These Terms govern your access to and use of the Goodfic app, website, and related services. By using Goodfic, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
1. Service Overview
Goodfic is a platform for reading, publishing, discovering, and interacting with fiction content. We may offer features such as reading, writing, posting, commenting, collecting, following, sharing, messaging, subscriptions, virtual currency, tipping, promotions, and notifications.
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Services at any time, with or without notice.
2. Account Registration
To use certain features, you may need to create an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information, and to keep that information up to date.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities conducted under your account. If you believe your account has been compromised, you should notify us immediately.
You may not sell, transfer, rent, lend, or share your account without our prior written permission.
3. User Content
User Content includes any text, stories, comments, images, audio, video, profile information, or other materials that users submit, upload, publish, or otherwise make available through Goodfic.
You retain ownership of the content you create, subject to the rights you grant us under these Terms. By submitting User Content, you grant Goodfic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, adapt, translate, publish, and otherwise use such content for operating, improving, promoting, and providing the Services.
You represent and warrant that:
You own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you submit.
Your content does not infringe any third-party rights.
Your content complies with applicable law and these Terms.
4. Prohibited Conduct
You agree not to use the Services to:
Violate any applicable law or regulation.
Infringe intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.
Post unlawful, obscene, defamatory, abusive, hateful, harassing, violent, or exploitative content.
Publish spam, misleading information, fraudulent material, or unauthorized advertising.
Impersonate others or misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
Interfere with, disrupt, damage, or attempt unauthorized access to the Services.
Use bots, scrapers, crawlers, or automated tools without permission.
Manipulate rankings, reviews, engagement, or other platform metrics.
Upload malware, viruses, or other harmful code.
We may remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, or take other appropriate action if we believe these Terms have been violated.
5. Intellectual Property
Except for User Content, all rights in the Services, including trademarks, logos, software, design, layout, text, graphics, and other materials, are owned by Goodfic or its licensors.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, reverse engineer, or exploit any part of the Services without our prior written consent, except as permitted by law.
6. Paid Services
Goodfic may offer paid features such as subscriptions, coins, paid chapters, virtual items, tipping, or auto-renewing plans.
Before making a purchase, you should carefully review the applicable price, billing terms, renewal conditions, and refund policy. Unless otherwise required by law or expressly stated, all purchases of digital content or virtual items are final and non-refundable once delivered or unlocked.
7. Third-Party Services
The Services may contain links to third-party websites, content, or services. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party materials, policies, or practices.
8. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not guarantee that the Services will always be secure, uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components.
We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or availability of any content on the platform.
9. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Goodfic and its affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunity arising from or related to your use of the Services.
10. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services, in whole or in part, at any time if we believe you have violated these Terms, applicable law, or platform rules.
Upon termination, we may delete, retain, or anonymize your data in accordance with applicable law and our Privacy Policy.
11. Minors
If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may only use the Services with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian, where required by law.
12. Privacy
Our collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal information are described in our Privacy Policy. If there is any conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy regarding personal data, the Privacy Policy will control.
13. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by reasonable means, such as in-app notice or email, where required.
Your continued use of the Services after the updated Terms become effective means that you accept the revised Terms.
14. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong, without regard to conflict of law principles.
Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms shall first be resolved through good-faith negotiation. If the dispute cannot be resolved informally, it shall be submitted to the courts of Hong Kong, unless otherwise required by applicable law.