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Acceptable Use Policy

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This policy explains permitted and prohibited uses of I Have a Contact.

The service is intended for lawful viewing of publicly available Instagram-related information.

You may use the service for lawful personal or business purposes that respect:

  • privacy
  • safety
  • applicable law
  • third-party rights
  • service limits
  • private-profile restrictions

You must not use the service to:

  • stalk, harass, threaten or intimidate another person
  • facilitate abuse, violence or coercion
  • target children or vulnerable people
  • locate someone for harmful purposes
  • evade Instagram privacy settings
  • attempt to retrieve private content
  • impersonate another person
  • make discriminatory eligibility or employment decisions based solely on social-media information
  • conduct unlawful surveillance
  • publish or sell personal information unlawfully
  • create dossiers intended to harm someone
  • automate or scrape the service without written permission
  • bypass search allowances
  • evade rate limits
  • rotate accounts or anonymous sessions to avoid controls
  • exploit bugs
  • interfere with Supabase, Stripe, HikerAPI, Resend or other infrastructure
  • upload malware or malicious content
  • test stolen credentials
  • submit passwords, tokens, payment details or secrets
  • use support requests for spam
  • submit knowingly false legal or content-removal claims
  • infringe copyright, privacy, publicity or other rights

Information being publicly available does not mean it may be used for:

  • harassment
  • discrimination
  • fraud
  • identity theft
  • threats
  • unwanted publication
  • unlawful profiling

You remain responsible for how you use information viewed through the service.

Automated access is prohibited unless hungryhuman gives written permission.

This includes:

  • bots
  • scripts
  • browser automation intended to extract data
  • circumvention of pagination limits
  • account farming
  • distributed allowance evasion

Private content is unavailable through the service.

You must not attempt to:

  • manipulate requests to access private content
  • forge access grants
  • submit unrelated profile or media identifiers
  • bypass authentication
  • obtain another user’s cached content

If you discover a security issue:

  • stop testing once sufficient information has been collected to explain the issue
  • do not access unrelated user data
  • do not destroy or alter data
  • use to report the issue
  • provide safe reproduction details

Do not publicly disclose an unresolved vulnerability before allowing a reasonable opportunity to investigate.

We may:

  • reject requests
  • limit access
  • suspend accounts
  • terminate accounts
  • cancel memberships
  • preserve relevant security records
  • report suspected unlawful conduct where required or appropriate

Enforcement decisions may consider severity, repetition, intent and risk.

Use for questions about permitted use or to report misuse.

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