It is in the Terms & Conditions where you really get to know how much a company respects their customers. And by the way the large majority of companies write their Term & Conditions their is no way in hell they respect us. So here is my take on Terms & Conditions 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. If members start to complain about you we will have no choice but to investigate why they are complaining and possibly suspend your account.
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. Just use your common sense and everything should be fine!
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!
I am not about being ant-competitive. One of the reasons FetLife has been able to grow is because competing websites have allowed us to promote FetLife on their site. What I am against is either blatantly pushing your wares in your profile without showing that there is a person behind your profile and without being a participant in the community. And on the opposite extreme we are against people falsely representing themselves and wasting users time to just try to make a sale or find a new customer. Once again, it is all about keeping good karma.
If it is illegal don't bring it to FetLife. Yes we live in a global community so what is illegal in your neck of the woods might not be illegal in mine and vice-versa. The general rule of thumb should be that if is illegal in any of the G8 countries then don't bring it to the site. If you do we will have no choice but to remove whatever the illegal material is. But I am sure you can understand where we are coming from.
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, since we have not formed a FetLife tribunal as of yet, we have the final say.
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!
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 & Conditions will evolve over time but the general theme of keeping good karma and we would not do anything to you that we would not want done to ourselves will always be kept.
Is there something you are curious about that is not covered in the Terms & Conditions? Just have a question? Don't hesitate to email me.