Acceptable Use Policy
Last updated 28 July 2026
A board is private, and we do not go looking through them. That freedom depends on this policy being kept. It forms part of the Terms of Service, and breaking it is grounds for Northem suspending or closing an account on Cinderra.
01Nothing illegal
Do not use the service to store, share or plan anything unlawful under Norwegian law or the law where you are. That includes, and is not limited to:
- Material that sexually exploits or endangers children. This is reported to the authorities and the account is closed without notice or appeal.
- Content that incites violence or terrorism, or that promotes it.
- Material that infringes copyright, trademarks or other intellectual property you do not have the right to use.
- Personal data collected or shared in breach of data protection law.
- Fraud, phishing kits, stolen credentials, or the proceeds of any of them.
02Nothing that targets people
Do not use shared boards or invitations to harass, threaten, stalk or defame anyone, to publish someone’s private information without their consent, or to impersonate another person or organisation.
Do not use the service to distribute malware, spyware, or anything designed to compromise a device or account.
Board invitations are not a mailing list. Do not use them to send unsolicited bulk messages.
03Nothing that attacks the service
- Do not probe, scan or test the security of the service except as the Security page invites you to. Responsible disclosure is welcome; unannounced penetration testing is not.
- Do not attempt to access another user’s account, board or files.
- Do not circumvent rate limits, storage quotas or plan restrictions, or create accounts in bulk to get around them.
- Do not place a load on the infrastructure that degrades it for other people — automated scraping, unbounded request loops, or using board storage as a general-purpose file host or content delivery network.
- Do not resell access, or run the service on behalf of third parties as if it were your own.
04How this is enforced
We do not scan the contents of private boards. We act on reports, on abuse signals from our providers, and on legal demands.
Where we can, the first step is an email explaining the problem and giving you a chance to fix it. Where the breach is severe — child sexual abuse material, an active attack, a credible threat to someone — we suspend first and explain afterwards.
Suspension makes an account read-only so you can still export. Closure removes the content on the schedule set out in the Privacy Policy.
If you think we have made a mistake, reply to the notice. A human reads it.
05Reporting abuse
Write to admin@northem.no with the board or share link, what you believe is wrong with it, and how to reach you. Reports about children’s safety and credible threats are handled first.
If you are a rights holder reporting infringement, include enough detail to identify both the work and the material, and a statement that you are authorised to act.
In short
Nothing illegal, nothing aimed at hurting people, nothing aimed at breaking the service. Everything above is that, with the specifics filled in.
- Illegal contentChild sexual abuse material, terrorist content, stolen data and material you have no right to distribute. This is the line we act on immediately.
- Targeting peopleNo harassment, no doxxing, no impersonation, no material designed to frighten or humiliate someone.
- Attacking the serviceNo malware, no phishing pages, no scraping other users, no hammering the API hard enough to degrade it for everyone else.
- How we find outWe do not scan private boards. We act on reports, on provider abuse signals, and on legal demands.
- What happensNormally an email and a chance to fix it. For the severe cases we suspend first and explain after. Suspension leaves the account readable so you can still export.
- If we are wrongReply to the notice. A person reads it, not a queue.
This summary is here to be read, not relied on. It is not part of the Acceptable Use Policy and it does not change a word of what is above it — where the two disagree, the document wins.