Acceptable Use Policy - Hiram Trade

Version: 2026-10-01. Effective date: 2026-10-01.

This English version is a translation. The Polish version is legally binding.

This policy forms part of the Terms. It specifies goods that may not be offered or sought on the Platform, goods admitted only after moderation, and prohibited conduct. Infringement of this policy may result in the measures described in § 9(3) and § 24 of the Terms and, in the cases listed in § 20(7) of the Terms, also in a contractual penalty. The Operator is JIII-LEGACY.

1. Responsibility of Companies

1. Companies are solely responsible for ensuring that the goods offered and sought and the Deals comply with the law of the countries of origin, transit and destination, including customs, export control, sanctions, product safety, chemicals, waste, nature protection and intellectual property law, and for obtaining the required permits and licences.
2. The list below is not exhaustive. The Operator may also treat other Listings as unacceptable if they are unlawful or pose a serious risk to safety, health or trust on the Platform.

2. Prohibited goods

Listings, RFQs and Quotes may not concern:

1. goods, persons or destinations subject to restrictive measures (sanctions) of the European Union (in particular Council regulations adopted under Art. 215 TFEU, e.g. Regulations (EU) No 833/2014 and No 269/2014 concerning Russia and Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning Belarus), of the United Nations Security Council and Polish measures (the Act of 13 April 2022 on special solutions to counteract support for aggression against Ukraine and to protect national security (ustawa o szczególnych rozwiązaniach w zakresie przeciwdziałania wspieraniu agresji na Ukrainę oraz służących ochronie bezpieczeństwa narodowego) and the list maintained by the minister competent for internal affairs); the Operator also takes into account the lists of the United States (OFAC) and the United Kingdom (OFSI) where they apply to the parties or the Deal;
2. narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and new psychoactive substances within the meaning of the Act of 29 July 2005 on Counteracting Drug Addiction (ustawa o przeciwdziałaniu narkomanii), except trade conducted by entities holding the required permits (in which case as restricted goods - item 3);
3. specimens of protected species whose trade is prohibited under the CITES Convention and Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 without the required permits;
4. counterfeit or pirated goods or goods infringing intellectual property rights, including trade marks, designs, patents and copyright;
5. waste whose shipment is prohibited and hazardous waste without the required permits and notifications (Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 and, from its date of application, Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 on shipments of waste);
6. goods that could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel treatment (Regulation (EU) 2019/125);
7. chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, their precursors and means of delivery, as well as anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions;
8. arms, ammunition, their parts and accessories - all goods in chapter 93 of the Combined Nomenclature / Harmonized System (decision of the Operator for the launch of the Platform; any change requires an amendment of this Policy under § 25 of the Terms);
9. human organs, tissues and cells;
10. cultural goods exported in breach of the law (Regulation (EU) 2019/880);
11. ozone-depleting substances and persistent organic pollutants whose trade is prohibited;
12. documents, personal data, access credentials, false certificates or commercial documents;
13. goods made with forced labour or child labour (including, from its date of application, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2024/3015);
14. services and goods whose offering constitutes a criminal offence or a petty offence in the country of establishment of any of the parties.

3. Restricted goods (published after moderation)

Listings concerning the categories below are held for review by the Operator. The Operator may require permits, licences, certificates or end-user certificates and may refuse publication.

1. military equipment not covered by chapter 93 (Common Military List of the EU) and products and technology for military or police use; trade requires a licence under the Act of 13 June 2019 on conducting business activity in the manufacture of and trade in explosives, weapons, ammunition and products and technology for military or police use (ustawa o wykonywaniu działalności gospodarczej w zakresie wytwarzania i obrotu materiałami wybuchowymi, bronią, amunicją oraz wyrobami i technologią o przeznaczeniu wojskowym lub policyjnym); arms and ammunition in chapter 93 are prohibited (section 2(8));
2. dual-use items listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/821 and goods on national control lists; the Company is responsible for obtaining an export authorisation and complying with the catch-all clause;
3. drug precursors (Regulations (EC) No 273/2004 and No 111/2005), controlled substances and medicinal products, including wholesale trade in medicinal products requiring a permit;
4. hazardous chemicals, explosives for civil use, explosives precursors (Regulation (EU) 2019/1148), plant protection products, fluorinated greenhouse gases;
5. waste intended for recovery, scrap and secondary raw materials;
6. CITES specimens and products derived from them, with the required permits;
7. live animals, products of animal origin, food requiring veterinary or phytosanitary certificates;
8. raw materials subject to due diligence obligations (e.g. tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold - Regulation (EU) 2017/821; products covered by Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation, from its date of application);
9. goods flagged for review by the Operator's keyword rules (controlled substances, waste, protected species, dual use) and products outside the catalogue until they are approved;
10. other categories indicated by the Operator on the Platform before a Listing is published.

The list of restricted categories is the Operator's configuration and may be updated under § 25 of the Terms.

4. Prohibited conduct

The following in particular are prohibited:

1. Bypassing the Platform: inducing the other Company to conclude a Deal covered by a Protected Introduction outside the Platform, passing on contact details for the purpose of such conclusion, concealing contact details in a manner intended to circumvent masking (e.g. spelled out in words, in images or files), and failing to mark completed Deals as COMPLETED;
2. placing contact details, the Company name, website addresses or messenger identifiers in Listings, profile descriptions and messages before the stage at which the Platform discloses them;
3. publishing fictitious, outdated or duplicate Listings, or Listings not concerning actual supply or demand, including Listings used solely to research competitors' prices;
4. providing false Company data, impersonating another Company or person, claiming a Verification Level or certificates that have not been granted;
5. sending unsolicited commercial communications (spam), mass-sending identical RFQs or messages unrelated to a Listing;
6. automated extraction of data from the Platform (scraping, crawling, bots), except through interfaces made available by the Operator and in accordance with their terms, and circumventing rate limits;
7. attempts to gain unauthorised access to accounts, other Companies' data or the Operator's systems, vulnerability testing without the Operator's written consent, introducing malware;
8. fraud, including providing false bank accounts, false transport documents or certificates, demanding prepayments without the intention to deliver;
9. bribery and corrupt payments in connection with Deals;
10. artificially inflating reliability indicators, in particular sham Deals between related Companies;
11. creating further Company Accounts to circumvent plan limits, a suspension or a moderation decision;
12. offensive or discriminatory content, content inciting violence or infringing personal rights.

5. Reporting infringements

Infringements may be reported using the "Report" function or to contact@hiramtrade.com. The procedure for handling notices and appeals is set out in § 9 of the Terms and the Complaints Procedure.