Acceptable use

The rules for using Sidehand, in plain words.

Sidehand gives AI agents a mouse and keyboard on your computer. That is powerful, so it comes with rules. This policy is part of the Sidehand license agreement; breaking it ends your license.

You may

• Let agents work in apps on computers you own or are allowed to use, with data you are allowed to use.
• Automate your own work and your organisation's work, including client work your plan covers.
• Test software you build or are authorised to test.
• Use agents to teach yourself or others how an app works.

You may not use Sidehand to

1. Get in where you are not allowed. Access computers, accounts, apps or data without the owner's permission, or go beyond the access you were given.
2. Watch people without consent. Monitor, record, screenshot or track other people's activity, messages or screens without their knowledge and consent, or collect personal data unlawfully.
3. Defeat security. Bypass or solve CAPTCHAs, anti-bot or anti-automation controls, two-factor prompts, paywalls, licence checks or other protections, or to evade bans and rate limits.
4. Deceive or harm. Commit fraud, phishing, scams or impersonation; send spam; manipulate reviews, votes, polls, ads or engagement; harass or threaten anyone.
5. Break the rules of the apps you use. Automate an app or service whose terms forbid it, or create accounts, place orders or trade in bulk against its terms.
6. Act without a human in high-stakes work. Let agents make final decisions in medical, legal, financial, employment, safety-critical or infrastructure systems without a qualified person reviewing them.
7. Do anything illegal. Including creating or spreading malware, infringing copyright, or anything that breaks the law where you or the affected people are.
8. Undo Sidehand's protections. Remove, disable or work around its safety features (read-only start, on-screen confirmation, overwrite protection, app locking and pinning, parking, the kill switch) or its license and update checks.

Your responsibility

• You decide which AI apps and agents use Sidehand and what they are asked to do, and you are

responsible for what they do on your computer.

• Keep "Ask before changing things" on unless you have a good reason, and keep backups of important work.
• Stop agents with Ctrl+Alt+F12 (Windows) or Ctrl+Option+Cmd+P (macOS) whenever something looks wrong.
• If others use the computer, or agents will work with other people's data, make sure they know and agree.

Reporting misuse

If you see Sidehand being used against this policy, email our contact form. Security vulnerabilities in Sidehand itself: see SECURITY.md.