This Responsible Use Policy (the “Policy”) sets out the terms on which Blecher LLC, also trading as Blecher Group (“Blecher,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), makes the Reckon counter-UAS ecosystem available. It applies to every prospective and actual acquirer, operator, and end-user of a Reckon product and forms part of our Terms & Conditions.

1. Purpose

Reckon exists to defend people and infrastructure against hostile unmanned aircraft. Its detection, fire-control, interception, and networking capabilities are built to protect personnel, forces, installations, and critical infrastructure from unmanned-systems attack. We offer Reckon on the condition that it is used for that defensive purpose, lawfully, and only by those authorized to use it.

2. Intended Users and Uses

Reckon products are offered for lawful, authorized use by:

• sovereign governments and their armed forces;
• authorized defense, security, and law-enforcement agencies acting within their mandate; and
• operators of critical infrastructure, such as airports, energy sites, and comparable protected facilities, acting under lawful authority.

Intended uses are defensive: detecting, tracking, deterring, and defeating hostile or unauthorized unmanned aircraft, and protecting the people, forces, sites, and infrastructure that such aircraft threaten.

3. Lawful and Authorized Use

Every acquirer and operator is responsible for ensuring that its acquisition, deployment, and use of Reckon comply with all applicable law. This includes, as relevant to the deployment:

• international law, including international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict, and the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution;
• domestic law governing the use of force, the control and defense of airspace, and the authority to engage an unmanned aircraft; and
• the operator’s own rules of engagement, authorization procedures, and command accountability.

4. Human Authority and Oversight

Reckon is engineered to keep engagement authority with a human. Authority to fire rests with the operator by architecture, and autonomy is configurable to the buyer’s doctrine and rules of engagement rather than fixed by us. Operators are responsible for deploying the system with meaningful human oversight appropriate to the mission and consistent with applicable law, and for the training, supervision, and accountability of the personnel who use it.

5. Export Control, Sanctions, and End-Use

Reckon is designed and manufactured outside United States export jurisdiction and carries no ITAR dependency. That does not displace any recipient’s own obligations. Each acquirer and operator agrees that it will:

• comply with all export, re-export, import, transfer, customs, and economic-sanctions laws applicable to it and to the transaction;
• not transfer, resell, re-export, or otherwise divert any Reckon product to an unauthorized third party, end-user, or end-use; and
• not make any Reckon product, or any capability derived from it, available to a party targeted by comprehensive trade sanctions, to a restricted or denied party, or for a prohibited end-use, including any weapons-of-mass-destruction end-use.

6. Prohibited Uses

Reckon products may not be acquired, used, transferred, or supported for any of the following:

• any use that is unlawful, or that is not authorized by the operator’s governing authority;
• any use against civilians or civilian objects in violation of international humanitarian law, or any use that would be indiscriminate or disproportionate;
• internal repression, unlawful surveillance, or the commission or facilitation of human-rights abuses;
• circumventing, or assisting any party to circumvent, applicable export controls or sanctions;
• transfer or resale to an unauthorized end-user, or adaptation to an end-use outside the authorized, defensive scope of this Policy; or
• any use inconsistent with the human-authority and oversight requirements of Section 4.

7. Diligence and Screening

Before and during any engagement, Blecher may conduct end-user and end-use diligence, including screening against applicable sanctions and denied-party lists, and may require end-use assurances. We may decline, condition, suspend, or discontinue any engagement, at any stage and in our sole discretion, where we are not satisfied that use will be lawful, authorized, and consistent with this Policy.

8. Accountability

The acquirer and operator, not Blecher, are responsible for the lawful deployment and use of a Reckon product once supplied, including for the rules of engagement applied, the authorizations obtained, and the conduct of personnel. Nothing in this Policy transfers to Blecher any responsibility for an operator’s use of the system in the field.

9. Reporting and Enforcement

If you become aware of any use of a Reckon product that violates this Policy or applicable law, report it to us promptly at [email protected]. A violation of this Policy is a breach of the terms on which Reckon is offered and may result in the conditioning, suspension, or termination of any engagement, in addition to any remedy available under the governing agreement or at law.

10. Changes and Contact

We may update this Policy from time to time by posting a revised version on this Site and changing the “Last updated” date above. Questions about this Policy may be directed to [email protected].