2.1 Age

The Services are for adults. You must be 18 years of age or older to create an account or use the Services. When you register you affirmatively attest that you are 18 or older. We do not collect your date of birth.

If we learn that an account holder is under 18, we suspend the account immediately, terminate it within 10 business days, and delete or anonymize the personal information associated with it within 90 days, except where law requires us to retain it.

2.2 Where the Services are available

The Services are available in most countries and in 12 languages. We may limit or withdraw availability in any country at any time, including where sanctions or other legal requirements apply to us. Some governments restrict access to services like ours from inside their own borders, and we do not control that.

Merchandise is separate. We cannot ship everywhere, and the shop shows you at checkout where it can ship.

We operate from the United States. If you use the Services from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for compliance with your local law.

3.1 Registration and verification

Every account is verified by phone number. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep it current, and to use your real name. Accounts are personal to you. You may not sell, transfer, or share your account.

We use one time passcodes delivered by SMS to verify phone numbers. Message and data rates from your carrier may apply.

3.2 Account security

You are responsible for activity that occurs under your account. Tell us at [email protected] if you believe your account has been compromised.

3.3 Closing your account

You may close your account at any time in your settings. Section 12 describes what happens to your content and your data when you do.

5.1 Consent to analytics and measurement

Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain what we collect and why. Strictly necessary technologies operate without consent because the Services cannot function without them. Analytics and marketing technologies are off by default and load only after you accept them. We do not load them for a member who has declined, and we do not load them where your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal.

By accepting analytics cookies you consent, in advance and expressly, to the collection and recording of your interactions with the Services by us and by the service providers named in the Cookie Policy, for the purposes described there. You may withdraw that consent at any time in your cookie preferences.

5.2 Communications

We send service messages such as verification codes, security notices, and notices required by law. You may not opt out of those while you hold an account. Marketing email is separate and you may unsubscribe at any time.

6.1 Your content

"Your Content" means anything you post, upload, or submit to the Services. You keep ownership of Your Content. You are responsible for it, and you represent that you have the rights necessary to post it.

6.2 License you grant for ordinary content

For Your Content other than Creator Content, you grant ActsSocial a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free license to host, store, reproduce, modify for formatting, publish, distribute, and display Your Content for the purpose of operating, improving, and promoting the Services. This license ends when you delete Your Content, subject to copies other members have already shared, retention required by law, and routine backups overwritten on a normal cycle.

This Section 6.2 does not apply to Creator Content. Section 6.7 applies instead.

6.3 Our content

The Services, including software, design, and text we author, are owned by ActsSocial or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a personal, revocable, non transferable license to use the Services under these Terms.

6.4 Feedback

If you send us suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

6.5 Content we may remove

We may remove content, limit its distribution, or restrict an account where we reasonably believe it breaches these Terms or the Community Guidelines, or where the law requires it. Section 13 of the Community Guidelines explains how to appeal.

6.6 Video content

Where you watch video on the Services and we associate that viewing with your account, we treat that information as protected under the Video Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. 2710. We ask for your separate, informed, written consent before disclosing video viewing information to a third party, and we renew that consent at least every two years. You may withdraw it at any time in your settings.

6.7 Creator Content

This Section 6.7 applies instead of Section 6.2 to Creator Content, meaning devotional series, Bible studies, teaching series, and other structured written or recorded teaching content that you submit through the Creator portal after being approved for an approved role. It does not apply to ordinary posts, comments, prayer requests, or short videos, which remain governed by Section 6.2.

For Creator Content, you grant ActsSocial a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, revocable license to host, store, copy, reproduce, distribute, display, perform, and reformat your Creator Content for the purpose of operating and promoting the Services. This license is limited as follows.

(a) It is not sublicensable, except to service providers performing hosting, delivery, storage, search, or similar operational functions on our behalf, and only to the extent necessary for them to perform that function.

(b) It does not include the right to sell, license, or syndicate your Creator Content to any third party for that third party’s own use.

(c) It does not include the right to use your Creator Content to train, fine tune, or evaluate any machine learning or artificial intelligence model, whether ours or a third party’s, except where you have separately opted in under Section 6.8.

(d) It does not include the right to create derivative works, other than reformatting for different devices, excerpting for preview or promotional purposes, and translating with attribution preserved.

(e) It does not transfer automatically on a change of control. If ActsSocial is acquired, merges, or transfers this agreement, we will give you at least 30 days written notice before your Creator Content transfers, and you may unpublish before the transfer takes effect.

(f) It terminates when you unpublish the Creator Content, subject only to copies other members have already downloaded or shared, retention we are required by law to maintain, routine backups overwritten on a normal rotation cycle, and aggregated or de identified analytics that cannot be linked back to you.

We will remove unpublished Creator Content from public display within 5 business days of your request and from our active systems within 30 days.

We will display author level attribution on your Creator Content, including your name or chosen display name, your author photo if you provide one, and your author bio if you provide one. You grant us permission to display those elements for that purpose. We will not remove your attribution while your Creator Content remains published on the Services.

6.8 Artificial intelligence training

We do not use Creator Content to train, fine tune, or evaluate machine learning or artificial intelligence models unless you have expressly opted in.

Consent to artificial intelligence training use is off by default. You may turn it on in your Creator settings and you may turn it off at any time. Turning it off stops future use. It does not reverse training that has already occurred, which is a technical limitation we are stating plainly rather than promising something we cannot deliver.

Nothing in this Section limits our use of automated systems to moderate content, detect fraud, generate search indexes, translate content, or perform other operational functions that do not involve training a model on your content.

6.9 Automated systems and artificial intelligence

Parts of the Services use automated systems, including artificial intelligence. We say so plainly here so that you know when software rather than a person is involved.

Automated systems review posts for foul language, negative sentiment, and bullying; rank and organize your feed around the interests you choose; translate content into the languages we support; and build the search index. Human moderators review what those systems escalate, and everything that members report.

A human being does not read every post. Automated systems make mistakes in both directions. Where an automated system removes your content or restricts your account, you may ask a person to review that decision under Section 13 of the Community Guidelines. Someone who was not involved in the original decision carries out the review.

Section 6.8 governs whether your content may be used to train a model. Nothing in this Section changes that.

7.1 Our marks

ActsSocial, ActsSeeds, and our logos are trademarks of Trinity Proximity, Inc. You may not use them without our written permission.

7.2 Copyright complaints

We respect copyright and we respond to notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Our designated agent is registered with the United States Copyright Office. Our full notice and takedown procedure, counter notification procedure, repeat infringer policy, and designated agent contact details are set out in our Copyright and DMCA Policy at actssocial.com/dmca, which forms part of these Terms.

7.3 Scripture

The Services include Bible text in 12 translations across 7 languages. The English translations we provide are the King James Version, the American Standard Version, and the World English Bible, each of which is in the public domain. The remaining translations are provided under the terms applicable to each. We do not grant you any right in Bible text beyond personal use within the Services.

8.1 What an approved role is

Some members apply for an approved role that unlocks additional tools. Our approved roles are Christian Creator, Christian Music Artist, Minister, Church Admin, Nonprofit, Business Admin, and RSS Admin, together with any other approved role we may offer.

We review each application before we approve or deny it. Review is a manual staff assessment, principally for theological soundness. Depending on the role, we assess publicly available information, information you submit, and documentation we ask you to upload. Organizations applying for a nonprofit role must upload government documentation to be fully verified. We do not obtain consumer reports and we do not run criminal background checks.

We do not approve every application, and we may deny or revoke any application or role at our sole discretion.

Holders of approved roles agree to our Statement of Faith at actssocial.com/values as a condition of the role. The Statement of Faith does not apply to general members. ActsSocial welcomes members who are exploring faith and members who do not share our beliefs.

8.2 Rights in content you publish in an approved role

Where your role permits you to publish Creator Content, you must confirm the basis on which you hold the rights to it before you publish. You must select one of: that you hold all rights and no publisher is involved; that you have written permission from the publisher; or that the publisher’s standing policy permits this use. Getting any permission you need is your responsibility, and you must be able to produce it if we ask.

You must also tell us about any material you have quoted that is not Scripture, including song lyrics, poetry, and other authors’ prose, and the basis on which you use it.

You represent and warrant that your content does not infringe anyone’s rights, and you agree to indemnify us as described in Section 15 for claims arising from a breach of that representation.

8.3 Music recordings are not permitted anywhere on the Services

Music recordings may not be uploaded to the Services, and we remove uploaded music recordings. This applies regardless of who owns the recording, including to members holding the Christian Music Artist role, and it applies to every member whether or not they hold an approved role.

8.4 Suspension and revocation of an approved role

An approved role is a permission, not a right. Approval grants you a limited, personal, non transferable, revocable permission to use the tools associated with that role. It does not create ownership of the role, a property interest, an employment or contractor relationship, or any expectation that the role continues for any period. We may close any role to new applications at any time.

We may suspend or revoke your approved role at any time, at our sole discretion, with or without prior notice. Grounds include, and are not limited to: breach of these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or any agreement covering your role; content or public conduct inconsistent with the Statement of Faith you agreed to when you applied; a material inaccuracy in your application or in any rights representation you made; a repeated or serious violation of another person’s intellectual property; conduct that exposes members to harm; extended inactivity; or a requirement of law.

We may suspend a role immediately while we review a matter. Suspension is not a finding that you did anything wrong. Where we act without prior notice, we will tell you within a reasonable time what we did and why, unless the law prevents us.

Losing an approved role does not close your account. Unless we tell you otherwise, your account continues as an ordinary member account and the Community Guidelines that apply to every member continue to apply to you.

Where we revoke a role for a reason connected to your content, your teaching, or your public conduct, we may remove your published content from public display, and we will normally do so, because continuing to feature and attribute that content would not be appropriate. Where we revoke a role for a reason unconnected to your content, such as inactivity or an administrative change, your published content may remain available. In either case we may remove the role badge and role specific presentation from your profile and your content, other than the author level attribution described in Section 6.7. Where members are partway through a series we remove, we will tell those members.

Approved roles are unpaid. No fee, revenue share, or other compensation is owed to you at any time, including on suspension or revocation.

If you believe we made a mistake, you may send one written appeal to [email protected] within 30 days. A person who was not involved in the original decision will review it. We will respond in writing. Our decision after appeal is final, and nothing in this Section gives you a right to be reinstated.

8.5 Pages you administer for an organization

Some approved roles let you administer a page for an organization, such as a church, a nonprofit, or a business. An organization page is not a personal account.

Each administrator acts under their own verified personal account, and more than one person may administer the same organization page. Section 3.1 prevents you from sharing your personal account. It does not prevent an organization from having several administrators, each signed in as themselves.

The organization and the administrator are each responsible for what appears on the page. We may remove an administrator's access, or the page itself, under Section 8.4 or Section 12.

A verification badge on an organization page reflects a limited check of information or documents given to us at a point in time. It is not a warranty by ActsSocial about the organization, its conduct, or its goods or services.

10.1 No money moves through the Services

ActsSocial does not accept, hold, route, or pay out money through the Services. We do not offer tipping, member to member payments, creator payments, donations, or in application purchases. We do not charge members for access.

10.2 Merchandise

Merchandise displayed on the Services is sold through Shopify. When you check out you are handed to Shopify, and Shopify processes your payment. Payment card details are never received or stored by ActsSocial. Merchandise purchases are governed by the shop terms presented to you at checkout.

10.3 Links to third party giving pages

Some pages, including church pages, may link to an organization’s own website where you can give to that organization. Those links take you off the Services. ActsSocial does not process, hold, or receive those funds, takes no fee from them, and is not responsible for the third party site, its terms, or its handling of your information.

10.4 Promotions

We sometimes run sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions. Each one is governed by its own Official Rules, published with that promotion, and those Rules control over these Terms for that promotion. No purchase is necessary to enter any promotion we run.

12.1 By you

You may stop using the Services and close your account at any time.

12.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your account, or restrict features, where we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or the Community Guidelines, where necessary to protect members or the Services, or where the law requires it. We may act immediately where the circumstances warrant it.

12.3 Your content after your account closes

If you close your account, published teaching content you authored is removed from public display within 30 days, and we will tell members who are partway through a series. Ordinary posts are removed in accordance with your deletion request.

Deleting your personal data is a separate process. It runs on its own timetable, described in Section 8 of the Privacy Policy, and we honor any shorter deadline applicable law imposes on us.

We may retain content and account records where the law requires it, including the preservation obligations described in Section 4.

16.1 Informal resolution first

Before starting a formal proceeding, you agree to contact [email protected] and give us 30 days to resolve the matter informally. We will do the same.

16.2 Arbitration agreement

If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, you and ActsSocial agree to resolve it by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except as stated below.

16.3 Your right to opt out

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by sending written notice to [email protected] stating your name, the email on your account, and that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

16.4 Class action waiver

Arbitration is on an individual basis. Neither you nor ActsSocial may bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action.

16.5 Coordinated filings

Where 25 or more similar claims are filed by or with the assistance of the same counsel, those claims will be administered in sequential batches, with the outcomes of each batch informing resolution of the remainder, in accordance with the applicable AAA procedures.

16.6 Carve outs

Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court. Nothing in this Section prevents you from seeking public injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction, and any claim for public injunctive relief is severed from arbitration and stayed pending the arbitration of the remaining claims.

20.1 Standard provisions

These Terms, together with the documents they incorporate, are the entire agreement between you and ActsSocial about the Services. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to the notice we owe under Section 6.7(e).

20.2 Members outside the United States

Where mandatory local law gives you rights that these Terms cannot lawfully reduce, those rights are unaffected.