Terms of Service
This agreement was written in English (US).
Date of Last Revision: October 22, 2024

Please read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy carefully.
Acceptance of these Terms
By accessing, browsing, using or registering with the similarworlds.com website, SimilarWorlds or SimilarWorlds Mobile App, you represent and agree that:
  1. You are at least 13 years of age.
  2. You acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree with the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and the Cookies Policy.
  3. You will comply and be bound by the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy, including any future modifications.
If you do not agree to be bound by the Terms of Service or the Privacy Policy in their entirety or you are under 13 years of age, you are not authorized to use the similarworlds.com website, SimilarWorlds or SimilarWorlds Mobile App.

While we attempt to remove any posts, replies, or messages containing inappropriate material that violates our Terms of Service or any applicable law (and in extreme cases, we report to law enforcement), it is impossible for us to review every message posted on this website. For this reason, you acknowledge that all posts, replies, and messages express the views and opinions of the original author and not necessarily the views of the owners and moderators of the website. Therefore, we take no responsibility and cannot be held liable for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy and completeness of any message.

By registering on this website, you agree to follow our Terms of Service and will not post any material that is knowingly false, inaccurate, abusive, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, threatening, or invasive of a person's privacy, or any other material that may violate any applicable laws.
These Terms of Service govern our relationship with users and others who interact with SimilarWorlds. By using or accessing SimilarWorlds, you agree to this Statement.
Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use SimilarWorlds to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to help make informed decisions. Just like many other websites, use cookies.
Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on SimilarWorlds. In addition:
  1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, copy, modify, adapt, and display any IP content that you post on or in connection with SimilarWorlds ("IP License"), for the purposes of operating the platform and providing related services. This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
  2. When you delete IP content, your removed content may persist in the database and backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
  3. When you publish content or information on a group, it means that everyone, including people off of SimilarWorlds, will have access to that information and we may not have control over what they do with it.
  4. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about SimilarWorlds, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).
Safety
We do our best to keep SimilarWorlds safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments:
  1. You will not send or post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam), post advertisements or solicitations of business on SimilarWorlds.
  2. You will not collect users' content or information, or access SimilarWorlds, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders or scrapers) without our permission.
  3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on SimilarWorlds.
  4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
  5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
  6. You will not bully, intimidate or harass any user, directly or indirectly.
  7. You will not post content that is hateful, defamatory, discriminatory, threatening, pornographic or that contains graphic or gratuitous violence.
  8. You will not develop or operate a third party application containing or advertising or otherwise market alcohol-related or other mature content without appropriate age-based restrictions.
  9. You will not develop or operate a third party application that embeds the SimilarWorlds website or that asks for the user login details.
  10. You will not offer any contest, giveaway or sweepstakes ("promotion") on SimilarWorlds without our prior written consent. If we consent, you take full responsibility for the promotion and will follow all applicable laws.
  11. You will not use SimilarWorlds to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious or discriminatory.
  12. You will not distribute private or personal information, photos, videos or other material of another person without their express consent for you to do so.
  13. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working of SimilarWorlds, such as a denial of service attack.
  14. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.
  15. You will not post any content that promotes, sexualizes or encourages behaviors that are seen as illegal or criminal by general/majority international consensus (such as Pedophilia, Bestially, Sexual Abuse, Incest, etc...), or any images or videos that contain such behaviors.
  16. You will not post any content which relates to, describes, or depicts, any form of violence or physical/embarrassing punishment towards minors.
    The only exception is with regards to legitimate personal experiences that has happened to the poster before adulthood (such as personal experiences of past trauma, which they may wish to share for support or education), as long as that content is not sexualized or fetishized.
Please Note: We provide a list of Suicide Crisis Help Lines, for a number of countries, that might be helpful for those in need.
Acceptable Behavior & Protecting Other People's Rights
We respect other people's rights and expect you to do the same.
  1. You agree to follow our Acceptable Behavior guidelines.
  2. You will not upload, post, or otherwise make content available that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
  3. You will not submit or upload material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third-party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant SimilarWorlds all of the license rights granted herein.
  4. You will not publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage SimilarWorlds or any third party.
  5. We can remove any content or information you post on SimilarWorlds if we believe that it violates this Statement.
  6. If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
  7. If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.
  8. You will not use our copyrights or trademarks or any confusingly similar marks, without our written permission.
  9. If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not SimilarWorlds) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
  10. You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on SimilarWorlds.
  11. You will not share anyone's private message(s) or private post(s) (including screen capture, plain text, or any other form), without that user's consent, or without fully removing or censoring every personally identifiable information, such as username, profile picture and any other contents that may identify the user in any way or break that user's privacy.
  12. You are prohibited from referencing other users by their username, profile picture, or any other identifying content in a manner that constitutes harassment or insult. This prohibition extends to any attempts to expose or assert that a user is impersonating someone else. Rather than mentioning or referencing other users, kindly utilize the 'Report Abuse' button to bring any concerns to our attention. In any other instances where you mention or tag another user, you must promptly remove the post upon request by the mentioned user.
  13. You will not send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
  14. You will not post the same or very similar posts/replies repeatedly, even if you post them to different groups. By doing so, you are duplicating contents, attracting more attention to your posts unfairly and annoying other users.
  15. You will not abuse, misuse or manipulate Reaction and Downvote features, whether manually, programmatically or otherwise. This includes using multiple accounts to react/downvote, or asking people to react/downvote, or forming or joining a group that reacts/downvotes together.
  16. You will not abuse, misuse or manipulate the submission of abuse reports, whether manually, programmatically or otherwise. This includes using multiple accounts to report, or asking people to report, or forming or joining a group that reports together.
Content Moderation, Monitoring & Reports
  1. We reserve the right to remove or moderate any content that violates our terms or community guidelines.
  2. We reserve the right to restrict contact between members as a protection measure, if there have been complaints or if our system's algorithms prevent that contact.
  3. SimilarWorlds has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor any and all activity on SimilarWorlds. SimilarWorlds also has the right, but not the obligation, to investigate the reports of improper conduct.
  4. We reserve the right to remove any user submission or terminate any user account or ban any user at any time for any action in violation of the Terms of Service including, for conduct detrimental to other users or SimilarWorlds, or for any other reason that in SimilarWorlds' sole discretion warrants such termination. When an investigation is required, due to a user report or other indication that a user may be engaged in illegal activities, we may examine private messages to assess for further proof of offenses. All content (posts, messages, media), transmitted on or uploaded to SimilarWorlds, are subject to scans for malware, child abuse material, and other types of content that can harm users of SimilarWorlds in any way.
  5. You will not submit false or inaccurate reports concerning members, posts or groups. Kindly use the report feature only for abusive, harmful, or harassing content, spam or scam, instances of self-harm or endangerment, or illegal activities.
  6. SimilarWorlds strictly prohibits the use of our services to create, upload, or distribute content that exploits or abuses children. In order to maintain the safety of our platform, we use technology to detect such content. If such content is identified, we will take appropriate actions, which may include removing the content and disabling accounts. Relevant information, which may include personal information and the violative content, is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Subsequently, NCMEC may share reports with law enforcement authorities worldwide, as deemed appropriate.
While we strive to maintain a safe and respectful environment, we do not endorse or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or quality of user-generated content. You acknowledge that you may be exposed to content that you find objectionable, and you use the platform at your own risk.
Registration and Account Security
SimilarWorlds users can have either an Anonymous/Fictional or Real profile. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:
  1. You will not create multiple accounts on SimilarWorlds in a way that can be seen as abusive usage. The average user has only one account, but it is acceptable for someone to own up to three accounts as long as your accounts are following our terms of service and not causing conflicts with other users. Canceling old accounts does not make it acceptable to create new accounts to stay on this limit.
  2. You will not create additional accounts in order to be able to contact users who blocked you on your previous accounts.
  3. You will not use any of your additional/alternative accounts to contact users who blocked you on any of your other accounts.
  4. You will not create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
  5. You will not impersonate another person.
  6. You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling a shared message, comment, message or post to an advertiser, or asking users for money).
  7. You will not use SimilarWorlds if you are under 13.
  8. You will not use SimilarWorlds if you are a convicted sex offender.
  9. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
  10. You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
  11. You will not transfer your account to anyone.
  12. You will not submit a fake, modified or incomplete photo to our verification system. If you want to be verified, you can upload your own photos, unmodified.
  13. If you select a username for your account, we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it for any reason (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name; or if the username is inappropriate).
Termination
  1. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account if you violate the terms, engage in fraudulent or abusive behavior, or fail to comply with applicable laws.
  2. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account without the obligation of providing explicit justification. However, such actions will be taken in accordance with our commitment to maintaining a respectful and inclusive community. We will exercise this right judiciously and responsibly, considering the overall well-being of the platform and its users. Our aim is to ensure a safe, enjoyable, and positive environment for all members. While we may not always provide specific reasons for individual bans, we will consistently enforce our policies with a fair and common-sense approach. Users found in violation of our Terms of Service, including engaging in harmful behavior, spam, or other disruptive activities, may be subject to account suspension or termination.
  3. You may cancel your account at any time by accessing your Account Settings, then Leave SimilarWorlds and following the instructions there. After your account has been set to hiatus, you can complete the process to cancel your account. Once canceled, it can no longer be reactivated.
Anonymous or Fictional Profiles
A profile is considered Anonymous or Fictional if its name, profile picture and personal information do not belong to the owner of the account. The profile must not impersonate another person. If the fictional profile contains photos belonging to another person, any descriptions in the photos and in the profile must be explicit that the person in the photos is not the owner of the account. The owner of the account must not post another person's photos unless they have the consent and authorization of the person in those photos.
Content Rating Levels
You must ensure that your posts are tagged properly.
SimilarWorlds is a very diverse social network, of varying opinions, ideologies and standards.
In order to help protect users and provide the most relevant and appropriate content per each user's preferences, it is important that all users act responsibly, correctly labeling/categorizing their own content, especially when it falls into more adult themed categories.
Users can select through their account settings, various "Content Rating Levels", which algorithmically determines what content may be most suitable and interesting for that user.
Below is a description of each rating level:
Although we allow freedom of speech, opinion and expression, users are not permitted to bully, abuse, harass or offend other members.
You can also select the options below:
Copyright Guidelines
User Responsibilities
Users are solely responsible for ensuring that any content they upload, share, or post on the platform complies with copyright laws and regulations. Users must either own the rights to the content or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to upload, publish, and distribute it on the platform.

Prohibited Content
Users are prohibited from posting, sharing, or distributing copyrighted material without the explicit permission of the copyright owner, unless such use falls under fair use or other applicable exceptions as defined by copyright law.

Reporting Copyright Infringement
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been used on our platform in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us at our email and provide the following information:

  1. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
  2. The URL or location of the allegedly infringing content on our platform.
  3. Your contact information, including your name, address, phone number (optional), and email address.
  4. A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  5. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

We will respond to valid copyright infringement notices in a timely manner and may take appropriate actions, including removing the infringing content and, in certain cases, terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.

Counter-Notification
If you believe that your content was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification, you can submit a counter-notification to us. Please contact us at our email and provide the following information:

  1. Your contact information.
  2. Identification of the removed content.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court located within [your jurisdiction] and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original infringement notice or an agent of such person.

Repeat Infringers
We may terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe on copyright or intellectual property rights.
VIP Membership, Payment & Renewal Terms of Service
  1. You can upgrade your account to VIP by paying or subscribing to one of the packages available. If you already have an active VIP subscription and purchase VIP again, the new VIP time you purchase will be added/accumulated onto your existing VIP time.
  2. You may choose to purchase a VIP subscription for another user, by choosing that user at the time of purchase. If the recipient already has an active VIP subscription, the new VIP time you purchase will be added/accumulated onto their existing VIP time.
  3. If you choose to become a VIP on SimilarWorlds, your membership subscription may be automatically renewed based on the frequency you choose, until canceled by you. After your initial subscription commitment period, your subscription may be automatically renewed for additional equivalent periods, at the purchase price of your initial subscription.
  4. Once you have paid for any premium services on SimilarWorlds, they are non-refundable. In the exceptional scenario where we agree to offer a refund due to unusual circumstances, the transaction fee that we (the seller) were charged for (by the payment processor) in the original transaction will be deducted from the total amount refunded to you.
  5. If, at any point, you wish to discontinue your VIP membership, and you have an active auto-renewable subscription, you must visit the VIP Subscriptions page and click 'Cancel' or 'Suspend' before the next scheduled automatic payment. We do not issue partial/pro-rated refunds for early cancelation of any subscriptions.
  6. We do not have access to your Debit/Credit Card information through our sales. The payments are processed by a trusted 3rd-party payment processor, PayPal. By subscribing, you confirm you are at least 18 years of age and you authorize PayPal to charge your Debit/Credit Card now and again at the beginning of any subscription period. In the event that your Debit/Credit Card is ever denied, we reserve the right to cancel/suspend your subscription and you may have to resubscribe/resume in order to continue your VIP Membership.
  7. You can also contact us by sending an email to our email with your question and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Transferring VIP from an account to another is possible, by requesting this via an email or ticket to us, only in the following conditions: Due to the variance between pricing rates, you cannot split a VIP purchase in smaller subscriptions, to be distributed between multiple accounts. If we transfer VIP membership between accounts, we will transfer the purchased package in full, to the target account, without possibility of splitting.
Limitation of Liability
To the extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use or inability to use our platform. We do not assume responsibility for the actions, behavior, or content of our users.
Disputes
You agree to indemnify and hold SimilarWorlds harmless from and against all damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) arising from any claims related to your actions, content, or information on the platform.
You also agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms of Service or your use of the platform shall be resolved through good-faith negotiation.
Severability
If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. The unenforceable provision shall be replaced with a valid and enforceable provision that most closely achieves the intended purpose of the original provision.
Modification of these Terms
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms of Service at any time. We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the website or services without notice to you. Please check the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of SimilarWorlds after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes and the updated agreement. If the modified Terms of Service are not acceptable to you, then your only recourse is to discontinue using the website and the services.
Complaints
If you are dissatisfied with this website or any aspect of it, you may contact us at our email.

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