Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose & Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets forth the permitted and prohibited uses of the FlowScrape website, applications, APIs, social media management tools, content discovery systems, and background publishing infrastructure (collectively, the "Service").

This policy applies to all registered individuals, creators, brands, digital agencies, team members, and invited client workspace reviewers accessing the Service. By accessing or using FlowScrape, you agree to comply with this AUP in full.

2. Permitted & Legitimate Use Cases

FlowScrape is designed to streamline legitimate digital marketing, social media operations, and content research. Authorized use cases include:

• Managing Authorized Social Accounts: Connecting official Facebook Pages, Instagram Professional profiles, LinkedIn accounts, X handles, Threads accounts, and Pinterest boards owned by you or your authorized clients.
• Public Web Trend Discovery & Research: Inspecting publicly available web trends, public engagement metrics, and industry topics across supported websites to conduct market research and benchmark content strategy.
• Content Ideation & Organization: Storing campaign ideas, drafts, hashtag groups, and research summaries in private workspace libraries for internal review and planning.
• Scheduling & Multi-Channel Publishing: Composing, formatting, and scheduling original, user-created, or appropriately licensed posts to connected social channels.
• Performance Analytics: Auditing publishing success rates, per-network delivery receipts, and analyzing available public engagement data.
• Agency Multi-Tenant Workspaces: Managing client brands in isolated workspaces with segregated social accounts, granular team roles, and client approval workflows.

3. Content Discovery, Enterprise Gating & Intellectual Property

FlowScrape provides content discovery tools to assist users with public trend research and content organization. Automated data extraction tools are strictly permission-gated enterprise features reserved exclusively for system administrators and requested verified enterprise clients who have completed compliance review. For all users:

• Public Accessibility Requirement: Discovery is restricted to publicly accessible web content across supported sources on the internet. Users must NOT attempt to access private profiles, gated intranets, or subscriber-only content.
• Subject to Website Access Restrictions: All platform activities are strictly subject to applicable local and international laws, copyright regulations, privacy statutes, website access restrictions, and each target platform's published terms of service and developer protocols.
• No Transfer of Ownership or Reuse Rights: Discovering public trends does NOT transfer copyright ownership, intellectual property rights, or grant any permission, license, or authorization to reproduce, adapt, distribute, or republish protected works.
• Mandatory Authorization for Reuse: Users must secure all necessary rights, licenses, or express written authorizations from original copyright holders before copying, modifying, scheduling, or republishing any protected text, images, videos, or media.
• Sole User Responsibility: Users maintain absolute responsibility for the specific URLs, search targets, media files, and content they import, curate, schedule, or publish through the platform.

4. Strictly Prohibited Activities

You may NOT use FlowScrape directly or indirectly to engage in, facilitate, or promote any of the following activities:

• Copyright Infringement & Piracy: Importing, harvesting, or publishing third-party copyrighted materials (including music, videos, photos, artwork, articles, or proprietary text) without appropriate rights or licenses.
• Circumventing Technical Access Controls: Bypassing paywalls, authentication barriers, CAPTCHAs, IP rate-limiting, or technical protection measures implemented by websites.
• Unauthorized Account Access: Connecting social media accounts without the express authorization of the account owner or managing agency.
• Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) & Network Probing: Specifying media URLs that target localhost addresses, internal network IP ranges (127.0.0.1, 10.x, 192.168.x), cloud metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254), or non-HTTP protocols.
• Spamming & Platform Manipulation: Automated mass spamming, coordinated inauthentic behavior, repetitive duplicate posting, or violating the API terms and rate limits of Meta, LinkedIn, X, or Pinterest.
• Unlawful, Harmful, or Deceptive Content: Distributing defamatory, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, fraudulent, malware-infected, or deceptive material.
• Cross-Tenant Data Tampering: Attempting to access, read, or modify social connections, drafts, posts, or analytics belonging to another workspace or agency client.

5. Enforcement, Content Takedowns & Account Termination

FlowScrape actively monitors platform health, system logs, delivery error rates, and security abuse signals. We maintain the right to:

• Refuse, remove, or block any scheduled post or media asset that violates this policy or applicable copyright laws.
• Temporarily suspend social publishing or content discovery features for accounts undergoing investigation.
• Immediately terminate accounts found engaging in willful copyright infringement, access circumvention, or platform abuse.
• Cooperate fully with legitimate copyright holders and law enforcement authorities where legally required.

In accordance with our Copyright & DMCA Policy, repeat infringers will have their accounts permanently deactivated and access revoked.

6. Reporting Violations & Contact Information

If you discover content or behavior that violates this Acceptable Use Policy, or if you are a copyright owner seeking to report unauthorized use of your work, please contact us immediately: