Acceptable Use Policy

1. Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") applies to every user of the IntrusionLabs Service, including anonymous users of our free public lookup tools, registered free accounts, paid subscribers, and API consumers. It supplements the Terms of Service. Violations may result in warnings, rate limiting, suspension, termination, and — where appropriate — reporting to law enforcement.

2. You may not

2.1 Abuse the Service or its infrastructure

• Exceed published rate limits, evade them using multiple accounts or IP addresses, or scrape our public tools or API in a way that constitutes a denial of service;
• Attempt to access data, endpoints, or accounts you are not authorized to access;
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems, except through an explicit, authorized coordinated disclosure process;
• Introduce malware, viruses, worms, or other malicious code;
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract our source code, models, or proprietary algorithms.

2.2 Misuse our data

• Use IntrusionLabs data to harass, intimidate, dox, or otherwise target any individual, organization, or network operator named in, derivable from, or associated with our data;
• Use IntrusionLabs data as a target-selection tool for offensive activity, unauthorized access, or any conduct that would itself violate the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act, or any equivalent law in your jurisdiction;
• Publicly accuse a specific organization of being malicious solely on the basis of an IntrusionLabs label, without your own verification;
• Resell, sublicense, or redistribute IntrusionLabs data as a standalone product or feed (internal use for your own security operations is permitted, subject to the Terms of Service);
• Use IntrusionLabs data to build or train a competing threat intelligence product or service;
• Strip attribution, provenance, or confidence information from our data before sharing it internally.

2.3 Engage in illegal or harmful conduct

• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or sanctions requirement;
• Use the Service to infringe intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights of any third party;
• Use the Service to facilitate fraud, identity theft, or financial crime;
• Attempt to evade geographic or sanctions-based access restrictions that we or our subprocessors apply.

3. Rate limits, fair use, and commercial scraping

The free public tools at intrusionlabs.com/tools/ are provided for ad-hoc investigative use by security professionals, researchers, and the general public. They are not a free commercial data feed. If your intended usage pattern exceeds "a human clicking around" — for example, automated programmatic lookups, bulk ingestion, or integration into a commercial product — you need an authenticated API tier. Contact hello@intrusionlabs.com to discuss.

We reserve the right to block or rate-limit any IP address, user agent, or account whose usage pattern suggests automated scraping against the free public tools.

4. Authorization to query

When you look up an IP address, ASN, subnet, or hostname in our tools, you represent that doing so is lawful in your jurisdiction and does not violate any agreement between you and a third party. You are solely responsible for the lawfulness of your queries and any downstream action you take based on the results.

5. Reporting abuse

If you believe someone is using IntrusionLabs in violation of this AUP, email abuse@intrusionlabs.com with as much detail as you can provide. We investigate abuse reports promptly and without disclosing the identity of either party unnecessarily.

6. Enforcement

We enforce this AUP at our discretion. Remedies include, in order of severity and without obligation to apply them in any particular order: warning, rate limiting, temporary suspension, permanent suspension, termination, referral to law enforcement, and legal action. We may act without prior notice when we reasonably believe the violation is serious, ongoing, or threatens the Service or third parties.

7. Changes

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be announced by email or in-product banner. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated AUP.