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Acceptable Use Policy

Last Updated: January 1, 2026 • Effective: January 1, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs permitted and prohibited use of OpusPDF (the "Service"). This policy supplements and forms part of the OpusPDF Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to comply with this AUP. Violations may result in enforcement actions up to and including account termination.

1. Purpose and Principles

OpusPDF is designed for legitimate personal, professional, and organizational document processing. This AUP exists to:

  • Protect service reliability and performance
  • Prevent abuse, misuse, and unfair resource consumption
  • Ensure equitable access for all users
  • Maintain legal and operational compliance

Use of the Service must remain reasonable, proportionate, and consistent with your subscribed plan.

2. Permitted Use

You may use OpusPDF to:

  • Upload, process, and manage documents you have the legal right to use
  • Perform PDF operations (e.g., conversion, organization, compression, OCR) for normal business, academic, or personal workflows
  • Use OCR as a supporting document-processing feature within fair-use expectations
  • Access features according to your active subscription and account status

Permitted use is always subject to fair-use principles, safeguards, and backend enforcement.

3. Prohibited Use

You may not, directly or indirectly, engage in any of the following activities:

3.1 Abuse and Excessive Usage

  • Automated, continuous, or systematic processing at scale
  • Sustained high-volume usage disproportionate to the subscribed plan
  • Bulk archival, mass digitization, or large-scale document conversion projects
  • Excessive handwriting OCR or high-resolution OCR beyond normal usage patterns
  • Attempts to bypass or defeat quotas, throttles, or safeguards

Usage may be deemed excessive even if explicit numeric limits are not exceeded.

3.2 Platform Misuse

  • Using OpusPDF as a backend, processing engine, or infrastructure component for another service
  • Reselling, sublicensing, or redistributing processed output
  • Offering OpusPDF-powered services to third parties without authorization
  • Sharing accounts or credentials across multiple individuals or organizations
  • Creating or operating multiple accounts to evade restrictions

3.3 Security and Integrity Violations

  • Probing, scanning, or testing system vulnerabilities
  • Interfering with service stability, performance, or availability
  • Attempting to reverse engineer, scrape, or extract system logic
  • Uploading malware, malicious scripts, or harmful files

3.4 Legal and Rights Violations

  • Uploading content you do not own or lack rights to process
  • Processing documents containing illegal content
  • Violating intellectual property, privacy, or confidentiality rights
  • Using the Service in violation of applicable laws or regulations

4. OCR-Specific Rules

4.1 Fair Use of OCR

OCR usage must align with reasonable document-processing needs for the subscribed plan. OCR is not intended for:

  • Industrial-scale digitization
  • Continuous automated pipelines
  • Third-party service enablement

4.2 "Unlimited" OCR Clarification

References to "unlimited" OCR or features indicate the absence of fixed numeric caps under normal usage conditions. They do not permit unrestricted, abusive, or disproportionate use.

5. Monitoring and Enforcement

5.1 Usage Monitoring

OpusPDF monitors usage patterns to:

  • Enforce fair use
  • Detect abuse or misuse
  • Maintain system integrity and service quality

Monitoring is limited to what is necessary and proportionate for these purposes.

5.2 Enforcement Actions

Depending on severity and impact, OpusPDF may apply one or more of the following measures:

  1. Usage notices or warnings
  2. Throttling, queuing, or performance reduction
  3. Upgrade prompts or credit requirements
  4. Temporary feature restriction
  5. Account suspension or termination

OpusPDF may take immediate action without prior notice where required to protect the Service, users, or legal compliance.

All enforcement decisions are final.

6. Administrative Discretion

Authorized OpusPDF administrators may:

  • Grant temporary usage credits
  • Adjust quotas in exceptional circumstances
  • Flag approved high-volume or special-case usage

Administrators may not remove safeguards or grant unrestricted access. All administrative actions are logged and auditable.

7. Reporting Violations

If you become aware of misuse, abuse, or security concerns related to the Service, you may report them to: support@opuspdf.com

8. Relationship to Other Policies

This AUP operates alongside:

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Data Retention & Deletion Policy
  • Subscription and pricing disclosures

In the event of conflict, the Terms of Service and the OpusPDF legal baseline govern.

9. Changes to This Policy

OpusPDF may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated through the website or user dashboard.

Continued use of the Service constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

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