Acceptable Use Policy

Authorized use

Use HostForge only for systems you own or are explicitly authorized to operate. Respect applicable law, provider rules, privacy rights, intellectual property, and security requirements.

Prohibited activity

• Malware, ransomware, botnets, unauthorized cryptomining, phishing, credential theft, or command-and-control activity.
• Unauthorized scanning, exploitation, intrusion, privilege escalation, interception, credential stuffing, or denial-of-service.
• Fraud, impersonation, deceptive bulk email, unlawful scraping, or evasion of rate and security controls.
• Connecting servers, accounts, repositories, or domains without authority.
• Interfering with service integrity or creating unreasonable beta resource load.

Security research and enforcement

Authorization is required before testing HostForge or another person’s infrastructure. A vulnerability-disclosure process and security contact require owner approval. HostForge may investigate credible abuse reports and may warn, rate-limit, restrict, or suspend access where reasonably necessary and lawful.

Review status

Security contact, abuse contact, appeals, safe-harbor wording, and enforcement procedures require owner and qualified legal review before this policy is relied upon.