Acceptable Use Policy

By accessing the DealStratum platform (the “Service”) you agree to this Acceptable Use Policy. This AUP is in addition to, and incorporated into, the DealStratum, LLC Terms of Service. Defined terms have the meaning given in the Terms.

1. Permitted purpose

The Service is a business-to-business deal-sourcing and outreach tool for the acquisition of privately held businesses. “Contact Data” — including business-owner names, business email addresses, and business mailing addresses produced by the tracing feature, and broker/advisor records in the Directory — may be used only for legitimate, business-to-business commercial outreach about a potential acquisition, advisory, or related transaction.

2. Prohibited uses of Contact Data

You will not, and will not permit any third party to:

• use Contact Data to harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, defame, or dox any person, or to facilitate physical harm;
• use Contact Data to make any decision regarding a person’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing, or any other purpose covered by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or any state analog;
• use, obtain, or disclose any personal information from a motor-vehicle record in violation of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) — the Service does not source DMV data, and you may not introduce it;
• resell, sublicense, redistribute, or build a competing database from Contact Data or any output of the Service; or
• use Contact Data for any purpose prohibited by applicable law, or contact any person who has opted out or whom you know has requested no contact.

3. Outreach, email, and mail conduct

When using the email-outreach, follow-up-sequence, or direct-mail features, you are the sender and advertiser of record, and you will:

• comply with the CAN-SPAM Act, including by ensuring every commercial message contains a functioning opt-out mechanism and your valid physical postal address, and by honoring opt-out requests promptly;
• comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), applicable Do-Not-Call rules, and any state telemarketing or commercial-email law, to the extent you use any phone or SMS channel;
• not send content that is false, deceptive, threatening, or that misrepresents who you are or who you represent; and
• not configure sequences in a way designed to evade spam filters or recipient opt-outs.

4. Confidential and third-party material

You will not upload, paste, or submit to any feature of the Service: (a) any confidential information memorandum (CIM), deal document, or financials you are not authorized to disclose to us or to process through third-party AI sub-processors; (b) material that infringes any copyright, trade secret, or contractual confidentiality obligation; or (c) any non-public personal information you obtained unlawfully.

5. Platform-integrity prohibitions

You will not:

• scrape, crawl, or harvest the Service except through features we provide;
• circumvent rate limits, credit metering, authentication, or access controls;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or breach its security;
• introduce malware or malicious code;
• use the Service to violate any third-party website’s terms of use; or
• misuse connected accounts (for example, a connected mailbox) beyond the scope you authorized.

6. Enforcement

We may investigate suspected violations, remove offending content, throttle or suspend access, and report unlawful activity to authorities. We are not obligated to monitor, but we reserve the right to do so. Determinations of violation are at our reasonable discretion.