It is in the Terms of Use where you really get to know how much a company respects their customers. And by the way the large majority of companies write their Terms of Use their is no way in hell they respect us. So here is my take on Terms of Use done the way I like to be treated and talked to.
Be respectful to the people in the community and the community will be respectful to you. If you treat others the way you wish to be treated I foresee absolutely no problems.
For a more in-depth explanation of what we expect from you please read our Community Guidelines.
You and only you are responsible for the legalities for what you say, upload and do on FetLife. We do not take any legal responsibility for anything illegal you might be doing on FetLife.
We are very protective of our community and we have the right to refuse entry to any sex offenders. This is done on a case by case basis. If you are on the registry we highly recommend you email us before you sign-up to FetLife and explain your situation so that together we can prevent future headaches.
With respect to case-by-case basis, if you are on a registry because when you were 19 you dated a 17 year old with bitter parents we might just make fun of you but if you committed any violent sex crimes then we are definitely going to have a problem with you on FetLife.
We are not talking about illegal as in illegal immigrant. We are talking about legal as in age of consent and age to be able to see and buy pornography legal if you want to become a member of FetLife. No legal, no membership, no ifs, ands or buts!
Anything involving under-age children, rape, murder or any type of violent crimes will not be permitted on FetLife and will be removed. Role-playing about these topics will be permitted though.
I personally think that the large majority of people out there are good people, but that does not mean you shouldn't still be careful. If you decide to meet someone you meet on FetLife in real life take the proper precautions. We do not and can not screen users of FetLife and can not be at all responsible for anything that happens outside the boundaries of FetLife. Just use your common sense and everything should be fine!
FetLife accounts are intended for personal use, for our members to get together and share alternative lifestyle thoughts, conversations,announcements, images and so on. Please don't use it as a storefront for your business. If you want to do that, why not purchase a commercial ad?
Unfortunately, any profile's named after a store, event, organization, website or any type of business or product will be deleted.
Seriously, no loop holes here. We will not share or sell your personal information to anyone for any reason. Our information is stored with your information hence we treat your personal information like it was our own. And we value our personal information.
Assuming it was your media to begin with, if you uploaded any media then you retain the right to that media. It is not FetLife's (or any of it's members) media just because you uploaded it here. If anyone wants to use the media for any reason what so ever they have to contact the person who uploaded it.
On that note, don't upload any media that does not belong to you. If anyone complains that someone has uploaded media that does not belong to them we will have to investigate and we might have to remove the piece of media.
If we find out you are spamming users then we will have no choice but to put a stop to it. It is our responsibility to protect our users and the quality of their experience. Don't be a douche bag!
We can, if we have to, disable and or delete your account. Do we want to have to ever get to that point? No, of course not. But if you are decreasing the quality of the experience of the people around you then we will have no choice. But, we want to hear your side of the story as well. We want to be fair about the whole thing. But at the end of the day we have the final say.
We have no clue how we are going to claim this but we want 1% of the action you are getting from this site. Yeah, you heard right. While we are working our asses off to grow FetLife you are getting action and we want 1% of it, damn it! We think it is only fair.
Like FetLife itself, the Terms of Use and Community Guidelines will evolve over time but the general theme of keeping good karma and we do not do anything to others that you would not want to be done to yourself will always be kept.
We like to keep things simple. So, if you break any of our rules or guidelines, one of our moderators will just remind you of our Community Guidelines and Terms of Use. You do it a second time, we will start getting annoyed and remind you one more time. A third time we will ban you from FetLife for life. Nothing more complicated then that.
Is there something you are curious about that is not covered in the Terms of Use? Just have a question? Don't hesitate to email us.