Legal

Acceptable Use Policy

In effect. See the effective date below.

Effective date: September 1, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs your use of the Repoify service. It is incorporated into the Terms of Service and is a material term of that agreement. Violating this AUP is a material breach and may result in immediate suspension or termination.

This AUP exists for a reason worth stating: the people Repoify surfaces are real engineers who did not ask to be contacted. Treating them well is both the right thing and the thing that keeps this product viable.

1. You are the sender

Repoify provides tooling. You decide who to contact, what to say, and why. For every message you send through the Service, you are the sender under applicable law, and you carry the sender's obligations.

You must comply with all laws applicable to your use of the Service, including without limitation:

  • CAN-SPAM Act (US commercial email)
  • Telephone Consumer Protection Act (US calls and text messages)
  • Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, and all other anti-discrimination law
  • Any state or municipal law governing automated employment decision tools, including bias-audit and candidate-notice requirements
  • Any US state privacy law applicable to you

The Service sources US-based developers and is offered to US-based customers. If your use would take you outside that scope, stop and contact us first.

You must obtain any consent the law requires for the channel you use, and you must be able to demonstrate your lawful basis for your outreach if asked. What the law requires differs by channel and by jurisdiction, and calls and text messages are commonly subject to stricter rules than email, including under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Which rules apply to your outreach is your determination to make. Nothing in this policy is legal advice, and you should not rely on it to tell you when consent is required.

What the Service is built around is the opt-out obligation: every message it sends carries a working way to stop and the postal address you gave us, and an opt-out recorded through that mechanism stops all further contact. Sections 3 and 4 below say how. That is a description of how the product behaves, not a view on what any particular message requires of you.

3. Outreach requirements

Every commercial message you send through the Service must:

  1. Include a functioning opt-out mechanism that is clear, conspicuous, and free to use. The Service adds one to every message it sends and honours it automatically, platform-wide and permanently: an opt-out from any customer's message stops every customer, and it is never expired or purged. You must not remove or defeat it;
  2. Include a valid physical postal address. The Service inserts the address YOU give us into every message, and cannot judge whether it is complete or current. Supplying a full postal address, and keeping it accurate, is your obligation and not something the Service can do for you. You must not remove or defeat it;
  3. Use accurate and non-deceptive headers, sender names, and subject lines;
  4. Identify itself as a recruiting or commercial message, and not misrepresent your identity, your employer, or the role;
  5. Be relevant to the recipient's professional role.

You must honour every opt-out request within ten (10) business days, and you must not transfer, sell, or reuse the address of anyone who has opted out.

4. Prohibited conduct

You must not:

Toward individuals

  • Harass, threaten, stalk, demean, or repeatedly contact anyone who has asked you to stop
  • Contact anyone about anything other than a genuine professional opportunity
  • Contact an individual using information you obtained from the Service for a purpose unrelated to recruiting
  • Attempt to identify, locate, or contact an individual at a personal address, personal phone number, or personal social account obtained outside the Service
  • Contact anyone who has appeared on a suppression or do-not-contact list

With the data

  • Export, resell, license, sublicense, or redistribute information obtained from the Service to any third party
  • Use the Service to build, train, or enrich a competing database or product
  • Scrape, crawl, or systematically extract data from the Service by automated means
  • Combine Service data with other datasets to build profiles of individuals

In hiring

  • Use the Service, or any output of it, to discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic
  • Use the Service, or any Output, as a factor in establishing any individual's eligibility for employment, promotion, retention, or compensation, or to take any adverse action against any individual
  • Use the Service as a background check, reference check, employment screening, or candidate assessment, or as a substitute for or supplement to any of them
  • Request from the Service, or attempt to elicit from it, any assessment, rating, or characterisation of an individual's ability, character, qualifications, or fitness for a role
  • Use the Service to screen for or infer protected characteristics
  • Treat any AI-generated output of the Service - a match strength, a relevance ranking, a repository description or summary, or a drafted message - as an assessment, score, rating, or recommendation about a person. It is a statement about published work and its relationship to the search you typed, and our Terms and Privacy Policy say the same. Presenting it to anyone as an evaluation of an individual, including inside your own organisation, is a violation of this AUP
  • Use the Service, or any Output, as an automated employment decision tool, or as an input to one

Against the Service

  • Share your seat, or allow anyone other than the named user to access it
  • Circumvent rate limits, quotas, credit accounting, or access controls
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code or models
  • Probe, scan, or test the security of the Service without our prior written permission
  • Use the Service to transmit malware, or for any unlawful purpose

5. Volume and automation

Use must be consistent with normal individual professional use. We may apply rate limits and quotas. Automated or scripted access outside our published interfaces is prohibited. Bulk outreach must remain individually relevant; blasting identical messages to large undifferentiated lists is a violation of this AUP regardless of volume limits.

6. Third-party platform terms, and why resale is the line

Information in the Service is sourced in part from third-party platforms, including GitHub. Your use of that information must comply with the terms of the platform it came from, in addition to this AUP. You are responsible for familiarizing yourself with those terms.

One prohibition in Section 4 deserves saying twice, because it is the one that can end the Service for everyone rather than only for the customer who breaks it.

You must not sell, resell, license, transfer, or otherwise make available to any third party the personal information of any individual obtained through the Service, and you must not use it to build, populate, enrich, or improve any contact database, list, or product offered to anyone else. This applies whether or not money changes hands, and whether the information moves in bulk or one record at a time.

The platforms this information comes from prohibit the onward sale of their users' personal information, naming recruiters and job boards specifically. That prohibition binds us, and through this AUP it binds you. A customer who resells the data does not merely breach this agreement: they put the source access the entire Service depends on at risk, for every other customer.

We treat a breach of this section as material, and it is one of the cases where we will suspend immediately and without notice under Section 7.

7. Reporting and enforcement

Report suspected violations, or conduct by a Repoify customer that affects you, to dev@repoify.com. If you are an individual who has been contacted through Repoify and want to be removed, use https://repoify.com/do-not-contact.

We may investigate suspected violations and may access account content to the extent necessary to do so. We may suspend or terminate access immediately and without notice where we reasonably believe a violation has occurred or where continued use creates legal risk. We may report unlawful conduct to authorities.

We are not obligated to monitor, and our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

8. Changes

We may update this AUP. Material changes take effect thirty (30) days after notice, except changes required by law or to address an active threat, which take effect immediately.

Contact: Repoify, Inc., 1000 Brickell Plaza, Unit 3011, Miami, FL 33131, dev@repoify.com.

Questions about this document: dev@repoify.com.