Terms · Fictopedia

What Fictopedia is

Fictopedia is an encyclopedia of things that do not exist. People write articles about invented worlds and collect them into universes. Everything published here is fiction, and it is presented as fiction. Reading is open to anyone; writing needs an account.

Some articles are drafted by an AI model at a writer’s request. Those drafts are generated from an instruction the writer supplies and from context in the universe they are writing in. AI-written text can be wrong, odd, or unlike what you asked for, and it is saved as an ordinary article that anyone can then edit. Fictopedia does not promise that generation is available at any particular moment, or that any given request will produce something usable.

The service is still being built. Features can change, and features can be removed.

Accounts

You must be 13 or older to use Fictopedia. The service is not directed to children under 13, it does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and an account we find belongs to a child under 13 is removed. You also need to be old enough to enter into an agreement where you live.

One person, one account. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your password to yourself. Tell us at support@fictopedia.com if you think someone else has access to it.

You can stop using Fictopedia at any time. We can suspend or close an account that is being used to break these terms, and we will try to say why when we do.

What you write, and who can change it

You keep ownership of what you write. By posting it here you give Fictopedia permission to store it, display it, and distribute it as part of the site, and you allow other people to build on it here. That permission is what lets the site work at all, and it lasts as long as the content is on the site.

Fictopedia is openly editable, and this is not a small detail. Any signed-in person can create and edit articles in any public universe, including yours. An article you started can be extended, rewritten, or corrected by somebody else. What stays with the account that created a universe is the universe itself: only that account can change its name, its description, and whether it is private, and only that account or an editor it has added can delete an article.

Edits are permanent public record. Every change to an article is kept as a complete snapshot in a revision history that the database writes and that cannot be edited or deleted through the site. Anyone who can read an article can read its history. Please treat everything you post as public writing that other people will build on, and do not post anything here that you would not want read or edited.

Only you can post on your account, so only post what you are entitled to post. Do not upload work that belongs to someone else. If you believe something here infringes your copyright, the next section says how to tell us.

Copyright and infringement notices

Fictopedia responds to notices of claimed copyright infringement under United States copyright law. If you own a copyright, or you are authorised to act for the person who does, and you believe something on this site infringes it, write to support@fictopedia.com. Please put “copyright” in the subject line.

For a notice to be acted on, it has to include all of the following. This is what the law asks for, and a notice missing any of it may not be effective.

Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or somebody authorised to act for them.
Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works on this site are covered by one notice, a list of them is enough.
Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. The address of the page is usually the clearest way to do that.
Your address, telephone number, and email address, so we can reach you about it.
A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act for them.

When we receive a notice that meets those requirements, we remove the material or disable access to it, and we tell the person who posted it what happened.

If your work was removed and you think that was wrong. You can send a counter-notice to the same address. It needs your signature, identification of the material and where it appeared before it was removed, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed as the result of a mistake or a misidentification, and your name, address, and telephone number. It also needs your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you live, or, if you live outside the United States, for any district in which we may be found, and your agreement to accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice. If we receive a counter-notice, we may put the material back as the law allows.

Please be sure before you send either kind of notice. Someone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for the resulting damages.

Repeat infringement. We close the accounts of people who infringe other people’s copyright repeatedly.

Acceptable use

Fictopedia is for invented worlds. The line that matters most here is between fiction and pretending something is true.

Keep fiction framed as fiction. Do not present invented material as a factual account of real events, real organisations, or real people. Writing about a real person or organisation as though they said or did something they did not is not allowed here, however it is labelled.
No impersonation. Do not claim to be someone else, and do not set up a universe or an account to look like it is run by a real person or company that it is not.
Nothing unlawful. Do not post content that is illegal where you are or where we operate. That includes sexual content involving minors, content that incites violence, and material that is unlawful to distribute.
No harassment or hate. Do not use this site to target, threaten, or degrade real people or groups of them.
No private information. Do not post other people’s personal details. Remember that everything you write here is public and permanent.
Do not abuse the machinery. No automated scraping or bulk generation that degrades the site for other people, no attempts to get around usage limits or authorisation, no probing or attacking the service, and no vandalism of other people’s work.

We can remove content that breaks these rules, and we can close an account that keeps breaking them.

Fictopedia+ membership

Fictopedia+ is an optional paid membership. It costs $10 per month and renews automatically each month until you cancel. Payment is taken by our payment processor on their own secure page. Fictopedia never sees or stores your card details, and our records hold only whether a membership is currently active and when the paid period ends. Prices are in US dollars unless the payment page says otherwise, and any tax that applies is shown there.

What a membership includes. Article pages carry one promotional banner, and members are not served it. Members can turn a universe they own private, which takes it out of search, the homepage, Random Article, and the sitemap and leaves it readable only by them and anyone they have added. Members get a larger daily and monthly allowance of AI-written articles than the free one. Members can also have an illustration drawn for an article, up to a daily and monthly limit of their own; anyone can look at the resulting pictures, and only making them needs a membership. The membership page linked below sets out the current numbers, and the section on changes to the benefits applies to them.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from the membership page. Cancelling stops the next payment. Your benefits continue until the end of the period you have already paid for, and then stop. We do not give partial refunds for part of a month, because cancelling never cuts a paid period short. If something has gone wrong with a payment, write to support@fictopedia.com and we will look at it.

If you are in the EU or the UK. Consumers there normally have 14 days to withdraw from a purchase made online. Membership benefits start the moment you subscribe, and by subscribing you ask us to start them immediately and accept that the statutory withdrawal right is affected by our doing so. That changes nothing else in this section: you can still cancel whenever you like, your benefits still run to the end of the period you have already paid for, and nothing renews after that.

What happens if membership ends. Nothing you made is deleted, and nothing of yours is published without you asking. A universe you made private stays private, you can keep editing it, and you can turn it public again at any time without a membership; what ends is the ability to make a further universe private. Illustrations already drawn for your articles stay on them, and what ends is having new ones drawn. Your allowance of AI-written articles returns to the free one. The promotional banner comes back on article pages.

Changes to the price or the benefits. We can change what the membership costs or what it includes. If we do, we will say so in advance, and a price change will only take effect on a renewal after that notice. Continuing to pay after a change means you accept it; cancelling before your next renewal means you do not.

No warranty, and limits on liability

Everything here is fiction. Nothing on Fictopedia is a statement of fact about the real world, and none of it is advice of any kind. Do not rely on it for anything.

Fictopedia is provided as it is, and as it happens to be available. We do not promise that the site will be uninterrupted, that it will be free of errors, that AI generation will work at any given moment, or that content other people write will be accurate, inoffensive, or preserved forever. To the extent the law allows, we exclude the warranties that would otherwise be implied.

To the extent the law allows, Fictopedia is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits, or for content you or anyone else posted. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, which for most people is nothing at all. Some places do not allow these limits, and where that is so, they do not apply to you.

Governing law, and where a dispute is heard

These terms, and any dispute about them or about your use of Fictopedia, are governed by the law of the State of Missouri in the United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. A dispute has to be brought in the state or federal courts in Missouri, and both you and Fictopedia agree that those courts can hear it.

If you live somewhere whose consumer law gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts, or gives you protections that an agreement cannot take away, this section does not take them away from you.

Changes to these terms

Fictopedia is early and still being built, so these terms will change as the product does. The date at the top of the page tells you when they last changed. If a change matters, we will say so on the site rather than quietly editing this page. Continuing to use Fictopedia after a change means you accept the new version.

Contact

Questions about these terms, about your account, or about a payment go to support@fictopedia.com. What we do with your data is described separately in the privacy policy.