ArchiveLM Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: 2026-05-12 Last updated: 2026-05-12

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describes prohibited uses of archivelm.com and its associated services (the "Service"), operated by Michael De La Guera ("ArchiveLM"). This AUP is part of our Terms and Conditions and applies to every user of the Service.

Violations may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account, removal of content, notification to authorities where appropriate, and pursuit of legal remedies. We may update this AUP from time to time; material changes will be posted on this page.

1. Intended use

ArchiveLM is intended for scholarly research, archival preservation, journalism, and institutional access to historical document collections. Permitted uses include uploading scanned historical documents you have lawful authority to process, extracting and searching their contents, generating research outputs (summaries, timelines, entity maps, AI-generated context), and exporting derived data for further research.

If you are unsure whether your intended use is permitted, contact us at hello@archivelm.com before proceeding.

2. Prohibited content uploads

You may not upload content to the Service that:

You do not have lawful authority to process or that infringes any third party's copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, publicity, or other right
Contains active credentials, secrets, or financial identifiers (API keys, passwords, full credit card numbers, U.S. Social Security numbers, equivalent national identifiers, etc.) belonging to anyone — see Section 5
Constitutes protected health information under HIPAA, PIPEDA-PHIPA, or equivalent regulation in your jurisdiction, unless you are a covered entity or business associate with appropriate authority and we have a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) in place. We do not currently offer BAAs and the Service is not HIPAA-eligible by default.
Contains classified or export-controlled material
Contains child sexual abuse material — such content will be reported to authorities and your account terminated immediately
Violates applicable law in the jurisdiction where it is uploaded or accessed

3. Prohibited uses of AI features

You may not use the Service's AI features (chat, search, research tools, enrichments) to:

Generate operational instructions for present-day weapons production, illegal substance synthesis, evasion of law enforcement, or comparable activities, even where source documents reference such topics in their historical context
Create AI-generated content that defames, harasses, threatens, or facilitates violence against any person or group
Generate content designed to mislead users about the source content (e.g., asking the AI to summarize an article so as to misrepresent what the article actually said)
Bypass our Content Policy guardrails — our AI features will not adopt source biases as their own voice; you may not engineer prompts intended to circumvent that
Train or fine-tune third-party AI models on outputs from the Service, except outputs derived from your own uploaded content for your own internal research use

4. Prohibited platform behavior

You may not:

Access the Service by any means other than the user-facing interfaces and APIs we provide (this includes automated scraping, bot access, and credential-stuffing attempts)
Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise derive source code from the Service
Probe, scan, or test the Service's vulnerability without prior written authorization (see "Security testing" below)
Interfere with the operation of the Service, including by overloading it, disrupting other users' access, or transmitting malware
Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or your authority to upload content
Resell access to the Service or use it to provide a competing service without our written agreement
Create multiple accounts to circumvent volume limits, beta-access controls, or account suspensions
Remove or obscure proprietary notices, citations, or watermarks in extracted content or AI outputs

5. Modern documents and sensitive data — special rules

ArchiveLM is designed for historical material. If you upload modern documents (approximately post-1990) you are responsible for ensuring lawful processing under applicable privacy law.

When the Service detects probable modern credentials or active financial identifiers in extracted content (API keys, password fields, credit card patterns, U.S. Social Security number patterns, etc.), it will:

Mask the matching content in display
Flag the document for administrative review
Notify you

The first such detection is treated as a courtesy alert. Repeated uploads of documents containing modern credentials, active financial identifiers, or apparent PHI will result in account suspension, irrespective of whether the upload was deliberate.

6. Security testing

We welcome responsible security disclosure from researchers acting in good faith. Before performing security testing of the Service, contact us at security@archivelm.com with the scope and approach you intend to use, and obtain written authorization. Unauthorized testing — including attempts to access data outside your account, denial-of-service experiments against production, or social engineering of our staff — is prohibited and will be treated as unauthorized access.

For authorized testing, we will not pursue legal action against good-faith research that follows the agreed scope, does not access user data, and discloses findings to us privately before public disclosure.

7. Reporting violations

If you encounter content or behavior that violates this AUP, report it to hello@archivelm.com with as much detail as you can provide. We will investigate and act in accordance with our policies.

8. Enforcement

We may, in our discretion:

Issue a warning
Restrict your access to specific features
Suspend your account temporarily or indefinitely
Terminate your account
Remove violating content
Notify law enforcement or other authorities where required or appropriate
Pursue legal remedies for damages caused

We will give notice and an opportunity to cure where reasonable; we will not give notice in cases involving illegal content, ongoing harm, or where notice would compromise an investigation.

9. Contact

hello@archivelm.com — general AUP questions and reports security@archivelm.com — security testing and vulnerability disclosure legal@archivelm.com — legal questions

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