Terms of Service

Please read these terms of service before using Minus.

Terms of use

By using this site, you certify you have reviewed this document and agree to comply with its terms.

Privacy policy

Before using Minus, please read the Privacy Policy regarding user data collection.

Age restriction

You must be at least 18 (eighteen) years of age before you can use this website. Minus assumes no responsibility for liabilities related to age misrepresentation.

Intellectual property

Minus is an artwork in the form of an interactive website. As such, its signature concepts and implementations are the intellectual property of its creator. You agree to not reproduce or take this property, including the project’s logo or the primary unusual components/features of its form and function (e.g., 100 posts for life). Screenshots of the work for academic and/or artistic research are exempt from this limit, as long as typical citation practices are followed.

You grant Minus a royalty-free and non-exclusive license to display, use, copy, transmit, and broadcast content you post here. It may be used in the future during talks or writing about the project (if that happens, proper credit will be given)—though you can opt out of this if you prefer. Either way, you retain all ownership and copyright over anything you submit to Minus.

Privacy of Post Submissions and Replies

Access to the main feed of Minus is restricted to logged-in accounts, though anyone can create such an account. Individual posts and replies are open for public sharing. You should presume that anything you post on this site could be shared publicly at any time.

Disallowed Content

None of the following are allowed on Minus: hate speech, violence/violent threats, targeted harassment or bullying, private information (e.g. doxxing), illegal content, spam, or ads. Accounts that engage in any of these will be removed.

User accounts

As a user of this website, you are also responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you think there any security issues with your account, please contact us as soon as possible. Minus reserves the right to terminate any account any time for any reason.

Applicable law

By visiting this website, you agree that the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to principles of conflict laws, will govern these terms and conditions, or any dispute of any sort that might come between Minus and you, or its business partners and associates.

Disputes, Indemnification, and Liability Limitation

Any dispute related in any way to your visit to this website shall be arbitrated by state or federal court in Urbana, IL, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

You agree to indemnify Minus and its affiliates and hold Minus harmless against legal claims and demands that may arise from your use or misuse of our services.

Minus is not liable for any damages that may occur to you as a result of your misuse of our website. Minus reserves the right to edit, modify, and change this Agreement any time.

Additional Questions?

If you have questions about these terms or anything else related to Minus, please contact grosser [at] bengrosser.com.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://minus.social.

Posts and Replies

When visitors submit posts or replies on the site, we collect the data shown in those forms. These submissions, as well as data on your profile may be viewable by the public. In particular, any post submission or reply can be shared to users and non-users via URL. The feed and your profile information are available to any registered user.

Media

If you upload a profile image to the site, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Otherwise, visitors to the site could download and extract location data from them.

Cookies

If you use this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

The front page of this site embeds a video from vimeo.com. Interaction with that page thus means it is also as if you’re interacting with vimeo.com. We also use the reCAPTCHA bot detector on the registration and login pages, so interaction with those means temporary interaction with a Google site.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Beyond that, we don’t share your data with anyone else.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a post or reply they are retained indefinitely. For users that register on the site, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left posts or replies, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for legal purposes.

Where we send your data

We don’t send your data anywhere, though if spam becomes an issue we may need to check posts using a system like akismet.

Additional Questions?

If you have questions about this policy, please contact grosser [at] bengrosser.com.