Abuse Reporting & Enforcement

Last updated: June 21, 2026

Boardwalk investigates reports of spam, attacks, scraping, malicious automation, fraud, and other misuse launched from or through the Service. The rules we enforce are in our Acceptable Use Policy; this page tells you how to report a violation, what we do with your report, and what to expect.

1. How to report

Email abuse@boardwalk.sh with as much detail as you can. The more we have, the faster we can act.

What to include:

• The organization name, account email, or workflow involved (if known).
• Identifying details of the offending activity: source IPs, request signatures, run IDs, message IDs, or URLs.
• Approximate timestamps (UTC if possible).
• Logs, headers, screenshots, or copies of relevant messages or traffic.
• What you think the violation is and why.
• Whether you are the target, a bystander, an organization administrator, or a representative of an affected party.

2. What we review

• Spam, scams, phishing, and fraudulent activity.
• Attacks on other systems launched from Boardwalk: denial-of-service, scanning, brute-force, credential stuffing, or unauthorized scraping.
• Malware staging or distribution, and credential theft.
• Abuse of compute resources, including cryptocurrency mining and resource-extraction workloads.
• Unauthorized collection or disclosure of personal information; doxing; stalking.
• CSAM, NCII, or other content that endangers minors. Reports of CSAM are forwarded to NCMEC as required by law.
• Attempts to bypass platform safeguards, tenant isolation, or the credential broker.

3. Copyright and DMCA notices

For copyright complaints under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, send a written notice to our Designated Agent, identified below. Notices that don't substantially comply with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) may not be effective.

A complete notice must include:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed (or, if multiple works, a representative list).
• Identification of the material that is allegedly infringing, with enough detail for us to find it (workflow, run ID, artifact, or URL).
• Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Designated Agent. Robot Networks Inc. has registered a DMCA Designated Agent with the U.S. Copyright Office (registration effective May 6, 2026). Send notices to:

• Nicholas Crews, DMCA Agent, Robot Networks Inc.
• 360 3rd Ave, Apt 3, New York, NY 10016, United States
• Phone: (413) 427-0006
• Email: legal@boardwalk.sh(subject line "DMCA Notice")

Email notices are received fastest. You can verify our current registration in the U.S. Copyright Office's public directory at copyright.gov/dmca-directory.

Counter-notification.If you believe content you posted was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) to legal@boardwalk.shwith the subject line "DMCA Counter-Notice". A complete counter-notice includes your signature, identification of the removed material and its prior location, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, your name, address, and telephone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the federal judicial district in which you reside (or, if outside the U.S., the District of Delaware) and acceptance of service of process from the complaining party.

Repeat infringers. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

4. Trademark complaints

Send trademark complaints to abuse@boardwalk.sh(subject line: "Trademark complaint") with the registered mark, the relevant registration number(s) and jurisdiction(s), the allegedly infringing content, and an explanation of the alleged infringement.

5. Response targets

• Acknowledgment: within 2 business days for spam, abuse, and copyright notices.
• Acknowledgment: within 1 business day for reports involving imminent harm, active attacks, security incidents, or CSAM.
• Resolution: we aim to investigate and act within 5 business days for routine reports, faster for higher-severity issues.

6. Enforcement actions

Depending on severity and evidence, we may take any of the actions described in our Acceptable Use Policy, typically following an enforcement ladder of warning, feature-restriction, suspension, and termination. For severe or ongoing harm we may act immediately and without prior notice.

7. Appeals

If we've restricted, suspended, or terminated your account and you believe we've made a mistake, email abuse@boardwalk.shwith your account identifier, the action you're appealing, and the relevant context. We will review and respond. Appeals do not apply to actions taken to comply with law (for example, sanctions or court orders).

8. Preservation and law enforcement

We may preserve relevant records needed to investigate abuse, protect users, enforce our policies, or comply with legal obligations. We respond to valid law-enforcement requests in accordance with applicable law; we generally require a subpoena, court order, or other appropriate legal process for non-public account information, and we will resist overbroad or unlawful requests. Emergency-disclosure requests should follow the standard for emergencies under 18 U.S.C. § 2702 and equivalent foreign laws.

9. Bad-faith reports

Submitting reports we know to be false, in bad faith, or for harassment is itself a violation of the AUP and may result in enforcement against the reporting account.

10. Related policies

This page works alongside our Acceptable Use Policy, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Security Disclosure Policy.