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Why is this relevant?

Browsing a website from your actual location rather than through a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is important for several reasons, primarily revolving around the accuracy of information, compliance with legal requirements, and ensuring appropriate access.

Accurate Content and Services:

Websites often provide content and services tailored to specific geographic regions. This could include localized news, pricing, availability of products/services, or language-specific content. Accessing a website through a VPN may misrepresent your location, leading to inaccurate or irrelevant content being displayed. For example, you might see prices in a currency that doesn't match your actual location, or services that are not available in your region may appear accessible.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance:

Many websites and online services are subject to legal and regulatory requirements specific to certain regions. For instance, data privacy laws such as GDPR in Europe or CCPA in California impose restrictions on how personal data is collected, stored, and processed based on the user's location. Accessing a website through a VPN might mask your actual location, potentially leading to non-compliance with these regulations if you're interacting with content or services not meant for your actual geographic area.

Security Concerns:

VPNs are often used to enhance online security and privacy by encrypting internet traffic and masking IP addresses. However, some websites might restrict or block access from VPN IP addresses due to concerns over abuse or malicious activities. Attempting to access such websites through a VPN could result in denied access or additional security challenges.

Quality of Service:

Some websites or online services might adjust their performance or service levels based on the user's geographical location. This could affect factors like server response times, network latency, or overall service quality. Using a VPN might inadvertently route your traffic through servers that are not optimized for the best performance, impacting your user experience.

Ethical Considerations:

From an ethical standpoint, accessing content or services through a VPN to misrepresent your location might violate terms of service agreements or undermine the principles of fair use and access intended by content providers.

Acceptable Use Policy

PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY

Welcome to the Acceptable Use Policy section of our website. This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is part of the terms of use (the “Terms of Use”), found at bluecitycapital.com/legal/terms-of-use, governing your use and access to our services, including our website(s), our application(s), our application programming interfaces (APIs), our notifications and any information or content appearing therein (collectively our “Platform”). This AUP describes ways that you are not authorised to use any Platform, any materials (as defined in the Terms of Use) that appear on those Platforms and any services or products offered from any Platform (the “Services”).

In this AUP, ‘us', ‘we', and ‘our' means Blue City Capital Technologies, Inc (Company registration number 3215522).

USE OF PLATFORM

As this document is part of the Terms of Use, you agree not to misuse the Platform or help anyone else to do so. For example, you agree not to do any of the following in connection with the Platform:

use our Platform for unlawful or unauthorised purposes;

probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network;

breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures or service use limits;

access, tamper with, or use non-public areas or parts of the Platform;

interfere with or disrupt any user, host, or network, for example by sending a virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb, or any other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing any part of the Platform, or by scripting the creation of any content in such manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Platform;

reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Platform or any related technology that is not open source;

access, search, or create accounts for the Platform by any means (automated or otherwise) other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, "scraping" or creating accounts in bulk) or attempt to do so;

send unsolicited communications, promotions or advertisements, or spam;

forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email;

send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information, including "spoofing" or "phishing";

conduct surveys, contests, or pyramid schemes, or promote or advertise products or Services without appropriate authorisation;

abuse referrals or promotions;

post, publish, upload, display, distribute, or share non-authorised material including, but not limited to, material that is, in our opinion, likely to cause annoyance, or which is unlawful, inappropriate, profane, pornographic, obscene, indecent, libelous, defamatory, abusive, racist, threatening or knowingly false, and/or that infringe intellectual property rights;

violate the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use;

violate applicable laws or regulations in any way;

violate the privacy or infringe the rights of others;

violate or otherwise encroach on the rights of others, including, but not limited to, infringing or misappropriating any intellectual property or proprietary right of another;

advocate or induce illegal activity;

stalk, harass, or harm anyone;

impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; or

modify, alter, tamper with, repair, or otherwise create derivative works of any software included in the Services (except to the extent software included in the Services is provided to you under a separate license that expressly permits the creation of derivative works).

REPORT VIOLATIONS

You can report abuse of this AUP to abuse@bluecitycapital.com

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this AUP, please contact us at hello@bluecitycapital.com.

Last updated: 31st October 2023