Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated 10 November 2026. Part of the Terms of Service.

nerdsystem is a shared platform. These rules protect the people who use your applications, other customers, and the Service itself. Breaching them can lead to content removal, suspension, or termination.

You must not use the Service to

• Break the law, or help anyone else to, including infringing intellectual property, violating privacy or data protection laws, or breaching export controls or sanctions.
• Distribute malware, run phishing or credential-harvesting pages, impersonate people or organizations, or deceive End Users about who operates an application or what it does.
• Attack, probe, or disrupt other systems, networks, or the Service, including denial-of-service, port scanning, vulnerability scanning of systems you do not own, or circumventing authentication or plan limits.
• Run workloads whose purpose is to consume compute rather than serve End Users, such as cryptocurrency mining, proxy or VPN services, scraping at scale, or load generation.
• Store or serve content that is sexually exploitative of minors, that incites violence or hatred against protected groups, or that is otherwise illegal where you or your End Users are.
• Send unsolicited bulk messages, or build applications that exist primarily to send them.
• Resell or white-label the Service as a hosting platform without a written agreement with us.

You must

• Give End Users an accurate privacy notice and comply with the data protection laws that apply to you.
• Keep your account, tokens, and application secrets secure, and report compromises promptly.
• Respect the resource limits of your plan and of the platform. Applications that repeatedly exceed per-request CPU or subrequest limits are throttled automatically; sustained abuse may be suspended.
• Respond to abuse reports we forward to you about your applications within a reasonable time.

Screening

The pages of applications from new and Free organizations are read automatically before they go live, to catch phishing and impersonation. A deploy that looks deceptive is held until a person has looked at it; if it was held by mistake we release it and tell the organization's owners. Addresses that contain the name of another organization are not available.

Reporting

To report abuse of an application hosted on nerdsystem, use the form at nerdsystem.com/report or email abuse@hikernerd.com with the application's address and a description. We review reports promptly and will act where this policy or the law requires it.