Acceptable use

Someone scanning a code is trusting the printed thing in front of them, and they have no way to see where it leads before they go there. Everything below follows from not betraying that.

• Phishing of any kind: a page imitating a bank, a payment provider, a government service, an employer or us, or any page harvesting passwords, card details, BVNs or one-time codes.
• Malware, spyware, or anything that downloads or installs without the person asking.
• Fraud: fake shops, advance-fee schemes, fake investment or cryptocurrency offers, fake charity appeals, counterfeit goods.
• Impersonation of a person, a business, a bank, a regulator or a public authority — including any suggestion that a code is officially from us or from De Sign Plus when it is not.
• Content that is illegal under Nigerian law.
• Child sexual abuse material. This one has no warning, no appeal and no second account: we close the account and report it to the authorities.
• Content inciting violence, terrorism or hatred against people for who they are.
• Intimate images shared without the consent of the person in them.
• Unlicensed pharmaceuticals, controlled drugs, weapons, or anything else requiring a licence you do not hold.
• Gambling without the licence your jurisdiction requires.
• Destinations whose business is unsolicited bulk messaging.
• Another URL shortener, or a redirect chain. The point of a code is that we can see where it goes.
• Anything that is not an ordinary https:// or http:// web address. A code may not auto-dial, auto-download or hand off to an app-only scheme.

• Inflate your own scan counts, or anyone else's, with scripted or automated scanning.
• Open a new account to get around a block, a suspension or a plan limit.
• Resell codes as a way for other people to hide where their links go.
• Probe, scan or attempt to break our infrastructure, or circumvent rate limits, authentication or screening.
• Create codes in bulk for onward distribution without agreeing it with us first.
• Use codes to follow or identify particular individuals. The data is deliberately built so you cannot, and trying is a breach whether it works or not.

Re-pointing a code is the whole product, and you never need a reason. But getting a code approved with a harmless link and switching it to a banned one once the print run is out is the most serious breach in this document, because the printed material is now vouching for something nobody checked.

This is why we screen a destination every time it changes and re-check it afterwards, not only when the code is created.

We take the smallest step that stops the harm, in this order.

We email you

For something that looks like a mistake or a borderline link, we ask you to change it, with a deadline.

We block the code

For a clear breach, immediately and without warning. Scans meet a page explaining the link has been disabled and carrying its reference.

We suspend the account

Where the problem is the account rather than one code. Codes stop serving; nothing is deleted.

We close the account

For severe or repeated breaches. Data is then kept and deleted on the schedule in the privacy policy.

Throughout, codes are paused and accounts are suspended rather than deleted. That is deliberate: it means a decision we got wrong can be undone completely.

Every status page on this host carries a "Report this link" form, and anyone can use it — you do not need an account. Tell us the code reference and what you saw.

We look at reports within one business day. Child sexual abuse material, a credible threat to someone's safety, and active phishing are acted on as soon as we see them, and referred to the authorities where that is right. You can also write to hello@qriateplus.com.

Write to hello@qriateplus.com with the code reference. A person reads it, and we tell you what we found and what would resolve it. Automated screening is capable of being wrong, and a false positive on a code that is already printed is exactly the kind of thing we want to hear about quickly.

Lawful content we happen to disagree with, competitors' links, and your commercial decisions are none of our business. This policy is about harm and legality, not taste.