Terms of Use (19th September 2025)

Introduction

These terms of service (the “Terms") cover your access and use of Server Operator’s ("Administrator”, “we”, or “us") instance, located at bookwyr.me (the “Instance"). These Terms apply solely to your use of the Instance as operated by the Administrator. Please note that we have no affiliation with the PieFed project (“PieFed”) and these Terms do not contain any representations or warranties or other promises from the PieFed developers and creators about your use of the Instance. If you would like to contact us for any reason, please direct all questions, comments, concerns, and notices to us by following the instructions provided in the Notice section below.

Important Notice Regarding UK and France Access with respect to the UK’s Online Safety Act and France’s Sécurité et Régulation de l’Espace Numérique Act

Please be aware that due to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) and France’s Sécurité et Régulation de l’Espace Numérique Act (SREN), people logging in with IP addresses from the UK and France will be restricted from accessing NSFW communities.

While our platform does not directly host NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content, we understand that our members may link to or access such content elsewhere, including external sites that host hardcore pornography. Our current terms of service require users to be at least 16 years old per the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

However, both the UK OSA and French SREN Act apply to services accessible from the UK and France that facilitate access to or make available content like pornography. These laws mandate that we implement highly effective age verification procedures to prevent access to such content for any UK or France user who cannot provide proof that they are 18 years or older. Furthermore, the French SREN Act includes stringent privacy requirements for age verification methods, demanding “double anonymity.”

Complying with these specific technical, logistical, and privacy demands is not feasible for our service at this time which is why we chose to simply block access to NSFW communities to those who appear to be residing in either country.

Age Requirements and Responsibility of Parents and Legal Guardians

By accessing the Instance, you signify that you are at least 16 years old and that you meet the minimum age required by the laws in your country. If you are old enough to access the Instance in your country but are not old enough to have the legal authority to consent to our Terms, please ask your parent or legal guardian to read these Terms with you, as they must agree to the Terms on your behalf. If you are a parent or legal guardian who has accepted these terms on your child’s behalf, these terms apply to you, and you are responsible for your child’s activities on the Instance.

Prohibited Uses

You are fully responsible for your activities while using the Instance, including any content, information, or other materials you post or upload to the Instance, and you bear all risks associated with use of the Instance. By agreeing to these Terms, you agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations at your place of access to the Instance. You also agree not to use the Instance to engage in any prohibited conduct or to assist any other person or entity in engaging in any prohibited conduct.

We reserve the right (but do not have the obligation) in our sole discretion to: (1) monitor the Instance for violations of these Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who uses or accesses the Instance in a manner that we believe violates the law or these Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities; (3) deny access to the Instance or any features of the Instance to anyone who violates these Terms or who we believe interferes with the ability of others to enjoy our Instance or infringes the rights of others; and (4) otherwise manage the Instance in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Instance.

You are prohibited from using the Instance for the commission of harmful or illegal activities. Accordingly, you may not, or assist any other person to (or attempt to):

Violate these Terms or other policies and terms posted on, or otherwise applicable to, the Instance;
Upload any material, program, or software that contains any virus, worm, spyware, Trojan horse or other program or code designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of the Instance, launch a denial-of-service attack, or in any other way attempt to interfere with the functioning and availability of the Instance;
Use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including, without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, offline reader, or any data mining or similar data gathering extraction tools to access the Instance, except in each case as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser and local caching or for human review and interaction with Content on the Instance;
Use or launch any unauthorized script or other software;
Interfere with, disable, vandalize, or disrupt the Instance or servers or networks connected to the Instance;
Hack into, penetrate, disable, or otherwise circumvent the security measures of the Instance or servers or networks connected to the Instance;
Otherwise use the Instance in any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.

Intellectual Property

The Instance contains content provided by its users, including you, such as text, photos, videos, audio, links, and streams (“Content”). When you submit Content to the Instance, you represent and warrant that you have all of the rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to the Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for the Content that you submit to the Instance, you may expose yourself to liability from third parties if you post or share such Content without all necessary rights.

You retain all ownership rights you have in the Content that you submit to the Instance, but you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, copy, store, display, share, distribute, communicate, and transfer the Content in ways that are consistent with your use of the Instance. To the fullest extent possible, you agree to waive or promise not to assert against the Administrator all moral rights you may have in the Content to the extent those rights are necessary for the Administrator to host the Content on the Instance.

DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice

We have implemented the procedures described in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512 , regarding the reporting of alleged copyright infringement and the removal of or disabling access to infringing material. If you have a good faith belief that copyrighted material on the Instance is being used in a way that infringes a copyright over which you are authorized to act, you may make a Notice of Infringing Material. If you have a good faith belief that copyrighted material that was removed or access to which was disabled was a result of a mistake or misidentification, then you may make a Notice of Counter-Notification.

Before serving a Notice of Infringing Material or Counter-Notification, you may wish to contact a lawyer to better understand your rights and obligations under the DMCA and other applicable laws. For example, if your Notice or Counter-Notifications fails to comply with all requirements of sections 512(c)(3) or 512(g)(3), respectively, your Notice or Counter-Notification may not be effective.
Termination of Repeat Infringers

We will terminate or disable your use of the Instance in appropriate circumstances if you are deemed by us to be a repeat copyright infringer

Notices and Counter-Notifications must be sent to:

Email: contact@bookwyr.me

Disclaimer

Administrator reserves the right in our sole discretion to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Instance (or any part thereof) with or without notice to you. You agree that Administrator will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification or discontinuance of the Instance, except as set forth in the “Limitation of Liability” section below.

You understand that we are not responsible for any activities or legal consequences of your use of the Instance. Users are responsible for using the Instance in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations of the jurisdictions in which such users are domiciled, reside, or are located at the time of such access or use, as well as these Terms. Any violation of these Terms may result in the suspension or termination by us, in our sole discretion, of your access to and use of the Instance.

Limitation of Liability

In no event will Administrator’s total liability to you for all damages, losses, or causes of action exceed one hundred dollars ($100). If you are dissatisfied with the Instance or with these Terms, your sole remedy is to discontinue your use of the Instance.

Links to and From Other Websites

You may gain access to other websites and Instances via links on the Instance. These Terms apply to the Instance only and do not apply to PieFed, other Instances, or other parties’ websites. Similarly, you may have come to the Instance via a link from another website or Instance. The terms of use of other websites and Instances do not apply to the Instance. Administrator assumes no responsibility for any terms of use or material outside the Instance accessed via any link. You are free to establish a hypertext link to the Instance so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your website, instance or service by Administrator or the Instance. Unless expressly agreed to by us in writing, reference to any of our products, services, processes, or other information by trade name, trademark, logo, or otherwise by you or any third party does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation thereof by us. You may not, without our prior written permission, scrape the Instance or incorporate into another website or other service any of our material, content, or intellectual property, unless you are otherwise permitted by us to do so in accordance with a license or subject to separate terms.

Waiver and Severability

If you do not comply with a portion of these Terms and we do not take action right away, this does not mean we are giving up any of our rights under these Terms. If any part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator, the remainder of the Terms shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Notices

All notices to Administrator under these Terms, unless otherwise specified shall be sent to contact@bookwyr.me. Service of any notice will be deemed given on the date of receipt delivered by email.
Changes to these Terms

We may change or modify these Terms by posting a revised version on the Instance, or by otherwise providing notice to you, and will state at the top of the revised Terms the date they were last revised. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no earlier than fourteen (14) calendar days after they are posted, except for changes addressing changes made for legal reasons, which will be effective immediately. Your continued use of the Instance after any change means you agree to the new Terms.