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Acceptable Use Policy

SpicyAPI (also written Spicy API) has been at spicyapi.com since June 2025, and only there. It is operated by Wayfinity Ltd and is not affiliated with spicyapi.ai or any other service using a similar name.

Last updated: 8 October 2026 | Version: 2026.10.06

⚠️ ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY

Violations of this Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate account termination, permanent ban, and potential reporting to law enforcement authorities. We maintain comprehensive logs and will cooperate fully with legal investigations.

1. Scope and Application

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") forms an integral part of the SpicyAPI Terms of Service and applies to all users of our Services. By using SpicyAPI, you agree to comply with this AUP in its entirety. This policy may be updated at any time, and continued use after updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

The Services do not accept uploaded images or video, with two exceptions. A picture sent to the reference image model is recreated as different, fictional people and is never stored or usable as an input to anything else (section 3.5 below). The character import feature is enabled on request for verified businesses under Schedule 1 of the Terms of Service and is subject to section 3.4 below. Otherwise every image is generated from a text prompt, and video or edits can only be made from images the Services generated under your account. This policy governs the prompts you and your end users submit, any picture submitted as a reference image or through character import, and all content generated from them. A prohibition on a type of content applies equally to describing, requesting, or attempting to obtain it through a prompt, a reference image or an imported image.

Explicit sexual content between consenting adults is permitted, subject to this policy. You may resell outputs, and sell credits or subscriptions built on the Services, to your own users, who are bound by this policy through you.

2. Absolutely Prohibited Content

The following content is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate termination:

2.1 Minor-Related Content (ZERO TOLERANCE)

  • Any content depicting, suggesting, or appearing to depict individuals under 18 years of age in ANY context
  • "Young-looking" content - any content that could reasonably be perceived as depicting minors, regardless of stated age
  • Youth-coded content including but not limited to: school uniforms in sexual contexts, "teen" references, ageplay, infantilization, or childlike characteristics
  • Content involving fictional minors, animated minors, or age-regressed characters
  • Any attempt to circumvent these restrictions through euphemisms, coded language, or technical workarounds

2.2 Non-Consensual Content

  • Deepfakes or synthetic images or video of real individuals, with or without their consent
  • Non-consensual intimate imagery ("revenge porn")
  • Images, video or audio depicting sexual violence, rape or assault, and any content promoting it
  • Voyeuristic content or hidden camera scenarios
  • Content created for harassment, intimidation, or blackmail

Written role-play in chat (/v1/chat/completions) may depict non-consent between fictional adult characters, including force, struggle, sleep or intoxication, whether or not the scene is framed as consensual non-consent, and other dark themes. It must stay fiction between adults: never minors in any form, never a real identifiable person, never presented as something that really happened or is really planned, and never help or encouragement to harm a real person. The list in 2.3 applies to chat as well, including incest and choking or strangulation. The images, video and audio ban above is unchanged.

2.3 Illegal and Harmful Content

  • Bestiality, zoophilia, or any sexual content involving animals
  • Necrophilia or content depicting deceased individuals
  • Incest or content promoting familial sexual relationships
  • Content promoting human trafficking, sexual slavery, or exploitation
  • Content facilitating or promoting illegal activities
  • Extreme violence, gore, mutilation, or torture in sexual contexts
  • Choking, strangulation, breath play, or suffocation in sexual contexts

2.4 Intellectual Property Violations

  • Copyrighted characters or content without authorization
  • Trademarked brands or logos in sexual contexts
  • Celebrity or public figure likenesses, with or without their consent
  • Content that infringes on publicity or privacy rights

3. Real Person Likeness Policy

3.1 Images and Video: No Real People: You must not generate, edit, animate or import any image or video that depicts, is intended to depict, or resembles a real, identifiable person, living or dead. This includes celebrities and other public figures, named or described private individuals, and lookalikes. The prohibition applies whether or not the person consents: there is no consent route for images or video, and we do not accept consent documents for them. Our screening refuses prompts that name or point to a real person and withholds output that shows a recognisable one. The reference image model (section 3.5) accepts a picture of real people only to replace them with different, fictional people; nothing it produces may depict, or be used to depict, a real person.

3.2 Voices: Consent Required:You may clone a real person's voice only from a recording of that person and only with their consent. Before cloning, you must hold:

  • Written, verifiable consent from the speaker to the cloning of their voice and to speech being generated with it
  • Proof of identity of the consenting speaker
  • Clear scope of permitted use in the consent document
  • Consent dated within the last 12 months

The consent: true attestation required when cloning a voice confirms that you hold this consent. A designed voice must not name or imitate a real person, and a cloned voice must never be used to make a real person appear to say something they did not agree to.

3.3 Verification and Public Figures: We may ask for proof of voice consent at any time. Failure to provide satisfactory proof within 24 hours will result in immediate suspension of the voice and may result in suspension of your account. Public figure status never waives these rules.

3.4 Imported Images (No Exceptions): Where character import has been enabled on your account, you may import only wholly synthetic images of fictional adult characters that your platform created. You must never import, and must never allow anyone to import on your behalf:

  • A photograph, video frame, scan or screenshot of any real person, or any image generated, edited, face-swapped or conditioned from one
  • Any image of a real person, even with that person's consent (section 3.1)
  • Any character who is, appears to be, or is presented as under 18, whatever age is stated
  • Any image supplied, chosen or requested by your end users: character import is for migrating your own existing library only and must never be exposed to end users
  • Any image you cannot show, with records, to have been created synthetically

A single imported image that breaks this section is grounds for immediate withdrawal of character import, removal of everything made from it, account termination, and reporting to the authorities under section 10.

3.5 Reference Images: You may send a picture to the reference image model only to receive a new image in which every person is replaced by a different, fictional adult: the picture is described in words, without identifying facial features, and a new image is drawn from that description. The picture is screened, described and then discarded; it is never stored, returned or usable for editing, animation or anything else in the Services. You must never submit, and must never allow your end users to submit:

  • A picture of anyone who is, appears to be, or is presented as under 18, whatever age is stated
  • A picture of a real person that was taken, obtained or shared without their consent, including intimate images, hidden-camera images and leaked, hacked or stolen pictures
  • A picture you do not have the right to use
  • A picture submitted to obtain an image of a specific real person, or to undo, get around or test the replacement of the people in it
  • Any picture showing content prohibited by section 2

If a result still resembles a person from the submitted picture, you must not use, publish or distribute it: delete it and tell us at contact@spicyapi.com. If you offer this feature to your end users, you must pass these rules on to them and send each request's user id so that refusals and strikes are kept per person. We screen every picture with automated age estimation and face analysis; no face is matched against any list or used to identify anyone. A refused picture costs nothing; its cryptographic hash is kept and the same picture is refused for every account, and a picture that appears to show a minor is handled under section 10. When our checks agree that a picture shows a minor, the first time is a warning and any later time suspends the end user (or, without a userid, the account); such a picture is kept, access-restricted, as evidence and may be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children with the related account information. Pictures on NCMEC's Take It Down list are refused.

4. Age Verification Requirements

4.1 Customer Obligations: You must comply with the age verification laws of every country and region where your end users are, as they apply to your service (for example the UK Online Safety Act, US state laws and EU and member state rules), just as we do for SpicyAPI accounts. In particular you must:

  • Verify all end-users are 18+ before accessing any generated content
  • Comply with jurisdiction-specific requirements (UK Online Safety Act, US state laws, EU regulations)
  • Use the age assurance methods those laws require or accept for your users; we do not prescribe a method
  • Where those laws require age verification or age assurance, a self-declared age (a checkbox or a typed date of birth) is not enough
  • Maintain audit logs of age verification processes

4.2 Audit Rights: We reserve the right to audit your age verification implementation and request proof of compliance. Non-compliance will result in immediate service termination.

4.3 Liability: You are solely responsible for any failure to properly age-gate content, including all resulting legal consequences, fines, and damages.

4.4 Account Holder Verification:Where the law of the account holder's location requires it, the account holder must complete a one-time age verification with our provider, VerifyMy, after the first top-up and before the account can generate or retrieve content. This currently applies in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Australia and Brazil, and in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming in the United States, and may change as laws change. We determine the location from where the account holder signs up and signs in to the dashboard, and once a location that requires verification is recorded, a later sign-in from elsewhere does not remove the requirement; you must not use a VPN or any other means to disguise it, and signs of doing so may lead us to review the account. We receive only the result of the check from VerifyMy, not your documents or images. This check confirms the account holder's age only and does not replace your obligations to your own end users under section 4.1.

5. Geographic and Sanctions Compliance

5.1 Prohibited Jurisdictions: Services may not be used in or from countries subject to UK, US (OFAC), or EU sanctions, including but not limited to: North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and Crimea region.

5.2 Restricted Parties: Services may not be used by individuals or entities on sanctions lists including SDN, UK HMT Consolidated List, or EU Consolidated List.

5.3 Export Controls: You agree not to use the Services for any export-controlled applications or military end uses.

5.4 Geo-Blocking: We reserve the right to implement geographic restrictions or blocking at our discretion to ensure compliance with local laws.

6. Content Moderation and Safety Requirements

6.1 Customer Moderation Obligations: You must:

  • Implement pre-generation prompt filtering for prohibited content
  • Deploy post-generation content review before distribution. Our own screening of prompts and outputs protects our service; it is not a review on your behalf and must not be relied on to meet this duty
  • Maintain a content moderation team or automated systems
  • Provide clear content reporting mechanisms for end-users
  • Respond to abuse reports within 24 hours

6.2 Transparency: Clearly disclose to end-users that content is AI-generated and not real.

6.3 AI Labels:Every image and video we generate carries a machine-readable label in its file metadata stating that it is AI-generated (IPTC digital source type "trained algorithmic media") with an identifier of the output, and we keep a fingerprint of every generated image. You must keep these labels on files you store or deliver and may not remove or alter them, or help anyone else do so.

7. Monitoring and Enforcement

7.1 Automated Monitoring: We employ automated systems to scan prompts, outputs and imported images for policy violations. This includes keyword detection, image analysis (including apparent age estimation and detection of photographs and recognisable people), and pattern recognition.

7.2 Manual Review: Suspicious activity may be flagged for manual review by our Trust & Safety team.

7.3 No Obligation to Monitor: While we maintain monitoring capabilities, we are not obligated to monitor all content and do not assume liability for user-generated content.

7.4 Logging: We keep a record of every API request, and every moderation and abuse record, for as long as your account exists and for six years after it is closed, for legal compliance and investigation purposes (Privacy Policy, section 6).

8. Enforcement Actions

Violations will result in one or more of the following actions:

  • Warning: First minor violation may result in a warning (except zero-tolerance violations)
  • Temporary Suspension: 24-hour to 7-day suspension for moderate violations
  • Permanent Ban: Immediate termination for severe or repeated violations
  • Legal Action: Referral to law enforcement for illegal content
  • Financial Penalties: Forfeiture of account balance and potential damages claims

Appeals: Enforcement decisions may be appealed within 14 days by contacting contact@spicyapi.com with supporting evidence. Zero-tolerance violations are not eligible for appeal.

9. Reporting Violations

9.1 Abuse Reports: Report violations to contact@spicyapi.com

9.2 DMCA/Copyright: Submit copyright claims to contact@spicyapi.com

9.3 Law Enforcement: Legal requests should be sent to contact@spicyapi.com

9.4 Response Time: We aim to acknowledge reports within 24 hours and take action within 48 hours for valid violations.

10. Cooperation with Authorities

We cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies and will provide information as required by law or court order. We proactively report suspected CSAM and other serious crimes to appropriate authorities including NCMEC (US) and NCA (UK).

11. Modifications to This Policy

We reserve the right to modify this AUP at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Continued use of the Services after changes constitutes acceptance. For material changes, we will attempt to provide notice via email or dashboard notification.

FINAL WARNING:

This policy is strictly enforced. We maintain zero tolerance for violations involving minors, non-consensual content, or illegal activities. Your use of SpicyAPI constitutes acceptance of these terms and acknowledgment of the severe consequences for violations. When in doubt, don't generate it.