Acceptable Use Policy

Prohibited content

Don’t publish tales that contain:

• Illegal content: anything unlawful to publish or possess under the law of England and Wales, or that facilitates illegal activity.
• Malware or phishing: malicious code intended for harm, phishing pages or lures, or links designed to compromise anyone’s device or accounts.
• Other people’s secrets: credentials, API keys, tokens, private keys or other secrets that don’t belong to you. (Redact your own before publishing too. The CLI preview exists for a reason. But publishing someone else’s is a policy breach.)
• Personal data without consent: doxxing, or personal data about others that you have no right to share.
• Harassment: content that harasses, threatens, or incites hatred or violence against anyone.
• Infringing material: content that infringes copyright, trade marks or other rights, or third-party confidential information you’re not permitted to share.
• Spam and SEO abuse: tales published to manipulate search rankings, spread unsolicited advertising, or flood the service.

Prohibited behaviour

Don’t:

• Use taleseal as a general-purpose pastebin or file host at abusive scale. Tales are narrative pages about agent runs; bulk-dumping unrelated data or files isn’t what the service is for.
• Enumerate or scrape tale URLs. Tales are unlisted by design: attempting to guess, brute-force, crawl or otherwise discover tale URLs you weren’t given is a serious breach.
• Circumvent rate limits or other technical restrictions, including by rotating accounts or keys.
• Run security testing without permission. If you want to test taleseal’s security, or you’ve found a vulnerability, check our security.txt (/.well-known/security.txt) and contact us first. Don’t test against live user data.
• Share or use API keys or accounts that aren’t yours, or help anyone else breach this policy or the Terms of Service.

Enforcement

We enforce this policy at our discretion. Depending on severity, we may:

• warn you;
• remove or disable access to content;
• suspend your account or API keys; or
• ban you permanently.

For severe cases (illegal content, malware, credential dumps, doxxing, active attacks) we act immediately and without warning, and we may report matters to law enforcement where appropriate. For less severe cases we’ll usually warn you first. Removal of a tale by us works like any other removal: the URL stops serving the content.

Reporting

To report content or behaviour that breaks this policy, email [email protected] with the tale URL and a short description of the problem. We review every report.