Acceptable Use Policy

This policy is part of our Terms of Service and applies to everyone who uses Argus. Breaching it is a breach of those terms.

1. The principle

Argus is a general-purpose browser. Like any browser, it does what the person driving it tells it to. We do not supervise your sessions and we cannot see what you do inside them, so the responsibility for what you do with it is yours.

What follows is not a list of everything we disapprove of. It is the conduct we prohibit, and we prohibit it because it is unlawful or because it causes real harm to other people.

2. What you must not do

Break the law

• Anything illegal in your jurisdiction or in the jurisdiction of the service you are reaching.
• Sanctions evasion, money laundering, or handling the proceeds of crime.

Defraud people

• Payment fraud, carding, or transacting with stolen financial instruments or stolen credentials.
• Identity theft, or impersonating a real person or organisation in order to deceive.
• Fake reviews, fabricated engagement, or manufactured consensus presented as genuine.
• Advertising, affiliate or incentive fraud — claiming payment for traffic, installs or actions that were not what they were represented to be.

Access what is not yours

• Signing in to accounts you do not own and are not authorised to use, including with purchased, leaked or guessed credentials.
• Credential stuffing, brute forcing, or testing lists of stolen logins.
• Exploiting a vulnerability, or accessing data or functionality a service has not made available to you.

Harm people

• Harassment, stalking, doxxing, or coordinated abuse of an individual.
• Child sexual abuse material, or content sexualising minors, without exception.
• Content or conduct promoting terrorism or violent extremism.
• Distributing malware, ransomware, or spyware.

Infringe rights

• Infringing copyright, trade marks, or other intellectual property.
• Collecting personal data in breach of data protection law, or processing personal data you have no lawful basis to process.

Damage the Service or other customers

• Attacking, overloading, or attempting to gain unauthorised access to our systems.
• Reselling access to your workspace, or sharing a single workspace as a way of serving unrelated third parties.
• Circumventing the limits attached to your plan.

3. What this policy does not prohibit

We would rather say this than leave it ambiguous. Argus exists to run more than one account at a time, on services that would otherwise link them, and the following are ordinary uses of it:

• Operating several accounts on a service, where that service allows it or where the accounts belong to different clients, brands, markets or regions.
• Separating identities — a distinct fingerprint, proxy and cookie jar per profile — including specifically so that two accounts of yours are not associated with each other.
• Solving captchas, including with the third-party extensions listed in the application. Captcha solving is not unlawful in itself, and we are not going to pretend otherwise while shipping a catalogue that includes it.
• Automating your own work in your own accounts, and scraping data that is lawfully accessible to you.
• Privacy from tracking, including from the fingerprinting and port scanning that commercial detection services perform.

None of that is a licence for the conduct in section 2. Running twenty accounts is fine. Running twenty accounts to post fake reviews is not, and the thing that makes it not fine is the fake reviews.

4. Your obligations to other services

A service’s own terms are a contract between you and it, not between you and us. Using Argusin a way that breaches a platform’s terms is a matter between you and that platform: it may suspend or close your account, and we cannot get it back for you. That risk is yours, and you should assume it before you rely on an account you cannot afford to lose.

5. How we enforce this

We do not monitor your browsing, and the profile, fingerprint and cookie data in the desktop application stays on your device unless you turn on cloud sync. In practice we learn about a breach when someone reports it, when a payment provider or law enforcement contacts us, or when abuse affects our own systems.

When we do, the response is proportionate: usually we will contact you and ask you to stop. For serious breaches — anything in the “harm people” list above, fraud, or unauthorised access — we may suspend or terminate an account immediately and without notice, and we will report conduct to the authorities where the law requires it or where the harm warrants it.

6. Reporting abuse

If you believe someone is using Argus to do something in section 2, tell us at support@simnetiq.store. Include enough detail for us to identify the account or the activity. We read every report.

7. Changes

We may update this policy as the Service changes or as new kinds of abuse appear. The “Last updated” date above tells you when it last changed.