Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: 09/15/2026

1. Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”) governs your use of the services operated by Callingly LLC (“Callingly”, “we”, “us”), including our web application, API, telephone numbers, voice calling, AI voice agents, and text messaging.

This AUP is incorporated into, and forms part of, the Callingly Terms of Service. It applies to every Callingly account, however that account was created — through our signup form, through a single sign-on provider, or through our API — and you accept it when you create an account and each time you use the service. It binds you, everyone you permit to use your account, and every end customer on whose behalf you place calls or send messages. If you do not accept it, you may not use the service.

Callingly places calls and sends messages at your direction and on your behalf. You are responsible for the legality of that traffic. Nothing in this AUP makes Callingly responsible for obtaining consent, maintaining your do-not-call lists, or determining whether a particular call or message is lawful.

2. Consent

You must have a lawful basis to contact every person you contact through Callingly, obtained before the call is placed or the message is sent. Where the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, its implementing rules, or any equivalent state or foreign law requires prior express consent or prior express written consent, you must hold consent of that kind and of that scope.

You must keep records evidencing consent for as long as applicable law requires and for at least five years, and you must produce them to us within 24 hours of our request. An inability to produce consent records on request is itself a violation of this AUP.

3. Do-not-call obligations

  • Do not call or message any number on the National Do Not Call Registry or any applicable state registry, unless a recognized exemption or an established business relationship applies.
  • Maintain an internal, company-specific do-not-call list, and honor it across all of your campaigns.
  • Honor any revocation of consent — spoken, texted, or written — promptly, and in no case later than applicable law requires. A revocation received on one channel applies to every channel.
  • Honor STOP, UNSUBSCRIBE, and equivalent opt-out keywords, and respond to HELP as carrier rules require.
  • Do not attempt to contact a person again through a different number, account, or brand in order to defeat an opt-out.

4. Calling hours

Do not place calls before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. at the called party’s local time, and observe any stricter limit imposed by state law or by the terms of the consent you hold.

Callingly applies an automatic check that withholds a call when the contact’s local time falls outside that window, using the time zone we derive from the contact’s telephone number. That check is a backstop, not a guarantee: where a number does not resolve to a time zone — a toll-free or other non-geographic number, for example — the check cannot apply, and the obligation above remains yours in full. Do not rely on it as your compliance control, and do not attempt to defeat it, including by supplying an incorrect time zone for a contact.

5. Caller identification

This section governs the caller ID presented to the person you are contacting.

  • Transmit accurate caller ID on every call. The number you present must be one you are authorized to use, must be capable of receiving return calls, and must identify you or the party on whose behalf the call is made.
  • Do not transmit misleading or inaccurate caller ID with intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value. This is prohibited by the Truth in Caller ID Act and is grounds for immediate termination.
  • Do not present a number belonging to another person or business, a government agency, or a number you do not control.
  • Do not rotate, cycle, or churn numbers, and do not match a caller ID to the called party’s area code or exchange (“neighbor spoofing”), in order to evade call analytics, call blocking, or labeling.
  • Do not spread traffic across numbers or accounts to keep per-number volume beneath detection thresholds.

You may dial only from a number Callingly has provisioned to your account or a number you have verified through our caller ID verification process. Attempting to present any other number to a contact is a violation of this AUP.

These rules do not govern the separate internal leg on which Callingly rings your own representatives to connect them to a waiting contact. Where your account has that option enabled, that leg may display the contact’s own number, so the representative can see who they are about to speak to before answering. The option is unavailable where local telephony rules prohibit presenting a caller ID you are not entitled to, and it is never a route to presenting a third party’s number to the person you are contacting.

6. How calls are conducted

  • Identify the caller, and the business on whose behalf the call is made, promptly at the start of the call.
  • Use prerecorded or artificial voice messages only where you hold the consent that applicable law requires for that kind of message.
  • Where you use a Callingly AI voice agent, you may not configure it to impersonate a specific real person, to assert that it is human, or to deny being an AI agent when asked. You are responsible for any disclosure that applicable law requires for automated or AI-generated voice.
  • Do not place calls that connect to dead air, and do not abandon calls beyond the rate applicable law permits.
  • Do not use random or sequential number generation to produce numbers to dial, and do not dial purchased, scraped, harvested, or otherwise unverified lists.
  • Do not call emergency lines, hospital or health-care facility patient rooms, elderly care facilities, or any line where automated calls are prohibited.
  • Record calls only in compliance with the recording and consent laws of every jurisdiction involved, including all-party consent states.

7. Text messaging

Messaging traffic must comply with the CTIA Messaging Principles and Best Practices and with carrier A2P 10DLC requirements. You must register your brand and campaigns accurately, use each campaign only for the traffic it was registered for, and keep registration details current. Do not send content that carriers prohibit, including content relating to sex, hate, alcohol, firearms, or tobacco where prohibited, unlawful substances, or high-risk financial offers, except where we have approved that traffic in writing.

8. Prohibited content and conduct

Do not use Callingly to:

  • Violate any applicable law or regulation, including the TCPA, the Truth in Caller ID Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and state telemarketing and recording statutes.
  • Originate illegal robocalls, or any call or message that is fraudulent, deceptive, or intended to mislead the recipient about who is calling or why.
  • Conduct phishing, vishing, smishing, or any scheme to obtain credentials, financial details, one-time passcodes, or other sensitive information under false pretenses.
  • Impersonate Callingly, a Callingly employee, a government agency, a financial institution, a carrier, or any other person or entity.
  • Harass, threaten, defame, or abuse any person, or contact a person after they have asked you to stop.
  • Market unlawful goods or services, or run lead-generation for any of them.
  • Exploit or harm minors, or direct traffic to numbers you know or should know belong to minors.
  • Engage in traffic pumping, access stimulation, or any scheme to generate artificial call volume for revenue.

9. Account integrity

  • Provide true, complete, and current identifying information, including legal business name, business registration or tax identification number, registered address, website, and an authorized contact. Keep it current, and provide any verification we reasonably request.
  • Do not supply false, borrowed, or stolen identity or payment information, and do not open an account on behalf of an undisclosed third party.
  • Do not resell, sublicense, or otherwise provide access to your account, your telephone numbers, or the Callingly API to a third party without our prior written approval, and do not permit an unvetted third party to originate traffic through your account.
  • Do not share credentials or API keys, and do not circumvent rate limits, quotas, usage caps, or any technical control we apply.
  • Do not probe, scan, overload, reverse engineer, or interfere with the service or the networks we depend on, and do not introduce malicious code.

10. Tracebacks and investigations

Telephone carriers, the Industry Traceback Group, and regulators may ask us to identify the source of a call. When we pass such a request to you, or ask you for consent records, call detail, or campaign information relating to suspected unlawful traffic, you must respond within 24 hours and cooperate fully.

You agree that we may disclose your identity, account details, call records, recordings, and the information you gave us at registration to our upstream providers, the Industry Traceback Group, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and law enforcement, in connection with any traceback, complaint, or investigation.

11. Monitoring and enforcement

We may monitor traffic on the platform for compliance with this AUP, including call volumes, call durations, answer and completion rates, caller ID reputation, complaint rates, and the rate at which terminating carriers block or label your calls. We do not undertake to monitor, and we are not responsible for traffic we do not detect.

Where we determine, in our reasonable discretion, that you have violated this AUP or that your traffic presents a risk of harm to recipients, to our carriers, or to the platform, we may take any of the following steps, with or without prior notice:

  • throttle, suspend, or disable outbound calling or messaging on your account;
  • revoke caller IDs and release telephone numbers assigned to you;
  • block specific destination numbers, campaigns, or traffic patterns;
  • require you to produce consent records or remediate before service resumes; and
  • suspend or terminate your account.

Where a violation is urgent — suspected unlawful robocalling, caller ID spoofing, fraud, or a request from a carrier or regulator — we will act first and notify you afterwards. Refunds following enforcement under this section are governed by section 8 of the Terms of Service. Nothing in this section limits any other remedy available to us under the Terms of Service or at law.

12. Reporting abuse

To report a call or message you believe was sent through Callingly in violation of this AUP, or to submit a traceback request, email [email protected]. Include the calling number, the called number, and the date and time of the call, and we will investigate.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this AUP as law, carrier requirements, and industry practice change. We will post the revised policy here and update the date above. Your continued use of the service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.