# HF Policy clarification question

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**Category:** Spaces\
**Created:** [October 7, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhf-policy-clarification-question%2F168999 "2025-10-07T13:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParahumanSkitter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/parahumanskitter/32/45765_2.png) [@ParahumanSkitter](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FParahumanSkitter)%5C
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhf-policy-clarification-question%2F168999%2F1 "2025-10-07T13:02:11Z")

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Hello there, I have a quick question for Huggingface staff. Does the website policy allow for spaces that can track your IP Address, with certain use cases, such as IP banning a user for utilizing too many free attempts, and therefore pushing someone to use the premium version of their space’s tools?

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**Author:** ![ParahumanSkitter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/parahumanskitter/32/45765_2.png) [@ParahumanSkitter](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FParahumanSkitter)%5C
**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhf-policy-clarification-question%2F168999%2F2 "2025-10-08T13:19:08Z")

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Clarification: I am not asking this for my own spaces, which have been non-functional ever since the HF Inference API stopped being callable on CPU-based spaces since February (that, or I need to update my code, of which I have no clue how to do so without consulting a chatbot, and that is an exercise in futility at times). I am asking this in response to a specific set of spaces, which shall not be named until it is clarified whether or not their code and behavior are allowed by HF policy or not.