Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describes permitted and prohibited uses of the Hyranse platform and services ("Service"), operated by Artashes Stepanyan Individual Entrepreneur (trading as Hyranse). This AUP supplements our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

By using the Service, you agree to comply with this AUP. Violation may result in suspension or termination of your account.

1. Permitted Use

You may use the Service only for legitimate professional recruitment and talent sourcing purposes, including:

• Identifying candidates for open job roles on behalf of your employer or clients;
• Building shortlists and evaluating professional fit for hiring decisions;
• Contacting candidates where you have a valid legal basis under applicable law;
• Exporting candidate information for internal recruitment workflows, within your plan limits;
• Using the Contact Finder browser extension only on supported individual profile pages you visit in the normal course of recruitment work.

2. Prohibited Use

You must not use the Service to:

• Conduct personal investigations, stalking, harassment, or surveillance unrelated to hiring;
• Resell, redistribute, sublicense, publish, or share candidate data or Service access with third parties outside your organisation;
• Scrape, crawl, copy, or systematically download data from the Service beyond your permitted usage;
• Use automated bots or scripts to access the Service except through our documented API within your plan limits;
• Train machine learning or AI models on candidate data obtained through the Service without our prior written consent;
• Send spam, bulk unsolicited messages, or marketing unrelated to a specific job opportunity;
• Discriminate against candidates on protected grounds or use the Service in violation of employment or anti-discrimination laws;
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the underlying source code, databases, or algorithms of the Service;
• Circumvent usage limits, access controls, or security measures;
• Violate the terms of any third-party platform when using information obtained through the Service;
• Process candidate data without a valid legal basis under applicable data protection law.

3. Customer Responsibilities for Candidate Data

When you access candidate information through the Service, you act as an independent data controller for your recruitment activities. You must:

• Ensure you have a lawful basis for processing and contacting candidates;
• Provide Article 14 privacy information to candidates where required;
• Respond to candidate rights requests you receive directly;
• Retain candidate data only as long as necessary for your recruitment purpose;
• Implement appropriate security measures for data you export or store locally.

4. API and Integration Use

If you use our API or MCP integration, you must:

• Keep API keys confidential and not embed them in public client-side code;
• Respect rate limits and credit allocations associated with your plan;
• Not expose candidate data through public endpoints without access controls;
• Use batch contact lookup endpoints only for profiles you identified through the Service for a recruitment shortlist, within your plan credits and documented limits;
• Use the API only for recruitment workflows described in our documentation.

5. Contact Finder Extension

The Contact Finder Chrome extension may only be used:

• On supported individual profile pages you visit in the normal course of recruitment;
• For revealing contact information to support legitimate hiring outreach;
• In compliance with applicable third-party platform terms and applicable law.

The extension must not be used to bulk-harvest profiles, automate browsing, or collect data unrelated to recruitment.

6. Enforcement

We may investigate suspected violations and take action including warnings, feature restrictions, suspension, or termination. We may report unlawful activity to relevant authorities where required.

7. Reporting Violations

To report a violation of this AUP, contact support@hyranse.com.

8. Changes

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

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