disabled.social Terms of Service

Here, administrators refers to the technical team that handles the server, the instance, and the cybersecurity. Moderators refers to the team that moderates behavior across the instance for abuse, bullying, harrassment, intimidation, and/or discrimination.

It is our intention that you use this service for personal enjoyment and respectful, friendly interaction. To that end, we hope to foster a welcoming, inclusive, and safe environment.

The server is privately owned and open to users voluntarily, it is not a public space. Users wishing to join this community are expected to act without malice and in good faith. Doing otherwise may lead to removal from the service, independent of whether a user violates any rules outlined below.

The administrators of this instance are: @McCullohMD and @PanickedFoodie.

The moderators of this instance are: TBD

The following statements apply regardless of privacy level and instance of the users involved. In rare cases, public or private offline conduct or conduct on a separate instance may constitute grounds for removal from the service.

On disabled.social, a moderation team is constantly monitoring the instance for signs of abuse, bullying, harrassment, intimidation, and/or discrimination. Unfortunately, their eyes cannot be everywhere all at once. Offensive behavior should be reported to the contact email address, and the behavior will be reviewed by the moderation team. In the event that action needs to be taken, the offender will be notified of the action being taken and why. If backend service is needed to complete the action, the administrators will carry that out.

Policies and Rules

Our instance is subject to a set of rules governing user behavior. The rules are always visible on our about page.

These rules are designed to maintain a friendly and open atmosphere, and to prevent harassment, intimidation, and discrimination. As such, they are a set of guidelines, but by necessity incomplete. Users violating the spirit of these rules will be treated no differently than users violating a specific rule.

Please note that our rules contain a section on best practices. Users who repeatedly disregard these best practices and ignore warnings, may be seen to be in violation of our rules.

The administrators may remove accounts who spam the instance, or are suspected of camping just to reserve an account name. Violation of the policies and rules may also lead to account removal at the discretion of the administrators.

Data Access

Content on this instance must not be used for the purposes of machine learning or other "research" purposes without the explicit consent of the users involved.

Content on this instance beyond this page must not be archived or indexed wholesale by automated means by any user or service. Active users may export their following lists and posts through the export provided on their settings page, or the API.

disabled.social Privacy Policy

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at mastmd@cmdoms.com.

At disabled.social we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information that is collected and recorded by disabled.social and might be transmitted across Mastodon.

Information collection

• Mandatory account information: Username (always public), e-mail address, and password.
• Optional account information: Display name, biography, profile information fields, profile picture, and header image. Display name, biography, profile picture and header image will always be public.
• Statuses and interactions: We retain all your posts including attachments, and other interactions (such as favourites, follows and reblogs). In addition to the content and people involved, we also store the timestamps for all of the listed data entries. If these interactions impact another server (eg. following, boosting, or messaging a user on a different server), this other server will receive all required information. Public, unlisted, and pinned posts are available publicly. Follower-only posts are available to your followers, and direct messages are available to you and all people mentioned in the message. Please note that since we cannot control other servers, this means that we cannot guarantee the privacy status of your messages as soon as they leave our server.
• Cookies: We use cookies to keep you logged in and save your preferences for future visits.
• Other metadata: We do not log or store your IP address as a rule. Exceptions will be made when we actively search for errors. Once we have finished the search for errors, collected IP addresses will be deleted. We retain the name of your browser application to allow you to review your currently logged in sessions for security reasons.
• DMs: Like all other social media services, there is no end-to-end encryption for DMs on Mastodon. The server we have set up communicates across TLS, so the communications are encrypted on our server. But the content on the Mastodon site itself is not encrypted. The only way to ensure this, is if a developer uses the API to make a custom client. Users are advised to take this into consideration, and might want to consider using other forms of communication that do offer E2E encryption such as Signal.

Information usage

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

• To provide the core functionality of Mastodon. You can only interact with other people's content and post your own content when you are logged in. For example, you may follow other people to view their combined posts in your own personalized home timeline.
• To aid moderation of the community – when a status or account is reported, we will look into the matter as part of our moderation tasks.
• The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

Information protection

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with HTTPS, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.

Information deletion and retention

You can request and download an archive of your content, including your posts, media attachments, profile picture, and header image.

You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.

If we judge you to be breaking our instance rules, we may irreversibly delete your account at any time.

Information disclosure

Information is not disclosed unless you explicitly permit it. The only exception is the provider of our server, who is a trusted and unavoidable third party.

Contacting or permitting contact from a user from a different instance implies your consent that the required data is shared with the server in question.

Authorization of a third-party application grants information access depending on the scope of permissions you approve. The application may access your public profile information, your following list, your followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favorites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.

Changes to this privacy policy

disabled.social has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Consent

By using our server, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our server. Your continued use of the server following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: mastmd@cmdoms.com.

Update

This privacy policy was last updated on: November 8, 2022

Attribution

These terms of service and privacy policy were inspired by those of chaos.social. Thank you!