Acceptable Use Policy — BRUTAL Optimizer for Android

Effective 24 September 2026. This policy is part of the BRUTAL Optimizer for Android Terms of Service, which incorporate it by reference. It is published by ARHAS INDIA (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED, registered office Hyderabad, India ("we", "us"). It carries the same rules that applied to the app before it had a page of its own. If you break this policy, the enforcement section below applies, and under the Terms you are responsible (you indemnify us) for claims that arise from your breach.

If documents disagree: the Terms carry a short summary of these rules. If that summary and this policy say different things about what use is acceptable, this policy controls. On everything else — fees, refunds, liability, disputes — the Terms prevail over this policy.

1. No unlawful use

Don't use the app or our servers to do anything illegal. This matters enormously, because when you route traffic through one of our relays, that traffic exits from our IP addresses — so your conduct lands on our doorstep. Through the relays, you must not transmit, request, or distribute:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any sexual content involving minors — in any form, for any reason. This is the one category where there is no warning step: we terminate immediately and report to the appropriate authorities as the law requires.
• Fraud or deception — phishing, scams, payment fraud, identity theft, account takeover of other people's accounts.
• Attacks — DDoS or traffic flooding, unauthorized access attempts, port scanning of third parties, malware distribution or command-and-control, or any attempt to disrupt someone else's systems or games.
• Sanctioned or embargoed uses — using the service from, for, or on behalf of persons or territories where applicable trade-sanctions or export laws prohibit it.
• Anything else unlawful under the law that applies where you are, or under the law of the relay's location to the extent it applies to traffic transiting that relay — including infringing others' intellectual property through the tunnel. Conduct directed at us or our infrastructure must also be lawful where we are (India).

Honest note on how this squares with our privacy promises: relays don't inspect or log the contents of your game traffic, and we like it that way. This section is not a surveillance promise in reverse — it's the rule we enforce when abuse is reported to us or shows up in signals we can see without logging your traffic: aggregate traffic volume, abuse complaints from other networks and from game publishers, and our hosting providers' own abuse and netflow alerts.

2. No cheating tools or game tampering

• What we do: BRUTAL Optimizer for Android routes your selected game's traffic through a relay. It does not modify game files, inject code into games, read game memory, or interfere with anti-cheat software. Ever.
• What you must not do: use the app together with, or as cover for, cheating tools — aimbots, wallhacks, memory editors, packet manipulation or replay tools, scripts that automate gameplay, or anything that modifies a game client or its traffic contents. Don't use the app to evade a game ban, dodge a matchmaking penalty, spoof your region (it only routes within your own region — don't try to defeat that), or circumvent a publisher's technical measures.

3. Your account is yours alone

• No resale or sharing. Don't sell, rent, or share your account or its access to the relays.
• Device limits are real limits. Don't share one account across a group, and don't reset or spoof device identifiers to stack extra seats.

4. No reverse engineering for circumvention

Don't reverse engineer, decompile, or tamper with the app, our update channel, or our APIs in order to circumvent entitlement checks, safety kill-switches, relay authentication, or any ad-based reward gate, tier check, or free-capacity limit we operate — and don't build, distribute, or use tools that do.

The carve-out, stated plainly: nothing in this section restricts what applicable law expressly permits you to do — including acts permitted under India's Copyright Act, 1957 (such as observing, studying, or testing a lawfully obtained program, or reverse engineering strictly necessary for interoperability with other software, where the needed information isn't otherwise readily available). If you find a vulnerability, report it to us at legal@brutaloptimizer.com instead of exploiting or publishing it first.

Where security research is welcome — the exact boundary: good-faith research on your own device, against your own installed copy of the app, is welcome. Any testing that touches our live infrastructure — relays, control plane, APIs, or website — is different: it needs our prior written authorization, whoever's device it runs from (see section 6). Ask for it at legal@brutaloptimizer.com; we answer.

5. Don't abuse the free plan

The free plan is genuinely free and we intend to keep it that way. What kills free plans is abuse, so:

• No ad fraud. Don't fake, automate, replay, or otherwise manipulate rewarded-ad views, and don't use tools that spoof ad completion. This defrauds the ad network, not just us, and it's the fastest way to get the free plan shut down for everyone.
• No seat farming. Don't create multiple accounts, rotate disposable emails, or reset device identifiers to multiply free relay capacity, dodge the device cap, or hoard limited free seats.
• No entitlement circumvention. Don't bypass any ad-based reward gate, tier check, or free-capacity limit we operate, and don't automate the app or APIs to claim capacity a human user wouldn't.

6. Don't attack the service itself

• No probing, scanning, load-testing, or attempting to breach the relays, control plane, APIs, or website — unless we have given you prior written authorization for security testing. (Section 4 explains the boundary.)
• No scraping or bulk-harvesting our APIs or catalog data; no automated account creation.
• No routing anything through a relay other than your own selected game's traffic via the app — the relays are not a general-purpose VPN or proxy.
• No interfering with other users' sessions or capacity.

7. How we enforce this

Proportionate, human, and in this order for ordinary breaches:

• 1. Warn. First or minor breach: we tell you what we saw and what to stop. Most cases end here.
• 2. Suspend. Continued or serious breach: we temporarily suspend the account or relay access while we look into it. You can reply and explain — mistakes and false positives get reversed.
• 3. Terminate. Repeated, deliberate, or grave breaches: we permanently terminate the account. Only in these cases — deliberate, repeated, or grave breach — do you forfeit fees for the remaining unused part of your term; a breach that only ever reached the warning step never costs you your subscription. This is subject to the Refund & Cancellation Policy for Android, and except where law requires otherwise — your non-waivable rights under Indian consumer law are unaffected.
• 4. Legal referral. Where the conduct is unlawful or endangers others, we refer the matter to law enforcement or other authorities and cooperate as the law requires.

8. Reporting abuse, and grievances

If you see abuse of the app or traffic from our relay IPs that shouldn't be happening, tell us: legal@brutaloptimizer.com with the subject line "Abuse report". Include what you saw, when, and any IPs or logs you can share. Network operators and game publishers are welcome to use the same address. We read every report and act on the credible ones.

A complaint about a decision we made under this policy — a warning, a suspension or a termination — or any other grievance goes to our Grievance Officer:

9. Changes

We may update this policy. For material changes — anything that adds a prohibition, tightens enforcement, or otherwise changes your position for the worse — we will notify account holders by email or in-app notice at least 15 days before the change takes effect, as well as updating this page with a new effective date. Editorial changes (clarity, typos, contact details) may appear on this page without individual notice. The version in effect at the time of your use is the one that applies.