Last updated: 2025
Overview
This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) outlines the prohibited uses of Time-Capsule.io (the “Service”). This policy is an integral part of our Terms of Service. By using the Service, you agree to abide by this AUP.
We are committed to maintaining a safe and lawful environment. We have zero tolerance for illegal, harmful, or abusive content.
1. Prohibited Content
You may not use the Service to upload, store, transmit, or distribute any content that falls into the following categories:
1.1. Illegal Content
- Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM): strictly prohibited. We report all instances to NCMEC.
- Terrorism & Violent Extremism: content that promotes, recruits for, or solicits support for terrorist organizations or acts of violent extremism.
- Criminal Activity: content that facilitates or encourages illegal acts, such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, or weapons sales.
1.2. Violence & Hate Speech
- Hate Speech: content that promotes violence, incites hatred, or dehumanizes individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics.
- Graphic Violence: gratuitous depictions of severe violence, torture, or gore.
- Harassment: content intended to harass, bully, shame, or intimidate others.
1.3. Safety & Privacy
- Self-Harm: content that encourages, promotes, glorifies, or gives instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders. This does not prohibit personal accounts, reflection, grief, mental-health discussion, or writing about recovery and survival — capsules legitimately contain these, and they are welcome here.
- Doxing: publishing private or identifying information of others without their express consent (e.g., social security numbers, private addresses).
- Non-Consensual Sexual Content: “revenge porn” or any sexual images shared without the subject’s consent.
- Gathering Privacy & Image Rights: taking or uploading recordings, photographs, or videos of individuals at private events or gatherings (such as weddings, celebrations, or reunions) without their permission, or where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. Uploading media depicting minors requires the consent of their parent or legal guardian.
1.4. Sexual Content
- Explicit Pornography: hardcore pornography is not permitted.
- Sexualized Minors: any depiction of minors that is sexual in nature, regardless of legality.
1.5. Malicious & Fraudulent Content
- Malware: viruses, worms, trojans, or any code designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to systems.
- Phishing & Fraud: attempts to deceive users or steal personal information.
- Spam: unsolicited bulk content or commercial solicitation.
- Abuse of Event Codes: posting, sharing, or publishing a private Event QR code or guest upload link on public message boards, open forums, or spam networks to solicit unauthorized, harassing, or malicious submissions.
2. Copyright & Intellectual Property
You must respect the intellectual property rights of others.
- Do not upload content that infringes upon copyrights, trademarks, or trade secrets.
- We respond to valid notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
3. Nudity Guidelines
- Allowed: Artistic or naturalistic nudity (e.g., breastfeeding, classical art, non-sexualized family photos).
- Prohibited: Genitalia shown in a sexually arousing context, sexual acts, or close-ups of genitalia.
4. Enforcement & Reporting
4.1. Our Rights
We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:
- Use automated tools and artificial intelligence to scan capsule content and other relevant platform activity for safety, abuse, security, legal, and policy concerns.
- Investigate any violation of this AUP.
- Remove, disable, or block access to any content at our sole discretion, without prior notice.
- Prevent a capsule from being delivered or unlocked.
- Screen Guest Capsules submitted through Events. Guest submissions that violate our policies will be withheld and blocked from delivery; the Event Owner may be notified that a submission was held without disclosing the content of the message.
- Restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts.
These measures are general. They are available to us across the full range of concerns covered by this AUP and our Terms of Service, and none of them is tied to any single category of content.
Automated tools are not perfect: they may produce incorrect results, and they are not guaranteed to identify every violation of this policy or every safety concern. Nothing in this policy obliges us to review, investigate, or act on any particular content. If you believe we have acted in error, contact legal@time-capsule.io.
4.2. Law Enforcement
We will cooperate fully with law enforcement authorities and may disclose your identity and content if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable laws or regulations;
- Protect the safety of any person;
- Prevent or stop illegal activity.
4.3. Reporting Violations
If you encounter content that violates this policy, please report it immediately to: legal@time-capsule.io or through our in-app reporting tools.
4.4. Safety Notices
Where our systems identify content indicating a potentially serious risk of self-harm or of harm to another person, we may send the account holder a one-way informational notice, as described in section 5.5 of our Terms of Service.
Time-Capsule.io is not a crisis-response, counselling, emergency, or safety-monitoring service, and must not be relied upon as one. If you or someone else may be in danger, contact your local emergency or crisis services.