This page describes HubSpot's Customer Trust and Safety Guidelines and how they may affect you.
Our guidelines are informed by HubSpot's Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) which apply to the use of any product, service, or website provided by us. While the guidelines outlined below are meant to provide you with additional details on some (but not all) of the limitations and restrictions included in those documents, they do not modify them. Please note that by using the HubSpot Service, you are agreeing to all of the terms outlined in both documents.
Last updated: Feb 01 2022
Internally, we count on our automated detectors to scan for potentially fraudulent or misrepresentative copy, or unusual behavior from your account. Unfortunately, automated scanning is not perfect and will occasionally flag content or activity that is perfectly fine. When that occurs, we rely on our human content integrity specialists for a second review and approval.
In addition to our automated detection efforts, we review reports from employees, partners, customers, and third parties regarding customer content that promotes, encourages, or facilitates illegal activity, hate speech, violence or discrimination. These reviews are done by humans and are further described in our Content Moderation @ HubSpot statement. Reports may be submitted by sending an email to us at content@hubspot.com or by filling out our content moderation submission form.
For your overall HubSpot account, we ask that you use your best judgment. By this, we mean do not:
For all content created by and distributed from your account, we ask that you refrain from the following:
You may not (directly or indirectly) use HubSpot in a manner that is deceptive, false, misleading or fraudulent. We may check for publicly verifiable information about your account, such as an established web or social media presence. If any of this information looks questionable or can't be easily verified, some tools in your account may be suspended.
We pay closer attention to a few industries that have higher than average abuse complaints. We do this because abuse complaints not only hurt you, but can hurt our reputation and our ability to provide HubSpot services to other customers. Some of those industries include:
This list may be updated from time to time. Please refer to the Acceptable Use Policy for the most current information.
HubSpot is not currently designed to comply with industry-specific regulations such as HIPAA or FISMA. If your account is found to be storing sensitive information, you will need to purge the information, or we may need to purge the account entirely.
"Sensitive Information" includes but is not limited to:
These may change from time to time; please see our Terms of Service for more information.
Do not use the HubSpot Service to email purchased, rented, or borrowed lists. You may not use HubSpot to send spam in any way, as this violates FTC guidelines.
If we receive a report that you've sent spam, we may ask you to confirm how you obtained opt-in consent for your contacts. In the event that you are sending marketing email without obtaining opt-in, you will need to purge the contacts from your HubSpot account.
Service limit fraud refers to someone exhausting a feature’s limits, like their allotted marketing email credits or calling minutes, and instead of upgrading for more service they create a new account to gain more free credits. Customers found exhibiting this behavior may have their account permanently locked.
Accounts found in violation of our acceptable use policy or terms of service may be permanently locked. In the event that an account is permanently locked for confirmed abuse or mis-use of HubSpot’s products or features, users will not be granted further access to the account or its data.