Terms of Service
Version 1.4 — effective 2026-11-09.
By creating an account or using Waidrn you agree to these Terms, the Content Policy and the Rules.
1. Who we are
Waidrn ("the service") is a simulated-economy patronage and fiction community operated by its founder. Contact: support@waidrn.com for account help and copyright@waidrn.com for legal notices; the full list of monitored channels and their current delivery status is on the Contact page.
2. Accounts
You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to create an account. You are responsible for your password and for activity on your account. One person, one account. We may suspend or remove accounts that break these Terms.
3. Your content
You keep copyright in everything you publish. By publishing, you grant Waidrn a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and serve your content, including technical copies such as caches and downloads for readers. This licence ends when you delete your content, except for copies already made by readers and records that must be kept (public receipts, moderation and audit logs).
You promise that you have the right to publish what you publish, or that your use is lawful (for example a transformative fanwork published free of charge), and you accept the Content Policy.
4. Free access commitment
Content published on Waidrn stays free to read here. You may not add a paywall, early-access tier or gated access to work published on Waidrn. You may link to external support pages.
5. The simulated economy
WAID coins, post power and simulated US dollars are demo money with no real-world value. They are not a security, investment, deposit, or claim on real assets. There is no blockchain, no KYC, no withdrawal to real money, and no platform fee. We may adjust simulation parameters (rent, decay, mint rewards) to keep the demonstration working. Public receipts record delivered milestones.
6. Funded projects
Community projects are contracts between creators and patrons. The platform facilitates the escrow but is not a party to the contract and does not adjudicate disputes in v1. Deliverables must be published publicly at each milestone; on completion, software must be released under a permissive licence and creative works under a free licence equivalent to CC-BY. Terms, milestones and payout percentages become immutable at claim acceptance.
7. Moderation and termination
We may remove content and suspend accounts for policy violations, with an audit trail. The report flow, decision process and appeal route are described in Moderation. You may delete your account at any time; your content becomes attributed to [deleted user] and hosted content may remain unless you request removal.
8. Liability
The service is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties and are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from use of the service, including the simulated economy.
9. Changes
We may update these Terms; material changes will be announced on the site. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
Patronage, contributions and rights (v1.4)
- Simulated money only. WAID, simulated USD and all support/contribution flows are demo money. There is no real payment rail, no KYC, no payout, no investment product. Nothing on Waidrn has real monetary value.
- Creator support is voluntary simulated WAID + your own external links. The platform fee is 0. External pages are outside Waidrn's control; their terms apply.
- Project money is rights-gated. By creating a project you attest its rights status and may update it later. Funding/contributions are closed server-side for projects whose rights are not established or that are unlicensed fanwork. You are responsible for the accuracy of the rights status you attest and for the projects you publish.
- Pledges follow the escrow/milestone/refund rules shown on the project. Contributions are non-refundable project money and are labelled as such.
- Communities/organizations are user-created and user-moderated within the Content Policy; organization verification is reviewed by moderators and is not an endorsement or guarantee.
- No campaign financing. Project money, contributions, community/org support and creator support may not be used to finance electoral campaigns, political parties, or candidates.
- Claims and takedowns. Rights holders can use
/legal/dmcaand the copyright-holder claim path described in the Copyright policy.