These Terms are your agreement with Inicial, Co. for using lurk.me and related Lurk services.
1. Accepting these Terms
You accept these Terms when you create an account or use Lurk. Our Community Guidelines and Copyright Policy also apply. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data. Do not use Lurk if you do not agree.
2. Who may use Lurk
You must be at least 13 years old. If local law requires permission from a parent or legal guardian, you must have it. You may not use Lurk if the law bars you from receiving the service or if we terminated your account for a serious violation.
3. Your account
You are responsible for your account and activity through it. Keep your sign-in method secure and give us accurate information. Do not sell accounts, create accounts for abuse, impersonate another person, or access an account or data that is not yours.
4. Your webspace
Lurk gives each member a webspace, usually at a Lurk subdomain. You decide what to publish and who may interact there. You may remove, block, or restrict visitors for any reason. Nobody has a right to access or interact within another member's webspace.
That control does not override these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or the law. We may act anywhere on Lurk when the platform-wide hosting rules require it.
5. Your content stays yours
You keep ownership of content you create or upload. You are responsible for it and must have the rights and permissions needed to publish it.
You give Inicial, Co. a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, copy, transmit, display, and distribute your content as needed to operate, secure, and develop Lurk. This includes formatting, previews, backups, and showing public content in discovery.
If you make content public, this license also lets us feature it in Lurk's own promotion. We will not use private or friends-only content in promotion. We do not use member content to train generative AI models.
The license ends when the content is deleted from active systems. Copies may remain in backups, caches, records we must preserve, and promotional material already produced. Content copied or shared outside Lurk may remain outside our control.
6. What you promise when you publish
You promise that your content and use of Lurk:
- do not violate another person's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
- do not violate applicable law or help someone else do so;
- follow these Terms and the Community Guidelines; and
- do not mislead people about who you are or what you represent.
7. Platform abuse
Do not:
- disrupt, overload, probe, damage, or bypass Lurk or its security;
- spread malware, phishing, scams, or dangerous links;
- scrape or collect data without permission;
- use automation in a way that harms Lurk or its members;
- evade a block, suspension, restriction, or other enforcement action; or
- use Lurk to threaten violence, exploit people, or organize illegal activity.
8. Moderation and enforcement
The Community Guidelines explain the different rules for hosting, discovery, and shared spaces. We may restrict, preserve, disable, or remove content, features, or accounts to enforce those rules, protect people or Lurk, or comply with law.
Discovery is a discretionary feature. Meeting the minimum standards does not guarantee placement, ranking, reach, or continued inclusion. We may change how discovery works at any time.
Serious or repeated violations can cause permanent termination.
9. Reports and appeals
Members can use Lurk's reporting controls. Copyright complaints must use the process in our Copyright Policy. Requests about intimate images published without consent must use our removal process. You may send one concise appeal of an account, content-hosting, or shared-space action to support@inicial.co. We do not promise a particular outcome or response time. Abuse of reporting or appeals is itself a violation.
10. Copyright
We respond to valid copyright notices and counter-notices and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. See our Copyright Policy for the required process.
11. Lurk Plus
Lurk Plus is a paid subscription. Prices, billing periods, and included features appear before purchase. Taxes may apply. The subscription renews automatically for the same billing period until you cancel it through the billing portal in Settings.
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid billing period, and access continues until then. Fees are non-refundable except where the law requires a refund. We may change prices or paid features with reasonable advance notice.
12. Lurk's service and rights
Lurk's software, design, branding, and materials belong to Inicial, Co. or its licensors. These Terms do not give you ownership of them. You may use the service only through the interfaces we provide and only as these Terms allow.
We may add, change, suspend, or stop features or the service. We are not responsible for third-party sites, embeds, files, or services linked from Lurk.
13. Ending your use
You may stop using Lurk or delete your account in Settings at any time. Account deletion ends Lurk Plus immediately. Safety, abuse, payment, backup, and legal records may remain as explained in the Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create risk or legal exposure, fail to pay for a paid service, or if we must act to protect Lurk, its members, or others.
14. No warranties
Lurk is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent allowed by law, Inicial, Co. disclaims all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not promise that Lurk will be uninterrupted, secure, accurate, or free of errors or harmful components.
15. Limits on liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Inicial, Co. and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities.
Our total liability for all claims arising from or related to Lurk will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or USD $100. Some laws do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so they apply only to the extent those laws permit.
16. Indemnity
To the fullest extent allowed by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Inicial, Co. and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees arising from your content, your use of Lurk, or your violation of these Terms or another person's rights.
17. Disputes
Before filing a claim, you and Inicial, Co. will give the other side written notice and 30 days to try to resolve it informally, unless urgent relief is needed. Send notices to legal@inicial.co.
Delaware law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any claim must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to their jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, a claim must be filed within one year after it arose. Mandatory consumer protections in your place of residence still apply when they cannot lawfully be waived.
18. Changes
We may update these Terms. For a material change, we will give reasonable advance notice by email or in Lurk unless an urgent legal, safety, or security change requires faster action. We will ask for renewed acceptance when the law requires it. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.
19. General terms
If part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Inicial, Co. about Lurk.
20. Contact
Inicial, Co.
General support: support@inicial.co
Legal and authority contact: legal@inicial.co