ESOS IQ POLICY
Acceptable Use Policy
Rules that protect official-source integrity, users, governed work and fair plan limits.
Last updated 28 August 2026
1. Permitted use
- Lawful professional research using the features and quotas of the active plan.
- Source-informed exports and internal analysis that retain attribution and evidence limitations.
- Reasonable verification against official records and direct enquiries to relevant organisations.
2. Prohibited extraction and evasion
- Scraping, systematic extraction, sequential enumeration or reconstructing the full governed corpus.
- Creating duplicate accounts or identities to evade record, search, export or rate limits.
- Reselling access, sharing credentials, republishing the structured database or building a competing reconstruction.
- Circumventing authentication, row-level security, workspace isolation, custody, audit or other security controls.
3. Misrepresentation and unlawful use
- Do not claim that a declaration proves verified compliance, commercial intent, budget, procurement, implementation or project value.
- Do not remove source context, conceal anomalies or present ESOS IQ interpretation as an official government statement.
- Do not use the service for unlawful direct marketing, discrimination, malware, harassment, fraud or infringement.
4. Restrictions and appeals
Automated signals may impose a temporary safe restriction. Material suspensions, contested signals and appeals receive human review; a restriction does not silently delete retained work.
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