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Acceptable Use Policy

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Acceptable Use Policy
    1. Scope
    2. Violations
    3. Changes to Policy
    4. Prohibited Content and Activities
    5. Artificial Intelligence Services
    6. US Digital Millennium Copyright Act or Similar Statutory Obligations

1. Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) applies to all customers’ and their users’ use of all services offered by Vercel Inc. or its affiliates (“Vercel” or “we”). Capitalized terms used below but not defined in this Policy have the meaning set forth in the agreement between you (“Customer” or “you”) and Vercel governing the provision of Vercel’s services (“Agreement”). By using our services, you agree to adhere to our Policy.

2. Violations

A customer’s violation of this Policy will be considered a material breach of the Agreement. If we reasonably believe a customer or its users are violating this Policy, we may restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to our Services immediately upon notice to you, unless we agree otherwise in the Agreement.

To report a violation of this Policy, please visit https://vercel.com/abuse.

3. Changes to Policy

Vercel may change this Policy by posting an updated version of the Policy at https://vercel.com/legal and such updates will be effective upon posting.

4. Prohibited Content and Activities

Customers may not use a service, nor allow its users or any third party to use a service for the following:

  • For any unlawful purpose, including, but not limited to:

    • Fraud; deceptive practices; or other scams,

    • Impersonation; phishing; or misrepresenting authorization to act on behalf of others or Vercel,

    • The selling of illegal goods and services,

    • Hate speech,

    • Or the sharing or threat of sharing of nonconsensual intimate imagery, or the like, including the use of synthetic media and/or deepfakes;

  • To violate the rights of others, including, but not limited to: harassment, or infringing or misappropriating intellectual property;

  • To threaten, promote, or enable violence, terrorism, or other serious harm;

  • For any content or activity that promotes or enables child sexual exploitation or abuse;

  • To enable the sending or creation of unsolicited mass messages—also known as ‘spam’, or spammy, ‘clickbait,’ or ‘clickfraud’ content or schemes;

  • To create an undue burden on Vercel’s websites, infrastructure, or the networks or services connected to Vercel’s systems;

  • To scrape, proxy, act as a VPN, or host media for hot-linking;

  • To engage in any name-squatting behavior within Vercel-related namespaces or attempt to resell, barter, trade, or inactively hold namespace entities for future use;

  • To rent, lease, loan, or sell access to, or otherwise attempt to transfer or make the services available to any third party;

  • Producing multiple accounts on Vercel or circumventing any rules, limits, or rate-limited features imposed by Vercel’s usage guidelines as described in Vercel's Fair Use Guidelines;

  • Undermining the security or integrity of computing systems or networks of Vercel, its partners, or any other person, or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to the service, or its related systems or network;

  • Using automation to interact with Vercel’s website for unintended purposes such as: creating multiple accounts, running automated searches, submitting requests or queries, or extracting content or data from the site.

Further, customers accessing the services on a non-Enterprise subscription may not:

  • Use a service for any other objectionable purpose.

You may conduct benchmark tests of a service (other than an AI Product). If you publicly disclose the results of any benchmark tests performed by you, or a third party on your behalf, the results must include all necessary information for others to replicate the tests.

5. Artificial Intelligence Services

The following additional restrictions apply to customers’ and their users’ use of AI Products offered by Vercel. If not already defined in the Agreement, AI Products are the suite of AI products and services with artificial intelligence capability, offered by Vercel, including v0 (available at https://v0.app) and AI Gateway (available at https://vercel.com/ai), along with any associated features, software applications, APIs, and websites.

Customers may not use an AI Product, nor allow their users or any third party to use an AI Product for the following:

  • To build substantially similar functionality or a competing product or to train competing AI models (e.g., create synthetic training);

  • Model extraction or stealing attacks;

  • Buying, selling or transferring Vercel’s third-party AI providers’ API keys from, to or with a third party;

  • Circumventing or bypassing any protective measures or safety mitigations within or related to the AI Products;

  • Removing any metadata, digital signatures, or watermarks to identify AI-generated content;

  • Extracting data through any method, such as web scraping or web harvesting, from the AI Products or any underlying third-party AI providers’ models, algorithms or systems, unless permitted by us;

  • Publishing or disclosing the results of any benchmarking of the AI Products, or to use those results for your competing software development activities;

  • Creating, sending, uploading, displaying, storing, processing, or transmitting:

    • content that is, or is intended to be, disseminated in electoral campaigns;

    • content that encourages violence, terrorism, or other serious harms;

    • content that promotes or facilitates unlawful online gambling or disruptive commercial messages;

  • Representing that output is human-generated without reliance on AI;

  • Any “high risk” areas under the EU AI Act;

  • Developing or advancing facial recognition databases;

  • Making inferences about personal characteristics of a real person based on biometric data;

  • Creating, receiving, maintaining, transmitting or otherwise processing any information that includes or constitutes

    • "Protected Health Information," as defined under the HIPAA Privacy Rule (45 C.F.R. Section 160.103);

    • Personal information of children under age 13 or the applicable age of digital consent; or

    • Data subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations maintained by the U.S. Department of State;

  • Online services directed at children;

  • Clinical practice, or as a substitute for regulated advice;

  • Developing bioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction;

  • Property destruction.