Terms and Conditions

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized use or security breach.

• Each person may only maintain one account
• You must provide accurate and complete registration information
• You are responsible for keeping your password secure
• You must not share your account credentials with any third party
• Users can reset their password via the forgot-password flow. Reset links expire after 1 hour and can only be used once
• Admin-issued temporary passwords. If you contact support locked out of your account, a super-admin may issue a temporary password sent to the email on file. When this happens, all your existing sessions are signed out, and you will be required to set a new password the next time you log in (you cannot use the platform until you do). The temporary password is valid only until your first successful login + change-password.
• Admin-invited (manually-created) accounts. A super-admin may also manually create a new HuniWhisp account from the administrative tools — typically to onboard a member who cannot complete self-registration (e.g. due to a bounced verification email or a regional sign-up issue). The invited member receives a temporary password by email. On the invited member's first successful login, HuniWhisp forces a password reset before any other part of the Platform can be used; the temporary password becomes unusable after that reset. Admin-invited accounts are subject to these Terms in the same way as self-registered accounts.
• We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms

You retain ownership of the content you post on Huni ("User Content"). By posting, you grant Huni a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, re-encode, resize, crop, compress, thumbnail, adapt for display, display, distribute, and promote your content on the Platform. This licence is granted strictly for the purpose of operating, delivering, securing, and displaying the Platform — it is what lets us do the ordinary technical work a service has to do to show your content: generating previews and thumbnails, producing a static poster frame for an animated image, stripping metadata, and creating resized, cropped, or compressed copies so your content renders correctly on phones, tablets, and the web. It does not transfer ownership of anything you post, and it does not permit us to sell or license your content to anyone else for their own purposes.

Your warranty over images you supply. Where you supply an image — including any image you supply as a post cover or background — you represent and warrant that you own that image or are properly licensed to use it in this way, and that its use on the Platform infringes no copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, or other right of any person. Supplying infringing material is a breach of these Terms: it may be removed without notice, you may forfeit the cosmetic or feature it was attached to, and repeat infringement may end your account (see Section 46).

Users are SOLELY responsible for their content. You are fully responsible for any content you post, including confessions, reviews, aspirations, comments, messages, and any other material. Huni does not endorse, verify, or take responsibility for any User Content. The views expressed in User Content are those of the individual authors and do not represent the views of Huni.

Group owners are responsible for moderating content within their groups. Groups must not be used to organize harassment, illegal activities, or to circumvent Platform rules.

• Group owners may set entry requirements including screening questions and invite-only access
• Group owners may not use screening features to discriminate against protected classes
• Join requests and Q&A sections within groups are subject to the same content policies as the rest of the Platform
• We reserve the right to remove groups that violate these terms without prior notice
• Group moderators act independently and are not agents or representatives of Huni

Direct Messages. Direct messages (DMs) are encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest. Messages are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a server-held key. This is not end-to-end encryption: for safety, legal compliance, and moderation, authorized staff (administrators and super-administrators) can review DM content, and every such access is recorded in a tamper-evident audit log. All personal information including emails and display names is encrypted using AES-256-GCM. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes. If you report a conversation, its contents are disclosed to our moderators for review; see our Privacy Policy for details.

Friends System. You may add other users as friends by their HuniWhisp username. Friend requests are explicit (the recipient must Accept) and friendships are symmetric. Either side may unfriend at any time. Friend lists are private to each side and are not surfaced as a public follower graph.

Private Mode. You can enable Private Mode from Profile » Preferences » Privacy. When enabled, only confirmed friends may start a new direct-message conversation with you or send a new message in an existing conversation. Existing conversation history remains readable on both sides; Private Mode is not retroactive deletion. Strangers can still read your public posts. Default is OFF.

Blocking is enforced in both directions. When you block another member, direct messages between the two of you are hard-blocked server-side in both directions: the blocked member cannot message you, and you cannot message them, until the block is lifted. Blocking is not merely a mute or a hide — the conversation cannot continue while a block is in place, on any device or surface.

Message requests (consent gate for first contact). The first message from a member who is not your confirmed friend arrives as a message request in a dedicated section of your inbox rather than as an open conversation. The sender cannot continue the conversation until you accept the request; declining (or ignoring) it keeps the conversation closed, and you may block or report the sender directly from the request. Accepting a request opens a normal conversation. Message requests operate alongside Private Mode and the age partition described in Section 2, and do not weaken either.

Real-time crisis paging (content stays sealed). When the direct-message safety scanner described in Section 14(a) raises a crisis-level flag on a message, our moderation team is paged in real time so a trained person can respond quickly. The page carries only the flag category — never the message text — and any deeper review remains subject to the audited-access rules in Sections 9 and 14(a).

On-device offline copies. If you enable the optional offline reading setting (off by default), a small number of recent public posts are stored temporarily on your own device so you can read them without a connection. These offline copies are encrypted on-device, automatically expire within 24 hours, and are deleted and refreshed whenever your device reconnects. Direct messages, private-group posts, and Momentary posts are never stored offline.

Acceptable Use. You must not use the messaging system to send unsolicited commercial messages, harass other users, distribute harmful content, or use friend requests as a vector for spam or social engineering. We reserve the right to investigate reports of messaging abuse and take appropriate action including account suspension. By using Huni, you consent to the collection and use of data as described in our Privacy Policy.

Each registered user has a public profile at huniwhisp.com/u/{your-username}. The profile may display your chosen username (which is also the pseudonym on every post and comment), avatar, member-since date, friend count, and your posts, diaries, aspirations, and autographs. We do not surface your real name, email address, or IP address anywhere on the public profile or anywhere else readers can see.

Visibility Toggles. You control which sections appear on your public profile from Profile » Preferences » Public Profile. Six toggles are available, all default ON: posts, diaries, aspirations, autographs, friend count, member-since date.

Optional Self-Declared Region. You may optionally add a region to your profile — a country and, if you choose, a state/province and city — at signup or later from your Account page. Each region field carries its own visibility toggle: country defaults to visible on your public profile, while state and city default to private and appear only if you switch them on. These visibility rules are enforced server-side; other users are never shown a region field you have not made visible. Your self-declared region is separate from, and never mixed with, the coarse IP-derived location signal described in Section 41 — that signal is internal analytics only and is never displayed to other users. You can change or remove your self-declared region at any time.

Anonymity Carve-Out. Anonymous content is NEVER surfaced on a public profile, regardless of visibility-toggle state. Only items where you explicitly chose to attribute yourself (confessions with is_anonymous = false AND show_username = true; diaries with is_anonymous = false AND is_public = true) appear on the public profile. The visibility toggles only control whether to surface those already-attributed items, not whether to expose previously-anonymous ones.

Huni provides a donation system that lets users send tips and contributions of support to content authors. Donations on Huni are part of an internal, virtual economy (see Section 10a): they are recorded as transfers of in-app wallet balance, not as real-money payments, and the donor is not charged any external currency for sending one. By using the donation feature, you agree to the following:

• All donations are voluntary gestures of support between users, made at your own discretion. A donation is not a purchase, an investment, a loan, a security, or a charitable or tax-deductible contribution, and it does not entitle the donor to any goods, services, return, refund, or guaranteed outcome
• Huni charges a platform fee on each donation, which Huni retains (it accrues to the HuniWhisp treasury). The standard fee is currently up to 5% and is reduced for active premium members (currently Basic 3.5%, Plus 2.5%, and Pro 1%). The fee is set by Huni at its discretion and may change at any time; the rate that applies to your donation, and the resulting amounts, are shown to you at the point of donation before you confirm
• By default the recipient receives the gift minus the platform fee. The donor may instead choose to cover the fee, so the recipient keeps the full gift and the donor's total outlay is the gift plus the fee. Huni earns the fee either way
• Amounts credited to a recipient land in their in-app wallet balance, which is a virtual balance with no cash value and is governed by Section 10a
• Donations are recorded as completed internal transfers and are generally non-refundable once made, except in cases of verified fraud, abuse, or a technical error, which Huni may reverse at its discretion
• Huni reserves the right to withhold, reverse, adjust, or void donations or balances connected to fraud, abuse, chargebacks (where applicable), or a violation of these Terms
• Donations to demo, operator, or non-participating accounts are not accepted; accounts may also opt out of receiving donations entirely
• Authors who receive donations are solely responsible for determining and meeting any tax or reporting obligations that may apply to them
• Huni is not a party to, and is not responsible for, any dispute between a donor and a recipient

Donor privacy

• Anonymous donations. By default, a donor's username is shown alongside their donation. You may instead choose to donate anonymously, in which case your name is hidden and is not displayed to the recipient or to other users.
• Private amounts. You may choose to keep your donation amount private so that only the recipient ever sees it. Whether the recipient then chooses to share that amount with anyone else is a matter between the donor and the recipient.
• A donor's choice about whether their donation amount is displayed is never revealed to other users — others cannot tell whether an amount was hidden or shown.

Huni operates an internal, virtual economy. Your wallet balance, donations, tips, paid autographs, paid Live Huni access, identity-reveal payments, premium memberships, and any in-app gifts, coins, or Huni Coins that Huni may offer from time to time are all part of this virtual economy. Please read this section carefully before using any of these features.

No real money and no cash value

• Wallet balances and any in-app currency, gifts, or coins are a virtual, in-app feature for use on the Platform only. They are not real money, not legal tender, not a bank deposit, not e-money, not a stored-value instrument, and not a financial product or security
• They have no cash value, cannot be transferred between accounts except through the features Huni expressly provides, and are not redeemable for cash or any real-world currency, except via an official payout mechanism if and when Huni chooses to offer one, and then only on the terms, eligibility rules, verification, limits, and fees Huni sets for that mechanism
• Real-money top-ups and purchases are now enabled. The Platform now supports funding your wallet and paying for premium memberships and other paid features with real money — on the web through an external payment provider (currently PayPal; additional providers such as Stripe may be added and will be shown in checkout if and when they are), and in the mobile apps through the official in-app purchase rails described below (Apple In-App Purchase on iOS, Google Play Billing on Android) for Huni Coin packs. When you make such a transaction, the relevant provider's terms and privacy policy apply to that transaction in addition to these Terms. Availability of a given provider, and whether a specific transaction is settled in a live or a test environment, may vary; the checkout flow tells you what applies before you confirm. Outbound payouts / withdrawals of wallet balance to a real-world account are addressed separately below and are not currently offered
• Virtual balances and items are licensed to you for use on the Platform, not sold; you do not acquire any ownership, property right, or proprietary interest in them, and they remain part of the Platform

Pricing is not final

• All prices, fees, tier rates, premium plan structures, feature-to-tier assignments, discounts, and promotional rates displayed anywhere on the Platform are indicative and are not final. They do not constitute an offer, a price guarantee, or a commitment of any kind, and may change at any time as described below
• Huni reserves the right, at its sole discretion and at any time, to change, restructure, add, or remove any price, fee, plan, tier, bundle, or paid feature; to introduce or withdraw promotions; and to change which features are free, premium, or paid — with or without notice, except where applicable law requires notice for already-active paid subscriptions
• The price that applies to a transaction is the one shown to you at the point of that transaction, at the moment you confirm it. Earlier displays, screenshots, cached pages, or marketing materials do not bind Huni
• Admin-tunable configuration and payment-method pricing. Premium and other paid-feature pricing is governed by a general configuration that Huni may adjust at its discretion (base prices, tier structure, regional / purchasing-power adjustments, and any discounts). In addition, the displayed price may vary by the payment method you choose (for example, PayPal on the web versus an app store's in-app purchase, or between web providers if more than one is offered): each method's price is, by default, at parity with the base price, but Huni may apply a per-method adjustment to reflect that method's costs. The final price is always computed server-side and shown to you for the method and region that apply, before you confirm

Apple In-App Purchase (iOS app)

• When you use the Huni iOS app, Huni Coins and any other digital goods or consumable coin packs are purchased through Apple's In-App Purchase via the App Store. The payment is processed by Apple and is governed by Apple's terms (the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions), in addition to these Terms; Huni does not handle or receive your payment-card details for these purchases
• Huni Coins are a virtual, in-app currency licensed to you for use within the app only. Consistent with the rest of this Section 10a, they have no cash value, are non-transferable outside the features Huni provides, and are not redeemable for cash
• Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple, under Apple's refund policy — not by Huni. Once a purchase is delivered and the coins are credited to your wallet, the purchase is non-refundable by HuniWhisp, except where applicable law requires otherwise. If you believe you are entitled to a refund of an App Store purchase, you should request it through Apple
• The in-app (iOS) price may differ from the price shown on the web. The in-app price includes the app store's commission and Apple's pricing tiers, so the same coins may cost more when purchased in the app than through the web top-up rail. The price that applies is always the one Apple shows you in the App Store purchase sheet before you confirm

Google Play Billing (Android app)

• When you use the Huni Android app, Huni Coins and any other digital goods or consumable coin packs are purchased through Google Play Billing via the Google Play Store. The payment is processed by Google and is governed by Google's terms (the Google Play Terms of Service), in addition to these Terms; Huni does not handle or receive your payment-card details for these purchases. To attribute the purchase to your account, a one-way hashed identifier derived from your Huni user ID is shared with Google (see Privacy Policy §5)
• Huni Coins are a virtual, in-app currency licensed to you for use within the app only. Consistent with the rest of this Section 10a, they have no cash value, are non-transferable outside the features Huni provides, and are not redeemable for cash
• Refunds for Google Play purchases are handled by Google, under Google's refund policy — not by Huni. Once a purchase is delivered and the coins are credited to your wallet, the purchase is non-refundable by HuniWhisp, except where applicable law requires otherwise. If you believe you are entitled to a refund of a Google Play purchase, you should request it through Google
• The in-app (Android) price may differ from the price shown on the web. The in-app price includes the app store's commission and Google's pricing rules, so the same coins may cost more when purchased in the app than through the web top-up rail. The price that applies is always the one Google shows you in the Google Play purchase sheet before you confirm

What can be bought where

• In the mobile apps: one-time Huni Coin packs are purchasable in-app through Apple In-App Purchase (iOS) and Google Play Billing (Android), as described above. These are the only in-app purchases either app offers — never a recurring subscription (see Section 37)
• On the web only: premium memberships, creator tips / donations, paid autograph collects, and self-serve advertising (Huni Ads) campaigns are transacted on the web only. In the mobile apps these surfaces are disabled or hidden (removed, or replaced with a neutral notice), with no purchase and no web-steering, so that no digital purchase is made inside the apps outside of the official in-app purchase rails
• Huni Coins remain a spend-only in-app credit however they were bought: they are not money, carry no cash value, and cannot be paid out, withdrawn, or redeemed for cash. The wallet does not offer a payout of Huni Coins
• Spare Change™. Because coins are spend-only, the Platform provides a no-cost outlet for residual balances: you may at any time donate a remaining coin balance of any size to the Sponsor a Stranger™ pool (Section 28c), where it funds gifted memberships for other members. Donating spare change is always voluntary, is not a payout or redemption, and confers no entitlement

Saved payment cards (card-on-file)

• You may optionally save a payment card on the web for convenience. Huni stores only your card type (brand) and the last four digits, the expiry, and an optional cardholder name — never your full card number (PAN) or security code (CVV/CVC). The full number and security code are processed in your browser and are never transmitted to, stored by, or logged by Huni
• Saved card details are encrypted at rest and are used only within HuniWhisp to identify your chosen card. They are never sold, rented, or shared with third parties for advertising or any unrelated purpose. When real-money charging is enabled, the card is tokenized by a PCI-compliant payment processor and that processor — not Huni — holds the data needed to charge it
• You can remove a saved card at any time from your wallet; removal deletes the stored metadata for that card

Platform fee and the HuniWhisp treasury

• Huni charges a platform fee on donations and on other in-app transactions (see Sections 10, 25, 38). The fee is retained by Huni and accrues to an internal HuniWhisp treasury ledger
• Donation fees are currently up to 5% standard, reduced for active premium members (Basic 3.5%, Plus 2.5%, Pro 1%). Fee rates are set by Huni, may change at Huni's discretion, and the current rate is always shown at the point of the transaction
• The treasury is Huni's own property. Accrual of a fee to the treasury does not create any obligation, account, or entitlement in favour of any user

Not a bank, money transmitter, or payment processor

In operating this virtual economy, Huni is not acting as a bank, money services business, money transmitter, e-money issuer, escrow agent, payment processor, broker, or financial institution, and the wallet is not a deposit or payment account. Internal transfers of virtual balance between users (for example a donation) are a convenience feature of the Platform and are not a money-transmission service. You must not use the wallet, donations, or any in-app currency to launder money, evade sanctions, gamble, or move value on behalf of third parties, and you must not represent the virtual economy as a real-money, banking, or investment service.

Changes, suspension, and limitation of liability

• Huni may modify, suspend, discontinue, reprice, expire, recalculate, or reset any part of the virtual economy — including the wallet, fees, currencies, gifts, and any payout mechanism — at any time, in whole or in part, with or without notice
• Huni may suspend or freeze a balance, void virtual items, or claw back amounts connected to fraud, abuse, error, chargebacks, or a breach of these Terms
• Except where prohibited by applicable law, Huni is not liable for the loss of, or inability to use or redeem, any virtual balance, currency, gift, or item, including following account suspension or termination, discontinuation of a feature, or wind-down of the virtual economy. This is in addition to the general Limitation of Liability in Section 30
• On account termination or deletion, any remaining virtual balance is generally forfeited and non-refundable, except where applicable law requires otherwise

Verifying your email address on HuniWhisp is a light anti-abuse deterrent, not a security boundary and not a condition of general membership. Email verification is optional for the core experience: you can post confessions, react, comment, bookmark, and browse whether or not you have verified. We only require a verified email to perform a small set of abuse-prone actions, currently:

• Sending donations (Section 10)
• Initiating direct messages (Section 9)
• Creating groups (Section 8)
• Applying for an organization / business account
• Sending member-created shoutouts (Section 25a)

Not verifying your email does not lock you out of the platform — it only gates these specific features. The gate is a deterrent only: your email address is never shared with any third-party abuse-detection service and is used solely to check this verification status for the actions above. See the Privacy Policy for how this is handled.

The Huni Marketplace™ is the Platform's first-party storefront for virtual items bought with Huni Coins — currently profile themes, and from time to time other cosmetic goods, content effects, and consumable mechanics such as Time Capsule seals (Section 28c(ag)). This section applies to every such item, in addition to Section 10a (Virtual Economy) which governs the Coins you spend on them.

• A licence, not property. Virtual items are licensed to you, never sold. What you receive is a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the item on the Platform under these Terms. You acquire no ownership, title, property right, or proprietary interest in any item, in the underlying artwork or palette, or in any name or design associated with it, and you may not sell, rent, sublicense, trade, or transfer an item or an account holding one
• No cash value. Virtual items have no cash value, are not money, credit, or a stored-value instrument, and are not redeemable for cash or any real-world currency. This is true whether the item was bought with Coins, granted promotionally, or included with a membership
• Purchases are final. Unlocks are delivered instantly and are non-refundable, including where an item is later changed, retired, or made free — except where applicable consumer law requires a refund, and except that Huni may reverse a purchase at its discretion in cases of verified fraud, abuse, or technical error. Purchases made through Apple or Google in-app purchase are refunded by that store under its policy, as described in Section 10a
• Cover and effect unlocks are permanent, not rentals. When you spend Huni Coins to unlock a Huni Post Cover™ or a Content Effect, what you get is permanent on this Platform: an unlocked cover is yours to apply to every post you make from then on, and an unlocked effect stays on the post you applied it to. These unlocks do not expire, are not re-billed, and are not a subscription or a timed rental. Consistent with the rest of this section, permanent means permanent on the Platform — it does not create property, cash value, or any right that survives the Platform or your account
• Retirement from sale, forfeiture, and age. Huni may retire a cosmetic from sale at any time and remove it from the picker. Retiring one does not revoke an unlock you already hold, and it does not strip a cosmetic already applied to content you have already published — already-unlocked cosmetics keep working. However, a cosmetic attached to content that is removed for a breach of these Terms is forfeited with that content, without refund, credit, or re-issue. And, consistent with Section 10a, coin purchases are restricted to members aged 18 or over: members under 18, and members whose age the Platform cannot establish, cannot buy a cosmetic, which is why a portion of each cosmetic catalog is kept free for everyone
• Prices and the catalog may change. Item prices, the free/paid split, the catalog itself, and any bundle or promotion are set by Huni at its discretion and may change at any time. The price that applies is the one shown to you at the moment you confirm, and it is always computed server-side — a price displayed by an out-of-date screen, cache, or client never binds Huni. A later price cut, giveaway, or retirement of an item creates no entitlement to a refund, credit, or compensating item
• Cosmetics are cosmetic. Marketplace items are decorative only. No item confers any advantage in ranking, feed placement, reach, search, recommendation, credibility, reputation, or moderation treatment, and buying one never makes your content more visible or your account harder to action. Huni will not knowingly sell a cosmetic that functions as paid amplification
• Change, suspension, and loss. Consistent with Section 10a, Huni may modify, re-style, retire, disable, or withdraw any virtual item or the Marketplace itself, in whole or in part, with or without notice, and may void items connected to fraud, abuse, chargebacks, or a breach of these Terms. Except where prohibited by applicable law, Huni is not liable for the loss of, or the inability to use, any virtual item — including following account suspension, termination, or the discontinuation of a feature. On account termination or deletion, unlocked items are forfeited
• Availability. A given item, department, or the Marketplace as a whole may be switched off by Huni at any time (including by an administrative kill switch) without notice and without compensation

Huni Ads™ is HuniWhisp's self-serve advertising platform (at /advertise), where any eligible account can create and run advertising campaigns to promote content or a business. Campaigns let you choose an objective, set targeting (by region, age, gender, device, and content category), choose a bidding model (CPC, CPM, or CPA), and set daily and total budgets. By creating or running a campaign you agree to the following, in addition to the rest of these Terms:

• Wallet-funded, real billing. Huni Ads is funded from your Huni wallet. You top up your wallet (currently via PayPal on the web, subject to Section 10a), and a campaign reserves its budget from your wallet when you create it. As the campaign delivers, clicks, impressions, or actions debit the reserved budget. All charges are computed server-side and applied through the Platform's transactions system; you are charged only for delivery up to the budget you set
• Cheap by design. Pricing is intentionally low: a minimum campaign budget of around $1, a $0 ad-review fee, and low default CPC/CPM rates. Exact minimums, rates, and any fees are shown to you in the campaign builder before you confirm and may be adjusted by HuniWhisp as described in Section 10a (pricing is not final)
• Admin review of creative. Campaigns and their creative are reviewed by HuniWhisp administrators before going live. We may approve, decline, condition, pause, or remove any campaign or creative at our discretion. Advertising must comply with all of these Terms, including the prohibited-content and conduct rules; misleading, deceptive, infringing, or unlawful advertising is not permitted, and the advertiser is responsible for the accuracy and legality of its ads
• Under-18 protection. Advertising on HuniWhisp excludes members under 18 by default from both targeting and serving. You may not target, and the Platform will not knowingly serve your ads to, members under 18. Age-restricted, adult, or otherwise sensitive advertising is subject to additional restrictions or prohibition
• Budgets are spend authorisations, not guarantees. Setting a budget authorises spend up to that amount; it does not guarantee any particular reach, number of clicks, impressions, conversions, or results. Amounts spent on delivered advertising are generally non-refundable except as required by law or in cases of verified billing error or platform fault
• Proprietary mechanic. The Huni Ads™ self-serve platform, and in particular its cheap-minimum, wallet-funded, budget-reserving-and-debiting self-serve auction, is proprietary to HuniWhisp (see Sections 28 and 28c(x))

By creating an account and using Huni — and especially by granting the push-notification permission on the mobile app or in your browser — you consent to receive notifications from Huni across the channels you have enabled: push notifications, email, and in-app messages. These communications fall into two groups:

• Service & transactional messages — account verification, password resets, login alerts from new IPs, payment and donation receipts, security notices, moderation and strike notices, terms and policy updates, and other messages necessary to operate your account. These are not marketing and, while your account is active, may be sent even if you have turned off other categories.
• Activity & re-engagement messages — reminders, "while you were away" activity summaries (e.g. unread reactions, replies, mentions, new followers, or messages waiting for you), prompts to return, and similar nudges intended to bring you back to content we think you'll care about. These are the messages you can opt out of, as described below.

Personalized timing & content. To make re-engagement messages useful rather than annoying, their timing and content may be personalized — for example, a push may be scheduled around the hour you are typically active, and a summary may reference the specific activity waiting for you. This personalization uses your own account and activity data; it is first-party only.

Opting out & controlling messages. You can opt out of activity and re-engagement messages per category from your notification settings (Profile » Preferences), and you can stop a whole channel at any time by (i) turning off push in your device's operating-system settings or in the browser, and (ii) using the unsubscribe link in our emails. We cap the frequency of re-engagement messages (for example, a return-reminder email is rate-limited and sent at most about once per day, and personalized pushes only fire after a period of inactivity), but we do not guarantee delivery, timing, or receipt of any notification — delivery depends on third parties (your device, OS, browser, email provider, and network) outside our control, and you should not rely on a notification as the sole means of receiving any time-sensitive information.

Platform update announcements. News about the Platform itself — new features, maintenance notices, and the What's New batch — is always published on the What's New page, and is delivered to you through exactly one of two channels, never both: members subscribed to update emails receive it as an email digest that always carries a one-click unsubscribe (honored immediately), while members not subscribed receive the same announcement in-app, as a one-way message delivered by Huni Keeper™ acting as maintenance administrator (Section 14e). The Keeper's role there is delivery only — it never reads direct messages or replies. You can switch channels at any time with the update-emails toggle in Profile » Preferences » Notifications.

Not sold; no purchase of attention. Huni's notifications are first-party. We do not sell, rent, or share your contact details (email, device push token) with third parties for their own marketing, and re-engagement messages are not paid placements bought by advertisers. See our Privacy Policy for how this data is handled.

Minors. Members who are, or indicate they are, under 18 receive reduced and limited messaging. In particular, under-18 members are excluded from personalized active-hour and vulnerability-window push nudges and from re-engagement messaging designed to maximise time-on-app. This is consistent with the minors protections in Section 2 and our Privacy Policy. If you believe a minor is receiving messaging they should not, contact privacy@huniwhisp.com.

Huni employs content filtering systems including algospeak detection to identify attempts to circumvent filters. Users can adjust their personal filter levels to control the type of content they see.

Our moderation approach is allow-by-default and report-driven, in line with mainstream platforms. Most content is allowed to be posted and stays up; we act on it when it is reported by a user or a moderator and found to break our rules. The narrow exception is illegal or imminently dangerous content (for example child sexual material, human trafficking, terrorism, credible imminent threats of violence, the sale of controlled drugs, the sale of weapons, and the solicitation of commercial sex), which may be removed automatically and escalated to authorities without waiting for a report. See our Safety & Community Guidelinesfor what is and isn't allowed.

When we remove a post, we will normally tell you why via a notification, and you may reply to that notification to appeal. Users can report content they believe breaks our guidelines; reports are reviewed and appropriate action is taken. Repeated or serious violations may lead to limits on your account, suspension, or a permanent ban, as described in Sections 16 and 17.

Name & copyright claims (dedicated report category). Reports about identity and naming — impersonation of a real person, username squatting (registering or holding a name to trade on someone else's identity or brand), and copyright or trademark claims over a name (including revealed names, pen names, and brand identities) — have their own dedicated report category and are handled at priority one (P1), the same urgency tier as stalking and harassment reports. Filing a claim does not require proof up front, but our team may request supporting evidence, and knowingly false claims are themselves a violation of these Terms. Formal copyright takedowns may also use the DMCA procedure in Section 46.

Platform sweeps. In addition to report-driven review, Huni runs periodic platform-wide safety sweeps (both scheduled and moderator-initiated) that re-check existing content and identity fields — usernames, display names, and bios — against our rules, including an obfuscation-resistant, multilingual slur filter that recognises disguised spellings (symbol substitutions, look-alike characters, spacing tricks). When a sweep finds a violation, the standard protocol applies: the violating content is actioned, a strike may be recorded, and you are notified with the reason and may appeal. If your username or display name violates the rules, it may be replaced with a neutral, automatically-generated one; you can then choose a new compliant name.

Former usernames (“Also known as”). To prevent bad actors from escaping their reputation by renaming, a member's recent former usernames may be displayed publicly on their profile as “Also known as”. Former usernames that themselves violated our rules (for example a slur) are not shown publicly — they are visible to our moderation team only. If a sweep or moderation action against you is later found to be a mistake, we revert it: content is restored, any strike is voided, and you receive an apology notice. See also our Privacy Policy on username-history retention.

Every account carries a Reputation Lock™ meter — a reputation signal that is locked to the account itself, not to the username. Renaming your account never resets the meter: reputation follows the account through any number of username changes, in the same spirit as the “Also known as” mechanic in Section 13. The meter is visible to other members so the community can weigh who they are interacting with.

• What feeds it. The meter reflects the account's moderation history (strikes, removals, upheld reports), tenure (how long the account has been in good standing), and community signals (sustained constructive participation). It is computed by the Platform and cannot be bought, transferred, or edited by any member
• Recovery is always open. Reputation is repairable through sustained good standing: negative marks decay after approximately 90 days, and an account that stays in good standing earns a monthly good-standing credit while it does. A bad chapter is never permanent if the behavior changes
• What it is not. The meter is a platform-conduct signal only. It is not a statement of creditworthiness, employability, or real-world character, and it must not be relied on for any decision outside the Platform. It is also not a moderation verdict — enforcement continues to follow Sections 13, 16, and 17 independently of the meter
• No gaming. Manipulating the meter — via coordinated accounts, farmed signals, or abuse reports filed to damage another member's meter — is a violation of these Terms and is actioned under Sections 16 and 17
• Proprietary mechanic. Reputation Lock™ — the account-bound, rename-immune reputation meter with time-decayed negative marks and a monthly good-standing repair credit — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28 and Section 28c). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission

Huni employs automated safety scanning systems that monitor platform content for patterns indicating potential harm, criminal activity, or distress situations. By using the Platform, you acknowledge and agree that:

• Content including messages, comments, and confessions may be scanned by automated systems for safety purposes
• Only illegal or imminently dangerous content (child sexual material, human trafficking, terrorism, credible imminent threats of violence, the sale of controlled drugs, the sale of weapons, and the solicitation of commercial sex) may be automatically removed and escalated. Discussion, confession, or storytelling about these topics is not blocked — what is blocked is content whose primary purpose is to arrange the underlying illegal transaction. Other content is not auto-removed by the scanner — it is allowed to post and is actioned only on report
• Self-harm and mental-health content is never removed or punished for being a cry for help — venting and peer support are welcome (see Section 14c and our support space, Huni Haven)
• Reported and flagged content is reviewed by our safety team and may be escalated to appropriate authorities if required by law
• Any automatic removal of illegal content is subject to human review, and false positives are restored promptly with notice to the author
• Huni reserves the right to cooperate with law enforcement when there is a credible threat of harm
• The safety scanning system is designed to protect the community and does not replace human judgment

14(a). Safety scanning of direct messages

The same automated safety scanner that runs on posts and comments also runs on direct messages between members. The scan looks for the same fixed pattern set (drug sale, weapons sale, commercial-sex solicitation, human trafficking, credible threats of violence, signs of self-harm or distress, and predatory advances) and runs in the background, on a best-effort basis, after you press send. The scan is non-blocking and never prevents you from sending. To preserve the encrypted-at-rest copy of your message, the scanner reads the plaintext message before it is encrypted for storage; the plaintext is not retained beyond the scan, only the resulting verdict is. Because DMs are encrypted with a server-held key (not end-to-end), flagged content can be surfaced to moderators for safety review, with every such access recorded in the admin audit log.

14(b). Sensitive-information notifications

When the scanner flags a direct message under a sensitive-information category (personally-identifying information, doxxing or targeted doxxing, swatting risk, predatory advance, or blackmail / extortion patterns), HuniWhisp issues two informational notifications: one to the sender explaining the implications of sharing the content (including the risk of the message being screenshotted and forwarded) and indicating that the message has been flagged for review; and one to the receiver displayed above the message bubble warning the receiver to read carefully and to avoid sharing their own personal information in reply. The message itself is not deleted. These notifications are informational; reporting the message remains the responsibility of the recipient under Section 14b.

14(c). Safety-learning feedback loop

When a moderator confirms a flagged post or link as genuinely dangerous — or marks one as a false positive — HuniWhisp records the decision into a private safety-learning dataset used to improve scanner accuracy and language coverage over time. The dataset records the category, a short excerpt (truncated) of the content, the matched pattern, and the detected language of the excerpt across the languages HuniWhisp supports. The dataset does not record information used to re-identify the author beyond what is operationally necessary for moderator review. By using the Platform you consent to your flagged content being included in this internal review-derived dataset for the limited purpose of improving safety enforcement.

14(d). Automated screening of uploaded media (images, audio, video)

By uploading media to the Platform — images, voice notes, audio clips, or video — you acknowledge and consent that the media may be screened by automated safety systems, which may include processing of the media content by third-party AI services (for example, automated transcription of audio so the transcript can pass through the same safety scanner as written posts, or automated analysis of an image), as disclosed in the Privacy Policy. Media screening is asynchronous and non-blocking: it runs after your post is published and never delays or prevents publication. Screening outcomes follow the same graduated tiers as the rest of this Section 14: media indicating distress or self-harm is routed to support, never punished; flagged media may be de-amplified, labelled, restricted, or attached to a moderation queue; and automatic removal remains reserved for the illegal or imminently dangerous tier only, subject to human review with prompt restoration of false positives. Screening verdicts and audio transcripts are retained as moderation records. You may appeal any media-screening action through the same channels as any other moderation decision — by replying to the moderation notification or contacting support — and the right to human review of automated decisions applies in full.

How realistic an image looks (Huni Depiction Sense™). When automated screening returns a finding on an image, the system also weighs how realistic the image is — whether it reads as a photograph, as a rendered depiction (a video-game screenshot or render, animation, illustration, drawing, painting, comic, or other digital art), or as unclear. That reading moves the confidence we require before acting on a finding, and nothing else. A rendered depiction requires more confidence before we act on graphic violence or gore, or weapons; a photograph requiresless confidence before we act on weapons; an unclear reading changes nothing at all. Explicit sexual content receives no rendered leniency — nudity is held to the same bar in every medium, drawn or photographed — with one narrow exception: a work of classical or fine art (sculpture, museum pieces, classical painting) presented as art is not treated as explicit content in its own right. That exception is withdrawn automatically where the post the image appears in carries a sexual signal — the accompanying text supersedes the artwork — and it never applies to any depiction of a minor, in any medium, where “it’s art” is no defence. Every such adjustment is clamped into a fixed per-category range set in our code, which the automated calibration loop is bound by as well. This weighting never applies to child-safety findings, self-harm imagery, hate symbols, or scam and phishing imagery, in either direction: a drawn, animated, rendered, or AI-generated sexual depiction of a minor is treated exactly as a photographed one, and being fictional is never a defence. Screening itself is unchanged — every upload is still screened, every finding is still recorded, and the sensitivity screen below is not relaxed for rendered imagery. Huni Depiction Sense™ is proprietary to HuniWhisp (see Section 28 and Section 28c).

Sensitivity screen (SensitiveGate™). Imagery depicting self-harm, fresh wounds, blood, or graphic violence is placed behind an all-ages sensitivity screen: the image is blurred for every viewer regardless of age and only displays after a deliberate reveal, with crisis-support links presented on the screen. The post’s text is not hidden. The most-graphic self-harm tier (for example active cutting with visible blood) is removed from public feeds; in that case the author receives a supportive, non-punitive notice explaining why and pointing to support, the post is routed to our support space, and a moderator is paged for a wellness check — we treat it as a person who may need help, not as an offender. Moderators may also apply or lift the sensitivity screen, or perform this graphic-self-harm removal, manually. Proprietary mechanic. SensitiveGate™ — the all-ages deliberate-reveal media screen with on-gate crisis support, text-preserving partial screening, and supportive-removal-with-wellness-page handling of graphic self-harm — is proprietary to HuniWhisp (see Section 28); your use of it grants you no ownership or other right in the feature itself.

14(f). Huni Media Pass™ — scoped permission for restricted imagery

A member — or a group's owner or admin on behalf of the group — may request permission to post imagery that automated screening would otherwise de-amplify, explaining why the permission is needed. An administrator reviews the request and grants or denies it. A granted pass is scoped to the categories named on it and is revocable at any time. Its duration is chosen by the administrator who grants it: 180 days is the default, not a ceiling — a longer term may be set (up to ten years). Every pass expires — the Platform issues none without an end date, and a pass that runs until it is revoked or the feature is switched off. A pass is a permission HuniWhisp grants, not an entitlement you can claim: we may decline any request, and holding a pass never places your content outside these Terms.

A pass can only ever cover three categories: explicit sexual content, graphic violence or gore, and weapons. No other category can be placed on a pass — that limit is fixed in the product and re-checked every time the screening system reads a pass. Within its scope, a pass suppresses a single flag: the unverified-alert flag that a finding in a named category would otherwise raise on the post. That one flag drives four visible effects, and suppressing it removes all four — the post is no longer down-weighted in feed ranking, it no longer carries the “Unverified” label on its card, sharing it no longer raises a warn-before-you-share prompt, and its link and preview cards are no longer withheld on that basis (posts made inside a group have their preview cards withheld regardless). It changes what is done about a finding, never whether the finding is made or recorded.

Everything below continues to apply in full to a member or group holding a pass:

• Every upload is still queued for screening. A pass never exempts an upload from the queue; screening runs against a daily processing budget, so an upload beyond that budget is screened shortly after it becomes visible rather than before
• The sensitivity screen (SensitiveGate™) is not lifted by a pass. A separate Platform setting can relax that screen for clearly rendered imagery; it is off, and a pass does not reach it either way
• Adult imagery posted under a pass is tagged NSFW by the Platform itself, rather than left to the poster to tag. Editing the post afterwards to strip that tag is an attempt to evade Section 29, is a Terms violation in its own right, and is a ground to revoke the pass — see Section 29
• Child-safety findings and self-harm findings are untouched, as are the removal of the most-graphic self-harm tier described above, an AI provider's own refusal to process an image, and matching against the known-bad-image library
• A member known to be under 18 never benefits from a pass, even where one was granted and the account's stated age changed afterwards, and an account known to be under 18 cannot request one. This protection keys on the age we know about an account: where an account has never given us an age, that account is not identified as a minor for this purpose
• A finding suppressed by a pass is still recorded in the moderation record, at the same severity it would have carried without one, so it never sorts below findings we acted on. The record is not identical, though: it names the pass that suppressed the action and the realism reading that was applied, so the paper trail shows both what was found and why nothing followed from it
• Content that breaks these Terms is still actioned under Sections 13, 16, 17, 27, and 27c (Violence, Bullying, Harassment & Persecution). A pass is not permission to post prohibited content, and posting prohibited content under one is itself a ground to revoke it
• If HuniWhisp switches the feature off, every existing pass stops applying

Proprietary mechanic. Huni Media Pass™ — the scoped, time-bounded, revocable imagery permission described above — is proprietary to HuniWhisp (see Section 28 and Section 28c); being granted a pass gives you no ownership or other right in the feature itself.

Huni is a confession and storytelling platform, not a dating, hook-up, or sexual-introduction service (see also Section 16a). Using the messaging system, comments, or any other surface to make unwanted sexual advances on other users is a serious violation of these Terms and may result in immediate account suspension on first credible report.

Prohibited behavior between users

The following conduct is prohibited regardless of which user initiated the conversation, regardless of whether the recipient has previously replied, and regardless of the privacy mode of the channel (public comment, DM, group, Live Huni, autograph note, or reveal exchange):

• Unsolicited sexual messages, sexual emojis, sexual GIFs, or sexual images sent to a user who has not invited that content
• Sexually suggestive "console talk", role-play openers, or scenario prompts dressed up as friendly small-talk
• Grooming-style approaches between adults — building false intimacy quickly, isolating the recipient from other contacts, escalating to sexual content over time, or using flattery to lower the recipient's guard
• Pressure tactics such as "don't tell anyone", "keep this between us", "you'll get in trouble if you screenshot this", or guilt-tripping a user for not engaging
• Unsolicited offers to meet in person framed in sexual, intimate, or "just us" terms
• Money-for-favors solicitation — offering cash, gifts, donations, autograph payments, or wallet transfers in exchange for sexual content, dates, or any intimate interaction
• Requesting nude photos, partially-clothed photos, or sexual videos from another user, whether by direct ask, hint, or trade
• Sending the above to a user who has explicitly asked you to stop, blocked you, or used Private Mode against you

Special protections for vulnerable users

Users who post about emotional distress, mental health struggles, grief, loneliness, recent trauma, or who have indicated they are a minor receive heightened protection. Approaching such a user with sexual content, romantic propositions, or grooming-style messages is treated as an aggravated violation and may result in permanent ban without progression through the standard strike system in Section 16. Vulnerability is assessed from the surrounding context — a confession about a breakup, a diary about loss, a post tagged with mental-health categories, or a stated age — and the burden is on the approaching user to read the room.

In-app warnings on flagged content

HuniWhisp runs an automated detection system that flags messages and comments matching predatory patterns. When a flag fires, you will see a warning banner before you view or respond to the content. The warning is informational — it does not delete the message and does not pre-judge the sender. You retain full control: the banner offers Block, Report, and Dismiss. Dismissing the warning does not waive any of your rights under these Terms, and the underlying flag is still available to our safety team if you report the user later.

Your responsibilities as a recipient

• Report flagged content using the in-app report button on the message, comment, or profile, or by emailing support@huniwhisp.com
• Block the sender so they can no longer contact you. Blocking is one-tap from the warning banner, the profile, or the conversation header
• Do not engage. Replying, even to refuse, can be used by predatory senders to keep a thread alive — silence plus block plus report is the cleanest path
• For serious cases (threats, sextortion, attempts to obtain images of minors, off-platform stalking) save screenshots before you block, since blocking will remove your access to the conversation
• If you receive content that may involve a minor, or content suggesting imminent harm, report it immediately and, where appropriate, contact local law enforcement directly

Enforcement

• First credible report of unsolicited sexual content or predatory grooming → account suspension pending review, regardless of strike count
• Aggravated approaches on a vulnerable user (as defined above) → suspension on first report, with escalation toward permanent ban
• Anything involving a minor, sextortion, or non-consensual intimate imagery → permanent ban, content preservation, and referral to law enforcement and (where applicable) NCMEC's CyberTipline. This is consistent with the Criminal Activity Disclosure in Section 7 and the Child Safety Standards linked from /child-safety
• Anonymity does not shield a sender from any of the above — see Section 7

Encryption note — Guardian Scan™. Direct messages are encrypted as described in Section 9 — with AES-256-GCM using a server-held key (encrypted at rest), not end-to-end. The safety scan runs server-side on the message text. If, and only if, that scan detects a serious safety pattern, the flagged message is surfaced to moderators and a flag is recorded; every such access is written to the admin audit log. What you see as the sender depends on the pattern: serious predatory or illegal content produces no on-screen notice (to preserve evidence and avoid alerting an offender), self-harm or distress routes crisis-support resources to you, and personal-information or scam patterns show a gentle caution. Audio, video, and file attachments are not currently supported in direct messages; if introduced, they would be scanned server-side as well. Reporting a conversation still discloses its contents to our moderators, as described in Section 9.

HuniWhisp is a place where people share hard things, and some of those things are heavy. To support users in distress, the Platform runs an automated detector over new posts and comments looking for language that suggests suicide ideation, self-harm, or significant mental-health distress. This sub-section explains what the detector does, what it does not do, and the limits of the support it provides. It supplements the broader safety scanning described in Section 14 and works alongside the user-to-user protections in Section 14b.

What we do

• New posts and comments are scanned for suicide-ideation and mental-health-distress patterns at the moment they are submitted
• When a match is detected, you (the author) are shown a supportive popup that lists crisis hotline numbers and gently encourages reaching out to someone you trust before continuing
• Viewers of a flagged post may see a small "here's how to help" banner with the same hotline information
• We do not auto-delete, auto-edit, auto-blur, or block the post — you remain in full control of whether to publish, edit, or take it down
• You may dismiss the popup and continue posting; doing so is not held against you and is not recorded as a violation

Privacy

• The scan runs on the same content you are already publishing publicly to the Platform — it does not read your DMs, drafts, or anything you have not chosen to post
• We log scan outcomes (the matched category and a severity score) so we can tune the detector and reduce false positives. We do not log or retain the full text separately for this purpose; the post text itself is stored only because you chose to publish it
• We do not share your content, identity, account information, or scan outcomes with any hotline, crisis service, or other third party. The hotline numbers shown in the popup are static contact information that you may choose to use; reaching out to them is your decision, made directly

Not a professional service

HuniWhisp is not a clinical, medical, psychological, counselling, or therapeutic service. The mental health support system is informational only and is provided on an "as is" basis. The hotlines, text lines, and directories surfaced in the popup and banner are operated by independent third parties under their own terms and privacy policies; we do not control them, do not endorse any specific clinical outcome, and are not responsible for the availability, response time, or quality of service of any third-party crisis line.

Emergency referral

In cases of immediate risk to life — active self-harm in progress, a stated imminent specific plan to harm oneself or another person, or a credible threat made in real time — HuniWhisp may notify law-enforcement or other relevant authorities. This may occur (a) when the affected user explicitly requests intervention, or (b) where local law requires reporting to a relevant authority. Where it is safe and practical to do so, we will inform the user before or at the same time as such a notification. This sits alongside, and is consistent with, the Criminal Activity Disclosure in Section 7 and the broader cooperation with law enforcement described in Section 14.

Limits and accuracy

• Detection is statistical and imperfect. It can miss content that should have triggered a popup (false negatives) and it can fire on content that is not actually about suicide or distress (false positives — e.g. song lyrics, fictional storytelling, dark humour)
• The presence or absence of a popup or banner is not a clinical assessment of risk and must not be relied on as such
• Please do not rely on the detector as a safety net for someone in your life. If you are worried about a friend, family member, or another user on the Platform, reach out to them directly, in person where possible, and contact local emergency services or a crisis line if you believe their life is in danger
• Repeated or aggravated misuse of the support feature — for example posting deliberately distressing content to fish for support banners, or weaponising the feature to target another user — is treated under the standard strike system in Section 16 and, where the target is a vulnerable user, may engage the heightened protections in Section 14b

Huni Haven — a supportive home. Posts about self-harm or distress are never removed for being a cry for help. They stay in the normal feed and also appear in Huni Haven, an opt-in support space with crisis resources pinned and clear rules: you can vent and seek peer support freely, but encouraging anyone to harm themselves, or sharing methods, instructions, or graphic detail, is not allowed and will be removed.

If you are in immediate danger, please call your local emergency number (for example 911, 999, 112, or 000) or go to your nearest emergency room. The hotlines and resources surfaced in-app are listed on the Safety page and the public Guides page under "Mental Health & Crisis Support".

Trusted-contact quiet alert

• You may optionally save one trusted contact — an email address you choose — together with an optional short message and a choice of whether to include your approximate location. The contact's email is stored encrypted at rest, the same way your own email is
• When you send a "quiet alert", HuniWhisp emails the person you chose a calm check-in request on your behalf. It is never sent to police, a crisis line, or any other third party, and there is no automated dispatch of any kind
• If you opt in, that email may include your approximate, IP-derived location (roughly city/region level, and possibly imprecise) so the person can reach you; nothing more precise is ever sent
• You are responsible for choosing a contact who has agreed to receive these messages, and for using the feature in good faith. To prevent misuse, alerts are rate-limited per account
• This is a convenience for reaching someone you trust — not a monitoring or emergency-response service. HuniWhisp does not and cannot contact emergency services on your behalf; if you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number

When several accounts pile on to one member at once — coordinated harassment, dogpiling, brigading — blocking and reporting each one individually is slow exactly when speed matters. The Harassment Shield™ is a one-tap protective action that consolidates the defensive work a targeted member has already done. Activating the Shield gathers the accounts the member has already blocked, or has already reported for harassment-class conduct, within a recent window (currently the last 30 days, capped at a fixed maximum number of accounts per activation), and in a single action:

• Bulk block. Every gathered account is blocked for the activating member in one action, with blocking enforced in both directions as described in Section 9
• Auto-filed reports. A moderation report is automatically filed against each gathered account, so our team reviews the incident without the member having to file each report by hand. These reports are reviewed like any other report — auto-filing is a convenience, not a pre-judgment
• The shield list. The gathered accounts are added to the member's shield list — “accounts this member has shielded against.” The shield list presents the member's own protective actions; it is not a platform finding of guilt, an adjudication, or a statement by HuniWhisp about any listed account. Appearing on a member's shield list carries no automatic platform penalty. While the Shield is on, accounts the member blocks afterwards are added to the list as they are blocked
• A releasable announcement. Activation prepares a short announcement the member may release at any time of their choosing — or never. When released, it is published on the member’s own profile. A Shield announcement is a distinct surface from Shoutouts (Section 25a), consumes no Shoutout allotment, and is available to all members at no charge. Release requires the Shield to be enabled, a member may have at most one live announcement at a time (releasing again replaces the previous one), and a cooldown applies between releases. The announcement text is screened by our safety scanner — both when it is saved and again before it is published — and content the scanner judges illegal is refused. This screening is scanner-based only; it is not the full public-post review pipeline (there is no hold-for-review or support disposition, and no media scan — announcements are text only)

What the Shield does not do. The Shield does not detect who is piling on. It does not scan the Platform for attackers and it never adds an account the member has not themselves blocked or reported. A member who has not yet blocked or reported anyone will gather nothing on activation; the Shield turns work the member has already done into one protective action, and the member extends it by blocking.

Abuse of the Shield. The Shield exists to protect targets of pile-ons, not to weaponize block lists against innocent members. Shield activations and shield-list entries may be reviewed by our moderation team, and entries may be removed where the feature was used abusively — for example to defame, to retaliate against a good-faith critic, or as part of a coordinated campaign. Repeated abusive use of the Shield is itself a violation of these Terms and is actioned under Sections 16 and 17.

Proprietary mechanic. The Harassment Shield™ — the one-tap pile-on defense combining bulk auto-block, auto-filed moderation reports, the member-owned profile shield list, and the member-releasable prepared announcement — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28 and Section 28c). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission.

Huni Keeper™ is the Platform's human-supervised learning moderation assistant. It studies the Platform's own moderation record (the verdicts human moderators have already made), identifies recurring violation signals, and may assist moderators by flagging content for human review, by triaging items already waiting in that review queue within the strict limits set out below, by drafting support replies for a human to approve, by sending supportive outreach when a member shares content routed to support, and by delivering platform maintenance and update announcements to members who receive platform news in-app rather than by email.

Scheduled cycles and full-content review. The Keeper runs on a cycle scheduled by our administrators (configurable from hourly to weekly, or set to manual-only), and each cycle it works a bounded batch of items already awaiting human review. For each item it performs a full-content automated review — an automated language model reads the whole post together with the findings of our automated image scan, rather than matching isolated words or phrase fragments. By using the Platform you acknowledge that content you post publicly may be processed in this way for safety purposes. Direct messages are not read by the Keeper at all, and the review is a moderation step only — it is not used to profile you, to target advertising, or to train third-party models (Section 28b).

What the Keeper may do on its own — and what it may never do. Following that review the Keeper may take exactly one of five bounded actions on a queued item, and nothing else: (i) approve — mark the item clear so it leaves the human review queue; (ii) route to support — move the post into the Platform's support lane and send its author a supportive notice rather than any penalty; (iii) add the NSFW (18+) tag to mature content posted without one — the post stays up and is only blurred in feeds until a reader opts in, exactly as if the author had tagged it; (iv) place a sensitivity screen over an image showing graphic content — a tap-to-reveal blur on the media only, with the written content untouched; or (v) escalate — alert every administrator while leaving the item in the human queue. When it reviews a flagged comment, it reads the surrounding conversation — the post and nearby replies — so sarcasm, quoting, and in-jokes are not mistaken for violations. Anything it is not confident about is left exactly as it was. The Keeper can never delete, remove, hide, or unpublish content, and can never issue a strike, restrict, suspend, ban, or de-anonymize an account. Those remain human decisions under Sections 16 and 17.

Human oversight, always. Every Keeper action is administrator-supervised and written to an audit trail that administrators can review, and any of them can be reversed by a person — an approval simply returns the item to the human queue. Signals the Keeper learns take effect only after a human administrator adopts them, and when its evidence is ambiguous it asks the moderation team rather than acting. Administrators may switch the Keeper's cycle off entirely at any time. Enforcement decisions on your content remain human decisions, and are appealable at the Appeals Center under Section 17.

Automated support replies. Simple support questions that our published guides already answer may receive an instant automated reply from the Keeper, clearly labeled as automated. Anything complicated or sensitive — including bug reports, payment or billing matters, legal requests, account-security issues, account deletion, reports about another member, anything involving a minor, and any message our safety systems flag — is never answered automatically and goes to a human. Replying to an automated answer always routes your next message directly to a human teammate.

Maintenance and update announcements. Acting as the Platform's maintenance administrator, the Keeper may deliver platform maintenance and update announcementsto members as clearly-labeled, one-way in-app messages. This is the fallback channel for members who are not subscribed to update emails (Section 12a) — subscribed members receive the same announcements by email instead, and those emails always carry a one-click unsubscribe. Delivery is the entire function: an announcement is a send, not a read. The Keeper still never reads direct messages — including any reply made in an announcement thread — and an announcement carries no moderation weight and takes no action on your account.

Assisted verification. When the self-serve email-verification help flow has run and a member still cannot verify, the Keeper offers an escalation: the member states the email address they believe their account uses, and the Platform compares it to the address on file using secure one-way hashes — neither address is ever displayed, echoed, or revealed. A match opens a review request carrying the Keeper's evidence summary and a recommendation. Every such request is decided by a human administrator: the Keeper never completes a verification and never refuses one, and the member is notified of the outcome either way. Mismatched attempts receive a generic answer that never indicates what differed, are capped per day, and are logged.

Proprietary mechanic. The Huni Keeper™ system — the verdict-corpus learning cycle, the ask-instead-of-guess moderation question queue whose answers train the system, the admin-adopted flag-only tripwire layer, the admin-scheduled full-content, thread-context-aware triage cycle whose entire action vocabulary is approve / route-to-support / NSFW-tag / sensitivity-screen / escalate with content deletion structurally excluded, the guide-grounded human-approved support-drafting mode, and the blind hash-compared assisted-verification lane in which the assistant gathers evidence but every decision remains a human administrator's — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28 and Section 28c). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission.

What it does. When you submit a post, its text is rated automatically for how closely it sits to the rules in this agreement and the Community Rules. Above a set rating, we show you which rule areas were detected, restate those rules in plain words, and ask you to confirm that your post follows them before it publishes.

It does not block you, and it does not read who you are. You may always choose to post anyway, and the check runs on the words in the draft alone — it does not identify you, does not de-anonymize you, and does not change who can see your post. A rating is not a finding that you broke any rule, and a post that publishes after this step has not been approved: normal moderation, reporting and removal continue to apply exactly as described in Sections 14 and 14e.

Your confirmation is recorded. When you confirm, we store that you were shown this reminder, the rating, and the rule areas involved — never the text of your draft. That record may be used when reviewing a later report or appeal about the post.

Never shown for distress. Posts about self-harm, suicidal thoughts or emotional distress are deliberately excluded from this rating and never trigger this step. Writing about those experiences is permitted here and is not a rule violation; those drafts are offered crisis support instead, as described in Section 14d.

Proprietary mechanic. The Pre-publish Rule Check™ — the violation-risk rating derived from context-adjusted safety classification, its structural exclusion of self-harm and distress content, and the recorded rule acknowledgement bound to the resulting post — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28 and Section 28c). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission.

Authors of confessions have the right to moderate comments on their own posts. This includes:

• Blurring specific parts of comments
• Editing comments with a stated reason (original content is preserved)
• Deleting comments with an optional reason
• Appointing trusted moderators to assist with comment management
• All moderation actions are logged and auditable
• Moderators act independently and are not agents of Huni
• Appointed moderators may receive compensation from authors — such arrangements are between the parties

A super-administrator may view and change the settings and preferences on your account — the same ones you control yourself: notification and email preferences, privacy and profile-visibility toggles, display options, your declared age bracket, and your interface language. This exists so that support can repair an account you are unable to repair yourself, and so that a setting with safety consequences can be corrected without delay.

We bind ourselves to the following limits on that power, and they are not waivable by staff:

• You are always notified. Every change sends you a notification naming the settings that were changed. There is no silent mode and no way for an administrator to suppress that notice.
• Every change is audited — the previous value, the new value, and the administrator responsible are recorded in our admin audit log.
• It does not extend to your identity, credentials, or content. This power cannot change your email address or password, and it is not a means of reading your posts or private messages; access to message content is governed separately by §9 and our Privacy Policy.
• It is not an enforcement route. Suspending or removing an account is a different power under §17 and always requires a stated written reason, which is recorded and delivered to you with an appeal route. An administrator cannot use this settings surface to suspend an account.

If you believe a change to your settings was made in error, you may raise it through the appeal process in §17 or contact support; we will restore the prior value where the change was not warranted.

All posts on Huni must be relevant to the category and tags they are posted under. Posting content that has nothing to do with the selected category or tags is a violation of these Terms. Huni enforces a progressive strike system to maintain content quality and community trust:

16a. Romance, Relationship & Dating-Adjacent Content

Huni is an anonymous confession and storytelling platform. The Romance category, the Relationships sub-category, and any romance, dating, hook-up, marriage, breakup, or attraction-related tags exist solely to organise first-person stories and confessions about those topics. Huni is not a dating site, matchmaking service, introduction service, escort service, or relationship-brokerage platform of any kind, and Huni does not facilitate the formation of romantic or sexual relationships between users.

Huni makes no representations or warranties about, and accepts no responsibility or liability for: (a) the truthfulness, accuracy, identity, age, relationship status, intentions, or character of any user posting under the Romance category or any romance-adjacent tag; (b) interactions, meetings, communications, or relationships (online or offline) that arise between users in connection with Romance-category content or DMs initiated as a result of such content; (c) any emotional, reputational, financial, or physical harm resulting from such interactions; or (d) the outcome of any actual or attempted relationship, partnership, or meeting.

Using Huni to solicit dates, hook-ups, sexual encounters, marriage proposals, mail-order spouses, sugar arrangements, escort services, or paid companionship — including via posts, comments, direct messages, or profile content — is a violation of these Terms and may result in immediate account suspension regardless of strike count. The same applies to posts whose primary purpose is to identify, locate, recruit, or contact a specific real person (named or otherwise) for romantic or sexual purposes.

If you choose to share contact information, identifying details, or arrange an off-platform meeting with another user, you do so entirely at your own risk. Huni provides anonymity by design; we have no way to verify the identity, age, location, or stated relationship status of any user, and encrypted-DM contents are not accessible to Huni for safety review. Standard online-safety practices apply: do not share personal identifiers, financial information, or your home address with strangers; verify identity through video before any in-person meeting; and meet in public places.

The general Strike System below applies to Romance-category posts the same as any other category — but dating-solicitation, escort/companionship-solicitation, and use of Huni as a dating service are per-se violations that may bypass the strike escalation entirely. Users harmed by other users met through Huni must pursue any legal remedy directly against the other party, not against Huni or its operators.

Strikes are cumulative and do not expire. Administrators review all strikes and may adjust the severity based on context. You will be notified each time a strike is issued against your account. The strike system applies equally to anonymous and public posts — anonymity does not protect against content policy violations.

Other safety measures. In addition to the strike and ban systems, Huni may apply other proportionate safety measures to an account — including limiting the reach, visibility, or delivery of an account's interactions — where we, or a member using the Platform's safety tools, judge it necessary for the safety or wellbeing of members. Such measures may be applied without notice and are not required to be disclosed to the affected account.

Reporting in good faith. An honest report never carries consequences, even when we conclude no rule was broken. However, knowingly false, harassing, or retaliatory reporting is itself a violation: repeated bad-faith reports may result in a member's ordinary reporting ability being paused for a period, and may be actioned under this Section. No reporting restriction ever blocks the gravest report categories — reports of child safety concerns, non-consensual intimate imagery, doxxing, swatting, stalking, or threats of violence are always accepted, from every account, because a person in danger is never noise.

Images and other media you upload are screened by the automated safety scanner and, where flagged, by human review. When media is determined to violate these Terms — whether at scan time or on review — the following applies:

• Immediate removal, everywhere it appears. Media blocked for a violation is removed from the Platform the moment the verdict is reached, without prior notice — including profile avatars and cover images, post and comment attachments, and galleries. Removal applies wherever the file appears, not only where it was first uploaded.
• Automatic strike. A blocked or confirmed media violation may automatically record a strike against the account under the Section 16 strike system, with a notification stating the reason. An automatic strike is appealable like any other strike — and if human review finds the automated verdict was wrong, the strike is reversed automatically and any public standing tag it produced clears immediately per Section 17.
• Encrypted evidence preservation. Media removed for a violation is not destroyed. It is preserved in encrypted form as evidence, inaccessible to the public, with access restricted to designated personnel and every access logged. It is retained for as long as reasonably necessary to report to and cooperate with law enforcement, child-safety organizations, and other proper authorities, and to establish or defend legal claims. This evidence copy is not deletable by the account: account deletion, content deletion, and data-erasure requests do not extend to it, to the extent permitted by applicable law (see Privacy Policy §6).
• Self-harm removals are a safety matter, not a punishment. A removal triggered by self-harm-related media never records a strike — it routes to the Section 14c mental-health support system instead, consistent with our commitment that a cry for help is never punished.

This section governs Platform-side enforcement evidence and is separate from the reporter-initiated Authority Evidence Vault described in Section 28e, which holds material a reporter compiles voluntarily under keys the Platform cannot open.

When content is removed for violating these Terms, it does not always simply vanish. Huni may leave the removed item visibly sealed in place: the spot where it stood shows a neutral cover stating that the content was removed and naming only the general class of the violation (for example harassment, explicit content, or sharing personal information) — as part of the public record that the conduct is not tolerated here. By using the Platform you acknowledge that a sealed cover may remain where your removed content was.

• The content itself stays removed. A sealed cover never republishes any part of the removed item: the title, body, media, and author identity behind a seal are withheld from everyone and are not transmitted to any visitor. Sealing is a treatment of the cover, never of the content
• The reason class is general, deliberately. Where naming the offence precisely could re-harm a person involved (for example where private information was shared), the cover states only a general privacy-protective reason
• Crisis content is never sealed. Removals connected to self-harm or crisis content are a safety matter, not a punishment (Section 16b), and are never re-surfaced under a violation cover. The gravest zero-tolerance categories are likewise never re-surfaced in any form
• Appeal path — the Appeals Center. A seal rides on the underlying removal: the removal (and any strike) is appealable through the existing Appeals Center like any other moderation action, and a successful appeal lifts the seal along with the removal it was attached to. A seal is not an additional sanction and does not change your strike count

Proprietary mechanic. Violation Lock™ — the sealed-in-place removal cover described above, including its server-side withholding rule, its reason-class taxonomy, and its crisis exclusion — is proprietary to HuniWhisp (see Section 28).

Huni enforces a 3-level ban system:

• Level 1: Restricted from commenting on specific posts or areas
• Level 2: Restricted from commenting and viewing certain content
• Level 3: Full platform suspension

All bans can be appealed through our appeal process. Appeals are reviewed by platform moderators or administrators. Temporary bans (timeouts) expire automatically.

Public standing tags. An account carrying an active ban or recent moderation strikes is marked with a factual standing tag on its public profile (“Banned account” / “Active strikes”), so other members can exercise care. The tag states only the fact of the sanction — never the reason or any private detail — and is computed live. The ban tag lasts as long as the ban. The strike tag decays on a schedule scaled to the strike count: roughly one month for a first strike, three months at two strikes, and progressively longer for repeat offenders, up to a fixed cap — it is a caution, never a permanent mark. Positive participation shortens it: posting, commenting, and reacting within the rules earn the window down, up to half its length. A successfully appealed (voided) strike clears the tag immediately — an exonerated member carries no mark. The Platform's internal moderation record is unaffected by the public tag's decay and persists per Section 16.

Standing tags are not yours to remove. Standing tags appear beside your username wherever it is shown — on posts, on comments, on your profile and on the profile card other members see — and they remain visible for as long as the underlying fact is true. You cannot hide, change or switch them off, and no account setting will remove them; they lift only when the sanction itself lapses on the schedule above or is cleared on appeal. This is deliberate: a mark that exists to inform other members would be worthless if its subject could turn it off. The separate achievement tag beside your username is yours — you choose which earned achievement to feature, or none at all — and that choice never affects a standing tag.

Huni Amends marker. While you have a post living in Huni Amends, the space for hard and controversial topics, a neutral marker appears beside your username so other members have that context. It is not a sanction and not a finding against you — it states only that such a post exists, whether you posted it there yourself or it was transferred there. Like the standing tags it cannot be hidden by you, and like them it is computed live: it lifts on its own if the post is moved out or removed. It is distinct from the “Made amends” honour, which is earned through reflection and community vouching, is a positive mark, and is yours to feature.

Zero-tolerance child-safety violations bypass the strike ladder entirely. Most enforcement escalates in steps (warning, content removal, temporary suspension, then permanent suspension). The following categories do not: child sexual exploitation, grooming behaviour directed at a minor, predatory sexual advances, and sexual content directed at, or knowingly shared around, underage members. A single confirmed incident in any of these categories results in the permanent suspension of your account on the first occurrence, regardless of your prior history, together with the associated device/network restrictions described above. There is no warning step and no second chance in these categories.

Protection for survivors and people reporting harm. Describing abuse that was done to you, reporting abuse done to someone else, or quoting an offender in order to report them is never treated as committing that offence. Because the categories above are detected partly from language, and survivors necessarily use that same language to describe what happened to them, every zero-tolerance enforcement is first screened by an automated check for disclosure, reporting and third-party framing. Where that screening indicates a disclosure or a report, the automatic suspension is withheld and the matter is routed to a human moderator, whose decision to proceed anyway is separately recorded. You should never feel unsafe telling your own story here.

The Appeals Center (decisions other than account bans). Separately from the ban-appeal process above, the following may be appealed in-app at /appeals: (i) a strike recorded against your account under Section 16; (ii) a content moderation action on something you posted — removal, moderator blur, or hiding of a confession, comment, or diary entry; (iii) a group enforcement action taken against you within a group; and (iv) a block placed on you by another member, on the limited terms in the next paragraph. Account bans are not filed here — they continue to use the ban-appeal process above, which /appeals links to.

One appeal per action; decisions are final. You may submit one appeal per strike, per moderated item, per group action, and per block. An appeal is a reply, not an ongoing channel. Appeals of the first three kinds are reviewed by a human administrator, are marked granted or denied, and that determination is final — it does not create a right to further review, to a hearing, to an explanation beyond the note provided, or to any particular outcome or timeframe, and nothing in this paragraph limits Huni's rights under Sections 16 and 17. Submitting an appeal does not suspend the action appealed. Repeated, abusive, or automated appeal submissions may themselves be actioned.

We may revisit our own decisions. “Final” above describes the limit of your right to further review; it does not stop us from correcting ourselves. An administrator may re-open a moderation decision at any time and change it — including restoring content that should not have been actioned — whether or not you appealed. Every such change is recorded alongside the decision it replaced. This creates no obligation to revisit any particular decision and no right to request that we do.

Appeals of a member block work differently. A block is another member's personal choice and Huni does not adjudicate it. An appeal of a block is delivered as a single message to the blocking member, who may unblock you or ignore it entirely. The blocking member is under no obligation to read, respond, or act; Huni does not review, decide, or escalate block appeals; and the appellant is never told whether the appeal was read, granted, or ignored — deliberately, because a delivery or read signal would function as a contact oracle for someone who has been asked to stop. You may not use the appeal form to harass, threaten, plead repeatedly with, or otherwise continue contacting a member who has blocked you; doing so is a violation of Section 27c (Violence, Bullying, Harassment & Persecution) and these Terms.

How appeal text is handled. The text you write in an appeal is screened by our safety scanner in plaintext before it is stored — both as the normal illegal-content screen and, for block appeals, as the guard against the form being used as a further contact channel — and is then stored encrypted at rest, on the same basis as direct messages (Section 9). Appeals may be read by moderators and administrators for the purpose of deciding them, subject to the oversight and audit-log commitments in Section 14 and Section 28c(y), and block appeals are readable by the blocking member to whom they are addressed. Do not include payment details, government identifiers, or another person's private information in an appeal.

Ban evasion is strictly prohibited. When an account receives a permanent ban, the associated IP address may also be banned to prevent the creation of new accounts. Attempting to circumvent a ban by creating alternate accounts, using proxies, or any other method will result in immediate permanent restriction of all associated accounts and IP addresses without appeal.

Circumventing these Terms — alternate, secondary, or “burner” accounts. You may not create or operate any additional, secondary, alternate, duplicate, or throwaway account in order to evade, defeat, or work around these Terms, a moderation decision, a strike, a content or rate limit, a block, or a ban. This expressly includes creating or using a separate account to post content you would not risk on your main account — for example, posting prohibited, abusive, or rule-breaking content from a “burner” or throwaway account so that a primary, preferred, or higher-reputation account is shielded from strikes, suspension, or removal (“account laundering”). It also includes using multiple or coordinated accounts (“sockpuppets”) to inflate or manipulate reactions, credibility votes, comments, reports, polls, referrals, giveaways, or any other signal; to harass someone or evade a block; or to present yourself as more than one person.

Where we reasonably determine that two or more accounts are operated or coordinated by the same person or group to circumvent these Terms, we may treat them as a single actor and take action against all of the linked accounts — including the account being “protected”— up to and including strikes, suspension, and permanent termination, and we may remove content posted through any of them. To detect and prevent this abuse we may associate accounts using signals such as device, browser, network/IP, and behavioral patterns, consistent with our Privacy Policy. Nothing in these Terms entitles you to a second, replacement, or “backup” account, or to continued access after enforcement, and returning under a new identity is itself a violation.

Huni Stories allows users to share personal experiences, narratives, and real stories with the community. By using this feature:

• A Huni Story should be an actual story with enough substance — there is a minimum length. Very short posts will be posted as regular posts instead, so the Stories space stays a home for real narratives
• You retain ownership of your stories but grant Huni a non-exclusive license to display, distribute, and promote them on the Platform
• Stories must comply with all content policies and prohibited content rules
• Tags and media attached to stories are subject to moderation
• Stories are published under your chosen username (your pseudonym) — pick a username that cannot be traced back to you
• Interactions (reactions, comments, shares) on stories follow the same rules as other content

Huni Bookworms is a dedicated space for honest confessions about books — reviews, hot takes, guilty pleasures, and reading experiences. By using this feature:

• Bookworms is strictly for books — reviews of, or discussions about, a book or anything book-related. This expressly includes religious books such as the Quran or the Bible
• Posts must relate to books, reading, authors, or literary topics — posts that aren't about a book may be removed or reclassified as a regular post, and off-topic posts are subject to the strike system (Section 16)
• You retain ownership of your content but grant Huni a non-exclusive license to display and distribute it on the Platform
• All content policies, moderation rules, and prohibited content rules apply equally to Bookworms posts
• Spoiler tags should be used when discussing plot details that may spoil the reading experience for others
• Posts are published under your chosen username (your pseudonym)
• Tags should accurately reflect the book, genre, or topic being discussed
• Interactions (reactions, comments, shares) follow the same rules as other content types

Author Verification: Real authors of books may claim authorship on Bookworms posts by submitting proof of credentials (publisher links, social media profiles, ISBN references, or author websites). Verification claims are reviewed by administrators.

• Verified authors receive a visible "Verified Author" badge on their claimed posts
• Submitting a false author claim is a serious violation — if caught, the claim will be revoked and a "Not the actual author" label will be displayed on the specific post(s) where the false claim was made
• Users with similar usernames or display names to real authors who make false claims will also be flagged
• The "Not the actual author" flag is only applied to posts with revoked false claims, not all posts by the user
• False author claims may result in strikes under the content relevance policy (Section 16)

Huni provides an Identity Reveal system that allows users to request the identity of anonymous post authors. The author who chooses to reveal their identity is referred to as the "Revealer". By using this feature, you agree to the following:

The NDA is an optional but recommended part of the Identity Reveal process. The Revealer decides whether to require an NDA. By signing an NDA on Huni:

• Your digital signature carries the same legal weight as a handwritten signature
• Your full legal name, IP address, and timestamp are recorded as part of the signing record
• The signed NDA may be used as evidence in legal proceedings by either party
• Breach of the NDA — including sharing, distributing, screenshotting, or publishing revealed information — may result in permanent platform ban and legal liability for damages
• The NDA is designed to protect the Revealer and provide legal recourse in case of breach
• Huni stores NDA records securely but does not act as a legal mediator between parties
• Both parties are encouraged to seek independent legal advice before signing if they have concerns

Huni Diaries allows users to create personal journals with date-based entries. By using this feature:

• Diaries are anonymous by default; you may set a display name separate from your username
• Entries can only be created for past or current dates, not future dates
• Cover images may be customized with layout, position, and zoom settings
• If you enable donations on your diary, you agree to Huni's platform fee structure for processing, and donor-privacy choices apply as described in Section 10
• Followers of your diary will receive notifications when you post new entries
• Deleting a diary soft-deletes it; data may be retained per our data retention policy

What a diary is — and staying a diary

A Huni Diary is an ongoing personal journal, not a one-off post. To keep the Diaries space meaningful, a diary should be a real, continued diary with at least 3 entries. A diary that has not reached 3 entries within 14 days is automatically reclassified as a regular post and labeled accordingly, so the Diaries space stays a home for genuine, continued journaling.

Huni allows users to create temporary posts ("Momentary Hunis") that are automatically removed from public view after a user-selected duration. By using this feature:

• Unless a Momentary Huni is kept permanent before its timer expires (see below), it is removed from the platform at the end of the chosen period (10 minutes to 24 hours). It leaves the live posts table entirely — it is not merely hidden — and no user, including the author, can ever see, recover, restore or retrieve it again
• Keeping a Momentary permanent. Before the timer expires, a Momentary Huni may be converted into a permanent post: readers can cast a "keep" vote, and the author (seeing that interest) — or a HuniWhisp administrator — may finalize it as a permanent post. Once kept, it stops counting down, becomes an ordinary permanent Huni, and is governed by all Terms that apply to permanent posts. If the timer elapses without it being kept, the removal described above is final
• Safety and moderation evidence — what we keep, and for how long. Because the ephemeral format is attractive to people testing what our moderation will accept, an encrypted copy of every Momentary Huni is kept for 60 days from the moment it is posted, and is then deleted for good. The copy also records whether the post was anonymous, and keeps the reactions and replies the post drew (reply text encrypted the same way) — a record that cannot say what was said back is not a usable record of an incident, and without the anonymity flag a post restored later could be republished under a name its author never put on it. During those 60 days the copy is used only to investigate and act on abuse, to respond to reports and appeals, to comply with law, and to restore an expired post where its author asks for it back or a platform administrator restores it. Apart from such a restore — which republishes the post itself, keeping the anonymity it originally had — it is never shown to another member, never used for advertising, personalisation, recommendations or analytics, and never joined to any feed, search, profile or export. Only HuniWhisp moderators can open one; every single opening is logged against the moderator's name, with the reason they gave. See Privacy Policy §6
• Reactions, comments, shares and bookmarks on a Momentary Huni are deleted along with the post when it expires; counts and any attached media are recorded inside the same 30-day encrypted evidence copy described above
• Users cannot extend, recover, or restore expired temporary posts once the timer has elapsed. The evidence copy is not a backup and cannot be restored into a post
• Data may be retained beyond the 30-day window only where the law requires it or where a preservation request, investigation, or legal claim is open — and, in those cases, only for as long as that purpose lasts
• Abuse of temporary posts to evade moderation, circumvent the strike system, or post prohibited content is strictly forbidden and will result in strikes or bans as outlined in Section 16
• Content policies, prohibited content rules, and all other Terms apply equally to temporary and permanent posts
• Copy and print protection is applied to momentary posts. Attempting to circumvent these protections is a violation of these Terms
• Users may subscribe to momentary post notifications with customizable time frame preferences

Huni Q&A is a third post type alongside regular and Momentary Hunis. A Q&A post is a question (selected from a pre-written prompt or written by the user) that the community answers in the comments. By using this feature:

• Pre-written prompts are curated by Huni and may be added, edited, or removed at any time without notice. They are intended as conversation starters, not legal or professional advice
• Q&A posts and the answers (comments) are subject to the same content policies, prohibited content rules, anonymity protections, and moderation system as any other post on the platform — see Sections 12–16
• Comments on any post (including Q&A posts) may receive emoji reactions from signed-in users, drawn from Huni's reaction palette — an evolving set of emotes (such as heart, laugh, clap, fire, relatable, cool, grateful, and more) that Huni may expand or adjust at any time. Counts are public; individual reactor identity follows the same anonymity rules as posting
• A comment or reply may optionally be anchored to a single media item (a photo, video, or audio clip) attached to the post. The anchor — shown as a small "about photo #2"-style chip on the comment — is public, is part of the comment, and is subject to the same content policies, anonymity protections, and moderation system as the comment text itself
• Comment "heat tags" (such as Hot Take, Comedy Gold, Relatable, Wholesome, Cool, Mind-Blowing, Agree to Disagree, and Top Reply) are computed automatically from the raw reaction mix — once a comment crosses a significant reaction threshold, its dominant reaction-group determines the primary tag, and where two or three reaction-groups are closely tied, up to three tags may be shown together. Huni does not store, persist, or curate the tag itself — it is a real-time visual indicator and may change as engagement shifts
• Heat tags carry no editorial endorsement. A "Hot Take" tag is a signal that the comment received polarising reactions, not that Huni agrees with it. Users should not infer platform endorsement from any heat tag
• Abuse of Q&A or the comment-reactions system to coordinate brigading, manipulate visibility, or evade moderation is strictly forbidden and will result in strikes or bans as outlined in Section 16

The same heat mechanic described in Section 23b for comments also runs on posts. A post may publicly display its emoji-reaction counts and, once engagement crosses a significant threshold, one or more automatically-generated heat tags determined by the post's dominant reaction-group — and, where two or three reaction-groups are closely tied, up to three tags shown together — drawn from an evolving set of labels such as Hot Take, Comedy Gold, Relatable, Wholesome, Cool, Mind-Blowing, Agree to Disagree, and Top Reply. By using the Platform you acknowledge and agree:

• Emoji-reaction counts on posts are public. Individual reactor identity follows the same anonymity rules as posting
• Post heat tags are computed automatically from raw reaction and comment counts (with higher thresholds than comments, since posts accrue more engagement). Huni does not store, persist, or curate the tag itself — it is a real-time visual indicator that may change as engagement shifts
• Post heat tags carry no editorial endorsement. A tag signals an engagement pattern, not that Huni agrees with, verifies, or recommends the content. Users should not infer platform endorsement from any heat tag
• Auto-shoutouts. When a post earns a strong heat tag and crosses a high engagement bar (currently a heat tag plus at least 15 total reactions on a post, or a comment thread where a reply earns a heat tag with at least 6 total reactions), the system may automatically generate a shoutout (see Section 25a) that surfaces the celebrated content publicly. These auto-shoutouts have no human sender, are time-limited (they expire automatically, currently after about 48 hours), are minted at most once per post, and carry no editorial endorsement
• Abuse of the post-reaction or heat system to coordinate brigading, inflate engagement, manufacture a heat tag or auto-shoutout, or otherwise manipulate visibility is strictly forbidden and will result in strikes or bans as outlined in Section 16
• Proprietary mechanic. Huni's reaction palette, the heat-tag system, the dominant-reaction-group-to-tag mapping, the close-tie multi-tag selection (showing up to three near-tied tags together), the named tags and their thresholds, and the associated badge/glow treatment are proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 9). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission

Live Huni sessions are real-time interactive events hosted by users. By participating:

• You agree to follow all Platform rules during live sessions
• Session hosts have the authority to moderate participants
• Live messages are subject to the same content policies as other Platform content
• Sessions may be password-protected or invite-only at the host's discretion
• Huni is not responsible for content shared during live sessions

Huni provides a digital Huni Autographs™ system where any user can create unique, collectible signatures that others can collect, and any user can request an autograph from any other user. Each minted autograph is digitally unique, timestamped, and cryptographically locked. By using this feature:

• Autographs may include messages, greetings, images, and/or videos with customizable templates
• Each collected autograph receives a unique mint number and cryptographic signature hash, making it verifiable and one-of-a-kind
• Authors may give an autograph away free, accept an optional tip (the collector chooses the amount), or set a fixed price. Any tip or price is processed through the Huni wallet system. In the autograph context, “tip” means a voluntary, optional amount the collector chooses to add — it is not a purchase price and does not change what the collector receives
• Authors may limit the total supply of an autograph or leave it unlimited
• Once collected, an autograph belongs to the recipient and appears in their profile collection
• Autographs cannot be transferred between users — they are permanently tied to the collecting account
• Huni charges a platform fee on paid autograph transactions and on tips
• Digital autographs are collectible items with no guaranteed monetary value. Huni does not operate a secondary marketplace and makes no representations about the future value of any autograph
• Not an NFT or crypto-asset. Huni Autographs are ordinary records in Huni's own database. They are not NFTs, not blockchain tokens, not cryptocurrency or any other crypto-asset, and not a security, investment, or financial product. They confer no ownership stake, no dividend or revenue right, and no expectation of profit. The cryptographic signature hash described above is an internal integrity check that makes a collected autograph verifiable and tamper-evident — it does not place the item on any blockchain or public ledger, and the item cannot be resold or traded (see the non-transfer rule above)
• Creating autographs with misleading content, impersonation, or intellectual property violations will result in removal and potential strikes
• Proprietary mechanic. The Huni Autographs™ system — including the canvas-captured scalable signature format, the animated pen / paper-template rendering, and the per-autograph authenticity-certificate code — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission

A shoutout is a short, public message of positive recognition a member can send. There are two kinds: general shoutouts (to a post, another member, or the whole community) surface in the "Shoutouts" rail on the home page, and group shoutouts surface on that group's own page. By using this feature:

• Member-created shoutouts are limited to registered, email-verified accounts. Email verification here is a light anti-abuse deterrent (see Section 10b), not a security boundary
• Allotments. Each member has a limited allotment of shoutouts they may give, tracked separately for the general and group pools (the group allotment is shared across all groups, not granted per group). Non-premium members receive a one-time allotment per pool that does not renew; premium members receive a larger allotment that renews each billing period, scaled by tier. All amounts are set by Huni, are subject to change at its discretion, and unused allotment does not roll over
• Paid benefit — consumable, non-refundable. Any shoutout allotment included with a paid subscription is a consumable benefit of that subscription. It has no independent cash value, is non-refundable, does not accrue or transfer, and is forfeited on downgrade, cancellation, non-renewal, suspension, or termination, and at the end of each billing period for that period's unused amount. This is consistent with the virtual-economy and non-refund terms in Sections 10 and 10a
• Timed / expiring. Every shoutout displays for a limited window (currently about 24 hours) and then expires, so each rail self-cleans. Huni may also deactivate a shoutout for moderation reasons or honour a sender's retraction
• No guarantee of reach or visibility. Shoutouts are surfaced on a best-effort, rotating basis and may be shown to different viewers at different times. Huni does not guarantee that any shoutout will be delivered to, seen by, or remain visible to any particular number of members, or seen at all. Any displayed "seen" figure is an approximate, aggregate signal of viewership, not a guarantee, metric of record, or promise of reach
• View tracking. To power the rotating rail and the aggregate seen count, the Platform records which signed-in members have viewed a shoutout. This is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy
• Content rules apply. Shoutout messages are public content and must comply with all of these Terms and the Safety & Community Guidelines. Shoutouts must be positive recognition; using them to harass, defame, spam, impersonate, amplify abuse, or evade moderation is prohibited and may result in strikes or bans under Section 16. Huni may remove or withhold any shoutout, and may suspend a member's allotment for abuse, without refund
• Sender identity follows the same anonymity and privacy rules as the rest of the Platform — a private member's username is not revealed in the public rail
• Auto-shoutouts. Some shoutouts are system-generated rather than member-created: when a post earns a strong heat tag and crosses a high engagement threshold (see Section 23c), the Platform may automatically mint a shoutout celebrating that content. Auto-shoutouts have no human sender, bypass the verification and allotment rules above (there is no sender to gate), are equally time-limited, and carry no editorial endorsement by Huni — they surface engagement, not a recommendation
• Proprietary feature. The Shoutouts feature, including its rails, rotation and recognition mechanics, and allotment system, is part of Huni's proprietary Platform and intellectual property (Section 28). Your use of it grants you no ownership or other rights in the feature itself
• Proprietary mechanic — Huni Empathy™. The Huni Empathy system — the mood-aware peer-support panel and its seventeen-mood framing (support / celebrate / validate / reassure / listen / general / grieve / heartbreak / brave / proud / hype / advise / giggle / nostalgia / ponder / cozy / welcome), the text-inference triggers that match a panel to a post's own words, the category-bucketed support-template system, and the cheer/hug recognition mechanic with its mood-matched one-tap reactions — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission

Your dashboard may show a daily reflection — a short motivational quote that rotates once per day. By using this feature:

• Quotes are drawn from public-domain and licensed quote collections and are attributed to their stated authors. HuniWhisp does not claim ownership of the quotes themselves, which remain the intellectual property of their respective authors or rights-holders
• Quotes are provided "as is", for general encouragement and reflection only, without any warranty as to accuracy, attribution, completeness, or appropriateness. They are not professional, medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice, and should not be relied upon as such
• The daily reflection is on by default and can be disabled at any time from your dashboard; when off, no quote is shown
• If you believe a quote is misattributed or shouldn't appear, you can let us know and we'll review it

You agree NOT to post content that:

• Is illegal, threatening, harassing, defamatory, or discriminatory
• Constitutes hate speech targeting individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics
• Contains personal information of others without their consent (doxxing)
• Promotes violence, self-harm, or illegal activities
• Offers to sell controlled drugs, offers to sell weapons, or solicits commercial sex (including escort services, paid companionship, and adjacent arrangements). Discussion, confession, or storytelling about these topics in a personal context is not prohibited; brokering the underlying transaction on the Platform is
• Contains sexually explicit material involving minors
• Infringes on intellectual property rights of others
• Is spam, phishing, or commercial solicitation
• Solicits money, donations, handouts, tips, or gifts from other members — for example posting a payment handle (Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, a $cashtag, etc.), a fundraiser link, or messages like “send me money,” “gift me,” or “anyone willing to donate.” Venting about hardship (e.g. “I'm broke and struggling”) is always allowed; directly asking members for money is not. The Platform's built-in Support feature (Section 10) is the only sanctioned way to receive support from others
• Impersonates another person or entity
• Attempts to manipulate the Platform's ranking, scoring, or credibility voting systems
• Contains malware, viruses, or other harmful code
• Encourages or facilitates any of the above

This applies across all categories on Huni, not just Bookworms — it's about the content, not where it's posted. Respectful discussion, review, and sharing of religious works — including the Quran and the Bible — is welcome anywhere on the Platform.

Insulting, demoralizing, disrespecting, mocking, or hateful content toward any religion, religious text, or believers is prohibited. Such posts or comments will be removed when reported and reviewed, and the responsible user receives strikes under the strike system in Section 16. Repeated or severe violations can lead to suspension or a permanent ban.

This applies across all categories and all surfaces of Huni — posts, comments, direct messages, groups, and live sessions. The following are prohibited:

• Threats of violence against any person or group, whether direct, veiled, or conditional
• Glorifying, celebrating, or encouraging violence, or inciting or instructing others to commit it
• Bullying and harassment — targeting, demeaning, intimidating, or relentlessly attacking a specific person
• Persecution — pursuing, hounding, or seeking to harm or silence someone for who they are or what they believe

Such content is removed when reported and reviewed, and the responsible user receives strikes under the strike system in Section 16, up to suspension or a permanent ban for repeated or severe violations. Credible imminent threats of violence may additionally be removed automatically and escalated to authorities as described in Sections 7 and 14. Anyone who is the target of bullying, harassment, or persecution can report the content and the responsible account, block the user, and seek peer support through our support space. Anonymity does not shield a user from these rules — see Section 7.

A granted permission does not narrow this Section. The prohibitions above apply across all categories and all surfaces, to every member and every group, and nothing anyone can be granted changes that. Where HuniWhisp has granted a Huni Media Pass™ under Section 14(f), the permission reaches only how automated screening responds to an imagery finding of graphic violence, gore, or weapons — it does not make any conduct listed above permissible. Threats, glorification or encouragement of violence, bullying, harassment, and persecution remain prohibited for a pass holder exactly as for anyone else; such content is removed on report whether or not a pass is in force, the strikes in Section 16 apply unchanged, and the pass itself may be revoked.

This applies across all categories and all surfaces of Huni — posts, comments, direct messages, groups, live sessions, and identity reveals. In addition to the general prohibition on posting another person's private information (Section 27), the following are specifically prohibited:

• Doxxing. Posting, compiling, or sharing private identifying information about any person without their consent — including real name behind a pseudonym, home or work address, phone number, place of employment or study, license plate, or precise location.
• Threat-to-dox / dox extortion. Threatening to leak, publish, or "drop" someone's private information, identity, or intimate images unless they do, pay, or stop doing something. This overlaps with the blackmail and sextortion prohibitions and is treated with the same severity.
• Dox-as-a-service. Offering, soliciting, advertising, or trading the location or de-anonymisation of any person — e.g. "DM me for their address", selling personal information, or offering doxxing for hire or for payment.
• Targeted doxxing / brigading. Pairing a person's private information with a call to action to find, visit, confront, harass, or show up at that person in real life.
• Swatting and false emergency reports. Threatening to summon, or actually summoning, police, SWAT, or emergency services to a person's location — including making or threatening a false report of a bomb, shooting, hostage, or active-shooter situation at someone's address. Swatting is a documented precursor to real-world death or injury and is treated as a severe violation.

Our automated scanner specifically detects doxxing, targeted-doxxing, and swatting-threat patterns; when these fire, the content is archived with context and a human is paged. Separately, when content is reported as doxxing, a swatting threat, non-consensual intimate imagery, a threat of violence, or a child-safety concern, it is fast-tracked as a priority-zero (P0) report: all moderators are paged at once, every time. The reported post is additionally and reversibly hidden from public view pending human review when the report is corroborated — by our own safety scanner, by a second independent reporter, or by the reporter's established track record — so that a single false report cannot silence a post; an uncorroborated P0 report still pages every moderator for immediate human review. A P0 hide is not a deletion — content reported in error is restored.

Doxxing, threat-to-dox, dox-as-a-service, targeted doxxing, and swatting are per-se violationsthat may result in immediate suspension or a permanent ban regardless of strike count. Credible threats and false emergency reports may additionally be preserved and referred to law enforcement as described in Sections 7 and 14, and using information obtained through the Identity Reveal system for any of these purposes is an aggravated violation under Section 20. Anonymity does not shield a user from these rules — see Section 7.

Common-Law Trademarks (™). The following names, marks, logos, taglines, and trade dress are claimed as common-law trademarks of Nexude LLC (the company that operates HuniWhisp), first used in commerce in 2025 and continuously used thereafter. All rights reserved. The absence of a registered ® symbol does not waive any rights — common-law trademark rights arise from use and priority of use, and are enforceable independent of federal registration.

• HuniWhisp™ (the platform name)
• Huni™ (the short brand name)
• huniwhisp.com (the brand domain)
• Momentary Hunis™ (timed self-removing post feature)
• Momentary Evidence Window™ (the bounded, disclosed, moderator-only evidence period applied to expiring posts)
• Huni Q&A™ (community-answered prompt feature)
• Huni Diaries™
• Huni Stories™
• Huni Reviews™
• Huni Bookworms™
• Live Hunis™
• Huni Aspirations™ / Aspirations & Goals (as branded on this Platform)
• Huni Autographs™
• Huni Habits™ (the named-habit daily check-in + streak + anonymous solidarity-counter feature)
• Huni Empathy™ (the mood-aware peer-support panel: seventeen-mood framing, text-inference mood triggers, support-template system, and the cheer/hug recognition mechanic with mood-matched one-tap reactions)
• Huni Games Room™ (the daily skill/social game suite at /games)
• Six-Word Whisps™, Two Truths, One Lie™, Riddle at Dusk™, and The Caption Circle™ (the individual Huni Games Room games)
• The Two Truths, One Lie™ “credibility-meter-as-lie-resolver” mechanic (community truth-votes resolve which statement is the lie, confirmed by the author after a delay)
• The Caption Circle’s “this is so real” meter™ (the community resonance meter on a daily-image caption)
• Riddle at Dusk’s blurred-until-you-guess nightly-riddle solve-streak™ mechanic
• Huni Ads™ (the self-serve, wallet-funded advertising platform at /advertise)
• Huni Coins™ (the in-app coin currency displayed at 1 Coin = $0.01 over the wallet balance, with bonus-coin purchase packs and tier-scaled premium coin rewards)
• Guardian Scan™ (the direct-message safety model: server-side scanning of message text encrypted at rest, with flagged content surfaced to moderators for safety review and every such access written to the admin audit log)
• SensitiveGate™ (the all-ages media sensitivity screen: self-harm / blood / graphic imagery is blurred for every viewer behind a deliberate-reveal gate with crisis support on the gate, the post text stays visible, and the most-graphic self-harm tier is removed with a supportive author notice and a wellness page rather than a punishment)
• Huni Age Firewall™ (the bidirectional minor-protection messaging gate: members under 18 can direct-message only other under-18 members — adult↔minor messaging is blocked server-side in both directions — driven by an optional private date of birth with automatic adult rollover on the member's 18th birthday)
• Huni Accountable Oversight™ (the audited admin-oversight model: broad staff access to member content — including server-side-encrypted spaces and DMs — paired with a named, fixed set of cryptographic and policy no-go walls, every access written to a tamper-evident admin audit log)
• Huni Checklists™ (the interactive, embeddable checklist content type with a live progress meter)
• Huni Visibility-Aware Share™ (share / QR / link-preview that propagates a post's anonymity and the author's profile-visibility state, so private, group, or anonymous content can never be surfaced off-platform)
• Huni Profile Share™ (the shareable anonymous-handle profile link, profile QR code, and anonymity-safe share card that expose only the public pseudonym and aggregate counts — never a real name, email, or identity)
• Huni Offline Outbox™ (queue-and-replay of actions taken while offline, synced on reconnect)
• Huni Post Covers™ (the curated first-party catalog of decorative gradient cover banners a poster may optionally apply to a confession, referenced by a short style key and shown only when the author supplies no image of their own — together with its mood taxonomy, its guarantee of a free cover in every mood, the permanent one-time Huni Coin unlock for the paid covers, and the retire-from-the-picker rule under which a withdrawn cover keeps rendering on posts that already use it)
• Huni Custom Covers™ (the premium member-supplied post background — a still or animated image uploaded to HuniWhisp itself and carried as ordinary post media so it inherits the Platform's scanning and takedown, where the post publishes immediately but the cover appears only after it clears review, animated covers are normalised and de-flickered at upload, and feeds show only the static poster so motion plays on the reader's tap rather than while scrolling)
• Huni Voices™ (the voice-first audio-post category: audio-only posts with an optional text caption, transcribed and safety-scanned like every other post)
• Harassment Shield™ (the one-tap pile-on defense: bulk-blocking the accounts the member has already blocked or reported recently, with auto-filed moderation reports, the member-owned profile shield list, and a member-releasable prepared announcement published on the member’s own profile)
• Reputation Lock™ (the account-bound reputation meter that survives username changes, with time-decayed negative marks and a monthly good-standing repair credit)
• Huni Keeper™ (the Platform's human-supervised learning moderation assistant: the verdict-corpus mining cycle that proposes flag-only violation signals from the Platform's own moderation record, the ask-instead-of-guess admin question queue whose answers train the system, the admin-adopted flag-only tripwire layer, the scheduled full-content, thread-context-aware triage cycle bounded to approve / route-to-support / NSFW-tag / sensitivity-screen / escalate, and the guide-grounded, human-approved support-reply drafting mode)
• Pre-publish Rule Check™ (the composer-side violation-risk rating and rule reminder: a 0–100 rating derived from context-adjusted safety classification of a draft, a threshold above which the member is shown the specific rule areas detected and must affirmatively confirm compliance before publishing, the structural exclusion of self-harm and distress content from that rating, and the recorded acknowledgement bound to the resulting post — all without blocking publication or identifying the author)
• Huni Time Capsule™ (the coin-sealed message-to-your-future-self mechanic: a member pays Huni Coins to seal a private note for a chosen future delivery date, after which the note is unreadable and uneditable by everyone — including its own author — until the delivery date passes and the Platform unlocks it)
• Sponsor a Stranger™ (the double-blind membership-gifting mechanic: a member spends Huni Coins to place a month of premium membership on another member's account — a random active member, or the author of a chosen post — where the recipient learns only that a stranger sponsored them and the sponsor learns only that the gift landed)
• Huni Marketplace™ (the first-party coin storefront for cosmetic, ranking-neutral goods, opening with the profile-theme department)
• Huni Appreciation Gifts™, and the gift ladder Wisp™ · Echo™ · Halo™ · Beacon™ (the post-attached acknowledgement mechanic in which a member spends Huni Coins to place a named token on another member's post, where the coins are consumed rather than transferred, the recipient is shown the sender's handle and a worded acknowledgement but never an amount, and no ranking of senders by spend exists anywhere on the Platform)
• Pass It On™ (the reciprocity mechanic in which receiving an appreciation gift grants the recipient a free gift of the entry tier, valid for a limited window, issued as a direct entitlement rather than as currency so that it reaches members who cannot hold or spend Huni Coins at all)
• Caution Tag™ (the crisis-shielded solicitation notice: a neutral “verify before giving” badge applied to posts that ask readers for money or gifts, which requires two independent detection signals before it can attach, is structurally barred from crisis, distress and support content, halves ranking amplification rather than hiding the post, and is appealable by the author)
• Streak Shield™ (the daily-check-in streak protector that spends itself automatically when a missed day would break the streak, bankable up to three, with one shield granted free to every member every 30 days as a standing published commitment — backing the Platform's framing that a missed day earns recovery encouragement, not shame — where extra shields are coin-priced and a full bank refuses a purchase rather than charging)
• Huni Depiction Sense™ (the realism-weighted media screening layer: automated screening asks how realistic an image is — photograph, rendered depiction, or unclear — alongside what it contains, and that answer moves only the confidence required before the Platform acts on a finding, always clamped inside a fixed per-category range set in our code, while child-safety, self-harm, hate-symbol and phishing findings are immune to the adjustment in both directions)
• Huni Media Pass™ (the scoped, time-bounded, revocable imagery permission: a member, or a group through its owner or admin, may be granted a permission covering only explicit sexual content, graphic violence or gore, or weapons, which suppresses one flag on those findings alone — the unverified-alert flag, and with it the ranking down-weight, the “Unverified” label, the share warning and the withholding of link previews — while the screening of every upload, the sensitivity screen, the NSFW tag the Platform applies to adult imagery, child-safety and self-harm handling, the exclusion of known minors, and the recording of every finding all continue)
• Huni Amends™ (the age-gated, consent-gated category serving two purposes at once — an open floor on which members in good standing, having committed no violation, discuss difficult and controversial subjects, and the community-vouched way back: the single category in which a member banned or striked for hate conduct may still post and comment — there and only there, never anonymously — to reflect on what happened, where members with zero strikes and no bans may vouch for them, an admin-set vouch threshold sends the case to the team for reinstatement review with the community's backing attached, and both the backers and the reformed earn honors when the return succeeds)
• Group Treasury™ (the group coin pool: members contribute Huni Coins to their group's treasury as a one-way sink — coins are consumed, never paid to any person — and the group owner spends the ledger-derived pool on upgrades from a fixed first-party catalog of cover designs and group powers, while every control groups had before the treasury stays free)
• Huni Badges™ (the earned-emblem system: badges granted for milestones, honors, and platform history, of which a member features exactly one beside their username — auto-selected by notability with the “Made amends” honor first, member-overridable or hideable — and which never appear on anonymous posts or comments, so a mask stays a mask)
• User Peek™ (the hover / press-and-hold profile glance card: name, avatar, standing and honor tags, newest badges, and member-since surfaced in place without leaving the page — and structurally never shown for anonymous content)
• Huni Allowance™ (the paid-membership periodic coin grant scaled to what the membership actually cost — a free or fully discounted membership grants none, a grant never exceeds the money that bought it, allowance coins spend on the catalogue but never on membership time, and an unspent allowance expires with its period; see Section 37)
• Spare Change™ (the residual-balance stranding valve: a one-tap donation of any remaining coin balance — down to a single coin, below every catalogue price — into the Sponsor a Stranger™ pool, so a spend-only balance always has a useful outlet other than buying another pack; see Section 10a)
• Violation Lock™ (the sealed-in-place removal mechanic: content removed for a violation may keep its public slot as a sealed cover naming only the violation class — the removed title, body, and media never leave the server — together with its crisis exclusion under which self-harm and crisis content is never sealed, and the appeal route through which a successful appeal lifts the seal; see Section 16c)
• Huni Profile Card™ (the member-composed profile card: a back the member designs from separately-chosen background, texture, finish and holograph parts, and a front the member arranges from a capped number of interchangeable sections — carrying the member's own written line, a post of their choosing, their earned honors ordered rarest-first, and decorative accessories attached to the card — where every part offered for Huni Coins is presentation only, no part may imitate, obscure or displace an earned honor or a standing marker, and the card is structurally never rendered for anonymous content; see Section 28c(at))
• Rarest-First Honors™ (the countless rarity ordering: a member's earned honors are ranked for display by how few members across the Platform hold them, computed Platform-wide and cached rather than recomputed per view, with honor tier as the tie-break — while the honor families whose holder counts are visible only to their own holder are ordered by that same rarity internally and rendered by rung name alone, so the ordering never discloses a count it is barred from showing; see Section 28c(au))
• Huni Post Card™ (the post rendered as a two-sided card its author dresses individually: the writing stays the front, untouched, while the author composes the back from the same separately-chosen parts as their profile card, and any reader turns the card over by grabbing it at its edge and moving it — where the reverse shows only what the reader could already see, dressing changes nothing about ranking or reach, and an anonymous post is structurally never dressed at all, because a distinctive dressing would link an anonymous voice to the member who owns those parts; see Section 28c(av))
• Earned Finishes™ (the earned-only cosmetic class: card parts that cannot be bought at any price and are acquired solely by meeting a disclosed milestone the Platform already tracks — where earned parts are visually distinct from everything purchasable, a part once earned is never revoked, undiscovered hidden parts are never shown as locked slots or teasers, and no earning condition rewards volume of posting; see Section 28c(aw))
• Huni Finds™ (the discovered-cosmetic class: hidden card parts encountered while browsing ordinary spaces or earned by unhurried familiarity with one of them — where every placement is signed by the Platform and bound to one member and one day, each object is findable once per member for life and never in a support, crisis, Haven, private-message, report or age-restricted space, nothing may be rolled, packaged, bought, traded or accelerated, time-based conditions are capped daily so a long sitting is worth no more than a short one, and no condition is ever shown as a meter or progress hint; see Section 28c(ax))
• Huni Reveal Offer™ (the compensated-consent reveal mechanic: a member may attach Huni Coins or a pledged donation to an identity-reveal request on an anonymous post, where the payment accompanies the request and never purchases the identity — acceptance is the identity owner's free choice, declining or ignoring the offer is penalty-free and refunds the sender in full including the fee, everything except the standard platform transaction fee goes to the member, both sides must be verified adults, and the Platform never sells, compels, or performs a reveal itself; see Section 28c(ay))
• The Huni hourglass / orbit logo and its color palette (orange #ea7c1b on cream #f7eee0 and the dark counterpart)
• The product tagline(s) used on this Platform
• Any other distinctive name, logo, icon, badge, button, color combination, or visual element introduced by HuniWhisp on this Platform from time to time

Prohibited Uses. Without prior written authorization from HuniWhisp, you may not (a) use any of the marks above, or any name or mark that is confusingly similar, in any company name, product name, app name, domain name, social-media handle, hashtag, advertising material, merchandise, or business identifier; (b) imply affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by HuniWhisp; (c) register or attempt to register any of the marks (or any confusingly similar mark) with any trademark office or domain registrar; or (d) display the marks in a manner that disparages, dilutes, or tarnishes their reputation. Nominative fair use (e.g. truthfully referring to “HuniWhisp” in a news article or review) is permitted, provided you do not suggest endorsement.

Platform IP. The Platform's source code, compiled binaries, database schemas, APIs, machine-learning models, anti-abuse systems, ranking and moderation algorithms, design files, copy, illustrations, and overall “look and feel” (trade dress) are proprietary works owned by Nexude LLC and protected by copyright, trade-secret, and database-right laws worldwide. You receive no license to any of the foregoing except the limited, revocable, non-exclusive right to access and use the Platform as an end user under these Terms.

User Content License (cross-reference). Content you upload remains your intellectual property, subject to the license you grant HuniWhisp under Section 4 to host, display, distribute, and moderate that content on the Platform.

Brand Evolution Does Not Waive Rights. HuniWhisp may update, refresh, or replace any logo, color scheme, icon, or visual identity at any time as the Platform evolves. Continued use after a brand refresh constitutes acceptance of the new identity. A brand refresh is not abandonment of the prior mark — both prior and current visual identities continue to enjoy common-law protection so long as the underlying brand name remains in continuous use.

Reporting Misuse. If you become aware of unauthorized commercial use of the marks above (impostor accounts, knockoff apps, counterfeit merchandise, squatted domains, etc.), please report it to the contact email in Section 51.

In addition to the conduct rules elsewhere in these Terms, you agree NOT to do any of the following with respect to the Platform, its data, or its infrastructure without HuniWhisp's prior written authorization:

• Scraping, crawling, or harvesting any portion of the Platform or its content (whether public or behind authentication) by automated means, except by good-faith search-engine crawlers obeying our robots.txt.
• Bulk download or mirroring of users' posts, comments, profile data, or any other Platform content.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or attempting to derive the source code of the Platform, its mobile apps, its APIs, or any cryptographic or anti-abuse component.
• Bypassing or circumventing rate limits, paywalls, age gates, content filters, security mechanisms, captchas, or geographic restrictions, or attempting to access portions of the Platform you have not been granted access to.
• Automated account creation, including using disposable email services, residential-IP rotation services, anti-fingerprinting browsers, or stolen identity documents to register accounts at scale.
• Using Platform content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark machine-learning, large-language, or generative-AI models (whether commercial, academic, or personal), or for any other dataset-construction purpose, without an explicit written data-licensing agreement signed by an authorized HuniWhisp officer. The Platform's textual and visual content is not a public training corpus.
• Penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, denial-of-service testing, or any security probing against the Platform without prior written authorization. We welcome good-faith vulnerability reports — see Section 51 for the contact and our safe-harbor terms in the Bug-Bounty Disclosure (if published).
• Re-publishing, syndicating, or commercially exploiting any user-generated content from the Platform without the author's explicit consent and a license from HuniWhisp.
• Embedding the Platform in a frame, overlay, or wrapper appdesigned to misappropriate engagement, inject ads, or strip HuniWhisp branding.

We reserve the right to investigate, throttle, ban, and pursue civil and criminal remedies — including under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the EU Database Directive, and equivalent foreign laws — against persons or organisations who violate this section. Detected violations may also result in immediate account termination without refund.

The following user-visible mechanisms have been originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp and are claimed as proprietary product designs of HuniWhisp. The absence of a registered patent, design right, or trademark in any jurisdiction does not waive any rights — the rights claimed here include common-law trademark rights in the named feature labels, copyright in the user-facing implementation, trade-dress rights in the combined look-and-feel, and trade-secret rights in the underlying implementation details. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of any of the mechanisms below in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in these designs.

(a) Four-option Reveal Mode

The four-option Reveal Mode system — Anonymous, Show username, Scheduled reveal, and Threshold reveal — together with its auto-reveal eligibility stamping, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of the four-option Reveal Mode design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(b) Sound-warning YouTube embed gate & 0→20 volume ramp

The sound-warning YouTube embed gate, which embeds a video on a poster image with sound off, requires an explicit “play with sound” tap before any audio plays, and applies a 0→20 volume ramp after consent, is a proprietary HuniWhisp flow, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this consent-gated embed flow in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(c) Page-level YouTube gate decision-sharing

The page-level YouTube gate decision-sharing mechanism — which allows a single user choice on a sound-warning gate to apply consistently to every YouTube embed on the same page within a session — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this shared-decision design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(d) Repeat-flagged content gate (content-hash dedup)

The repeat-flagged content gate, which uses a content-hash deduplication record (content_hash) to block resubmission of previously-flagged content from the same account and to explain to the author which categories tripped the scanner and when, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this content-hash-keyed resubmission-block design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(e) Dangerous-link spam shadow throttle (3+ in 24h)

The dangerous-link spam shadow throttle, which quietly soft-pauses an account that posts three or more dangerous-verdict links within a 24-hour rolling window while preserving the rest of the community's feed quality, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this shadow-throttle design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(f) Comment-link safety verdict & autolinkify pipeline

The comment-link safety verdict system — which scans each first URL in a new comment at write time, stores a safe / suspicious / dangerous verdict alongside the comment, and renders the URL inline as a tappable chip with the verdict badge attached via its autolinkify pipeline — is a proprietary HuniWhisp design, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this verdict-attached autolinkify design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(g) Screenshot protection (native secure-screen block + web visibility-change overlay)

HuniWhisp's Screenshot Protection system — combining the native operating-system secure-surface / hide-from-recents screenshot block with a web-side visibility-change / capture-shortcut overlay (the “Screenshot Protected” overlay) and a per-account toggle — is a proprietary HuniWhisp system, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this cross-platform screenshot-protection design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(h) Four-lane edit + 24h owner window + admin bypass + per-field edit_history audit

The four-lane post-edit system — spanning confessions, aspirations, diaries, and stories — with a 24-hour owner edit window, an admin bypass for moderation-driven corrections, and a per-field edit_history audit log written as part of every edit, is a proprietary HuniWhisp design, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this combined edit-window-plus-audit design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(i) Group occupation gate

The Group occupation gate, which restricts group membership to members whose profile occupation matches a group-defined occupation requirement and enforces the check server-side at join time (not merely in the UI), is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this occupation-keyed group-gate design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(j) Admin manual user-add + first-login forced reset

The admin manual user-add flow, which lets a super-admin manually create a HuniWhisp account with a single-use temporary password and then forces the new member through a password reset on first login before any other Platform surface is usable, is a proprietary HuniWhisp flow, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this admin-invite + first-login-forced-reset design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(k) Safety-learning approved-flag feedback loop (multi-language)

The safety-learning approved-flag feedback loop, which captures admin-confirmed dangerous flags and admin-marked false positives, tags each with the detected language across the languages HuniWhisp supports, and feeds them into a continuously-improving safety-scanner training surface, is a proprietary HuniWhisp system, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this admin-confirmation-fed multi-language safety-learning design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(l) Organization submission inbox & moderation queue pattern

The organization submission inbox and moderation queue pattern — under which members of a verified organization's space submit anonymous content through a templated submitter-facing form, the submission is pre-screened by HuniWhisp's safety scanner at submit time so illegal-or-imminent-harm content never reaches the inbox, and surviving submissions sit in a pending queue visible only to the organization's admins until an organization admin approves or rejects them, with approve writing an attributed-or-anonymous post into the space and reject recording a reviewer note, all logged to the platform's admin audit trail — is a proprietary HuniWhisp design, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this organization-submission-inbox-plus-moderation-queue design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(m) Per-organization templated post types & auto-numbered confessions

The per-organization templated post type system — covering the platform-default template set (numbered confession, crush, birthday greeting, lost & found, event announcement, study-buddy request, recommendation, and general), each template carrying a defined field schema and a render-to-body function, combined with an auto-incrementing per-organization numbered-confession counter that assigns a stable ordinal to each published numbered confession within that organization's space — is a proprietary HuniWhisp design, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this templated-post-types-plus-per-org-numbering design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(n) Moderation assistant suggestion engine

The moderation assistant suggestion engine — which runs the safety scanner over each pending organization submission, derives a colour-coded verdict (green, amber, red, or escalate), maps the verdict to a one-click recommended action (Approve, Approve with edit, Reject with a pre-filled rejection reason drawn from the scanner verdict, or Escalate to HuniWhisp staff), surfaces the suggestion alongside the pending submission in the organization admin's queue, and routes the admin's confirmed decision back into the safety-learning surface in clause (k) to improve scanner accuracy — is a proprietary HuniWhisp system, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this verdict-fed one-click moderation-suggestion design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(o) Authority Evidence Vault — multi-method unlock + Shamir-combination encryption

The Authority Evidence Vault — comprising the reporter-driven authority-report wizard (authority-category selection, free-text recipient and jurisdiction, multi-format evidence upload covering image, audio, video, PDF, and text statements, and a narrative timeline editor), the client-side AES-256-GCM encryption of every evidence file and the narrative statement at finalize time, the multi-method unlock registration system (QR-code printout, WebAuthn biometric via the PRF extension, and Argon2id/PBKDF2-wrapped passphrase, registered in any subset), the Shamir Secret Sharing N-of-K combination that lets a reporter require two or more unlock methods together (for example QR and biometric, or 2-of-3 across QR + biometric + passphrase) to reconstruct the master key, the server-blindarchitecture under which HuniWhisp never holds, sees, or can recover the master key after finalize, the downloadable .huniwhisp-report bundle envelope format (JSON wrap envelope plus encrypted evidence blobs), the recipient unlock page at which an authority recipient presents the registered unlock token(s) and the bundle is reconstructed and decrypted entirely in the recipient's browser, and the opt-in platform-emergency-recovery admin-archive layer described in Section 28e clauses (j)–(m) (the reporter-controlled consent toggle at finalize, the additional Shamir share wrapped to an offline super-admin keypair, the multi-gate admin access pattern requiring archive-passphrase re-entry plus WebAuthn step-up plus reason-for-access logging plus a 5-open-per-24h rate cap plus two-key co-sign for force-open, and the in-browser-only decryption path that keeps the master key off our servers even when an admin is the one unwrapping) — is a proprietary HuniWhisp system, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this multi-method-unlock + Shamir-combination + server-blind + opt-in-admin-archive evidence-vault design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(p) Media-anchored comments (per-item comment targeting + tap-to-focus chip)

The media-anchored comment system — under which a commenter selects a single media item (photo, video, or audio clip) attached to a post from a picker in the comment composer, the comment or reply is stored with a reference to that specific item, and the comment row renders a tap-to-focus chip (for example “about photo #2”) that opens the referenced item in the post's media viewer — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this per-item comment-targeting design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(q) Anonymous Admin Voice (opt-in anonymous-but-official badge)

The Anonymous Admin Voice system — under which a HuniWhisp administrator may explicitly opt in, per post or per comment, to publish anonymously while the content carries a server-verified HuniWhisp Admin badge; the server stores and transmits only a single boolean official-voice flag and never the administrator's identity; the flag is accepted only from accounts verified server-side as administrators and is silently cleared otherwise; and an administrator's ordinary anonymous posts remain unbadged unless the toggle is used — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this opt-in anonymous-official-voice design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(r) Encrypted temporary offline reading cache

The encrypted temporary offline reading cache — under which a member may opt in, via an off-by-default account setting, to store a small member-chosen number of recent public posts on their own device for offline reading; each cached copy is encrypted at rest on-device (AES-GCM via WebCrypto), subject to a hard 24-hour expiry that applies even while the device remains offline, and fully purged and freshly re-cached whenever the device reconnects; caching is restricted to public posts only, categorically excluding self-destructing Momentary posts, private-group posts, and direct messages; and cached content is presented in a clearly marked read-only “Saved for offline” section — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this encrypted-temporary-offline-cache design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(s) What's New changelog + suggestion box (and license to member suggestions)

The What's New changelog and suggestion box — comprising the in-product weekly update surface that groups newly shipped features by week, links each entry to its matching help guide or FAQ anchor, surfaces a per-device “NEW” indicator that clears once the latest update batch has been viewed, and embeds an integrated “what would you like next?” suggestion box with a per-member daily submission allowance whose submissions are tracked on an internal product-triage board through lifecycle statuses (new, reviewing, planned, shipped, or declined) — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this changelog-plus-suggestion-box design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property law. We reserve all rights in this design. In addition, any idea, suggestion, feature request, or feedback you submit through the suggestion box, the feedback widget, or any similar channel is provided on a non-confidential, non-proprietary basis: HuniWhisp may freely use, implement, modify, adapt, and commercialize such submissions, in whole or in part, without compensation, attribution, or any other obligation to you, and submitting a suggestion creates no confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship between you and HuniWhisp.

(t) Integrated post-trust surface (consensus bar + source check + poster proof marking + share heads-up)

The integrated post-trust surface — the combined, post-keyed system under which (i) a community consensus bar renders the per-post split of community credibility votes (Believable / Plausible / Made Up) as a compact three-segment bar on post cards, gated behind a minimum-vote anti-brigading floor before any bar is displayed; (ii) Source check chips rate the publication behind an outbound link against a hand-curated reliability tier list (reliable, mixed, low, satire, user-generated), with uncurated domains deliberately rendering no chip; (iii) a poster proof-marking mechanism lets the author of a post designate individual attached media items as offered proof, rendering a per-item “proof” chip expressly attributed to the poster rather than to the Platform; and (iv) a pre-share heads-up interstitial interposes a single non-blocking informational pause before off-platform sharing of a post that is either automation-flagged as unverified or community-voted predominantly Made Up above defined vote and percentage thresholds — operating together with the credibility meter, community notes with reader-rated pinned context, and unverified-post de-amplification as a single inform-not-censor trust surface in which every signal is post-keyed (never aggregated to an author across posts), every signal is labelled by its origin (community, curated, automated, or poster), and no signal removes, edits, or blocks content or sharing — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated trust-surface design, in whole or in substantial part, in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(u) Fail-open tiered media screening (transcript-first audio path + support routing)

The fail-open tiered media-screening pipeline — the combined mechanism under which (i) uploaded media (images, voice notes, audio, video) is screened strictly after publication on a non-blocking, fail-open basis, such that no scan outcome, failure, or delay ever postpones or prevents a post from publishing; (ii) audio and video are moderated transcript-first, with the transcription run through the very same text safety scanner that governs written posts rather than a parallel media-only rule set; and (iii) automated media verdicts map onto the Platform's graduated disposition vocabulary — support-resource routing to Huni Haven instead of punishment for distress content, de-amplification and labelling for unverified-alert categories, and automatic removal reserved exclusively for the illegal/imminent tier — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this fail-open, transcript-first, support-routing media-screening design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(v) Huni Habits™ — named-habit daily check-in + private streak + anonymous solidarity lane

Huni Habits™ — the combined wellbeing mechanism under which (i) a member names a personal habit and records it with a one-tap daily check-in that is keyed to a UTC-stable daily reset so every member's day rolls over on the same shared clock; (ii) progress renders as a private streak count and heat-strip visible only to the member who owns it; (iii) members working on a habit of the same closed kind are grouped into an anonymous solidarity lane that exposes only aggregate solidarity counters (how many are working on it / checked in), never any individual's identity or text; (iv) members may send a one-way, no-reply “rooting for you” cheer tap into that lane, which cannot become a conversation or a direct message; and (v) a broken streak triggers a compassion-on-break response — a gentle fresh-start framing rather than a loss-aversion guilt nudge — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this named-habit, UTC-stable, anonymous-solidarity, compassion-on-break design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(w) Huni Games Room™ — daily skill/social games + novel per-game resolution mechanics

The Huni Games Room™ — the daily play suite at /games and its individual games Six-Word Whisps (a true micro-story in exactly six words), Two Truths, One Lie, Riddle at Dusk, and The Caption Circle — together with the specific resolution and engagement mechanics that distinguish them, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The novel mechanics claimed here include, without limitation: (i) the Two Truths, One Lie credibility-meter-as-lie-resolver, under which the community truth-votes which of three statements is the lie and the author confirms the outcome after a fixed delay (a community-credibility meter repurposed as the game's resolution engine); (ii) the Caption Circle “this is so real” meter, a community-resonance meter applied to one-line captions secretly written about the captioner's own life on a shared daily image; (iii) Riddle at Dusk's blurred-until-you-guess nightly riddle with a persistent solve-streak; and (iv) Six-Word Whisps' exactly-six-words true-micro-story constraint as a daily play form. Each game grants badges, achievements, and small, daily-capped, idempotent coin rewards for wins and streaks as described in Section 36b; this is a skill/social mechanic and is not chance-based wagering or gambling. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of these per-game mechanics, in whole or in substantial part, in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(x) Huni Ads™ — cheap, wallet-funded self-serve ad auction

The Huni Ads™ self-serve advertising platform at /advertise — in particular its wallet-funded, budget-reserving, deliberately low-cost self-serve auction, under which an advertiser tops up their own Huni wallet, a campaign reserves its budget from that wallet on creation, and per-click / per-impression / per-action delivery debitsthe reserved budget server-side under the Platform's transactions gate, all at intentionally low minimums (a roughly $1 minimum budget, a $0 ad-review fee, and low CPC/CPM defaults), with creative held for admin review and under-18 audiences excluded from both targeting and serving — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integrated cheap-minimum, wallet-reserve-and-debit self-serve auction as one shipped path; conventional CPC/CPM/CPA bidding models in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(y) Huni Accountable Oversight™ — audited broad oversight bounded by named no-go walls

The Huni Accountable Oversight™ model — under which HuniWhisp staff (administrators and super-administrators) may access member content across the Platform, including private and organization groups, private diaries and their entries, and direct messages (which are encrypted at rest with a server-held key, not end-to-end), for safety, legal compliance, moderation, and lawful emergency response, where (i) every such access writes a tamper-evident row to the admin audit log recording the acting staff member, the time, the target opened, and the originating IP, so oversight is accountable and never silent; and (ii) a fixed, named set of zones remains off-limits by design — the Authority Evidence Vault after finalize (server-blind; reachable only through the reporter's opt-in, five-gate, notified recovery path in Section 28e), private Huni Mirrors, and organization anonymous salary and survey data — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integrated pairing of deliberately broad, fully audited staff oversight with a fixed, enumerated set of cryptographic and policy no-go walls as one shipped governance design; access controls or audit logging in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(z) Huni Visibility-Aware Share™ — sharing that carries the post's privacy state with it

Huni Visibility-Aware Share™ is the mechanism by which every outbound share surface — copy-link, QR code, native share sheet, social-network intent, embeddable iframe, and the server-rendered link-preview (Open Graph / Twitter) card — is gated by a single shareability check that propagates the underlying item's privacy and anonymity state: a post that is deleted, moderated, shadow-hidden, flagged, unverified, or posted into a group / private space can never mint a public preview card or QR, and an anonymous item never carries identity off-platform. The protected novelty is this integrated propagation of a post's anonymity and visibility state across the entire external-share toolkit as one gate; generic external sharing, OG cards, or QR codes in the abstract are not separately claimed (those are described in Section 43). Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited. We reserve all rights in this design.

(aa) Huni Profile Share™ — a shareable identity that stays anonymous

Huni Profile Share™ is HuniWhisp's shareable anonymous-handle profile (at /u/anon/<handle>): a stable pseudonymous handle that can be shared by link or profile QR code and that unfurls into an anonymity-safe preview card rendering only the public handle, aggregate post/comment counts, and a deliberately lossy member-since month — never a username, email, avatar, real name, IP, exact join date, or any post content that could re-link the handle to a real identity. The protected novelty is this publicly-shareable-yet-anonymous profile identity with a privacy-preserving share card and QR. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this design in a competing product is prohibited. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ab) Huni Checklists™ — the interactive, embeddable checklist content type

Huni Checklists™ is the interactive checklist content type: a post (or a goal milestone, diary entry, or aspiration block) composed of tick-off items with a live, derived progress meter, where the author checks items off one tap at a time and the item text is mirrored into the post body so it stays searchable and safety-scanned. The protected novelty is this reusable, polymorphic-host checklist mechanic with owner-only check-off and derived progress shipped as a first-class content type; it is distinct from the Aspirations progress timeline and from anniversary milestone check-ins. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this design in a competing product is prohibited. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ac) Huni Offline Outbox™ — an encrypted on-device action queue that replays on reconnect

Huni Offline Outbox™ is HuniWhisp's mechanism for capturing an idempotent set-state action (currently a post reaction) taken while the device is offline or whose request fails on a dead network, encrypting it at rest with AES-256-GCM under a non-extractable device key in the device's own storage, and automatically replaying it to the server the moment connectivity returns — after which the queued copy is deleted. Replay is bounded (capped retries; permanently-failing items are dropped, never re-applied) and deliberately restricted to set-state actions, so a duplicate replay converges to the same state rather than creating a second copy. The protected novelty is this encrypted, idempotent-only on-device action outbox with bounded reconnect-replay; it is distinct from the encrypted temporary offline reading cache in clause (r), which stores content for offline reading rather than queuing actions for later writing. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this design in a competing product is prohibited. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ad) Huni Post Covers™ — the curated first-party cover catalog, its mood taxonomy, and its coin unlock

Huni Post Covers™ is HuniWhisp's curated first-party cover catalog — pure in-app gradient styling a poster may optionally apply to a confession, shown as the post's header only when the author supplies no image of their own (an uploaded image always takes precedence). A first-party cover is stored on a post as a short style key into HuniWhisp's own catalog — never a file or an off-platform address — and a cover is optional cosmetic styling that never alters a post's content or meaning and carries no ranking, reach, feed, or moderation weight. What is claimed here is HuniWhisp's own work: (i) the curated catalog of first-party cover designs and their artwork; (ii) the mood taxonomy that organises them, together with the deliberate rule that at least one cover in every mood stays free for every member, so members who cannot hold or spend Huni Coins are never shut out of the feature; and (iii) the coin-unlock mechanic in which a subset of covers is a permanent, one-time Huni Coin unlock reusable on every later post, paired with the retire-from-the-picker-without-breaking-published-posts rule under which a withdrawn cover is removed from selection yet keeps rendering indefinitely on the posts that already use it. These covers are proprietary first-party HuniWhisp assets provided solely for display within the Platform; unlocking one grants you no ownership of, and no licence to redistribute, resell, extract, or reuse, the cover designs or the catalog outside the Platform.

Your own image stays yours. Where the Platform lets a member supply their own image as a cover (Huni Custom Covers™, clause (ai)), HuniWhisp claims no ownership of that image and no rights in it beyond the operating-and-display licence granted in Section 4 — nothing in this clause converts a member's own photograph or artwork into a first-party HuniWhisp asset, and the ™ claimed here does not reach it. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of the curated catalog, its mood taxonomy, or the coin-unlock-and-graceful-retirement design in a competing product is prohibited. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ae) Harassment Shield™ — the one-tap pile-on defense

The Harassment Shield™ (Section 14d) — the one-tap protective action a targeted member activates when a pile-on starts, which in a single action gathers the accounts the member has already blocked or already reported for harassment-class conduct in a recent window and bulk-blocks them (enforced bidirectionally), auto-files moderation reports against them, records the action to a member-owned profile shield list framed as the member's own protective act rather than a platform adjudication, and prepares a member-releasable announcement the member may publish on their own profile at any time of their choosing (subject to safety-scanner screening) — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integrated block-report-list-announce pile-on defense shipped as one member-controlled action; blocking or reporting in the abstract is not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(af) Reputation Lock™ — the account-bound, rename-immune reputation meter

Reputation Lock™ (Section 13b) — the reputation meter that is locked to the account rather than the username, so renaming never resets it, is visible to other members, is fed by moderation history, tenure, and community signals, and repairs through sustained good standing via time-decayed negative marks (~90 days) and a monthly good-standing credit while the account stays in good standing — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integrated rename-immune account reputation with decay-and-credit repair paths as one shipped accountability design (composing with the “Also known as” former-username display in Section 13); reputation scores in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ag) Huni Time Capsule™ — the coin-sealed note that even its author cannot open

Huni Time Capsule™ — the mechanic in which a member writes a private note, selects a future delivery date from a priced duration ladder, and spends Huni Coins to seal it, whereupon the note becomes unreadable, uneditable, and uncancellable by every party including its own author until the delivery date passes and the Platform itself unlocks it, with only the member-supplied title visible on the member's capsule shelf while it waits, the body held encrypted at rest, and the plaintext safety-screened at seal time rather than at delivery — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this priced one-way self-delivery seal shipped as a paid product whose purchased good is the inaccessibility itself; scheduled or delayed messaging in the abstract is not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ah) Sponsor a Stranger™ — double-blind membership gifting

Sponsor a Stranger™ — the mechanic in which a member spends Huni Coins at the live premium monthly price to place a month of premium membership on another member's account, targeted either at a randomly selected active member or at the author of a post that moved the sponsor, under a double-blind disclosure rule in which the recipient is told only that a stranger sponsored them (never a name, handle, post, or reply path) and the sponsor is told only that the gift was delivered (never, in random mode, to whom), with an internal-only ledger that is never rendered to either side and a hard exclusion of support and crisis spaces from the mechanic — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this symmetrically anonymous, currency-funded membership gift in which neither party can learn the other; gifting a subscription in the abstract is not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ai) Huni Custom Covers™ — the member-supplied post background that publishes behind review

Huni Custom Covers™ — the premium mechanic in which a member supplies their own image, still or animated, as the background of a post, where that image is uploaded to HuniWhisp itself and carried as an ordinary post media record (never a link or reference to an off-platform address) so that it inherits the Platform's safety scanning, known-bad-image matching, blurring, and takedown paths; where the post publishes immediately but the cover appears only once it has cleared review, so that a failed, unavailable, or unreadable scan leaves the cover pending rather than auto-approved; where an animated cover is normalised at upload into a bounded, de-flickered, finitely-looping derivative with a generated static first-frame poster; and where feeds show only that still poster, so motion never plays while a reader is scrolling and plays only on the post's own page, only on the reader's deliberate tap, and never for a reader who has asked for reduced motion — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this publish-now-cover-later member-supplied background, in which the decorative layer is gated behind safety review independently of the post it decorates, and in which animation is normalised at upload and reader-triggered rather than autoplayed; letting a member set a background image in the abstract is not separately claimed. Custom covers are refused entirely on Huni Haven and on support- or crisis-routed posts, and setting one is restricted to members aged 18 or over. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on, and HuniWhisp may keep it switched off, or withdraw it, at its discretion. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(aj) Huni Appreciation Gifts™ — the consumed-not-transferred post acknowledgement

Huni Appreciation Gifts™ — the mechanic in which a member spends Huni Coins to place a named token (Wisp™, Echo™,Halo™, Beacon™) on another member's post, and in whichthe coins are consumed rather than transferred — the recipient receives no balance, no credit and no cashable value of any kind, but is shownthe sender's handle and a worded acknowledgement, never an amount; in which gifts arestrictly one-to-one with no broadcast or bulk-gifting path; in whichno ranking of senders by spend exists anywhere on the Platform; and in which gifting isstructurally unavailable on support, crisis, and safety surfaces — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integration of a paid social acknowledgement that deliberately carries no transferable value to its recipient and no public status ranking for its sender; paid gifting or tipping between users in the abstract is not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on, and HuniWhisp may keep it switched off, or withdraw it, at its discretion. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ak) Pass It On™ — reciprocity granted as entitlement, not currency

Pass It On™ — the mechanic in which receiving an appreciation gift grants the recipient a free gift of the entry tier to send onward, valid for a limited window, and in which that grant is issued as adirect entitlement to the item rather than as spendable currency, specifically so that it functions for members who cannot hold or spend Huni Coins at all — including under-18 and undeclared-age accounts — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this use of a non-currency, expiring, single-item entitlement as the carrier of a gift-reciprocity loop on an age-restricted-spending platform; referral rewards and gift-forwarding in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(al) Streak Shield™ — the free-monthly, self-spending streak protector

Streak Shield™ — the mechanic in which a member's daily check-in streak is protected by bankable shields (up to three held at a time) that are consumed automatically, without member action, at the moment a missed day would otherwise break the streak — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. Its terms include a published standing commitment: every member receives one shield free every 30 days — every account, every tier, always. This free grant is part of the mechanic itself, not a promotion, and backs the Platform's design position that a missed day is met with recovery encouragement, not shame. Additional shields may be purchased for Huni Coins at the price shown in-app; a purchase against an already-full bank is refused rather than charged, so a member can never pay for a shield they cannot hold. Shields protect the daily check-in streak only. Shields and earned streak freezes fill a single shared bank — the up-to-three cap above is the cap on that one bank: a shield claimed or purchased tops up the same protective bank that freezes earned at 7-day milestones fill (a milestone freeze is granted only while the bank has room). The protected novelty is this combination of an unconditional free periodic protective grant, a capped bank with purchase-refusal at capacity, and automatic no-action consumption as the carrier of a compassion-framed streak system; streak protectors in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(am) Edit Reopen — the paid, logged reopening of a closed edit window

Edit Reopen (no separate mark is claimed for this feature) — the mechanic in which a member whose edit window on their own Huni (confession) has closed may spend Huni Coins to reopen editing on that post for 60 minutes. Its standing terms: Edit Reopen currently applies to Hunis (confessions) only — other content categories retain their edit windows with no paid reopening; a reopen applies to one post for one 60-minute window; edits made during a reopened window are logged on the same basis as edits made inside the original window, so reopening never permits a post to be silently rewritten without a trace; and Edit Reopen is never available on support or sensitive posts, which remain excluded from all money features. The feature is part of the Platform's proprietary feature set under this Section's general provisions; your use of it grants you no ownership or other right in the feature itself.

(an) Caution Tag™ — the crisis-shielded solicitation notice

Caution Tag™ — the mechanic in which a post asking readers for money or gifts receives a neutral “verify before giving” notice rather than removal or accusation; in which the notice can attach only when two independent detection signals agree (a deterministic scanner that requires an explicit solicitation marker, and a separate full-content review); in which crisis, distress and support content is structurally excluded before any judgement is made — a person in genuine need can never be branded a suspected scammer by this mechanism; in which the post remains published with reduced amplification rather than suppression; and in which the author is notified in neutral terms and holds a working appeal route — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integration of a two-signal solicitation notice with a structural crisis exclusion on an anonymous support-adjacent platform; scam warnings in the abstract are not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ao) Huni Depiction Sense™ — realism as a bounded confidence adjustment with a named immune set

Huni Depiction Sense™ — the media-screening mechanic in which the classifier is asked how realistic an image is (photograph, rendered depiction, or unclear) alongside what the image contains, and in which that answer moves only the confidence required before the Platform acts on a finding — raising it for graphic violence or gore and weapons where the image is a rendered depiction (explicit sexual content receives no rendered leniency, save the classical-art exception in Section 14(d) — nudity is otherwise held to the same bar in every medium), lowering it for weapons where the image is a photograph, and changing nothing where the answer is unclear — while every adjustment is clamped into a fixed per-category range set in our code, which the automated calibration loop is bound by as well, and while afixed set of categories is immune to the adjustment in both directions (child sexual content, self-harm imagery, hate symbols, and scam or phishing imagery), is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this use of a depiction-realism reading as a bounded, two-directional confidence adjustment carrying a named immune set, rather than as a finding in its own right; classifying an image as artwork or as a photograph in the abstract is not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ap) Huni Media Pass™ — the scoped, time-bounded, revocable imagery permission

Huni Media Pass™ — the mechanic in which a member, or a group's owner or admin on the group's behalf, requests and an administrator grants a permission that can cover only explicit sexual content, graphic violence or gore, and weapons; in which the grant is scoped, revocable, and carries whatever duration the granting administrator set (180 days by default, a longer term up to ten years, but always an end date); and in which it suppresses a single flag — the unverified-alert flag on findings in the categories it names, and with it that flag's ranking down-weight, its “Unverified” label, its warn-before-you-share prompt, and its withholding of link previews — while screening still runs on every upload, the sensitivity screen is not lifted by the pass, adult imagery is tagged NSFW by the Platform itself, child-safety handling, self-harm handling and the known-bad-image library are untouched, a known minor never benefits from a grant, and the finding is still recorded at unchanged severity on a record that names the pass, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this narrowly-scoped, revocable, individually- or group-held permission that changes only the Platform's response to a finding while leaving detection, labelling, minor protection, and the audit record intact; allow-lists and per-account permission grants in the abstract are not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on, and every existing grant stops applying when it is switched off. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(aq) Huni Amends™ — the open floor and the community-vouched way back

Scope of the category (both purposes). The Huni Amends™ category serves two distinct purposes, and the mechanic defined below governs only the second of them. It is (i) an open floor on which any member meeting the access conditions in the expansion paragraph, in good standing and having committed no violation, may raise and discuss a difficult or controversial subject; and (ii) the way back for a member sanctioned for hate conduct. Accordingly, neither access to the category, nor the presence of a member's post within it, nor any tag or marker the Platform displays to indicate that a post is in the category, constitutes or implies a finding, sanction, strike, ban, or admission of wrongdoing against that member; such indicators are neutral context stating only that the content sits in this category, and the Platform's enforcement record is kept separately under Section 17.

Huni Amends™ — the mechanic in which a member banned or striked for hate conduct retains exactly one door: the Huni Amends category, where they may still post and comment — there and only there — to reflect openly on what happened; in which posts in that category are never anonymous, because a vouch is for a person and reflection under a mask is not accountability; in which a member carrying any strike, ban, or other violation must have at least an age range selected on their account before they may post or reply in the category; in which members holding zero non-void strikes and no bans may vouch for a member doing that work; in which reaching an admin-set vouch threshold sends the case to the team for reinstatement review with the community's backing attached — the community opens the door, and a human always decides who walks through, so no number of vouches by itself lifts any ban or strike; and in which backers earn an honor when the member they stood up for makes it back and the reformed member earns one for the journey, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this integration of a single-category speech carve-out for sanctioned members with clean-member community vouching that gates — but never replaces — human reinstatement review, on an anonymous platform where the carve-out itself is non-anonymous; appeal forms and probation periods in the abstract are not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on, and switching it off restores the full effect of every underlying ban. Participation in Huni Amends creates no entitlement to reinstatement, and vouching for a member creates no liability for their later conduct. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

The Amends open floor (expansion). The Huni Amends category additionally hosts civil discussion of controversial topics — subjects such as racism and hate examined as subjects, discussed and never directed at any person or group — and the community may vote to suggest that an existing post be moved into the space. The following terms govern the expanded space. (i) Access is gated, and the gate fails closed. The space is available only to a member whose account carries an age bracket establishing that they are 16 or older — an adult bracket, or an under-18 bracket whose recorded birth year establishes an age of 16 or 17 — and who has given express, recorded acceptance of the space's terms, acknowledging that content inside may be offensive or rowdy and that entering the space is a choice. Where the bracket is missing, the birth year is missing, or age is otherwise uncertain, access is refused. Acceptance is versioned: when the space's terms change, acceptance of the current version may be required again before re-entry. (ii) Members aged 16–17 participate read-only — they may view the space but may not post, comment, or vote in it; full participation requires an adult (18+) bracket. (iii) The latitude is one of topic, never of conduct. The strict conduct floor is unchanged and absolute: harassment, targeting of a person or group, threats, calls to or celebration of violence, and content that endangers anyone are removed and actioned wherever they appear, regardless of the space's latitude. (iv) Community transfer votes are suggestions only. No vote moves a post; a human reviews every suggested transfer and makes every transfer decision. A post made anonymously may be transferred into the space by an administrator's decision or following a community vote that reaches its threshold — and because the space is never anonymous, the transfer reveals the author's username on that post, with notice to the author and a moderation-log record (the accountability de-anonymization every member accepts at sign-up — Section 7c). (v) Reports filed inside the space surface for review at a threshold that HuniWhisp sets and may adjust — except reports in grave categories (including child safety / sexual content involving a minor, doxxing, threats of violence, swatting, and non-consensual intimate imagery), which always surface immediately and are never held by any threshold. (vi) Active participants receive heightened review. Sustained activity inside the space draws closer scrutiny, not wider latitude. Every commitment in this clause (aq) remains in force in the expanded space: posts in Huni Amends are never anonymous, the sanctioned-member carve-out remains exactly one door, and participation of any kind creates no entitlement to reinstatement. This integrated expansion — a community-suggested, human-decided transfer flow into an age-gated, consent-gated discussion space whose reports surface on an adjustable threshold with an immune grave set and whose most active members draw increased rather than decreased scrutiny — is claimed on the same proprietary basis as the mechanic above.

(ar) Group Treasury™ — the group coin pool

Group Treasury™ — the mechanic in which members of a community group may contribute Huni Coins to the group's shared pool as a one-way sink — the coins are consumed on contribution, are never credited to any member, cannot be withdrawn, refunded, or paid out to any person, and the pool balance is derived from the contribution and spend ledgers rather than stored; in which the group's owner spends the pool on upgrades from a fixed, first-party catalog — cover designs delivered as closed CSS keys (never member-supplied files or styles) and group powers such as a member-posting interval and a daily member announcement; in which every control groups had before the treasury remains free; and in which members below 18 or of unknown age can never contribute but share fully in whatever their group unlocks, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The protected novelty is this member-funded, ledger-derived group pool that purchases capabilities for the group itself on a platform whose currency is deliberately not money; virtual currencies and group fundraising in the abstract are not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on, and contributions create no ownership, refund right, or claim against HuniWhisp or the group. Where a community group still holding a treasury pool is put up for deletion, the deletion does not take effect but instead opens a vote of that group's members for a set window in which the majority of the votes cast decides — freeze the group against deletion for a member-selected period, freeze it for a refund window, or proceed — and in every outcome that closes the pool, the coins still remaining in that pool are credited back to its contributors in proportion to what each of them contributed, before the group is removed. Coins the group already spent on upgrades are consumed at the time of that purchase and are not part of the settlement. This is a one-time settlement of a closing pool, not a general refund right. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(as) Momentary Evidence Window™ — a disappearing post that is genuinely gone, with a bounded and disclosed evidence period behind it

An ephemeral posting format normally forces a choice between two bad outcomes: either the platform quietly keeps everything, so “it disappears” is untrue, or it keeps nothing, so the format becomes the safest place on the service to test what moderation will accept. HuniWhisp's design refuses both. When a Momentary Huni™ expires it is removed from the live posts table outright, not flagged, hidden or filtered — there is no row left for a mistake in a future query to expose. Separately, and stated to the member in the composer at the moment of writing, an encrypted copy is taken at the instant of publication — not at expiry, and not only when an automated scanner raises a flag, because both of those capture points can be defeated by the exact behaviour the window exists to catch: publishing to see what survives, then deleting it first. That copy carries its own deletion deadline written onto it when it is made, so later changes to platform settings cannot lengthen the period any particular post was promised; it is readable only by moderators, and every individual opening is recorded against the moderator's name together with the reason they typed. At the deadline it is destroyed automatically by a job that runs whether or not any other part of the feature is switched on. The claimed design is the integrated whole: capture-at-publication, per-item stamped expiry, mandatory attributable reads, an always-on destruction path independent of the capture path, and up-front disclosure to the author in the composer rather than in a policy they will not read. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(at) Huni Profile Card™ — a profile you compose, on which nothing that was earned is ever for sale

Huni Profile Card™ — the mechanic in which a member's public profile is presented as a card the member themselves composes, rather than as a page the Platform lays out for them — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The claimed design is the integrated whole of the following. The card has two sides that are customised separately: a back the member builds out of independently chosen parts — a background, a texture, a light finish such as a shine or a holograph — which compose with one another rather than replacing one another, and a front the member arranges from a capped number of interchangeable sections drawn from a first-party set, so that two members granted the same parts can still produce visibly different cards. The front carries the member's own written line, a post of the member's choosing, their earned honors, and decorative accessories attached to the card itself. Every part the Platform offers for Huni Coins is presentation only: no purchasable part may imitate the appearance of an earned honor, a verification mark, or a moderation state, no purchasable part may obscure, cover, or displace a standing marker, and no part has any effect whatsoever on ranking, reach, discovery, or how a member's reports and appeals are handled. The Platform guarantees a complete free card — every family of parts includes parts costing nothing, because members under 18 and members of unknown age cannot hold or spend Huni Coins at all and must not thereby be given a visibly unfinished identity. Parts are sold at a fixed, disclosed price with the member seeing exactly what they are buying before they pay; there is no randomised acquisition of any kind and no countdown, limited-time, or urgency mechanic attached to any part. And because the card is identity, it is structurally never rendered for anonymous content — no card, no card part, and no accessory appears anywhere a member's authorship is masked, so that a distinctive card can never be used to link an anonymous voice to a named one. The protected novelty is this composed, two-sided, section-interchangeable identity object on an anonymity-first platform, whose entire purchasable surface is barred from imitating anything earned and whose free tier is guaranteed complete; profile pages, avatars, and cosmetic storefronts in the abstract are not separately claimed. This clause definesthe mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on, and purchasing a card part creates no ownership interest, no refund right, and no claim against HuniWhisp. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(au) Rarest-First Honors™ — ordering by rarity without ever disclosing the number

Rarest-First Honors™ — the mechanic by which the honors shown on a member's Huni Profile Card™ are ordered by how few members across the Platform hold them, rarest first, is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The claimed design is the combination of the ordering with the disclosure rule that constrains it. Holder counts are computed Platform-wide and cached rather than recomputed for each viewing, so that the ordering reflects a genuine scarcity across the whole Platform rather than anything about the viewer or about the member being viewed; honor tier resolves ties. The constraint that makes the mechanic distinctive is that certain honor families — in particular those tied to safety reporting and moderation outcomes — are subject to a standing rule that their counts are visible only to the member who holds them, because a visible tally of reports filed or judgements earned would turn the Platform's safety system into a scoreboard and reward members for filing more reports. Those honors are therefore ordered by the same internal rarity while being rendered by rung name alone, never as a figure, a count, a percentile, or a progress indicator toward a further rung: the ordering consumes a number it is forbidden to display, and no arrangement of the card lets a viewer read that number back out of the order. The Platform likewise publishes no leaderboard, ranking, or comparison of members by honor rarity anywhere. The protected novelty is this rarity-ordered honor display that is structurally prevented from disclosing the rarity figures it is ordered by; achievement displays and scarcity indicators in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(av) Huni Post Card™ — the post as a card you can turn over

Huni Post Card™ — the mechanic in which an individual post is presented as a two-sided card that its author dresses and that any reader can physically turn — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The claimed design is the integrated whole of the following. The writing remains the front: dressing a post never covers, restyles, or interrupts the post's own text, imagery, reactions, or reading affordances, and a post that is never turned reads exactly as an undressed one does. The author composes the back of each post individually, from the same separately-chosen, separately-owned parts as their Huni Profile Card™ — one wardrobe, two surfaces — and the reverse of the card shows a reader only what that reader could already see. The card is turned by grabbing it at or near its edge and moving it, the card following the hand in three dimensions until released, with the body of the card left entirely to reading, scrolling, and the post's ordinary controls; an equivalent single-control flip is always present, so the gesture is never the only way. Dressing is presentation only — it has no effect on ranking, reach, discovery, or moderation, and no dressing may obscure or displace a standing marker or a safety notice. And because a member's parts are distinctive, an anonymous post is structurally never dressed: the Platform refuses the dressing at the moment of writing and withholds it at the moment of reading, so that a recognisable back can never link an anonymous post to the named member who owns those parts. The protected novelty is this per-post, author-dressed, edge-turned two-sided rendering of user writing on an anonymity-first platform, whose reverse discloses nothing new and which anonymity structurally strips; card flips, tilt effects, and cosmetic post themes in the abstract are not separately claimed. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(aw) Earned Finishes™ — the parts money cannot buy

Earned Finishes™ — the mechanic by which certain card parts can be acquired only by doing, never by paying — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The claimed design is the combination of the earning rule with the restraint rules that constrain it. An earned part has no price and can never be purchased, at any amount, by any member, in any circumstance — the storefront refuses it before any payment step — so an earned part on a card is a statement money cannot make. Earning conditions are disclosed plainly and are drawn exclusively from milestones the Platform already records for its own honest purposes — honors held, time as a member, sustained personal rituals, aspirations completed — and never from volume: no earning condition counts posts written, reactions gathered, or any figure a member could chase, because on a platform built for wellbeing a cosmetic that pays out for posting more is a pressure mechanic. A part once earned is never revoked, even if the underlying milestone later lapses. A small number of parts are hidden: they are absent from every listing until earned, at which moment they appear with a private notice — the Platform never renders a locked slot, a silhouette, a riddle, or any teaser of an unearned hidden part, because an unknowable locked slot invites compulsive checking. Earned parts are visually distinct from every purchasable part, so that earned reads as earned on sight, and no purchasable part may imitate one. The protected novelty is this purchase-refusing, volume-blind, revocation-free earned cosmetic class whose hidden members are structurally invisible until earned; achievement rewards and cosmetic unlocks in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ax) Huni Finds™ — the parts you stumble on

Huni Finds™ — the mechanic by which certain hidden card parts are acquired by encountering them while browsing, or by unhurried familiarity with one space, rather than by achievement or payment — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The claimed design is the combination of the discovery rule with the restraints that make it safe to ship on a wellbeing platform. A found object is placed by the Platform, never by the member's device: an offer is signed server-side and bound to one member and one day, so nothing can be claimed that was not genuinely encountered, and re-loading a page cannot produce a second chance at the same object. Each object is findable once per member for life, at most one per day, and is never placed in a sensitive space — support, crisis, the Haven, private messages, reports and the age-restricted space carry no objects, because a delight mechanic must observe the same boundary as a commercial one. Nothing is ever randomised in the member's favour or against it: there is no roll, no pack, no purchasable chance, and no way to buy, trade, gift, or accelerate a find, so the mechanic is not a loot mechanic in any form. The familiarity conditions are capped daily, such that a long sitting is worth no more than a short one and only returning across many days can satisfy them, and time spent in a sensitive space is never counted toward anything. Every condition in this class is hidden and unannounced — no meter, no progress indicator, no proximity hint — because a visible threshold on a time-based condition is an invitation to grind. The protected novelty is this server-placed, signed, once-per-lifetime discovery class whose time-based conditions are daily-capped and deliberately unmeasured, and which is structurally barred from sensitive spaces; easter eggs and cosmetic unlocks in the abstract are not separately claimed. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

(ay) Huni Reveal Offer™ — the money never buys the identity

Huni Reveal Offer™ — the mechanic by which a member may attach Huni Coins, or a pledged donation, to an identity-reveal request on an anonymous post — is a proprietary HuniWhisp mechanism, originally designed and implemented by HuniWhisp. The claimed design is the combination of the compensation rule with the consent rules that make it lawful and humane. The foundational rule, from which everything else follows: the payment accompanies a request; it never purchases the identity. An offer is escrowed against the same consent-based reveal request the Platform has always run, and only the identity's owner can release it — by freely choosing to reveal themselves. Declining is penalty-free and structurally costless: a declined, cancelled, or expired offer is returned to the sender in full, platform fee included, so saying no can never cost anyone anything — because a decline that costs money is not a choice, it is pressure. Ignoring an offer is equivalent to declining: an unanswered offer expires on its own and refunds itself. When an offer is accepted, everything except the standard platform transaction fee goes to the member — the same kind of fee, at the same order of rate, as every other in-app transfer (Section 38) — and that fee is the Platform's only take: the Platform never prices an identity, never keeps an accepted offer's principal, and never performs, sells, or compels a reveal itself. Minors are excluded from both sides: sender and recipient must each be a verified adult, an account of unknown age is refused rather than guessed, and no refusal ever discloses another member's age, block state, or settings. Repeat pressure is structurally limited — one open offer per pair, a mandatory cooling-off period after a decline, and a member-held switch that refuses all paid offers outright — and the offer flow reveals nothing about the author until and unless they accept. The protected novelty is this escrowed, decline-refunds-everything, adult-verified compensated consent mechanic in which the platform brokers a member's free choice and never sells a reveal; paid unmasking schemes in which a platform sells the identity of a non-consenting person are not merely unclaimed — they are the conduct this design exists to be the opposite of. This clause defines the mechanic; the feature is available only where and while HuniWhisp has switched it on. Unauthorized reproduction or substantial imitation of this integrated design in a competing product is prohibited and may be challenged under applicable intellectual-property, unfair-competition, and passing-off law. We reserve all rights in this design.

Standing reservation. The list above is a non-exhaustive snapshot of HuniWhisp's proprietary mechanisms as of the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Additional mechanisms are introduced from time to time and are claimed on the same basis from the moment they are shipped. The omission of any mechanism from this list does not constitute a waiver of any rights HuniWhisp may hold in that mechanism.

In addition to individual accounts, the Platform supports an organization account class for verified schools, clubs, companies, nonprofits, and similar groups. An organization account represents the institution itself rather than any single member, and is subject to the following standing terms in addition to all other provisions of these Terms.

(a) Application and verification

Any account holder may apply to convert an individual account into an organization account by submitting the requested information (organization type, institution name, country, and a short description). Verification is granted only after review by HuniWhisp staff. HuniWhisp may approve, decline, condition, or revoke verification at its sole discretion. A verification badge is a representation by HuniWhisp that, at the time of review, the applicant credibly appeared to represent the institution named — not a guarantee of any present or future fact, status, or authority of the organization or any individual associated with it. Applicants must not impersonate an institution they do not legitimately represent or hold authority for; doing so is a material breach of these Terms and a ground for immediate revocation.

(b) Posts made by the organization are attributed

Posts authored by an organization account — meaning content the organization writes and publishes itself, as distinct from member submissions routed through the inbox — are attributed to the organization by default and may not be posted anonymously. This is to preserve the public's ability to distinguish official organizational communication from anonymous member contribution. The organization is responsible for the content of every post it authors as the publisher.

(c) The organization-admin moderation duty

An organization that enables the anonymous-submission inbox on its space accepts a moderation duty for the submissions it receives. The organization's designated admins are responsible for reviewing pending submissions in a reasonable time, applying the moderation assistant's suggestion as they see fit, and approving, rejecting, or escalating each submission with reasonable judgment. The organization is the publisher of any submission it approves into its space, and is responsible for that published content as if it had authored it — the submitter's anonymity does not transfer authorship liability away from the organization once the organization elects to publish. HuniWhisp's ordinary content policies continue to apply on top of the organization's own moderation; nothing in this clause limits HuniWhisp's right to take post-publication action on content that violates these Terms.

(d) Platform-default safety auto-block applies before queueing

HuniWhisp's platform-default safety scanner runs on every member submission before the submission is placed in the organization's pending queue. Submissions that the scanner classes as illegal-or-imminent-harm content — including, without limitation, child sexual content or grooming, human trafficking, terrorism planning, credible threats of violence, the sale of drugs or weapons, and the solicitation of commercial sex — are auto-blocked at submit time and never appear in the inbox. The organization and its admins receive no copy of auto-blocked content. This pre-publication safety auto-block is a platform-level protection and does not constitute monitoring of the organization's editorial judgment over the content that does reach the queue.

Group-held Huni Media Passes™. An organization or group may hold its space to rules stricter than the Platform's. It cannot write itself relief from Platform handling: the one mechanism that changes how automated screening responds inside a group is the Huni Media Pass™ in Section 14(f), which a group's owner or admin may request and only HuniWhisp can grant. A group cannot issue itself one, widen one, or extend one to any category outside the three the pass system allows; a group pass is scoped and revocable, carries whatever duration the granting administrator set, and ordinary handling resumes the moment it is revoked, expires, or the feature is switched off.

A group pass applies to every member posting in that group. A group's pass is resolved from the group a post is made in — not from who made the post — so it covers imagery posted by any member of that group, including members who never requested it, never agreed to it, and may not know it exists. If you post imagery into a group, that group's pass, if it holds one, governs how our screening responds to findings on your imagery. Everything Section 14(f) lists as surviving a pass survives it here too, including the pre-queue auto-block described in this clause, child-safety and self-harm handling, the sensitivity screen, the NSFW tag the Platform applies to adult imagery, and the recording of every finding.

(e) The moderation assistant is a suggestion, not a decision

The moderation assistant's colour-coded verdict and one-click recommended action are suggestions only. The organization's admin makes the final call on every submission. HuniWhisp makes no representation that the moderation assistant will catch every harmful submission or correctly classify every benign one, and the organization remains responsible for the decisions it makes regardless of which suggestion the assistant surfaced.

(f) Audit trail and learning loop

Every approve, reject, and escalate decision an organization admin makes on a pending submission is recorded in the platform's admin audit log. Confirmed decisions also feed the safety-learning surface described in Section 28c clause (k) to improve scanner accuracy across the Platform. The audit log does not deanonymise the submitter to the organization beyond what the organization already saw at the moment of decision.

(g) Revocation and standing

HuniWhisp may revoke organization-account verification, disable the submission inbox, suspend the organization's space, or remove the organization account where the organization repeatedly publishes content that violates these Terms, fails to meet its moderation duty under clause (c), misrepresents its standing or authority to represent the named institution, or otherwise abuses the organization-account privileges. Sections 16, 17, and 32 (suspension, strikes, and termination) apply to organization accounts as they apply to individual accounts.

The Platform offers an Authority Evidence Vault — a reporter-initiated workflow under which any account holder may compile evidence (images, audio, video, PDF, and written statements) and a narrative timeline into an encrypted bundle addressed to a relevant authority of the reporter's choice (for example a police department, a cybercrime unit, NCMEC, a domestic violence agency, a school-safety office, a mental-health crisis service, or another body the reporter names). The Vault is provided subject to the following standing terms in addition to all other provisions of these Terms.

(a) Reporter responsibility for the report's contents

The reporter is solely responsible for the truthfulness, accuracy, completeness, and lawful provenance of every piece of evidence and every statement included in a report. HuniWhisp does not verify, vouch for, endorse, or adjudicate any claim made in a report. Filing a knowingly false report, fabricating evidence, submitting evidence the reporter has no right to share (for example intimate imagery of another person obtained without consent, copyrighted material without permission, or material subject to a non-disclosure obligation), or using the Vault to harass, defame, or set up another person is a material breach of these Terms and may also be a criminal offence in the reporter's jurisdiction.

(b) No platform endorsement, no guarantee of authority response

The selection of an authority recipient (category, agency name, and jurisdiction) is made by the reporter. HuniWhisp does not transmit the report to the authority on the reporter's behalf and does not represent that any authority will receive, read, accept, investigate, or act on a report compiled in the Vault. The decision whether and how to deliver a finalized report to the named authority — whether by download and in-person hand-over, secure upload to the authority's own intake portal, courier, mail, or otherwise — rests entirely with the reporter. The reporter acknowledges that authorities operate under their own intake rules, evidence standards, jurisdictional limits, and discretion, and that HuniWhisp has no control over any authority's response or non-response.

(c) Server-blind decryption after finalize

At finalize time, the Platform encrypts every evidence file and the narrative statement client-side using a randomly-generated AES-256-GCM master key, wraps that master key with each unlock method the reporter has registered (and, where the reporter has selected an N-of-K combination, splits it via Shamir Secret Sharing), and discards the plaintext master key from server memory. After finalize, HuniWhisp does not hold, see, or have the technical means to recover the master key.This is a deliberate design choice and not a service guarantee — if every unlock method the reporter registered is later lost (a destroyed QR printout, a forgotten passphrase, a wiped biometric authenticator, and so on, in any combination that exceeds the reporter's configured threshold), the encrypted bundle cannot be recovered by HuniWhisp or by anyone else, and the contents of the report are permanently inaccessible. The reporter is solely responsible for keeping at least one valid unlock token (or a Shamir-threshold-reaching combination of tokens) safe and transferable to the intended recipient.

(d) Retention, expiration, and downloadability

A finalized report is retained on the Platform for a default of 365 days from creation, after which it is marked expired and the encrypted blob may be permanently deleted from Platform storage. The reporter may download a copy of the encrypted .huniwhisp-report bundle at any time after finalize and is encouraged to do so — the downloaded copy is the reporter's durable record and is not affected by Platform expiration, account closure, or service termination. Once a report is finalized, its evidence and statement cannot be edited, removed, or added to; the reporter may, however, mark a report as handed over, which stamps the hand-over date and locks the report to read-only access. The reporter may also voluntarily delete an unfinalized draft at any time.

(e) Audit log scope and what it does not contain

The Platform writes an audit-log entry for each significant action taken against a report — for example creation, evidence addition or removal, unlock-method registration, finalize, bundle download, unlock attempt, hand-over, and expiration. The audit log records the action, the timestamp, a salted one-way hash of the actor's IP address where applicable, and a minimal set of operational details. The audit log does not record the plaintext of any evidence, the plaintext of the narrative statement, the master key, any passphrase, or any biometric material, and is not a backdoor to the encrypted contents of the report. The audit log exists so the reporter can verify the report's integrity history and so the Platform can investigate abuse of the Vault.

(f) Acceptable use of the Vault

The Vault is intended to help a reporter compile, encrypt, and deliver evidence to a relevant authority. It must not be used to: (i) prepare or distribute child sexual abuse material, including for the stated purpose of “reporting” that material outside an authorised channel; (ii) dox, surveil, blackmail, extort, or threaten any person; (iii) compile or distribute non-consensual intimate imagery; (iv) hold or distribute material the reporter is not legally entitled to possess or share; (v) coordinate or further any criminal activity; or (vi) circumvent a lawful gag order, protective order, or non-disclosure obligation. HuniWhisp may, where it becomes aware of such use, disable a draft, refuse to serve a bundle, terminate the reporter's account, and cooperate with lawful authorities — in line with Section 7 (pseudonymity and de-anonymization) and Section 28b (acceptable technical use).

(g) Suspected child sexual abuse material

If a reporter believes they are in possession of suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the reporter must not upload that material to the Vault. Reporters in the United States should report directly to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (CyberTipline.org, 1-800-843-5678); reporters elsewhere should contact their local INHOPE hotline or law enforcement. HuniWhisp's platform-level safety scanner runs at evidence-upload time and the Platform will refuse and report material it identifies as suspected CSAM in line with applicable law — this does not transfer the reporter's independent legal obligations.

(h) No legal, investigative, or evidentiary advice

The Vault is a compilation and encryption tool, not legal, investigative, forensic, or evidentiary advice. The Platform does not represent that a report compiled in the Vault will satisfy the chain-of- custody, admissibility, disclosure, or other procedural requirements of any court, prosecutor, defence, tribunal, regulator, or investigative body. Reporters who anticipate that their report may be used in legal proceedings are strongly advised to seek qualified legal counsel in their jurisdiction before finalize and before hand-over.

(i) Liability allocation

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, HuniWhisp is not liable for: (i) the contents of any report or evidence file uploaded by a reporter; (ii) the truthfulness or completeness of any claim made in a report; (iii) any decision an authority does or does not make in response to a report; (iv) any consequence of an unlock token being lost, destroyed, intercepted, or copied outside the Platform; (v) any consequence of a recipient being unable to unlock a bundle; or (vi) any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages arising out of the use of the Vault. Section 30 (Limitation of Liability) applies to the Vault in addition to the specific allocations in this clause.

(j) Platform emergency recovery is opt-in at finalize and irreversible

At finalize time the reporter is offered a single opt-in toggle labelled “Allow HuniWhisp admins to recover this report’s contents in an emergency.” The toggle is off by default. If the reporter leaves it off, the Vault remains fully server-blind for that report as described in clause (c) above, and HuniWhisp has no technical means at all to read the report's contents — only metadata (status, recipient category, finalize date, evidence count and sizes, and the audit log) is ever visible to platform staff. If the reporter turns the toggle on, the reporter's browser also generates an additional Shamir share of the master key and encrypts that share to a HuniWhisp super-admin emergency keypair whose private key is held offline (not on any HuniWhisp server or in any HuniWhisp database). The wrapped emergency share is stored alongside the report and is the only path by which platform staff can ever reconstruct the master key for that report. The opt-in choice is recorded at finalize and cannot be reversed once the report is finalized — if the reporter changes their mind later, the only way to revoke admin access is to delete the report. The reporter accepts that turning the toggle on is a deliberate, informed trade-off between absolute server-blindness and a recovery path for emergencies (for example suspected CSAM, an imminent threat to life, or a lawful court order directed at HuniWhisp).

(k) Admin archive access — multi-gate controls

Every finalized authority report is archived in the admin dashboard for HuniWhisp super-admins as a read-only record. Admin access to the archive is gated by a layered set of controls: (i) the underlying account must hold a super-admin role and have completed the standard admin 2FA elevation; (ii) the admin must re-enter a separate admin-archive passphraseonce per session, distinct from their login password and stored only as a PBKDF2-SHA256 hash; (iii) the admin must complete a WebAuthn biometric step-up immediately before any read action; (iv) the admin must enter a free-text reason for access that is recorded verbatim in the access log; and (v) each admin is rate-limited to a maximum of five contents-opens per twenty-four hours, after which any further read must follow the force-open path in clause (l). Admins can never delete an archived report — deletion remains controlled by the reporter and the retention window in clause (d). For reports without the clause (j) opt-in, the admin surface displays only metadata and the audit log and provides no path to the encrypted contents.

(l) Force-open requires two-key co-sign

Where the five-per-twenty-four-hour rate cap has been reached or where the circumstances warrant an additional check (for example a sensitive report or an active investigation), an admin may initiate a force-open request, which only executes after a second super-admin with a distinct user identity co-signs the request with their own reason for access. A single admin cannot satisfy both halves of the co-sign. Each step of the force-open path — the initial request, the awaiting-co-sign state, the co-sign, and the eventual execution — is recorded in the access log with timestamps, both admin identities, and both reasons. The contents-open following a successful force-open still requires the underlying clause (j) opt-in to exist; force-open cannot manufacture an emergency share where the reporter did not turn the opt-in on at finalize.

(m) Server-blind decryption even on admin opens, plus reporter notification and peer oversight

When a clause (k) or clause (l) contents-open executes, the wrapped emergency share is returned to the admin's browser, the admin pastes the offline super-admin private key into the browser, and the master key is reconstructed and the contents decrypted entirely in the admin's browser. HuniWhisp's servers never see the offline private key, the reconstructed master key, or the decrypted contents — only the wrapped share and the access-log entries. On every contents-open (clause (k) or clause (l)), the reporter is notified by emailat the address on file, with the date and time of the access, the admin's reason text recorded verbatim, the super-admin tier of the accessing admin (HuniWhisp does not disclose the individual staff member's username), and a link back to the reporter's own view of the report and its audit log. In parallel, the access log is exposed to all other super-admins in real time as a peer-oversight feed, so abuse of admin access is visible to the whole super-admin group as it happens. The reporter retains the right at all times to delete the report, which erases the wrapped emergency share alongside the encrypted contents and removes the only admin recovery path.

For the avoidance of doubt, clauses (j) through (m) describe a limited, opt-in, auditedrecovery path. They do not change the default server-blind posture of the Vault for reports where the reporter has not turned the opt-in on, and they do not change the proprietary-rights claim recorded in Section 28c clause (o).

Where HuniWhisp enables it, you may optionally add biometric sign-in on a supported device — fingerprint or face unlock (Touch ID, Face ID, or Windows Hello) via the WebAuthn / FIDO2 standard. It is opt-in and off by default; you continue to sign in with your email and password unless you choose to enroll a device.

Your biometrics never leave your device. Your fingerprint or face is processed only by your device’s own secure hardware; it is never transmitted to or stored by HuniWhisp. When you enroll, your device creates a cryptographic key pair and shares only the public key with us; signing in proves possession of the matching private key, which never leaves your device. We store only that public key, a usage counter (to detect cloned authenticators), and basic device metadata — never any biometric data.

These credentials are held in an isolated, encrypted, access-audited store separate from your other account data, and you can remove an enrolled device at any time from your account settings. Biometric sign-in does not replace two-factor authentication: if you have 2FA enabled, it is still required after a biometric sign-in.

Voice sign-in is an experimental capability that is not enabled. Unlike the on-device model above, a voiceprint is itself biometric data and would constitute special-category personal data under the GDPR (Art. 9) and comparable laws (e.g. Illinois BIPA); HuniWhisp will not activate any voice-based authentication without separate, explicit opt-in consent and the legally required disclosures.

Huni allows certain NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content provided it is properly tagged. All NSFW content must be tagged appropriately so that users who have opted out of NSFW content will not see it.

• NSFW content must be tagged before posting
• Failure to tag NSFW content appropriately may result in content removal and account penalties
• NSFW content involving minors is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate permanent ban and reporting to authorities
• Users can control their NSFW content visibility in their account settings
• A Huni Media Pass™ (Section 14(f)) has no bearing on the minors prohibition above. A pass can cover only adult imagery, graphic violence or gore, and weapons; child-safety findings are never affected by one, and no pass, permission, setting or grant of any kind makes sexual content involving a minor permissible. Where a pass does apply, adult imagery posted under it is tagged NSFW by the Platform itself rather than left to the poster to tag — and editing the post afterwards to strip that tag is an attempt to evade this Section, is a Terms violation in its own right actionable under Section 16, and is a ground to revoke the pass. The sensitivity screen and every other protection in Section 14 continue to apply to that imagery

Governing Law:

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Where mandatory consumer-protection laws or data-protection laws of your country of residence (e.g., GDPR for the EU/EEA, UK GDPR, CCPA for California, LGPD for Brazil) provide stronger rights than these Terms, those laws apply in addition to these Terms.

Informal Resolution First:

Before filing any formal claim, you agree to first contact us at the addresses in section 46 and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Most disputes can be resolved this way and we encourage it.

Binding Individual Arbitration:

If informal resolution fails, you and HuniWhisp agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Platform will be resolved through binding individual arbitration, not in court. Arbitration will be conducted under the rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) or a comparable arbitral body, in English, by a single neutral arbitrator. The arbitrator's decision is final and enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class Action Waiver:

You and HuniWhisp agree that disputes will be resolved on an individual basis only. You waive any right to participate in a class action, collective action, or representative proceeding against HuniWhisp. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

Exceptions to Arbitration:

• You may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies under that court's jurisdictional limits.
• Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights.
• Where local law (such as EU consumer protection statutes) prohibits binding arbitration or class waivers for consumer disputes, those provisions do not apply to you and you may bring claims in your local courts.

Opt-Out:

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of creating your account by sending a written notice to legal@huniwhisp.com with your username, email, and a clear statement that you opt out of binding arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

Huni offers an optional contact sync feature on mobile devices to help you find friends who are already on the Platform and invite those who are not. By using this feature:

• Your contacts are hashed using one-way cryptographic hashing before being sent to our servers. Raw contact data (names, phone numbers, emails) is never stored on Huni servers
• Hashed contact data is used solely for matching against existing Huni accounts and is not retained after the matching process is complete
• Contact sync is entirely optional and can be disabled at any time in your account settings
• Huni will never send messages, emails, or notifications to your contacts without your explicit action
• You are responsible for having appropriate consent from your contacts before syncing

Huni provides an invite system that allows users to invite friends via link, email, SMS, or personal invite codes. By using this feature:

• Personal invite codes are unique to each user and do not currently expire. Huni may change code formats, or retire and reissue codes, where needed for security or program integrity
• QR codes. Your invite hub can render, download, and print your invite link as a QR code (including a high-resolution image and a printable card). A QR code is nothing more than a visual encoding of the same invite link — it collects no additional information, identifies no scanner, and behaves exactly as if the link had been tapped. Scanning one is subject to these Terms and to Section 35b in the same way as clicking the link
• You must not use the invite system to send unsolicited or bulk invitations (spam). Abuse of the invite system may result in invite privileges being revoked
• Huni does not guarantee delivery of invite emails or SMS messages and is not responsible for messages filtered by third-party spam systems
• Invite tracking data (how many people you invited, and their status) is visible only to you — in the Invites tab of your dashboard and on your invite hub at /invite. It is not shown to other members, and the most an inviter ever learns about someone they invited is that member's public username
• Huni reserves the right to limit the number of invites a user can send within a given time period

Huni runs a referral program that may reward you for bringing new members to the Platform. Your personal referral code can travel in two ways: as your dedicated invite link (huniwhisp.com/r/CODE, which is also what your invite QR code encodes), or attached to an ordinary shared link (for example as a ?ref=CODE on a shared post). If a new visitor signs up after arriving through your referral, that signup may be attributed to you, and you may receive a reward once the new member completes a qualifying action. By participating you agree to the following:

• Discretionary & changeable. Referral rewards are offered at Huni's sole discretion. The current reward (for example, a short premium grant and/or loyalty points to the referrer, and sometimes to the new member) is described in-app and may change, be reduced, be paused, or end at any time, with or without notice. Participation does not create any entitlement to a reward of any particular kind or amount.
• Current reward (subject to change). As of August 2026, when a referred friend completes sign-up, the inviter receives 7 days of premium time, the new member receives 3 days of premium time, and both sides receive 50 loyalty points — granted automatically as internal premium-time and loyalty credit, with nothing to claim. Rewards are currently paid for a member's first 20 rewarded referrals; referrals beyond that cap are still attributed and still counted toward invite totals and milestone badges, but do not pay a further reward. Like Huni's pricing, these amounts and this cap are not final — they may change at any time, and Huni may cap how many referral rewards an account can earn within a given period or in total. Premium time and loyalty points granted this way have no cash value, cannot be withdrawn, transferred, or exchanged, and premium time simply expires at the end of its term — it is never converted into a charge, a balance, or a payout.
• Qualifying action. A reward unlocks only after the referred member completes a genuine qualifying action. Currently that is finishing sign-up as a real new member; Huni may change or add qualifying requirements at any time (for example, requiring a first clean (non-removed, non-spam) post). Attribution alone does not earn a reward; a signup that never completes the qualifying action, or that fails our fraud and bot screening, earns nothing.
• Time-limited attribution. Attribution is recorded in a time-limited first-party cookie, and how long it lasts depends on how the invite arrived: following (or scanning) a deliberate invite link records the code for 30 days and replaces any code already stored, because the most recent deliberate invite a visitor chose to follow is the one that should win; a passive referral parameter on an ordinary shared link records for 60 days but only on a first-touch basis — it never displaces a code that is already there. If the cookie expires, is cleared, or is blocked before signup, no attribution is recorded and no reward is owed.
• No fraud, self-referral, or abuse. Rewards are void for self-referral, referring your own additional or alternate accounts, multi-account or multiple-device farming, bot or automated signups, fake or throwaway accounts, incentivised or misrepresented invitations, cookie-stuffing, spam distribution of referral links, or any other manipulation of the program. Huni may withhold, reverse, recalculate, or revokeany reward (and any balance, points, or premium time derived from it) connected to such activity, and may suspend or terminate accounts involved.
• Not cash; no value. Referral rewards are part of Huni's internal virtual economy (see Section 10a). They are not cash, have no monetary or redeemable value, are not a payment or rebate, and are non-transferable except through features Huni expressly provides. Any premium time, points, or in-app balance granted as a referral reward is governed by Sections 10a, 36, and 37, including the limitation of liability there.
• Responsible sharing. You must not send unsolicited or bulk referral messages (spam), misrepresent Huni to win a referral, or share referral links in any way that violates Section 35 (Invitations) or Section 27 (Prohibited Content). Abuse of referral sharing may result in your referral and invite privileges being revoked.
• Creators, streamers, and public promotion. You are welcome to put your invite link or invite QR code in a video, stream overlay, bio, newsletter, or printed material. If you do, you are responsible for complying with the disclosure rules that apply to you and to the platform you publish on — including clearly disclosing any paid or incentivised relationshipwhere one exists. You must not fabricate HuniWhisp content, screenshots, testimonials, or messages to promote an invite, claim an affiliation with or endorsement by Huni that you do not have, or promise anyone a benefit Huni has not published. Huni may withhold rewards from, and revoke the invite privileges of, any account promoting Huni deceptively.

The Huni Loyalty Program rewards users with points for engagement and interaction on the Platform. By participating in the Loyalty Program:

• Points are earned through activities such as posting, commenting, reacting, diary entries, hosting live sessions, and maintaining daily streaks
• Points and loyalty levels (Newcomer, Contributor, Enthusiast, Champion, Legend) are for engagement recognition only and have no monetary value
• Points cannot be exchanged for cash, credits, donations, or any form of currency — on or off the Platform
• Huni reserves the right to modify point values, level thresholds, and program structure at any time without prior notice
• Manipulation of the loyalty system (e.g., spam posting, automated activity, or coordinated farming) will result in points being revoked and potential account penalties
• Loyalty levels may unlock cosmetic or engagement-based perks but do not confer any financial benefit

Huni Habits™ is a private wellbeing feature: you name a personal habit, mark it done with a one-tap daily check-in, and watch a private streak and heat-strip build over time. You can also join an anonymous solidarity lane for others working on the same kind of habit, and send or receive a one-way “rooting for you” cheer. By using this feature:

• Private by default. Your named habits, your check-ins, and your streak / heat-strip are visible only to you. The solidarity lane exposes only aggregate counters (how many people are working on a habit of that kind, or checked in) — never any individual's identity, habit name, or notes
• UTC daily reset. A “day” for check-in and streak purposes rolls over on a shared UTC clock, so everyone's day starts and ends at the same moment regardless of timezone. A streak counts consecutive days with a check-in
• “Rooting for you” is one-way. A cheer is a single, no-reply tap of encouragement into a lane. It is not a message, cannot start a conversation, and never reveals who you are to anyone else
• Compassion on a break. If a streak breaks, the feature responds with a gentle fresh-start framing rather than a guilt-trip. Missing a day is expected and is never penalised beyond resetting the count; there is no loss-aversion pressure mechanic
• Reflective keepsakes, not professional advice. Per the Whisper Rule, Huni Habits is a reflective, motivational keepsake feature for self-encouragement only. It is not therapy, medical, psychological, or any other professional advice or treatment, and is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. If you are struggling, please see our Safety & Community Guidelines for support resources
• For members under 18, Huni Habits follows the reduced-messaging and youth-safety posture described in Section 12a
• Proprietary mechanic. The Huni Habits™ mechanism — the named-habit one-tap check-in, the UTC-stable daily streak, the anonymous solidarity counters grouped by closed kind, the one-way no-reply cheer, and the compassion-on-break response — is proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of this mechanic outside the Platform without prior written permission

The Huni Games Room™ (at /games) is a suite of daily, skill-and-social play games — currently Six-Word Whisps (a true micro-story told in exactly six words), Two Truths, One Lie (the community truth-votes which statement is the lie, and the author confirms after a delay), Riddle at Dusk (a nightly riddle, blurred until you guess, with a solve-streak), and The Caption Circle (a daily image you caption with one line secretly about your own life, measured by a “this is so real” resonance meter), with more games planned. By playing:

• Free to play. Playing the games is free. There is no entry fee, no buy-in, and no requirement to spend anything to play, win, or keep playing
• Skill and social, not gambling. The games are games of skill and social participation — writing, guessing, voting, and captioning. They are not games of chance, are not wagering, betting, lotteries, or gambling, and you never stake or risk money or wallet balance on an outcome
• Wins earn badges and achievements. Solving a riddle, keeping a streak, or having your entry recognised earns badges and achievements — honorary recognition with no cash value
• Small, daily-capped coin prizes (18+). Certain wins and streaks may additionally grant a small coin prize credited to your in-app wallet as part of the virtual economy (Section 10a). These prizes are daily-capped, rate-limited, and idempotent (each game/day grants its reward at most once), are awarded only to eligible accounts, and any coin payout is restricted to members who are 18 or older. Coins are the same virtual, no-cash-value balance described in Section 10a and may, where offered, be spent on the Platform; they are never a payout of real money and confer no entitlement to one
• Anti-farm and integrity. Coin prizes exist to lightly reward genuine play, not to be farmed. Automated play, multi-accounting, collusion, or other manipulation to harvest rewards is prohibited; HuniWhisp may withhold, reverse, or claw back rewards, and may exclude accounts (including automated, banned, and staff/administrator accounts) from prizes and from any leaderboard. Game leaderboards exclude such accounts by design
• Your entries are content. Anything you write, caption, guess, submit, or vote in a game is user content subject to these Terms and to the Platform's safety screening — the same automated safety checks and moderation that apply to posts apply to game submissions, names, captions, and riddle text
• Wellbeing framing. Where a game has a reflective or wellbeing flavour, it is a reflective, social keepsake for enjoyment and self-expression only — not therapy, medical, psychological, financial, or other professional advice
• The games, their availability, daily reset timing, reward sizes, daily caps, and spend options are set by HuniWhisp and may be added to, changed, reduced, suspended, or discontinued at any time as described in Sections 10a and 39
• Proprietary mechanic. The Huni Games Room™ and its individual games and their distinguishing mechanics — including the Two Truths, One Lie credibility-meter-as-lie-resolver, the Caption Circle “this is so real” meter, the blurred-until-you-guess Riddle at Dusk solve-streak, and the exactly-six-words Six-Word Whisps form — are proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28 and Section 28c(w)). You may not copy, reverse-engineer, reproduce, or create derivative works of these mechanics outside the Platform without prior written permission

Huni Voices™ is the Platform's voice-first category: an audio-only post lane where you record or upload an audio clip and may add an optional text caption. By posting to Huni Voices:

• Audio posts are user content. Everything in an audio post — the recording, its transcript, and any caption — is user content subject to these Terms in full, including the content rules, the strike system, and the reporting and appeals flows. There is no separate, looser standard for spoken content
• Same moderation and safety scanning. Audio clips are transcribed and the transcript passes through the same automated safety scanner as written posts, and clips may be reviewed by moderators when flagged or reported — exactly as described in Sections 13 and 14 and on our Safety & Community Guidelines page
• Your voice is personal data. A voice recording can identify its speaker. Post your own voice at your own discretion, and do not include another person's voice in a recording without their consent — an identifiable third-party voice recorded or published without consent may be treated as doxxing / private-information exposure and actioned accordingly
• Anonymity is yours to protect. Posting anonymously hides your username, but it cannot disguise your voice. If anonymity matters to you, avoid saying your name or identifying details aloud
• Proprietary feature. The Huni Voices™ category and its voice-first audio-post mechanic (audio-only posts with an optional caption, transcript-based safety scanning) are proprietary to HuniWhisp and protected as part of the Platform's intellectual property (see Section 28). Your use of it grants you no ownership or other right in the feature itself

Huni offers three premium membership tiers. Higher tiers include everything in the lower tiers plus more. Current pricing is shown on the Premium page and confirmed before each purchase:

• Basic — ad-free browsing, voice/audio confessions (short clips), more images per post, a higher daily post limit, and a reduced donation platform fee.
• Plus — everything in Basic, plus longer audio confessions, unlimited daily posts, and a further-reduced donation fee.
• Pro — everything in Plus, plus video uploads, the longest audio confessions, and the lowest donation fee.

Free accounts remain fully functional — the full feed, all sorting and time-range filters, posting, comments, reactions, image uploads, and the analytics on your own posts are all available without paying. Premium adds the enhancements above; it does not paywall core participation. The specific benefits and limits of each tier are set by Huni and may change (see below), and are enforced by the app; some limits are admin-tunable.

Daily, not lifetime. Wherever the Platform caps how much you can post or upload — a daily post limit, a per-post media cap, or a total upload allowance — any total allowance is measured per day and resets automatically at the start of each new day. Upload allowances are never lifetime caps: reaching a limit today does not reduce what you can upload tomorrow, and no tier's allowance can be permanently "used up." Per-post caps (such as the number of images attached to a single post) apply to each post individually. Tier upgrades raise these allowances; an upgrade is never required to restore one.

Grandfathered limits. Where the Platform introduces tighter default limits for newly created accounts, existing members are not moved onto them: accounts registered before 2026-08-06 retain their original limits permanently — including their original upload allowances and their original 24-hour edit window — with no expiry or sunset. For accounts created on or after that date, the current defaults are: a free-account allowance of 10 media uploads per day (premium upload allowances unchanged), and a free 60-minute edit window on posts and comments (premium tiers retain the full 24-hour window). These new-account defaults are stated plainly in the Help Center guides and may be revised prospectively; a revision never reduces what a grandfathered account already has. A closed edit window on a Huni (confession) may be reopened per post via the coin-priced Edit Reopen feature (Section 28c(am)); other content categories retain their edit windows with no paid reopening.

Annual billing is available at a discounted rate (up to 40% savings). Premium memberships can be purchased and billed using your in-app wallet balance — part of the virtual economy described in Section 10a — and/or with real money through an external payment provider on the web (currently PayPal; additional providers may be added and are shown in checkout if and when they are), now that payments are live (see Section 10a). Pricing is governed by an admin-tunable general configuration (base prices, tiers, and discounts) and may be adjusted for your region (purchasing-power pricing), for any one-time discount you have earned, and — by default at parity, but optionally with a per-method adjustment — for the payment method you choose. The exact amount to be charged is always computed server-side and shown for your method and region before you confirm.

Memberships do not auto-renew. A membership is a one-off charge for the period you select, deducted from your Huni wallet at the moment of purchase. It does not renew: nothing is charged again, there is no renewal date, and there is no subscription to cancel. Your benefits run until the period you paid for ends, and then stop. To continue, you buy again whenever you choose. This is true on the web and in the iOS and Android apps alike — the only in-app purchases either app store offers are one-time Huni Coin packs, never a recurring subscription. Promotional, gift, and trial memberships likewise simply expire.

Huni Allowance™. A paid premium membership grants a Huni Allowance — a periodic credit of Huni Coins to your wallet for the life of the membership. The allowance amount is scaled to what the membership actually cost (after any regional pricing, discount, or voucher): a membership obtained free — promotional, gifted, or fully discounted — grants no allowance, and a grant never exceeds the money that bought it. Allowance coins are spendable on the Platform's catalogue like any other coins, except that they cannot be used to buy membership time; an unspent allowance does not roll over to the next period. Like every coin balance, the allowance is part of the Section 10a virtual economy: no cash value, no payout, and Huni may adjust amounts, periods, and eligibility prospectively at its discretion.

No partial refunds. Memberships are non-refundable, including for partial or unused billing periods, except where required by applicable law or in cases of verified billing error. Huni reserves the right to add, change, or remove premium benefits, tiers, and pricing, and to modify or discontinue the premium program, with reasonable notice to active subscribers. Premium status confers no ownership interest and carries no cash value.

The following platform fees apply to in-app transactions on Huni. These are fees within the virtual economy described in Section 10a, are retained by Huni (accruing to the HuniWhisp treasury), and are not external payment-processing charges:

• Donations: a platform fee of up to 5% on donations sent through the Platform, reduced for active premium members (currently Basic 3.5%, Plus 2.5%, Pro 1%). See Section 10
• Paid autographs: a platform fee applies to paid autograph transactions
• Paid live sessions: a platform fee applies to paid session access charges (up to $9.99 per session)
• Identity reveals: monetary exchanges during identity reveals are processed through the in-app wallet and subject to applicable fees
• Reveal offers (Huni Reveal Offer™): when a reveal offer is accepted, Huni retains a platform fee on the offer — the standard transaction rate, currently up to 5% for Huni Coin offers (donation-backed offers pay the ordinary donation fee above) — and the member receives the remainder. The fee is Huni's only take, and it is charged only on acceptance: a declined, cancelled, or expired offer is refunded to the sender in full, fee included. The exact split is shown before an offer is sent. See Section 28c(ay)
• Payouts: withdrawing wallet balance to a real-world account is not currently offered. If and when Huni introduces an official payout mechanism, any applicable payout fee will be disclosed before you confirm a payout, and payouts will be subject to that mechanism's eligibility, verification, and limits (see Section 10a)

All fees are deducted automatically at the time of the transaction. Fee rates are set by Huni, are subject to change at Huni's discretion (with reasonable notice for material changes), and the current rate that applies to your transaction is always displayed at the point of transaction.

Some discovery and recommendation surfaces may be lightly flavored by your approximate region — for example, highlighting content that is popular in your country or broad area. This flavoring uses only the coarse, region-level signal described in Section 41 (country and broad area derived from your connection). It does not use GPS, does not collect or infer a street address or any precise location, and does not track your movements. Your region is never displayed to other users and is never attached to your posts.

VPN and proxy use. Using a VPN or proxy does not restrict your access to the Platform. Where we detect one, we may show a one-time informational notice explaining that recommendations follow the region your connection appears to originate from — which may be your VPN's region rather than your physical one. The notice is informational only; no feature is blocked, limited, or degraded on the basis of VPN use.

Self-declared region. If you have added an optional region to your profile (Section 9b), we may use it to flavor these surfaces in place of the connection-derived signal — and because your preferred region is already known, the informational notice above is unnecessary and is generally not shown to you.

Region flavoring is a convenience for surfacing relevant content, not a profiling mechanism. We do not sell or share region signals with third parties, consistent with Section 41.

Aspirations are public goal commitments with a timeline of progress updates. To keep the aspirations feed meaningful and protect it from drive-by spam, HuniWhisp enforces the following limits on aspiration creation and goal completion:

• Creation daily limit: You may create at most 3 new aspirations per 24-hour window. This applies per user account and is enforced server-side.
• Concurrent active goals: You may hold at most 8 aspirations in "in progress" status at the same time. Complete or abandon existing goals before starting more.
• Minimum gap between creations: At least 5 minutes must pass between creating two aspirations from the same account. This prevents burst creation.
• Minimum updates before completion: You must add at least 3 timeline updates documenting your progress before the "Mark as Completed" action is available. This rule is enforced on both the client and the server — any attempt to mark a goal complete with fewer than 3 updates will be rejected.
• Celebration announcements are limited to one per completed aspiration. You cannot re-celebrate the same goal by toggling its status.
• Users can disable celebration animations in their account settings (celebrations they trigger still appear for followers who have opted in).
• Celebrations are cosmetic and do not affect any platform ranking, feed prioritization, or reward mechanics.
• Abuse consequences: Repeated abuse of the aspirations feature — including evading the anti-spam limits, deleting and recreating goals to reset the counters, or celebrating goals that are clearly joke/spam content — may result in the aspirations feature being disabled for your account, a temporary suspension, or a permanent ban depending on severity and history.

Showing real progress. An aspiration is meant to track a real goal over time and should show progress through progress updates. An aspiration with no progress within 14 days is automatically reclassified as a regular post, so the Aspirations & Goals space stays focused on goals people are genuinely working toward.

HuniWhisp provides share tools so you can distribute public posts and stories to external services — social networks (X / Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn), messaging apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, email), your device's native share sheet, QR codes, and embeddable iframes. By using these share tools you agree that:

• Once content is shared to an external platform, it is subject to that platform's terms, privacy policies, and content moderation. HuniWhisp has no control over how external services cache, index, archive, or display shared links.
• Shared posts carry only your chosen username (your pseudonym) on external destinations — no email, IP, real name, or other account identifiers are attached to outbound share links, previews, or embed code.
• You are responsible for what you choose to share and to whom. Only public posts should be shared externally; do not attempt to share private messages, drafts, or deleted content.
• Embed codes render the post as a live iframe that updates if the original post is edited, archived, or removed. Embedded posts that are subsequently deleted or made private will stop rendering and may display a "post no longer available" notice.
• Native device sharing on the mobile apps uses your operating system's share sheet. Any apps listed there (Messages, Mail, Notes, contact apps, installed social apps) are third-party services and are outside the scope of these Terms.
• Share counts are tracked in aggregate for analytics purposes only and do not identify which external platform you used or any personal information about the recipient.
• Visibility-aware sharing (Huni Visibility-Aware Share™). Every share surface is gated to respect the item's privacy state: deleted, moderated, hidden, flagged, unverified, and group / private-space posts cannot generate a public preview card or QR code, and anonymous posts never carry your identity off-platform (see Section 28c(z)).
• Anonymous profile sharing (Huni Profile Share™). You may share your anonymous profile (/u/anon/<handle>) by link or QR. The preview card and page expose only your public handle and aggregate counts — never your username, email, real name, IP, or exact join date (see Section 28c(aa)).
• HuniWhisp reserves the right to disable the share button for specific posts, categories, or accounts if the share feature is being abused (for example, to evade bans, mass-broadcast spam, or redirect users to off-platform scams).

HuniWhisp is operated by Nexude LLC (see Section 1), which also operates other services in the Nexude family — including Trovio, the family's collector's vault (a product of Nexude LLC). HuniWhisp may make available an optional feature that lets you link your HuniWhisp account to a Trovio account so that recognition you have earned on HuniWhisp can be displayed in your Trovio vault. This section governs that feature; it applies only if and when you choose to link an account. If you never link, nothing in this section applies to you and your use of HuniWhisp is unchanged.

What linking does — and what it never does:

• You start it, from Trovio. A link is always initiated by you from Trovio's settings and confirmed by you while signed in to HuniWhisp. HuniWhisp never links your account automatically, and no other user can link your account.
• Only recognition data is shared. When linked, HuniWhisp shares with Trovio only the recognition data you have earned — the names, icons, tiers, and dates of badges, awards, and autographs you have earned or collected. For a Huni Autograph™ you minted or collected, the shared record includes its title, mint number, and the amount you paid for it. Nothing else is shared.
• Your anonymity is never affected. Linking does not change how you post. Anonymous posting works exactly as before, and linked award data never includes your anonymous post content or anonymous handles. Your confessions, diary entries, messages, comments, posting history, email address, and IP address never leave HuniWhisp through this feature.
• Post / heat-tag awards stay off by default. Awards tied to a specific post (for example a “heat” recognition tag) are not shared unless you separately and affirmatively turn on that specific consent, which is off by default. Even then, any award attached to a confession you posted anonymously — or for which you hid your username — is never shared, and no confession identifier or timestamp for such an award ever leaves HuniWhisp.
• Recognition data, not property. Badges, awards, and autographs displayed on Trovio remain display and recognition data only. Displaying them elsewhere gives them no monetary value, ownership right, or transferability, and they remain subject to these Terms, including revocation for manipulation.
• Unlinking deletes the copies. You can unlink at any time from either HuniWhisp or Trovio. Revoking the link stops all further export immediately — this takes effect on HuniWhisp's side, so it holds even if the other service is unreachable — and Trovio deletes the copies it synced. Syncing is off until you link.

How Nexude LLC handles the recognition data you choose to share is described in our Privacy Policy (see “Affiliated Nexude LLC Services”) and in Trovio's own terms. Trademarks appearing in shared awards remain marks of Nexude LLC as described in Section 28.

HuniWhisp is committed to being usable by readers with color vision deficiencies (CVD) and low vision. In addition to our standard themes, the platform ships three dedicated accessibility themes that can be selected from the theme picker in the navbar or from your profile settings:

• Clear Horizon (CB) — Safe for red-green colorblindness (deuteranopia and protanopia, affecting ~6% of men and ~0.4% of women). Uses a blue + orange accent palette, which is considered the universally accessible color pair across every common form of CVD.
• Rose Atlas (CB) — Safe for blue-yellow colorblindness (tritanopia). Uses a rose/magenta + teal accent palette that avoids blue/yellow distinctions entirely.
• High Contrast (CB) — Maximum contrast mode for users with low vision or any form of CVD. Pure-black (dark mode) or pure-white (light mode) background, WCAG AAA text contrast ratios (≥7:1), thicker borders, enlarged focus outlines, and a vivid yellow accent in dark mode / deep blue accent in light mode.

These themes override danger/success/warning semantic colors as well, so error messages and confirmations never rely on red/green distinctions alone. All themes respect the user's dark-mode / light-mode preference independently — you can use High Contrast in light mode for a pure-white WCAG AAA interface, or in dark mode for a pure-black one. Theme selection is stored per device in local storage and does not leave your browser.

We welcome feedback on accessibility. If any part of the Platform is difficult to use with a screen reader, assistive technology, or specific visual condition, please contact us via the methods listed in the Contact section below. Accessibility reports are triaged with the same priority as bug reports.

The HuniWhisp mobile app is a Capacitor wrapper around the same web application served at huniwhisp.com, distributed through the app stores. Because the WebView loads from the live website on every launch, web-side fixes apply in the app without a store update; only changes that touch the native shell (permissions, plugins, manifest) require a new app version.

In-app navigation behavior:

• An in-header back chevron appears on every page except the home shell (/, /home, /explore, /about, /auth). Tapping it returns you to the previous screen, falling back to /home when opened via a deep link with no in-app history.
• Your device's system back button (where present) navigates back through your in-app history. Once you are on a home-shell page, the first press surfaces a "Press back again to exit" toast; a second press within 2 seconds closes the app. This is to prevent accidental exits from a single tap.
• The app honors your device's auto-rotate setting and supports portrait, landscape, and reverse-landscape orientations.
• The device's system navigation bar (back / home / recents), where present, is hidden inside the app to give the app's own bottom navigation the full bottom edge of the device. Swiping up from the very bottom briefly reveals the system bar (escape hatch).

Device permissions the app may request:

• Network access — required to load huniwhisp.com
• Notifications — only used after you grant the runtime prompt for new-message and reaction notifications
• Contacts — only requested if you explicitly enable Contact Sync (see Privacy Policy §3); for one-off invites we use the system Contact Picker which does not require this permission
• Haptics (vibration) — for the haptic-tap micro-interaction on buttons (no-op if your device's haptics are disabled)
• Restart re-registration — to re-register push notification listeners after a device restart
• Keep screen awake — to keep the screen alive while you compose a long post or watch a Live Huni

We do not request location, camera (other than via the system file picker when you upload media), microphone, calendar, SMS, call-log, or biometric permissions. The app does not run any background service or foreground service.

Updates to the app are distributed through the app stores on the same release cadence as the website. We may issue staged rollouts (e.g., 10% → 50% → 100%) to monitor for crashes before promoting to all users. Any crash data collected by a distribution platform is governed by that platform's privacy policy.

HuniWhisp respects the intellectual property rights of others. As a matter of policy we operate a notice-and-takedown procedure modelled on the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content posted on the Platform infringes your copyright, send us a notice as described below and we will review it and act on valid notices.

What this is, and what it is not. We follow this procedure voluntarily, because it is a fair and well-understood way to handle copyright complaints. HuniWhisp has not designated an agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, and nothing in this section is a claim to — or a representation that we qualify for — the statutory safe harbour under 17 U.S.C. § 512. Operating this procedure does not waive any right, defence, or remedy available to HuniWhisp or to the member who posted the content.

What a valid notice must contain:

• Your full legal name and contact information (mailing address, telephone, email)
• A clear identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
• The specific URL(s) on HuniWhisp where the allegedly infringing content appears, in enough detail for us to locate it
• A statement, made in good faith, that the use of the material is not authorized by you, your agent, or the law
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf
• Your physical or electronic signature

A notice missing any of the above is incomplete, and we may ask you to supply the missing information before we can act on it.

Where to send a copyright notice:

Email your notice to dmca@huniwhisp.com. We aim to review valid notices within 10 business days and, where a notice is well-founded, to remove or disable access to the content complained of and notify the member who posted it.

Counter-Notice Procedure:

If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice including: your contact information, identification of the removed content, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the content was removed in error, your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the address you provided (or, if outside the US, the District of Delaware), and your physical or electronic signature. Send counter-notices to dmca@huniwhisp.com.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the original complainant. If the complainant does not file a court action within 10–14 business days, we will restore the content.

Repeat Infringer Policy:

We will terminate the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat copyright infringers. We also reserve the right to remove any content alleged to be infringing without prior notice and at our sole discretion.

Warning: Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a takedown notice or in a counter-notice can expose you to liability for damages, including costs and attorney's fees — see 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and other applicable law. Please consult an attorney before filing if you are unsure whether the use is infringing.

For questions about these Terms or to reach the appropriate team, use the contact below:

• General inquiries, support, and feedback: hello@huniwhisp.com (or use the in-app feedback widget)
• Business, partnerships, press & advertising: business@huniwhisp.com
• Privacy & data rights requests: privacy@huniwhisp.com
• Security disclosures (vulnerability reports): security@huniwhisp.com
• DMCA & copyright takedowns: dmca@huniwhisp.com (see §46 for the procedure)
• Legal inquiries (subpoenas, law enforcement, arbitration opt-out): legal@huniwhisp.com
• Child safety reports / CSAM: see /child-safety for direct CyberTipline access

We aim to respond to most inquiries within 30 days. Privacy rights requests are answered within 30 days for standard requests; complex requests may take up to 60 days with notice.

This Section governs requests by family members, executors, legal guardians, and authorities to access, close, or compel production of a HuniWhisp account or its content. It supplements the pseudonymity carve-outs in Section 7 and the privacy disclosures in our Privacy Policy. All requests are submitted through the intake form at /legal-requests and may also be addressed to the legal team at privacy@huniwhisp.com.

(a) Posthumous access & closure

HuniWhisp honours valid posthumous-access requests upon receipt of proof of death (a government-issued death certificate) together with proof of authority over the deceased member's affairs — a kinship document for next-of-kin, letters testamentary or an equivalent executor deed for the appointed executor, or a court order vesting authority. Posthumous closure is treated as a soft-delete: the account is removed from public view and an encrypted archive is retained in accordance with the retention periods set out in the Privacy Policy.

(b) Court orders, subpoenas, search warrants, and guardianship orders

HuniWhisp honours court orders, subpoenas, search warrants, and guardianship or conservatorship orders upon presentation of proof of authenticity — including a government-issued photo ID for the submitting requester and, for law-enforcement requests, official credentials and agency letterhead. Service of process must follow the format and channels described on the /legal-requests intake page. Consistent with Section 7, HuniWhisp complies with valid orders but does not volunteer user information absent legal compulsion or an imminent-harm exception.

(c) Declaration under penalty of perjury

Every submission must include a declaration, signed under penalty of perjury, that the information provided and the documents uploaded are true, accurate, and complete, and that the requester is the person or authorised representative they claim to be. The declaration is presented and recorded as part of the intake form.

(d) Forged or fraudulent submissions

Submitting a forged, altered, or otherwise fraudulent document — including a fake death certificate, fabricated court order, impersonated executor deed, or counterfeit law-enforcement credential — is a serious crime in virtually every jurisdiction. HuniWhisp will refuse such requests, preserve the submission and its metadata, terminate any associated accounts, and cooperate with prosecutions, including by responding to compulsory process and providing testimony or evidence where lawfully required.

(e) Encrypted records for regulatory review

HuniWhisp maintains an encrypted record of every legal-access request — including the requester's name, email, phone number, and uploaded documents — for regulatory review, audit, and legal-compliance purposes. Document bytes are encrypted at rest using AES-256-GCM and the requester's personally identifying information (name, email, phone) is encrypted equivalently. Each submitter is issued a 256-bit hexadecimal status token on submission to track the request's progress without exposing personal data.

(f) Required documents, response times, and how to submit

The intake form at /legal-requests lists the documents required for each request type — including, for example, government photo ID and a death certificate plus proof of kinship for deceased-access requests; government photo ID plus a guardianship court order for guardianship requests; and government photo ID plus law-enforcement credentials and agency letterhead for investigation requests. Uploads are limited to 8 MB per document and 25 MB per submission, in PDF, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, or HEIC format. Target response times are 14 days for routine requests, 30 days for complex requests, and 7 days for verified emergency law-enforcement requests involving an imminent risk to life or safety. The legal team can be reached directly at privacy@huniwhisp.com.