMate is a study tool for university students. This policy lists what's not allowed, with the understanding that we'd rather have a healthy community than win on edge cases.

1. People-first rules

• No harassment, threats, doxxing, or targeted abuse of other users — in study rooms, chat, comments, or anywhere.
• No hate speech against protected groups (race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, national origin).
• No content sexualising minors. Zero tolerance, zero appeals.

2. Content rules

• No content that violates someone else's intellectual property. Don't share textbooks, course materials, or exam papers you don't have rights to.
• No malware, phishing links, or executable content disguised as study material.
• No spam — not in messages, not in study room chat, not in comments, not in public decks.
• No personal data of third parties (private addresses, phone numbers, government IDs) in publicly shared content.

3. Platform rules

• No reverse-engineering or attempts to extract our AI prompts beyond what the public API exposes.
• No scraping or systematic harvesting of profiles, decks, or user data. Use the documented public API at /api-docs.
• No automation/bots beyond the public API. Rate limits apply to all keys.
• No circumventing free-tier quotas through multiple accounts. One person, one account.
• No using UniMate to evaluate AI models for resale or to train your own models — that's a different category of contract.

4. Academic integrity

UniMate gives you tools — schedule, AI, flashcards. What you submit for credit is your responsibility. Your university decides whether AI-assisted work is acceptable; we don't. If you use AI to write graded work in violation of your university's rules, that's on you, not us. We will not lie on your behalf to a faculty inquiry.

5. Reporting

Report content that violates this AUP via the in-app report button on any deck/profile/room, or email moderation@getunimate.com. We respond within 48 hours, usually faster. See /moderation for the moderation policy.

6. Enforcement

Violations result in (in escalating order): warning, content removal, feature suspension, account suspension, permanent ban, and where required, referral to law enforcement. We err on the side of clear communication — if we suspend something, you'll get an email explaining what and why, plus an appeals contact.