This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs how you may access and use Dark Web Informer, including our website, threat feed, ransomware feed, screenshots, API, exports, alerts, notifications, and related services.

By accessing or using Dark Web Informer, you agree to comply with this AUP, our Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, and any additional rules shown inside the Service.

Dark Web Informer collects, analyzes, curates, and republishes cyber threat intelligence from publicly available Dark Web, Deep Web, and Surface Web sources. The Service may include references to threat actors, ransomware victims, leak sites, forums, exposed data claims, indicators of compromise, screenshots, and related security information.

This information is provided to help researchers, defenders, organizations, journalists, and security teams understand and respond to cyber threats. Access to this information does not grant permission to engage with threat actors, target victims, misuse exposed data, or access third-party systems without authorization.

You may use Dark Web Informer for lawful and defensive purposes, including:

• Cybersecurity research, threat intelligence, and defensive monitoring
• Incident response, fraud investigation, brand protection, and risk assessment
• Monitoring mentions of your organization, domains, brands, assets, or customers
• Reviewing public threat actor claims for awareness, validation, and remediation planning
• Using indicators of compromise to protect systems, networks, users, and organizations
• Creating internal security reports, internal alerts, and internal triage workflows
• Journalistic, academic, or public-interest review of cyber threat activity, where lawful

Permitted use does not include redistribution, resale, bulk copying, public reposting of restricted material, or use that violates our Terms of Service, API rules, export limits, or commercial-use restrictions.

You may not use Dark Web Informer, or any information obtained from it, for unlawful, malicious, abusive, or unauthorized purposes. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

• Hacking, attempting unauthorized access, exploiting vulnerabilities, or disrupting any third-party system
• Credential stuffing, password spraying, phishing, account takeover, session hijacking, or identity theft
• Developing, deploying, distributing, purchasing, or operating malware, botnets, stealers, ransomware, or exploit kits
• Using the Service to locate, validate, trade, sell, or abuse credentials, tokens, cookies, session data, payment data, or personal information
• Contacting ransomware victims, breach victims, threat actors, sellers, forum users, or exposed individuals for harassment, solicitation, extortion, intimidation, or exploitation
• Facilitating extortion, blackmail, fraud, doxxing, stalking, swatting, harassment, or targeted abuse
• Attempting to deanonymize, identify, locate, or expose individuals except where lawful, necessary, and authorized for defensive security or legal purposes
• Using the Service to assist a threat actor, criminal marketplace, fraud operation, or sanctioned entity
• Uploading, sharing, requesting, distributing, or preserving child sexual abuse material or sexual exploitation content
• Using the Service to plan physical harm, violence, threats, unlawful surveillance, or intimidation
• Misrepresenting Dark Web Informer content as proof of compromise without verification or appropriate context

Dark Web Informer may display or reference Intelligence Data that originated from publicly available breach-related sources. You are responsible for handling that information lawfully, securely, and ethically.

You may not use Intelligence Data to harm affected individuals or organizations, validate stolen records for abuse, enrich fraud profiles, target victims, or expand the circulation of sensitive information beyond a lawful security need.

• Using exposed personal data for marketing, lead generation, spam, scams, fraud, harassment, or profiling
• Using exposed credentials, access tokens, cookies, API keys, or session artifacts to access accounts or systems
• Combining Intelligence Data with other datasets to identify, shame, threaten, or target affected people
• Publishing unredacted sensitive data obtained from the Service without a lawful basis and proper authorization
• Using breach-related data in a way that violates privacy, data protection, consumer protection, computer misuse, or cybercrime laws

You may not interfere with the operation, security, rate limits, access controls, or availability of Dark Web Informer.

• Bypassing authentication, paywalls, API keys, nonces, signatures, rate limits, export limits, screenshot protections, watermarking, or technical access controls
• Using bots, scrapers, spiders, crawlers, automated scripts, headless browsers, or bulk collection tools without written authorization
• Sharing, reselling, leasing, lending, or pooling accounts, sessions, cookies, API keys, or access tokens
• Attempting to reverse engineer private APIs, hidden endpoints, signing logic, abuse controls, or screenshot delivery mechanisms
• Performing denial-of-service attacks, load testing, fuzzing, vulnerability scanning, or automated probing without written permission
• Using disposable, fraudulent, stolen, or misleading account information to evade restrictions or enforcement

We may monitor account, API, export, and access activity for abuse prevention, fraud detection, rate-limit enforcement, and service security.

API access, data exports, screenshots, RSS-like feeds, structured intelligence formats, and automated alerting are subject to operational limits and the restrictions in our Terms of Service.

• API keys must be kept confidential and may not be shared or embedded in public code
• Exports may be used only within the scope allowed by your subscription and our Terms
• Automated workflows must respect rate limits, quotas, authentication controls, and scope restrictions
• Bulk replication, database mirroring, resale, sublicensing, or redistribution requires written permission

You may not use repeated exports, screenshots, API calls, or automated collection to assemble a bulk copy of the Service or create a competing dataset, feed, product, or service.

The Service may include screenshots, references, URLs, onion addresses, external links, or descriptions of third-party threat actor infrastructure. These materials are provided for research and defensive awareness.

• Using screenshots or references to access, purchase, download, distribute, or exploit stolen data
• Using external threat actor links to engage in criminal activity or unauthorized access
• Removing or obscuring Dark Web Informer watermarks, attribution, or context from screenshots
• Republishing screenshots in a misleading way or using them to impersonate Dark Web Informer
• Using screenshot OCR or extracted indicators as a substitute for independent verification

External links and threat actor sources may be dangerous, deceptive, illegal, or malicious. You access any third-party source entirely at your own risk.

You are responsible for all activity under your account, subscription, API keys, and sessions.

• Use strong account security and keep login credentials private
• Immediately notify us if you suspect unauthorized access or API key compromise
• Do not share single-user accounts with teams, clients, contractors, or third parties
• Do not create or use multiple accounts to evade bans, limits, billing restrictions, or enforcement

Enterprise, team, resale, managed-service, or commercial redistribution use requires written authorization or an appropriate plan.

You may not use Dark Web Informer if doing so would violate sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering rules, anti-terrorism laws, or other applicable legal restrictions.

• Using the Service on behalf of a sanctioned person, sanctioned organization, or prohibited jurisdiction
• Using the Service to facilitate payments to threat actors, ransomware groups, sanctioned entities, or criminal marketplaces
• Using the Service in a manner that supports terrorism, organized crime, trafficking, weapons proliferation, or other unlawful activity
• Misusing the Service for government surveillance, unlawful targeting, or civil-rights abuses

We may restrict or terminate access where we believe use of the Service creates legal, safety, sanctions, abuse, or platform-integrity risk.

If you believe Dark Web Informer is being misused, or if you need to report CSAM, impersonation, exposed private data, malware links, unlawful content, or abuse involving our Service, contact us promptly.

• legal [at] darkwebinformer [dot] com
• https://darkwebinformer.com/transparency/

Reports should include the relevant URL, a clear description of the issue, supporting evidence, your contact information, and any legal basis for the request. False, abusive, fraudulent, or bad-faith reports may be ignored or logged in our Transparency Report.

We may investigate suspected violations of this AUP and take any action we believe is necessary to protect Dark Web Informer, our users, affected third parties, and the public.

• Warning, throttling, rate limiting, or access restriction
• Suspension or termination of accounts, API keys, subscriptions, sessions, or exports
• Removal or disabling of content, links, screenshots, or features
• Refusal of service, payment rejection, or cancellation of future access
• Referral to payment processors, infrastructure providers, law enforcement, or affected third parties where appropriate

This AUP is incorporated into and supplements our Terms of Service. If this AUP conflicts with the Terms of Service, the more restrictive provision will apply unless we state otherwise in writing.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we process Subscriber Data and certain operational information. Our Transparency Report explains how we review takedown requests, legal requests, and complaint-driven removal demands.

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy at any time. The current version will be posted on our website with an updated effective date. Continued use of Dark Web Informer after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If you do not agree with this AUP, you must stop using the Service.