Legal
Draft — not yet in forceThe behavioural rules for using the service, written in plain language.
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.
A positive statement of intended use, written first and deliberately. A document that opens with a list of prohibitions tells a reader nothing about what the place is actually for.
Plain-language version of the prohibitions, consistent with the acceptable use policy and the blocked content policy rather than a third variant of the same list.
Rules that apply to written characters specifically: the age rule, the prohibition on depicting real identifiable people, and what happens to a character that breaks either of them.
What happens when a rule is broken and in what order, including which breaches skip the graduated steps entirely and end access immediately.
How to contest an enforcement decision, who hears the appeal, and the time limit for bringing one.
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.