AI Usage Policy
This AI Usage Policy explains the rules and requirements governing the use of artificial intelligence features provided through Asiyst. Asiyst provides AI-powered functionality that may allow users and developers to generate content, process information, interact with AI assistants and avatars, connect knowledge sources, and build AI-powered applications. By using Asiyst AI functionality, you agree to use these capabilities responsibly, lawfully, and in accordance with this policy, the Asiyst Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy, and other applicable policies.
1. Scope
This policy applies to AI functionality made available through Asiyst, including, where applicable:
- AI assistants.
- AI avatars.
- Conversational AI.
- AI-powered website functionality.
- AI APIs.
- AI SDK functionality.
- AI CLI functionality.
- AI content generation.
- AI-powered knowledge retrieval.
- AI application integrations.
- Customer-configured AI systems.
- Third-party AI model integrations.
- Other AI or machine-learning functionality provided through the Services.
The specific AI capabilities available to you depend on your account, configuration, plan, enabled features, and applicable Service.
2. Permitted Use
You may use Asiyst AI functionality for lawful purposes and legitimate business, personal, educational, development, research, or other authorized activities.
Your use must comply with:
- Applicable laws and regulations.
- The Asiyst Terms of Service.
- This AI Usage Policy.
- The Asiyst Acceptable Use Policy.
- Applicable privacy and data-protection requirements.
- Third-party provider terms where applicable.
- Any technical restrictions or usage limits applicable to the Service.
You are responsible for determining whether your intended use is legally and contractually permitted.
3. Prohibited Uses
You must not use Asiyst AI functionality to facilitate, encourage, or materially assist unlawful activity.
Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, the activities described below.
3.1 Illegal Activities
You may not use Asiyst AI functionality to:
- Facilitate criminal activity.
- Circumvent applicable laws or regulations.
- Create tools intended to facilitate unlawful activity.
- Provide assistance for activities that are prohibited by applicable law.
- Evade lawful restrictions or enforcement mechanisms.
3.2 Fraud and Deception
You may not use Asiyst AI functionality to:
- Conduct fraud or scams.
- Facilitate phishing.
- Create deceptive communications intended to obtain credentials or sensitive information.
- Impersonate another person or organization in a misleading manner.
- Create fraudulent records, credentials, or documents.
- Misrepresent AI-generated content as verified human-authored information where doing so would be deceptive or unlawful.
3.3 Unauthorized Access
You may not use Asiyst AI functionality to:
- Gain unauthorized access to systems or accounts.
- Obtain credentials without authorization.
- Circumvent authentication systems.
- Circumvent authorization controls.
- Exploit vulnerabilities without authorization.
- Access another person's private information without authorization.
- Facilitate unauthorized intrusion into networks, applications, devices, or services.
3.4 Malware and Malicious Software
You may not use Asiyst to create, distribute, deploy, or facilitate malicious software intended to compromise systems or data, including:
- Ransomware.
- Spyware.
- Viruses.
- Worms.
- Credential-stealing malware.
- Destructive software.
- Other malicious software.
Legitimate security research, defensive development, educational activity, and authorized testing may be permitted where conducted within applicable legal and authorization boundaries.
3.5 Security Attacks
You may not use Asiyst to conduct or facilitate:
- Denial-of-service attacks.
- Distributed denial-of-service attacks.
- Unauthorized penetration testing.
- Credential attacks.
- Exploitation of third-party systems.
- Unauthorized vulnerability exploitation.
- Attempts to disrupt or degrade another service.
Security testing of Asiyst infrastructure must be conducted only through an authorized security-testing or vulnerability-reporting process.
4. Harmful or Abusive Activities
You may not use Asiyst AI functionality to meaningfully facilitate serious physical harm, exploitation, or abuse.
This includes using the Services to facilitate:
- Violent wrongdoing.
- Exploitation of people.
- Human trafficking.
- Sexual exploitation.
- Sexual abuse of minors.
- Non-consensual sexual imagery.
- Other serious forms of abuse.
Lawful discussion, education, journalism, research, or analysis concerning harmful subjects is not automatically prohibited where the activity does not facilitate prohibited conduct.
5. Personal Data and Privacy
You are responsible for ensuring that you have the appropriate authorization to submit personal information to an AI system.
You must not use Asiyst to:
- Obtain personal information without authorization.
- Expose another person's private information.
- Circumvent privacy protections.
- Conduct unauthorized surveillance.
- Process personal information unlawfully.
- Collect sensitive information without an appropriate legal basis or authorization.
Where required, you should provide appropriate privacy notices and obtain applicable consent or other legal authorization.
6. Sensitive and Confidential Information
You should exercise caution when submitting sensitive or confidential information to AI functionality.
Unless the relevant Service expressly supports the applicable use case, you should not submit:
- Passwords.
- API keys.
- Authentication credentials.
- Private encryption keys.
- Financial account credentials.
- Highly sensitive personal information.
- Confidential information belonging to another organization.
- Information you are contractually prohibited from processing through an AI service.
You are responsible for determining whether information is appropriate to submit.
7. Intellectual Property
You must have appropriate rights or authorization to submit content to Asiyst and to use content generated or processed through the Services.
You must not knowingly use Asiyst to:
- Infringe copyrights.
- Infringe trademarks.
- Infringe patents.
- Misappropriate trade secrets.
- Circumvent intellectual-property protections.
- Distribute protected material without appropriate authorization.
AI-generated content does not automatically grant you ownership of third-party material that may appear in an AI response.
You are responsible for reviewing AI output for potential intellectual-property issues before publishing or commercially using it.
8. Spam and Unsolicited Communications
You may not use Asiyst AI functionality to generate or facilitate unlawful spam, phishing campaigns, or deceptive mass communications.
This includes using AI to:
- Generate phishing messages.
- Harvest credentials.
- Circumvent spam controls.
- Automate deceptive communications.
- Distribute unsolicited communications in violation of applicable laws.
9. Automated Decision-Making
AI functionality may produce recommendations, classifications, or other automated outputs.
You are responsible for determining whether your use of such output creates obligations under applicable laws or regulations.
You should apply appropriate human oversight when AI output is used in decisions that may significantly affect individuals.
Examples may include decisions concerning:
- Employment.
- Credit.
- Housing.
- Education.
- Insurance.
- Access to essential services.
- Other legally protected or consequential decisions.
10. High-Impact Uses
You should not rely solely on AI-generated output for high-impact decisions without appropriate human review, verification, and safeguards.
Where you use Asiyst to support a consequential process, you are responsible for establishing appropriate controls for accuracy, fairness, security, accountability, and legal compliance.
11. AI-Generated Content
AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading.
You are responsible for reviewing output before using it in circumstances where accuracy is important.
You should not represent AI-generated information as independently verified when it has not been verified.
12. AI Assistants and Avatars
Asiyst may provide AI assistants and avatars that communicate with users.
If you deploy an AI assistant or avatar to your own users, you are responsible for configuring and presenting it appropriately.
Where appropriate, users should be informed that they are interacting with an AI system rather than a human.
You must not intentionally design an AI assistant to deceptively impersonate a real person or organization in a misleading manner.
13. Customer-Built Applications
If you use Asiyst to create or operate an AI-powered application, you are responsible for the application and its users.
You are responsible for:
- Your application's functionality.
- Your instructions and configurations.
- Your knowledge sources.
- Your user permissions.
- Your data-processing practices.
- Your third-party integrations.
- Your AI provider configuration.
- Your security controls.
- Your legal compliance.
- Your disclosures to users.
Asiyst does not assume responsibility for the legality or appropriateness of an application merely because it uses Asiyst technology.
14. Knowledge Sources
Where Asiyst allows you to connect websites, documents, databases, or other knowledge sources, you must have appropriate rights and authorization to use those sources.
You must not intentionally provide knowledge sources containing unlawfully obtained or unauthorized information.
You are responsible for reviewing the accuracy and appropriateness of information provided to your AI system.
15. Third-Party AI Providers
If you connect or use a third-party AI provider through Asiyst, you must comply with that provider's applicable terms and restrictions.
Third-party providers may impose additional requirements concerning:
- Permitted use.
- Content.
- Data processing.
- Rate limits.
- Model usage.
- Security.
- Retention.
- Training.
- Geographic availability.
Where third-party restrictions are stricter than this policy, you remain responsible for complying with those restrictions.
16. API and Automation Abuse
You may not use Asiyst AI APIs or automation functionality to:
- Circumvent rate limits.
- Generate excessive automated traffic.
- Overload infrastructure.
- Evade usage restrictions.
- Create abusive automated accounts.
- Rotate credentials to avoid enforcement.
- Interfere with other customers' use of the Services.
Asiyst may apply technical limits to protect system availability and reliability.
17. Account and Credential Abuse
You must not:
- Use another person's account without authorization.
- Share credentials in violation of applicable account restrictions.
- Sell or distribute Asiyst API credentials without authorization.
- Use compromised credentials.
- Create accounts for fraudulent purposes.
- Use multiple accounts to evade restrictions.
- Attempt to bypass account suspension or termination.
You are responsible for protecting your account and authentication credentials.
18. Security Research
Security research involving Asiyst systems must be conducted only where expressly authorized.
You should not perform unauthorized:
- Vulnerability scanning.
- Penetration testing.
- Exploitation.
- Credential testing.
- Denial-of-service testing.
- Security probing.
If you discover a security vulnerability, report it through the appropriate Asiyst security contact or vulnerability-reporting process.
19. AI Output and Third-Party Rights
AI output may contain information, expressions, or references that resemble existing third-party material.
You are responsible for determining whether output can legally be used for your intended purpose.
Asiyst does not guarantee that AI-generated content is free from third-party rights or restrictions.
20. Monitoring and Abuse Prevention
Asiyst may use reasonable technical and administrative measures to detect and prevent misuse of AI functionality.
These measures may include:
- Automated abuse detection.
- Security monitoring.
- Rate limiting.
- Request restrictions.
- Account restrictions.
- API-key restrictions.
- Content or request filtering.
- Investigation of suspected violations.
Monitoring is intended to protect the Services, users, third parties, and infrastructure.
21. Enforcement
If Asiyst reasonably determines that AI functionality is being misused or that this policy may have been violated, Asiyst may take appropriate action.
Actions may include:
- Warning the user.
- Restricting specific functionality.
- Applying rate limits.
- Blocking specific requests.
- Revoking API credentials.
- Suspending an account.
- Restricting an application.
- Terminating access to the Services.
- Taking other measures reasonably necessary to protect the Services or comply with law.
Where appropriate, Asiyst may also cooperate with lawful requests from authorities.
22. Reporting Violations
If you believe Asiyst AI functionality is being used in violation of this policy, you may report the activity to Asiyst.
Reports should include sufficient information to allow Asiyst to understand and investigate the issue.
You should not intentionally expose another person's private information when submitting a report.
23. Changes to This Policy
Asiyst may update this AI Usage Policy as its AI functionality, technology, providers, legal requirements, or security practices change.
The current version published by Asiyst will apply to your use of the Services.
24. Contact
For questions regarding this AI Usage Policy, contact:
Asiyst Website: https://asiyst.com Email: support@asiyst.com