Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: September 1, 2026
Last reviewed: September 1, 2026
Supersedes: version effective August 12, 2026

1. Scope and Relationship to Other Terms

This Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") governs all content, conduct, and commercial activity on the wanderdriven website, mobile application, and related services (the "Service"), operated by Wanderdriven Inc.

This Policy is incorporated by reference into the Terms of Service and applies to every user, organization, and visitor. Where this Policy and the Terms of Service conflict on a question of permitted content or conduct, this Policy controls.

This Policy applies to:

all content you upload, create, store, transmit, or display through the Service, whether Legacy, Discovery, or Premium, and whether public, private, or scheduled for future release;
all content held in Legacy collections, including tributes, time vaults, bucket lists, succession stories, and inherited archives;
your account profile, handle, display name, avatar, and biographical information;
messages, comments, and other communications with other users;
content produced with the assistance of Smart Story Builds under section 6.5 of the Terms of Service;
your use of any wanderdriven earning, payout, attribution, subscription, or other monetization feature; and
content you link to or direct other users toward, including off-platform destinations.

Content stored privately or scheduled for posthumous release is not exempt from this Policy. Deferred visibility does not change what may lawfully be stored on our systems.

2. Prohibited Content and Conduct

The following are prohibited on the Service. This list is not exhaustive; we may act on content or conduct that violates the spirit of this Policy even where it is not specifically enumerated.

Content prohibited by this section is removed, not rated. No content rating under section 16.2 of the Terms of Service makes prohibited content available on the Service.

2.1 Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and Child Exploitation

We have zero tolerance for content that sexually exploits or endangers minors. For the purposes of this section, a minor is any person under 18 years of age, regardless of the age of consent or age of majority in any jurisdiction.

You must not upload, store, transmit, request, or link to:

child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in any form, whether photographic, illustrated, computer-generated, or AI-generated;
content that sexualizes a minor, including sexualized depictions, captions, hashtags, or commentary applied to otherwise ordinary images of minors;
content that solicits, facilitates, or coordinates sexual contact with a minor, or that provides instruction for grooming, coercing, or isolating a minor; or
content that depicts non-sexual physical or emotional abuse of a minor for the purpose of glorification, entertainment, or shock.

Our detection controls for this category are described in section 2.5. We report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and, where applicable, to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and other competent authorities, as required by law. We preserve associated account and content records for law enforcement as permitted or required.

Accounts found to have uploaded CSAM are terminated immediately and permanently, without prior notice, and all pending earnings are withheld pending investigation. Terminated users may not open a new account. We preserve the contents of any report, and associated account and content records, for the period required by law and for as long as necessary to support an investigation.

Ordinary family photographs are not prohibited. wanderdriven exists to preserve family history, and images of children in non-sexual family contexts — birthdays, holidays, school events, bath time in a genuine family album context, breastfeeding, medical documentation — are a legitimate and expected part of the Service. What is prohibited is sexualization, not the presence of a child.

2.2 Adult Content and Services

You must not use the Service to publish, store, distribute, promote, or monetize:

pornography, or any depiction of explicit sexual acts, whether real, simulated, illustrated, computer-generated, or AI-generated;
nudity or partial nudity presented for sexual gratification, including subscriber-only, paywalled, or premium nude imagery;
adult live-streaming, adult audio or video chat, camming, or any real-time adult performance service;
sexual solicitation, escort services, prostitution, or the arrangement of commercial sexual encounters, including offers, requests, or methods of contact for such encounters;
fetish content, sexual services, or adult products and merchandise;
links, handles, QR codes, geo-tags, or attribution links directing users to off-platform adult content, adult subscription platforms, or adult services; or
intimate imagery published without the depicted person's consent, including so-called "revenge pornography" and sexualized synthetic media (deepfakes) of any identifiable person.

Written and narrated content. These prohibitions apply to written text and audio narration as well as to images and video. You must not publish written or narrated content that describes sexual acts explicitly, or that is written in a manner intended to cause sexual arousal, including erotica and sexual fan fiction, whether or not it is accompanied by imagery.

Non-explicit references to romance, marriage, intimacy, or sexual experience within a memoir, family history, or testimonial account are permitted. The distinction is explicitness and purpose: a life story may record that something happened; it may not describe it in graphic detail or exist to arouse.

Narrow exceptions. Because wanderdriven preserves personal and family history, the following are permitted where they are non-sexual in presentation and genuinely serve a documentary, medical, memorial, or artistic purpose:

birth, breastfeeding, and post-partum documentation;
medical documentation, including surgical scars, mastectomy, illness progression, and end-of-life imagery;
documentation of historical or cultural practice, including cultural dress and customary body exposure;
fine art, including nude figure drawing, painting, and sculpture held as part of a personal or family collection; and
documentation of sexual violence shared by a survivor in a testimonial or memorial context, provided it is not graphic.

These exceptions are narrow, but content that falls within them is permitted content, not tolerated content. It is rated according to what it is under section 16.2 of the Terms of Service — birth and breastfeeding documentation and cultural dress are ordinarily WD-G; nude fine art and medical documentation are ordinarily WD-13 — and it may be published as Premium on the same terms as any other work. A detector registering nudity does not make a sculpture, a birth photograph, or a mastectomy record into adult content.

2.3 Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights

You must not upload, store, distribute, or monetize content that infringes any third party's copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, right of publicity, moral rights, or other proprietary right. This includes:

copyright-infringing material, including leaked or unreleased music, film, television, books, photographs, or software;
commercially produced music, film, or television used as a soundtrack, background, or accompaniment to your content without a license or other legally valid basis;
photographs, video, artwork, or written work created by another person and presented as your own;
counterfeit goods, replicas, or pirated digital products, or the promotion or sale of them;
unauthorized use of third-party trademarks, logos, or brand assets, including in handles, display names, or organization profiles; and
use of another person's name, image, likeness, or voice for commercial purposes without that person's permission, including synthetic recreations.

Family archives and inherited material. Legacy collections routinely contain photographs, letters, recordings, and documents that a user did not personally create. Uploading such material for private preservation or family sharing is permitted where you have a good-faith basis to believe you hold the rights, have inherited them, or that the material is in the public domain. You must have clear rights to any content you publish as Discovery or Premium. Where rights are uncertain, keep the content in a Legacy collection.

Notice and takedown. We respond to copyright notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) and comparable law. Our Designated Copyright Agent and the notice and counter-notice procedures are set out in our DMCA / Copyright Policy.

Repeat infringers. We have adopted and reasonably implemented a policy under which we terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright. Accounts subject to three substantiated infringement notices within any twelve-month period are terminated. We may terminate immediately, without accumulation, in cases of severe or willful infringement.

2.4 Violent Extremism, Terrorism, and Hate Speech

You must not use the Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, celebrate, or provide material support for:

terrorism, violent extremism, or organized violence;
unlawful violence or physical harm against any person, group, or property;
hateful ideologies, or the activities, symbols, recruitment materials, manifestos, or representation of hateful or violent extremist organizations; or
mass violence, including glorification of perpetrators of mass casualty attacks, hate crimes, or genocide.

You must not use the Service to attack, threaten, dehumanize, degrade, or incite violence, exclusion, or discrimination against any person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, religion, caste, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, serious disease, age, or any other protected or immutable characteristic. This includes slurs, dehumanizing comparisons, hateful stereotypes, and calls for segregation or exclusion.

Historical and testimonial documentation is permitted and protected. wanderdriven exists in significant part to preserve testimony about atrocity, war, persecution, displacement, and political violence. The following are expressly permitted:

survivor and witness testimony, including Holocaust, genocide, residential school, internment, and refugee accounts;
military service records, war photography, and conflict documentation;
family history that includes ancestors' participation in historical violence, including where that participation is documented without endorsement;
historical documents, correspondence, propaganda, and artifacts preserved for archival, educational, genealogical, or memorial purposes, where the archival intent is evident from context; and
condemnation, news reporting, academic analysis, and satire.

The distinction is glorification versus documentation. Preserving a grandfather's wartime letters is documentation. Presenting extremist material approvingly, stripped of context, or as recruitment or celebration is not, regardless of any claimed family connection.

Reporting and preservation. Where we identify a credible threat of violence against a specific person or group, or content that appears to constitute material support for terrorism or violent extremism, we report the matter to law enforcement or another competent authority, and we preserve the associated account and content records for the period required by law and for as long as necessary to support an investigation. This applies whether or not the account is terminated, and it applies to content in any state, including content that was never published.

Designation. References in this Policy and in the Terms of Service to a designated terrorist or violent extremist organization mean an organization designated as such by a competent national or international authority, including the sanctions and terrorist-entity lists maintained by the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United Nations.

Content permitted under this section is rated according to what it is under section 16.2 of the Terms of Service. Service records, war photography, and archival documents and correspondence containing period language or historical symbols are ordinarily WD-13. WD-A is applied where the material is graphic — detailed injury, gore, or explicit imagery of death. Permitted content under this section may be published as Premium on the same terms as any other work, subject to the rights requirements in section 3.2. A preserved document containing a slur is a record, not hate speech.

2.5 How We Detect and Prevent Prohibited Content

We do not rely on user reports alone. Automated detection runs against content uploaded to the Service, and detected content is withheld from publication pending review.

Scanning is not conditional on publication. Child sexual abuse material scanning runs on every file at the point of upload, whatever the content's category or state and whether or not it is ever published. The remaining controls described below run before content becomes visible to anyone beyond its creator.

Child sexual abuse material. Every image and video is scanned on upload, against known-CSAM hash databases maintained by recognized child protection organizations. This happens before and independently of publication, and it applies to content in every state — draft, private, Legacy, shared, published, and archived. Content that is never published is scanned exactly the same way as content that is. Matching content is blocked, the account is terminated immediately and permanently, and we report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection as required by law. Associated account and content records are preserved for law enforcement.

Matched content is not viewed by our staff. A hash match identifies material already classified by a child protection organization, so no further human assessment is required or performed. Enforcement follows from the match itself. Where a user believes a match was made in error, the appeal route in section 5.4 applies and is handled through the relevant child protection organization and our counsel rather than by internal review of the content.

Sexual content. Uploaded images, video, text, and narration are scanned for explicit nudity, sexual activity, and sexual language. Content flagged in this category is withheld from publication pending human review. It is then either removed as prohibited under section 2.2, or released at the rating its substance warrants where it falls within a narrow exception. It is not published unreviewed.
Hate speech and extremism. Uploaded content is scanned for hate symbols, extremist iconography, and hateful speech. Content flagged in this category is withheld from publication pending human review. It is then either removed as prohibited under section 2.4, or released at the rating its substance warrants where it is archival, testimonial, or documentary. It is not published unreviewed.
Violence. Uploaded images and video are scanned for graphic violence and gore. Flagged content is withheld pending human review and is either removed or rated.

Child sexual abuse material is handled differently from every other category. A hash match is a match against material already classified as CSAM by a child protection organization; the classification has already been made and there is nothing left to judge. Matched content is blocked, reported, and preserved. It has no review path, no rating, and no route to publication. Every other category below is withheld and reviewed, because a detector alone cannot tell a record from a violation.

Detection is not classification. An automated scanner reports that a category was present. It cannot distinguish a sculpture from pornography, a war memorial from a recruitment poster, or a surgical photograph from an assault. For that reason a detection signal never sets a rating on its own. Review answers two questions in order: whether the content is prohibited, and if it is not, what rating its substance warrants under section 16.2 of the Terms of Service. Most content released after review is rated WD-G or WD-13.

Account-level controls. Detection signals are applied at the account level as well as to individual items. An account under review is prevented from publishing to public surfaces and from earning through any monetization feature while the review is open.

Hash-based child sexual abuse material scanning operates on images and video. Written solicitation and grooming conduct is prohibited under section 2.1 and is actioned on report under section 4 and on the written-content screening described above.

We do not publish the identity of our detection providers, the thresholds we apply, or the specific signals we use, as doing so would assist attempts to evade them. We will disclose this information to regulators, law enforcement, payment partners, and child protection organizations on request.

Automated detection is not a substitute for human judgment, and no system detects every violation. Content that passes automated screening remains subject to this Policy, to user reporting under section 4, and to removal under section 5.

2.6 Youth Accounts

The Service permits read-only youth accounts for individuals aged 13 to 17, as set out in section 2.2 of the Terms of Service. In addition to everything else in this Policy:

Youth accounts may not create, publish, or upload content, may not interact publicly, may not purchase content of any kind, and may not participate in any earning or monetization feature.
Youth accounts may read content rated WD-G and WD-13. WD-A content is withheld, except under a family permission granted under section 16.3 of the Terms of Service.
You must not assist a person under 18 to circumvent these restrictions, including by sharing adult account credentials, purchasing content on their behalf in a manner that circumvents the purchase bar, publishing content on their behalf in a way that misrepresents its authorship, or coaching them to misstate their age.
You must not use the Service to contact, solicit, groom, isolate, or pressure a person under 18, or to direct a person under 18 to contact you off the Service.
You must not misstate your own age to obtain access to an account type or to content you are not eligible for.

Accounts found to be circumventing youth account restrictions in a manner that places a minor at risk are terminated.

2.7 Other Prohibited Content and Conduct

You must not:

violate any applicable law or regulation, or promote, facilitate, or provide instruction for illegal activity;
publish graphic violence, gore, or shocking imagery for its own sake, or content depicting the death, injury, or remains of an identifiable person without the consent of that person's family;
promote, glorify, or provide instruction for suicide, self-harm, or disordered eating;
harass, bully, threaten, stalk, or intentionally distress any person, including a deceased person's surviving family;
publish another person's private information without consent, including home addresses, government identification numbers, financial account details, medical records, or precise real-time location;
impersonate any person, living or deceased, or misrepresent your relationship to a person, family, organization, or estate;
fabricate testimony, records, or provenance, or present synthetic or AI-generated media as authentic historical record without disclosure. This applies to generated images, audio, video, and documents. It does not apply to assisted composition of your own written work under section 6.5 of the Terms of Service;
upload malware, exploit code, or otherwise attempt to compromise the Service or its users;
scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract content or user data without our written consent;
promote or facilitate the trade of regulated goods, including firearms, ammunition, explosives, controlled substances, prescription pharmaceuticals, tobacco, human remains, human organs, or endangered species;
promote gambling, cryptocurrency schemes, pyramid or Ponzi schemes, get-rich-quick programs, or other financial schemes;
use the Service, or any payment, payout, subscription, or earning feature, to send or receive money between users for any purpose other than the purchase of Premium content offered through the Service; to transfer funds on behalf of another person; or to solicit payment outside the Service's payment flows;
publish spam, engage in coordinated inauthentic behavior, or artificially inflate engagement, followers, views, or attribution; or
use the Service to make content available that you know or should know you do not have the right to make available.

3. Monetization

Content that generates revenue is held to a higher standard than content that does not. Meeting the requirements of section 2 makes content permissible on wanderdriven; it does not make that content eligible to earn.

wanderdriven operates three separate earning streams, and they have different eligibility rules. Sections 3.1 to 3.3 govern Premium content. Section 3.4 governs Ripple Tier Attribution. Section 3.8 governs Print earnings. Sections 3.5 and 3.6 apply to all three.

Legacy and Discovery content is free to read and does not earn on digital sale under section 3.1 of the Terms of Service. Printed editions of Discovery arcs may earn under section 3.8. Printed Legacy editions do not earn.

3.1 Content Ineligible to Be Published as Premium

The following may not be published as Premium under any circumstances:

any content prohibited by sections 2.1 through 2.7;
adult services, adult live-streaming, adult chat, or any sexual service, whether delivered on or off the Service;
content infringing intellectual property or proprietary rights, or content whose rights position is unverified or disputed; and
content depicting or promoting regulated goods, gambling, or financial schemes.

A content rating never makes content ineligible. The test is whether content is permitted under section 2, not what it is rated. Nude fine art, birth and medical documentation, war photography, archival material containing period language, graphic historical violence, and survivor testimony are all permitted content and may all be published as Premium, subject to section 3.2. The rule is simply this: if it may be on the Service, it may be sold — provided you hold the rights to it.

Arcs are assessed as a whole. Because Premium content is sold as story arcs, an arc is ineligible where any story within it falls within the categories above. Adding an ineligible story to an existing Premium arc makes the arc ineligible and suspends further sale, and the arc's rating rises to the highest rating of any story it contains under section 16.2 of the Terms of Service.

3.2 Rights and Originality

You may only publish as Premium content that you created, that you were directly involved in creating, or for which you hold documented rights or a documented inheritance or estate authority. Content produced with the assistance of Smart Story Builds from your own material qualifies as content you created.

You may not publish as Premium:

content copied or reproduced from another creator, platform, or source without meaningful original contribution;
compilations, reposts, or automated aggregations; or
family or inherited material where your rights to commercialize it are unverified.

3.3 Premium Publishing Requirements

To publish Premium content and receive earnings under section 14.2 of the Terms of Service, you must hold:

an active subscription;
an adult account under section 2.1 of the Terms of Service;
completed age verification under section 16.4 of the Terms of Service; and
completed identity verification and valid payment details.

Premium arcs are subject to the minimum price published on the Service. No maximum price applies.

3.4 Ripple Tier Attribution Eligibility

Participation in Ripple Tier Attribution Earnings requires an adult account, completed age and identity verification, and an account in good standing. A subscription is not required.

Attribution arises only where a referred person independently purchases a paid subscription and receives the service, and is capped at three annual payments per referred person under section 14.3 of the Terms of Service. Shares credited before you meet the membership requirement are held and expire as set out under Holding and expiry in section 14.4 of the Terms of Service and in the Ripple Tier Attribution Earnings Policy.

3.5 Account Standing and Attribution Integrity

The following will result in withheld or reversed earnings across all three streams, and may result in permanent removal from earning features:

self-attribution, circular attribution, or attribution of accounts you control;
automated, incentivized, purchased, or fraudulently generated signups;
purchasing your own Premium content, or arranging for it to be purchased in order to inflate earnings;
misrepresentation of identity, age, organizational status, or tax status;
undisclosed paid promotion or undisclosed commercial relationships; or
any attempt to manipulate attribution, purchase volume, payout calculation, or the attribution system.

Earnings attributable to content removed under section 8.2 of the Privacy Policy are reversed. The treatment of earnings where content is removed under sections 8.5 and 8.6 of that Policy is set out in section 14.2 of the Terms of Service.

3.6 Promotion of Attribution Links

Attribution earnings arise only where a referred person independently purchases a paid subscription and receives the service. When promoting the Service or sharing an attribution link, you must not:

state, imply, or project any level of income, earnings, or return;
present the Service as an income opportunity, business opportunity, investment, or source of passive income;
claim that earnings are guaranteed, automatic, or achievable without a referred person purchasing a subscription;
misrepresent the Service, its features, its pricing, its earning caps, or its availability;
use unsolicited bulk messaging, purchased traffic, incentivized signups, bot-generated signups, or automated distribution tools;
run paid advertising that references wanderdriven earnings;
recruit participants into the program as an activity separate from sharing the Service itself;
represent yourself as an employee, agent, or authorized representative of wanderdriven; or
fail to disclose a material connection to wanderdriven where disclosure is required by applicable law, including the United States Federal Trade Commission's endorsement guidelines.

Breach of this section will result in withheld or reversed earnings and may result in removal from earning features and account suspension.

3.7 Organizational Accounts

Organizations participating in earning features must additionally maintain valid registration documentation and comply with this Policy across all content published under the organizational account, including content published by authorized representatives.

Organizations are subject to the same enforcement, appeal, and content-preservation provisions in section 5 as individual accounts. The treatment of an organization's earnings and archives on dissolution, loss of status, or termination is set out in section 14.5 of the Terms of Service.

3.8 Print Earnings Eligibility

Print earnings under section 14.9 of the Terms of Service arise only on reader orders of Discovery or Premium printed editions. A paid subscription is not required to earn. To receive print earnings you must hold:

an adult account under section 2.1 of the Terms of Service;
completed age verification under section 16.4 of the Terms of Service; and
completed identity verification and valid payment details.

Section 3.2 applies in full to every story in a printed arc, including third-party contributed photographs and other media. You may not earn from a printed edition whose rights to commercialize contributed material are unverified or disputed.

Author copies, including the one at-cost proof per print product, do not earn. Legacy, Tribute, Bucketlist, and TimeVault printed editions are author-only and do not earn.

4. Reporting Violations

Any user may report content or conduct that violates this Policy using the in-product reporting control on any story, comment, profile, or message.

You may also report by email:

General violations: report@wanderdriven.com
Child safety: childsafety@wanderdriven.com — reviewed on priority
Copyright and intellectual property: dmca@wanderdriven.com — see our DMCA / Copyright Policy for the Designated Agent and required notice contents
Non-consensual intimate imagery: report@wanderdriven.com — reviewed on priority
Privacy and personal data: privacy@wanderdriven.com
Content rating disputes: support@wanderdriven.com
Enforcement appeals: appeals@wanderdriven.com

Reports may also be sent by post or telephone:

Wanderdriven Inc.
5920 S. Hwy A1A, Suite #202
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951
United States
Phone: 855-926-9263

We acknowledge reports within 2 business days and aim to action them within 7 business days. Reports concerning child safety, credible threats of violence, and non-consensual intimate imagery are prioritized and reviewed within 24 hours.

Reports made in bad faith, in volume, or to harass another user may themselves result in enforcement action.

5. Enforcement

5.1 Actions We May Take

Depending on the severity, context, and history of the violation, we may:

remove or restrict access to content;
remove content notwithstanding any existing purchase or paid access, in accordance with section 8.2 of the Privacy Policy;
change a content rating, or apply an interstitial or reduced-visibility setting;
remove content from discovery, feeds, broadcasts, and organizational reach features;
make content ineligible to be published as Premium, or an account ineligible for monetization, temporarily or permanently;
withhold, reverse, or cancel pending earnings;
suspend or restrict specific features;
suspend or terminate the account; and
report the matter to law enforcement or a competent authority.

5.2 Immediate Termination

We terminate accounts immediately and permanently, without prior warning, for:

child sexual abuse material or child sexual exploitation;
credible threats of violence against a specific person or group;
material support for a designated terrorist or violent extremist organization; or
severe or willful copyright infringement.

Terminated users may not open a new account. Attempting to do so is a further breach of this Policy and the resulting account will be closed.

5.3 Effect on Stored Legacy Content

Where an account is terminated but the account holds Legacy content designated for a legacy contact or beneficiary, we will, except where prohibited by law or where the content itself is unlawful, preserve non-violating content for a period of 90 days and provide a means for a verified legacy contact to request access. This 90-day period applies notwithstanding the account data retention periods in section 13 of the Privacy Policy. Violating content is not preserved and is not released.

5.4 Appeals

If you believe enforcement action was taken in error, you may appeal within 30 days at appeals@wanderdriven.com. We aim to review appeals within 14 business days. Appeals of child safety terminations are reviewed but are not ordinarily reversed absent clear evidence of error.

Content rating disputes are handled separately at support@wanderdriven.com under section 16.2 of the Terms of Service.

6. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy. Where changes materially affect what is permitted or what may be monetized, we will provide notice through the Service or by email before the changes take effect, and update the "Last reviewed" date above.

7. Contact

Wanderdriven Inc.
5920 S. Hwy A1A, Suite #202
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951
United States

Phone: 855-926-9263
General: support@wanderdriven.com
Policy questions: support@wanderdriven.com
Appeals: appeals@wanderdriven.com