Acceptable Use Policy

Effective: 21 April 2026 (version 2 — brand rename only; no change to permitted or prohibited uses). Operated by REG MON AUS PTY LTD (ABN 49 697 171 074), Western Australia. This policy is part of the Terms of Service. A breach of this policy is a material breach of the Terms.

Regulatory Monitor AU is an informational regulatory monitoring service for Australian professional services firms. This policy describes the boundaries within which the Service and its content (digests, alerts, articles, query responses) may and may not be used.

1. Permitted use

Subject to the rest of this policy and the Terms of Service, you may:

• access the Portal and read digests, alerts, and articles for the internal business purposes of your firm;
• share Content within your firm with employees and contractors who are authorised users of your Account;
• cite Content briefly in internal file notes, training materials, and matter records, with a citation back to the source;
• link to publicly available articles on the marketing site (for example, in a client newsletter), provided each link includes the source attribution and the link is not presented in a way that suggests Regulatory Monitor AU endorses the linker;
• submit ad-hoc queries (where your tier permits) for general-law commentary that informs your own professional research.

2. Prohibited use — content

You must not:

• on-sell, syndicate, or republish Content to any third party (other than within the limited internal-use licence in the Terms);
• present Content to any third party (including your own clients) as legal, tax, or financial product advice from Regulatory Monitor AU, or as advice originating from any professional adviser other than yourself;
• incorporate Content into a product or service that you on-sell, except as background research input to your own professional services;
• use Content to generate derivative materials at scale (for example, batched newsletter content for clients) without our prior written consent;
• modify, translate, or adapt Content in a way that materially changes its meaning, then attribute the modified content to Regulatory Monitor AU.

3. Prohibited use — technical

You must not:

• scrape, crawl, mirror, or systematically download the Service or any Content (other than reasonable individual reading and internal note-taking);
• use any automated tool, bot, or script to access the Portal except where we expressly publish an API for that purpose;
• attempt to circumvent rate limits, authentication, access controls, or row-level security;
• probe, scan, or test the security of the Service except under a written authorisation from us (including a coordinated vulnerability-disclosure programme, if and when we publish one);
• interfere with, disrupt, or degrade the Service or the experience of other subscribers;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code, models, prompts, or classification taxonomies of the Service.

4. Prohibited use — AI training and model derivation

You must not:

• use Content (in whole or in part) to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any machine-learning model;
• use Content as input to a retrieval-augmented-generation system that you operate or sell;
• use Content to benchmark, prompt, or seed any large-language model except in the course of your own personal reading.

5. Prohibited use — third-party reliance

Because Regulatory Monitor AU is informational and is not a tax agent service, legal practice, or AFS-licensee service, you must not:

• give Content to a third party in circumstances where the third party would be reasonably expected to rely on the Content (whether by Regulatory Monitor AU or by you) without independent professional advice;
• submit a query that contains personal information about a third party, or that asks Regulatory Monitor AU to apply the law to a named third party's specific facts;
• represent to a third party that you have an adviser-client relationship with Regulatory Monitor AU.

If you draw on Content in advising a client, the advice you give that client must be your own professional judgment.

6. Prohibited use — defamation, harassment, and misuse

You must not use the Service or Content to:

• defame, harass, threaten, or unlawfully target any person or entity;
• infringe any third party's intellectual property rights;
• breach the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Spam Act 2003 (Cth), or any other Australian law;
• discriminate against any person on the basis of a protected attribute under Commonwealth, state, or territory law;
• plan, promote, or facilitate any unlawful activity.

7. Account hygiene

• Permit only employees and contractors of your firm to access your Account, and only via individually-named user credentials (no shared logins).
• Keep credentials confidential. Do not store credentials in plaintext, in source control, or in any unsecured channel.
• Notify us at contact@regmonitor.com.au immediately if you suspect unauthorised access to your Account.
• Update your firm profile when your practice areas, jurisdictions, or contact details change.

8. Reporting abuse or vulnerabilities

If you become aware of a breach of this policy by another user, of a security vulnerability in the Service, or of any other misuse, email us at contact@regmonitor.com.au. We treat security reports seriously and will not pursue action against good-faith researchers who report a vulnerability promptly and do not exploit it beyond what is necessary to demonstrate the issue.

9. Consequences of breach

We may suspend or terminate your Account for breach of this policy under clause 4 of the Terms of Service. Suspension for clauses 3, 4, 5, or 6 of this policy may be without notice where the breach is ongoing or material. We may report unlawful conduct to the relevant regulator or law-enforcement agency.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify subscribers of material changes by email at least 30 days before they take effect, except where the change is required by law or to address a security risk.

Contact

Questions about this policy: REG MON AUS PTY LTD, contact@regmonitor.com.au.