1. Scope & enforcement

This Acceptable Use Policy (the "AUP") applies to every account on Sendie and to every message sent through the Service. It is incorporated by reference into the Terms of Service; a violation of this AUP is a violation of those Terms.

We enforce this policy at our discretion. Enforcement steps may include — depending on the severity of the violation — a private warning, an automatic sending pause, a credit clawback, account suspension, account termination, and reporting to law enforcement or to your SMTP provider. We do not commit to a specific escalation ladder; serious violations may result in immediate termination without prior notice.

We do not pre-screen the messages you send and we have no general obligation to monitor your campaigns. We rely on bounce/complaint signals, recipient reports, third-party complaints, and our own periodic review to enforce this policy.

3. Prohibited list sources

You may not upload, import, paste, sync, or otherwise submit contact data obtained from any of the following sources:

If you cannot answer the question "where did you get this list and what gave you the right to use it" with a clear, documented answer, do not upload it.

4. Prohibited content

You may not use Sendie to send:

5. Prohibited behavior on the platform

You may not:

6. Sending hygiene & thresholds

Even where your list and content are lawful, you must maintain reasonable sending hygiene. Specifically:

Threshold-based automatic action. We monitor aggregate bounce and complaint rates per account. Accounts that consistently exceed industry-norm thresholds (typically: hard-bounce rate above ~8% or spam-complaint rate above ~0.5% over a meaningful sample of sends) may have their sending automatically paused pending review. The thresholds are not negotiable on a per-account basis; they are deliverability-hygiene defaults that protect the platform.

7. High-risk industries

The following industries are not permitted on the Service by default. Sending in these categories without prior written permission is a violation of this AUP:

If your business is in one of these categories and you believe you have a legitimate use case, contact us at abuse@sendie.ai before signing up. We may permit specific use cases on a case-by-case basis with additional contractual terms; we will not approve them after the fact in response to a suspension.

8. Security & integrity

You may not take any action intended to interfere with the security or proper functioning of the Service. Specifically:

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability, report it to security@sendie.ai rather than exploiting it. We respond to good-faith reports.

9. Account-level abuse

Each account is for a single individual or organisation. You may not:

10. What happens when you violate

Our enforcement is graduated but discretionary. Typical actions:

We do not commit to any specific escalation path. Severe violations — phishing campaigns, malware delivery, harassment, security attacks — typically result in immediate termination without prior warning.

11. Reporting abuse

If you believe a Sendie user is violating this policy — sending you spam, phishing you, harassing you, or otherwise misusing the Service — report it to abuse@sendie.ai. Useful information to include:

We investigate every abuse report and respond within 5 business days. Severe reports (active phishing, security incidents) are escalated immediately. We will not retaliate against good-faith reporters.

12. Contact

Questions about this AUP, or believe enforcement was applied to you in error? Email abuse@sendie.ai. For security vulnerabilities, security@sendie.ai. For general account questions, support@sendie.ai.

1. Acceptance

By creating an account or using Sendie (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy. If you are using Sendie on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Your account

3. Acceptable use

Sendie is a tool for legitimate business outreach. You are responsible for the content of every message you send and for complying with all applicable laws — including CAN-SPAM (US), GDPR & PECR (EU/UK), CASL (Canada), and the equivalent in your recipient's jurisdiction.

You must

You must not

Your representations and warranties about contact data

Every time you upload, import, paste, or otherwise submit contact data to Sendie, and every time you send a message through the Service, you represent and warrant to us that:

These representations are made by you, to us. We rely on them when we accept your data and route your messages, and a breach of any of them is a material breach of these Terms. You acknowledge that Sendie has no practical ability to verify the provenance of contact data you submit and is entitled to rely on your representations as a matter of contract.

Indemnification for compliance failures

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Sendie and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all third-party claims, losses, damages, fines, regulatory actions, settlements, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of or related to: (a) any breach by you of the representations and warranties in the preceding subsection; (b) the content of messages you send through the Service; (c) any claim by a third-party data provider that contact data you uploaded was obtained in breach of that provider's terms; or (d) any claim by a recipient or regulator that your processing of their personal data lacked a lawful basis. This obligation survives termination of these Terms.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section, and we may report violations to relevant authorities or ISPs. We may also automatically pause sending on accounts that hit elevated bounce or complaint thresholds as a deliverability and abuse-prevention measure.

4. SMTP & sending

Sendie sends mail through SMTP servers you configure. We do not provide email delivery infrastructure of our own by default.

5. Subscription, credits & payment

Paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis through Stripe. Plan features, monthly credit allotments, and prices are described on our pricing page and may change with reasonable notice.

6. How credits are spent

Most actions in the Service cost credits. Costs are stable but may be adjusted with notice:

Failed AI calls (server error, malformed response) refund automatically. Insufficient credit balances surface an unblocking modal pointing you to plans and top-up packs.

7. Lead submission & contribution rewards

You may contribute prospect data to our community database via the Submit Lead flow. Approved contributions earn you credits according to the rules below. These rules exist so the reward economy stays sustainable and so users cannot be paid twice for the same data point.

First-contributor wins

We pay the first contributor of each record. If a record (identified by its email address) is already in our central database, your submission of the same record is rejected and does not earn rewards — we already paid the original contributor for it. If a record is in our review queue and you add new data fields, you earn a smaller enrichment bonus proportional to the value of what you added.

Approval rewards (per row, when admin approves)

Verify-kickback (granted on submit, not approval)

Emails you previously verified through our Verify pane earn back the cost of verifying them: 1 credit per 10 verified-email submissions, matching the rate at which the Verify pane charges (10 verifications per credit). Granted whether or not the lead is approved. A partial accrual buffer carries the remainder across submissions, so small batches don't lose their fractional value — submit 7 verified rows today, 3 tomorrow, and you bank the credit on the second submission.

Enrichment bonus (duplicate-in-pending case)

If your submission matches a lead already in our review queue but you add new fields the existing row was missing, we merge your data into the pending row and grant a partial bonus:

Anti-farming controls

8. Contribution of uploaded contact data (opt-in)

Separate from the Submit Lead flow described in section 7, you may choose to contribute the broader contact data you upload to Sendie — for example, CSV uploads to the Verify pane, lists you build from verified addresses, and contacts you save to sequences — to Sendie's enrichment database. This is governed by an explicit contribution toggle in your account settings, and the default is off.

License you grant when you opt in

If, and only if, you enable the contribution toggle, you grant Sendie a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to copy, store, deduplicate against existing records, and disclose to other Sendie users (as enrichment results) the contact data points you upload while the toggle is enabled. Examples of contact data points include email address, name, job title, company name, company domain, and similar publicly-oriented B2B fields you've added to a record. The license is limited to operating and improving Sendie's enrichment, verification, and search features.

What contribution does include (and does not)

The block list is intentionally treated as three separate categories — only one of which flows under the contribution toggle:

Other categories that are NEVER contributed regardless of the toggle:

Turning contribution on or off

Your representations

When you enable contribution, you represent that (a) you have a lawful basis to share each contributed contact's data with us under applicable data-protection law in your jurisdiction (for example, business-purpose processing under GDPR Article 6(1)(f) for B2B contacts in the EU/UK, or applicable consent or other authorisation elsewhere), (b) you have not been notified that any contributed individual has objected to such processing, and (c) the data was obtained lawfully and not in violation of any third-party agreement.

Sendie honours subject-access, correction, and erasure requests from the individuals in our enrichment database regardless of who contributed the record. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Compensation

Unless we say otherwise in the product (for example, the per-row credit rewards described in section 7), contribution is uncompensated. We may, at our discretion, offer credit grants, plan upgrades, or other incentives tied to contribution, but we are not obligated to do so.

Relationship to the Submit Lead flow

The Submit Lead flow (section 7) is a separate, per-record contribution mechanism with its own approval and reward rules. You can use either, both, or neither.

9. Email verification & cross-user caching

When you verify an email through the Verify pane, the result is stored in two layers:

You will still be charged 1 credit per address you verify, whether the answer comes from our cache or from a fresh verification call. You are paying for the answer, not the underlying API call. This is the same model Apollo, Hunter, and ZoomInfo operate under.

Privacy: the global index is stored as one-way hashes only. Your contact list is not visible to other users, and other users' contact lists are not visible to you. Verification results are refreshed on demand (lazy 90-day TTL) and may be purged on request via the contact methods in our Privacy Policy.

10. Sub-processors

To deliver the Service we rely on a small number of sub-processors (third-party vendors that process data on our behalf — for example, email verification, profile enrichment, AI text generation, and payment processing). Email addresses you verify, lookup, or send through Sendie may be transmitted to these sub-processors strictly for the purposes of providing the Service to you.

Our current sub-processor list is maintained separately and available on request. Each sub-processor operates under its own terms and a data-processing agreement with us that includes the security and privacy commitments required by GDPR Art. 28 / equivalent law.

By using the Service you authorise us to share the data described above with our sub-processors for the purposes of providing the Service.

11. Termination

You can delete your account at any time from the app or by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, fail to pay, or that pose a security risk to the Service or other users.

On termination, your access to the Service ends and your data is deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We will give you reasonable opportunity to export your data unless we believe it is being used for unlawful activity.

12. Intellectual property

Sendie (the software, design, brand, and documentation) is owned by us. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use it under these Terms. You retain ownership of the content you upload, including contact lists and email content.

You grant us a limited license to process your content solely to provide the Service.

13. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or free of errors, or that any specific email will be delivered or marked as not-spam.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM OR (B) USD $100.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS; LOST DATA; OR LOST GOODWILL — EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any claims, damages, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) your use of the Service, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your content, or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right.

16. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which Sendie is incorporated, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute will be resolved in the courts of that jurisdiction, except where applicable consumer-protection law requires otherwise.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify active customers by email and update the "Last updated" date at the top. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email legal@sendie.ai.