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Terms of Service

Version 1.5 — effective 2026-11-16.

By creating an account or using Waidrn you agree to these Terms, the Content Policy and the Rules.

1. Who we are

Waidrn ("the service") is a simulated-economy patronage and fiction community operated by its founder. Contact: support@waidrn.com for account help and copyright@waidrn.com for legal notices; the full list of monitored channels and their current delivery status is on the Contact page. These Terms describe how the service operates; they are not legal advice.

2. Accounts

You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to create an account. You are responsible for your password and for activity on your account. One person, one account: profiles are presentations within your account, not separate accounts, and you stay responsible for what every profile posts. We may suspend or remove accounts that break these Terms.

Profiles

Your account may have several profiles (default, public pen names, private/unlisted, one-realm scoped, 18+ adult-only). You switch the active profile in Settings. Profile names, bios and avatars must follow the profile rules in the Content Policy: no real-human imagery or photorealistic faces, no impersonation, and automated policy checks at creation and on every edit. Adult-only profiles may post only in adult-capable realms; scoped profiles only in their realm.

Adult content

Adult content is available only to signed-in adults who set the adult preference and explicitly confirm per session; anonymous visitors never see it. Signup requires an adult declaration; stronger age assurance is not implemented yet and will be described in this policy before it is required. Do not mislabel adult content.

3. Your content

You keep copyright in everything you publish. By publishing, you grant Waidrn a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and serve your content, including technical copies such as caches and downloads for readers. This licence ends when you delete your content, except for copies already made by readers and records that must be kept (public receipts, moderation and audit logs).

You promise that you have the right to publish what you publish, or that your use is lawful (for example a transformative fanwork published free of charge), and you accept the Content Policy.

4. Free access commitment

Content published on Waidrn stays free to read here. You may not add a paywall, early-access tier or gated access to work published on Waidrn. You may link to external support pages.

5. The simulated economy

WAID coins, post power and simulated US dollars are demo money with no real-world value. They are not a security, investment, deposit, or claim on real assets. There is no blockchain, no KYC, no withdrawal to real money, and no platform fee. We may adjust simulation parameters (rent, decay, mint rewards) to keep the demonstration working. Public receipts record delivered milestones.

6. Funded projects

Community projects are contracts between creators and patrons. The platform facilitates the escrow but is not a party to the contract and does not adjudicate disputes in v1. Deliverables must be published publicly at each milestone; on completion, software must be released under a permissive licence and creative works under a free licence equivalent to CC-BY. Terms, milestones and payout percentages become immutable at claim acceptance.

7. Realm contracts and availability

Boards, realm pages and threads carry versioned moderation contracts (tiers tame/standard/mature/uncensored-lawful plus flags for adult content, imagery, links, profiles, reporting, age assurance and location availability). By posting in a realm or thread you accept its current contract version. A contract can be tightened; a child realm or thread cannot be looser than its parent, and the platform's unlawful-content floor applies everywhere. Material changes are announced before they are enforced on existing lawful content, and we do not silently rewrite a version you accepted. Some content may be unavailable in some countries where it is unlawful or restricted; that availability control is provisional, returns an ordinary not-found page, and is a mitigation rather than a guarantee.

8. Moderation and termination

We may remove content and suspend accounts for policy violations, with an audit trail. The report flow, decision process and appeal route are described in Moderation; aggregate enforcement numbers are published on Transparency. You may delete your account at any time; your content becomes attributed to [deleted user] and hosted content may remain unless you request removal.

9. Liability

The service is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties and are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from use of the service, including the simulated economy.

10. Changes

We may update these Terms; material changes will be announced on the site. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

Jobs, chats and rooms (v1.9)

Waidrn also offers community project boards, chats and rooms (jobs bridge) and simulated patronage/creator support. These are user-facing features, not separate accounts or real-money services: chats and rooms have their own posting rules and moderation, jobs listings are user-submitted and moderated like other content, and patronage remains simulated money only. Each surface links to its policy/help page.

Patronage, contributions and rights (v1.5)