Acceptable Use Policy
Effective Date: 17/Aug/2024
Last Updated: 28/Jul/2026
1. INCORPORATION & BINDING EFFECT
This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is an integral, binding, and incorporated part of the Web Dance Pty. Ltd Terms of Service ("Master Terms") and any other applicable agreement between you and Web Dance Pty. Ltd (ABN 50 666 082 079) ("Company", "we", "us", "our"). All capitalized terms not expressly defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Master Terms. By accessing or using any of our Services (as defined in the Master Terms, including but not limited to the webdance.com.au corporate site, the app.webdance.com.au SaaS platform, the aisof.org public standard hub, and all associated software, data, and offerings), you, the user ("you", "your"), agree to comply with this AUP in full. This AUP applies to all users, including visitors, registered account holders, and subscribers to any Service tier (Pay As You Go, Pro, Plus).
2. MATERIAL BREACH & REMEDIES
Any violation of this AUP constitutes a material breach of the Master Terms. In response to any actual, suspected, or anticipated violation, we reserve the right, in our sole, absolute, and unfettered discretion, and without prior notice or liability to you, to take one or more of the following actions:
- Immediately suspend or terminate your Account, Subscription, and access to all Services.
- Remove, delete, or disable access to any User Content.
- Forfeit, withhold, void, or claw back any wallet funds, Referral Program commissions, or other earnings or benefits accrued.
- Revoke any Certificate (including the AISOF-7000 AI Model Certificate (the "AI Model Certificate") or Course Completion Certificate) or badge issued to you, and require its immediate removal from all public displays.
- Initiate legal proceedings against you for breach of contract, infringement, misrepresentation, or other applicable claims, including seeking injunctive relief and recovery of all costs, expenses, and legal fees on a full indemnity basis.
These remedies are cumulative and in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity. Our failure to enforce any provision of this AUP does not constitute a waiver of our right to do so later.
3. PROHIBITED USES OF THE SERVICES
You may not use, or facilitate, enable, or permit others to use, the Services in any manner that:
3.1. Violates Applicable Law
Is unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, tortious, or violates any applicable local, state, national, or international law, regulation, ordinance, or judicial order.
3.2. Infringes or Misappropriates Intellectual Property
Infringes upon, misappropriates, or violates the intellectual property, proprietary, or other rights of the Company or any third party. This includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Unauthorized Commercialization or Derivation of AISOF Intellectual Property:
Any action that contravenes the absolute ownership rights detailed in our Copyright & Intellectual Property Notice, including:
- Using the proprietary AISOF™ (AI Integrity & Secure Operations Frameworks) – including its name, structure, controls, methodology, assessment criteria, taxonomy, logic, questionnaire, scoring engine, or any Output derived from the Services – to create, derive, inform, train, develop, benchmark, offer, or commercialize any competing or alternative standard, framework, product, software-as-a-service, certification scheme, or consulting service.
- Reproducing, distributing, publicly performing, displaying, translating, adapting, or creating derivative works from any AISOF™ materials (e.g., framework concepts, control descriptions, AI Model Certificate and AISOF-3300 Questionnaire, platform Outputs, or reports) without a separate, express written license from the Company.
- Issuing any form of compliance certification, attestation, or "AISOF™-aligned," "AISOF™-ready," or similar designation to a third party based on your use of the Services or your interpretation of AISOF™ materials.
- Applying the AISOF™ trademark or the AISOF badge to any product, service, or material without the limited, revocable, non-transferable display license explicitly granted in the Master Terms and on the Certificate itself.
(b) General IP Violations:
Using the Company's trademarks, service marks, logos, trade dress, or branding without prior written authorization; or submitting User Content that infringes the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any person or entity.
3.3. Is Harmful or Malicious
- Contains, transmits, or installs any viruses, malware, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other harmful, malicious, or destructive code.
- Is designed to degrade, disable, overburden, or impair the operation of the Services (or any server, network, or system connected to the Services), including via denial-of-service attacks, distributed denial-of-service attacks, flooding, mailbombing, or crashing.
- Attempts to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to the Services, through hacking, password mining, brute-forcing, exploiting software vulnerabilities, or any other means.
- Conducts network probing, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, or security assessments of our infrastructure without our prior, express written authorization.
3.4. Compromises Security, Integrity, or Safety
- Bypasses, disables, removes, degrades, or interferes with any security-related, monitoring, or access control features of the Services.
- Uses the Services to generate, disseminate, or facilitate the creation of misinformation, disinformation, "deepfakes," or content intended to impersonate individuals or entities for fraudulent, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or harmful purposes.
- Uses the Services to develop, train, operate, or assess AI models or systems that are intended or reasonably likely to cause physical harm, emotional distress, discrimination, harassment, radicalization, or the infringement of legal rights.
3.5. Violates Privacy or Data Protection
Violates any obligation of confidentiality or privacy rights under our Privacy Policy or applicable law (including but not limited to the Australian Privacy Principles and GDPR). This expressly includes:
- Attempting to de-anonymize, re-identify, or reverse engineer Personal Information from aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized data produced by or within the Services.
- Submitting Personal Information, Sensitive Information, or confidential data concerning others without their lawful, informed consent and a legitimate legal basis, and in strict compliance with our Privacy Policy.
4. PROHIBITED CONTENT & INPUTS
You are solely and fully responsible for all content, data, information, prompts, and materials you submit, upload, post, or otherwise provide through the Services ("User Content"). You may not submit User Content that:
4.1. Is Unlawful or Harmful
Is threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, pornographic, obscene, profane, invasive of another's privacy, or promotes violence, terrorism, self-harm, or illegal activities.
4.2. Violates Professional Standards & Constitutes Fraud
Is deliberately false, fabricated, incomplete, or materially misleading within the context of an AISOF certification application, self-assessment, or report generation, with the intent to secure a certification, Certificate, compliance status, or platform benefit fraudulently. This includes providing inaccurate information about an AI model's data sources, governance, security controls, or operational characteristics to obtain a Certificate.
4.3. Contains Prohibited Sensitive Data
Contains, in violation of our Privacy Policy or applicable law:
- Highly sensitive government identifiers (e.g., full passport, driver's licence, or tax file numbers).
- Full financial account numbers with access codes.
- Genetic, biometric, or health data without appropriate legal authority and safeguards.
- Passwords, security questions/answers, API keys, or non-public access codes.
- Information subject to stringent regulatory controls (e.g., classified information, export-controlled data).
4.4. Is Inauthentic or Automated
Is generated by automated bots, scrapers, scripts, or other automated means without genuine human oversight, intent, and engagement related to the legitimate, permitted use of the Services, including self-assessment and certification purposes, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
5. SPECIFIC PROHIBITIONS FOR THE REFERRAL PROGRAM
In connection with the Web Dance Referral Program (as detailed in the Master Terms and the Payment and Refund Policy), you must not:
5.1. Engage in Fraudulent Referrals
- Refer yourself using multiple accounts, aliases, fake identities, or false information.
- Use VPNs, proxy servers, disposable email addresses, or other methods designed to disguise your identity or location for self-referral or to simulate fraudulent referral activity.
- Use stolen payment methods, identities, or credentials to create accounts for referral purposes.
- Pay for a referred person's subscription yourself, or arrange for the same payment card or account to fund subscriptions for multiple people you have referred.
- Arrange, encourage, or assist a referred person to obtain a refund or raise a chargeback after a commission has been earned.
- Coordinate "referral rings," circular schemes, or any form of collusion designed solely to generate commissions without genuine acquisition of new, qualifying customers.
5.2. Use Prohibited Marketing Tactics
- Use spam, unsolicited bulk communications (commercial or otherwise), or deceptive advertising (e.g., misrepresenting your relationship with Web Dance as an employee, partner, or certified auditor; making false claims about the Services or AISOF™).
- Use "incentivized" click programs, paid-to-click sites, click farms, or any method where a monetary or material incentive is offered solely for clicking a referral link.
- Place referral links in locations where they violate the terms of service of third-party platforms (e.g., unauthorized forum posts, comment spam, misleading social media engagements).
6. SYSTEM, NETWORK & COMMERCIAL INTEGRITY
6.1. No Reverse Engineering
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code, underlying structure, ideas, algorithms, architecture, or data models of the Services, except to the extent such restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.
6.2. No Unauthorized Access or Derivative Works
You may not access or use the Services (including their Output, data, structure, or functionality) in order to:
- Build, or assist in building, a similar, competitive, or substitute product, service, framework, standard, or certification scheme. This is a fundamental prohibition to protect our core proprietary asset, the AISOF™ ecosystem.
- Copy, mimic, derive, or extract any features, functions, user interfaces, graphics, or design elements.
- Create any derivative works, benchmarks, comparative analyses, or training datasets based on the proprietary AISOF™ framework, our certification methodology, or the Services' internal functionality.
6.3. No Unauthorized Data Collection
You may not use any automated system, including "robots," "spiders," "scrapers," "offline readers," or similar tools, to access, monitor, copy, harvest, or extract data from the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers than a human could reasonably produce using a conventional web browser over the same period. This prohibition does not apply to the indexing of publicly accessible, non-password-protected pages of our marketing websites (e.g., aisof.org/blog) by public search engines in accordance with their published robots.txt file.
7. ENFORCEMENT, LIABILITY & INDEMNIFICATION
7.1. Reporting Violations
You must immediately report any violation of this AUP by others to us at
7.2. Our Enforcement Rights
We have the sole and absolute right (but no obligation) to investigate any suspected violation of this AUP. Our enforcement actions, as outlined in Section 2, are undertaken at our discretion without liability to you.
7.3. Your Liability and Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, losses, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, actions, judgments, settlements, interest, awards, penalties, fines, costs, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees on a full indemnity basis) arising out of or related to your violation of this AUP. This indemnification obligation is a fundamental allocation of risk under the Master Terms and survives the termination of your Account and this AUP.
8. POLICY UPDATES
We may revise this AUP at any time by posting the updated version on our primary website at webdance.com.au and/or aisof.org (or a successor URL). The "Last Updated" date will be revised accordingly. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date of the revised AUP constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms. It is your responsibility to review this AUP periodically.
9. GOVERNING LAW & CONTACT
This AUP is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of New South Wales, Australia, as specified in the Master Terms. For questions regarding this AUP, please contact:
Web Dance Pty. Ltd
Note: This Acceptable Use Policy is an integral part of the Web Dance Pty. Ltd Terms of Service.