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Acceptable Use Policy

Version 1.0 · June 2026

Draft — pending legal review. This document has not been reviewed by qualified legal counsel and must not be relied upon as final.

Spexsure — Version 1.0 · Effective June 2026

DRAFT — PENDING LEGAL REVIEW. This document has not been reviewed by qualified legal counsel and must not be treated as final. Do not publish or rely on it until reviewed by a licensed attorney.

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets out the rules governing what you may and may not do with the Spexsure platform ("Service"), operated by Heuristicworks LLC ("Spexsure", "we", "us"). This AUP is incorporated by reference into the Terms of Service (spexsure.com/legal/terms) and the End User License Agreement (spexsure.com/legal/eula). Capitalised terms not defined here have the meanings given in those documents.

Violation of this AUP may result in immediate suspension or permanent termination of your account, referral to law enforcement, and civil or criminal liability. Spexsure reserves all rights and remedies available under applicable law.


1. Scope

This AUP applies to:

  • All users of the Spexsure SaaS platform at spexsure.com
  • All Captive Deployment licensees and their Authorised Users
  • Any person accessing the Service through an API, integration, or automation
  • Any person accessing the Service through a reseller or partner channel

You are responsible for ensuring that all Authorised Users within your organisation comply with this AUP. A violation by any Authorised User is treated as a violation by the account holder or licensee.


2. Permitted Uses

The Service is designed and licensed for the following purposes:

  • Uploading, pasting, or drafting Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for AI-assisted analysis
  • Reviewing AI-generated gap analysis reports and accepting or dismissing suggestions
  • Reviewing and editing AI-enriched PRD sections
  • Generating structured backlogs (epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, sub-tasks)
  • Reviewing, editing, and customising AI-generated tickets before export
  • Pushing approved tickets to connected Atlassian Jira workspaces
  • Managing account settings, subscription, and integrations
  • Accessing analytics and usage data within your account

All use must be for internal business purposes within the scope of your subscription or licence. Permitted use must at all times comply with applicable law and the terms of all incorporated policies.


3. Prohibited Content

You must not submit, upload, paste, or transmit through the Service any content that:

3.1 Is Unlawful

  • Violates any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation
  • Facilitates or promotes illegal activity of any kind
  • Breaches any applicable export control, sanctions, or trade compliance law, including OFAC, EAR, or ITAR restrictions

3.2 Involves Child Safety

  • Constitutes, depicts, facilitates, or promotes child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any sexual content involving minors
  • Is designed to groom, exploit, or cause harm to minors in any form

Spexsure will report any such content to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), relevant law enforcement agencies, and CSAM reporting bodies in applicable jurisdictions without exception and without prior notice to the account holder.

3.3 Is Threatening or Violent

  • Constitutes a credible threat of violence against any individual or group
  • Promotes, glorifies, or facilitates acts of terrorism, mass violence, or genocide
  • Contains incitement to imminent lawless action

3.4 Is Hateful or Discriminatory

  • Promotes hatred, hostility, or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics
  • Constitutes targeted harassment or coordinated abuse of an individual or group

3.5 Violates Intellectual Property Rights

  • Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual property right of a third party
  • Contains confidential or proprietary information of a third party submitted without authorisation
  • Includes material subject to a non-disclosure agreement without that agreement permitting disclosure to a third-party AI platform

3.6 Contains Sensitive Personal Data Beyond Permitted Scope

  • Includes payment card numbers, bank account details, or other financial account credentials
  • Contains protected health information (PHI) subject to HIPAA or equivalent health data regulation, unless a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement has been executed with Spexsure
  • Contains national identification numbers (Social Security Numbers, passport numbers, driving licence numbers) without a lawful basis and necessity for inclusion in a PRD
  • Contains biometric data, genetic data, or data revealing racial or ethnic origin where inclusion is unnecessary for the PRD analysis purpose

3.7 Is Designed to Deceive

  • Constitutes deliberate misinformation or disinformation intended to deceive users of the Service
  • Impersonates any person, organisation, or AI system

4. Prohibited Activities

4.1 Security and Infrastructure Attacks

You must not:

(a) Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service, its underlying infrastructure, or any account other than your own;

(b) Conduct or facilitate port scanning, network probing, penetration testing, or vulnerability scanning against Spexsure's infrastructure without prior written authorisation from Spexsure. Authorised security testing requests must be directed to security@spexsure.com;

(c) Introduce, transmit, or distribute viruses, malware, ransomware, spyware, worms, Trojan horses, or any other malicious code through the Service;

(d) Conduct or facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, volumetric attacks, or any other attack designed to degrade, disrupt, or overwhelm the Service or third-party systems reachable through it;

(e) Exploit any vulnerability in the Service. If you discover a security vulnerability, you must report it responsibly to security@spexsure.com and refrain from exploiting it or disclosing it publicly until Spexsure has had a reasonable opportunity to remediate it (see /.well-known/security.txt for our responsible disclosure policy);

(f) Intercept, monitor, or modify traffic between the Service and Anthropic or any other third-party API.

4.2 AI System Manipulation

The Service uses AI systems, including large language models provided by Anthropic PBC. You must not:

(a) Submit prompt injection attacks — inputs crafted to override, circumvent, or manipulate the system instructions governing the AI model's behaviour, including attempts to extract system prompts, modify the model's operating context, or cause the model to produce outputs outside its intended scope;

(b) Submit jailbreak attempts — inputs designed to bypass the AI model's safety guidelines, content policies, or ethical constraints, whether through role-playing scenarios, hypothetical framings, encoded characters, or any other technique;

(c) Submit inputs designed to cause the AI model to produce harmful, illegal, or policy-violating outputs, including instructions for creating weapons, synthesising controlled substances, or facilitating violence;

(d) Use the Service to probe, map, or reverse-engineer the behaviour, capabilities, or limitations of the underlying AI models for competitive intelligence purposes or for use in developing a competing AI product;

(e) Attempt to extract, reproduce, or reconstruct training data, model weights, or system prompts from the AI model's outputs.

Any submission falling within the above will be flagged by our automated security systems, archived, and may be disclosed to law enforcement as described in Section 3.5 of our Terms of Service.

4.3 Billing and Credit System Abuse

You must not:

(a) Create multiple accounts to obtain additional free-tier credits beyond what a single account is entitled to;

(b) Use automated scripts, bots, or other means to generate, manipulate, or circumvent credit metering;

(c) Share subscription credentials with individuals outside your organisation to exceed licensed seat limits;

(d) Resell, transfer, or sublicense Credits or Service access to third parties without Spexsure's prior written consent;

(e) Provide false or fraudulent payment information, or initiate charge-backs in bad faith;

(f) Exploit any pricing error, promotional code, or billing system bug to obtain service at an unintended price. If you discover a billing error that benefits you, you are required to notify support@spexsure.com promptly.

4.4 Integration Misuse

You must not:

(a) Use the Service's Jira integration to push tickets to a Jira workspace for which you do not have authorisation;

(b) Use the OAuth credentials obtained through the Service's Jira integration for any purpose other than the intended ticket-push functionality;

(c) Use your BYOK Anthropic API key to make calls to Anthropic outside the Service through the Service's infrastructure;

(d) Attempt to intercept, exfiltrate, or misuse encrypted OAuth tokens or BYOK keys stored by the Service.

4.5 Automated Access and Scraping

You must not:

(a) Access the Service by automated means (bots, crawlers, scrapers) except through officially published APIs and within documented rate limits;

(b) Systematically extract or harvest content, data, or AI outputs from the Service by automated means;

(c) Use the Service to aggregate or republish AI-generated output at scale without independent review of each output.

4.6 Competitive Intelligence and Benchmarking

You must not use the Service, or data derived from it, to:

(a) Benchmark Spexsure's AI output against competing products without our prior written consent;

(b) Develop, train, or improve a product or service that competes with Spexsure;

(c) Generate marketing content that misrepresents Spexsure's capabilities or AI Output quality based on cherry-picked or adversarially constructed examples.

4.7 Reputational and Legal Harm

You must not use the Service to:

(a) Generate content that is defamatory, libellous, or maliciously false about any individual or organisation;

(b) Create or distribute spam, unsolicited commercial communications, or phishing content;

(c) Facilitate any scheme designed to defraud, deceive, or harm any person.


5. Responsible AI Use

Spexsure is an AI-assisted tool. You acknowledge that:

5.1 Human Oversight is Required. AI Output must not be deployed in production systems, presented to customers, submitted to regulators, or used in any consequential decision without independent human review and validation. This requirement is not waivable.

5.2 AI Output is Not Professional Advice. AI-generated epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and tickets are drafts only. They do not constitute legal, engineering, financial, or compliance advice. Do not rely on them as such.

5.3 Regulated and Safety-Critical Contexts. You must not use AI Output without additional qualified human oversight where the output could influence:

  • Software embedded in medical devices, autonomous vehicles, avionics, or nuclear systems
  • Financial products or trading systems subject to regulatory oversight
  • Government or public sector systems where errors could affect individual rights or public safety
  • Legal documents or filings

5.4 EU AI Act Compliance. If you are subject to the EU AI Act, you are responsible for conducting your own conformity assessment of how you use AI Output within your own systems and processes. Spexsure's provision of AI Output does not satisfy your obligations under the EU AI Act.

5.5 Bias and Fairness. AI models may produce outputs that reflect biases present in their training data. You are responsible for reviewing AI Output for potential bias before use, particularly in contexts involving hiring, performance assessment, or customer-facing communications.


6. Content Submitted on Behalf of Clients

If you use the Service on behalf of a client (e.g. as a consultant, agency, or systems integrator):

(a) You represent that you have your client's authorisation to submit their PRD content to the Service and for processing by Anthropic PBC;

(b) You are responsible for ensuring your client's content complies with this AUP;

(c) You must inform your client that their content will be transmitted to Anthropic for AI processing;

(d) You remain the account holder and are liable for all use under your account, including your clients' content.


7. Enforcement

7.1 Monitoring

Spexsure uses automated security scanning to detect inputs that violate this AUP, including prompt injection detectors, content classifiers, and anomaly detection on usage patterns. We do not routinely read your PRD content for AUP compliance, but automated systems may flag content for review.

7.2 Actions We May Take

On detecting or receiving a report of a violation, Spexsure may take any of the following actions without prior notice, at its sole discretion:

Severity Actions
Minor / first offence Warning email; temporary rate reduction
Moderate Temporary account suspension (24–72 hours) pending investigation
Serious Permanent account termination; no refund of prepaid fees
Criminal Immediate termination; archival of all associated data; referral to law enforcement

The action taken will be proportionate to the nature and severity of the violation. Spexsure is not required to follow a progressive enforcement sequence and may permanently terminate an account for a first offence where the violation is serious.

7.3 Appeal

If you believe your account was suspended or terminated in error, you may appeal by emailing legal@heuristicworks.com within 14 days of the action, providing a detailed explanation. Spexsure will review and respond within 14 business days. Spexsure's determination following appeal is final.

7.4 No Refund on Termination for Cause

Accounts terminated for violation of this AUP are not entitled to a refund of any prepaid subscription fees, unused Credits, or Captive Deployment licence fees, except where required by applicable law.

7.5 Reporting Violations

If you become aware of a violation of this AUP by another user, or if you believe the Service is being misused in a way that poses a risk to you or others, please report it to:

We review all reports and will take appropriate action. We will not disclose the identity of the reporter without consent unless required by law.


8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP at any time. For material changes, we will provide at least 14 days' notice by email before the revised AUP takes effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised AUP. If you do not agree to the revised AUP, you must stop using the Service and close your account before the effective date.


9. Contact


Heuristicworks LLC · Spring City, PA, USA

Questions? legal@heuristicworks.com