Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out what you may and may not do on SpotMe, which is operated by HPK AI Labs. It applies to everyone who uses SpotMe: photographers, couples and guests. It forms part of our Photographer Terms of Service and our Guest and Couple Terms of Use, and is published in accordance with Rule 3(1)(b) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ("IT Rules").

1. Prohibited content

You must not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any content that:

1. belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right;
2. is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another person's privacy (including bodily privacy), insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, racially or ethnically objectionable, relates to or encourages money laundering or gambling, or promotes enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion or caste with the intent to incite violence;
3. is harmful to children;
4. infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary right;
5. deceives or misleads anyone about the origin of the content, or knowingly and intentionally communicates any misinformation or information that is patently false, untrue or misleading;
6. impersonates another person;
7. threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States or public order, causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence, prevents the investigation of any offence, or insults any other nation;
8. contains a software virus or any other computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or
9. violates any law for the time being in force.

2. No nudity or sexual content

SpotMe is for event photography. Photos containing full or partial nudity or sexual content of any kind are not allowed, including boudoir, artistic or maternity photos that show nudity, even with the subject's consent.

3. No manipulated images of real people

You must not upload images of real people that have been synthetically generated or altered (for example, "deepfakes" or AI-morphed images) in a way that misrepresents them, without their consent.

4. Prohibited uses

You must not use SpotMe to:

• identify, track or monitor people, or for surveillance, security screening or access control;
• build, sell or supply a database of faces, face templates or personal data;
• upload photos of an event you were not engaged or authorised to photograph, or photos you do not have the right to share;
• log in with someone else's mobile number, or submit a selfie of anyone other than yourself or your own child;
• send unsolicited commercial messages to guests or couples, or use their information for any purpose other than delivering the event's photos;
• access, or try to access, photos, people groups, accounts or data that are not made available to you;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Service, or bypass its security, authentication or usage limits, without our written permission;
• scrape, crawl or copy the Service or its content in bulk, or access it through automated means other than those we provide;
• copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract the source code or models of the Service, except where the law expressly allows it;
• resell, sublicense or provide the Service to others as your own service without our written agreement; or
• interfere with the Service or place an unreasonable load on it.

5. What happens if this policy is breached

If we learn of content or conduct that breaches this policy, whether through a complaint, a court order, a direction from a government agency or our own systems, we may:

• remove the content or disable access to it;
• turn off an event's links;
• suspend or terminate the account or session concerned; and
• preserve information and report it to the authorities where the law requires.

Where we remove content or disable access to it under the IT Rules, we preserve the content and associated records for 180 days, or longer if required by a court or an authorised government agency, as Rule 3(1)(g) of the IT Rules requires. We act on court orders and lawful directions of the appropriate Government within the timelines the law sets.

6. Reporting a violation

To report content or conduct that breaches this policy, email our Grievance Officer at spotme@hpklabs.ai with the event link, a description of the problem and, where possible, a screenshot. See our Grievance Redressal page for timelines. Complaints about photos showing private areas, nudity, sexual acts or impersonation are acted upon within 24 hours.

7. Reminder

As required by the IT Rules, we will remind users of these rules at least once a year, and whenever we update them.