Terms of Service

By creating a Fur Affinity account you agree to abide by the policies of the Terms of Service (TOS), Submission Agreement (SA) and Acceptable Upload Policy (AUP). We reserve the right to change our polices at any time, without prior notice, for any reason. Continued usage of the site after modification of site policies constitutes your acceptance and agreement with any and all changes.

While using the site, you agree that you take full responsibility for any and all actions while you are on the site, and will behave in a respectful manner to fellow users and site staff.

If you have visited Fur Affinity by accident, or disagree with the site’s policies, you agree to willingly cease use of the site, and to take no further action.

Fur Affinity is not responsible for, nor endorses, the expressions, comments, journals or content uploaded by its users. In short: if you experience emotional trauma looking at anything on the site it's not our fault. You have been warned.

Code of Conduct
The Code of Conduct outlines rules that you need to follow to help ensure that the site is a fun, enjoyable place for all users involved.

You MAY do the following

• Be polite, and treat others with respect. Simple. Effective. Proven.
• Post, share, create and entertain.
• Make friends, be social. Fur Affinity is a community with tens of thousands of other users. Make friends, post art, and enjoy everything Fur Affinity has to offer.
• If you encounter fellow users being obnoxious we suggest:
  • Take a break and step away from the situation, especially before responding. Give yourself time to cool down. Commenting out of haste or anger or outright retaliating against the user could result in action being taken against yourself as well. Harassment can go both ways, and retaliatory comments against users will not be tolerated.
  • Hide the user's comments or shout from your pages, and move on.
  • If you feel you are being targeted for harassment we ask that you first block the offending user.
  • If harassment continues, please open a Trouble Ticket before contacting Fur Affinity staff. When contacting a direct member of staff, please do so via Note (including your trouble ticket number and brief description of the problem) - do not leave page shouts or direct comments. In addition, DO NOT RESPOND towards any troll-like or harassing behavior. Doing so can cause complications, and only incite the offending parties.
• Have fun!

You MAY NOT do any of the following

• Fur Affinity strives to allow users freedom of expression where possible, but asks users refrain from making comments, journals, statements or posting material which is racist, bigoted, defamatory, otherwise offensive towards any particular sexuality, philosophy, religion, illegal gambling (raffles, games of chance) or content alluding to illegal activity or child pornography. Disruptive behavior meant to interfere with the normal flow of the community will not be tolerated, and we frown upon mob tactics and organized harassment. Comments which are overly aggressive, personally insulting or abusive are prohibited.
• Don't post or discuss anything illegal. You and you alone are responsible for your actions, and take full responsibility for consequences of your actions.
• Don't discuss, take part or abuse site policies or known bugs. Taking part in or encouraging users to violate site policy may result in action being taken against your account.
  
• Don't harass, abuse or spam other users, or encourage others to do so by proxy.
• Don't post links to materials that could harm other users' computers or would allow others to inappropriately access software or web sites, or that would otherwise violate the Code of Conduct
• Don’t lend, transfer, sell or otherwise provide access to your account to any individual other than the account's rightful owner, unless otherwise pre-authorized by a member of the site administration.
• Don't impersonate, harass or defame Fur Affinity users, staff or moderators.

Consequences

Violation of the Code of Conduct, may result in action taken against your account, including but not limited to following:

• Temporary suspension. Suspension times will vary based on A) the severity of the offense, B) the user's history and number of prior warnings or violations and C) any previous suspensions. Suspension will vary by the severity of action taken. After three suspension your account will be permanently closed. And none of us want that to happen.
• Repeated and continued violations of site policy can result in a permanent suspension of your account without warning or notice. Some offenses warranting immediate permanent suspension, including without limitation: hacking, fraud, severe racial remarks, posting real nudity, account abuse creation, posting viruses or URLs to viruses.

Fur Affinity is not obligated to send you a warning before these actions occur. We assume no liability for any losses resultant due to suspension, temporary or permanent.

Account Registration
By registering an account (for use as a User or Group account) you agree that all information provided is truthful and accurate. We reserve the right to close any account created with falsified information. In addition, you agree to keep keep your e-mail address accurate and up-to-date (as is necessary to contact you or provide password resets).

This site is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 13. Accounts created by underage users will be closed without warning (and it will be on the user to provide verification they are of sufficient legal age to continue use of the site).

Fur Affinity is primarily geared towards the artistic community, and contains mature content. The ability to view mature art is DISABLED BY DEFAULT. By enabling the mature flag you agree that 1) you are of legal age (18) and that 2) you are not lying about your age. Users found misrepresenting their age and date of birth will have their ability to view mature artwork revoked.

We encourage parents and guardians to be familiar with the sites their children visit, and to take a part in their children's lives. It is your role, as parent to your children, to monitor and police your children. The internet is not a babysitter.

The site will not be held accountable for your children lying and enabling the ability to view mature art, and we will do everything in our power to limit their ability to do so.

Account Information & Security
Fur Affinity values your privacy, and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information to the best of our ability. We will never use, share or distribute personally identifiable information (birth date, e-mail address, ISP/IP or other aliases) except when such actions are necessary to:

• to comply with law enforcement;
• to protect or defend our legal rights, property or interests;
• to investigate reports of illegal activities, fraud or situations involving potential risk or endangerment to the physical safety of our users.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password, and accept all responsibility for any damages or loss resulting from willful negligence on your account security.

Fur Affinity utilizes Viglink as an affiliate link system to help monetize the site. Viglink is anonymous tracker, and does not record personally identifying information. Users can opt out of Viglink by going to the Control Panel > Site Settings or by clicking http://www.viglink.com/optout.

Enforcement Policy
We will uphold our policies and actively protect the interests of the site and our members. This includes, but not limited to: stopping art theft/tracing, identity theft or attempts at financial harm, personal harassment or organizing trolling, piracy or other illegal activity or any activity which we feel is a threat to the site or its community.

We are committed to fair and equal treatment. Suspected violations will be investigated before action is taken. Members are expected to follow requests or instructions by site staff. Fur Affinity will only enforce its policies against actions made within the site's domain (read: if it doesn't happen on *.furaffinity.net it's not our problem).

Users found in violation may have action taken against their account depending on the severity of the action at the admin's discretion. In reasonable violations, staff will provide a warning to the user. Action taken by the staff may involve removal of submissions, journals and comments or the temporary suspension. Repeat violations of the TOS rules will result in permanent suspension of your account.

Our Rights
FA staff reserve the rights of the following:

• to remove content (submissions, journals, comments, etc.) not in accordance with site policy;
• to modify submissions (editing will be limited to: adding/editing categories, keywords, ratings, comments or titles not in line with site policy);
• to monitor private data or user communication to investigate potential illegal activity by state, Federal or international law, protect the interests of the site or to prevent threats, spam or harassment.

Account Abuse, Suspension & Misc
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate any account without notice. Attempts to circumvent age locks, temporary suspensions or otherwise evade admin actions will result in permanent banning and the closure of all accounts owned by the user. Further, you agree to not hold us liable for loss of data/information or any financial complications resulting from site termination.

• Secondary Accounts - Users are permitted to create multiple accounts provided said accounts are used for legitimate purposes. Admin actions taken against secondary accounts will carry over to the primary account. Any account used for harassment or block evasion will be closed without notice.
• Group Accounts - Group accounts are permitted so long as they abide by site policies. Violations made by a group account may result in group closure in addition to further action will be taken against account of the offending individual and/or group owner. It is the group owner's responsibility to provide access to the group accounts, and Fur Affinity takes no responsibility for actions taken by anybody with access to shared accounts.
• :Embed: Accounts - Fur Affinity does not permit the creation of accounts solely for the use of avatar embedding (sometimes referred to as "plz" accounts). Any account created to abuse this privilege will be shut down without warning.
• Impersonation Accounts - Accounts impersonating celebrities or other members of the community on FA are prohibited.

Network Availability
FA makes every possible effort to achieve maximum up-time. However, outages and maintenance are unavoidable. We are not responsible for losses attributed to scheduled downtime, unforeseen outages or any other general lack of availability.

Storage Policy
We provided storage for our users to keep and maintain their data on the site. However, Fur Affinity IS NOT a backup service, and we are not responsible for long term archival of user data or loss of files. We encourage users to keep regular backups and archives of their data using a service and/or storage media intended for that purpose.

Copyrights
Artwork found on Fur Affinity is copyright the original artist unless otherwise stated.

The name Fur Affinity, mascots (Fender and Rednef), website coding and graphics are sole property of Fur Affinity and Ferrox Arts, LLC. You may not reproduce, distribute and/or display Fur Affinity graphics or works without express permission.