Legal
Draft — not yet in forceThe enforceable list of what may not be done with the service.
What follows is the agreed structure of this document, not the document itself. The binding wording is being drafted and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, and it replaces this outline before the site opens to the public. Nothing on this page creates or limits any obligation.
We publish the outline rather than a placeholder because you are entitled to know what a policy will cover before you can read it, and because a page of convincing-looking text that no lawyer has seen is worse than an empty one: there would be no way to tell the two apart.
Each heading below becomes a numbered section of the final text.
Enumerated in full, and consistent with the blocked content policy rather than a second list that drifts away from it over time. Where the two could be read as disagreeing, the blocked content policy governs.
Harassment of other people or of staff, impersonation, deliberate evasion of access controls, and misuse of the reporting routes to attack someone rather than to report something.
Scraping, automated access at a rate that affects other readers, reverse engineering, and any attempt to probe or circumvent the security of the service.
Resale of access, redistribution of catalogue content, and unauthorised commercial use of the written characters or of the generated imagery.
Graduated enforcement for most breaches, the specific grounds for immediate termination without warning, and what happens to material collected in the course of an investigation.
These are not adapted from a template pack. Several of the clauses only make sense here: no payment is ever taken on this domain, passwords are entered only on account pages, and all visual material is generated rather than photographed. Each of those facts changes the document that describes it, and a generic template would state the opposite.
The thirteen documents are marked as launch blockers in the project’s own route map, which means the site is not considered releasable while any of them is still an outline. The review covers United States federal requirements and state privacy law, and the set is written independently of the sibling site rather than copied across.
Twelve more documents, all at the same stage.