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Acceptable Use Policy

VALYU ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY (AUP)

Last updated: October 20 2025

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) applies to all access to and use of Valyu’s APIs, datasets, models, indexes, and related services (the “Services”).

By using the Services, you agree to comply with this AUP. Valyu may update this AUP at any time, and your continued use of the Services constitutes acceptance of the updated version.

1. Definitions

1.1 Restricted Partner Content

“Restricted Partner Content” means any content, data, metadata, text, images, tables, charts, figures, abstracts, summaries, references, or other materials made available through the Services that are licensed to Valyu by third-party rights holders (“Partners”, “Partner”), including publishers, data providers, aggregators, or research organisations, and that are subject to contractual use restrictions imposed by those Partners.

Restricted Partner Content includes, without limitation, Outputs, snippets, citations, metadata, summaries, extracted entities, or any other derived material that incorporate, reference, or are generated using such Partner-licensed content, whether provided directly by Valyu or surfaced through Valyu’s APIs.

2. General Principles

You may use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with this AUP, the Platform Service Agreement, and all endpoint-specific documentation.

You are responsible for all activity performed under your API keys.

3. Prohibited Uses

You may not use the Services to:

3.1. Illegal, Harmful, or Abusive Activity

  • break any applicable law or regulation
  • harm, threaten, or harass individuals
  • generate or distribute malware or security exploits
  • impersonate individuals or entities
  • access or use the Services in ways that could damage or impair Valyu systems

4. Content Restrictions

You may not use the Services to:

4.1. Circumvent Rights, Copyrights, or Licensing Restrictions

  • reproduce or redistribute copyrighted content
  • access content behind paywalls or access controls
  • store or display publisher content in ways not allowed by licensing
  • extract, store, or manipulate full-text articles from licensed sources
  • use the Services to access data you are not legally entitled to

4.2. Build, Recreate, or Compete with Datasets

You may not:

  • rebuild, replicate, or simulate any Valyu corpus, dataset, index, or scoring
  • join Outputs to reassemble source materials
  • scrape or bulk download data via high-volume search queries
  • perform “benchmark dumping” (large-scale exporting of output)

4.3. Use Outputs to Create Derived or Competitive Products

You may not:

  • develop search engines, RAG corpora, knowledge bases, embeddings, LLMs, datasets, indexes, or generative models that compete with Valyu
  • use Outputs as seeds for synthetic data that replicates licensed or indexed content
  • use Outputs to build evaluation datasets for model training without written permission

5. Model Training & Machine Learning Restrictions

This is a zero-tolerance category due to Partner obligations.

You may not, under any circumstances, use:

  • Outputs
  • Citations
  • Summaries
  • Metadata
  • extracted entities
  • annotations
  • (or any other content returned by Valyu)

For any machine-learning-related activity described below.

5.1. Prohibited Training, Fine-Tuning, Pre-Training, and Distillation

You may not use any Valyu content or publisher content to:

  • Train, fine-tune, pre-train, adapt, or calibrate any machine learning model
  • Train or update:

    1. Large Language Models
    2. (LLMs)Embedding or retrieval models
    3. Classifier or ranking models
    4. Evaluation or reward models
    5. Synthetic data generators
  • Perform model distillation, compression, imitation or behavioural replication

5.2. Prohibited Dataset Construction and Vectorisation

You may not:

  • embed Outputs into a vector store
  • create, augment, or curate datasets partially or wholly derived from Outputs
  • generate synthetic corpora seeded by Outputs
  • store Outputs or derivatives in structured or unstructured datasets
  • feed Outputs into agentic retraining loops, auto-labelling systes, or RL pipelines

5.3. Use Valyu Outputs in Model Evaluation Pipelines

(e.g., to test or tune the performance of your own models)

unless expressly authorised by Valyu in writing.

6. Caching, Retention & Storage Rules

6.1. Restricted Content (Partner / Licensed Sources)

You may not:

  • cache
  • store
  • retain
  • log
  • index
  • reformat
  • copy

any Restricted Content.

All Restricted Content must be discarded once the request completes.

6.2. Open Access (OA) & Open Web Content

You may temporarily cache Outputs only within the durations specified by Valyu’s Documentation.

You may not:

  • store Outputs indefinitely
  • store Outputs in volumes sufficient to recreate datasets
  • store large batches of outputs from related queries
  • store Outputs outside the permitted cache window

7. Automated Usage & Query Behaviour

You may not:

  • generate abusive query patterns (keyword enumeration, brute-force term scanning)
  • run high-volume queries intended to perform scraping or bulk extraction
  • use bots to obtain data at a scale that mimics crawling or harvesting
  • perform load testing without prior written approval
  • perform adversarial prompts designed to bypass licensing or content restrictions

Valyu may rate-limit, throttle, or block usage that appears harmful or potentially abusive.

8. Security Restrictions

You may not:

  • reverse engineer or attempt to extract Valyu’s models, indexes, embeddings, or scoring logic
  • probe, scan, or test the security of systems without authorisation
  • interfere with or disrupt the integrity of the Services
  • attempt to bypass geographical, licensing, or content-access restrictions

9. Misrepresentation & High-Risk Use Cases

You may not:

  • use Outputs as factual without verifying the underlying sources
  • provide medical, legal, financial, or regulatory advice based solely on Outputs
  • use Outputs in automated decision-making without adequate human oversight
  • misrepresent Valyu’s data as proprietary to your own organisation

10. Competing Use

You may not:

  • use the Services to build competing APIs, search layers, indexing systems, or retrieval infrastructures
  • benchmark Valyu for publication without written consent
  • use knowledge of Valyu’s performance or datasets to circumvent or replace the Services

11. Enforcement, Suspension & Termination

Valyu may:

  • suspend or terminate access immediately
  • revoke keys
  • block IPs
  • throttle usage
  • notify rights holders
  • take legal action

for any suspected or confirmed violation of this AUP.

We may also:

  • update this AUP at any time
  • change endpoint rules at any time
  • modify caching and retention policies without notice

12. Reporting Violations

To report misuse or compliance issues:

Valyu.Network Ltd
17 Hanover Square, London W1S 1BN, United Kingdom
Email: contact@valyu.ai