Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: June 7, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all use of puzzlebaddie, including partner accounts, embedded puzzles, APIs, websites, media links, and related services. It is incorporated into Our Terms and Conditions.

Customer Responsibility

Partners are solely responsible for all content, media, websites, products, services, and end-user interactions associated with their use of the Service. puzzlebaddie does not sell, host, distribute, moderate, endorse, or process payments for Partner Content, Partner websites, or Partner products and services.

Partners must comply with all applicable laws, payment network rules, age-verification requirements, intellectual property laws, privacy laws, consumer protection laws, and any industry-specific regulations that apply to their business.

Prohibited Content and Activity

You may not use the Service with, or in support of, content or activity that:

• Is illegal, facilitates illegal activity, or violates any applicable law, regulation, court order, sanctions rule, or third-party right.
• Includes child sexual abuse material, sexual exploitation of minors, grooming, or any content involving minors in a sexualized or exploitative context.
• Promotes, facilitates, or depicts human trafficking, forced labor, coercion, blackmail, extortion, or non-consensual sexual content.
• Includes non-consensual intimate imagery, revenge pornography, doxxing, stalking, harassment, threats, or abusive content.
• Infringes copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, database, contractual, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
• Distributes malware, spyware, ransomware, credential harvesting, phishing, vulnerability exploitation, botnets, or content intended to damage devices, networks, data, or accounts.
• Enables fraud, scams, deceptive practices, impersonation, counterfeit goods, money laundering, sanctions evasion, or unauthorized financial activity.
• Promotes violence, terrorist activity, organized criminal activity, hate-based abuse, or instructions for unlawful weapons use.
• Evades age gates, paywalls, content controls, website ownership checks, rate limits, security mechanisms, payment network rules, or regulatory controls.

Regulated and Higher-Risk Uses

Some industries and use cases require manual review before activation. Examples include adult-oriented content, gambling, sweepstakes, cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, financial services, healthcare, political activity, high-risk marketplaces, and other regulated or reputation-sensitive categories.

Manual review does not mean a category is approved. We may request additional information, require configuration changes, restrict features, decline activation, or suspend service if a use case creates legal, payment-processing, security, reputational, or operational risk.

Age-Gating and Compliance

If Your business or content is subject to age restrictions or age-verification obligations, You are responsible for implementing and maintaining those controls before using the Service. You must not use the Service to bypass or weaken required age gates, consent flows, notices, or other compliance mechanisms.

Rights and Takedowns

You must have all rights, licenses, permissions, and legal authority needed for media, pages, links, metadata, and other content used with the Service. You are responsible for responding to disputes, takedown requests, end-user complaints, and regulatory inquiries about Your content or business.

Enforcement

We may investigate suspected violations and may reject, suspend, disable, throttle, block, remove access to, or terminate any account, integration, content access, or use case at any time if We believe this policy has been violated or continued service creates legal, payment-processing, security, reputational, or operational risk.

Contact

If You have questions about this policy or need review of a higher-risk use case, contact Us at compliance@tarpatch.com.