Community & policies

Privacy policy

What we collect. We collect account details you provide, including email address, display name, handle, date of birth, gender selection, and content you publish. Date of birth and gender are private registration details and are not shown on public profiles.

Activity and service records. We store reading progress, ratings, recommendation votes, chapter thanks, follows, author publishing activity, and notification preferences. When a signed-in member visits a page, we record the page path and time so staff can investigate abuse and improve the service; this page-visit record is visible only to administrators and is deleted after 90 days. We retain anonymised content-view events for up to 13 months for author and platform analytics. Basic client-error records contain only the route and an error category, never the raw browser error text, and are deleted after 30 days.

Country-level analytics. When hosting infrastructure provides request geolocation, we may infer a visitor’s two-letter country code from the request IP. We store only that country code—not the IP address, city, precise location, or postal code. Authors see aggregate reader-country counts only; countries with fewer than five readers are hidden.

Advertising and cookies. If advertising is enabled, we use Google AdSense. Visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other European consent-required countries see a choice before any advertising script is loaded; declining keeps ads off. Visitors can change that choice below. Essential browser storage is used for sign-in, reader preferences, draft recovery, analytics deduplication, and this advertising choice. We do not sell personal information.

How we use and share data. We use personal data to operate accounts, save reading progress, personalize discovery, provide author analytics, prevent abuse, deliver messages and notifications, and meet legal obligations. We use service providers such as Supabase for authentication, database, and file storage, and Google only when advertising is enabled. We do not sell personal information.

Your choices and deletion. You can manage public profile, notification, content-warning, and reader-activity preferences in the service. You may request access to or deletion of account data, subject to legal and operational obligations, by contacting the support address published by InkSoar before public launch.

Terms of service

Eligibility. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or publish content on InkSoar. By creating an account, you confirm that you meet this requirement and accept these Terms and the Community Guidelines.

Your content. You are responsible for the content you publish and must have the rights necessary to upload it. Authors retain ownership of their original work. You grant InkSoar the limited, non-exclusive license needed to host, display, distribute, and promote that work through the service while it remains published.

Acceptable use. Do not break the law, impersonate others, evade moderation, scrape the service, interfere with its operation, upload malware, manipulate ratings, exchange votes, or use automation to influence discovery. Accounts or content may be restricted or removed for violations.

Service and disputes. The service is provided as available and may change or be unavailable from time to time. Mandatory consumer rights are not limited by these terms. For questions, notices, or appeals, contact the support address published by InkSoar before public launch.

Community guidelines

Discuss stories in good faith. Critique writing and ideas, not people. Do not harass, threaten, demean, dox, discriminate against, or encourage harm toward other readers, authors, or staff.

Keep spoilers clearly marked and confined to appropriate chapter discussions. Do not plagiarize, repost paid or pirated work, manipulate ratings, exchange votes, or use automation to influence discovery.

Authors should use accurate genres, tags, content warnings, and status labels so readers can make informed choices.

Content & moderation

InkSoar may remove or limit content that is illegal, infringes intellectual property, exploits minors, contains non-consensual sexual content, facilitates real-world harm, or violates these policies. We may also require clearer tags or content warnings.

Readers can report content, comments, ratings manipulation, or accounts. Moderators may issue warnings, alter discovery eligibility, remove content, suspend accounts, or permanently ban repeat or severe violations. Appeals can be submitted through the account area or by contacting the support address published by InkSoar before public launch.

Fiction may explore difficult themes, but authors must label material responsibly. This is a community and platform-safety policy, not a substitute for local legal requirements.