Acceptable Use Policy

1. Permitted purposes

You may use Namvey for:

• Your own name: to see and manage what the web says about you.
• Your own company or brand: for reputation management and brand protection.
• Someone else, with a lawful purpose that you declare when ordering: reputation management on behalf of that person or company, business due diligence (for example before a partnership or an investment), a vendor or partner check, brand protection, journalism or research, or another lawful purpose that you describe.

Continuous monitoring is allowed only for your own name, your own company or brand, or a third party who has authorized you. Keep proof of that authorization. We may ask for it.

2. What you confirm on every order

• The results will not be used for employment, tenant screening, credit, insurance or any other purpose covered by the US Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
• The person being searched is not a minor.
• For a third-party search, the purpose you declare is true.

These confirmations are recorded with your order. A false confirmation is a serious breach of this policy.

3. Prohibited uses

Decisions covered by the FCRA

• employment: hiring, promotion, reassignment, retention or dismissal, including household workers, contractors and volunteers;
• tenant screening or any other housing decision;
• credit or lending;
• insurance underwriting;
• eligibility for a government license or benefit;
• any other purpose for which the FCRA requires a consumer report.

Harm to people

• stalking, harassing, threatening, intimidating or shaming anyone;
• finding out where a person lives or works, or tracking their movements;
• exposing private information about a person (doxxing);
• monitoring a partner, a former partner, a family member or an acquaintance without their authorization;
• discriminating against anyone on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health or political opinion.

Protected people and data

• searching or monitoring anyone under 18;
• trying to discover or infer sensitive categories about a person: health, religion or belief, sexual orientation or sex life, political opinion, union membership, racial or ethnic origin, genetic or biometric data.

Misuse of the service and its data

• scraping, crawling or any automated access to the service;
• reselling, sublicensing or redistributing reports or their data, or building a database or a competing product from them;
• using a report to send spam or unsolicited marketing to the people it mentions;
• making false statements about who you are, your relationship to the name searched or your purpose;
• working around the opt-out list, usage limits or a suspension, for example with multiple accounts or altered spellings;
• probing or attacking our systems without written permission;
• any use that breaks the law or violates someone’s rights.

4. What reports do not contain

Namvey uses only publicly available web data. Reports do not provide home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, relatives or sensitive categories. Do not use Namvey to try to obtain them.

5. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for how you use a report. When you search someone else’s name, you decide why and how that information is used, so you must follow the privacy laws that apply to you, including LGPD when you are in Brazil.

Keep reports confidential and share them only with people who need them for the purpose you declared.

If you are an agency or a firm, have each client’s authorization before you monitor a name for them, and make sure your clients follow this policy.

6. Respect for the opt-out list

Anyone can ask that their name not be searched on the opt-out page. Names on that list cannot be searched, and you must not try to work around the block.

7. Enforcement

We may ask about your purpose, refuse or cancel a search, suspend or close an account, withhold a refund where the law allows, and report unlawful conduct to the authorities. We cooperate with valid legal requests.

8. Reporting misuse

If you believe someone is using Namvey against you or in violation of this policy, write to support@namvey.com. To block searches on your own name, use the opt-out page.