Acceptable Use and Platform Compliance Policy

1. Responsible use

You may not use Byline to create, approve, publish, send, store, or coordinate content or activity that is unlawful, deceptive, harmful, abusive, exploitative, infringing, invasive, or designed to evade platform enforcement.

You are responsible for making sure your use of Byline complies with applicable laws, disclosure rules, intellectual property rules, employment and client obligations, industry regulations, and the rules of every connected platform.

2. Prohibited content and conduct

• Illegal goods or services, fraud, scams, phishing, impersonation, deceptive identity, or credential theft.
• Spam, large-scale unwanted messaging, artificial platform activity, baiting behavior, vote manipulation, or coordinated inauthentic behavior.
• Harassment, hate, threats, incitement, non-consensual intimate content, exploitation, or content targeting protected classes.
• Malware, abuse of platform access, scraping that violates platform rules, attempts to bypass rate limits, or attempts to reverse engineer Byline.
• Regulated advice or claims that require professional review, including legal, medical, financial, tax, employment, investment, or insurance advice.
• Content that infringes copyrights, trademarks, publicity rights, privacy rights, confidentiality duties, or platform terms.

3. Platform rules

You must comply with the terms, policies, developer rules, platform-integrity rules, disclosure rules, and content standards of X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and any other platform connected to or used with Byline.

If platform rules conflict with a Byline feature, the platform rule controls. Byline may restrict or disable a feature, account, workflow, source, or data use to satisfy platform review, platform access, user safety, payment obligations, or legal requirements.

4. Human approval and consent

You must not use Byline to publish, respond, or take account actions without appropriate authorization, platform permission, and review. Where the product shows an approval step, you must review the final text, media, destination, and timing before approving.

For client or employer accounts, you are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all approvals needed to connect accounts, process data, approve content, and publish on behalf of that organization.

5. Review and platform integrity

• Do not use Byline to generate or send high-volume, duplicative, misleading, or unwanted platform communications.
• Do not use Byline to pay for, trade, sell, or promise platform activity, account metrics, reactions, reposts, comments, impressions, or account access.
• Do not use Byline to target people based on sensitive traits, vulnerabilities, private health status, political persuasion, or other protected or high-risk characteristics.
• Do not use Byline to create systems that surveil, profile, or discriminate against people in violation of law or platform policy.

6. X-specific requirements

When using X through Byline, you must comply with X's Developer Agreement and Policy, Automation Rules, content rules, and user terms. You may not use X content accessed through Byline for prohibited profiling, platform-prohibited data uses, or any other restricted use under X rules.

You may not redistribute X data outside Byline except as allowed by X policy, use X data for sensitive inference, circumvent X rate limits, or use Byline to create spam, fake platform activity, or deceptive account activity on X.

7. LinkedIn-specific requirements

When using LinkedIn through Byline, you must comply with LinkedIn's API Terms of Use, developer documentation, user agreement, brand rules, and any applicable vetted-program or product-specific terms. If LinkedIn rules conflict with a Byline workflow, LinkedIn's rules control.

You may not use Byline to scrape, crawl, spider, store, display, or transfer LinkedIn content obtained outside LinkedIn's official APIs, or combine LinkedIn API content with non-official LinkedIn content. You may not bypass LinkedIn permissions, rate limits, authorization flows, or access credentials.

You may not use LinkedIn data accessed through Byline for ad targeting, large-scale messages or promotions, eligibility decisions for credit, insurance, employment, housing, or similar decisions, surveillance, discrimination, platform-prohibited data uses, or redistribution except as allowed by LinkedIn rules.

You may not use Byline to imply that LinkedIn sponsors, endorses, verifies, or approves Byline, your content, or any generated output. Any LinkedIn-related pre-filled or AI-assisted content must remain editable and subject to your review before use.

LinkedIn content preparation, user-approved publishing, analytics, and company-page workflows may be limited, unavailable, or disabled where LinkedIn does not grant the required permissions or where a workflow would be treated as prohibited account activity.

8. Instagram, TikTok, and source media

When using Instagram through Byline, you must comply with Meta Platform Terms, Instagram platform requirements, applicable limited-use and data-deletion rules, content rights, privacy disclosures, children and teen safety rules, and access limits.

When using TikTok through Byline, you must comply with TikTok developer terms, content and music-rights rules, user-data deletion requirements, disclosed-purpose restrictions, platform limits, and access limits.

You may not use Instagram or TikTok data accessed through Byline for platform-prohibited data uses, redistribution except as allowed by the platform, spam, fake platform activity, unwanted messaging, or deceptive account activity.

If you import public links, videos, transcripts, or other source material, you are responsible for using the source material lawfully and for respecting creator, copyright, platform, and privacy requirements.

9. Payments and restricted businesses

You may not use Byline, billing, subscriptions, Ink purchases, or support channels to facilitate illegal transactions, sanctions violations, deceptive sales, prohibited products, or payment activity that violates payment provider, merchant of record, or card network rules.

10. Copyright complaints

If you believe content in Byline infringes your copyright, email support@byline.work with enough information for us to identify the work, the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized, a statement that the information is accurate, and your physical or electronic signature.

Byline maintains and implements a repeat-infringer policy under which we terminate, in appropriate circumstances, accounts that repeatedly infringe intellectual property rights. We may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material while a complaint is reviewed.

If your content was removed and you believe the removal was mistaken, you may send a counter-notice with your contact information, identification of the removed material and its prior location, a statement under penalty of perjury or equivalent legal standard that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake, your physical or electronic signature, and your consent to the legal process required by applicable copyright law.

11. Enforcement

Byline may remove content, cancel jobs, restrict publishing, revoke feature access, suspend accounts, notify affected platforms, preserve evidence, or terminate accounts when we reasonably believe this policy has been violated.

To report abuse or platform compliance concerns, contact support@byline.work.