Iron Brew Works

Last reviewed: July 11, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy covers the website and email newsletter (collectively, the "Services") provided by Iron Brew Works, the personal creative journal of Dan McCoy. It is designed to protect us, our readers, and the wider internet community from unethical, irresponsible, and illegal activity. It supplements the "Conditions of Use" section of our Terms and Conditions.

If you engage in activities prohibited by this policy, we may restrict or terminate your access to our Services. In extreme cases, we may be legally obliged to report such activity to the relevant authorities.

Fair Use

Our Services are provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial reading. We are opposed to all forms of abuse, discrimination, rights infringement, and any action that harms or disadvantages any group, individual, or resource, and we expect everyone using our Services to act with similar intent.

Your Responsibility

You are responsible for your own actions when using our Services, and for anyone using our Services with your permission or as a result of your failure to keep your own devices and credentials secure.

Prohibited Activity

Copyright Infringement and Unauthorized Material

You must not use our Services to transmit, distribute, or store any material in violation of any applicable law. This includes, but isn't limited to:

• any material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization; and
• any material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

Our content is published for you to read. Republishing, distributing, or reproducing our content in whole or in substantial part without our prior written consent is not permitted (see our Terms and Conditions).

Spam and Unauthorized Message Activity

You must not use our Services, or our newsletter, to send or facilitate unsolicited bulk or commercial messages ("spam"). You must not subscribe any email address other than your own to our newsletter without the address owner's permission, or use any information obtained from our Services to send unsolicited messages.

Unethical, Exploitative, and Malicious Activity

You must not use our Services to distribute or make available any software or service designed to violate this policy, including tools to send spam or to initiate network sniffing, pinging, packet spoofing, flooding, mail-bombing, or denial-of-service attacks.

You must not use our Services to access any account, system, or resource you do not own or are not authorized to access (e.g. "hacking", "cracking", "phreaking").

You must not intentionally or recklessly introduce viruses or malicious code into our Services or systems.

You must not use our Services to harass another group or individual. Our definition of harassment includes, but is not limited to, denial-of-service attacks, hate speech, advocacy of racial or ethnic intolerance, and any activity intended to threaten, abuse, infringe upon the rights of, or discriminate against any group or individual.

Other activities considered unethical, exploitative, and malicious include:

• The unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction (or any attempt thereof) of any information about us or other users, by any means or device;
• Interfering with the use of our Services by other readers;
• Publishing or transmitting any content or links that incite violence, depict a violent act, depict child sexual abuse material, or threaten anyone's health and safety;
• Any act or omission in violation of consumer protection laws and regulations;
• Any violation of a person's privacy.

Unauthorized Use of Iron Brew Works Property

You must not impersonate Iron Brew Works, misrepresent a significant business relationship with Iron Brew Works, or claim ownership of any Iron Brew Works property (including our content and brand) for the purpose of fraudulently gaining service, patronage, or user trust.

About This Policy

This policy outlines a non-exclusive list of activities and intent we deem unacceptable and incompatible with our brand.

We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time by publishing the revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective from the earlier of the date you use our Services after we publish the revised version, or 30 days after we publish it.