Swell Tales Privacy and Upload Policy

Uploading to Swell Tales

By uploading files to Swell Tales, you confirm you are at least 18 years of age. You agree to allow Swell Tales to use your uploaded content in any way as deemed fit for use by our site. These uses include:
Display and Distribution: Your content may be displayed on Swell Tales and made accessible to other users for viewing, sharing, or commenting.
Promotion: We may use your content in promotional materials, advertisements, or marketing campaigns for Swell Tales, both online and offline.
Archiving: Your content may be stored in our archives for historical, backup, or analytical purposes.
Modification: We reserve the right to edit, modify, or adapt your content for formatting, coherence, or to fit into different mediums or platforms as required.
Third-party Sharing: We may share your content with trusted third-party partners or platforms to increase its visibility, reach, or for other strategic purposes. The user may permanently opt out of this through their profile settings.
Content Review: Swell Tales reserves the right to review all uploaded content to ensure compliance with our Acceptable Content and Behavior standards. Content that violates these standards may be removed without prior notice.
You retain any rights not explicitly granted in this Content Usage Policy.
Content that is deemed unacceptable is liable to be removed without the option for reinstatement, as outlined in the ‘Acceptable Content and Behavior’ section.

Privacy

Users must be at least 18 years of age to use Swell Tales. Swell Tales does not collect any personal data aside from the email address associated with your account. We do not, and will never, sell this data to third parties. It is the user’s responsibility to keep their personal identifiable data private. Swell Tales does not recommend the display of any personal info in any stories or biography pages. Swell Tales agrees to never provide uploaded tales to AI or AI processors, especially for the purpose of training. Swell Tales uses cookies to maintain your browser session and keep users logged in to their account. We apply no other trackers on users. Swell Tales is not responsible for any content you may come across on the site. While we strive to keep this community safe, we cannot catch everything. Our success is reliant on our users reporting offensive or illegal content to our admins.

Acceptable Content and Behavior

Any content containing generally illegal acts is liable for removal. This includes, but is not limited to: glorification of rape, glorification of violence, and underage characters in sexual situations. Swell Tales reserves the right to remove any content it deems as inappropriate. Users agree to remain civil and respectful. Spamming, harassment, hate speech, or using Swell Tales for anything other than its intended purpose are all grounds for banning. Swell Tales reserves the right to ban any user for any reason it deems necessary.