Terms and Conditions

Exit the Narrative is a socially responsible social media platform owned and operated by a sole-proprietor.

By using and registering to this website you agree to all the terms and conditions.

Key Words and Definitions

1. Users: Individuals accessing and using the website.
2. Members: Individuals and businesses registered to the website.
3. Parties, party: Refers to Exit the Narrative and/or the member to whom the terms and conditions apply.
4. Business, Business User, Business Member: Members of the business account type.
5. Personal Accounts, Personal Members, Personal User: Members registered with the personal account type.
6. Parody Accounts, Parody Members, Parody User: Members registered with the parody account type.
7. Fan Accounts, Fan Member, Fan User: Members registered with the fan account type.
8. Moderators: Members who have the ability to review reports submitted by other members for moderation.
9. This website, the website, exitthen.com, exitthen, Exit the Narrative, platform, this platform, the platform: Refers to the Exit the Narrative Social Network website found at exitthen.com.
10. The Community, community: refers to the Exit the Narrative exitthen.com website and its members as a whole.
11. Impersonating: When a member is acting or presenting themselves as someone else.
12. Spamming: When a member is posting unwanted messages, posts, comments, etc.
13. Hacking: When a user is searching for and abusing of weaknesses in the website.
14. Malicious Files: Files that are built in bad faith to corrupt or damage systems.
15. Fake Accounts: When a user creates an account in bad faith to act against community standards.
16. Multiple Accounts: When a user creates different accounts in bad faith for a desired outcome.
17. Content: Text, documents, images, links, and other forms of media.
18. 1 Free Ad: This refers to the free advertising offered in the top right corner of the website to registered and participating members.

General Terms

1. Voluntary Usage: Users and members who use this website must do so voluntarily.
2. Without Expectations: Users and members who use this website must do so without any expectations.
3. Without Financial Expectations: Users and members who use this website must do so without expecting any form of financial gain.
4. Proper Usage: Users and members can only use this website for its intended purposes and in good faith.
5. Misuse: Members who act or attempt to act in bad faith when using the website will be banned.
6. Accountability: Members are fully responsible for their account, account access, anyone using their account and account usage.
7. Accountable on All Accounts: Members with more than one account are accountable for their actions on all their accounts.
8. Overall Accountability: Members actions on one account can result in the suspension or deletion of all their accounts.
9. Loss of Access: Members who completely lose access to their account must inform Exit the Narrative as soon as possible.
10. Minimum Age: Users and Members must be of legal adult age to use this website.
11. No Adult Content: Adult content is strictly forbidden.
12. Community Standards: Users and Members must adhere to the community standards.
13. Legal Usage: Users and Members must use this website in manners which adhere with the law.
14. Terms Can Change: Any of the terms can change without notice and it is the user’s responsibility to read these terms when using this website.
15. No Notice of Change: Exit the Narrative is in no obligation to notify users or members of any changes or upcoming changes to any of the terms.

No Guarantees or Warranties

1. No Uptime Guarantees: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that this website will remain available for members.
2. No Quality Guarantees: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that this website is properly designed without issues.
3. No Security Guarantees: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that this website is 100% secure and or that it will remain secure forever.
4. No Data Safety Guarantees: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that your data on this website is 100% safe or that it will remain secure forever.
5. No Warranties: Exit the Narrative offers no warranties on this website, your usage of this website, or your content on this website.
6. Access is Not Guaranteed: Your access to your account, profile and content is not guaranteed and can be revoked at any time without prior notice.
7. No Guarantee for 1 Free Ad: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that your 1 Free Ad will be advertised on the Exit the Narrative website.
8. No Guaranteed Schedule: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that your 1 Free Ad will be advertised on any specific schedule.
9. No Guaranteed Duration: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that your 1 Free Ad will be advertised for any specific duration.
10. No Guarantee of Results: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that the 1 Free Ad will provide any form of results, financial gain or other, to you or your business.
11. No Guarantee of Not Having Errors: Exit the Narrative offers no guarantees that the 1 Free Ad will be properly presented, advertised, or without errors.

Exit the Narrative is Offered As-Is

1. Basic Design: Exit the Narrative is offered as-is.
2. Basic Functionalities: Exit the Narrative will focus on basic social media functionalities.
3. Advanced Functionalities: Exit the Narrative will not add advanced functionalities to this version of the website.
4. Changes: Design and functionality changes may occur at any time without warning.

Usernames

1. Usernames cannot be changed.
2. Usernames can be used to login to the website.
3. Usernames must not include vulgar language and they must remain respectful.
4. Usernames must not be used to impersonate another person.
5. Registering a popular username that should belong to someone else can be considered impersonating them and may get all your accounts, even your other personal and business accounts, deleted.
6. Exit the Narrative may transfer your data from your soon-to-be deleted account to your new account.
7. Exit the Narrative does not guarantee your data will be transferred and may delete your account.
8. Exit the Narrative may or may not warn the member that their account will be deleted for using a username they shouldn’t be using.
9. If your business name or your famous personal name is already used as a username, you may contact Exit the Narrative to see if anything can be done to free it up.

email Address

1. Each member account must use a unique email address not used by another account.
2. Members can use their account email to login to this website.
3. Members can modify their account email in their profile settings.
4. Members with a business account should use their business email.
5. Members with a personal account should use their personal email.
6. Members with a fan or parody account should use a secondary personal email or email alias.
7. Members can use their email address to reset their password.

Personal Accounts – We The People

1. Personal Accounts: Members who register with the personal account type are expected to partially or completely represent themselves.
2. Personal Identity: Exit the Narrative does not recommend you share your complete personal identity with the public profile field visibility settings.
3. Profile Fields: Members are expected to review the privacy settings of their profile fields so they match their need for privacy.
4. Personal Accounts: Members who don’t make their identity public are still very much expected to act genuinely.

Business Accounts

1. Personal Identity in Business Account: Exit the Narrative does not recommend you share your complete personal identity with the public profile field visibility settings.
2. Business Information: Members are expected to share genuine information about their business.
3. Promoting Businesses: Businesses can use this platform to reasonably promote their products and services while participating in the community.
4. Business Locations: Businesses with multiple locations can have an account for each location.
5. Business Owners: Business owners with multiple businesses can open a different account for each business and a personal account also.
6. Business owners with multiple businesses can open a different account for each business and a personal account also.

Parody Accounts

1. Parody accounts created for comedic purposes is accepted within reasonable limitations.
2. Parody accounts must have their account type set to Parody.
3. Parody accounts must not use the real person’s full name without adding other words that make it obvious this account doesn’t belong to that person.
4. Parody accounts must include the fact that they are parody accounts in the description of their profile.
5. Parody accounts must be very careful about the content they post so it does not defame the person.
6. Parody accounts must remain as truthful as possible as to not infer anything nonfactual leading to defamation.
7. Reports made on parody accounts will be reviewed more strictly.
8. Parody accounts should include sources with their content, when possible, to remove all doubts of defamation.
9. Parody accounts should commit to quality comedic content or withhold from getting started.

Fan Accounts

1. Fan accounts created for informational purposes is accepted.
2. Fan accounts must have their account type set to Fan.
3. Fan accounts must not use the real person’s full name without adding other words that make it obvious this account doesn’t belong to that person.
4. Fan accounts must include the fact that they are fan accounts in the description of their profile.
5. Moderation reports made on fan accounts will be reviewed more strictly.
6. Fan accounts should include sources with their content, when possible.
7. Fan accounts should commit to quality informational content or withhold from getting started.
8. Fan accounts must not be created with the sole-purpose of posting images of that person.
9. Fan accounts must not be created with the sole-purpose of posting content or links to content that is copyrighted.

Verified Members

1. Never Verified with Certainty: Exit the Narrative does not guarantee that verified members are actually who they claim to be.
2. Better Verified Members: Exit the Narrative does not easily grant verification badges and verified status to verified members.
3. Requests to Become Verified Members: Requests to become verified members may be ignored or discarded without notice.
4. Verified Members: Once you are a verified member, your account details will closely match your legal personal information.
5. Verified Members: Once you are a verified member, some of your account details may be blocked from further modifications.
6. Verified Members: Once you are a verified member, you can still modify your profile field privacy settings.
7. Verified Members: Can still be suspended, marked as a spammer, or deleted.

Moderators

1. Members who are moderators can suspend members who have been reported.
2. Members who are moderators can report other members and review their own reports.
3. Exit the Narrative can always reinstate a suspended account.
4. Exit the Narrative will suspend or delete moderators who misuse their role.
5. Exit the Narrative will not consider giving moderation rights to brand-new accounts.
6. Exit the Narrative will thoroughly consider verified members as moderators.
7. Exit the Narrative will consider unverified but participating members.
8. Exit the Narrative will consider members who have previously properly reported other members.

Privates Messages

1. Members must not consider private messages to be 100% private because nothing on the internet is really private.
2. Exit the Narrative can view all private messages.
3. Members must not use private messages to break the law.
4. Members must not use private messages to break community guidelines.
5. Members using the Fan and Parody account types must not use private messages to deceive others.
6. Members using the Fan and Parody account types must use private messages even more responsibly than regular members.

Posting and Interacting with Content

• Members are responsible for their usage of the content found on this website.
• Members are responsible for their clicks and interact with this website at their own risk.
• Exit the Narrative is not responsible for computer damages, privacy damages, intellectual property damages, material damages, immaterial damages, or other damages that may occur, directly or indirectly, as a result of interacting with this website and its content.
• Exit the Narrative is not responsible for computer, privacy, intellectual property, material, immaterial, or other damages that may occur during the usage of this website.
• Members must use extreme caution and care when interacting with content, especially when clicking on links, while using this website.
• Members should not trust others online and should exercise extreme caution when sharing private information.
• Exit the Narrative is not responsible for any of the actions or inaction you decide to take, directly or indirectly, related to your usage of this website.

Intellectual Property

1. Member Content: Members are responsible for the content they share on this website.
2. Intellectual Property: Members are responsible for, and must not infringe on, intellectual property rights when sharing content on this website.
3. Exit the Narrative Logo and Identity: The Exit the Narrative logo and brand identity belongs to Exit the Narrative and is protected by copyright.
4. Exit the Narrative Content: All of the content found on this website which is published by Exit the Narrative belongs to Exit the Narrative and is protected by copyright.
5. Member Copyrights: When uploading content for which you have copyrights, you are transferring these copyrights to Exit the Narrative.
6. Shared Member Content: When uploading content for which you have copyrights, you are allowing other members to share your content.
7. Sharing Content: When sharing content on this website, you agree not to infringe on the copyrights of others.
8. Image Design Tools: Members are responsible for the designs they create using the tools provided by Exit the Narrative.

1 Free Ad

• Exit the Narrative may remove your 1 Free Ad at any time.
• Exit the Narrative may not advertise your 1 Free Ad at all.
• Exit the Narrative may advertise your business again at any time.
• Do not send the same advertisement to Exit the Narrative more than once.
• Do not send multiple advertisements to Exit the Narrative.
• You can send a couple advertisements.
• You can submit 1 French and 1 English version.
• Personal accounts can request the 1 Free Ad for legitimate reasons.
• Businesses are encouraged to request the 1 Free Ad to advertise their business profile.
• Parody and Fan account types can request the 1 Free Ad to advertise their profile.
• Personal accounts cannot request the 1 Free Ad for personal fame or adulation.
• Personal accounts can request the 1 Free Ad for their side-business, their community project, their Exit the Narrative group, their Exit the Narrative forum topic, etc.
• Exit the Narrative may completely ignore your request for the 1 Free Ad.
• Exit the Narrative may advertise your 1 Free Ad without prior notice.
• Exit the Narrative may remove your 1 Free Ad without prior notice.

Volunteering

1. Members who participate in the community by reporting other malicious members are volunteering at no cost to Exit the Narrative.
2. Moderators who participate in the community by reporting and suspending malicious users are volunteering at no cost to Exit the Narrative.
3. Members and moderators who volunteer do so without any financial gains.
4. Members and moderators who volunteer cannot claim any tax-deductibles.
5. Members and moderators who volunteer cannot claim any business expenses.
6. Members and moderators who volunteer are not compensated in any way.
7. Members who use this website do so without expectations and at no cost, financial or not, to Exit the Narrative.

No Refunds

1. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all of the tips sent for any reason.
2. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all tips sent in the hopes of buying advertising.
3. Exit the Narrative will not exchange ads, services or products for any and all tips sent.
4. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all expenses incurred by users or members for anything.
5. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all expenses incurred by users or members while using this website.
6. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all expenses incurred by users or members while advertising this website.
7. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all expenses incurred by users or members when moderating this website.
8. Exit the Narrative will not refund any and all expenses incurred by users or members when managing groups, forums, members or any other feature.

No Indemnification for Members

1. Exit the Narrative will not indemnify any user or member for anything.
2. Exit the Narrative will not refund expenses incurred while advertising your profile on this website.
3. Exit the Narrative will not indemnify members of any copyright laws they break.
4. Exit the Narrative will not indemnify members from any lawsuits they sustain when using this website.
5. Exit the Narrative will not indemnify members for any lawsuits or penalties they sustain when using the features and tools provided in this website.
6. Exit the Narrative will not indemnify members for any fines, imprisonment or any other types of losses sustained when using this website and its features.

Complete Indemnification for Exit the Narrative

1. Members agree to indemnify Exit the Narrative from any and all losses incurred as a result of their actions on or off this website which directly or indirectly resulted in the damages, financial, material or immaterial, felt by Exit the Narrative.
2. Members agree to indemnify Exit the Narrative of any and all losses and damages incurred due in part or in whole by their actions or inaction.
3. Members agree that the drastic difference between Exit the Narrative indemnification clauses and complete lack of indemnification for members is fully justifiable by the lack of balance in the risk associated with each parties involvement.
4. Exit the Narrative cannot abuse of this drastic difference between Exit the Narrative’s indemnification clauses and the lack thereof for members as a method for financial gain.

Individual Country Laws

1. Users and members are responsible for knowing and adhering to the laws of their country.
2. Members are expected to have the right to use this website and should not do so if it goes against the law.
3. Members cannot hold Exit the Narrative responsible for any and all of the laws they break when using this website.
4. If your usage of this website breaks laws in your country, you must not use this website.
5. If Exit the Narrative breaks the law when operating this website in your country, you must not use this website.
6. If legal warrants are made for your information, Exit the Narrative will comply with these warrants.

Misuse and Unintended Use Will Get You Banned

1. Bad-Faith or Ill-Intent: Do not participate in this community in bad-faith or ill-intent.
2. Impersonating: Do not impersonate someone else.
3. Spamming: Do not spam.
4. Hacking: Do not hack or attempt to hack. If you want to white-hat on a copy of this website, contact me.
5. Fake Accounts: Do not create fake accounts.
6. Multiple Accounts: Do not create multiple accounts of the same account type in an effort to game the system.
7. Malicious Files: Do not upload or share malicious files, viruses, malware, etc.

Unaccepted Usage

1. Defamation Accounts: Fake accounts created for defaming someone will be marked as spam, suspended, blocked or deleted.
2. Spamming Products and Services: Businesses that unreasonably promote their products and services without participating in the community will be marked as spam, suspended, blocked or deleted.

Account Suspension

1. Member accounts can be automatically suspended after reports from 5 different members.
2. Member accounts can be suspended by Exit the Narrative at anytime.
3. Suspended members can be reinstated by Exit the Narrative without their content being affected.
4. If your account suspension was unwarranted, Exit the Narrative will reinstate your account.
5. Contact Exit the Narrative to make sure your legitimate account isn’t deleted.

Spammer Accounts

1. Member accounts can be marked as spammer accounts by Exit the Narrative at anytime and have their whole profile removed.
2. Once marked as a spammer, your account will be suspended and all of your content deleted.

Account Deletion

1. Members who break the terms, use this website in bad faith or go against community guidelines, will have their accounts deleted.
2. Member accounts can be deleted by Exit the Narrative at anytime for any reason.

Payment Terms

1. This website is free of charge for users and members.
2. Exit the Narrative is supported by tips using BTC and ETH.
3. ETH and BTC blockchain transactions are public.
4. Tips are declared as taxable income by Exit the Narrative.
5. Tips cannot be declared as business expenses by the person giving the tip.
6. Tips don’t provide a receipt.
7. Tips go directly to Exit the Narrative, the one person who built and owns this website.
8. If this website becomes to costly compared to tips, Exit the Narrative will have to close down or find alternative sources of income.
9. No services or products will be sold in exchange for tips.
10. Do not send your tipping details directly to Exit the Narrative.
11. You can share your tipping habits with the community.