Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the rules that apply when using CosecCompanion. It forms part of our Terms of Service.

1. Permitted use

CosecCompanion is intended for legitimate use by company secretaries, finance and legal professionals, and the directors and officers of the entities they manage. You may use the Service only for the lawful purposes for which it is provided.

2. Prohibited use

You must not use the Service to:

• Break any applicable law or regulation, or facilitate any unlawful activity.
• Upload or transmit data that is defamatory, obscene, infringing, or otherwise unlawful.
• Upload or transmit data containing malware, viruses, or other harmful code.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, any account, or any underlying infrastructure.
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, including through denial-of-service attacks or abusive automated requests.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except to the extent permitted by law.
• Resell, sublicense, or otherwise commercialise the Service without our written consent.
• Use the Service to make unsolicited communications or to harvest personal data unlawfully.

3. Companies House and HMRC integrations

Where the Service queries Companies House or other public registers, you must comply with the relevant API terms of use, including any rate limits and attribution requirements. You must not use the Service to scrape data at volume or to reconstruct a competing register.

4. Reporting abuse

If you become aware of any actual or suspected breach of this policy, please report it via our Contact page. We take all reports seriously and will investigate promptly.

5. Consequences of breach

We may, at our discretion and without notice, suspend or terminate your access to the Service for any breach of this policy. We may also report breaches to law enforcement or regulators where appropriate.