Usage Policy

Last updated: 28 September 2026

This Usage Policy applies to Manus and  other products, features and services we make available for individuals from time to time, including but not limited to AI agents; applications, software, browser extensions and websites; connected-account, communication and automation features; local, remote and hosted computing environments; and tools for creating, deploying or operating digital projects that Butterfly Effect makes available from time to time; all users of the Service; and all content, instructions, outputs, actions, automations, applications and other activities carried out through or using the Service.

You may not access, use, or allow others to access or use the Service in any manner that would:

Violate any applicable law (including but not limited to any manner that promotes, contributes to, or encourages illegal or unlawful activity), including conduct that describes, encourages, supports, or distributes in any form child sexual abuse materials

Infringes or misappropriates any third party’s intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights. You may not post or make available any Content that includes any identifiable person or any of their personal characteristics without that person’s express consent.

Contains any viruses, worms, spyware or other malicious computer programming codes that may damage or disrupt the Services

Generate, promote, disseminate, or otherwise use or facilitate content that may harm other individuals, including to encourage self-harm, discrimination, bullying, humiliation, and/or other emotional harms. This also includes causing harm by using the Service to: (i) deploy subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort behavior by impairing decision making; or (ii) exploit people due to their age, disability, or a specific social or economic situation to distort their behavior

Collect and input personal information of children under 16 years of age, data relating to criminal convictions and offenses; and data revealing a person’s racial or ethnic origin, political views, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership in a trade union, citizenship or citizenship status, and sexual orientation or sex life;

Engage in commercial activities and/or sales such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes

Evaluate or classify individuals based on social behavior or personal traits that leads to detrimental or unfavorable treatment, either in a context unrelated to the original data or that is unjustified or disproportionate

Engage in predictive policing or criminal risk assessments based on profiling or assessing personality traits and characteristics

Engage in the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to build facial recognition databases

Engage in emotion recognition in the workplace or education, save as permitted by applicable law

Categorise people based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation

Engage in real-time biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of law enforcement, save as permitted by applicable law

Present a risk of death or bodily harm to individuals (including in relation to illegal drugs, weapons, or self-harm)

Generate, promote, disseminate, or otherwise use or facilitate adult content, such as erotic chat, pornography, and content meant to arouse sexual excitement

Deceive or mislead others, including but not limited to activity related to plagiarism, scams, phishing or malware, and furtherance of misinformation or disinformation

Access, monitor, control, modify, delete or disclose any account, device, system, data or other resource without the authority or permission of the relevant owner or account holder; or use the Service to record, communicate, purchase, transact or otherwise act for or on behalf of another person without that person’s authorisation or without providing any notice or obtaining any consent required by applicable law. This includes impersonation, surveillance, unauthorised recording, credential misuse, fraud, data exfiltration and destructive actions.

Initiate or facilitate automated, bulk or unsolicited calls, messages or other communications without complying with applicable requirements concerning consent, caller or sender identification, required disclosures, opt-outs, do-not-call requests, recording or marketing.

Generate, promote, disseminate, or otherwise use or facilitate content that may violate or infringe upon the rights of others (including but not limited to intellectual property rights and privacy rights)

Rely on the Service as the sole basis for a medical diagnosis or treatment decision, or use it to provide a regulated professional service unless you are authorised to provide that service and comply with applicable professional obligations, including any required human oversight.

Bypass, disable, deceive or manipulate any safety, security, privacy, authentication, access-control, rate-limit, approval, confirmation, permission or human-review mechanism, except through a setting we expressly make available for that purpose and only in accordance with its stated conditions.

Use the Service to make, or materially determine, a decision about a person’s eligibility, selection, access or terms in employment, housing, education, credit, insurance, healthcare, legal services, public benefits, law enforcement or another similarly high-impact context without meaningful human review appropriate to the decision.