QuickSignals Acceptable Use Policy
Effective Date: September 15, 2026
Last Updated: September 15, 2026
This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs access to and use of the websites, applications, APIs, software, datasets, artificial-intelligence functionality, social-listening tools, prospect-intelligence tools, contact-discovery tools, and related services provided by QuickSignals LLC ("QuickSignals," "we," "us," or "our").
This AUP forms part of and is incorporated into the QuickSignals Terms of Service.
By accessing or using QuickSignals, you agree to comply with this AUP.
If you use QuickSignals on behalf of an organization, you are responsible for ensuring that all users associated with your organization comply with this AUP.
1. Purpose
QuickSignals is designed primarily to support legitimate business activities, including:
- Social listening.
- Market intelligence.
- Brand monitoring.
- Business development.
- Sales prospecting.
- Partnership development.
- Company research.
- Prospect research.
- Contact discovery.
- Business contact enrichment.
- Reputation monitoring.
- Trend detection.
- Competitive intelligence.
- Other lawful business-intelligence activities.
QuickSignals must not be used in a manner that violates applicable law, infringes the rights of others, creates unreasonable privacy or safety risks, or circumvents restrictions imposed by QuickSignals or its data providers.
2. Permitted Business Uses
Subject to this AUP and applicable law, QuickSignals may be used to:
- Identify companies relevant to legitimate business opportunities.
- Identify professional contacts associated with organizations.
- Monitor public discussions about companies, products, industries, or brands.
- Identify public business-interest signals.
- Conduct market and competitive research.
- Identify potential partnership opportunities.
- Analyze public sentiment and trends.
- Enrich legitimate business records.
- Monitor relevant keywords or topics.
- Identify prospective B2B customers.
- Prioritize business prospects.
- Generate sales or partnership intelligence.
- Create business reports and analytics.
- Monitor publicly accessible business conversations.
- Support lawful customer, sales, marketing, and partnership activities.
Permitted access to data does not automatically make every possible use of that data permissible.
3. Compliance With Law
You must use QuickSignals in compliance with all laws and regulations applicable to your activities.
Depending on how you use QuickSignals, this may include laws governing:
- Privacy.
- Data protection.
- Direct marketing.
- Commercial email.
- Telephone solicitation.
- SMS and text messaging.
- Consumer reporting.
- Intellectual property.
- Advertising.
- Consumer protection.
- Cybersecurity.
- Sanctions.
- Export controls.
You are responsible for determining which legal requirements apply to your organization and activities.
QuickSignals does not grant permission to engage in conduct that would otherwise be unlawful.
4. Prohibited Illegal Activity
You may not use QuickSignals to:
- Commit or facilitate a crime.
- Engage in fraud.
- Facilitate identity theft.
- Engage in phishing.
- Obtain unauthorized access to accounts or systems.
- Facilitate financial fraud.
- Distribute malware.
- Facilitate cyberattacks.
- Evade legal obligations.
- Conceal unlawful activity.
- Assist another person in committing unlawful activity.
5. Harassment, Stalking, and Personal Targeting
You may not use QuickSignals to:
- Stalk another person.
- Harass another person.
- Threaten or intimidate another person.
- Repeatedly contact a person after an applicable request to stop.
- Facilitate domestic abuse.
- Locate individuals for abusive purposes.
- Organize coordinated harassment.
- Facilitate doxxing.
- Publish private information with the intent to harm.
- Unlawfully monitor a person's movements or activities.
- Target an individual for retaliation.
QuickSignals may immediately suspend accounts associated with credible safety threats.
6. Unlawful Surveillance
QuickSignals may not be used for unlawful surveillance.
You may not use QuickSignals to systematically track or monitor an individual's:
- Physical movements.
- Home address.
- Private activities.
- Private relationships.
- Private communications.
- Other private behavior
without appropriate legal authority or another lawful basis.
Social listening and business intelligence must not be converted into unlawful personal surveillance.
7. Consumer Reporting and Eligibility Decisions
QuickSignals is not intended to operate as a consumer reporting agency.
Unless QuickSignals expressly provides a separately authorized and compliant product, you may not use QuickSignals information to determine or materially influence an individual's eligibility for:
- Employment.
- Promotion or termination.
- Housing.
- Tenancy.
- Credit.
- Lending.
- Loans.
- Insurance eligibility.
- Insurance underwriting.
- Government benefits.
- Another decision regulated as consumer-reporting activity.
You may not use QuickSignals to conduct unauthorized background checks.
8. Sensitive Personal Information
You may not use QuickSignals to intentionally obtain, compile, exploit, or target individuals based upon highly sensitive personal information in violation of applicable law.
Examples include:
- Social Security numbers.
- Financial-account credentials.
- Passwords.
- Payment-card credentials.
- Private medical records.
- Biometric authentication credentials.
- Private health information.
- Highly sensitive government identifiers.
- Other information protected by applicable law.
You may not use QuickSignals to create unauthorized sensitive-person profiles.
9. Protected Characteristics and Discrimination
You may not use QuickSignals to unlawfully discriminate against an individual or group.
You may not use QuickSignals intelligence to target, exclude, rank, penalize, or make regulated decisions about individuals based on protected characteristics where doing so would violate applicable law.
You may not infer sensitive characteristics from unrelated QuickSignals data for discriminatory or exploitative purposes.
10. Contact Information and Prospecting
QuickSignals may provide or help identify professional or business contact information.
The availability of an:
- Email address.
- Telephone number.
- Social profile.
- Business address.
- Other contact record
does not mean that the individual has consented to receive every type of communication.
Customers are responsible for evaluating whether they have the legal right to contact a person through a particular channel.
11. Email Outreach
You may use QuickSignals information for commercial email only when your activity complies with applicable law.
You may not:
- Send unlawful spam.
- Use deceptive sender information.
- Use misleading subject lines.
- Conceal the identity of the sender where disclosure is legally required.
- Ignore legally valid unsubscribe requests.
- Continue emailing individuals where applicable law requires communications to stop.
- Use QuickSignals to circumvent suppression systems.
Where an unsubscribe or suppression obligation applies, you must honor it.
12. Phone Calls and Text Messages
The availability of a phone number through QuickSignals does not mean that the individual has consented to:
- Automated calls.
- Prerecorded calls.
- Marketing SMS messages.
- Robotexts.
- Other regulated communications.
You are responsible for obtaining legally required consent before using QuickSignals telephone data for regulated calling or messaging activities.
You may not use QuickSignals to:
- Evade do-not-call restrictions.
- Evade consent requirements.
- Repeatedly contact individuals who have requested that communications stop.
- Conduct unlawful robocalling.
- Conduct unlawful robotexting.
- Spoof caller identity unlawfully.
13. Suppression and Opt-Out Requirements
You must respect applicable:
- Unsubscribe requests.
- Do-not-contact requests.
- Do-not-call requests.
- Privacy opt-outs.
- Consent withdrawals.
- Suppression lists.
- Other valid requests to stop processing or communications.
You may not intentionally use a different QuickSignals record, provider, email address, or phone number to circumvent an individual's applicable opt-out.
14. Social-Media and Public-Web Monitoring
QuickSignals may provide tools for monitoring publicly accessible online content.
You may use these tools for legitimate purposes such as:
- Brand monitoring.
- Public sentiment analysis.
- Market research.
- Trend identification.
- Customer-feedback analysis.
- Competitive research.
- Business prospecting.
You may not use social-listening functionality to:
- Conduct unlawful surveillance.
- Harass individuals.
- Unlawfully identify anonymous speakers.
- Intimidate critics.
- Retaliate against individuals for lawful speech.
- Collect information from private accounts without authorization.
- Bypass authentication or access controls.
- Violate applicable restrictions on data access.
15. Publicly Available Information Is Not Unrestricted Information
You may not assume that information is unrestricted merely because it appears on the internet.
Information may still be subject to:
- Privacy law.
- Intellectual-property rights.
- Contractual restrictions.
- Platform restrictions.
- Confidentiality obligations.
- Marketing restrictions.
- Other legal protections.
Customers remain responsible for determining whether their intended use of information is lawful.
16. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Intelligence
QuickSignals may provide AI-generated:
- Sentiment classifications.
- Intent classifications.
- Summaries.
- Prospect scores.
- Business signals.
- Recommendations.
- Lead rankings.
- Trend analysis.
- Other automated outputs.
These outputs may be incomplete or inaccurate.
You may not:
- Represent AI-generated output as verified fact without appropriate verification.
- Intentionally use AI output to defame another person.
- Use AI classifications as definitive proof of a person's intentions or characteristics.
- Use QuickSignals AI to make prohibited eligibility decisions.
- Use AI-generated intelligence to facilitate unlawful discrimination.
- Rely exclusively on automated output where applicable law requires human review or other safeguards.
17. Misrepresentation and Impersonation
You may not use QuickSignals to:
- Impersonate another person.
- Falsely claim affiliation with another organization.
- Create fraudulent profiles.
- Misrepresent your identity to obtain information.
- Deceive people about the purpose of outreach.
- Falsely represent QuickSignals data as independently verified when it is not.
- Make materially deceptive claims based on QuickSignals information.
18. Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices
QuickSignals may not be used to support:
- Financial scams.
- Advance-fee scams.
- Fake investment opportunities.
- Fraudulent fundraising.
- Fraudulent employment opportunities.
- Fraudulent sales schemes.
- Deceptive marketing campaigns.
- Phishing.
- Credential theft.
- Other deceptive conduct.
19. Data Resale and Redistribution
Unless expressly authorized by QuickSignals in writing, you may not:
- Resell QuickSignals datasets.
- Redistribute bulk QuickSignals contact data.
- Sublicense QuickSignals information.
- Create a competing data product using QuickSignals data.
- Make QuickSignals information broadly available to third parties.
- Create an independent people-search database using QuickSignals information.
- Commercialize raw QuickSignals data separately from your authorized use of the Services.
This does not prohibit reasonable internal use of information in your authorized business workflows.
20. Bulk Extraction and Database Replication
You may not use automated systems or other methods to:
- Systematically download the QuickSignals database.
- Copy substantial portions of QuickSignals data.
- Recreate QuickSignals datasets.
- Circumvent export limits.
- Circumvent contact-reveal limits.
- Circumvent API limits.
- Avoid usage credits.
- Create unauthorized backups of proprietary datasets.
21. API Usage
If QuickSignals provides API access, you must comply with:
- Authentication requirements.
- Documented rate limits.
- Usage limits.
- Security requirements.
- Data-retention restrictions.
- Applicable API documentation.
- Applicable subscription limitations.
You may not:
- Share API credentials without authorization.
- Attempt to bypass API limits.
- Probe or attack QuickSignals infrastructure.
- Use stolen credentials.
- Intentionally overload APIs.
- Conceal abusive API activity.
- Use APIs to conduct prohibited data extraction.
22. Security Abuse
You may not:
- Attempt unauthorized access to QuickSignals.
- Probe QuickSignals systems for vulnerabilities without authorization.
- Defeat authentication controls.
- Bypass security safeguards.
- Interfere with another customer's account.
- Introduce malicious code.
- Conduct denial-of-service attacks.
- Exploit a known vulnerability.
- Access another user's information without authorization.
- Interfere with QuickSignals infrastructure.
Good-faith security researchers should follow any security-reporting process published by QuickSignals.
23. Credential Sharing
You may not:
- Share login credentials with unauthorized individuals.
- Sell QuickSignals accounts.
- Provide account access to third parties outside your permitted organization.
- Create shared accounts to avoid seat limits.
- Circumvent authentication requirements.
Each user should use authorized credentials associated with their account.
24. Intellectual Property
You may not use QuickSignals to:
- Knowingly infringe copyrights.
- Infringe trademarks.
- Misappropriate trade secrets.
- Distribute unauthorized copyrighted material.
- Remove proprietary notices.
- Copy QuickSignals software.
- Reverse engineer QuickSignals except where applicable law expressly permits it.
- Misuse another party's intellectual property.
25. Scraping QuickSignals
You may not scrape, crawl, harvest, spider, copy, or systematically extract information directly from the QuickSignals platform except through:
- Authorized QuickSignals APIs.
- Expressly permitted export functionality.
- Written authorization from QuickSignals.
26. Third-Party Platforms and Sources
QuickSignals may rely upon third-party platforms, APIs, data sources, or providers.
You may not knowingly use QuickSignals to circumvent:
- Third-party authentication systems.
- Technical access controls.
- Contractual restrictions applicable to you.
- Platform bans.
- Source-specific restrictions.
- Other legally enforceable access restrictions.
Customers remain responsible for obligations that independently apply to their own third-party accounts and activities.
27. Customer Data
You may upload Customer Data only where you have sufficient rights and lawful authority to do so.
You may not upload information that:
- You obtained unlawfully.
- You are prohibited from disclosing.
- Contains stolen credentials.
- Contains malware.
- Infringes intellectual-property rights.
- Intentionally contains unlawful content.
- Instructs QuickSignals to engage in prohibited processing.
28. Minors
QuickSignals is designed for business users and is not intended for prospecting directed toward children.
You may not knowingly use QuickSignals to:
- Build sales-prospect profiles of children.
- Target children for inappropriate marketing.
- Obtain sensitive information about minors.
- Conduct unlawful monitoring of minors.
- Exploit information about minors.
29. Government, Law-Enforcement, and High-Risk Uses
Customers may not use QuickSignals for covert or high-risk government surveillance, intelligence, or law-enforcement activities without prior written authorization from QuickSignals and appropriate legal authority.
QuickSignals may require additional contractual, compliance, security, and legal review before permitting certain governmental uses.
30. Political and Civic Uses
QuickSignals may be used for lawful public-opinion, media, issue, or election-related research where expressly permitted by the applicable QuickSignals product and applicable law.
Customers may not use QuickSignals to:
- Unlawfully suppress voting.
- Intimidate voters.
- Facilitate voter harassment.
- Unlawfully obtain confidential voter information.
- Impersonate election officials.
- Engage in unlawful political microtargeting or deceptive communications.
Any political, campaign, or government use may be subject to additional QuickSignals terms and review.
31. High-Risk Profiling
You may not use QuickSignals to build profiles intended to exploit individuals based upon vulnerability.
This includes knowingly exploiting information concerning:
- Severe financial hardship.
- Medical vulnerability.
- Victims of abuse.
- Children.
- Addiction.
- Emergencies.
- Similar circumstances
where such targeting would be unlawful, deceptive, predatory, or materially harmful.
32. Data Accuracy and Responsible Use
QuickSignals information may come from multiple sources and may contain:
- Inaccuracies.
- Outdated information.
- Duplicate records.
- Incorrect matches.
- Incomplete records.
- Automated classification errors.
You must exercise reasonable judgment when using QuickSignals information.
You may not knowingly continue using information that you have confirmed is materially inaccurate in a manner that creates unreasonable harm to another person.
33. Privacy Rights and Removal Requests
QuickSignals may remove, correct, restrict, or suppress information following:
- Privacy requests.
- Legal requirements.
- Data-provider instructions.
- Source changes.
- Safety concerns.
- QuickSignals compliance decisions.
You may not attempt to restore or reconstruct suppressed QuickSignals information for the purpose of defeating a valid privacy or suppression request.
34. Enforcement
QuickSignals may investigate suspected violations of this AUP.
Depending on the nature and seriousness of the conduct, QuickSignals may:
- Issue warnings.
- Require corrective action.
- Remove information.
- Restrict data access.
- Restrict exports.
- Restrict contact discovery.
- Restrict API access.
- Suspend individual users.
- Suspend an organization.
- Terminate accounts.
- Preserve relevant evidence.
- Refer matters to appropriate authorities where legally required or appropriate.
- Take other reasonable protective measures.
QuickSignals may act immediately where conduct creates a serious:
- Legal.
- Cybersecurity.
- Privacy.
- Fraud.
- Safety.
- Reputational risk.
35. Cooperation With Investigations
Where permitted or required by applicable law, QuickSignals may cooperate with:
- Courts.
- Regulators.
- Law-enforcement agencies.
- Government authorities.
- Security investigators.
- Third-party platforms
in connection with credible allegations of unlawful activity.
Nothing in this AUP requires QuickSignals to disclose information where disclosure would violate applicable law.
36. Circumvention
You may not intentionally circumvent this AUP through:
- Multiple accounts.
- Affiliated entities.
- API integrations.
- Third-party accounts.
- Data exports.
- Alternate contact information.
- Automated scripts.
- Another service.
Conduct prohibited directly through QuickSignals is also prohibited when carried out indirectly using QuickSignals-derived information.
37. Customer Responsibility
Organizations are responsible for their Authorized Users.
Organizations should implement reasonable internal controls governing:
- Who may access QuickSignals.
- Who may reveal contact information.
- Who may export data.
- Who may use APIs.
- How prospect information is used.
- How suppression requests are honored.
- How data is secured after export.
38. Changes to This AUP
QuickSignals may update this AUP to address:
- New Services.
- New technologies.
- Security risks.
- Provider requirements.
- Abuse patterns.
- Regulatory developments.
- Changes in applicable law.
The Last Updated date will identify the most recent version.
Where changes materially affect customer obligations, QuickSignals may provide additional notice or require renewed acceptance.
39. Relationship to Other Agreements
This AUP forms part of the QuickSignals Terms of Service.
If this AUP conflicts with the Terms of Service, an executed Enterprise Agreement, or an applicable Order Form, the governing agreement will control according to its stated order of precedence.
Nothing in this AUP expands a Customer's right to access or use data beyond what is authorized under the applicable QuickSignals subscription or agreement.
40. Reporting Violations
Suspected abuse of QuickSignals may be reported to:
QuickSignals LLC
- Privacy: Privacy
- Mailing Address: contact@quicksignals.io