Acceptable Use Policy

1. Scope

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) applies to all use of the Services, including content you create, upload, or store in the Storyverse Author application, content you submit to the free or paid tiers, and behavior in any communication with us or other users.

This policy is part of our Terms of Service. Violations may result in content removal, account suspension, or account termination, as described below.

2. Fiction and Creative Freedom

We want to be clear about one thing up front: Storyverse Systems exists to support serious fiction writers working across every genre, including genres that handle difficult subject matter.

The tools are designed for writers producing:

• Epic fantasy with war, political violence, and morally complex characters
• Thrillers with crime, espionage, and conspiracy
• Horror with violence, death, and psychological darkness
• Romance at all heat levels up to and including explicit adult content
• Literary fiction exploring trauma, addiction, abuse, and other hard themes
• Science fiction with weapons, warfare, and dystopian scenarios
• Historical fiction with period-accurate violence and prejudice

Your fictional characters can commit crimes. Your worlds can be brutal. Your stories can go to dark places. This is fiction. We are not the fiction police.

The rules below are about actual harm and actual illegality — things that hurt real people or violate real laws — not about the content of your imaginary worlds.

3. Prohibited Content

You may not upload, post, or store the following on the Services:

Illegal Content

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind, including AI-generated depictions of minors in sexual contexts. This is both a bright-line platform rule and a federal crime.
• Content that depicts, promotes, or facilitates human trafficking
• Content that violates U.S. law or the law of your jurisdiction

Real-World Harm

• Credible threats of violence against specific real people or groups
• Content that incites imminent violence or lawless action
• Doxing (publishing private information to harm someone) of any real person
• Content used to harass, stalk, or bully specific real individuals
• Instructions for creating weapons, explosives, or other tools designed to cause mass harm

Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery

• Any non-consensual intimate imagery of real people, including AI-generated or manipulated imagery
• Revenge-style explicit content of real individuals
• Sexual imagery depicting identifiable real minors, ever

Intellectual Property Infringement

• Content that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property
• Content uploaded with intent to redistribute protected works without authorization

Platform Abuse

• Malware, viruses, or code designed to compromise the Services or other users
• Attempts to gain unauthorized access to accounts or systems
• Using the Services for bulk spam, phishing, or fraudulent schemes
• Using the Services to run an unrelated commercial operation (for example, using the App's file storage as a generic web host)

4. Image Moderation

When you upload an image to the Services, it is automatically scanned by AWS Rekognition for content violations. Images that match high-confidence patterns for the following categories will be blocked at upload:

• Child sexual abuse material
• Explicit nudity (in most tier and membership contexts)
• Graphic real-world violence or gore involving identifiable real people

Automated systems are imperfect. If a legitimate image (for example, a historical photograph or a safe-for-work character portrait) is blocked in error, contact jdavis@storyversesystems.com and we will review manually.

Text content is not scanned automatically. Your private writing is private.

5. AI-Generated Content

Many of our Framework Packages include AI visual prompts, and writers often use AI tools to generate imagery for character references, covers, and inspiration. The policies above apply equally to AI-generated content:

• AI-generated imagery depicting minors in sexual contexts is prohibited, full stop
• AI-generated likenesses of real people in sexual or harassing contexts are prohibited
• AI-generated content claimed as original creative work in commercial publishing is your responsibility to disclose where platform rules require it (this is a rule for the platforms where you publish, not us)

6. Community Conduct

If and when the Services include community features (forums, comments, direct messaging, shared workspaces):

• Treat other users with basic respect
• No harassment, hate speech targeted at protected classes, or personal attacks
• No sharing of other users' private information
• No spam or unsolicited commercial promotion

7. Reporting Violations

To report content or behavior that violates this policy, email jdavis@storyversesystems.com with:

• A description of the violation
• The URL, account, or content identifier involved (if known)
• Any supporting context that helps us investigate

We investigate reports in good faith. False or malicious reports may themselves be grounds for action against the reporter.

8. DMCA Copyright Takedown Procedure

If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, you may submit a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Send notices to jdavis@storyversesystems.com with the subject line DMCA Takedown Request.

Required Information

Your notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized representative
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed
3. Identification of the specific material claimed to be infringing and its location (URL or other identifier)
4. Your contact information (address, phone, email)
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner

Counter-Notice

If you believe your content was wrongly removed, you may submit a counter-notice containing the same information above, plus:

• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification
• Your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located

Repeat Infringer Policy

Accounts that receive multiple valid DMCA takedowns will be terminated under our repeat infringer policy, consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Designated Agent

For DMCA purposes, the designated agent is James D. Davis at jdavis@storyversesystems.com, 1105 Sandy Valley Rd, White Haven, PA 18661, United States.

9. Enforcement

When a violation is identified, we may take one or more of the following actions, depending on severity:

• Content removal: the offending content is deleted or made inaccessible
• Warning: a notice is issued to the account holder
• Feature restriction: upload, sharing, or other features are limited on the account
• Suspension: the account is temporarily disabled pending review
• Termination: the account is permanently closed and barred from re-registration
• Legal referral: for serious illegal conduct (especially CSAM, threats, fraud), we will report to law enforcement as required by law and cooperate fully with investigations

We reserve the right to take any of these actions with or without notice, depending on the nature of the violation.

10. Appeals

If you believe an enforcement action was taken in error, reply to the enforcement notice or email jdavis@storyversesystems.com explaining your situation. We review appeals in good faith and will reverse incorrect actions. Final decisions are made by James D. Davis, the owner of P9NW.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the Services, in the law, or in how we handle enforcement. When we do, we will update the Last updated date at the top. Material changes will be communicated by email to account holders and by a notice on the site at least 14 days before taking effect.

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