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Pre-incorporation working draft, not yet in effect. Carried is not yet incorporated and is operated by its founder pending incorporation. These documents are published for transparency, will be reviewed by a licensed attorney, and will be finalized before any pilot or paid use. Entity name, jurisdiction, and effective dates remain placeholders until incorporation.

Effective Date: [not yet in effect] Last updated: 2026-06-13

Carried IP and Acceptable Use

This document combines two parts:

  • Part A: Acceptable Use Policy (contractual; incorporated into the Terms of Use).
  • Part B: Copyright and Intellectual Property Infringement Policy (contractual; US DMCA notice-and-takedown).

Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given to them in the Carried Terms of Use (the "Terms"). In this document, "we", "us", "our", and "Provider" mean Carried (pre-incorporation working name), [corporate form and jurisdiction — to be set on incorporation]; "you", "your", and "Customer" mean the organization and its Authorized Users using the Carried service (the "Service") at app.usecarried.com.

PART A: ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is incorporated into the Terms by reference. By using the Service, Customer and its Authorized Users agree to comply with this AUP. This AUP applies in addition to the Customer representations in the Terms (including authority and consents to record and upload individuals, and the prohibition on uploading certain sensitive data without a lawful basis).

A.1 Prohibited Conduct

Customer and its Authorized Users will not, and will not permit any person to:

A.1.1 Unlawful content and activity. Use the Service to upload, store, generate, or distribute content that is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, threatening, abusive, obscene, or that promotes illegal activity, or otherwise use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation.

A.1.2 Infringing intellectual property. Upload, store, or process content that infringes or misappropriates any third party's copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, or other intellectual property or proprietary right, or that violates any third party's right of publicity or privacy.

A.1.3 Personal data without authority or consent. Upload, record, transcribe, or otherwise submit any personal data relating to an individual without the authority and all consents and authorizations required under applicable law (including recording-consent, wiretap, electronic-communications, employment, and data-protection laws), as further set out in the Terms. This includes, without limitation, recording or uploading audio of any individual without that individual's required consent.

A.1.4 Sensitive data without a lawful basis. Upload special-category or sensitive personal data, health or medical information, biometric identifiers or biometric data, government-issued identification numbers, or payment card data, except where Customer has an independent, documented lawful basis and has conducted its own legal review, consistent with the Terms. The Service does not perform automated PII redaction, and Customer is solely responsible for what it submits.

A.1.5 Malware and harmful code. Upload, transmit, or introduce any virus, worm, trojan, ransomware, or other malicious code, or any file or input designed to disrupt, damage, disable, or gain unauthorized access to the Service, any system, or any data.

A.1.6 Reverse engineering and circumvention. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, models, prompts, ontology, or underlying structure of the Service, except to the limited extent applicable law expressly permits notwithstanding this restriction; or probe, scan, test the vulnerability of, or circumvent or attempt to circumvent any access control, authentication, rate limit, or security mechanism of the Service, including the email allow-list, one-time login codes, demo codes, and session controls.

A.1.7 Scraping and automated extraction. Use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access, harvest, or extract data from the Service except through interfaces that Provider expressly authorizes in writing.

A.1.8 Reselling and unauthorized access. Resell, sublicense, rent, lease, time-share, or provide the Service as a service bureau to any third party; share access codes outside Customer's Authorized Users; or enable, assist, or permit access by any person who is not an Authorized User.

A.1.9 Accessing another customer's data. Access or attempt to access, extract, infer, or interfere with any data, account, or environment of any other customer or of any individual whose data Customer is not authorized to access. Customer acknowledges that, during the beta or pilot period, database-level tenant isolation is not yet enforced (see the Terms), and that any attempt to access other customers' data is strictly prohibited and will be treated as a serious violation.

A.1.10 Output as a substitute for required judgment. Use Output as a substitute for the professional, engineering, scientific, legal, or regulatory judgment that applicable law, regulation, permit, standard, or sound practice requires, or rely on Output for the safety of persons, equipment, or the environment, or for compliance, without independent verification by qualified personnel. Output is decision-support only, as set out in the AI-Output Disclaimer in the Terms.

A.1.11 Service integrity and capacity. Use the Service in a manner that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionate load on the infrastructure, interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Service, or attempts to gain unauthorized access to Provider's systems or Subprocessors.

A.1.12 Misrepresentation. Impersonate any person or entity, misrepresent an affiliation, or falsify the source or origin of any content or input submitted to the Service.

A.2 Consequences of Violation

A.2.1 Provider may investigate suspected violations of this AUP and may remove or disable access to offending content.

A.2.2 Provider may suspend or terminate access to the Service, in whole or in part, in accordance with the suspension and termination provisions of the Terms, including immediate suspension where Provider reasonably believes there is a security risk, unlawful activity, infringement of third-party rights, or a threat to the Service or other customers.

A.2.3 A violation of this AUP is a material breach of the Terms. Customer remains responsible for the acts and omissions of its Authorized Users and for the indemnification obligations set out in the Terms.

A.2.4 Provider may report unlawful activity to, and cooperate with, law enforcement or other authorities as required by law.

PART B: COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT POLICY

Provider respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its customers and users to do the same. This Part B sets out Provider's policy and procedure for addressing claims of copyright infringement in accordance with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512 (the "DMCA"). This Part B is offered as a good-faith notice-and-takedown process. [PLACEHOLDER: founder and counsel decision. DMCA safe-harbor eligibility under 17 U.S.C. 512(c) generally requires registering a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office and meeting the statutory conditions. Confirm whether Provider qualifies as a service provider hosting user-submitted material and complete agent registration before relying on the safe harbor. Note that the Service is access-controlled and not a public hosting platform, which affects, but does not necessarily eliminate, the relevance of this process.]

B.1 Designated Copyright Agent

Notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to Provider's designated copyright agent:

[designated copyright agent — to be appointed] Email: hello@usecarried.com

Only notices of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to the designated agent. Other communications sent to the agent may not receive a response.

B.2 Submitting a Notice of Claimed Infringement (Takedown Notice)

If you are a copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of one, and you believe that material accessible through the Service infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notice to the designated copyright agent. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3), the notice must include substantially all of the following six elements:

B.2.1 A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly infringed.

B.2.2 Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.

B.2.3 Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to permit Provider to locate the material.

B.2.4 Information reasonably sufficient to permit Provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address.

B.2.5 A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

B.2.6 A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly infringed.

Note: Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

B.3 Provider's Removal Process

B.3.1 On receipt of a notice that substantially complies with Section B.2, Provider will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material claimed to be infringing.

B.3.2 Provider will take reasonable steps to notify the customer or user who submitted the affected material that the material has been removed or disabled.

B.3.3 If a notice does not substantially comply with the requirements of Section B.2, Provider may, but is not required to, contact the complaining party to request a corrected notice.

B.4 Counter-Notification

If you are a customer or user whose material has been removed or disabled and you believe that the removal was the result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to the designated copyright agent. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3), the counter-notification must include substantially all of the following elements:

B.4.1 A physical or electronic signature of the customer or user.

B.4.2 Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.

B.4.3 A statement under penalty of perjury that the customer or user has a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.

B.4.4 The customer's or user's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the customer or user consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or, if the address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Provider may be found, and that the customer or user will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or an agent of that person.

B.4.5 Note: Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be liable for damages.

B.5 Restoration After Counter-Notification

If Provider receives a valid counter-notification, Provider may forward it to the original complaining party. Unless the original complaining party notifies Provider that it has filed a court action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, Provider may restore the removed material in not less than ten (10) and not more than fourteen (14) business days after receiving the counter-notification, consistent with 17 U.S.C. 512(g).

B.6 Repeat-Infringer Policy

Consistent with 17 U.S.C. 512(i), Provider has adopted and will reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of customers or users who are repeat infringers. Provider may also suspend or terminate access for a single instance of egregious infringement. Determinations are made by Provider in its reasonable discretion.

B.7 General Trademark and Other IP Complaints

For complaints regarding trademark infringement, right of publicity, or other intellectual property matters (other than copyright, which is addressed above), please contact hello@usecarried.com with: (a) a description of the right asserted and proof of ownership or authority; (b) identification of the allegedly infringing material with information sufficient to locate it; (c) your contact information; and (d) a good-faith statement explaining the basis of the complaint. Provider will review such complaints and may remove or disable material or take other action it considers appropriate. This process is separate from, and does not follow, the DMCA procedures in Sections B.2 through B.5.

End of IP and Acceptable Use document.