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Acceptable Use Policy

Effective 10 November 2026 (version 2026-11-10).

Scope and our hosting provider's terms

This policy accompanies the Terms for Dory. It also incorporates the acceptable-use terms of our hosting provider, as in force from time to time.

Prohibited uses

Do not use the service for any of these activities:

  • IRC servers; warez; unlicensed TV re-broadcasting.
  • Pharmaceuticals; firearms; money transfer; unregistered investment sites; phishing; use by parties on the Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO).
  • Mining; spam; scanning; DDoS; open proxies; VPN resale; Tor relays.
  • Automated account creation; scalping and purchase bots; ad and click fraud; fake engagement.
  • CAPTCHA solving; circumventing sites' bot protections.
  • Bandwidth-sharing apps; tunnels used for abuse, including cloudflared, ngrok and similar tools; multi-accounting. Using these tunnel tools for legitimate purposes is allowed.
  • Child sexual abuse material (CSAM); underage-appearing content including drawn or AI-generated material; revenge porn; gore.

These are policy bans, whether or not a court has ruled on the material.

Network and eligibility controls

Outbound email (SMTP) is blocked on ports 25/465/587/2525 for all computers. There are no exceptions at launch. Do not use another account or an abusive tunnel to evade restrictions. We block access from sanctioned countries and areas. Use is for businesses and developers only. At launch you cannot sign up if you declare a country in the European Union or the United Kingdom, or a sanctioned country. We may add other countries later. See the Terms.

Enforcement

We contain suspected abuse first, then review it. Abuse detection never causes automatic deletion. We may limit CPU or new connections, cut outbound traffic, or pause a computer. To check for linked accounts, we use network, email-domain and payment-timing records, never the commands you run or their output. A match starts a review, not a final finding.

For a phishing report about a preview URL, we revoke that computer's previews, links and hooks. A flood or scan report causes us to cut its outbound traffic. Computer suspension pauses it, cuts its network and revokes previews, links, hooks and sessions. Account suspension pauses all computers, revokes keys and blocks logins and top-ups. These actions are recorded and reversible. We can also freeze new starts or outbound traffic across the platform.

We review the evidence and decide whether to keep or lift restrictions, or take further action. We do not browse suspected child-abuse material. A legal hold preserves evidence; it does not authorize routine browsing. Deletion remains subject to the safeguards in the Terms. Restrictions for abuse do not earn credits for service interruptions; normal billing rules for the computer's running or paused state still apply.

Report abuse to support@dory.run. Include the affected URL or public IP, port, event time and time zone, a description and a way to contact you. Do not attach suspected CSAM or ask anyone to open it. We use identifying details to contain and route the report. For copyright notices, counter-notices and our repeat-infringer policy, use the copyright procedure.

We aim to answer abuse and copyright notices within 48 hours. This is not a deadline for resolving a dispute. General support has no response-time commitment.