Terms of Service

As a user:

You hereby take full responsibility for anything posted, stored, or otherwise done on any services offered by The Sofa Lounge with your account(s). Any activity done on these services from your account(s) that may violate local laws, U.S. law, or any other applicable statutes will not be the liability of the administrators on this network. If any activity is found to be in violation of U.S. law, your account may be suspended. You must follow the Code of Conduct specified outside of these terms, or else risk suspension of your account as well.

What you can expect from us:

We do not log IP addresses associated with accounts any more than the application backends require. The only things stored about you will be what you input from your account to explicitly be stored/posted on The Sofa Lounge's backend, and your information provided on signup. We will not respond to any requests for account information outside of U.S. law enforcement. If we did not respond to such requests from U.S. law enforcement, that would be an easy way to get shut down and/or present unwanted legal liability for the owner. Any other requests, however, will simply be ignored. Most CoC violations will be met with a warning and possibly a request to take down the content in question, however in extreme cases no such warning may be provided.

By signing up to any services offered by The Sofa Lounge you agree to the terms hereof, indemnifying the owner of legal liability from activity on your account(s), agreeing to follow the CoC specified outside of these terms, and with a reasonable expectation from us to protect your privacy within the conditions stated above.

Code of Conduct

The Sofa Lounge adheres to a relatively lax moderation policy with a few restrictions in place to ensure legality, lessen the risk of de-federation, and provide a more quality space overall for the general internet to view/use. As such, we have the following rules that will apply to all services offered by The Sofa Lounge:

  1. No content that is illegal within the U.S. or any of its territories is permitted.
  2. No pornographic material may be posted to The Sofa Lounge's backend. CSAM, or anything related including fictional characters, will not be tolerated for posting or viewing. Nudity will only be allowed in the context of art, in other niche cases where the context is not inherently sexual, or if it's not overly graphic such as in humerous contexts. Our goal is not to be an NSFW service provider, so please do not treat our services as such.
  3. Spam is not allowed. This includes malicious links, scams, and overloading system resources.
  4. Hate speech and harassment will be moderated. While we are very pro free speech, and generally permit all kinds of discussion/criticism, attacking individuals or groups based on race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, etc is wrong and poses a risk of de-federation on some of our services.

If you have any questions regarding the Terms of Service or CoC, do not hesitate to contact the server owner for clarification. It saves two people a headache later down the road :)