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Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: October 1, 2026

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Overview

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describes what you may and may not do when using QuietRiver. It forms part of our Terms of Service.

QuietRiver is a personal time, focus, and attention tracking tool. It is designed to help individuals understand their own work patterns. This policy ensures QuietRiver remains safe, legal, and aligned with that purpose.

Permitted Use

You may use QuietRiver to:

  • Track your own tasks, time blocks, and focus sessions
  • Record your own accomplishments, feelings, and reflections
  • Review your own productivity and attention patterns
  • Export or access your own data

Prohibited Activities

You must not use QuietRiver to:

Illegal Activity

  • Violate any applicable law or regulation
  • Engage in fraud, identity theft, or misrepresentation
  • Infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party

Harm to Others

  • Monitor, track, or record another person’s activity without their full knowledge and explicit consent
  • Use QuietRiver to surveil, coerce, harass, intimidate, or control another person
  • Use QuietRiver as an employee monitoring or performance tracking tool without disclosing this to employees and complying with applicable employment and data protection law

Important: QuietRiver is a personal tool. It is not designed for, and must not be used for, covert workplace monitoring or forced tracking of anyone’s activity. Any use of QuietRiver to monitor another person without their informed consent is prohibited.

Service Abuse

  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any other user’s account or data
  • Probe, scan, or test the security of QuietRiver’s systems without prior written authorization
  • Introduce malware, viruses, or other harmful code
  • Conduct denial-of-service attacks or attempts to overload our infrastructure
  • Scrape, crawl, or extract data from QuietRiver in bulk without written permission
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the QuietRiver application
  • Circumvent any security, access control, or rate limiting mechanism

Misuse of Data

  • Use another person’s QuietRiver data without their consent
  • Attempt to access, read, copy, or modify another user’s data
  • Use QuietRiver to collect personal data about third parties without a lawful basis

Responsible Disclosure

If you discover a security vulnerability in QuietRiver, please report it responsibly to: security@quietriver.app

Do not publicly disclose vulnerabilities before giving us a reasonable opportunity to investigate and respond.

Consequences of Violation

Violation of this policy may result in:

  • Immediate suspension or termination of your account
  • Removal of access without refund
  • Reporting to relevant authorities where illegal activity is involved

We reserve the right to investigate any suspected violation and to take appropriate action.

Contact

To report a concern or potential policy violation: support@quietriver.app