Acceptable Use Policy

01General Rule

You may use Arena Battles only for legitimate purposes consistent with our Terms of Service, Competition Rules, Community Guidelines, Enforcement Policy, and other applicable policies.

You may not use Arena Battles in a manner that:

• disrupts the service;
• harms another user;
• circumvents platform restrictions;
• compromises security;
• manipulates platform systems;
• facilitates fraud or unlawful activity;
• or creates an unreasonable burden on Arena Battles infrastructure.

02Unauthorized Access

Users may not access or attempt to access:

• another user's account;
• restricted administrative areas;
• private platform systems;
• internal APIs not intended for public use;
• non-public data;
• authentication systems;
• or other resources they are not authorized to access.

Attempts to bypass authentication, authorization, permissions, or access controls are prohibited.

03Account and Session Abuse

Users may not:

• steal or hijack accounts;
• use credentials without authorization;
• bypass login or authentication requirements;
• manipulate sessions or authentication tokens;
• intentionally maintain unauthorized sessions;
• or interfere with account security mechanisms.

Users are responsible for protecting their own credentials.

04Automated Access

Users may not use bots, scripts, automated clients, browser automation, or other automated systems to interact with Arena Battles unless expressly authorized.

Prohibited automation may include:

• automatically creating accounts;
• posting challenges;
• accepting challenges;
• sending messages;
• joining teams;
• submitting results;
• submitting reports;
• scraping profiles;
• manipulating rankings;
• or repeatedly accessing platform endpoints.

Arena Battles may permit specific approved integrations or automated tools separately.

05Scraping and Data Harvesting

Users may not scrape, crawl, harvest, extract, or systematically collect data from Arena Battles without authorization.

This includes automated collection of:

• player profiles;
• usernames;
• statistics;
• match history;
• team information;
• rankings;
• messages;
• email addresses;
• account information;
• or other platform data.

Ordinary manual viewing and use of publicly available information is not prohibited by this section.

06Rate Limit and Resource Abuse

Users may not intentionally overwhelm, degrade, or place unreasonable load on Arena Battles systems.

Prohibited conduct includes:

• excessive automated requests;
• attempts to bypass rate limits;
• repeated request flooding;
• denial-of-service activity;
• abusive polling;
• unnecessary repeated uploads;
• or other behavior that materially burdens the service.

07Security Testing and Vulnerability Exploitation

Users may not probe, scan, test, exploit, or attempt to exploit Arena Battles systems without prior authorization.

This includes:

• vulnerability scanning;
• penetration testing;
• authentication bypass attempts;
• injection attacks;
• privilege escalation;
• exploit development against Arena Battles;
• or unauthorized access to infrastructure.

Discovering a vulnerability does not authorize exploiting it.

Users who discover a suspected security issue should report it responsibly.

08Platform Exploits

Users may not knowingly exploit bugs, errors, race conditions, logic flaws, or unintended behavior in Arena Battles systems.

This includes exploiting:

• challenge creation;
• match creation;
• map generation;
• vetoes;
• check-in;
• result reporting;
• disputes;
• rankings;
• XP;
• achievements;
• notifications;
• team management;
• profile systems;
• or other platform features.

Users should report significant platform vulnerabilities or exploits rather than abuse them.

09Ranking, XP, and Progression Manipulation

Users may not manipulate Arena Battles platform systems to artificially alter:

• rankings;
• XP;
• records;
• achievements;
• standings;
• qualification;
• or other progression.

Competitive manipulation is also governed by the Competition Rules.

10Spam and Bulk Activity

Users may not use Arena Battles for excessive, repetitive, unsolicited, or automated activity.

This includes:

• challenge spam;
• team invitation spam;
• mass messaging;
• repetitive reports;
• repetitive support submissions;
• automated account creation;
• or other bulk behavior that disrupts normal use.

11Fraudulent Platform Use

Users may not use Arena Battles to engage in deceptive or fraudulent conduct.

This includes:

• fake identities used for fraud;
• falsified account information;
• fraudulent support claims;
• fabricated evidence;
• deceptive links;
• fake giveaways;
• phishing;
• credential theft;
• or attempts to obtain money, accounts, or information through deception.

12Malicious Software and Content

Users may not upload, distribute, link to, or transmit:

• malware;
• viruses;
• ransomware;
• credential-stealing software;
• malicious scripts;
• harmful executables;
• phishing pages;
• or other malicious content.

Attempts to compromise user devices or Arena Battles systems may result in immediate enforcement.

13Unauthorized API or Integration Use

Users may not access, imitate, reproduce, or use Arena Battles APIs or integrations except as expressly authorized.

Users may not:

• reverse engineer private API behavior to circumvent intended access;
• use stolen or unauthorized credentials;
• imitate trusted integrations;
• or use API endpoints for prohibited automation or scraping.

Approved integrations may be subject to separate terms.

14Reverse Engineering and Circumvention

Except where applicable law permits otherwise, users may not:

• reverse engineer;
• decompile;
• disassemble;
• bypass;
• circumvent;
• or interfere with technical protections or security mechanisms used by Arena Battles.

This does not prevent legitimate use of publicly documented interfaces or lawful security research expressly authorized by Arena Battles.

15Circumventing Restrictions

Users may not bypass restrictions imposed by Arena Battles.

This includes attempts to circumvent:

• suspensions;
• bans;
• rate limits;
• account restrictions;
• feature restrictions;
• ladder restrictions;
• geographic restrictions;
• access permissions;
• or technical controls.

Using another account, device, network, or identity to evade restrictions may result in additional enforcement.

16Impersonating Arena Battles Systems or Staff

Users may not create websites, messages, software, accounts, or communications designed to falsely appear to be official Arena Battles services or staff.

This includes fake:

• login pages;
• support communications;
• moderation notices;
• staff accounts;
• or security alerts.

17Interference With Other Users

Users may not intentionally interfere with another person's ability to use Arena Battles.

This includes:

• attempting to lock users out of accounts;
• flooding another user with requests;
• abusing reporting systems against a user;
• manipulating challenges to disrupt competition;
• or deliberately interfering with another user's access to platform features.

18Unauthorized Commercial Use

Arena Battles may restrict commercial exploitation of the platform without permission.

Users may not, without authorization:

• resell platform access;
• sell automated access;
• commercially harvest platform data;
• operate unauthorized services using Arena Battles data;
• or misrepresent a commercial relationship with Arena Battles.

Normal team sponsorships, player representation, content creation, or other legitimate community activity are not prohibited solely because they are commercial in nature.

19User-Generated Content

Users may not use uploads, profile fields, messages, or other Arena Battles features to distribute content prohibited by our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.

Uploaded files must not be used to distribute malicious or unlawful material.

Arena Battles may remove or restrict content that creates technical, legal, safety, or security risks.

20Intellectual Property Misuse

Users may not use Arena Battles to knowingly distribute content that infringes another person's intellectual property rights.

Copyright complaints and related procedures are addressed separately in the Arena Battles Copyright / DMCA Policy.

21Illegal Activity

Arena Battles may not be used to facilitate unlawful activity.

This includes, where applicable:

• fraud;
• theft;
• unauthorized computer access;
• trafficking in stolen accounts;
• threats;
• malicious hacking;
• or other illegal conduct.

22Security and Integrity Measures

Arena Battles may use reasonable technical and operational measures to detect and prevent abuse.

These may include:

• rate limiting;
• access controls;
• logging;
• abuse detection;
• automated signals;
• manual review;
• account restrictions;
• or other security measures.

Users may not intentionally interfere with those protections.

23Investigations

Arena Battles may investigate suspected misuse using reasonably relevant information, including:

• platform logs;
• account activity;
• request patterns;
• device or session information where permitted;
• reports;
• uploaded evidence;
• security signals;
• and related platform records.

Investigations and enforcement are governed by applicable Arena Battles policies.

24Enforcement

Violations of this Acceptable Use Policy may result in action under the Arena Battles Enforcement Policy.

Possible actions may include:

• warnings;
• feature restrictions;
• rate limiting;
• removal of content;
• competitive restrictions;
• temporary suspension;
• permanent account bans;
• team-related restrictions;
• or other appropriate measures.

Serious security, fraud, malware, or unauthorized-access violations may result in immediate enforcement.

25Responsible Security Reporting

If you believe you have discovered a vulnerability in Arena Battles, do not exploit it or access information beyond what is reasonably necessary to identify the issue.

Please report suspected security issues through Arena Battles support.

Arena Battles may provide additional security reporting procedures in the future.

26No Authorization From This Policy

Nothing in this Acceptable Use Policy grants permission to:

• perform security testing;
• scrape Arena Battles;
• use automated access;
• access private systems;
• or conduct activities that otherwise require authorization.

Authorization must be provided separately by Arena Battles.

27Policy Updates

Arena Battles may update this Acceptable Use Policy as the platform, technology, and security environment evolve.

Material changes may be communicated through the platform.

Continued use after an updated policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.

28Relationship to Other Policies

This Acceptable Use Policy governs technical and platform misuse.

Other Arena Battles policies address related areas:

Competition Rules

Fair competition, cheating, match manipulation, results, disputes, and competitive integrity.

Community Guidelines

Player conduct, harassment, communication, safety, and user-generated content.

Enforcement Policy

Warnings, restrictions, suspensions, bans, investigations, and appeals.

Terms of Service

Your legal agreement governing use of Arena Battles.

Privacy Policy

How Arena Battles handles personal information.

If multiple policies apply to the same conduct, Arena Battles may take action under each applicable policy.

29Questions and Reporting

Questions regarding this Acceptable Use Policy or suspected platform abuse may be submitted through Arena Battles support.

Legal inquiries may be sent to:

legal@arenabattles.gg

Arena Battles LLC