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JFK Social Consumer Terms of Service

Effective Date: May 12, 2026 Last Updated: May 12, 2026

These Consumer Terms of Service (these "Terms") form a binding contract between you and ACT 3 AI, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("JFK Social," "we," "us," or "our"), and govern your access to and use of the websites, applications, application programming interfaces, and other online services that we operate at jfksocial.com and related properties (collectively, the "Services"). By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the Services, you accept these Terms.

At a Glance​

Read these Terms in full — this Section is a non-binding summary, not a substitute. The numbered Sections below control if there is any conflict. Six points matter most:

  1. Free speech is the default. JFK Social is designed to host a wide range of lawful speech, including unpopular and dissenting speech. See Section 3.
  2. We still moderate at our discretion. We retain the right to remove Content, restrict reach, label Content, suspend Accounts, and run our content-management policy as we see fit, subject to Applicable Law and these Terms. See Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, and 11.
  3. Two Premium Plans are available. Premium is $19.99/month and Premium Plus is $39.99/month. Both renew automatically. See Section 10.
  4. You own your identity. You can take it elsewhere. Your Nostr key is yours. We do not hold it as a recoverable secret and we do not lock you to our clients or our Relays. See Sections 7 and 8.
  5. Nostr is public by default. Most things you post are publicly readable on the Nostr network and may persist on Relays we do not control even if you delete them. See Sections 7 and 8.
  6. Read the right document for what you do here. If you refer paying users under our influencer rev-share program, the Rev-Shared Influencers License at /influencers/license governs that activity. If you run your own social network using our source-available code and brand, the JFK Fork Operator License at /fork/license governs that activity. These Consumer Terms govern your use of jfksocial.com as an end user. See Section 1.

Table of Contents​

  1. Who Is Covered by These Terms and Who Is Not
  2. Definitions
  3. Free Speech and Our Content Moderation Discretion
  4. Community Notes, AI Ratings, and User-Submitted Labels
  5. Impersonation, Parody, and Verified Accounts
  6. Sensitive Media, Adult Content, and Violence
  7. Nostr Identity, Relays, Media Servers, and Zaps
  8. Account Portability and Identity Ownership
  9. Your Content, Public-by-Default Posting, and the License You Grant
  10. Premium Plans ($19.99/month and $39.99/month) and Billing
  11. Account Eligibility, Registration, and Termination
  12. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Conduct
  13. Reporting Illegal Content, CSAM, and Law-Enforcement Process
  14. Copyright (DMCA), Repeat-Infringer Policy, and Trademark
  15. Third-Party Services, Cross-Network Posts, and Federated Networks
  16. Software License Granted to You
  17. Warranty Disclaimers
  18. Limitation of Liability
  19. Indemnification
  20. Binding Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver; Small-Claims Carve-Out
  21. Governing Law and Venue
  22. Changes to These Terms
  23. General Provisions
  24. Contact and Notices
  25. Source Code Repositories
  26. Related Documents

1. Who Is Covered by These Terms and Who Is Not​

JFK Social maintains three audience-specific contracts. Read the one that matches what you are doing, not the one closest to hand. The fact that you can read all three does not mean you are bound by all three; you are bound by the one whose conduct description matches your conduct.

(a) You are a Consumer (these Terms apply) if you use the Services as an end user of JFK Social. That includes viewing, posting, following, messaging, subscribing to a Premium Plan, sending or receiving Zaps, and otherwise interacting with content on jfksocial.com and our mobile clients.

(b) You are an Influencer (a different contract applies) if you refer paying users to JFK Social under our rev-share program in exchange for a share of those users' subscription revenue. That activity is governed instead by the JFK Social Rev-Shared Influencer License at /influencers/license and the companion privacy policy at /influencers/privacy. Your underlying consumer use of jfksocial.com is still governed by these Terms; the Influencer License governs only the referral and rev-share activity.

(c) You are a Fork Operator (a different contract applies) if you run your own social network using our source-available code, our protocols, or our brand. That activity is governed instead by the JFK Fork Operator License at /fork/license and the companion privacy policy at /fork/privacy. If you are a Fork Operator and you also maintain a Consumer Account on the JFK Social-operated site, these Consumer Terms govern that Consumer Account; the Fork Operator License governs the fork you run.

(d) One person, multiple roles. A single natural person may be a Consumer, an Influencer, and a Fork Operator at the same time. Each contract governs only the activity it describes. None of the three contracts can be substituted for another by analogy or by preference.

(e) Default rule. Where it is genuinely unclear which contract applies to a specific activity, these Consumer Terms apply by default and the other two are reserved for the activities expressly described in them.

The companion Privacy Policy to these Terms is /consumer/privacy and is incorporated by reference.

2. Definitions​

The following capitalized terms have the meanings set forth below. Other capitalized terms are defined where they first appear.

  • "Account" means the user identity through which you access the Services, including any associated profile and any Nostr public key linked to that profile.
  • "Applicable Law" means all statutes, regulations, ordinances, and binding judicial or administrative orders applicable to a party.
  • "Consumer" means an end user of the Services who is bound by these Terms.
  • "Content" means any text, image, audio, video, link, code, metadata, or other material that you submit, upload, post, transmit, share, or otherwise make available through the Services.
  • "Premium Plan" means a paid subscription to the Services as described in Section 10.
  • "Nostr" means the Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays protocol, including the related Nostr Implementation Possibilities ("NIPs") referenced from time to time at https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips. References in these Terms to a specific NIP (for example, "NIP-09" or "NIP-44") refer to the version of that NIP in effect when these Terms are applied to the relevant conduct.
  • "Relay" means a Nostr relay server, whether operated by JFK Social, by a third party, or by another Consumer.
  • "Media Server" means an HTTP-accessible server that stores binary media (images, audio, video) referenced from Nostr events, including servers we operate and third-party servers (for example, Blossom-compatible servers).
  • "Zap" means a value-transfer event using the Bitcoin Lightning Network as described in NIP-57.
  • "AI Rating" means a structured, machine-generated annotation about Content (for example, an estimated factuality score, a topical label, a sensitivity classification, or a hate-speech index value) produced by an automated classifier operated by or for JFK Social.

3. Free Speech and Our Content Moderation Discretion​

JFK Social respects free speech. We are built to host a culture of free expression. Lawful speech — including speech that is sharp, unpopular, dissenting, politically inconvenient, religiously challenging, or stylistically rough — is the kind of speech most worth protecting, and we design the Services to allow that speech to find an audience. We do not remove lawful Content merely because it offends a viewer, embarrasses a powerful party, or runs counter to our own editorial views. We do not partner with the government in any program to suppress lawful viewpoints. We oppose informal pressure to censor lawful speech and we publish transparency reports describing requests we receive and how we responded to them.

That commitment is not unconditional, and we reserve our content-management discretion expressly. A platform that hosts a wide range of speech must still be lawful, navigable, and safe enough to use. The rest of this Section describes the limits of the free-speech commitment, and the discretion we retain. These Terms make those limits explicit.

(a) We may remove Content, restrict reach, label Content, or suspend or terminate Accounts at our sole discretion. Editorial decisions on the Services are made by JFK Social. We may exercise that discretion to comply with Applicable Law, to enforce these Terms, to protect users from imminent harm, to protect minors, to remove or report child sexual abuse material ("CSAM"), to remove fraud and spam, to remove unlawful threats or harassment, or for any other reason consistent with the operation of a lawful platform.

(b) We are a private platform, not a government actor. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restrains the government, not JFK Social. Nothing in these Terms gives you a contractual right to compel us to host, distribute, recommend, or amplify any particular Content. The fact that we permit a wide range of speech does not waive our right to refuse any particular Content or Account.

(c) CDA Section 230. As a provider of an interactive computer service, JFK Social claims, and you agree we are entitled to, the protections of 47 U.S.C. § 230 with respect to Content created by Consumers and third parties. Nothing we do or omit to do — including any decision to moderate, label, decline to moderate, or recommend Content — waives that protection or makes us the publisher or speaker of Content created by others.

(d) Transparency, not adjudication. When we remove Content or restrict an Account, we will, where reasonably practicable, tell the affected Consumer what rule was applied and how to appeal. Our appeals process is the exclusive non-judicial remedy for moderation decisions; it does not create any right of action against us beyond what these Terms or Applicable Law provide.

(e) No promise of neutrality. We do not promise viewpoint neutrality, mathematical fairness across topics, or equal reach for every Account. We promise only to apply our published rules in good faith and to disclose the categories of conduct that can trigger enforcement.

(f) Algorithmic transparency, not algorithmic neutrality. We publish documentation of the major signals that influence ranking, recommendation, and reach. That documentation is informational. It does not entitle any Consumer to a particular ranking, reach, or recommendation outcome.

(g) Narrative-control operations are inauthentic activity. Coordinated efforts by a government, an intelligence service, a political-money operation, a corporate communications shop, a foreign influence operation, an activist faction, or any other powerful or non-powerful group to manufacture, steer, or suppress public conversation on the Services — including by operating undisclosed networks of accounts, paying for placement that is not disclosed as paid, coordinating mass reporting to silence lawful speech, or driving an artificial appearance of grass-roots consensus — are treated as inauthentic behavior under these Terms. The fact that an actor is powerful (or claims a public-interest justification) does not exempt the conduct. The fact that an actor is unaffiliated and unfunded does not exempt the conduct either. JFK Social retains sole discretion to determine whether a specific pattern of conduct constitutes a narrative-control operation for purposes of this Section, and to apply any enforcement step described in Section 12 in response, up to and including permanent termination of every Account participating in the operation. By accepting these Terms you expressly authorize JFK Social to suspend or terminate any Account that we, in our discretion, determine to be engaged in automated, inauthentic, or narrative-control conduct; a Consumer agrees that no breach-of-contract claim arises from an enforcement action taken under this paragraph against an Account that we have determined is engaged in such conduct.

4. Community Notes, AI Ratings, and User-Submitted Labels​

JFK Social favors annotation over deletion. Where Applicable Law and these Terms allow Content to remain on the Services, we prefer to add context to it rather than remove it.

(a) AI Ratings. We may attach AI Ratings to Content. An AI Rating is the output of an automated classifier and reflects the classifier's estimate, not a finding of fact about you. AI Ratings may include, for example: a hate-speech index, a graphic-content classification, an automated factuality flag, a topical classification, or a quality score. AI Ratings may be displayed publicly, used in ranking, used in safety enforcement, or any combination of these.

(b) Community notes and user-submitted context. We may allow Consumers to submit short, structured notes that add context to another Consumer's Content. Eligibility to write notes, eligibility to rate notes, and the threshold for displaying a note are determined by JFK Social and may change over time. A note that we display alongside Content is not a statement by JFK Social and does not make us the publisher or speaker of the note.

(c) No private right of action over labels. You agree that an AI Rating attached to your Content, a community note that we display alongside your Content, or a refusal to attach either, is not a breach of these Terms and does not give rise to any claim by you against us or against another Consumer to whom Section 230 applies. If you believe a specific AI Rating is incorrect, you may appeal it through the in-product appeals flow; that is your exclusive non-judicial remedy.

(d) Defamation and labels. AI Ratings and community notes are reach-and-context tools, not findings of liability. Nothing about an AI Rating or a community note is intended to constitute a published statement of fact by JFK Social about you. Where Applicable Law would treat a particular label as a factual assertion, we phrase the label to make clear it is an estimate or a community input rather than an assertion by JFK Social.

(e) Manipulation of labels prohibited. Coordinated submission of community notes, automated submission of community notes, vote-manipulation of community-note ratings, and any other scheme to game the labeling system are violations of Section 12.

5. Impersonation, Parody, and Verified Accounts​

JFK Social distinguishes deceptive impersonation from lawful parody, commentary, fan accounts, and satire.

(a) Impersonation is prohibited. You may not operate an Account that pretends to be another person, brand, or organization in a way that is likely to deceive a reasonable user into believing the Account speaks for that person, brand, or organization.

(b) Parody, commentary, fan accounts, and satire are permitted. An Account that is clearly labeled as a parody, fan account, commentary, or satire — through the profile name, profile bio, or an in-product label — is permitted, even if it uses the subject's name or likeness as part of clearly identified commentary or satire. You are responsible for keeping that labeling clear over time.

(c) Verified Accounts. A "Verified Account" is an Account that has been bound to a Nostr public key plus, depending on the verification tier, additional cryptographic and documentary checks. Verification is a statement that we have performed the stated checks; it is not an endorsement of the Account's Content. Verification status may be revoked at any time if our checks no longer hold (for example, if a NIP-05 identifier is removed, if a domain changes hands, or if we determine that the original verification was obtained by fraud).

(d) Name disputes. If two Consumers claim the same name or trademark, we may, at our discretion, assign the name to the Consumer with the stronger documented claim (including under a separate trademark notice), require disambiguating suffixes, or label both Accounts. We are not obliged to adjudicate name disputes.

(e) Dead, retired, and historical figures. Accounts that operate in the name of a deceased, retired, or historical figure must be clearly labeled as such. Where the figure has known descendants or an estate that controls right-of-publicity rights, we will honor a valid right-of-publicity notice in the same way we honor a trademark notice.

6. Sensitive Media, Adult Content, and Violence​

JFK Social allows a broader range of legal adult and otherwise sensitive Content than some comparable services. The corollary is a stricter labeling and access regime.

(a) Lawful adult Content. Consensually produced adult Content depicting adults is permitted, subject to the rest of this Section. Adult Content must be marked as such using the in-product sensitive-media flag. We may apply or remove that flag using automated classifiers and human review.

(b) Default behavior for sensitive Content. Sensitive Content is blurred or hidden by default. A Consumer must opt in to view sensitive Content. Consumers we have reason to believe are minors cannot opt in.

(c) Hard prohibitions, regardless of labeling. The following are prohibited absolutely and are not made permissible by any label:

  • CSAM and any sexual depiction of minors, whether real or synthetic;
  • Non-consensual intimate imagery, including synthetic intimate imagery of identifiable real persons;
  • Content that lacks legally required age verification or recordkeeping for the depicted performers under 18 U.S.C. § 2257 where that statute applies;
  • Real-world snuff content; gratuitous depictions of torture; bestiality;
  • Content that incites imminent unlawful violence; recruitment material for designated foreign terrorist organizations;
  • Content created to facilitate ongoing fraud, doxxing, or coordinated harassment.

(d) Graphic violence and conflict footage. Graphic violence is permitted in limited circumstances where it has clear news, documentary, educational, scientific, or commentary value, and where it carries a sensitive-media flag. Footage that primarily serves to glorify or celebrate violence is not permitted.

(e) Self-harm and suicide. Content that depicts, glorifies, encourages, or provides instructions for self-harm or suicide is prohibited. Content that discusses self-harm or suicide in a recovery, journalism, education, or research context is permitted, with sensitive-media flagging where appropriate.

(f) Eating disorders, dangerous challenges, and drugs. Content that promotes or instructs in eating-disorder behavior, dangerous physical challenges, or the use of controlled substances unlawfully is prohibited. Discussion in a recovery, harm-reduction, journalism, or research context is permitted.

(g) Cross-jurisdictional risk. Sensitive Content lawful where you publish may be unlawful where another Consumer receives it. You are responsible for your own legal exposure across jurisdictions.

7. Nostr Identity, Relays, Media Servers, and Zaps​

The Services interoperate with the Nostr protocol. Because Nostr is a public, cryptographic, federated protocol, your use of it produces consequences that differ materially from a closed social network. Read this Section before posting.

(a) Your Nostr key is your identity. When you create an Account, we either generate a Nostr key pair for you, or you import one you already control. Your Nostr private key is a cryptographic secret that proves authorship of every event you sign. We do not custody your private key as a recoverable credential. If you lose your private key, we cannot reset it or restore your published posts; another person who obtains your private key can post as you and we cannot prevent it. You are solely responsible for the safekeeping of your private key and for any Account compromise that follows from its disclosure.

(b) Signed events are permanent on the network you publish to. A Nostr event you sign and publish is propagated to one or more Relays. Once a Relay accepts an event, copies of that event may be retained, mirrored, indexed, or rebroadcast by any number of third parties indefinitely. A "delete" request (NIP-09) is a request, not a guarantee. Some Relays honor it; others do not. JFK Social will honor a deletion request on Relays we operate, but we cannot and do not guarantee deletion from Relays we do not operate.

(c) Relays we operate; Relays you choose. JFK Social operates one or more first-party Relays as part of the Services. You may also connect to third-party Relays. We are responsible only for the conduct of Relays we operate. We are not responsible for, and do not endorse, third-party Relays, their operators, their availability, their moderation practices, or their data-handling. Your choice to publish to a third-party Relay is your choice.

(d) Media uploads and Media Servers. When you upload a photo, audio file, or video, we may store the file on a Media Server we operate or on a third-party Media Server (for example, a Blossom-compatible server). Media files persist on Media Servers under the rules of that server, which may differ from these Terms. Removal of a media file from one Media Server does not remove copies that other Relays or clients have already cached.

(e) Zaps and value transfer. A Zap is a payment over the Bitcoin Lightning Network associated with a Nostr event. JFK Social is not a money-services business, money transmitter, custodian of customer funds, or party to any Zap. We do not hold, route, settle, or guarantee any Zap. All Zaps are between you and your counterparty over the Lightning Network. Tax, reporting, and legal obligations arising from sending or receiving Zaps are your responsibility.

(f) NIPs we support. Without limiting the foregoing, the Services support, today, at least the following NIPs (subject to change): NIP-01 (basic event format), NIP-02 (contact lists), NIP-04 and NIP-44 (encrypted direct messages — NIP-44 is preferred where both parties support it), NIP-05 (DNS-based identifier mapping for handle verification), NIP-09 (deletion requests), NIP-19 (bech32-encoded entities such as npub and note), NIP-23 (long-form Content), NIP-57 (Zaps), and NIP-94 (file metadata). We may add, change, or remove support for any NIP without prior notice when a change is needed for security, legal compliance, or platform stability.

(g) Cross-jurisdiction reach. Because Content you post may be received by Relays and Consumers in jurisdictions outside the United States, your Content may become subject to foreign laws. You are responsible for your own compliance with the laws of any place from which you post or to which your Content is directed.

(h) Direct messages. Direct messages sent through the Services are end-to-end encrypted under NIP-44 (or, for legacy compatibility, NIP-04). The plaintext of a properly encrypted direct message is not visible to JFK Social. Metadata about a direct message (sender public key, recipient public key, approximate timestamp and size) is visible to the Relays carrying the event. Direct messages are not a substitute for an end-to-end encrypted secure-messaging product audited for high-threat environments.

8. Account Portability and Identity Ownership​

JFK Social is built so that your identity, your follow graph, your post history, and your audience are yours — not ours. We do not lock your identity to our clients, our Relays, or our brand.

(a) Your Nostr key is portable. The Nostr public key associated with your Account is the same identifier you can use on any other Nostr client, any other Nostr Relay, and any other Nostr-compatible application operated by us, by a Fork Operator, or by an unrelated third party. We do not require you to retire that key when you stop using the Services, and we do not block you from publishing the same key elsewhere while you remain a Consumer here.

(b) Your follow graph is portable. Your contact list (NIP-02) is a signed event under your public key. You can publish that contact list to any Relay, including Relays we do not operate. Migration of your follow graph to another client or another platform does not require our cooperation.

(c) Your post history is portable. Posts you published as Nostr events under your public key are public Nostr events. They can be read, mirrored, or re-published by any Nostr-compatible application or any Fork Operator's instance subject to that operator's own rules. We will not assert a contractual or technical right against another Nostr-compatible application that merely receives and serves your signed events from a Relay it has the right to read.

(d) Export on demand. You may request a structured export of your Account data and Content at any time through the in-product privacy controls. The format and scope of the export are described in the companion Privacy Policy. We will deliver the export within the timeline required by Applicable Law and, in any event, without unreasonable delay.

(e) No lock-in to our clients. You may use any Nostr-compatible client, including third-party clients we did not write, to read from and post to your Account using your private key. Some Premium features may require our first-party clients (because the feature is implemented in client code we wrote); the underlying Account, key, and Content are not so limited.

(f) No lock-in to our Relays. You may publish to any combination of first-party and third-party Relays, including Relays you operate yourself. We will not retaliate against an Account because the Account also publishes to a third-party Relay.

(g) What this Section does not promise. We do not promise that any specific feature delivered through our first-party clients or Premium tiers will be available in third-party clients. We do not promise that third-party Relays, third-party clients, or Fork Operators will accept, retain, or rebroadcast your events. We do not waive the right to terminate access to the Services for the reasons set forth in Section 11 even though your identity remains portable to other services after termination.

(h) Successor in interest. If we discontinue the Services as a whole, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to give Consumers at least sixty (60) days' notice and the opportunity to download a full export of their data before shutdown.

9. Your Content, Public-by-Default Posting, and the License You Grant​

(a) You own your Content. As between you and JFK Social, you retain all ownership rights in your Content. We do not claim ownership of what you post.

(b) Public-by-default. Unless a specific Service feature is clearly marked as private (for example, a direct message encrypted under NIP-04 or NIP-44), assume every post is public the moment you sign and publish it. Public posts may be read, copied, embedded, indexed, archived, screenshotted, and quoted by anyone with access to a Relay carrying the event.

(c) License to JFK Social. You grant JFK Social a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, transmit, display, publicly perform, adapt for technical formats (transcoding, thumbnails, summaries), distribute, and otherwise use your Content solely for the purpose of providing, securing, troubleshooting, scaling, and improving the Services, and for the purposes specifically described in these Terms and in the companion Privacy Policy. This license terminates when you delete the Content from Relays we operate, except (i) for cached or backup copies kept for the limited period stated in the Privacy Policy and (ii) for copies that have already been received by third parties and over which we have no control.

(d) No sale of Content for third-party AI training without consent. JFK Social does not claim a license to sell or sublicense your Content to third parties for use as training data for large language models or other artificial-intelligence systems. We may use Content you post to improve internal systems that operate the Services (for example, ranking models, abuse-detection classifiers, AI Ratings classifiers, and search). We will obtain separate, opt-in consent before licensing your Content to a third party for AI model training. Public-by-default posting on Nostr does not grant such consent to JFK Social or to anyone else; what third parties do with public Nostr events outside our control is outside the scope of this Section.

(e) Feedback. If you give us feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Services, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.

(f) No compensation. Except for amounts owed to you under a separate written agreement (for example, the Rev-Shared Influencer License), you are not entitled to compensation for any Content you post.

10. Premium Plans ($19.99/month and $39.99/month) and Billing​

The Services include free features and two paid Premium Plans.

(a) Plan tiers.

  • Premium ($19.99/month). Includes (i) Verified Account badging tied to your Nostr public key, (ii) higher publishing rate limits, (iii) priority Relay access on first-party Relays we operate, (iv) advanced feed-tuning and algorithm-transparency controls, (v) longer post-history retention on first-party Relays, and (vi) reduced advertising in the feed. The exact feature list may change; we will publish the current feature list at jfksocial.com/premium.
  • Premium Plus ($39.99/month). Includes everything in Premium plus (i) extended media-upload sizes and durations, (ii) access to advanced creator tools, (iii) advanced analytics for your own posts, (iv) earliest access to new features, and (v) ad-free browsing on first-party surfaces. The exact feature list may change; we will publish the current feature list at jfksocial.com/premium.

(b) Annual prepay option. We may, at our discretion, offer a discounted annual prepay option for either plan. An annual prepay locks the price for the prepaid term. Refunds for an unused portion of an annual prepay term are governed by paragraph (i) below.

(c) Pricing and changes. The above prices are in U.S. Dollars and exclude taxes. We may change the price of any Premium Plan on at least thirty (30) days' prior notice by email or in-product notification. A price change takes effect at the start of your next billing cycle after the notice period ends. Your continued use of the Premium Plan after the price change takes effect is acceptance of the new price.

(d) Automatic renewal. Premium Plans are sold as recurring monthly subscriptions and renew automatically at the then-current price for the same billing period until you cancel. You authorize us, and our payment processor, to charge your payment method at the start of each renewal period. If you elected an annual prepay, the annual term renews automatically at the end of each annual period unless you cancel.

(e) Cancellation. You may cancel at any time through your Account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current billing period. We do not pro-rate or refund partial months except where required by Applicable Law.

(f) Free trials and promotions. A free trial or promotional period, if offered, converts automatically to a paid subscription at the standard price at the end of the trial unless you cancel before the trial ends.

(g) Failed payment. If we cannot charge your payment method, we may suspend Premium features until the balance is paid. We may, but are not required to, downgrade you to the free tier.

(h) Taxes. Prices are exclusive of sales, use, value-added, goods-and-services, and similar taxes. You are responsible for all such taxes, except for taxes on our net income.

(i) No promise of a feature. Specific Premium features may be added, modified, or removed during the term of your subscription. We will not materially reduce the overall value of the Premium Plan you purchased without offering you either (i) a pro-rated refund of the unused portion of the current billing period (or, for annual prepay, the unused full months of the annual term) or (ii) a comparable alternative.

(j) Refunds. Except as required by Applicable Law (including, for residents of certain jurisdictions, statutory rights of withdrawal during a cooling-off period), all charges are final and non-refundable.

(k) Chargebacks. Initiating a chargeback for a valid charge is a material breach of these Terms and may result in immediate termination of your Account and forfeiture of any unused subscription period.

(l) Payment processor. Premium Plan payments are processed by a third-party payment processor (currently Stripe, Inc.). Your use of the processor's services is also governed by its own terms and privacy policy.

11. Account Eligibility, Registration, and Termination​

(a) Minimum age. You must be at least thirteen (13) years old to create an Account. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Services only with the consent of a parent or guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms on your behalf. Consumers aged 13 to 17 may have additional default safety settings applied (for example, restricted exposure to sensitive Content and reduced default discoverability).

(b) Accurate information. Information you give us at registration must be accurate. You may use a pseudonym, but the underlying contact information (email or phone) must be one you actually control.

(c) One person, one Account. Except where we expressly permit otherwise, each natural person may hold one (1) Account. Operating bot, sock-puppet, or coordinated-inauthentic-behavior Accounts is a violation of Section 12. An Account clearly labeled as an automated bot using a published API key may be permitted.

(d) Your termination right. You may terminate your relationship with the Services at any time by deleting your Account through Account settings. Termination ends your Premium subscription at the end of the then-current billing period; see Section 10(e).

(e) Our termination right. We may suspend or terminate your Account, or any part of the Services available to you, at any time, with or without notice, for any reason permitted by Applicable Law, including (i) violation of these Terms or any policy referenced in them, (ii) conduct that creates legal exposure for JFK Social or its users, (iii) Account inactivity of twelve (12) consecutive months or more, or (iv) discontinuation of a feature or of the Services as a whole. Where a less severe enforcement step is reasonably available — a label, a reach reduction, a rate limit, or a temporary suspension — we generally prefer the less severe step before permanent termination, except for hard-prohibition violations under Section 6(c) and Section 12(a) where immediate termination is the default.

(f) Effect of termination. On termination we may delete Content stored on Relays and Media Servers we operate, subject to the retention rules described in the companion Privacy Policy and to any legal hold then in effect. We are not obligated to provide an export of Content that has already been deleted under the retention schedule, although we will provide a portability export on reasonable request before deletion takes effect.

(g) Survival. Sections 9(c)–(e), 10(c)–(l), 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 24 survive any termination.

12. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Conduct​

You must not, and must not attempt to:

(a) Publish, transmit, or solicit Content that depicts the sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor, or that we reasonably believe constitutes CSAM. This is an absolute prohibition with no editorial-discretion exception.

(b) Make unlawful threats of violence against an identifiable person or group; incite imminent unlawful violence; or organize or facilitate violent crime through the Services.

(c) Harass, stalk, dox (publish private personal information without consent for the purpose of facilitating harm), or impersonate another person in a way that is likely to cause harm or to deceive others to their detriment (see Section 5 for the impersonation rule and the parody / commentary exceptions).

(d) Engage in fraud, deceptive commercial practices, illegal gambling, securities fraud, money laundering, or transactions in goods or services unlawful where the transaction takes place.

(e) Distribute spam, malware, ransomware, or links designed to compromise other users; conduct phishing campaigns; or conduct unauthorized credential harvesting.

(f) Scrape, mine, or extract data from the Services using automated tools other than the published APIs, or in volumes and at rates that exceed our published technical limits.

(g) Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble any non-open-source portion of the Services except to the extent that Applicable Law expressly permits the activity notwithstanding this prohibition.

(h) Misuse our trademarks or impersonate JFK Social, our employees, or our officers.

(i) Operate coordinated inauthentic behavior, including sock-puppet networks, mass-follow exchanges, paid-engagement schemes, vote-manipulation rings, coordinated submission or rating of community notes designed to drive a label result that the community-notes algorithm would not otherwise produce, or narrative-control operations of the kind described in Section 3(g) (whether the operator is a government body, an intelligence service, a political-money operation, a corporate communications shop, a foreign influence operation, an activist faction, or any other powerful or non-powerful group).

(j) Use the Services to publish unlawful sexually explicit material involving real persons without their consent (including non-consensual intimate imagery and synthetic intimate imagery).

(k) Use the Services in any way that violates the export-control or sanctions laws of the United States.

(l) Circumvent any technical limit, rate limit, geographic restriction, age gate, sensitive-media flag, or enforcement step that we have applied to your Account.

Violations may be enforced through any combination of: Content removal, label or interstitial, distribution limit, rate limit, demonetization, Account suspension, Account termination, IP block, referral to law enforcement, and civil action.

13. Reporting Illegal Content, CSAM, and Law-Enforcement Process​

(a) Reporting CSAM and other unlawful content. Anyone may report suspected CSAM or other unlawful content through the in-product reporting flow or by emailing trust@jfksocial.com. We act on credible reports without prior notice to the reporter or to the publisher. We report CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children ("NCMEC") and to other authorities as required by Applicable Law, including 18 U.S.C. § 2258A.

(b) Designated agents. Designated agents and contact addresses for copyright (DMCA), trademark, and law-enforcement matters are listed in Section 14 and Section 24.

(c) Law-enforcement requests. Law-enforcement and judicial process should be directed to legal@jfksocial.com using the procedures described at jfksocial.com/legal. We require valid legal process for non-public Account data except in cases where Applicable Law permits or requires disclosure without process (for example, an emergency request involving imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm).

(d) Preservation. We may preserve Account data under a legal hold for the period required by the underlying legal process or the underlying obligation, even if that period exceeds the otherwise-applicable retention window in the companion Privacy Policy.

(a) DMCA notice. If you in good faith believe that Content on the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at the address below. The notice must include the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): (i) your physical or electronic signature; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (iii) identification of the allegedly infringing material with enough detail to permit us to locate it; (iv) your contact information; (v) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized; and (vi) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Designated Copyright Agent ACT 3 AI, Inc. Attn: DMCA Agent c/o the address on record with the U.S. Copyright Office's Directory of Designated Agents, available at https://www.copyright.gov/dmca-directory/ Email: copyright@jfksocial.com

(b) Counter-notification. If your Content was removed in response to a DMCA notice, you may submit a counter-notification containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

(c) Repeat-infringer policy. We maintain a repeat-infringer policy as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(i). In appropriate circumstances we will terminate the Account of a Consumer who, within any rolling twelve (12) month period, accumulates three (3) or more uncontested takedowns under valid DMCA notices, or fewer where the circumstances of the infringement are sufficiently serious (for example, large-scale commercial piracy or willful infringement). Counter-notified takedowns that are withdrawn do not count toward the strike total.

(d) Bad-faith notices and counter-notices. Submitting a knowingly false DMCA notice or counter-notice may be a violation of 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and a material breach of these Terms.

(e) Trademark. Reports of trademark infringement should be sent to trademark@jfksocial.com. We will evaluate reports against the principles in Section 5 (parody, commentary, fan accounts, and satire are not impersonation, and lawful nominative use is not infringement).

15. Third-Party Services, Cross-Network Posts, and Federated Networks​

The Services may interoperate with third-party social networks (for example, Bluesky / AT Protocol, the ActivityPub fediverse including Mastodon, and Threads). When you publish to or read from a third-party network through the Services:

(a) Your Content is transmitted to a system we do not control. Once received there, your Content is subject to the third-party network's own terms and privacy policies.

(b) We make no representation about the availability, security, accuracy, content, or moderation of any third-party network.

(c) Inbound content from third-party networks is provided "as is" and may be moderated under our rules independent of whatever the source network does with it.

(d) Your decision to enable cross-posting or third-party reading authorizes us to act as a technical conduit for those events. It does not make us a party to your relationship with any third-party network.

16. Software License Granted to You​

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, JFK Social grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the published client software made available as part of the Services for your personal, non-commercial use. We retain all other rights. This Section does not grant you any rights in the open-source or source-available components of the platform, which are licensed separately under the JFK Fork Operator License at /fork/license.

17. Warranty Disclaimers​

THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, JFK SOCIAL AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "JFK SOCIAL PARTIES") DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

THE JFK SOCIAL PARTIES MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES OR FROM A JFK SOCIAL PARTY CREATES A WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY USING THE SERVICES YOU MAY BE EXPOSED TO CONTENT THAT IS OFFENSIVE, INACCURATE, INDECENT, OBJECTIONABLE, OR OTHERWISE INAPPROPRIATE, AND YOU AGREE THAT THE JFK SOCIAL PARTIES HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR THAT CONTENT.

18. Limitation of Liability​

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE JFK SOCIAL PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT JFK SOCIAL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THE JFK SOCIAL PARTIES' TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (I) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100) OR (II) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID TO JFK SOCIAL FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

19. Indemnification​

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the JFK Social Parties from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your access to or use of the Services, (b) your Content, (c) your violation of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any rights of any third party, including any intellectual-property or privacy right.

20. Binding Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver; Small-Claims Carve-Out​

(a) Agreement to arbitrate. You and JFK Social agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services (a "Dispute") will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitrator, not any federal, state, or local court or agency, has exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the formation, interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or scope of this Section 20. Arbitration will take place in Wilmington, Delaware, or by remote hearing at your election if you reside outside Delaware.

(b) Class waiver. YOU AND JFK SOCIAL EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, AND THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE OR JOIN THE CLAIMS OF MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS.

(c) Small-claims carve-out. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction in lieu of arbitration, provided the claim remains an individual claim within that court's jurisdictional limits.

(d) Injunctive carve-out. Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual-property rights or to prevent the disclosure of confidential information pending arbitration.

(e) Pre-arbitration informal dispute resolution. Before initiating arbitration, the party with a Dispute will send a written notice describing the Dispute and the relief sought to the other party at the contact addresses in Section 24 (or, for notices to a Consumer, to the email on the Consumer's Account). The parties will engage in good-faith informal discussions for at least sixty (60) days before either party may file an arbitration demand.

(f) Thirty-day opt-out. You may opt out of this Section 20 by emailing arbitration-optout@jfksocial.com within thirty (30) days after first accepting these Terms. The email must include your full name, mailing address, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. Opting out does not affect any other provision of these Terms.

(g) Severability of class waiver. If the class-action waiver in paragraph (b) is found unenforceable in a given Dispute, that Dispute will be resolved in court rather than in arbitration, and the remainder of this Section 20 will remain in force.

21. Governing Law and Venue​

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to Section 20, any action permitted to be filed in court will be filed exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Wilmington, Delaware, and each party submits to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

22. Changes to These Terms​

We may amend these Terms at any time by posting a revised version on the Services and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top. If a change is material and adverse to you, we will give at least thirty (30) days' notice by email or in-product notification before it takes effect. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date is acceptance of the change. If you do not agree to a change, your sole remedy is to stop using the Services and cancel any Premium Plan.

23. General Provisions​

(a) Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the companion Privacy Policy and any policy expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and JFK Social regarding the Services and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject matter.

(b) Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.

(c) No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

(d) Assignment. You may not assign these Terms or any rights under them. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of substantially all of our assets.

(e) Force majeure. Neither party is liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

(f) Relationship of the parties. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint-venture, or franchise relationship between you and JFK Social.

(g) Headings. Headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation.

(h) Electronic communications and signatures. You consent to receive notices and other communications from us in electronic form, and you agree that electronic acceptance of these Terms is binding.

(i) No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms do not create any rights in any person who is not a party to them, except that the JFK Social Parties (Section 17) are intended beneficiaries of Sections 17, 18, and 19.

24. Contact and Notices​

Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your Account or posted in-product. Notices to us must be sent to legal@jfksocial.com and, if a hard copy is required by Applicable Law, also to the mailing address above.

25. Source Code Repositories​

The Services are built on a source-available codebase that JFK Social publishes on GitHub. A Consumer who wishes to inspect the code that runs the Services, or to understand the protocols by which the Services interoperate with the Nostr network, may obtain it from the canonical repositories listed below.

These repositories are the authoritative source of the Software for purposes of these Terms. If JFK Social moves or supersedes any of them, the new canonical location will be published on jfksocial.com and in the prior repository's README. The license granted to you in Section 16 governs your use of the published client software made available as part of the Services; it does not enlarge the open-source or source-available rights described in the repositories themselves, which are governed by the licenses set forth in each repository and, for operators who run their own social network using the code, by the JFK Fork Operator License referenced in Section 26.

JFK Social maintains three companion legal documents. This Consumer (JFKSocial.com User) document applies to end users of the consumer Services. The two complementary documents are:

  • Rev-Shared Influencers License — /influencers/license. Governs persons who refer paying users to JFK Social under our influencer rev-share program.
  • JFK Fork Operator License — /fork/license. Governs operators who run their own social network using our source-available code and brand.

Companion Privacy Policies for the documents above:

The Privacy Policy that pairs with this Consumer Terms of Service is: