Acceptable Use Policy

The core principle

Every capability in WiFi Map is a diagnostic capability. A network scanner, a latency probe, a device discovery sweep and a signal survey are all ordinary, useful things to run on your own network — and all things that become hostile when pointed at somebody else's.

The tool does not know whose network it is looking at. You do. That distinction is the whole of this policy, and it is your responsibility to observe.

This Acceptable Use Policy is incorporated into the Terms of Use and is binding on every user of the App.

1 Permitted Uses

You may use WiFi Map to:

• Diagnose and improve your own WiFi — find a clear channel, locate dead zones, measure real throughput, understand why streaming stutters in the back bedroom.
• Audit a network you administer — see which devices are connected, check the security protocol in use, review the deep-scan findings and act on them.
• Test a network you have been given permission to test, within the scope of that permission.
• Measure connection speed on any network you are legitimately connected to.
• Generate and store strong passphrases for networks you control.
• Save credentials you already hold to the encrypted vault — typed in yourself, generated in the App, or imported from Android's own share-WiFi QR code.
• Find public and venue WiFi on the community map, and connect to it on the terms the venue offers.
• Contribute a venue hotspot you are entitled to share — see §5.
• Learn about wireless networking — the App is a reasonable way to see how RF, channels, bands and security protocols actually behave.

2 Prohibited Uses

You must not use WiFi Map, or anything you obtain through it, to do any of the following. This list is illustrative, not exhaustive.

2.1 Unauthorised access

• Connect, or attempt to connect, to any network without the operator's authorisation.
• Access any device, host, system, account or data you are not authorised to access.
• Use a credential obtained from the community map, a QR code, or any other source, where you do not have the network operator's permission to use it.
• Access a network by exploiting a misconfiguration, a default credential, or an absent password.

2.2 Credential attacks

• Attempt to recover, guess, brute-force, dictionary-attack, or otherwise derive any WiFi passphrase, WPS PIN, router password or other credential.
• Use the password generator, the strength auditor, or any exported data as an input to an attack against a credential you do not own.
• Combine the App with any other tool for the purpose of defeating a credential.

2.3 Interception and surveillance

• Intercept, capture, record or analyse network traffic you are not authorised to observe.
• Monitor another person's device, connection or activity without their knowledge and consent.
• Use signal readings, device discovery, or map data to locate, track, follow or identify any individual.
• Use the App in connection with stalking, harassment, domestic abuse, or any form of coercive control.

2.4 Disruption

• Disrupt, degrade, overload, jam or deny service to any network, access point or host.
• Run discovery or probing at a volume or frequency that interferes with normal operation of a network.
• Attempt to trigger a fault, crash or reboot in any device.

2.5 Circumvention

• Circumvent a captive portal, a paid-access scheme, a time limit, a data cap, or any other access control.
• Evade a block, ban or rate limit applied by a network operator or by us.
• Tamper with the App's request signing, install identifier, entitlement checks, ad-frequency controls or moderation mechanisms, or use a modified or repackaged client.

2.6 Abuse of the community dataset

• Contribute a credential you are not entitled to share.
• Contribute a private residence, or any network whose operator has not offered it to the public or to customers.
• Submit false, fabricated, spam, duplicate or misleading entries.
• Manipulate votes or reports, whether manually or by automation.
• Scrape, crawl, mirror, bulk-download or systematically extract the dataset, or build a derivative database from it.
• Re-publish community data as your own product or service.

2.7 Illegality generally

• Any use that violates any applicable law, regulation, or the rights of any third party.
• Any use in furtherance of fraud, theft of service, extortion, or any other offence.

3 What "Authorised" Actually Means

People get this wrong in predictable ways, so here it is explicitly.

4 Rules Per Tool

5 Sharing Credentials

Contributing a passphrase to the community map is the single highest-risk thing a user can do in this App, so the rules are strict.

5.1 You may contribute a passphrase only if all of the following are true

1. It is a venue network, not a home. A café, restaurant, hotel, hostel, airport, railway station, bus terminal, mall, library, campus, co-working space, clinic waiting room or similar.
2. The operator offers it to customers or the public. A password printed on a menu, a receipt, a wall sign, or given to guests on request.
3. You have the right to share it. Either the operator has said it may be shared, or the credential is already published by the operator in a place any customer can see.
4. You are not circumventing anything. Not a paid-access tier, not a per-guest code, not a voucher, not a staff-only network.
5. It is accurate. You have used it yourself and it worked.

5.2 Never contribute

• A home or private residence, including your own, including "just the SSID".
• A network belonging to an employer, client, school or institution without written authorisation.
• A staff, back-office, POS, CCTV, IoT or management network.
• A per-guest or per-room code, a voucher code, or a code tied to a paid session.
• A credential you obtained by looking over someone's shoulder, from a discarded receipt, or from any source the operator did not intend to be public.
• A credential for a network with an enterprise (802.1X) configuration.
• Anything you are unsure about. If you are unsure, the answer is no.

5.3 If you are a network owner

If your network has been listed without your consent, the Network Owner Removal page has a one-step request process. We honour removal requests without requiring you to justify them, and we do not put a listing back after a removal request.

6 What the App Cannot Do

Stated here so that nobody installs the App expecting otherwise:

• It cannot recover, crack or guess any WiFi password. No feature attempts it. There is no hidden mode, no premium unlock, and no future release that adds one.
• It cannot read passwords already saved on your device. Android exposes no such interface to apps on a non-rooted device. Any app claiming to do this is either lying to you or requires root.
• It cannot connect you to a network silently. Joining always ends in a system dialog controlled by Android, which you confirm or decline.
• It cannot attack a router. Router Access opens a web page. It carries no credential list and attempts no login.
• It cannot capture or decrypt traffic. There is no packet capture, no monitor mode, no deauthentication, and no handshake capture.

If you are looking for a tool that does any of these things, WiFi Map is not it, and we will not point you at one.

7 The Law

Unauthorised access to a computer resource is unlawful in essentially every jurisdiction. A non-exhaustive sample:

This is a summary for orientation, not legal advice. The law where you are may be stricter. If you are conducting security testing professionally, get written authorisation before you begin — the App does not provide it and cannot substitute for it.

8 Advertising Integrity

The free version is funded by advertising. Interfering with that is a breach of this Policy:

• Do not generate invalid traffic — automated, scripted, emulated, incentivised or artificially repeated ad impressions or clicks.
• Do not use a modified client, ad-injection tooling, or any means of spoofing ad events.
• Do not click advertising you have no genuine interest in for the purpose of supporting or harming us.

If advertising bothers you, the honest answer is the one-time Remove Ads purchase, which removes it permanently.

9 Enforcement

We enforce this Policy proportionately, escalating as the situation requires:

1. Content removal. A contribution that breaches this Policy is removed from the published dataset on the next tile rebuild, and stays removed.
2. Contribution suspension. An install that repeatedly submits violating content loses the ability to contribute, vote or report.
3. Server-side block. An install engaged in scraping, vote manipulation, forged requests or invalid ad traffic is blocked from every server-side feature.
4. Licence termination. Serious or repeated breaches terminate your licence under the Terms of Use.
5. Referral. Where conduct appears to be unlawful — particularly where it involves unauthorised access, stalking or harassment — we cooperate with law enforcement and respond to lawful requests.

Because there are no accounts, enforcement operates against the random install identifier described in the Privacy Policy. If you believe a block was applied in error, write to us and we will review it.

10 Reporting Abuse

If you see something wrong, tell us. There are three routes, and all of them are read:

We prioritise reports alleging that a credential was published without authorisation, that content is unlawful, or that the App is being used against a specific individual. Those are actioned as fast as we can — normally within 72 hours, and always within 7 business days.

11 Contact

Publisher

Epsilon Developers

Operated by

Satyam Kushwaha & Anurag Mahajan

Country

India

Email

contact@epsilondevelopers.xyz