ILLUGEN PROHIBTED USE POLICY

This Prohibited Use Policy (“Policy”) supplements the ILLUGEN Services Agreement (“Services Agreement”) and applies to your access and use of the Services, including any User Inputs you provide and your Audio Outputs. Capitalized but undefined terms used herein have the meanings set forth in the Services Agreement.

Prohibited Uses:

  1. Do not threaten child safety

    For example, this includes accessing or using the Services to:
    1. Create, distribute or promote sexually explicit material involving minors, or otherwise facilitate or promote the exploitation or sexualization of children, including minor grooming, nudity, or use of any material designed to impersonate a minor. We report material containing apparent child sexual abuse material to the relevant authorities and organizations where required by law or as we may otherwise deem appropriate in our reasonable discretion.
    2. Create, distribute, or share age-inappropriate material, including material that targets minors and promotes sexual material, graphic violence, obscenity, or other mature themes.
    3. Facilitate or promote child abuse or exploitation in any form.
    4. Facilitate or otherwise contribute to cyberbullying or harassment of any minor, including without limitation by creating, distributing, or sharing material that shames, humiliates, bullies, or celebrates the suffering of any minor, or material that threatens a minor with bullying or harassment.
  2. Do not engage in illegal behavior

    For example, this includes accessing or using the Services to:
    1. Infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate another party's intellectual property rights.
    2. Violate another party's privacy rights, as defined under applicable law.
    3. Create or facilitate the exchange of illegal goods, services, or substances, including, without limitation, material that promotes or facilitates transactions in illegal drugs, firearms or explosive weapons, weapon development, other dangerous materials, counterfeit or deceptive goods or services, human trafficking, or sexual services.
  3. Do not engage in fraudulent, predatory, or abusive practices

    For example, this includes accessing or using the Services to:
    1. Manipulate or deceive others in any manner likely to cause harm, including efforts to gain unauthorized access to non-public information, including credit card details and bank accounts, social security numbers, health data, or other sensitive information.
    2. Defraud others, including via financial or other scams.
    3. Evade product guardrails, including voice verification mechanisms such as Voice CAPTCHA.
    4. Engage in or facilitate unauthorized robocalling, meaning the use of automated dialling systems or artificial/pre-recorded voice messages to place phone calls to individuals or businesses without direct human intervention.
    5. Promote or facilitate the generation or distribution of spam.
  4. Do not create violent, hateful, or harassing material outside of fictional contexts

    For example, this includes accessing or using the Services to:
    1. Create, distribute, or engage in violent threats, extremism, or terrorism, including material that threatens, incites, or promotes violence against an individual or group.
    2. Engage in, promote, or facilitate human trafficking, sexual violence, or other exploitation.
    3. Discriminate based on protected characteristics, including race, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or physical ability.
    4. Promote or facilitate harassment, including material that promotes harassing, threatening, intimidating, predatory, or stalking conduct or that otherwise promotes or celebrates the suffering of individuals or groups of individuals.
    5. Promote or facilitate self-harm, including suicide or eating disorders.
    6. Create, promote, or facilitate the spread of misinformation, including denying the existence of specific health conditions and other medical misinformation.
    7. Promote or facilitate the use of harassing debt collection practices.

    This section does not apply to activity in purely fictional contexts (e.g. violent speech by a character in a book, video game or movie) or when it is part of reporting on newsworthy activity by third parties (e.g. a news anchor reporting on terrorist activities).

  5. Do not use the Services in any manner contrary to Waves’s policies, purpose, or mission

    This includes:
    1. Selling, reselling, renting, leasing, loaning, assigning, distributing, performing, licensing, sublicensing, or commercially using or exploiting any Audio Output (or any portion thereof) on a standalone basis for any purpose, including as isolated files, audio samples, music or sound, libraries, or other collections of sounds.
    2. Using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods designed to scrape or extract data from the Services, except in accordance with instructions contained in our robot.txt file and only to compile for search results.
    3. Modifying the Services, removing any proprietary rights notices or markings associated with Audio Output or the Services, or otherwise making any derivative works based upon the Services.
    4. Using or attempting to use another user’s Account or information without authorization from that user (or their organization for corporate accounts) and Waves.
    5. Using the Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying the Services or that could intentionally or negligently damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of the Services in any manner.
    6. Decompiling, disassembling, reverse compile, translate, engage in model extraction or stealing attacks, or otherwise reverse engineering or attempting to discover the source code or underlying components of the Platform or the Services, or doing anything that might discover or reveal source code or model weights, or bypass or circumvent (i) measures employed to prevent or limit access to or use of any part of the Services or (ii) restrictions aimed at deterring or preventing uses of the Services that violate this Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, if you reside in a jurisdiction that expressly prohibits such restrictions, you must provide Waves with prior written authorization before engaging in any such activities, and Waves may, in its discretion, either provide such information to you or impose reasonable conditions, including a reasonable fee, on such use of Waves’ source code for the Services to ensure Waves’ (and our suppliers’) proprietary rights in such source code are protected.
    7. Using any part of the Services or Audio Outputs to research and develop products, models, or services that compete with Waves (or its third part suppliers), or otherwise compete with Waves.
    8. Using any part of the Services or the Audio Outputs as input for any machine learning or training of artificial intelligence models.
    9. Using any part of the Services or the Audio Output as part of a dataset that may be used for training, fine-tuning, developing, testing, or improving any machine learning or artificial intelligence technology.
    10. Making any use of the Services or the Audio Outputs in ways that would be classified as “prohibited” or “high-risk” or by a similar description under applicable law, including Applicable AI Laws. “Applicable AI Laws” means applicable legislation or regulations related to artificial intelligence and/or automated decision-making, including the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. While Waves may review a your proposed use case for the Services, you are nevertheless responsible for: (i) as a deployer, independently conducting an analysis of their classifications under Applicable AI Laws; and (ii) otherwise ensuring compliance with all other laws to which you are subject.
    11. Making the Services available to anyone under the age of 18, or anyone between the ages of 16-18 without first obtaining parental or guardian consent or otherwise using the Services to make available bundled solutions that target anyone under the age of 16.

Enforcement

Enforcement of this Policy is at Waves’ sole discretion, and any failure of Waves to enforce this Policy in every instance does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce it in other instances. This Policy does not create any right or private right of action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that the Services will not contain any material that is prohibited by this Policy or that objectionable material will be promptly removed after it has been posted. We use a combination of automated systems, user reports, and human review to assess material and usage that may violate this Policy. For users who violate this Policy, we may remove the violating material and/or suspend your access to and use of the Services. For certain material that poses a real-world risk of harm, we reserve the right to contact or cooperate with relevant law enforcement authorities.