Acceptable Use Policy

This policy forms part of our Terms & Conditions and applies to everyone using the Service through your account or keys.

Use the Service to capture, validate and display addresses, phone numbers, emails and bank details for genuine transactions within the websites and applications registered on your account.

• Scraping, crawling, bulk-downloading or systematically extracting address data, or building a copy of the database.
• Reselling, sublicensing or redistributing results, or using them to create a competing product, except as expressly agreed.
• Storing results beyond what is needed for the related transaction or customer record.
• Sharing API keys, embedding them in public code, or using one account's keys for unrelated organisations.
• Circumventing metering, rate limits or session billing, or generating artificial traffic.
• Probing, overloading or attempting unauthorised access to our systems.
• Any unlawful, fraudulent or harmful activity, including breaches of UK GDPR or PECR.

We may apply rate limits or throttling to protect the Service. Sustained unusual volumes may require an enterprise plan.

We may investigate suspected breaches, revoke keys, suspend or terminate accounts without refund, and charge for credits consumed. Breaches of Royal Mail licence terms may be reported to Royal Mail. Report misuse to info@autopostcode.com.