Terms of Service
1. Agreement to these Terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of twewu, including the website at twewu.com, its applications, APIs, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. The Service
twewu is a social platform on which user content is published as "boxes" arranged on a single shared, unbounded grid. The Service includes deliberate game mechanics — including placement rules, box vitality ("vibes"), reinforcement, siege, claiming, reputation ("aura"), and cooperative and competitive mini-games — that affect the visibility, position, persistence, and removal of content. These mechanics are an integral part of the Service, and outcomes produced by them (including the weakening, destruction, or replacement of a box by other users' actions) are expected behavior of the platform, not defects, and do not give rise to any claim against the operator.
3. Eligibility and Accounts
- You must be at least 13 years of age (or the higher minimum age required in your jurisdiction) to use the Service.
- You are responsible for your account and for all activity occurring under it. Keep your credentials confidential and notify us promptly of any suspected unauthorized use.
- Accounts must be operated by a human being. You may maintain a small number of personal alternate accounts, provided each is personally operated. Automated account creation, account farming, Sybil swarms, and the operation of undisclosed bot networks are prohibited.
- We may reclaim, rename, or disable handles that infringe rights, impersonate others, or squat on names reserved by the platform.
4. Your Content and License to Us
- You retain all ownership rights in the content you post ("User Content").
- By posting User Content you grant the operator of twewu a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, adapt (for technical purposes such as thumbnails, previews, color derivation, and share cards), publish, display, and distribute that content in connection with operating, promoting, and improving the Service.
- Deleting a box removes it from the active grid immediately. A record of your past posts remains part of your public posting history until you delete your account or submit a verified data-deletion request, at which point it is removed, subject only to short-lived backups and caches purged in the ordinary course of operation, and to content that other users have lawfully claimed, quoted, or incorporated through the Service's game mechanics before deletion. The license above ends when the corresponding content is removed under this paragraph.
- You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to post your User Content and that it does not violate law or the rights of any third party.
- All content on the grid is public. The Service offers no private posting.
5. Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- post content that is unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, or that infringes intellectual-property, privacy, or publicity rights;
- post content that sexualizes minors in any form (zero tolerance; reported to the relevant authorities), or that constitutes targeted harassment, credible threats, doxxing, or incitement to violence;
- upload malicious code or files, or probe, scan, overload, or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure;
- use multiple accounts in concert, or any form of automated or coordinated inauthentic activity, to manipulate votes, aura, influence, or game outcomes;
- scrape or bulk-harvest the Service in a manner that burdens infrastructure or circumvents rate limits;
- misrepresent your affiliation or impersonate any person or entity.
Contest between users conducted through the Service's own mechanics — reinforcing, sieging, claiming, and competing over boxes — is not a violation of these Terms. Harassment of people, as distinct from contest over boxes, is.
6. Virtual Items and the Game Economy
Aura, vibes, influence, cognition, invites, in-game items, and any other virtual attributes or objects within the Service ("Virtual Items") are features of gameplay only. Virtual Items have no monetary value, are not property, are not redeemable or exchangeable for money or anything of value outside the Service, and are non-transferable except where the Service itself provides a transfer mechanic. We may create, modify, rebalance, revalue, or remove Virtual Items at any time as part of operating and tuning the game economy, without liability. Any future offering of paid features will be governed by supplemental terms presented at the point of purchase.
7. Third-Party Content and Embeds
Boxes may reference or embed content from third-party platforms (including YouTube, X, and TikTok). Such content remains governed by the terms and policies of its originating platform, and twewu does not control, endorse, or assume responsibility for it. Embedded players load only when you choose to open a box.
8. Intellectual Property Complaints
We respond to legitimate notices of claimed infringement consistent with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and equivalent laws. Submit notices — including identification of the work, the infringing material's grid coordinates or URL, your contact information, and a good-faith statement — through either contact channel in Section 15. We may remove material, terminate repeat infringers, and forward notices to the affected user.
9. Moderation and Enforcement
We may, at our discretion and with or without prior notice: remove or restrict content; suspend, limit, or terminate accounts; adjust game-mechanic parameters; and take any other action reasonably necessary to protect the Service, its users, or third parties. Uploaded media is subject to automated screening. We are not obligated to pre-screen content and assume no duty to monitor.
10. Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your own boxes at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access for violation of these Terms, for risk to the Service or its users, or where required by law. Sections 4 (to the extent stated), 11, 12, 13, and 14 survive termination.
11. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY CONTENT OR VIRTUAL ITEM WILL PERSIST. CONTENT PERSISTENCE IS EXPRESSLY SUBJECT TO THE SERVICE'S GAME MECHANICS.
12. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OPERATOR OF TWEWU SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, GOODWILL, CONTENT, OR VIRTUAL ITEMS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. IN NO EVENT SHALL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the operator of twewu from and against claims, liabilities, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your User Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.
14. Governing Law; Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and, to the extent state law applies, the laws of the state of the operator's principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
Arbitration. Except for (a) claims that qualify for small-claims court and (b) claims for injunctive relief concerning intellectual property or unauthorized access, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall be conducted in English, remotely where feasible.
Class-action waiver. DISPUTES SHALL BE RESOLVED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS ONLY. YOU AND THE OPERATOR EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by notifying us through a contact channel in Section 15 within 30 days of first accepting these Terms; opting out does not affect any other provision.
Where arbitration does not apply, disputes shall be brought exclusively in the competent federal or state courts located in the United States, and you consent to their jurisdiction and venue — except, in each case, where the law of your habitual residence mandatorily provides otherwise.
15. Changes; Notices; Contact
We may revise these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced on the Service, and the effective date above will be updated; continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
Contact channels: message @K8r on the grid, or reach the operator off-platform via X at @TWEWU_com. Formal legal notices (including notices under Section 8) are also accepted by email; the address is presented as an image to keep it out of the hands of address-harvesting bots:
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the operator regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder remains in full effect; failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.