Bridge Trading — Acceptable Use Policy

Notice to Reader (this version)

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") supplements the Terms of Service and is incorporated into them by reference. By using the Service, you agree to comply with this AUP. Violating any provision of this AUP is a material breach of the Terms of Service and may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account without refund.

This is a v0 working draft prepared by the founder before formal legal review.

1. Purpose

Bridge Trading is a $500 per month subscription product with a hard cap of one hundred (100) concurrent customers at launch. The economic model and product design assume that each Subscription is used by one individual person, for their own personal trading account, in good faith.

This AUP describes the conduct that is incompatible with that assumption.

2. One Person, One Subscription, One Account

(a) Each Subscription entitles one (1) individual person to access the Service. Subscriptions are not transferable, are not shareable, and are not licensed for use by multiple individuals.

(b) You may not share your account credentials, two-factor codes, API tokens, or any other authentication material with any other individual, whether for compensation or otherwise.

(c) You may not provide real-time access to the Service to any individual who does not hold their own active Subscription. This includes (without limitation) screen sharing, mirrored displays, co-viewing arrangements, video calls in which the Service is visible, or any other arrangement that provides a non-Subscriber with concurrent access to live Service output.

(d) You may not allow any other individual to log in to the Service using your account credentials, whether they are physically with you or remotely connected.

Violation of this Section is the single most likely reason an account will be terminated under this AUP.

3. No Real-Time Redistribution of Service Output

The Service generates time-sensitive content — Signal Provider dispatches, daily briefs, real-time gamma exposure (GEX) levels, options-flow data, The Analyst output, and dashboard analytics — that has commercial value precisely because it is timely and exclusive to paying customers.

You may not:

(a) Live-stream, simulcast, or broadcast real-time views of the Service to any audience, whether public or private, including but not limited to: Twitch, YouTube Live, X (Twitter) Spaces with video, Facebook Live, Instagram Live, Discord live streaming, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or any equivalent platform.

(b) Record, capture, or transcribe Service output in a manner that allows automated or systematic redistribution of that output in near-real time, including via webhook automation, RSS feed conversion, browser extensions that pipe data to chat servers, or screen-recording software configured to broadcast in real time.

(c) Systematically copy Service output (manually re-typing Signal Provider dispatches in another channel, building a parallel feed that mirrors Bridge Trading data) for the purpose of allowing third parties to receive the same data without paying for a Subscription.

(d) Operate any service, channel, group, or community whose value proposition depends on real-time Bridge Trading output being redistributed to its members.

Violations of this Section may result in immediate account termination without refund, and may give rise to claims for damages (including disgorgement of any profits derived from the violation) under applicable copyright, contract, and unfair-competition law.

4. What IS Permitted

To be clear, the following uses are permitted:

(a) Screenshots of Service output for personal commentary, social media posts, trade-journal entries, marketing posts about Bridge Trading, or educational discussion.

(b) Recordings or screen captures of past sessions (where the data is no longer real-time / time-sensitive) for marketing, promotional, educational, or personal commentary purposes.

(c) Written discussion or commentary about Service output in blog posts, social media threads, trade journals, podcasts, newsletters, or similar after-the-fact formats.

(d) Sharing your personal trading results (after the fact) — even if those results were generated using Bridge Trading. Your trading results are your own to share.

(e) Referring potential customers to Bridge Trading. If a referral program exists at the time, you may participate per its terms.

The distinction is: real-time redistribution of Service content to non-Subscribers is prohibited; after-the-fact sharing of your own commentary, screenshots, and results is permitted.

If you are unsure whether a specific use is allowed, email [email protected] before proceeding. We would rather pre-clear a use than terminate an account after the fact.

5. No Resale, Sublicensing, or Commercial Exploitation

You may not, without our prior written consent:

(a) Resell, sublicense, redistribute, rent, lease, or commercially exploit access to the Service;

(b) Use the Service or any output of the Service to operate a competing service, including (without limitation) a competing signal-aggregation service, copy-trading platform, options analytics platform, or trading-research subscription;

(c) Use the Service, or any output of the Service, to develop, train, fine-tune, or improve any machine-learning model, large language model, or artificial intelligence system, whether intended for personal or commercial use.

Subsection (c) above is bilateral with our own commitment in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: we do not train AI on your data, and you do not train AI on ours.

6. Security and Anti-Abuse

You may not, and you may not assist any third party to:

(a) Attempt to access any account, system, data store, or feature for which you do not have authorization;

(b) Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any part of the Service without our prior written authorization (this includes automated security scanners and penetration-testing tools);

(c) Interfere with or disrupt the Service or any other Customer's use of it, including by overloading the API, deliberately causing rate-limit violations, deliberately causing error states, or any other denial-of-service-style behavior;

(d) Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limit, access control, authentication mechanism, content protection, or fraud-detection measure;

(e) Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or underlying algorithms of the Service, except to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law (e.g., specific reverse-engineering rights under interoperability provisions of the EU Software Directive);

(f) Use the Service to engage in any illegal activity, including (without limitation) market manipulation, insider trading, wash trading, layering, spoofing, or any other manipulative trading practice;

(g) Use automated systems to scrape, harvest, or extract data from the Service in a manner inconsistent with the documented API or in volumes exceeding documented rate limits.

We employ automated abuse-detection systems that may flag your account for review based on unusual usage patterns. If your account is flagged, we may temporarily limit access while we investigate.

7. Broker-Account Use

In addition to the obligations described in Section 8 of the Terms of Service ("Authorized Broker-Account Use"), you specifically agree not to:

(a) Connect any Broker Account to which you do not have the legal right or formal authorization to connect (see Terms of Service §8.1);

(b) Use the Service to violate the terms of service, account agreement, or rules of any Broker, Prop Firm, or exchange — including (without limitation) daily-loss limits, trailing-drawdown rules, position limits, lockout windows, instrument restrictions, copy-trading prohibitions, or third-party access prohibitions imposed by your Prop Firm;

(c) Use the Service in a manner that constitutes "fronting" or "fronting-related conduct" prohibited by your Prop Firm — for example, using a Bridge-connected funded account to mirror trades made by a different non-Prop-Firm account in violation of the Prop Firm's TOS;

(d) Allow any individual other than yourself to control trades placed through your Bridge-connected Broker Account, except where you have separately and explicitly granted Bridge Trading authorization to dispatch trades on your behalf via the documented Mode A or Mode C flows.

You acknowledge that violations of your Prop Firm's rules — even when caused or enabled by Bridge Trading's Copy Trade feature — are between you and your Prop Firm. Bridge Trading is not responsible for Prop Firm enforcement actions, account closures, or forfeiture of profits resulting from your violation of Prop Firm rules.

8. Misuse of The Analyst (AI Feature)

You may not:

(a) Use The Analyst to generate content for the purpose of redistributing it as if it were your own original work in a context where the AI nature would mislead the audience (for example, posting Analyst output as your own securities research, then selling it);

(b) Use The Analyst to generate content that is then redistributed in any context that violates Section 3 (no real-time redistribution) or Section 5 (no resale);

(c) Use The Analyst to evaluate, test, or extract behavior from our underlying large language model providers for purposes of model-cloning, jailbreak research, or competitive intelligence;

(d) Submit prompts to The Analyst that are designed to elicit unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or fraudulent output;

(e) Submit prompts to The Analyst that are not related to legitimate trading research and analysis (for example, using The Analyst as a general-purpose chatbot for non-trading purposes).

We may rate-limit, suspend, or terminate access to The Analyst for any account that violates this Section.

9. Honest Conduct and Non-Deception

You agree to deal with Bridge Trading honestly and in good faith. Specifically:

(a) At account creation: the information you provide (name, email, billing address) is accurate, complete, and yours.

(b) At Subscription: you have the legal right to use the payment method provided.

(c) At Broker connection: the Broker Account credentials you provide are credentials you have the legal right to use (see Terms of Service §8.1).

(d) At Mode A consent: if and when you are added to the Mode A allow-list, your acknowledgment of the Auto-Execute Disclosure is given with actual understanding of the consequences.

(e) At dispute or chargeback: you will engage with our support team in good faith before initiating a chargeback through your card issuer. Initiating a chargeback for a charge you actually authorized, without first contacting support, is itself a violation of this AUP.

10. No Use by Restricted Persons or in Restricted Jurisdictions

You may not use the Service if you are:

(a) Listed on any U.S. Treasury OFAC sanctions list, the U.S. Commerce Department Denied Persons List, or any equivalent restricted-party list maintained by any government Bridge Trading is required to comply with;

(b) A resident of or accessing the Service from a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. trade sanctions (currently including, without limitation: Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, and the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine);

(c) A resident of any jurisdiction in which copy-trading services, signal-relay services, or automated order routing is prohibited or restricted in a manner that the Service does not comply with.

If you are uncertain whether your jurisdiction permits use of the Service, consult local counsel before subscribing.

11. Reporting Violations

If you observe a violation of this AUP — for example, someone screen-streaming Bridge Trading content in a Discord room, or someone reselling Bridge Subscription access — please report it to [email protected]. We treat all reports confidentially. We do not retaliate against good-faith reporters, including reporters who are themselves Bridge Trading customers.

12. Enforcement

12.1 Investigation

If we believe you have violated this AUP, we may:

(a) Contact you to request clarification; (b) Temporarily limit features of your account (for example, suspend Mode A access pending review); (c) Review usage logs, audit logs, and Service-side data associated with your account; (d) Suspend your account pending the outcome of an investigation; (e) Terminate your account if the violation is confirmed.

12.2 Standard of proof

We may act on the reasonable belief that a violation has occurred. We do not require beyond-a-reasonable-doubt proof; we do require a good-faith assessment based on available evidence.

12.3 No refund for AUP violations

If your account is terminated for violation of this AUP, you forfeit any unused portion of your Subscription fee for the then-current month. Subsection 10.4 of the Terms of Service (seven-day money-back guarantee) does not apply to terminations under this Section.

12.4 Reactivation

Accounts terminated under this Section are not eligible for reactivation. Creating a new account after termination is itself a violation of this AUP (and of the Terms of Service Section 4.3, "One account per person").

13. Changes to This AUP

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email to your account email address, posted in the Service, and reflected by an updated "Last Updated" date at the top.

If a change materially expands what is prohibited (rather than clarifying existing prohibitions), we will provide at least thirty (30) days' notice before the change takes effect. If you do not agree to the change, you may terminate your account before the effective date and receive a pro-rated refund for the unused portion of your then-current month.

14. Contact

If you have questions about whether a specific use is permitted under this AUP, contact us at [email protected] before proceeding.

[Bridge Trading LLC] Attn: Compliance [REGISTERED_AGENT_ADDRESS — TBD] Email: [email protected]

This document is a v0 working draft prepared by the founder. It has not yet been reviewed by counsel and is not effective until lawyer-approved and posted with a confirmed Effective Date.