The policy binds anyone who can submit inputs, including reseller and passthrough access
Anthropic's Usage Policy, also called the Acceptable Use Policy or AUP, applies to anyone who can submit inputs to Anthropic's products and/or services, including through any authorized resellers or passthrough access; the policy calls all of them users. Its stated aim is to help users stay safe and promote responsible use of the products and services. Coverage therefore follows the ability to submit inputs, not the holding of a consumer account or a particular purchase route.
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applies to anyone who can submit inputs to Anthropic’s products and/or services, including via any authorized resellers or passthrough access, all of whom we refer to as “users.”
The Usage Policy is intended to help our users stay safe and promote the responsible use of our products and services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Includes access obtained through authorized resellers or passthrough access.
Not stated here
The policy does not say how it applies to a person whose only access is through a third-party product that does not pass inputs to Anthropic.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
Anthropic may throttle, suspend or terminate access and may block or modify outputs
Anthropic's Safeguards Team implements detection and monitoring to enforce the policy, and the policy asks users to review it carefully before using the products or services. If Anthropic learns that a user has violated the Usage Policy, it may throttle, suspend, or terminate that user's access to the products and services. It may also block or modify model outputs when inputs violate the policy. The verbs are discretionary: the policy states what Anthropic may do, not a process it commits to follow, and it names no notice, appeal or reinstatement step.
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Anthropic’s Safeguards Team will implement detection and monitoring to enforce our Usage Policy
so please review this policy carefully before using our products or services.
If we learn that you have violated our Usage Policy, we may throttle, suspend, or terminate your access to our products and services.
We may also block or modify model outputs when inputs violate our Usage Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Enforcement follows a violation Anthropic learns of; the policy does not say how it learns of one beyond detection and monitoring.
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The policy states no notice, appeal, reinstatement or refund position for a throttled, suspended or terminated account.
The monitoring methods and thresholds the Safeguards Team uses are not stated.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Users may not coordinate malicious activity across accounts or automate account creation
Users may not coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts to avoid detection or circumvent product guardrails, or generate identical or similar inputs that otherwise violate the Usage Policy. The same section prohibits utilizing automation in account creation or to engage in spammy behavior. The first limb reaches coordination across accounts and repeated policy-violating inputs; the second reaches automated account creation and spammy automation.
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Do Not Abuse our Platform
This includes using our products or services to:
Coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts to avoid detection or circumvent product guardrails or generating identical or similar inputs that otherwise violate our Usage Policy
Utilize automation in account creation or to engage in spammy behavior
Qualifications & exceptions
Coordination across accounts is prohibited when used to avoid detection or circumvent guardrails, or when it generates identical or similar violating inputs.
Automation is prohibited in account creation and for spammy behavior.
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The policy does not say how identical or similar inputs are assessed.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Users may not circumvent a ban through another account or by giving banned parties access
Users may not circumvent a ban through the use of a different account, such as the creation of a new account, use of an existing account, or providing access to a person or entity that was previously banned. The examples show that circumvention includes both switching accounts and passing access to a banned person or entity.
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Circumvent a ban through the use of a different account, such as the creation of a new account, use of an existing account, or providing access to a person or entity that was previously banned
Qualifications & exceptions
The examples are new accounts, existing accounts, and providing access to a previously banned person or entity.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Users may not give Claude access to people in unsupported regions
Users may not access or facilitate account or API access to Claude to persons, entities, or users in violation of the Supported Regions Policy. The prohibition reaches both the user’s own access and facilitating access for others, and its scope is set by reference to the linked Supported Regions Policy.
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Access or facilitate account or API access to Claude to persons, entities, or users in violation of our Supported Regions Policy
Qualifications & exceptions
Both accessing and facilitating access for others are covered.
The governing list is the Supported Regions Policy linked from the source.
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The linked Supported Regions Policy text was not supplied in this source; the list of regions is therefore unknown here.