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Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: 2026-06-09 Last updated: 2026-04-29

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets out what you may and may not do when you use Versus ("the Service"). It is part of the Terms of Service. Violating it is a breach of the Terms and can result in content removal, share-link takedown, account suspension, or termination.

The Service is operated by Francis Bissonnette, a sole proprietor based in Quebec, Canada. Contact: info@tryversus.app.

1. The short version

Don't use Versus to break the law, harm people, or generate content you wouldn't be willing to defend by name in public. Don't try to abuse the platform itself. If your use makes the Service worse for everyone else, we'll stop you.

You are also bound by the terms of every AI provider whose key you bring. If a prompt would violate OpenAI's, Anthropic's, or Google's policies, it violates this one too.

2. Prohibited content

You may not use the Service to generate, request, host, share, or distribute content that:

  • Is illegal under Canadian federal law, Quebec provincial law, or the law of your jurisdiction or the audience's jurisdiction.
  • Sexualizes minors in any way. Zero tolerance. Confirmed CSAM is reported to authorities.
  • Incites violence against a person, group, or property; threatens, harasses, or stalks identifiable people; coordinates real-world harm.
  • Targets a person or group with hate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics.
  • Provides operational assistance for creating weapons capable of mass casualty (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive), or for evading detection of such activity.
  • Provides operational assistance for serious cyberattacks — malware, ransomware, exploits against systems you do not own or have permission to test, credential theft, or attacks on critical infrastructure.
  • Defames an identifiable person or organization.
  • Infringes copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual-property rights.
  • Doxes anyone — i.e. publishes private personal information without consent — including via a public share link.
  • Contains malware or links to malware.
  • Is intentionally deceptive in a way designed to defraud, manipulate financial markets, impersonate someone, or interfere with elections.
  • Sexual content involving real, identifiable people without their consent, including non-consensual intimate imagery.
  • Personal data of others that you don't have a lawful basis to process.

This list isn't exhaustive. If your use is harmful in a way we didn't anticipate, we may still act on it.

3. Prohibited platform behavior

You may not:

  • Bypass rate limits or technical restrictions, including the public-share creation limit, suspension enforcement, or budget hard-stops.
  • Attempt to access another user's account, debate, workspace, or share link that you weren't intended to access.
  • Probe, scan, or test the Service's vulnerabilities except through our security contact (see section 6).
  • Reverse-engineer, disassemble, or copy non-trivial parts of the Service to build a competing product.
  • Scrape /explore, share pages, or any other surface programmatically beyond reasonable, polite use. Public share content is for human readers, not for republication or training.
  • Use the Service to train or fine-tune another AI model on the prompts, transcripts, or syntheses generated here, except for content you authored.
  • Spam or send bulk unsolicited communication through any feature of the Service (workspace invites, share-link comments if/when introduced, etc.).
  • Submit takedown reports in bad faith — false reports against legitimate share links may themselves be cause for suspension.
  • Sell, sublicense, or resell access to your account.
  • Misrepresent your identity in a way that misleads other users or us, including OAuth identity spoofing.

Because public share links can be indexed and surfaced to people who never opened the app, additional rules apply:

  • You are publishing. The same standards you'd apply to a blog post or a tweet apply here.
  • Don't publish other people's content as if it were yours. This includes pasting copyrighted material into the question, or sharing a debate that depends substantially on someone else's prose.
  • Don't publish a share that targets an identifiable individual in a harassing, defamatory, or doxing manner.
  • You're responsible for what your agents say. Model output is your output once you publish it.

We can take down a share at any time without notice when it violates this AUP. Three valid takedown reports auto-hide a share pending review. Shares from suspended accounts are auto-flagged as taken down.

5. What happens when you violate this AUP

Depending on severity and pattern, we may:

  • Remove the offending content.
  • Hide a public share link or revert it to private.
  • Rate-limit your account.
  • Suspend your account, which makes it inaccessible until the suspension is lifted (see Privacy Policy and Terms).
  • Terminate your account.
  • Report illegal activity to the relevant authorities.
  • Take any other action permitted by the Terms or applicable law.

We try to act proportionately. We will tell you why we acted, except where doing so would compromise an investigation or be unlawful.

You can appeal an enforcement decision by writing to info@tryversus.app with your account email and the relevant share or debate IDs.

6. Reporting abuse and security issues

  • Abuse, harassment, takedown of a public share, or AUP violation: use the takedown form on the public share page (no account required) or write to info@tryversus.app.
  • Security vulnerability: write to info@tryversus.app with details and reproduction steps. Please don't publicly disclose until we've had a reasonable chance to fix it. We don't currently run a paid bug-bounty program, but we'll credit responsible disclosures publicly if you'd like.
  • Legal process (subpoena, court order): write to info@tryversus.app.

7. Changes

We may update this AUP. Material changes will be announced by email and the "Last updated" date at the top will change. Continued use after a change is acceptance.

8. Contact

Versus Quebec, Canada info@tryversus.app