Terms

1. Who can use samo

• You must be 16 or older. We ask for your date of birth when you join, and it must be true. It's private — it's never shown to anyone — and you can only change it by emailing us. If we find out someone is under 16, we'll close their account.
• Members under 18 can use samo, with extra protections (see section 3).
• Each account is for one person — don't share it, sell it, or make accounts for other people.
• Keep your password safe. You're responsible for what happens on your account.

2. The rules

You agree to follow the community rules. They're part of these terms.

3. How we keep samo safe

This is how we protect people on samo, especially younger members.

• Members under 18:
  • can only send and receive private messages with people they're friends with;
  • aren't suggested to adults, and don't appear in adults' searches, people lists or samo's public “top” lists, unless they're already connected;
  • only show where they live, their hometown and their school to their friends.
• Ages under 16 are never shown. Some members joined when samo was open to younger people; if a page says someone is under 16, only they can see it.
• You're in control of your page: drawings people leave on your whiteboard only appear once you approve them, you can delete comments on your page, and you can block anyone — then neither of you can friend, message, comment on or find each other.
• Anyone can report anything — pages, posts, comments, shelves, skins and messages — with the Report button on it. Reports go to an admin, who looks at them as soon as they can, with anything involving children or someone's safety first. We never tell anyone who reported them.
• We filter some offensive words automatically.
• Illegal content is removed as soon as we know about it. Anything that sexually exploits children is reported to the National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation, and the account is banned. Where someone may be in danger, we'll tell the police.

4. Complaints and appeals

• To complain about something on samo, or about how we've handled a report, use Report or email hello@samo.world.
• If we remove something of yours or suspend your account, we'll tell you why, unless the law stops us or it would put someone at risk. If you think we got it wrong, email hello@samo.world and someone will look at it again and tell you what they decided.
• If you're in the UK and unhappy with how we've dealt with a safety complaint, you can also tell Ofcom, who regulate online safety.

5. Your stuff

• What you post on samo stays yours.
• So that we can run samo, you give us permission to store, copy, and show what you post, in the way the site works — for example, showing your page to visitors, or making a smaller copy of a picture. This permission ends when you delete it or your account, apart from copies kept as explained in our privacy policy (for example, in reports).
• You promise that you have the right to post what you post. For music and other uploads, that means you made it or have permission from whoever owns it.
• Some parts of pages come from other services — YouTube videos, Apple Music previews, Bandcamp's player, and covers from sites like Deezer, Wikipedia and Open Library. Their own terms apply to those.

6. What we can do

• We can remove anything that breaks these terms or the law, and suspend or close accounts that do.
• We try to warn you and explain first, unless it's serious, urgent, or the law says we can't. If you think we got it wrong, email hello@samo.world.
• We may change or stop features. If we ever close samo, we'll give members notice and a chance to save their things.

7. Leaving

You can delete your account any time from Account & invites.

8. The legal bit

• samo is free and run by one person, so it's provided “as is”. We work hard to keep it running and your things safe, but we can't promise it'll never go down or lose something. Keep your own copies of anything important.
• We're not responsible for what members post, or for other websites samo links to — but tell us about anything that breaks the rules and we'll deal with it.
• Nothing in these terms limits anything we can't legally limit, like responsibility for death or injury caused by negligence, or fraud. Your rights under UK consumer law aren't affected.
• These terms are under the law of England and Wales, and its courts deal with any disputes.

9. Changes

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll tell members on samo before it takes effect. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.

10. Contact

samo is run by Luke Dagnall in the UK. Questions about these terms, safety or anything else: hello@samo.world.