Terms of use.

Ingle is a small, slow, trust-graph social platform. Be honest about who you are. Don't post illegal things, hate, or harassment. Your words are yours and you're responsible for them. If you break these rules in a serious way we can remove the content or the account.

One account per person. Your handle is stable once set and should represent you — not impersonate someone else, not squat on a brand, not pretend to be a bot pretending to be a human. If you sell or transfer an account we'll lock it.

You keep ownership of everything you post. You grant Ingle a non-exclusive licence to store, display, and transmit it as part of running the service — that's it. You can delete your content and your account at any time.

Letters are private correspondence on a delay: between you and the people you address, sealed until the delivery time you chose. We treat letter bodies the same way we treat 1:1 DMs — they're encrypted at rest, operators don't read them, and they're only disclosed under valid legal process. Delivery metadata (recipient, seal, delivery timestamp) is needed to run the service. Once a letter is delivered it becomes a normal private thread and its words stand; before delivery you can edit or cancel it. Deleting your account cancels any letters you've queued but not yet delivered.

When you dedicate a post to another member (“for @asha”), their name is rendered publicly on that post. Only dedicate to people you trust to stand next to the content. Recipients can unwind a dedication from their profile at any time.

Some actions on Ingle are deliberately non-reversible: once a vouch is placed it becomes a public signal (you can withdraw but not hide that one once existed); endorsements you place stay placed unless the author edits the post; a last word closes a thread permanently; a delivered letter cannot be unsent. Think before you act — meaning is rationed on purpose.

Each tribe has a founding moderator who sets tribe-level rules above these. Platform rules always apply on top. Moderators can remove posts, decline membership, and eject members from their tribe. In Slow Rooms the founder additionally controls the release schedule (what opens when) and can leave a final last word to close the series. We can step in on appeals or obvious abuse.

Ingle runs best-effort. We don't promise uptime, data permanence, or that any specific feature will keep existing. You won't hold us liable for lost data, lost time, or anything that follows from using the service. Where local law doesn't allow a full disclaimer, this clause narrows to whatever the law permits.

You can leave whenever — settings → delete account. Deleting your account removes your posts, letters, gifts you dedicated, and anything else you own; queued-but-undelivered letters are cancelled in the process, so the people you'd addressed them to never see them. We can suspend or end an account that breaks these terms, or wind the service down with reasonable notice.

We'll change these as Ingle evolves. Material changes get a banner on the site and an email. Continuing to use Ingle after a change means you accept it.

Questions, DMCA-ish takedowns, or anything else: hello@ingle.social.