# Cogs Acceptable Use Policy

**Effective date: September 2, 2026**

This Acceptable Use Policy (**“AUP”**) forms part of the Cogs Terms of Service. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings in the Terms.

Customer and its users may not use Cogs to:

1. violate applicable law, regulation, sanctions, court order, or another person's rights;
2. commit, facilitate, conceal, or automate fraud, theft, money laundering, sanctions evasion, deliberate tax evasion, or other unlawful financial activity;
3. access, import, connect, disclose, or process financial, commerce, personal, or account data without appropriate authorization;
4. impersonate another person or organization or misrepresent authority to act for a business;
5. probe, scan, attack, disrupt, overload, bypass, or defeat security, rate limits, authentication, permissions, or access controls, except as expressly permitted under a Cogs-authorized security testing program;
6. upload, transmit, or distribute malware, malicious code, destructive payloads, or content intended to compromise systems or accounts;
7. reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code, models, or non-public algorithms except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
8. scrape, harvest, or systematically extract the Service, data, or other users' information except through an expressly authorized interface;
9. systematically use Cogs' proprietary outputs, models, documentation, or interfaces to train or build a competing product in violation of Cogs' intellectual-property or contractual rights;
10. use AI Features to facilitate unlawful activity or knowingly misrepresent automated output as having been reviewed or approved by a CPA, accountant, tax professional, lawyer, or regulator when it has not;
11. interfere with another customer's use of Cogs or attempt to cross organization/workspace boundaries; or
12. use Cogs in a way that creates a material security, legal, regulatory, or operational risk to Cogs or other customers.

Cogs may investigate suspected violations and may restrict or suspend access where reasonably necessary to protect customers, Cogs, third parties, or the Service. Where appropriate, Cogs may preserve evidence and respond to lawful requests from authorities.

Report suspected abuse to **legal@getcogs.ai**.

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**Operator:** Spear America LLC, 1021 E Lincolnway, Ste 6344, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001, United States  
**Service:** Cogs (GetCogs.ai)  
**Legal contact:** legal@getcogs.ai