Acceptable Use Policy.

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) describes content and conduct that is not allowed on Linnet. It applies to everyone who uses the Service.

Linnet is a literary fiction tool. We support writers and creators working with difficult themes — violence, grief, addiction, trauma, mortality, moral complexity. Serious literature has always lived in this territory. This Policy is not about restricting subject matter. It is about preventing specific categories of harm.

If you use the Service, you agree to this Policy. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate it.

1. Prohibited Content

You may not use the Service to generate, attempt to generate, request, or distribute content in the following categories.

Sexual content involving minors. Any content that sexualizes, eroticizes, or depicts in a sexual context any person under 18 years of age, real or fictional. This includes characters whose age is left ambiguous but whose context suggests they are minors. This is a hard rule. There are no exceptions.

Real-world violence and threats. Content that advocates, incites, plans, or threatens violence against specific identifiable individuals or groups. Fiction exploring violent themes is allowed; content that functions as a threat or call to harm is not.

Doxxing and harassment. Content that reveals private information about real, identifiable individuals — including but not limited to home addresses, phone numbers, employment details, family relationships — without their consent. Content that targets a real person with harassment, defamation, or sustained malice.

Self-harm instructions. Content that provides specific instructions, methods, or encouragement for self-harm, suicide, or eating-disordered behavior. Fiction that explores characters’ struggles with these themes is allowed; instructional or encouraging content is not.

Explicit sexual content. Explicit, graphic depictions of sexual acts. This is a current constraint of the AI infrastructure we use; Anthropic’s API does not generate explicit sexual content, and our moderation layer enforces this consistently. Romance, sexual tension, and references to intimacy in fiction remain allowed within these limits.

Illegal content. Content that violates applicable law, including but not limited to content that infringes intellectual property, defames real individuals, or provides specific instructions for criminal activity.

2. Prohibited Conduct

You may not:

• Bypass safety systems. You may not attempt to circumvent content moderation, age verification, rate limits, or other safeguards. This includes prompt manipulation designed to elicit prohibited content, using multiple accounts to evade restrictions, or other technical workarounds.
• Misuse the Service for commercial republication. You may not use the Service to generate content for resale as an independent AI service, for unauthorized inclusion in other commercial products, or for republication as your own AI tool. Using the Service to support your own fiction work, including work you sell or publish, is allowed and encouraged.
• Abuse the infrastructure. You may not use automated tools to access the Service without our written permission, attempt to overload or disrupt the Service, or use the Service in ways that interfere with other users’ access.
• Misrepresent yourself. You may not impersonate another person, create accounts for fraudulent purposes, or provide false information when creating an account.
• Violate others’ rights. You may not use the Service in ways that violate other people’s intellectual property, privacy, or other legal rights.

3. A Note on Dark Themes in Fiction

We want to be explicit: serious fiction often explores difficult, uncomfortable, or disturbing material. A character may struggle with addiction. A story may depict violence, grief, abuse, or moral failure. A villain may say terrible things. None of this is prohibited.

What is prohibited is content that crosses the lines named in Section 1 — content that exploits minors, advocates real-world violence, doxxes real individuals, or provides harmful instructions. The distinction is whether the content sits inside a fictional narrative exploring difficult experience, or whether it functions as harm-causing content that uses fiction as a wrapper.

When in doubt, our content moderation system errs on the side of caution. If you believe legitimate fiction was blocked unfairly, you can contact us.

4. Reporting Violations

If you become aware of content or conduct that violates this Policy, please report it to support@linnet.ink. Include as much detail as you can — character or story identifiers, the nature of the violation, and any relevant context.

We review reports promptly. We may not respond to every report individually, but we take them seriously.

5. Enforcement

Violations of this Policy may result in:

• Generation of specific content being blocked at the time of the request
• A warning to the account holder
• Temporary suspension of the account
• Permanent termination of the account
• Reporting to law enforcement, where required by law

We exercise discretion in enforcement. Severe or repeated violations are more likely to result in immediate termination. We are not required to provide notice or opportunity to cure before taking action.

We log violations to our internal moderation system for review. Logged violations may include the content that triggered the moderation event, retained for the purposes of improving our moderation systems and supporting law enforcement requests.

6. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top. Material changes will be communicated by email or a prominent notice on the Service. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.

7. Contact

To report a violation, ask a question about this Policy, or appeal an enforcement action:

This Acceptable Use Policy reflects our current content moderation practices. It is not legal advice and does not create rights or obligations beyond those expressly stated.