1. Scope
This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all visitors, submitters, advertisers, featured listings, and published directory entries on ToolVetter. It applies to both free and paid submissions, including featured placements and any related promotional materials.
2. Content standards and prohibited categories
ToolVetter does not allow listings, submitted materials, promotional content, or products whose primary purpose or marketed use promotes, enables, creates, or distributes unlawful, deceptive, or harmful content. The following six categories are expressly prohibited:
- Pornographic, sexually explicit, or NSFW content: including services centered on explicit sexual material, sexually provocative generation, or non-consensual intimate imagery.
- Graphic violence or gore: including content that glorifies, encourages, or graphically depicts serious physical harm, torture, mutilation, or death without a legitimate educational, documentary, or public-interest context.
- Hate speech or discriminatory content: including content that attacks, dehumanizes, threatens, or promotes hatred or exclusion against people based on protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or similar status.
- Child-unsafe content and child sexual abuse material (CSAM): including any sexualized content involving minors or apparent minors, grooming, exploitation, or tools intended to create, locate, alter, or distribute such material. We apply zero tolerance to this category.
- Deepfakes, impersonation, or non-consensual identity manipulation: including face swaps, fabricated images or statements, voice cloning, and other uses of a real person’s identity or likeness that are deceptive, harmful, or lack appropriate authorization.
- Copyright or trademark infringement: including pirated material, unauthorized distribution of protected works, counterfeit goods or services, misuse of logos or brand identities, and tools or listings primarily marketed to facilitate infringement.
These standards apply to the submitted product, its destination website, listing copy, logos, screenshots, uploaded files, promotional claims, and any other material supplied to ToolVetter.
3. Additional prohibited conduct and listings
We also prohibit submissions or listings primarily associated with:
- Fraud, phishing, social engineering, malware, credential theft, or abusive automation
- Non-consensual image, voice, or likeness manipulation
- Dating, flirting, romantic companion, or artificial relationship tools marketed around intimate or emotionally dependent use cases
- Synthetic voice cloning or celebrity-style voice imitation marketed as impersonation or substitution
- Misleading claims of affiliation, endorsement, certification, or official partnership
- Attempts to evade our review process or conceal a product’s principal use case
Submitters may not use ToolVetter to promote content that encourages unsafe or deceptive use of AI systems. We may reject or remove submissions that emphasize restricted marketing language such as “uncensored,” “no filter,” “18+,” or similar framing tied to unsafe content generation.
If a listing references third-party model providers or model families, the listing must not falsely imply affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship, or official status. ToolVetter remains an independent directory.
4. Reporting prohibited content
Anyone may report a listing, submission, destination website, or promotional material that appears to violate this policy by emailing [email protected] with the subject line Policy Report.
Please include, where available:
- The ToolVetter page URL and the destination website URL
- The prohibited category or conduct involved
- A clear description of the concern and any supporting screenshots or other evidence
- Your contact details if you would like a response; anonymous reports are also accepted
We treat reporter information as confidential except where disclosure is required by law or necessary to investigate an immediate safety risk. Reports involving child safety, credible threats, or imminent physical harm receive priority review. Knowingly false or abusive reports may be disregarded.
5. Review and enforcement
Reports and flagged submissions are reviewed manually using the information reasonably available to us. We aim to acknowledge ordinary reports within three business days and provide an initial outcome within ten business days. Complex investigations may take longer, and urgent safety matters may be handled immediately.
Depending on the nature and severity of a violation, we may request changes, reject a submission, remove a listing, disable featured status, restrict or permanently block future submissions from a domain or sender, preserve relevant evidence, or notify an appropriate service provider or competent authority where required by law.
Payment or featured status does not limit our ability to enforce this policy. Refund eligibility remains governed by our Terms of Service.
6. Advertising and featured placements
Featured placement is a promotional visibility option inside our directory. It does not grant permission to advertise prohibited content, and it does not override our editorial, legal, or compliance review standards.
We may reject, remove, unfeature, or refund a submission if we determine that the promoted product or its marketing materials fall into a prohibited or restricted category under this policy, our Terms of Service, or applicable payment-partner requirements.
7. Appeals and contact
If you believe a listing or submission was restricted in error, email [email protected] with the subject line Policy Appeal, identify the affected listing, and explain why you believe the decision should be reconsidered. Where practicable, the appeal will be reviewed separately from the initial decision.
If you are unsure whether a product is eligible for listing, contact [email protected] before submitting. You should also review our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer.