Acceptable use policy

Path of Prose is a private workspace for fiction. Violence, crime, cruelty and despair are part of storytelling, and we don't police the themes of your book.

You may not use Path of Prose to store or share:

• sexual content involving anyone under 18, of any kind, written or pictured;
• material that you don't have the right to use, such as someone else's copyrighted book or pictures, beyond what the law allows;
• anything else that is illegal where you live or in the United States.

Reader links send your chapters to the people you choose. Don't use them to:

• harass, threaten or intimidate anyone;
• publish someone's private information without their permission;
• send spam, scams or links to harmful software.

Don't:

• try to get into another person's account or data;
• probe, scan or test the service for weaknesses without our permission (if you find a security problem, please tell us);
• overload the service, or get around its limits, such as the limits on forms, links and reader notes;
• use bots, scrapers or other automated tools against the service, except the exports and backups the app gives you;
• sell, share or pass on your invitation or your account;
• copy, resell or rebuild the app or its guidance.

We may remove a reader link, suspend an account or end it, depending on how serious the problem is, and we may report illegal content to the authorities when the law requires it. Unless the law or safety stops us, we will try to tell you first and give you a chance to download your work.

We look at what you write only when a report or a fault needs it, as our privacy policy explains.

If you see something on Path of Prose that breaks this policy, write to arnikllc+pathofprose@gmail.com . Tell us what you saw and, for a reader link, the link itself.