This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") explains the rules that apply when using COMA Media Server ("COMA", "we", "our", or "us"), including our website, account platform, software, applications, APIs, accounts, and related services available through comamediaserver.com.

By using COMA, you agree to comply with this Policy, our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and any other applicable rules or notices.

1. Purpose of This Policy

COMA is designed as a self-hosted media server platform for lawful personal, household, educational, organisational, or business use.

This Policy is intended to protect COMA, its users, third parties, copyright owners, service providers, and the wider internet from misuse, abuse, unlawful activity, and security risks.

2. User Responsibility

You are responsible for how you use COMA and for all activity carried out through your account, plan, server, installation, or shared libraries.

You are also responsible for ensuring that any users invited to access your COMA server comply with this Policy.

3. Lawful Use Only

You must not use COMA for any unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, abusive, or unauthorised purpose.

You must comply with all laws and regulations that apply to you, your server, your content, your users, and your jurisdiction.

4. Copyright and Media Content

COMA does not provide, host, supply, sell, or distribute movies, television programmes, music, or other media content.

You must only use COMA with content that you legally own, have created, have licensed, or otherwise have the legal right to access, store, stream, or share.

You must not use COMA to:

• Share pirated or infringing media;
• Operate an unlawful streaming service;
• Distribute copyrighted works without permission;
• Sell access to media you do not have rights to distribute;
• Encourage or facilitate copyright infringement;
• Use COMA as part of a piracy, indexing, or illegal streaming network.

5. Prohibited Content

You must not use COMA to store, index, stream, transmit, share, or promote content that is unlawful or seriously harmful, including:

• Child sexual abuse material or exploitative content involving minors;
• Non-consensual intimate images;
• Content promoting terrorism or violent extremism;
• Content that unlawfully incites violence or hatred;
• Malware, ransomware, spyware, or harmful code;
• Fraudulent, deceptive, or phishing material;
• Content that violates privacy, data protection, or intellectual property rights;
• Any content illegal in the jurisdiction where it is stored, shared, accessed, or operated.

6. Security Abuse

You must not use COMA or any associated infrastructure to attack, disrupt, compromise, or interfere with systems, networks, services, or users.

Prohibited activity includes:

• Unauthorised access attempts;
• Password guessing, credential stuffing, or brute-force attacks;
• Scanning, probing, or exploiting systems without permission;
• Distributing malware or malicious scripts;
• Launching denial-of-service attacks;
• Interfering with COMA account, authentication, or payment systems;
• Attempting to bypass technical, security, or plan restrictions.

7. Account, plan, and Payment Abuse

You must not misuse COMA accounts, plans, trials, subscriptions, or payment systems.

You must not:

• Share access keys outside the permitted plan tier;
• Sell, rent, lease, or transfer plans without permission;
• Use stolen payment details;
• Abuse refund, chargeback, or dispute processes;
• Create accounts to evade bans, suspensions, limits, or enforcement action;
• Reverse engineer, tamper with, or bypass plan verification;
• Use modified builds designed to defeat payment, plan, or user limits.

8. Commercial Use and Resale

You must not resell COMA, sell hosted COMA access, operate a commercial streaming service, or use COMA as part of a paid media distribution platform unless expressly permitted by your plan or agreed in writing by COMA.

Commercial use may require a separate plan, written approval, or additional terms.

9. Remote Sharing and Invited Users

If you invite other users to access your COMA server, you are responsible for ensuring that access is lawful and appropriately controlled.

You must not use remote sharing features to provide unauthorised public access to copyrighted or unlawful content.

You should use strong passwords, secure remote access, and appropriate user permissions.

10. API and Service Abuse

You must not abuse COMA APIs, account endpoints, authentication systems, or other online services.

Prohibited activity includes:

• Excessive automated requests;
• Scraping, harvesting, or extracting data without permission;
• Circumventing rate limits;
• Interfering with service availability;
• Using bots or automated systems to abuse accounts, trials, payments, or plans;
• Sending false, forged, or misleading requests.

11. Email and Communications Abuse

You must not use COMA systems, servers, or integrations to send spam, phishing messages, abusive communications, malware, or unlawful marketing.

If COMA provides email-related functionality, you must comply with applicable email, marketing, privacy, and anti-spam laws.

12. Privacy and Personal Data

You must not use COMA to unlawfully collect, store, expose, sell, or misuse personal data.

If you operate a COMA server for other users, you are responsible for complying with applicable privacy and data protection laws, including providing appropriate notices where required.

13. Fair Usage

Where COMA provides online services such as account, authentication, APIs, updates, or cloud-assisted features, you must use them fairly and reasonably.

We may apply rate limits, technical restrictions, suspensions, or other controls to prevent abuse, instability, excessive load, or harm to other users.

14. Reporting Abuse

If you believe COMA is being used unlawfully or in breach of this Policy, please contact us with enough information to investigate.

Reports should include, where available:

• A description of the issue;
• Relevant URLs, account details, plan references, or server identifiers;
• Evidence supporting the report;
• Your contact details;
• Any legal notices or rights holder information where relevant.

15. Enforcement

If we believe this Policy has been breached, we may take action including:

• Issuing warnings;
• Restricting features;
• Suspending accounts;
• Suspending or revoking plans;
• Blocking access to COMA services;
• Disabling plan verification for abusive installations;
• Reporting unlawful activity to relevant authorities;
• Taking legal action where appropriate.

We may act without prior notice where necessary to protect users, systems, rights holders, third parties, or COMA infrastructure.

16. No Monitoring Obligation

COMA is a self-hosted platform. We do not routinely monitor, inspect, or review user-hosted media libraries.

However, we may investigate reports of abuse, unlawful activity, plan misuse, payment fraud, or security threats where reasonably necessary.

17. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy periodically to reflect changes in law, technology, risk, or COMA services.

Updated versions will be published on comamediaserver.com. Continued use of COMA after changes are published constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.

18. Contact

Website: comamediaserver.com

Support Email: support@comamediaserver.com

Abuse Reports: abuse@comamediaserver.com

Copyright Notices: copyright@comamediaserver.com