Acceptable Use Policy

Dracobyte LLC | Dracobyte | Effective April 20, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is incorporated into the Terms of Service. Violations may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account and any servers associated with it.

1. Purpose

Dracobyte is a free Minecraft hosting community. The AUP exists to keep the Service safe, lawful, and usable for everyone. We apply the AUP fairly and proportionately, but we reserve broad discretion to act quickly where harm is occurring or imminent.

2. Prohibited Content

You may not use the Service to host, store, distribute, or transmit:

• Content that sexually exploits or endangers minors, including any child sexual abuse material ("CSAM"). We report such material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement.
• Content that infringes copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, publicity, privacy, or other intellectual or proprietary rights.
• Content that is unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, deceptive, or that violates the laws of the user's jurisdiction or the United States.
• Content that incites violence, promotes terrorism, or supports designated terrorist organizations or sanctioned parties.
• Content that promotes self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, or other behavior that is dangerous to its audience, particularly to minors.
• Hate content directed against people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or similar protected characteristics.
• Sexually explicit content, in particular content presented in a manner accessible to minors. Servers configured for adult-only content are not permitted on the free tier.
• Malware, exploits, ransomware, phishing pages, command and control infrastructure, or any other content designed to compromise computer systems.

3. Prohibited Conduct

You may not, and may not permit others to:

• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network without our prior written authorization.
• Attempt to defeat or interfere with rate limits, authentication, billing, anti-abuse measures, or the Cloudflare Turnstile challenge.
• Run distributed denial-of-service ("DDoS") attacks, stressers, booters, IP grabbers, or proxies that conceal the origin of malicious traffic.
• Send unsolicited commercial messages, perform credential stuffing, or use the Service to scrape third-party sites in a manner that violates their terms.
• Use the Service, including Minecraft plugins or mods, to transmit bulk email, send SMS, operate outbound SMTP relays, or dispatch webhooks at a volume or in a manner that facilitates spam, phishing, or abuse of third-party platforms.
• Mine, validate, stake, or otherwise process cryptocurrency or related blockchain proof-of-work or proof-of-space workloads.
• Operate a public-facing service that is unrelated to Minecraft, or use a Minecraft server purely as a generic compute or storage backend.
• Resell, sublicense, or rent the Service to others without our prior written consent.
• Use the Service to harass, dox, threaten, stalk, or intimidate any person.
• Hide your identity through impersonation, false metadata, or knowingly false WHOIS information.

4. Resource Use and Fair Share

Free-tier resources are shared. To keep the Service viable for everyone, you agree to operate within the published quotas for memory, CPU, storage, network throughput, and player count. Sustained or repeated breaches of fair-use thresholds may trigger throttling, soft suspension, or migration to a lower-priority queue. We will, where practical, provide advance warning before suspending an otherwise compliant server for resource overuse.

5. Plugins and Mods

You are responsible for any plugins, mods, datapacks, or scripts that you install. You may not install code that you have not licensed, that is known to be malicious, or that exfiltrates data from other tenants. We may scan installed code for known vulnerabilities and may quarantine artifacts that pose a security risk.

6. Content Targeted at Children

Many Minecraft players are children. Servers that target a child audience must be operated with care. You may not deliberately collect personal information from children except as permitted under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and our Children's Privacy Notice. You may not use Service features to advertise to children or to direct children outside the Service to age-inappropriate destinations.

7. Backups and Data Retention

You are responsible for maintaining your own backups of important data. While Dracobyte performs operational snapshots, those snapshots are intended for disaster recovery and not as a guaranteed user-facing backup product. Suspended or terminated servers may be deleted after the grace period described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Cooperation with Law Enforcement

We cooperate with valid legal process. We may preserve, disclose, or remove content as required by law, in response to subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, and similar lawful demands, and we may make voluntary disclosures within the exceptions permitted under the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 2702. Where permitted, we will notify the affected user of a request before disclosure.

9. Enforcement Ladder

10. Reporting Violations

If you believe a server or user is violating this AUP, contact abuse@dracobyte.pro. Provide the server address, the approximate time of the activity, and any evidence you can share. Reports involving CSAM should also be sent to NCMEC at CyberTipline.org.

10.1 EU Notice-and-Action Mechanism (DSA Article 16)

Users located in the European Union may submit a notice of allegedly illegal content under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act). Send notices to abuse@dracobyte.pro. To be actionable, the notice should include: (i) a sufficiently substantiated explanation of the reasons the content is alleged to be illegal, (ii) a clear indication of the exact electronic location of the content, (iii) the name and email address of the notice provider (unless the content relates to an offence described in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU), and (iv) a statement confirming the notice provider's good faith belief that the information and allegations contained in it are accurate and complete. Our action on the notice, including any content restriction, will be accompanied by a statement of reasons as required by Article 17 of the Digital Services Act and as set out in Section 10.4 of the Terms of Service.

10.2 UK Online Safety Act 2023

Dracobyte is a user-to-user service for UK purposes and acknowledges duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 where applicable. Our approach is to proactively identify and mitigate foreseeable harms to children and adults on the Service, consistent with the illegal content duties, the children's safety duties (where applicable based on our Children's Access Assessment), and the duties to operate complaints and reporting processes. Our abuse reporting channel at abuse@dracobyte.pro functions as the Online Safety Act complaints route for UK users. Where Ofcom designates categorised duties or additional transparency reporting obligations applicable to the Service, we will update this Policy.

11. Appeals

If your account is suspended or terminated, you may request review by emailing legal@dracobyte.pro within thirty days. Include your account identifier and a clear explanation of why the action should be reversed. We will respond within a reasonable time and our decision is final.

12. Changes to this AUP

We may update this AUP to address new threats, regulatory requirements, or product changes. The latest version is posted on Dracobyte's legal page. Material changes will be communicated as set out in the Terms of Service.