Acceptable Use.

Effective Date: July 2026 · probatum.foundation

[01]Purpose & Integrity

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) defines the guidelines for engaging Probatum — the site-visit process, the delivered fleet, the annual software & support license, and every other surface operated by Developum AI Engine. Probatum is built for law firms and enterprise legal departments handling privileged material. We require every buyer and every user inside a buyer's firm to conduct themselves with integrity, professionalism, respect for the confidentiality obligations of the profession, and respect for the physical and information security of the delivered fleet.

[02]Prohibited Activities

You may not use the Service, or permit any user within your firm to use the Service, to:

Compromise the Air Gap: Attach the delivered fleet to the public internet, a shared corporate wireless network, or any network path that would exfiltrate model outputs or ingested source material off-premises. The air-gap architecture is the security model — breaching it voids the warranty, terminates the annual license, and may create client-confidentiality exposure for your firm.
Sublicense or Resell: Sublicense, rent, resell, or expose the Probatum software or fleet as a service to any third party — including affiliated firms, co-counsel, or clients — without Probatum's prior written consent.
Reverse-Engineer: Disassemble, decompile, or reverse-engineer the Probatum software, orchestration engine, or delivered model weights. Coordinated disclosure of security findings is welcome at madbradsmith@gmail.com.
Physically Modify the Fleet: Swap, remove, or add GPUs, boards, storage, or firmware components outside of Probatum's authorized service procedure. Physical modification without written consent voids the hardware warranty.
Misuse the AI Layer: Ingest material that would be illegal to process (CSAM, sanctioned-party data your firm is legally barred from possessing, stolen data), attempt to extract model weights, or use the fleet to generate output for illegal fraud, defamation, or targeted harassment.
Misrepresent Provenance: Represent Probatum-staged drafts as attorney work-product without the attorney review the Terms of Service require, or hold the machine's work out to clients, courts, or opposing counsel as something it is not.
Interfere With Support: Impersonate Probatum personnel, spoof update-USB origin, or install unauthorized firmware/model images provided by anyone other than Probatum.
Violate Applicable Law: Use the Service in a way that violates export-control, securities, tax, anti-money-laundering, or professional-responsibility law applicable to your firm or your jurisdiction.

[03]Physical & Personnel Security

The Probatum fleet's security posture depends on your firm's physical custody of it. You agree to maintain reasonable physical-access controls to the server room housing the fleet, to limit administrator credentials to a defined set of firm personnel, and to notify Probatum promptly if the fleet is stolen, seized, or otherwise removed from the installed premises.

[04]Enforcement & Suspensions

We reserve the right to review support requests, blueprint records, and license telemetry (which is generated only when the annual-license USB is inserted for updates) to investigate suspected policy violations. Where a violation is found, we may — depending on severity — issue a warning, restrict specific support surfaces, suspend the annual license, or permanently terminate the license without refund of the current term. Serious violations (sublicensing, reverse-engineering, air-gap breach affecting client confidentiality) result in immediate termination without warning. Hardware ownership is unaffected.

[05]Reporting Violations

If you believe another user, another firm, or a Probatum service provider is violating this AUP, or you witness conduct that concerns you, report it to madbradsmith@gmail.com. We read every report, we follow up, and we keep reporter identities confidential where we can.

[06]Coordinated Security Disclosure

Security researchers who find vulnerabilities in the Probatum software, the update pipeline, or the hardware supply chain are encouraged to disclose them privately to madbradsmith@gmail.com. We commit to acknowledging within 72 hours and to credit researchers when a fix ships, with their permission.

[07]Updates

This Acceptable Use Policy will evolve as new hardware generations, service surfaces, and threat models come online. Material changes will be communicated to active-license buyers by email. Continued use of the Service constitutes agreement to the updated terms.

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