Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose & Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") defines the acceptable standards of use for all subscribers and trial users of SQB Stream (a sub-brand of SQB Labs LLC). Compliance with this policy is mandatory to ensure server stability, fair bandwidth allocation, and a high-quality experience for all viewers.

2. Permitted Use

SQB Stream subscriptions are sold strictly for personal, private, and household entertainment viewing. You are permitted to use your subscription on your personal television, streaming stick, tablet, or mobile phone within your personal household.

3. Prohibited Activities

The following activities are strictly prohibited and constitute a material breach of your subscription agreement:

• Public or Commercial Exhibition: Publicly showing, broadcasting, or exhibiting streams in public venues, bars, restaurants, hotels, clubs, or commercial establishments without authorization.
• Reselling & Redistribution: Re-broadcasting, restreaming, relaying, selling, or distributing our stream feeds, channels, or Video Club files over local area networks (LAN), IPTV panels, peer-to-peer networks, or the internet.
• Account & Credential Sharing: Sharing your portal URL, MAC address pairing, or login credentials with individuals outside your direct household.
• Simultaneous Multi-Streaming: Attempting to stream concurrently across multiple devices using a single-connection subscription.
• Capturing & Ripping: Using software, hardware, or recording cards to intercept, rip, mirror, or pirate stream feeds or on-demand titles.
• Technical Circumvention: Attempting to bypass security controls, spoof MAC addresses, launch Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, scrape channel playlists, or tamper with load-balancing nodes.
• Automated Abuse: Using bots, automated crawlers, or high-frequency API scripts against the website or stream portals.

4. Third-Party App Compliance

When connecting to SQB Stream via third-party applications (e.g., Smart STB, STB Emu, ISTB, or MYTV Online), you agree to comply with the respective end-user licence agreements (EULA) and terms established by those software developers.

5. Monitoring & Enforcement

We actively monitor server connection logs, concurrent connection states, and bandwidth anomalies. In the event of a verified violation of this Acceptable Use Policy:

• We reserve the right to immediately suspend or terminate your subscription and portal access without prior warning.
• Offending MAC addresses and IP ranges will be permanently blacklisted.
• Accounts terminated for willful policy violations (including restreaming or unauthorized reselling) are strictly ineligible for refunds.

6. Reporting Abuse

If you encounter an unauthorized restream, reseller, or misuse of the SQB Stream service, please report it immediately to support@sqbstream.com.