Acceptable Use Policy

Destinations you may not link to

You may not use a aka.to link to point anyone at:

• Phishing or credential harvesting—any page impersonating a person, brand, or institution in order to collect passwords, payment details, one-time codes, or identity documents.
• Malware—including drive-by downloads, ransomware, spyware, cryptominers, and exploit kits, and including pages that merely stage or redirect to them.
• Child sexual abuse material. Zero tolerance. We remove it immediately, terminate the account, preserve what the law requires us to preserve, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement.
• Fraud and scams—fake stores, advance-fee schemes, investment and cryptocurrency fraud, fake charity appeals, and counterfeit goods.
• Spam payloads—destinations distributed through unsolicited bulk email, SMS, or messaging, whether you send it or someone sends it for you.
• Content that is unlawful where it is distributed, or that infringes someone else’s intellectual property, or that you are prohibited from distributing by sanctions or export control.
• Content that harasses or endangers people— targeted harassment, doxxing, non-consensual intimate imagery, incitement to violence, or material promoting self-harm.

Things you may not do with the service

• Bait and switch. Do not distribute a link with a benign destination and then edit that destination to something harmful once it is in circulation. This is the abuse pattern specific to link shorteners, we watch for it, and it is grounds for immediate termination rather than a warning.
• Laundering a blocked domain. Do not use aka.to to give a domain that has been blocklisted, suspended, or filtered elsewhere a clean address to travel under.
• Chaining and cloaking. Do not build redirect chains through other shorteners or cloaking services in order to obscure where a link ends up, and do not serve one destination to a scanner and a different one to a person.
• Evading limits. Do not circumvent rate limits, quotas, or a suspension—including by registering additional accounts or organizations to continue conduct we have already acted on.
• Bulk automated minting. Do not script the creation of slugs at volume, enumerate slugs, or scrape the service to discover links you were not given.
• Inflating analytics. Do not generate artificial clicks on your own or anyone else’s links.
• Attacking the service. Do not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service without our written permission, do not attempt to access accounts or data that are not yours, and do not interfere with anyone else’s use of it. If you find a vulnerability, tell us at support@aka.to; we will not pursue good-faith research that is reported to us and not exploited.

Copyright and the DMCA

If you believe a aka.to link points to material that infringes your copyright, send a notice to dmca@aka.to, or by mail to Aka To, Inc., 1 Example Street, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Attn: DMCA Designated Agent. Your notice must include:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed;
• the full aka.to short URL or URLs you are complaining about;
• your address, telephone number, and email address;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Note that we host the short link, not the material it points to; where the right remedy is with the destination’s host, we will say so. If we disable a link in response to a notice, the customer may send a counter-notice with the corresponding statutory contents, and we will restore the link as the DMCA provides unless we are told an action has been filed. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

How we enforce this

We may disable an individual alias, an organization, or an entire account. A disabled alias stops redirecting and returns an error, and no further clicks are recorded for it; its slug stays held so it cannot be picked up by someone else. Where the conduct is serious or ongoing we act first and explain afterwards. We may also preserve and disclose information as described in our Privacy Policy where the law requires it.

If you believe we have acted on your links in error, write to support@aka.to and we will review it.

Reporting abuse

To report a aka.to link being used in violation of this policy, email abuse@aka.to. Please include:

• the full short URL, exactly as you received it—without it we usually cannot identify the link;
• where you encountered it, and what it did;
• any headers, screenshots, or scanner output you can share safely.

Do not send us live malware samples. Reports involving child sexual abuse material are treated as the highest priority; please also report them to the appropriate authority in your country.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as abuse patterns change. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the current revision, and material changes are announced through the Service or by email.