Acceptable Use Policy

VAMP Acceptable Use Policy

• Version: 2026-10-08
• Effective date: October 8, 2026

This policy is part of the VAMP Terms of Service, an agreement with VAMP Technologies Inc. It applies to everything you do with VAMP: the desktop app, vamp.media, any catalog you publish, anything you share, and any file you send or receive through the service.

It's short on purpose. The rules here are the ones that get an account closed.

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1. The short version

Don't put illegal material on our servers. Don't use VAMP to hurt people. Don't attack the service. If you do, we will remove it, close your account, keep a record, and where the law requires it, report you.

2. Prohibited content

You may not store, publish, share, transmit, request or deliver any of the following through the online service, and you may not use the VAMP desktop app to catalog, prepare or distribute it:

2.1 Child sexual abuse material

Absolutely and without exception. No child sexual abuse material (CSAM). No sexual or sexualised depiction of a minor, real, drawn, animated, synthetic or AI-generated. No material that sexualises a minor, no nudity of a minor produced or used for sexual purposes, and nothing that sexually exploits a child in any form.

There is no artistic, journalistic, archival, research or "it's just B-roll" exception to this, and there is no warning. An account that puts this material on our servers is closed immediately, the material is preserved and handed over as described in Section 4, and a report goes to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement.

If you have this material, do not upload it here. Do not "test" whether our systems catch it. Uploading it is a federal crime in the United States and a crime nearly everywhere else, and reporting it is not a discretionary decision on our side.

2.2 Non-consensual intimate imagery

No intimate, nude or sexually explicit imagery of any person shared without that person's consent. This covers so-called revenge porn, hidden-camera and upskirt footage, images obtained by hacking or theft, and sexual deepfakes or any synthetic sexual depiction of a real person made without their consent. It also covers material that was consensually made but not consensually shared - consent to be filmed is not consent to be published.

2.3 Other illegal content

No content that is illegal to possess, create or distribute where you are or where we operate. This includes material depicting real sexual violence, human trafficking, or the sexual exploitation of anyone; content that promotes or provides instructions for terrorism or mass violence; and content produced by or for a sanctioned entity in breach of the export and sanctions rules in the Terms.

2.4 Violence, exploitation, and harm

No content that incites, threatens, glorifies or coordinates violence against a person or a group. No content that promotes self-harm or suicide. No content documenting a crime you committed and are storing for the purpose of continuing it.

Real newsgathering, documentary and investigative footage of violence and its aftermath is a legitimate use of a footage archive, and we know it. The line is purpose: documenting is fine, incitement, distribution as trophy material, and evasion of the law is not.

2.5 Infringement and confidentiality

No content you don't have the rights to store or share. That means no pirated films, series or libraries, no stock or licensed footage used outside its license, no material you're under an NDA not to distribute, and no client material you have no release for. Using VAMP as a distribution point for someone else's copyrighted work is a straightforward way to lose your account.

2.6 Personal and regulated data

Don't put regulated data into the online service. The online service is not built or certified to hold payment card data, criminal justice information, or classified or controlled government material. It may hold protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA only if you have signed a separate Business Associate Agreement with us first; without one, PHI is not allowed. If your footage carries obligations like these, keep it local, on your own drives, and talk to us first at [email protected]. The desktop app on its own computer never sends footage to us, so using it locally is unaffected.

Also: no doxxing. Don't publish someone's home address, phone number, identity documents or other private information without their consent.

2.7 Malware and hostile files

No viruses, worms, ransomware, keyloggers, exploit code, or files crafted to attack whoever opens them or whatever parses them. That includes media files built to exploit a decoder, which - given that VAMP reads media for a living - is an attack on us as much as on the person you sent it to.

3. Prohibited conduct

You may not:

• Harass or abuse anyone. No threats, no stalking, no targeted harassment or hate directed at a person or at a group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected characteristic. This applies to invites, share notes, file names, request messages, the contact form - anywhere text you write reaches another person.
• Impersonate. Don't pretend to be someone else, don't claim an affiliation you don't have, and don't misrepresent who owns footage you're publishing or requesting.
• Get around limits or gates. No sharing invite links, no creating accounts to replace a closed one, no evading a block, no working around quotas, rate limits, download windows or access controls. An invite is issued to one person and its download window is deliberate.
• Probe or attack the service. No scanning, no penetration testing, no fuzzing, no credential stuffing, no denial-of-service, no attempts to reach data belonging to another account, no interference with anyone else's use of VAMP. If you find a vulnerability, report it (Section 5) - we'd genuinely rather know.
• Scrape or automate. No bots, scrapers, crawlers or scripted bulk access to the online service beyond ordinary use of the app. No bulk account creation. No harvesting email addresses from shares or invites.
• Resell or relay. Don't run VAMP as a service for other people, don't resell access to your account, and don't use the online service as a general file-transfer or hosting service for content unrelated to your own footage archive.
• Use VAMP to spam. Invites, shares and delivery notifications send real email to real people. Don't use them to reach people who didn't ask to hear from you.

4. What we will do about it

We don't pre-screen your content and we have no obligation to monitor it. When we do learn of something - from a report, from an automated signal, or from ordinary operations - we may do any of the following, in any order, without notice:

1. Remove or disable it. Delete the file, unpublish the catalog, cancel the delivery, or make it unreachable.
2. Suspend the account immediately. No warning, no notice period. For anything in Section 2.1 or 2.2 this is the default, not the escalation.
3. Ban permanently. Close the account and block the email address from registering, accepting an invite, joining the waiting list, or using the contact form. Any live invites for that address are revoked at the same time.
4. Preserve evidence. Keep a copy of the material, the account records, the access logs, the IP addresses, and the timestamps - separately from your account and beyond your ability to delete them - for as long as the law requires and for as long as any investigation needs. Preservation happens before deletion where the law requires it, and deleting your account will not delete a preserved record.
5. Report it. Where the law requires, and in any case where we believe a child is at risk, we report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through the CyberTipline, and to law enforcement. We will cooperate with lawful requests and valid legal process. We may notify you that this has happened - unless we're barred from telling you, or telling you would risk destruction of evidence or harm to a person. Apparent child sexual abuse material is reported to NCMEC as US law (18 U.S.C. § 2258A) requires, and preserved as that law directs.
6. Come after the costs. Recover from you what your breach cost us, as set out in the indemnity in the Terms.

We may take any of these steps against a single file, a single catalog, or an entire account, and we may act on a good-faith belief without waiting for proof to a legal standard.

Appeals. If you think we got it wrong, write to [email protected] with your account address and what happened. We'll look again. We will not reinstate anything in Section 2.1 under any circumstances, and we're not obliged to reinstate anything else.

5. Reporting abuse

If you find something on VAMP that breaks this policy - or you're the person in footage someone else published - tell us:

• Abuse and illegal content: [email protected]
• Security vulnerabilities: [email protected]
• Anything else: [email protected]

Please include the link or catalog involved, what's wrong with it, and how to reach you. If someone is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first - we can't respond at that speed.

Do not send us copies of suspected CSAM. Send us the location and nothing else. We'll handle it from there.

We review every report within one business day. A report of suspected child sexual abuse material is acted on the same day we see it.

6. Copyright - DMCA notice and counter-notice

We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

6.1 Designated agent

Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

`` Northwest Registered Agent, LLC Attn: Taylor Newman, DMCA Agent for VAMP Technologies Inc. 502 W 7th St, Ste 100 Erie, PA 16502, USA Email: [email protected] Phone: (412) 797-6637 ``

6.2 What a notice needs

To be effective, your notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it - a catalog link or share link is ideal.
4. Your contact details: address, telephone number, and email.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and - under penalty of perjury - that you are authorized to act for the copyright owner.

Misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). Please be sure before you send.

6.3 What we do with it

We'll remove or disable access to the material, and we'll tell the account holder what was removed and why, along with a copy of the notice.

6.4 Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same agent, containing:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed, and where it was before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live (or, if you're outside the United States, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

If we receive a valid counter-notice we'll forward it to the person who complained. Unless they tell us they've filed a court action seeking to restrain you, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days.

When we remove material on a valid notice, VAMP holds the removed catalog for 30 days, so it can be restored after a successful counter-notice.

6.5 Repeat infringers

VAMP records every valid copyright notice against the account that published the material

• a "strike". A strike is removed if a counter-notice restores the material, or if the notice is withdrawn or found invalid.

Three strikes within any 12 months ends the account's access to the online service. VAMP counts the strikes and suspends the account automatically at the third, and we tell the account holder why. We review a termination on appeal (Section 4) and may reverse it where a strike turns out to be mistaken. An account terminated as a repeat infringer may not open a new one.

7. Changes

We may update this policy. The version string and effective date at the top change when we do, and material changes are handled the same way as changes to the Terms - see Section 14 of the Terms of Service.