Acceptable Use & Abuse Policy
FreeholdIP is operated by RaptorLockIP™. This policy is written to be read, so it is short and it is honest. It covers exactly one thing: the services we operate — our paid storage (pinning) service, our public gateways, and our message relay.
1. What this policy can and cannot govern
A FreeholdIP name is property recorded on a public blockchain. We do not issue it, we do not custody it, and we cannot revoke, confiscate, or reassign it — nobody can, including us. Nothing in this policy claims otherwise.
What we do control is our own infrastructure: what we agree to store and what we agree to serve. That is where this policy applies, and where it is enforced without apology.
2. Prohibited on our infrastructure
You may not use our storage, gateways, or relay for:
- Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — zero tolerance, in any form, without exception;
- content that is illegal under United States law (where we operate);
- malware distribution, phishing infrastructure, or content designed to defraud;
- content we are ordered to remove by a court of competent jurisdiction.
3. What happens when this policy is violated
- We stop hosting it. The content is unpinned from our storage and refused by our gateways as soon as we confirm the violation — typically within hours of a report.
- CSAM is reported. We report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as U.S. law requires of providers (18 U.S.C. § 2258A) — and we would do so regardless of any legal requirement.
- Payment identity goes to law enforcement on lawful request. Our storage is deliberately paid by card only. You can own a name privately; you cannot host content on our infrastructure anonymously. Whoever pays us to store content has attached a verified payment identity to it.
4. Radical transparency — you can audit us
Every object our paid storage service hosts is enumerated in a public manifest, readable by anyone at any time, with no account and no permission from us. We are structurally incapable of secretly hosting anything. Watchdogs, researchers, and law enforcement are welcome to audit the complete list whenever they wish.
5. What "removed" honestly means
Content on content-addressed networks may be stored by others beyond our control; removal here means our infrastructure no longer stores or serves it, which is the full extent of anyone's power over such networks — whatever they may claim. A name that pointed at removed content remains its owner's property (see Section 1); it simply no longer resolves to that content through us.
6. Self-hosted content
Our free self-hosting option runs on your own device. Content you host yourself never touches our infrastructure: it is your content, on your machine, under your legal responsibility — the same as running any server on the internet.
7. Reporting abuse
Report abuse to abuse@freeholdip.com. Include the name or URL, the content identifier (CID) if you have it, and a short description. We act on reports within 24–72 hours; reports involving CSAM or imminent harm are actioned immediately, ahead of everything else. If you cannot reach that address, use support@freeholdip.com with "ABUSE" in the subject.
8. Changes
We may update this policy; the current version is always at this address, and the date above is accurate. Material changes will be noted on this page.