ForkTails

Terms of Service

Effective date: July 4, 2026

ForkTails is a collaborative storytelling platform operated by CronoWare LLC. By creating an account or posting content, you agree to these terms. Questions? Email [email protected].

Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use ForkTails. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use ForkTails only with a parent or guardian's permission.

Your writing, your ownership

You own the story turns, premises, and comments you write. By posting them, you grant CronoWare LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, and distribute that content as part of the platform. Because stories are collaborative, turns are immutable once submitted: other writers build on them, so a submitted turn cannot be edited, and if you delete your account your turns remain in the story in anonymized form (see the Privacy Policy).

Community guidelines

ForkTails is for fiction, and fiction can be dark — mature themes, conflict, and villains are welcome. The following are not, whether in stories, comments, or display names:

  • Sexual content involving minors, in any framing.
  • Hate speech or slurs targeting protected groups.
  • Harassment, threats, or doxxing of real people — including other ForkTails users.
  • Pornographic or sexually explicit material.
  • Content that meaningfully facilitates serious real-world harm.
  • Spam, advertising, or deliberately meaningless contributions.

Moderation and enforcement

Submissions are automatically screened against these guidelines before they are accepted, and any user can report a story, turn, or comment. We may remove content, restrict features, or suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms. You can also block another user, which hides their comments from you; because stories are collaborative, blocking does not remove a user's story turns, which are governed by moderation and reports instead.

Acceptable use

  • Don't attempt to break, overload, or circumvent the platform's security or rate limits.
  • Don't impersonate other people, platform staff, or system accounts.
  • Don't post content you don't have the right to post.

Termination

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (content licenses for collaborative turns, disclaimers, limitations of liability) survive.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

ForkTails is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. Stories are user-generated fiction and do not represent the views of CronoWare LLC. To the maximum extent permitted by law, CronoWare LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the platform, and our total liability for any claim is limited to $100 or the amount you paid us in the past 12 months, whichever is greater.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced on the site, and continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.