Terms of Use

re:plyr is a tool for storing and organising reference images, characters and scenarios, for sharing individual pages by link, and for writing one page about yourself to find someone to write with. Your library is private. Everything else is private until you share it. You must be 18 or over to use it.

This is a work-safe service. Pornographic material, meaning anything made solely or mainly to cause sexual arousal, is not permitted, and the Acceptable Use policy says so in detail. Uploads may be reviewed at any time, and anything found to breach that policy is removed.

It is a personal project and it carries no service level.

Creating an account. You must be 18 or over. While sign ups are open, asking for a sign-in link creates an account. Sign ups can be closed at any time, there is a limit on how many accounts can be made from one network in a day, and the operator may refuse or remove an account. There is also a daily limit on how much one account can save, set well above what anybody writes by hand, so that a script cannot fill the database every member shares. Nothing already saved is affected: it stays readable, exportable and shareable, and saving works again after midnight UTC.

What it costs. Nothing. re:plyr is free to use, and there is nothing in it to buy. Every account has the same features. Storage is the one thing that can differ between accounts, and the next clause says how.

You can choose to give money towards what the service costs to run. That is voluntary, it is not a payment for anything, and it is non-refundable. It gives you no extra storage, no extra features, no priority and no other benefit or entitlement of any kind. Not giving anything changes nothing about your account.

Storage, and founding accounts. Every account has a storage allowance. The ordinary one applies to every account by default, and the amount is on the Guide page and on your own account page.

The operator may give an individual account a larger allowance. These are called founding accounts. A founding allowance:

• is given at the operator's discretion, as a favour rather than under any agreement;
• cannot be bought, is not available for any payment, and is never given in return for a donation;
• costs nothing, does not renew and does not run out; and
• may be withdrawn at any time, which returns the account to the ordinary allowance.

Nothing you have uploaded or written is deleted, hidden or unshared if a founding allowance is withdrawn. The only effect is the one in the clause below: while an account holds more than its allowance, new uploads are refused until it is under again.

The operator does not create, select or pre-screen the material that users upload. Content is stored at the direction of the user who uploaded it, and is removed when the operator becomes aware that it breaches these terms.

Content means anything you upload, write or store on the service, including images, names, descriptions and notes.

Share link means a URL containing an unguessable token that allows one of your pages to be opened without signing in. Your ad is one of them.

Ad means the page you write about yourself, to find someone to write with. It is the one page here meant to be posted in public. You have at most one, you decide what goes on it, and you can switch it off at any time.

Accounts are for adults. You may only use the service if you are 18 or over. You must confirm this before you can use it, and the confirmation is recorded with the date and time.

This requirement remains even though the service is work-safe. It is a condition of holding an account, and a backstop in case someone uploads something they should not have.

Making that declaration when it is untrue is a serious breach of these terms. Your access will be removed and, where the law requires it, the matter will be reported.

You acknowledge that this is a self-declaration and not identity or age verification. Nothing in your declaration transfers to you any duty that the law places on the operator.

You must not give anyone under 18 access to the service, to your account, or to a share link, other than by publishing your ad as described under Share links.

You sign in using a single-use link sent to your email address. There is no password. Your email account is one way in, and the recovery codes you can generate on your account page are the other, so keeping both safe is keeping the account safe.

You must:

• keep your email account secure;
• not forward sign-in links to anyone;
• not share your account or allow anyone else to use it;
• tell the operator without delay, at report@replyr.co.uk, if you believe someone else has obtained access.

You are responsible for everything done through your account, unless and until you have told the operator that it has been compromised.

You are never asked to pay to use re:plyr, and nothing on the service is withheld from anyone who does not.

If you choose to give something towards the running costs, through whatever link the Support page offers at the time:

• It is a gift, not a purchase. You are not buying access, storage, features, support or anything else.
• It is non-refundable, and it confers no entitlement, priority or additional right of any kind.
• It does not create a contract for the supply of a service between you and the operator, and it does not change these terms as they apply to you.
• Giving nothing costs you nothing. Your account, your storage and your content are identical either way.

Payment is handled by a payment provider, not by re:plyr, and the operator never sees or holds your card details. The page you give through is a shopfront over the operator's own payment account rather than a merchant in its own right, so it does not handle refunds or disputes. If something goes wrong with a payment, write to the operator, and your card provider's own protections apply as they normally would.

What you make is yours. You keep ownership of your content. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of it to the operator, and the operator claims no rights in it.

It is not used for anything except running the service. Your content is not used to train any model, is not sold, is not licensed to anybody else, is not published by the operator, and is not used to advertise or promote the service. If the operator ever wants to show something you made, you will be asked first and you can say no. Publishing is yours to do: a share link you send, and an ad you post, are you publishing your own work.

The operator takes no view on what you write or store, beyond the Acceptable Use policy. Nothing here is reviewed for quality, taste or subject matter, and no judgement about your characters or stories is implied by hosting them.

You grant the operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, transmit, adapt for technical purposes such as generating thumbnails, and display your content, solely so far as is necessary to operate the service and to comply with the law. The licence ends when the content is deleted, except for the backup copy of a picture you delete yourself, which is kept so an accidental deletion can be put right and goes when the account is deleted, or where the law requires the operator to keep a copy.

Other users cannot see your library. They can see whatever you share by link, and whatever you put on your ad, because that is what those are for. The operator can see all content on the service, and may access it to administer the service, to investigate a report, and to enforce these terms and the Acceptable Use policy.

Each time you upload content, write it, or publish it, you confirm that:

• you own it or otherwise have all rights and permissions needed to store it and to share it in the way you intend;
• every person depicted in it was 18 or over at the time it was made, and consented both to it being made and to it being stored and shared in this way;
• storing and sharing it does not breach anyone's rights or any law that applies to you; and
• it complies with the Acceptable Use policy.

You must be able to substantiate the confirmations above if you are asked to.

Images generated by AI are not permitted, and the Acceptable Use policy sets out what that covers and how a report of it is judged. The confirmations above apply to everything else you upload exactly as they always did: using any tool to make a picture does not move the question of whose rights are involved onto the operator or onto the tool.

You agree to indemnify the operator against all losses, damages, costs and reasonable legal expenses arising from any claim, investigation or proceeding that results from your content, your use of the service, your breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use policy, or your sharing of a share link.

This clause does not apply to the extent the claim results from the operator's own breach of these terms, negligence or unlawful act, and it does not apply where you are a consumer and the law does not allow it.

Sending a share link to someone is an act of publication to that person. Please read this section carefully, because it is the part of the service most often misunderstood.

You remain responsible for what is on a page you share, including anything that should not have been uploaded in the first place.

Anyone holding the link can open the page. There is no sign in, no password and no further check on who they are or how old they are.

A link can be forwarded, pasted into a group, recorded by whatever it passes through, saved in a browser history, or captured by software on the recipient's device. Once you have sent it you cannot control where it goes.

You are responsible for deciding who receives a link, and for satisfying yourself that they are 18 or over and are content to receive it.

Your ad is different, and it is the exception this section has to name. It is meant to be posted in public, so there is no recipient to choose and no way to satisfy yourself about who reads it. Anyone can, at any age. You decide what goes on it knowing that, and the Acceptable Use policy says what an ad must not do.

Anything you put on your ad is public while the ad is. That includes a way of contacting you, and the link to any character or scenario you choose to show, which stops being private the moment the ad carrying it is published.

The operator does not introduce anybody to anybody, does not vet who reads your ad, and is not part of whatever you and another person agree between you. Anything that happens in another service is that service's to act on.

Once somebody has the link, the operator cannot control what happens next. Indexing, archiving, screenshots, downloads, reposting and passing the link on to somebody else are all outside the operator's control and cannot be undone by anything on this service.

Setting a character, a scenario or your ad to "off" stops the page working immediately. Individual images may continue to be served from caches for up to 5 minutes afterwards, and nothing can recover what has already been viewed, downloaded or copied. Taking an ad down does not reach anybody who already copied what was on it.

You must comply with the Acceptable Use policy, which forms part of these terms. Breach of the Acceptable Use policy is breach of these terms.

The operator may suspend or end your access at any time, with or without notice, and may remove content, in particular where there is reason to believe these terms or the Acceptable Use policy have been breached, or where the law requires it.

Where suspension is not urgent, the operator will try to tell you why and give you an opportunity to respond. Where content may be unlawful, it will be removed first.

You may stop using the service at any time, and delete your account and everything in it from your account page. A suspended account cannot do this, because records are preserved while something is being looked into; write to privacy@replyr.co.uk instead.

No money is involved either way. Nothing is paid for the service, so nothing is owed back if access ends, whoever ends it and for whatever reason. That applies whether one account is closed or the service closes altogether.

A gift already given towards the running costs is not refunded, and does not change what happens here. It bought nothing, so there is nothing to return.

An account nobody has used for a long time may be closed. If you have not signed in for 9 months, the operator may close the account and delete what is in it. You will be emailed at least 30 days beforehand, at the address the account uses, and the downloads on your account page, as described under Availability and backups, will keep working for the whole of that period. Signing in at any point before the deadline starts the 9 months again.

The service is provided as it is and as it is available. There is no promise that it will be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will continue to exist.

Keep your own copies of anything you would not want to lose. The operator does not undertake to retain your content or to be able to restore it. Your account page has two downloads. The data file holds your account and your writing, with a link to each picture. The archive holds the same with the pictures themselves and a page for each character and scenario, as long as the library fits in one archive, and your account page says if yours does not.

If the service is going to close, you will be told. The operator will use reasonable endeavours to give you at least 30 days' notice by email, sent to the address on your account, before shutting the service down permanently. The downloads on your account page, as described above, will keep working throughout that period. Nobody pays for re:plyr, so there is nothing to refund.

Content already here is never locked to collect money. Holding more than your storage allowance takes away room to add more, and nothing else: what you have already uploaded or written stays readable to you and stays exportable, and stays editable and shareable too. That is true however you came to be over it, including where a larger allowance has been withdrawn. Access to what you have made is not withdrawn, hidden or delayed as a way of collecting money, and there is no money to collect.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

Subject to the clause above, and to the extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for loss of profit, business or opportunity, or for any indirect or consequential loss.

Subject to the same clause, the operator is not liable for anything arising from a share link you chose to send or an ad you chose to publish, or from what anybody who reads one does with it.

Liability for anything else, including loss of your content, is capped rather than excluded. To the extent permitted by law, the operator's total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms is limited to £100.

If you use the service other than for the purposes of a business, you are a consumer and you have legal rights that these terms do not affect. Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or limit those rights.

Where any term would be unfair under consumer protection law, it does not apply to you, and the remainder of these terms continues in effect.

The software, design and name of the service belong to the operator. You are given permission to use the service, and nothing more. You must not copy, resell or reverse engineer it, or use it to build a competing service.

These terms may change. Where a change is material you will be asked to accept the new version before you can continue to use the service, and the version you accepted is recorded.

If you do not accept a new version, you may stop using the service and ask for your account and content to be deleted.

If you are unhappy with a decision, an answer to a privacy request, or anything else about the service, say so at privacy@replyr.co.uk, or write to the address at the top of this page.

An appeal about content that was withheld, removed or deleted goes to report@replyr.co.uk instead, and gets a first reply within 5 working days, as the Acceptable Use policy sets out.

You will get a first reply within 5 working days. If it cannot be resolved then, you will be told what is happening and when to expect an answer.

This does not replace the routes elsewhere in these documents. A report of prohibited content goes to report@replyr.co.uk and is acknowledged within 2 working days, and a data protection request is answered within 30 days. Use those first where they fit, and this route if you are unhappy with the outcome.

Complaining here does not affect your right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office about how your personal information is handled. The Privacy policy says how.

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

A delay in enforcing these terms is not a waiver of the right to enforce them later.

You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. The operator may transfer them to a person who takes over the service, provided your rights are not reduced.

Nobody other than you and the operator has any right to enforce these terms.

These terms, together with the Acceptable Use policy and the Privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and the operator about the service.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, or outside it, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the place where you live, or of the right to bring proceedings there where the law gives you that right.