Acceptable Use

Acceptable Use Policy

Effective September 9, 2026 · Last updated September 9, 2026

Argumont is designed to support legitimate analysis and decision-making. You may not use the service in ways that unlawfully harm people, compromise systems, violate privacy or rights, bypass safeguards, or turn analytical output into prohibited autonomous authority.

1. Follow the law

You may not use Argumont to violate applicable law or facilitate another person's violation of law.

2. Respect other people's rights

You may not use Argumont to infringe intellectual-property rights, violate contractual confidentiality, harass or unlawfully threaten people, defame people through fabricated factual claims, impersonate another person deceptively, or submit private information you are not authorized to provide.

3. Protect privacy

You may not use Argumont to unlawfully collect, infer, monitor, profile, publish, or exploit another person's private or sensitive personal information.

You may not use the service to unlawfully infer protected characteristics or sensitive traits about individuals.

4. No discriminatory high-impact automation

Argumont must not be used as the sole or autonomous basis for Decisions that determine a person's eligibility, access, rights, or opportunities in high-impact areas such as employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, legal services, essential services, immigration, or law enforcement.

Where Argumont is used as decision support in a regulated area, legally required human review, professional responsibility, due process, and nondiscrimination obligations remain with the responsible person or organization.

5. No fraud or deception

You may not use Argumont to facilitate fraud, scams, phishing, identity theft, forged evidence, deceptive impersonation, money laundering, unlawful financial activity, or deliberate manipulation of another person through fabricated claims.

6. No malicious cyber activity

You may not use Argumont to gain unauthorized access to accounts, devices, applications, systems, or networks, deploy malware, steal credentials, exfiltrate data, evade security controls for malicious purposes, cause denial of service, damage systems, or conduct unauthorized security testing.

Legitimate defensive cybersecurity analysis must stay within systems and activities you are authorized to assess.

7. No exploitation or severe harm

You may not use Argumont to facilitate sexual exploitation of minors, non-consensual sexual exploitation, human trafficking, terrorism, credible violent wrongdoing, development or use of prohibited weapons, or other severe unlawful harm.

8. No manipulation of safeguards

You may not circumvent access controls, circumvent billing controls, evade Decision Credit limits, abuse free-account creation, interfere with service restrictions, attempt to extract secrets or credentials, use automation to overload the service, or reverse engineer protected service components except where applicable law expressly permits it.

9. Do not misrepresent analytical Output

Do not intentionally represent an Argumont Verdict, participant statement, generated evidence summary, or score as independently verified human professional judgment when it is not.

Do not remove context in a manner intended to deceive another person about what Argumont actually concluded.

10. Professional responsibility remains external

Argumont does not replace required professional judgment.

You remain responsible for ensuring that use in legal, financial, medical, employment, security, or other regulated contexts complies with applicable professional and legal obligations.

11. Enforcement

Argumont may restrict, suspend, or terminate access when reasonably necessary to enforce this Policy, protect users, protect third parties, protect the service, prevent fraud or abuse, respond to security threats, or comply with law.

Enforcement should be proportionate where circumstances permit.

Serious threats may require immediate action.

12. Questions and appeals

If you believe enforcement occurred in error, contact hello@argumont.com.