Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose and Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) governs the acceptable use of NFC Vault, available at https://www.nfcvault.com/, including its cloud storage, file sharing, synchronization, collaboration, backup, account management, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

This Policy applies to all customers, account holders, organization administrators, authorized users, and anyone who accesses or uses the Service.

The purpose of this Policy is to protect the security, reliability, availability, and lawful use of NFC Vault for all customers.

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to comply with this Policy, our Terms and Conditions, and applicable laws.

2. General Requirements

You may use NFC Vault only for lawful, authorized, and legitimate purposes.

You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Service, including activities conducted through your account and by users you authorize, complies with this Policy.

You must not use NFC Vault in a way that:

• Violates applicable laws or regulations.
• Infringes another person's intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, or other legal rights.
• Threatens the security, integrity, or availability of the Service.
• Harms, deceives, or unlawfully exploits other people or organizations.
• Interferes with another customer's use of the Service.
• Circumvents technical restrictions, subscription limits, or access controls.
• Creates unreasonable operational, legal, or security risks for NFC Vault or its customers.

3. Prohibited Content

You must not upload, store, transmit, share, distribute, or otherwise make available through NFC Vault any content that is unlawful or that violates this Policy.

Prohibited content includes, but is not limited to:

3.1 Illegal Content

Content whose possession, creation, distribution, or transmission is unlawful under applicable law.

3.2 Intellectual Property Infringement

Content that infringes copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, or other intellectual property rights, including unauthorized distribution of protected software, media, documents, or commercial materials.

3.3 Malicious Files and Code

Files, scripts, programs, links, or other materials designed to damage systems, compromise accounts, steal information, evade security controls, or disrupt services. Examples include ransomware, viruses, spyware, credential-stealing tools, and malicious payloads.

3.4 Fraudulent or Deceptive Material

Content used to conduct phishing, impersonation, identity theft, financial fraud, scams, or other deceptive or unlawful activities.

3.5 Abusive or Exploitative Material

Content involving unlawful exploitation, threats, targeted harassment, or other material whose storage or distribution is prohibited by applicable law.

3.6 Unauthorized Confidential Information

Personal data, confidential business information, credentials, trade secrets, or other restricted information that you do not have the right or authorization to store or share.

You are responsible for ensuring that the content you upload and the manner in which you use it comply with applicable law and third-party rights.

4. Security and Unauthorized Access

You must not use NFC Vault to compromise or attempt to compromise the security of any account, system, network, application, or infrastructure.

Prohibited activities include:

• Attempting to access accounts, files, folders, or systems without authorization.
• Guessing, stealing, sharing, or misusing another person's credentials.
• Bypassing authentication, authorization, or access-control mechanisms.
• Conducting unauthorized vulnerability scans, penetration tests, or security assessments against the Service.
• Exploiting software vulnerabilities or security weaknesses.
• Interfering with security logging, monitoring, or protective controls.
• Using the Service to distribute stolen credentials or facilitate unauthorized access to third-party systems.
• Attempting to gain access to another customer's data or environment.

Security testing may be conducted only with our prior written authorization and within the scope and conditions we approve.

If you discover a potential vulnerability affecting NFC Vault, notify us through our official support contact rather than exploiting it or accessing information that does not belong to you.

5. Malware, Phishing, and Abuse

You must not use NFC Vault to create, host, store, transmit, or distribute materials intended to facilitate cybercrime or malicious activity.

This includes:

• Hosting or distributing malware or ransomware.
• Storing phishing kits, credential-harvesting pages, or fraudulent login pages.
• Distributing malicious attachments or harmful executable files.
• Hosting command-and-control infrastructure or files used to support unauthorized compromise.
• Using shared links to deceive recipients or deliver harmful content.
• Sending unsolicited or deceptive communications through Service features.
• Using the Service to coordinate attacks against individuals, organizations, or infrastructure.

We may investigate credible reports of malicious activity and take reasonable action to protect the Service, affected users, and third parties.

6. File Sharing and Access Permissions

NFC Vault may provide tools to share files and folders with other people or organizations.

You are responsible for managing sharing permissions and ensuring that shared content is accessible only to authorized recipients.

You must not:

• Make confidential or restricted information available to unauthorized people.
• Use public or broadly accessible links to distribute illegal or prohibited content.
• Use sharing features to facilitate fraud, harassment, phishing, or other abuse.
• Attempt to bypass another user's permissions or access restrictions.
• Deliberately expose another person's personal information without lawful authority.
• Continue sharing content after you learn that you no longer have the right to distribute it.

Where available, you should use the least-permissive access settings appropriate for your purpose and remove access when it is no longer needed.

If you are an organization administrator, you are responsible for establishing appropriate access policies for your organization's users.

7. Privacy and Personal Data

You must not use NFC Vault to collect, store, process, or share personal information unlawfully.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have an appropriate legal basis, permissions, and any required notices or consents before uploading or sharing personal information relating to other people.

You must not use the Service to:

• Distribute personal data obtained through unlawful means.
• Expose personal information in violation of privacy or confidentiality obligations.
• Store or distribute authentication secrets or sensitive records without appropriate authorization and safeguards.
• Use shared files or links to facilitate stalking, harassment, identity theft, or unlawful surveillance.

If you use NFC Vault for business or regulated data, you must assess whether the Service, your subscription, your configuration, and any applicable contractual arrangements meet your legal and operational requirements.

8. Prohibited System and Network Activities

You must not use NFC Vault in a way that places unreasonable load on the Service or interferes with its normal operation.

Prohibited activities include:

• Deliberately overwhelming the Service with excessive or abusive requests.
• Launching denial-of-service attacks or similar disruptive activity.
• Circumventing rate limits, quotas, storage allocations, or technical restrictions.
• Using unauthorized automation to create accounts, manipulate usage, or abuse Service functionality.
• Scraping, extracting, or harvesting data in violation of applicable terms or technical restrictions.
• Interfering with another customer's account, files, or service access.
• Attempting to disrupt our infrastructure or that of our hosting, connectivity, or service providers.
• Using the Service to relay, conceal, or coordinate unlawful network activity.

Automated or programmatic use is permitted only where supported by the Service and carried out in accordance with applicable technical limits and contractual terms.

9. Account Sharing and Subscription Abuse

You must comply with the account, user, storage, and usage limits associated with your subscription.

Unless expressly permitted by your plan or a separate written agreement, you must not:

• Share individual login credentials among multiple people where individual accounts are required.
• Exceed user or storage limits through unauthorized technical workarounds.
• Create accounts to evade suspension, termination, or usage restrictions.
• Resell, sublicense, or provide unauthorized third-party access to the Service.
• Misrepresent your identity, organization, subscription eligibility, or intended usage.
• Use free or trial access to circumvent payment obligations or subscription restrictions.

Organization administrators are responsible for managing authorized users, promptly removing access when users leave, and ensuring that organizational accounts are used in accordance with the applicable subscription.

10. High-Risk and Restricted Uses

You must not rely on NFC Vault for activities where a failure, interruption, loss of access, or data corruption could reasonably be expected to cause death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage, unless we have expressly agreed in writing to support that use and the necessary safeguards are in place.

Examples may include certain life-critical systems, emergency-response infrastructure, and safety-critical industrial control systems.

You are responsible for evaluating whether NFC Vault is suitable for your intended use. A feature's technical availability does not by itself mean that it has been designed, certified, or approved for a regulated or safety-critical purpose.

Additional restrictions may apply under your subscription, applicable law, or a separate written agreement.

11. Copyright and Intellectual Property Complaints

We respect intellectual property rights and expect customers to do the same.

If you believe that content stored or shared through NFC Vault infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, contact us with sufficient information for us to assess the complaint.

Where applicable, include:

• Your name and contact information.
• Identification of the protected work or right you believe has been infringed.
• Identification of the relevant file, shared link, or location, with enough detail for us to locate it.
• An explanation of the alleged infringement.
• Evidence that you own the relevant right or are authorized to act for the rights holder.
• Any additional information reasonably required to evaluate the complaint.

Send complaints to info@netforchoice.com, using the subject line “Intellectual Property Complaint.”

We may request additional information, restrict access to disputed content, notify the relevant account holder where appropriate, or take other action consistent with applicable law.

Knowingly submitting false or misleading complaints may have legal consequences.

12. Reporting Abuse or Security Incidents

If you believe that NFC Vault is being used for unlawful activity, malware distribution, phishing, unauthorized access, or another violation of this Policy, please contact us.

Abuse and security reports: info@netforchoice.com

Where possible, include:

• The relevant file, folder, or shared-link details.
• A description of the suspected violation.
• The approximate date and time of the activity.
• Any relevant supporting information that can help us investigate.

Do not include passwords, private encryption keys, or unnecessary sensitive personal information in your report.

We may ask for further details before taking action. Submitting a report does not guarantee that a particular outcome or timeline will apply.

13. Monitoring, Investigation, and Enforcement

To protect the Service, comply with legal obligations, and enforce this Policy, we may investigate credible reports and relevant indicators of suspected abuse.

Where technically available, contractually permitted, and legally appropriate, we may use security systems, abuse reports, access logs, metadata, malware-detection tools, and other proportionate measures to identify suspicious activity.

We do not promise to review every file or monitor all Customer Content continuously. The absence of detection or intervention does not constitute approval of prohibited activity.

Depending on the circumstances, we may:

• Request information or cooperation from the account holder.
• Issue a warning or require corrective action.
• Restrict access to a file, folder, shared link, or specific feature.
• Temporarily suspend an account or user.
• Disable access to content that presents a credible legal or security risk.
• Suspend or terminate the Service in accordance with our Terms and Conditions.
• Preserve or disclose relevant information where legally required or permitted.
• Notify appropriate authorities where required by law or reasonably necessary to address serious unlawful activity.

Where reasonably practicable and legally permitted, we will provide notice and an opportunity to resolve the issue before taking significant action. Immediate action may be necessary where there is an urgent security threat, serious abuse, or legal obligation.

We will seek to make enforcement decisions proportionate to the nature, severity, and recurrence of the violation.

14. Appeals and Review Requests

If you believe that we restricted or suspended your account, file, or sharing feature in error, you may contact our support team at info@netforchoice.com.

Please provide your account details, a description of the action taken, and the reasons you believe the action should be reviewed.

We may request additional information to verify your identity, assess the issue, or determine whether the reported activity violated this Policy.

We will review requests where reasonably practicable, subject to legal requirements, security considerations, and the need to protect other users.

A review request does not automatically restore access or suspend a restriction while the review is pending.

15. Responsibilities of Organization Administrators

If you administer an organizational NFC Vault account, you are responsible for taking reasonable steps to ensure that your users understand and comply with this Policy.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Granting access only to authorized users.
• Managing account permissions and shared links.
• Removing access when users no longer require it.
• Responding to suspected misuse by users under your administration.
• Maintaining appropriate internal security and data-handling procedures.
• Ensuring that your organization's use of the Service complies with applicable law and its contractual obligations.

These responsibilities apply in addition to any obligations set out in your subscription or separate written agreement.

16. Consequences of Violations

Violations of this Policy may result in one or more of the following actions, depending on the circumstances:

• A warning or request to correct the issue.
• Removal or restriction of access to prohibited content.
• Suspension of sharing links or specific functionality.
• Temporary suspension of an account.
• Termination of an account or subscription.
• Refusal of future access to the Service where lawful.
• Referral to law enforcement or relevant authorities where appropriate or legally required.

Any suspension, termination, payment consequences, or data-handling measures will be subject to our Terms and Conditions, applicable policies, written agreements, and mandatory law.

We will not interpret this Policy as granting unrestricted authority to access Customer Content or disclose customer information.

17. Relationship with Other Policies

This AUP supplements the NFC Vault Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Where applicable, customers may also be subject to a Refund and Cancellation Policy, Data Processing Agreement, Service Level Agreement, or other written service-specific agreement.

If there is a conflict between this Policy and a separately signed agreement, the signed agreement will govern to the extent specified in that agreement, subject to applicable law.

18. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP from time to time to reflect changes in the Service, security practices, legal requirements, or abuse-prevention measures.

We will update the “Last Updated” date when changes are made and take reasonable steps to notify customers of material changes where appropriate.

Your continued use of the Service after an updated Policy takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated terms only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

If you do not agree with an update, you should stop using the affected Service and review any cancellation rights available under your subscription terms.

19. Contact Information

For questions about this Acceptable Use Policy, or to report abuse or suspected security incidents, contact:

Service: NFC Vault / NetForChoice Vault

Website: https://www.nfcvault.com/

Email: info@netforchoice.com

Registered Address: A-86 | Area Block A, Sector 57, Noida, UP 201301

Please use the email subject line “Acceptable Use Policy” for general policy inquiries, “Abuse Report” for suspected misuse, or “Security Incident” for security-related concerns.