Acceptable Use Policy

This is the plain-language version. It’s here to help you find your way around. The full policy below it is what applies.

• Who it’s for. Photographers, illustrators, designers and other creative people publishing their own work on the web.
• Not for sensitive records. Don’t upload medical images, ID documents, payment details or anything a law or contract says must be kept confidential. We hold no security certifications.
• No sexually explicit material. Ever, whether or not it’s legal where you are.
• Artistic nudity and war or conflict imagery need our approval first. Ask from Content approvals in your dashboard. We decide case by case.
• Nothing illegal, and nothing that isn’t yours to publish. Only upload images you own or have permission to use.
• Don’t misuse the service. No harassment, no attacks on the service, no getting around limits, no reselling without our permission.
• Uploads are checked automatically, on our own servers. If an image might break these rules or need an approval, only its scrambled copy is shown until a person on our team has reviewed it. Your images aren’t sent to anyone else and aren’t used to train AI.
• If something breaks the rules, we may remove it, pause your images or close your account. Where we can, we tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

Questions, or something to report? Email support@pixelsentinel.net.

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Pixel Sentinel is built for photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and other creative professionals who publish their own visual work on the web: portfolios, client galleries, stock and print shops, and similar sites. It protects published images from copying, hotlinking and scraping. It is not a general file store and not a vault for confidential records.

Pixel Sentinel is not certified, audited or approved for regulated or sensitive data. In particular:

• We have no SOC 1 or SOC 2 report and no ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
• We are not a HIPAA business associate, and we don’t sign business associate agreements.
• We are not assessed under PCI DSS, FedRAMP, CJIS, FERPA, GLBA or any similar framework.
• The service isn’t designed for special categories of personal data under the GDPR or UK GDPR.

So you must not upload, or use Pixel Sentinel to show:

• protected health information or any medical image of an identifiable person, such as patient photos, X-rays, scans or clinical records;
• payment card data, bank details or other financial account information;
• identity documents, such as passports, driving licences or ID cards, or biometric data;
• images of government, legal, financial or personnel records, or anything a law, regulation or contract requires you to keep confidential or to store only with a certified provider.

If you upload this kind of data anyway, you do so at your own risk. We may remove it without notice, and you are responsible for any legal duties that come with it.

We don’t host or serve sexually explicit material, whether or not it is legal where you or your viewers are. This includes pornography, images showing sexual activity, and images designed to sexually arouse. It applies whether the material is photographed, drawn, rendered or AI-generated, and whether or not it is behind an age check.

Two kinds of work are allowed only with our approval, given before you publish them:

• Artistic nudity. Nudity that isn’t sexually explicit, such as fine-art, figure or portrait photography, painting and illustration. We generally approve working artists, such as photographers and painters, whose nudes are part of an artistic body of work. We don’t approve pornography, or sites whose main purpose is sexual content, however they’re described.
• War, conflict and violence. Work that records or interprets war, conflict, unrest or their aftermath, such as photojournalism, documentary and historical photography, and paintings or illustrations of conflict. We generally approve photographers, journalists and artists who show what conflict is and what it costs. We don’t approve work that glorifies, celebrates or promotes violence, praises attackers or mocks victims, uses gore for shock, or comes from or promotes a violent or extremist group. That’s never allowed, with or without approval.

To ask, use Content approvals in your dashboard, or email support@pixelsentinel.net. Tell us:

• who you are and what you do, for example a photographer, painter or journalist;
• the website where the images will appear;
• what kind of work it is, with a link to your portfolio or a few examples.

We decide case by case, based on the kind of customer you are and your work as a whole, and we email you our decision. An approval covers your account and the kind of work we approved. It never allows sexually explicit material. We may look at approved accounts again at any time, and withdraw an approval if the content or how it’s used changes. If we withdraw it, we’ll tell you and give you reasonable time to remove the images, unless they break a rule in this policy.

• Automatic checks. When you upload an image, our own servers score it for possible sexually explicit material, nudity, graphic violence and war or conflict imagery. The image isn’t sent to anyone else for this, and it isn’t used to train any AI model.
• Held for review. If an image may be sexually explicit, or may need an approval your account doesn’t have, the upload still works, but only its scrambled copy is shown until we’ve reviewed it. Your dashboard tells you which images are held and why.
• Spot checks. Images in a category you’re approved for are shown as normal, and we may check some of them.
• Who looks. Only our authorized staff review images, only images that were flagged or reported, and only a small preview. We keep a record of every look and every decision.

Automatic checks make mistakes both ways. If we hold an image that shouldn’t be held, we’ll release it when we review it. You can also ask for an approval, or write to us.

You must not use Pixel Sentinel for anything illegal, including content that is illegal where you are, where we are (the United States), or where the people viewing it are. In particular:

• Child sexual abuse material of any kind, including drawn or AI-generated material. We remove it, close the account, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as US law requires.
• Intimate images of anyone shared without their consent.
• Content that promotes terrorism or violent extremism, or incites violence.
• Content that infringes anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights. Only upload images you own or have permission to publish. We act on copyright notices under the DMCA, and we close the accounts of repeat infringers. See Copyright complaints in our Terms of Service.

• Harass, threaten or track people.
• Spread malware, or attack, overload or probe the service or other customers’ protection.
• Try to get around view limits, rate limits or another customer’s protection.
• Resell the service, or provide it to others, without our written permission.

We may remove content, pause your images, or suspend or close your account. For child sexual abuse material, sexually explicit material and other clearly illegal content, we act straight away and without notice. For other problems, where we can, we’ll tell you first and give you a chance to fix them.

Our checks don’t catch everything, and we don’t look at every image ourselves. You are responsible for what you upload and for meeting the laws and contracts that apply to it.

To report content that breaks this policy, email support@pixelsentinel.net with the image address and what’s wrong. Copyright complaints are covered in our Terms of Service.