QubitHub

Legal · Last updated 2026-05-13 · v1.0.0-draft

Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (the "AUP") describes what you can and cannot do on QubitHub. It applies to everything you upload, post, or do on the Service, and supplements our Terms of Service.

1. Summary

QubitHub is a public platform for quantum-computing builders. We want it to be a welcoming, technically-rigorous place where people can share circuits, datasets, and ideas without being on guard. The rules in this AUP exist to make that possible.

The short version: don't upload anything you don't have the right to share; don't use the Service to harm other users, third parties, or the platform itself; treat others with basic respect; and use compute resources reasonably. When something goes wrong, tell us at abuse@qubithub.co and we will respond.

2. Prohibited content

You may not upload, post, link to, host, or transmit content that:

  • Infringes intellectual property. Code, documentation, datasets, or any other content for which you do not hold the rights or do not have a license to redistribute.
  • Is malicious. Malware, ransomware, exploits, backdoors, key-loggers, droppers, or quantum circuits/scripts designed to compromise third-party systems. This includes content styled as "research" whose primary purpose is harm rather than defense.
  • Is illegal. Content that is unlawful in Germany or in the jurisdiction from which it is accessed, including child-exploitation material (which we report to the relevant authorities and the Bundeskriminalamt where required), incitement to violence, sanctions-busting material, or content that promotes terrorism.
  • Violates privacy. Personal data of others uploaded without lawful basis, including doxxing material, unauthorized re-publication of leaks, or impersonation.
  • Is defamatory or deceptive. Content that makes false statements of fact about identifiable people, that impersonates others, or that misleads about provenance or authorship.
  • Is sexually explicit or exploitative. QubitHub is not a platform for adult content.
  • Promotes hate. Content that attacks people on the basis of protected characteristics (race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or similar).

3. Prohibited conduct

You may not:

  • attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, to other users' accounts or content, or to systems QubitHub depends on (including our infrastructure providers);
  • probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service except as permitted by our security policy (see Section 7 for responsible disclosure);
  • bypass or attempt to bypass our sandboxing, rate limits, quotas, or other technical measures;
  • use the Service to attack third parties — including but not limited to denial-of-service, credential-stuffing, scraping, or network-flood traffic launched from QubitHub-hosted runs;
  • harvest personal data from other QubitHub users or visitors, whether for advertising, training data, or any other purpose, without lawful basis;
  • send unsolicited bulk communications through any QubitHub channel.

4. Platform abuse

You may not:

  • operate multiple accounts to evade rate limits, account restrictions, or enforcement actions;
  • use the Service to mine cryptocurrency, run distributed-compute jobs unrelated to quantum-computing work, or otherwise appropriate platform resources for unrelated purposes;
  • intentionally consume disproportionate compute, storage, or network resources to degrade the Service for other users;
  • automate account creation, content publication, or fork/star/follow actions in ways that materially distort platform metrics or signal;
  • resell, sublease, or commercially redistribute QubitHub services without our written agreement.

We publish reasonable quotas and rate limits in our documentation. Where a paid plan is available, the plan description is the authoritative source for what is included.

5. Community standards

Discussions on QubitHub — in pull request reviews, issue threads, and any other collaboration surface — should be technically rigorous and personally respectful. Specifically:

  • No harassment. Threats, sustained insults, targeted negative campaigns, and unwelcome personal contact are prohibited.
  • No hate speech. Content attacking people on the basis of protected characteristics (see Section 2) is prohibited.
  • No bad-faith research framing. Don't style attack tooling, harassment campaigns, or doxxing material as "research". Genuine offensive-security research is welcome with appropriate responsible-disclosure framing (see Section 6).
  • No coordinated inauthentic behavior. Don't organize sock-puppet voting, fake-engagement campaigns, or brigading.

We aim to apply community standards in a way that protects technical disagreement and direct feedback while preventing harm. When in doubt, our judgment is whether the conduct would make QubitHub a worse place for a reasonable contributor.

6. Quantum-platform-specific rules

Because QubitHub hosts code that runs on simulators and on real quantum hardware, a few rules are specific to our domain:

  • No abuse of shared hardware backends. When you submit jobs to a third-party hardware backend (IBM, IonQ, AWS Braket, etc.), follow that backend's terms of service. Submissions designed to exhaust backend queues, to disrupt other researchers' access, or to violate backend rate limits are prohibited.
  • No adversarial benchmarking without disclosure. You may publish honest comparative benchmarks between frameworks, backends, or implementations. You may not stage benchmarks designed to make a third party look bad through unrealistic configurations, undisclosed parameter changes, or cherry-picked results.
  • Responsible disclosure for security research. If your research surfaces a security issue affecting QubitHub or a third-party quantum service, contact security@qubithub.co (and the affected party) before publishing. We will not retaliate against good-faith security research.
  • Honest provenance. If you upload code derived from a paper, a tutorial, another author's repository, or a textbook, credit the source. Forks should preserve attribution history.

7. Reporting abuse

If you believe content or behavior on QubitHub violates this AUP, please report it to abuse@qubithub.co with the following information:

  • the URL(s) of the content or the username(s) involved;
  • a description of what you believe violates which section of this AUP;
  • any context that would help us evaluate (screenshots, links, etc.);
  • your name and a way to reach you (we will respect requests for confidentiality where lawful).

For intellectual-property infringement specifically, use the notice-and-takedown process described in our Terms of Service Section 9.

For security-vulnerability reports, use security@qubithub.co. We aim to acknowledge security reports within seven (7) days.

8. Enforcement

Our response depends on the severity, the user's history, and whether the violation is ongoing. The actions available to us include:

  • Warning — for minor or first-time violations where the user appears to be acting in good faith.
  • Content removal — for content that violates Section 2, we remove the offending content and notify the uploader.
  • Feature restriction — for repeated low-severity violations, we may restrict certain features (e.g., the ability to comment, to upload public content, or to run jobs on shared backends).
  • Account suspension — for ongoing or severe violations, we suspend the account pending review.
  • Account termination — for the most severe violations, for repeat offenders, or where the user is unreachable through stated channels.
  • Referral to authorities — for content that appears to involve criminal activity (e.g., child-exploitation material), we refer to the competent authorities as required by law.

We aim to apply enforcement consistently and to give clear written reasons. We may temporarily remove content while we investigate; if our preliminary assessment is mistaken we will restore the content and document the reasoning.

9. Appeals

If you believe we have made the wrong call on an enforcement action against you, you may appeal by replying to the enforcement notice we sent you, or by emailing appeals@qubithub.co with the action ID. Include any facts or context we may have missed. We will review and respond within fourteen (14) days. Where Article 20 of the EU Digital Services Act requires an internal-complaint mechanism with specific procedural safeguards, we will follow that procedure for the relevant content categories.

If you remain dissatisfied with the outcome, you may use the out-of-court dispute-settlement options described in our Terms of Service Section 16.

10. Changes

We may update this AUP as the platform grows and new abuse-patterns emerge. The "Last updated" date at the top of the page indicates when the policy was last revised. Material changes will be announced through an in-app notice or by email to affected users.

11. Contact

  • General abuse / takedown reports: abuse@qubithub.co
  • Security reports: security@qubithub.co
  • Appeals: appeals@qubithub.co
  • Everything else: see our Impressum