Usage Policy

Effective March 5, 2025

Our Usage Policy (also referred to as our “Acceptable Use Policy” or “AUP”) applies to anyone who uses BPN’s products and services and is intended to help our users stay safe and ensure that our products and services are being used responsibly.

We generally expect our User’s principal Platform Services use cases will be to perform investment research & analysis, create data visualizations, and write memorandums to increase insight and highlight conclusions. We generally expect BPN’s Platform Services to be used primarily by sophisticated investors with relevant experience and training, but we understand that with any new technology Users may explore new applications and may leverage our Platform in ways we do not currently anticipate. As such, the BPN Usage Policy is categorized according to who can use our products and for what purposes. We will update our policy as our technology and the associated risks evolve or as we learn about unanticipated risks from our Users.

  • Universal Usage Standards: Our Universal Usage Standards apply to all users including individuals, developers, and businesses.

  • High-Risk Use Case Requirements: Our High-Risk Use Case Requirements apply to specific use cases that pose an elevated risk of harm.

  • Disclosure Requirements: Our Disclosure Requirements apply to specific use cases where it is especially important for users to understand that they are interacting with an AI system.

This Usage Policy is calibrated to strike an optimal balance between enabling beneficial uses and mitigating potential harms. It seeks to provide contractual use restrictions and applicable safeguards to mitigate the potential harms. We have also developed a Collaborative AI Platform to enable a trusted “human-in-the-loop” to actively direct, supervise, edit, and take intellectual ownership of meaningful assumptions and conclusions.

Universal Usage Standards

Do Not Compromise Children’s Safety

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material.
  • Facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of a minor.
  • Facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor.
  • Facilitate or depict child abuse of any form, including instructions for how to conceal abuse.
  • Promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay with the model.
  • Fetishize minors.

Do Not Compromise Critical Infrastructure

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure such as power grids, water treatment facilities, telecommunication networks, or air traffic control systems.
  • Obtain unauthorized access to critical systems such as voting machines, healthcare databases, and financial markets.
  • Interfere with the operation of military bases and related infrastructure.

Do Not Incite Violence or Hateful Behavior

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Incite, facilitate, or promote violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior.
  • Depict support for organizations or individuals associated with violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior.
  • Facilitate or promote any act of violence or intimidation targeting individuals, groups, animals, or property.
  • Promote discriminatory practices or behaviors against individuals or groups on the basis of one or more protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or any other identifying trait.

Do Not Compromise Someone’s Privacy or Identity

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Compromise security or gain unauthorized access to computer systems or networks, including spoofing and social engineering.
  • Violate the security, integrity, or availability of any user, network, computer, device, or communications system.
  • Violate any person's privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws.
  • Misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access to private information without permission such as non-public contact details, health data, or confidential data.
  • Impersonate a human by presenting results as human-generated.

Do Not Create or Facilitate the Exchange of Illegal or Highly Regulated Weapons or Goods

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Produce, modify, design, market, or distribute weapons, explosives, or dangerous materials.
  • Engage in or facilitate any illegal activity, such as the exchange of illegal substances.

Do Not Create Psychologically or Emotionally Harmful Content

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Facilitate or conceal any form of self-harm.
  • Shame, humiliate, bully, or harass individuals.
  • Generate content depicting sexual violence or animal cruelty.
  • Promote, trivialize, or depict graphic violence or gratuitous gore.

Do Not Spread Misinformation

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

  • Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information about a group, entity, or person.
  • Impersonate real entities or create fake personas to mislead others.

Do Not Create Political Campaigns or Interfere in Elections

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

  • Promote or advocate for a particular political candidate or party.
  • Generate false or misleading information on election laws or procedures.

Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Censorship or Surveillance Purposes

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

  • Make determinations on criminal justice applications.
  • Target or track a person’s physical location or communication without their consent.

Do Not Engage in Fraudulent, Abusive, or Predatory Practices

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Facilitate the production or distribution of counterfeit goods.
  • Generate content for fraudulent activities, schemes, or scams.

Do Not Abuse our Platform

This includes using our products or services to:

  • Coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts.
  • Circumvent a ban through the use of a different account.

Do Not Generate Sexually Explicit Content

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

  • Depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts.

High-Risk Use Case Requirements

Some integrations pose an elevated risk of harm because they influence vital domains. “High-Risk Use Cases” include:

  • Legal, Healthcare, Insurance, Finance, Employment and housing.

If your integration is listed above, we require that you implement additional safety measures:

  • Human-in-the-loop: A qualified professional must review decisions that impact individuals in high-risk domains.
  • Disclosure: Disclose to your customers that you are using BPN Platform Services.