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FreeFlarum Terms and Conditions & Fair Use Policy⚓︎

1. Introduction⚓︎

Welcome to FreeFlarum. This document outlines the Terms and Conditions and Fair Use Policy that govern your use of our service. By creating a forum on FreeFlarum, you agree to comply with these terms. Please read this document carefully, as it contains important information about your rights and obligations.

2. Terms and Conditions⚓︎

2.1. Agreement⚓︎

By creating a forum on FreeFlarum, you expressly agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions. FreeFlarum reserves the right to suspend or terminate forums that violate these terms, with or without prior notice, at its sole discretion.

2.2. Privacy Policy⚓︎

For information regarding our data collection and handling practices, please refer to our separate Privacy Policy.

2.3. Age Requirement and COPPA Compliance⚓︎

Users must be at least 13 years old to use FreeFlarum services. If you are under 13, you must have verifiable parental consent to use our service, in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

2.4. Forum Content⚓︎

Users of FreeFlarum forums are prohibited from sharing content that:

  • Violates local, state, or European Union laws and regulations;
  • Constitutes personal attacks, harassment, abusive or hate speech, or bullying;
  • Contains explicit sexual content, extreme violence, or excessive profanity;
  • Promotes piracy or illegal file sharing;
  • Advertises multi-level marketing schemes;

While you may customize your forum's appearance, removing or obscuring the FreeFlarum footer is not permitted. To remove the footer, please consider making a donation.

2.6. Forum Removals⚓︎

FreeFlarum may automatically remove forums based on inactivity or excessive resource usage. For details, see the Fair Use Policy section below.

2.7. Forum Monetization⚓︎

Monetization of FreeFlarum forums through advertising, paid content, or similar methods is strictly prohibited. Voluntary donations from your community are permitted.

2.8. Limitation of Liability⚓︎

FreeFlarum provides its services on an "as-is" basis and makes no warranties regarding service and forum availability, performance, or suitability for any purpose. FreeFlarum is NOT recommended for professional projects or for storing any other important data. Use of the service is at your own risk. You have been warned.

2.9. Service Availability⚓︎

While we strive to maintain high availability and performance, FreeFlarum does not guarantee uninterrupted service or specific uptime levels.

2.10. Prohibited Entities⚓︎

FreeFlarum services are not available to individuals or entities engaged in tax evasion or concealment of ultimate beneficiaries, as determined by FreeFlarum at its discretion.

2.11. Right to Terminate Service⚓︎

FreeFlarum reserves the right to cancel or suspend forums that it deems detrimental to its quality of service or reputation, at its sole discretion.

2.12. Security Vulnerabilities⚓︎

Users are required to promptly report any security vulnerabilities or bugs found in FreeFlarum's website or API by contacting our support team. For Flarum software-related issues, please refer to Flarum's Security Policy.

2.13. Premium Extensions⚓︎

FreeFlarum does not support or allow the use of premium (paid) Flarum extensions. For more information, please have a look at our Guidelines for Submitting an Extension Request.

2.14. Malicious & spam content⚓︎

Forums created with the purpose of hosting malicious software or other kind of malicious spam content, or legitimate forums that contain abundance of unmoderated spam posts, will be removed permanently without prior notice. It is your responsibility to employ extensions that combat spam in order to minimize the amount of malicious content at your forum as much as possible.

2.15. Impersonation⚓︎

Creating forums that impersonate existing individuals, groups, companies, or FreeFlarum itself is strictly forbidden.

2.16. Evading bans⚓︎

If a terminated forum or user account is re-created one or multiple times, FreeFlarum reserves the right to terminate it again without prior notice, as well as to block the IP address, e-mail or username from further sign ups or even block access from the entire FreeFlarum platform, should that be necessary.

2.17. Reviewing forums⚓︎

FreeFlarum may periodically review forums for presence of CSAM, spam or otherwise illegal content, and take appropriate action should a forum host this type of content.

2.18. Reporting Violations⚓︎

If you believe a forum hosted on FreeFlarum violates these terms, please report it privately at info@freeflarum.com.

3. Fair Use Policy⚓︎

3.1. Usage Limits⚓︎

To ensure service stability and availability, FreeFlarum imposes the following soft limits: - Maximum 50 active visitors simultaneously - 1,000 registered users - 5,000 discussions - 10,000 posts - The cumulative forum size does not exceed 1 GB (assets, file uploads, etc...)

Forums exceeding the limits for users, discussions and posts will be notified via email. Active visitors are not checked automatically.

3.2. Forum Activity Monitoring⚓︎

FreeFlarum conducts quarterly checks for inactive and excessively active forums. Criteria for these categories are: - Inactive: Forums existing for at least 2 months with the main admin account last seen over 60 days ago - Excessively active: Forums with over 20,000 users, 20,000 discussions, or 35,000 posts

3.3. Archiving and Deletion of Forums⚓︎

Forums meeting inactivity or excessive activity criteria may be archived. Inactive forums can be reactivated within 6 months, after which they will be permanently deleted. Excessively active forums are not eligible for reactivation.

3.4. Support for Large Forums⚓︎

While forums may continue to function beyond the stated limits, FreeFlarum does not officially support or guarantee performance for forums exceeding these thresholds. Users with high-traffic forums are advised to consider self-hosting or professional hosting solutions.

4. Amendments⚓︎

FreeFlarum reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions and Fair Use Policy at any time, with or without prior notice. It is your responsibility to review this document periodically for changes.

5. Contact Information⚓︎

For questions and concerns, please contact us at:

Email: info@freeflarum.com Support: https://freeflarum.com/support

Last updated: September 10, 2024