Acceptable Use Policy

Effective version: 2026-04-16

This Acceptable Use Policy is part of our Terms of Service. Violating it may result in account suspension or termination.

You may not use Timeline Scan to:

• Upload, store, or transmit content depicting the sexual exploitation or abuse of any minor. Every uploaded image is scanned against the NCMEC CSAM database; matches are reported to law enforcement.
• Upload content you do not have the right to upload, including photographs of identifiable people who have not consented to your use of the Service to process their image.
• Use the Service for commercial data-aggregation, resale, or redistribution of any content, including any kind of facial-recognition service offered to third parties.
• Attempt to identify, locate, surveil, or track strangers using face embeddings or any other feature of the Service.
• Attempt to extract, scrape, reverse-engineer, or otherwise obtain the underlying machine-learning models, embeddings of other users, or other technical infrastructure of the Service.
• Probe, attack, or interfere with the Service’s security or availability, including by attempting to overwhelm rate limits, bypass authentication, or access another user’s data.
• Use the Service to violate any applicable law or third party’s rights, including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights.
• Share account credentials, create accounts on behalf of others without authorization, or operate more than one account per person without our written permission.

Reporting violations

If you believe another user is violating this policy, email support@timelinescan.com.