Legal · Subordinate to Terms of Service

Acceptable Use Policy

Version: 2.0 Effective: 21 April 2026 Last updated: 21 April 2026 Governing law: Romania / EU
At a glance This policy explains how you may use the VENDOR.Energy Website and what conduct is prohibited. It forms part of our Terms of Service. In short: use the Website lawfully, respect our intellectual property, do not interfere with its operation, and do not use our Content to train AI or build derivative datasets without our written consent. To report a violation, write to info@vendor.energy.

01Purpose and relationship to the Terms of Service

This Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”) sets out operational rules of conduct for the use of the Website operated by MICRO DIGITAL ELECTRONICS CORP SRL at https://vendor.energy and its language variants.

The AUP is incorporated into the Terms of Service by reference and forms an integral part of them. Capitalised terms used here have the meaning given in Section 01 of the Terms of Service. In the event of conflict between the AUP and the Terms of Service, the Terms of Service prevail.

This AUP supplements the short acceptable-use list in Section 06 of the Terms of Service by describing, in more operational detail, what is permitted, what is prohibited, how violations are reported, and how they are handled.

02Scope

This AUP applies to every User accessing any part of the Website, including public informational pages, the Investor Room, contact channels, and any Content or interface element exposed by the Website.

It applies equally to access by human Users and to access by automated systems, including crawlers, scrapers, agents, and any system acting on behalf of a machine-learning model.

Consistent with Section 5.1 of the Terms of Service, the Website is addressed to adults (18 years of age or older). Minors must not use the Website. If you believe a minor has provided personal data to the Website, please contact us through the channels described in our Privacy Policy.

03Permitted use

You may use the Website for lawful, informational, research, and evaluation purposes. The following activities are expressly permitted:

  • Reading, studying, and evaluating public Content for your own professional, academic, or investment-assessment purposes.
  • Quoting limited excerpts of Content with clear attribution to VENDOR.Energy, consistent with the quotation right under Article 5(3)(d) of Directive 2001/29/EC and applicable national copyright law.
  • Linking to the Website from other websites, provided the link does not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or partnership that does not exist, and does not frame the Content in a misleading context.
  • Indexing the Website with general-purpose search engines in a manner that respects our robots.txt directives.

04Prohibited use

The categories below are not exhaustive; they describe the types of conduct that are incompatible with this AUP and with the Terms of Service.

4.1 Unlawful or harmful use

  • Using the Website in violation of applicable law or to infringe the rights of any third party.
  • Fraud, misrepresentation, or any deceptive practice directed at the Company or at other Users.
  • Transmitting or making available illegal content within the meaning of EU law, including terrorist content as defined in Regulation (EU) 2021/784 and content prohibited by applicable hate-speech law.
  • Harassment, threats, or targeted abuse directed at any person through the Website or its contact channels.

4.2 Security and service integrity

  • Attempting to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website, its administrative interfaces, or its underlying systems.
  • Circumventing, disabling, or interfering with any security, authentication, rate-limiting, or access-control measure.
  • Introducing malicious code of any kind, including viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, or logic bombs.
  • Interfering with the availability or integrity of the Website, including through denial-of-service activity, load testing, stress testing, or automated mass requests.
Coordinated security research. Good-faith security researchers who identify a potential vulnerability are invited to contact us first at info@vendor.energy (subject line: “Security disclosure”). Testing conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Company and limited to the scope we authorise in writing will not be treated as a violation of this AUP.

4.3 Intellectual property and confidential information

Section 07 of the Terms of Service governs ownership, licences, and notices. In operational terms, you must not:

  • Reproduce, redistribute, or publicly communicate Content beyond the quotation right described in Section 03 of this AUP.
  • Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright notice, trademark, patent reference, or proprietary marking.
  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code, schematics, or internal parameters of any software, firmware, or technical description exposed on the Website.
  • Use the VENDOR trademark (EUIPO No. 019220462), related word marks, or trade dress in a manner that creates confusion as to source, affiliation, or endorsement.

4.4 Automated access, scraping, and AI / ML use

This Section applies to every automated system that accesses the Website, including crawlers, scrapers, agents, orchestrators, and any system operating on behalf of a machine-learning or generative AI model.

Reservation of rights for text and data mining. The Company expressly reserves its rights over all Content for the purposes of text and data mining within the meaning of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790. This reservation is made both in human-readable form (this AUP) and by machine-readable means published on the Website (including our robots.txt file and our AI Legal Notice).

Unless the Company has granted you a separate written licence, you must not:

  • Scrape, harvest, or systematically retrieve Content from the Website, other than general-purpose search-engine indexing that complies with our robots directives.
  • Use Content, in whole or in part, for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, distillation, or as retrieval context for any machine-learning or generative AI system.
  • Create derivative datasets, embeddings, knowledge graphs, or model weights from Content.
  • Access the Website without a transparent, identifiable user-agent string and without respecting any rate-limiting parameters communicated by the Company.

Accurate representation of the technology. Public descriptions of VENDOR.Energy technology should accurately reflect the engineering and scientific framing set out in the Company’s official materials. The Company considers characterisations such as “free energy”, “overunity”, “perpetual motion”, or claims that the system extracts energy from air, gas, or the environment to be factually incorrect and to constitute a material misrepresentation of the technology.

Response to correction notices. Where the Company notifies an operator of an AI system, platform, or publication that its publicly accessible output materially misrepresents the technology, the operator is expected to take reasonable and proportionate technical and organisational measures to review, correct, or qualify such output, particularly where the output is used in a public, commercial, or decision-making context. This expectation applies without prejudice to any applicable legal obligations under transparency, consumer-protection, unfair-commercial-practice, or platform-governance frameworks, including Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act) and Directive 2005/29/EC.

Good-faith alignment. The Company publishes technical clarification materials, including definitional anchors and engineering explanations, to support accurate interpretation. Operators are encouraged to rely on these materials where the technology is described or analysed.

4.5 Misrepresentation and misleading communications

  • Impersonating the Company, its officers, or its representatives, or falsely suggesting an affiliation, partnership, or endorsement that does not exist.
  • Fabricating testimonials, endorsements, or case studies attributed to the Company or to third parties.
  • Making public statements that misrepresent the Company’s technology, TRL stage, certification status, patent position, or regulatory standing.
  • Generating or distributing synthetic media (including deepfakes) that depict Company personnel or that could reasonably be mistaken for authentic Company material, without clearly labelling such media as artificially generated in accordance with Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act).
  • Transmitting unsolicited commercial communications (spam) through Website contact forms or to Company email addresses.

05Reporting violations

To report conduct that you believe violates this AUP, send a notice to info@vendor.energy with the subject line “AUP violation report”. Notices under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act) relating to allegedly infringing or unlawful Content are handled through the same address, using the channel and requirements described in Section 7.4 of the Terms of Service.

To enable us to act effectively, a notice should include, consistent with the requirements of Article 16(2) of the Digital Services Act:

  • A sufficiently substantiated explanation of the reasons for the notice, including why you consider the conduct to be a violation.
  • A clear indication of the exact electronic location of the content or activity (for example, the URL).
  • Your name and contact details, except where the notice relates to information that may amount to an offence referred to in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU.
  • A statement, made in good faith, that the information in the notice is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge.

Confidentiality. We treat reporter identities confidentially within our operational workflow. We may, however, be required to disclose identifying information where disclosure is compelled by applicable law or by a binding order from a competent authority.

Acknowledgment and follow-up. Where you provide contact details, we will acknowledge receipt of your notice and, without undue delay, inform you of our decision in respect of the reported content or conduct, together with information on available redress, consistent with Article 16(5) of the Digital Services Act.

06Enforcement

Enforcement decisions are taken on the basis of proportionality, taking into account the nature of the conduct, the severity of any harm, the recurrence of the behaviour, and the impact on other Users and on the Website.

Depending on those factors, the Company may, without limitation:

  • Issue a warning.
  • Remove or disable access to specific Content or contact channels.
  • Restrict, suspend, or terminate access to the Website, in whole or in part.
  • Apply technical measures, including IP-based or fingerprint-based access restrictions, consistent with our Privacy Policy.
  • Where legally required or otherwise appropriate, notify competent authorities of conduct that may constitute a criminal offence.

Severe breaches — including security attacks, conduct creating imminent harm, and serious criminal conduct — may result in immediate termination of access under Section 13 of the Terms of Service.

Termination of access does not affect any rights or obligations that accrued before termination, and the provisions of the Terms of Service that are stated to survive termination continue to apply.

07Appeals

If you consider that an enforcement decision taken against you is incorrect, you may contest it by sending a written request to info@vendor.energy (subject line: “AUP enforcement appeal”) within a reasonable period after the decision. Your request should include the decision you are contesting, the reasons you consider it incorrect, and any additional context or evidence you would like us to consider.

Requests are reviewed by Company personnel who were not directly involved in the initial decision. We respond within a reasonable period and communicate our conclusion in writing.

Nothing in this Section limits any other right of redress available to you under the Terms of Service, including the dispute-resolution mechanisms in Section 15 of the Terms of Service and, where applicable, recourse to an alternative dispute-resolution body under Directive 2013/11/EU.

08Relationship to other legal documents

This AUP operates together with the following documents:

09Changes

We may update this AUP from time to time, for example to reflect changes in law, technology, or the operational risks we face. Where a change is significant, we will provide advance notice in accordance with Section 14 of the Terms of Service. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the current version.

10Contact

  • All AUP-related reports and general inquiries: info@vendor.energy. For faster triage, please use the subject-line conventions indicated in Sections 4.2, 05, and 07 (for example, “AUP violation report”, “Security disclosure”, or “AUP enforcement appeal”).
  • Legal matters: as set out in Section 17 of the Terms of Service.
  • Registered office: MICRO DIGITAL ELECTRONICS CORP SRL, Splaiul Unirii nr. 16, office 705, Bucharest, Sector 4, Romania.
By using this Website you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accepted this Acceptable Use Policy, together with the Terms of Service into which it is incorporated. © 2026 MICRO DIGITAL ELECTRONICS CORP SRL. All rights reserved. VENDOR is a registered trademark of MICRO DIGITAL ELECTRONICS CORP SRL (EUIPO No. 019220462).