apublished

Acceptable Use Policy

apublished

Version 1.0 Last updated: 8 August 2026 Effective: 8 August 2026

1. Why this policy exists

apublished publishes your content to platforms we do not own, using developer access that those platforms can withdraw. One customer running a spam operation through the Service does not just harm the people receiving it. It gets our API access revoked, which takes every other customer offline with it.

This policy is therefore short on aspiration and specific about consequences. It forms part of the Terms of Service and applies to every user, every API key and every agent acting on your account. Breach of it is a material breach of the Terms.

Capitalised terms have the meaning given in the Terms.

2. The general rule

You must not use the Service to do anything that is illegal, that infringes someone else's rights, that breaches a platform's rules, or that you would not be willing to have attributed to you by name.

You are responsible for content published through your account, whether a human or an agent composed it.

3. Content you must not publish

You must not use the Service to publish, schedule, store or transmit content that:

Is unlawful. Content that breaches any applicable law, including Swiss law, the law where you are established and the law where the audience is.

Sexualises or endangers children. Child sexual abuse material of any kind, in any form, real or generated. Content that sexualises a minor. Content that grooms, solicits or facilitates contact with a minor. We report this to the competent authorities and terminate the account immediately, without notice and without refund.

Incites violence or terror. Content that incites, glorifies, organises or provides material support for terrorism, violent extremism or mass violence, or that threatens a specific person or group.

Is hateful. Content attacking or dehumanising people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, disease, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status or another protected characteristic.

Harasses. Targeted abuse, stalking, doxxing, publication of a person's home address, private phone number, identity documents, financial details or intimate images without consent.

Is non-consensual intimate imagery, or sexual content depicting a person who has not consented to its distribution.

Deceives about identity. Impersonation of a person, brand, public figure or organisation, or content presented as coming from someone it does not come from.

Defrauds. Financial scams, phishing, fake giveaways, pyramid or Ponzi schemes, fake investment or crypto promotions, counterfeit goods, deceptive claims about health, income or outcomes.

Infringes third-party rights. Copyright, trademark, database rights, image rights, privacy rights or trade secrets that you do not hold and are not licensed to use. This includes music, footage and stock material used outside its licence terms.

Is deceptive synthetic media. Media generated or materially altered by machine that depicts a real person saying or doing something they did not, or depicts a real event that did not happen, presented as authentic. Synthetic media that is clearly labelled and not deceptive is allowed, subject to Section 6.

Is malware or a security payload. Viruses, worms, exploits, links to malicious downloads, or content designed to compromise a reader's device or account.

Breaches the receiving platform's content rules, even where it would be lawful and would be permitted by this policy.

4. Conduct that is prohibited

You must not:

Spam. Publish repetitive, duplicated or near-duplicated content across accounts, publish at a volume or frequency intended to saturate a feed, or use the Service for unsolicited bulk outreach.

Operate inauthentic accounts. Publish through accounts that misrepresent who is behind them, run networks of accounts that coordinate to appear independent, or use accounts obtained by purchase, rental or credential compromise.

Farm or manipulate engagement. Use the Service as part of any scheme to buy, sell, exchange or artificially inflate followers, views, likes, comments, shares or any other platform metric.

Publish to accounts you do not control. Connect a channel you neither own nor are authorised to manage, or continue publishing to a channel after that authority ends.

Publish without the account holder's consent. Several platforms require the account holder's specific, express consent before content is published on their behalf. You must obtain it. Section 6 sets out what this means operationally.

Scrape, resell or enrich platform data. Extract data from a platform through the Service beyond what you need to publish, export platform data out of the Service, combine it with other data to build or supplement profiles, leads or reference tables, or sell, license or otherwise transfer it. LinkedIn data in particular may not be used for advertising, sales, recruiting, prospect identification, lead enrichment, CRM enrichment, audience building or ad targeting.

Use the Service for surveillance. Monitoring of individuals or groups, including by or for law enforcement or intelligence purposes, without a lawful basis and the platform's permission.

Make eligibility decisions with platform data. Decisions about employment, housing, insurance, credit, education or a similar benefit.

Interfere with the Service. Probe, scan or test its security without our prior written permission; circumvent rate limits, quotas, plan limits or validation; attempt to access another tenant's data; interfere with another customer's use; or apply load designed to degrade the Service.

Abuse the webhook and media features. Point a webhook at an internal, private or metadata address, use webhook delivery or server-side media fetching to reach systems you are not entitled to reach, or use our storage as a general purpose file host or CDN unrelated to publication.

Resell the Service except under a written reseller or partner agreement with us, or provide the Service to a third party in a way that hides that apublished is the underlying provider from the platforms.

Evade enforcement. Create a new account, tenant or API key to get around a suspension or termination.

Misrepresent the platforms. Imply that apublished, or your product built on it, is affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any platform, or use a platform's name or logo in breach of its brand guidelines. Note in particular that Google prohibits the use of "YouTube", "YT" or any variant in a product's name.

5. Publishing on behalf of others

If you publish for clients, as an agency or as an embedded feature of your own product, you must:

You remain responsible to us for everything published through your account, including by your clients.

The Service is built to be driven by software. That is the product. It does not remove the consent requirements that the platforms impose, and those requirements limit how autonomous a workflow can be.

You must ensure that each publication is covered by the account holder's consent, in the form the receiving platform requires. As at the date of this policy:

The practical consequence: a workflow in which an agent decides, composes and publishes with no human confirmation is not compliant on YouTube, Meta or TikTok as those policies currently stand. A confirmation step, or a schedule the account holder has specifically and expressly approved with visibility of what will go out, is required. Building that step is your responsibility, not ours, because it sits in your product, not in ours.

You must also:

We may throttle, queue or refuse requests that would breach a platform limit, and we may refuse to publish content whose pattern indicates automated spam.

If you believe content published through the Service infringes your copyright or another right, write to abuse@apublished.com with:

We will assess the notice, and may remove content from our systems, cancel pending publications, disable a channel or suspend an account. We will pass the notice to the customer concerned unless the law prevents it, and they may respond. Repeat infringers are terminated.

Content that has already been published sits on the platform, not with us, and only the platform can remove it there. Send the platform its own notice as well.

8. How we enforce this

Where we identify a breach, or have a reasonable belief that one is occurring, we may take any of the following steps, in any order and with or without prior notice depending on the severity and urgency:

  1. contact you and ask for an explanation or a fix;
  2. throttle or suspend API access, or pause a channel;
  3. cancel pending targets;
  4. remove or quarantine content in our systems;
  5. suspend or terminate the account;
  6. report the matter to the affected platform, to a rights holder or to a competent authority.

We aim to be proportionate, and where the breach is capable of being cured without ongoing harm we will normally give you notice and an opportunity to cure. We do not give notice first where the content is illegal, where there is a risk of imminent harm, where a platform requires immediate action, or where notice would frustrate the response.

Termination for a breach of this policy does not entitle you to a refund of fees paid for the remainder of the term.

You may appeal an enforcement decision by writing to legal@apublished.com. Tell us what you think we got wrong. We will review it and reply.

9. Reporting abuse

To report content or conduct that breaches this policy: abuse@apublished.com.

To report a security vulnerability in the Service: security@apublished.com. Please give us a reasonable period to fix an issue before disclosing it. We will not pursue legal action against researchers who act in good faith, stay within the scope of their own test account, do not access other customers' data, and do not degrade the Service.

10. Changes

We may update this policy, including to reflect changes the platforms make to their own rules. Material changes are notified as described in Section 22 of the Terms of Service. Changes required by a platform or by law may take effect immediately.