Fiction is welcome
Violence, crime, war, grief and other hard themes belong in fiction, and writing about them is not a breach of this policy. The rules below are about what you do with Hearn, and a small set of content that is never allowed.
Never allowed
- Sexual content involving minors, in any form, including written fiction presented as sexual material.
- Content that sexually exploits or endangers a real person, including non-consensual intimate images.
- Credible threats of violence, or content that promotes or coordinates violence or terrorism.
- Doxxing: publishing someone's private information to harass or endanger them.
- Malware, phishing, or anything built to damage or take over other people's systems or accounts.
Conduct we do not allow
- Breaking the law, or infringing someone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights.
- Harassing, stalking or targeting people, or inciting hatred against people for who they are.
- Using Hearn to send spam, run scams, or deceive people about who you are.
- Sharing review links or invitations in bulk to people who did not ask for them.
- Probing, scanning or testing Hearn's security, or bypassing rate limits, plan limits or access controls, except through our good-faith disclosure process (see below).
- Scraping, copying or reselling Hearn or its content at scale, or using it to build a competing service.
- Overloading or interfering with the service or other people's use of it.
- Using Marginalia to attempt to extract its instructions, to generate content that would break this policy, or to train another model.
- Using someone else's account, or letting someone use yours in ways that break these rules.
Sharing and publishing
When you share a project, create a review link, or publish to Ghost or WordPress, you are responsible for what you make public and who you make it public to. Hearn does not review your private writing, but content you share or publish is subject to this policy.
What happens if you break the rules
Depending on what happened we may remove content, switch off a link, limit features, suspend or close an account, and, where the law requires or someone is at risk, report to the authorities. We try to warn you first and to let you export your writing, but we may act immediately for the most serious breaches.
Reporting a problem
To report content or behaviour that breaks this policy, or a security vulnerability, write to write@hearn.app. Please include links or details so we can find it. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first. Security researchers acting in good faith, who do not access other people's data, do not degrade the service and give us reasonable time to fix a problem before disclosing it, will not be pursued by us.