Prohibited Activities Policy

To preserve trust, safety, and operational integrity across Cartoix, all Users, Buyers, Suppliers, and Affiliates must refrain from engaging in prohibited activities outlined in this policy.

Engaging in any of the following activities will result in immediate account termination and legal escalation:

• Fraud & Identity Theft: Using stolen credit cards, false names, impersonating other users, or creating fake buyer profiles.
• Automated Scraping & Bot Usage: Deploying web scrapers, bots, crawlers, data mining software, or automated scripts without prior written authorization.
• Fake Orders & Self-Referrals: Generating fake purchases to inflate product metrics or earn unauthorized affiliate commissions.
• Security Tampering: Attempting to breach system firewalls, reverse engineer platform source code, inject malware, or execute DDoS attacks.
• Review & Rating Manipulation: Posting incentivized, fake, defamatory, or competitor-sabotaging product reviews.
• Multiple Affiliate Accounts: Operating multiple accounts to bypass commission limits or manipulate tier payouts.
• Illegal Products & Money Laundering: Attempting to list, purchase, or finance illegal, restricted, or counterfeit merchandise.
• Abuse & Harassment: Harassing, threatening, or spamming platform users, customer support staff, or Suppliers.

Violations of this policy will trigger immediate protective actions:

• Immediate Account Termination: Permanent ban of user accounts, email domains, and IP subnets.
• Commission & Balance Forfeiture: Cancellation of all unpaid earnings and account balances associated with fraudulent conduct.
• Legal Prosecution: Referral of serious cybercrime, payment fraud, or IP violations to law enforcement agencies and civil litigation.