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By accessing or using Divine™ (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms of Service (“Terms”). If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
The Service is provided by Verse Communications PBC dba Divine (“Divine,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). These Terms form a binding agreement between you and Divine.
By using the Service, you also agree to our Privacy Policy and Safety Standards, which are incorporated by reference. If there is a conflict between these Terms and those policies, these Terms control to the extent of the conflict.
“Divine-controlled infrastructure” means websites, apps, relays, media storage, APIs, and other systems owned or controlled by Divine.
“Externally hosted content” means any video, image, audio file, or other media referenced within a Nostr event that is stored on third-party infrastructure.
“Nostr” means the decentralized protocol known as “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays,” which enables users to publish, retrieve, and verify content using cryptographic keypairs and signed messages.
“Nostr event” means a cryptographically signed data object published using the Nostr protocol. A Nostr event may include a public key, timestamp, event kind, content, tags, metadata, and a digital signature. Once broadcast, Nostr events may be stored or replicated across multiple independent relays, including relays Divine does not own or control.
“Nostr keypair” means the cryptographic public/private keypair used to create, sign, and authenticate Nostr events. The public key functions as a user identifier across the Nostr protocol, and the private key is required to sign events and prove authorship.
“Relay” means any independently operated server implementing the Nostr protocol for receiving, storing, indexing, or redistributing Nostr events. Unless expressly stated otherwise, relays are not operated by Divine.
“User content” means any Nostr event, media, metadata, username, profile information, or other material submitted, published, uploaded, linked, or otherwise made available by a user through the Service, whether hosted by Divine or externally.
Divine primarily operates as a non-custodial interface for reading, writing, and interacting with Nostr events, although certain optional authentication, signing, backup, or recovery features may involve server-side key management as described in Section 4.
The Service may index, display, surface, cache, transmit, or host Nostr events and related media, and may also display or link to externally hosted content. Unless expressly stated otherwise, Divine does not own or control independent relays, third-party storage providers, archives, or external hosts.
All third-party trademarks, logos, and brand names that appear through the Service remain the property of their respective owners. Divine does not claim affiliation with or endorsement by any third-party brand or platform. Any historical or legacy content surfaced through the Service may include both user-submitted material and content accessed from external archival or legacy sources (such as publicly available internet archives or prior platform submissions) and is not content created, owned, or endorsed by Divine.
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account or use the Service without verifiable parental consent. If you are under 16, you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, where permitted by applicable law. If we become aware that a user under 16 is using the Service without such consent where required by law, we may restrict or terminate access and delete associated data as required or permitted by applicable law.
Some mature content may be hidden by default or restricted to adults using age-screening or age-restriction tools based on declared or inferred age, as described in our Safety Standards. You may access age-restricted content only if you are at least 18 years old, and you are responsible for complying with all applicable age restrictions. Divine may rely on user-provided information and available signals to enforce such restrictions but does not guarantee that all age-restricted content will be inaccessible to underage users.
Your Nostr identity is tied to your Nostr keypair. If you use your own key, you are solely responsible for safeguarding your private key and any related credentials.
Divine may offer an optional feature called Divine Login. If you use Divine Login, you authorize Divine to encrypt, store, manage, back up, recover, and use your signing material on your behalf to authenticate you and sign actions you initiate through the Service. Divine Login is different from self-custodied use; if you instead use a self-custodied Nostr key and do not use Divine Login, you do not have an account on Divine’s servers.
Any Nostr event published or signed with your key, or through credentials or signing flows you authorize, may be treated as authorized by you. If your key, login credentials, or recovery methods are lost, compromised, or misused, Divine may be unable to restore access or undo associated actions.
You retain ownership of your user content. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your user content to Divine.
By posting, uploading, submitting, or making user content available through the Service, you grant Divine a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, publish, display, transmit, distribute, and create derivative works from that content as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, promote, and provide the Service.
You represent and warrant that: (a) you have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit and use the content; (b) the content and its publication do not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third-party rights, laws, or contractual restrictions; (c) any metadata, links, descriptions, and tags you provide are accurate and not misleading; and (d) any externally hosted content you reference is lawful and that you have the right to make it available through the Service.
You are responsible for the content you upload, publish, or reference, whether it is stored on Divine-controlled infrastructure or on third-party systems. Divine does not act as your agent, fiduciary, or legal representative in enforcing your rights against others, and you remain responsible for protecting your own rights.
You may not use the Service to create, upload, publish, distribute, solicit, promote, or facilitate: (a) child sexual abuse material (CSAM), child sexual exploitation, or any sexualized content involving minors; (b) illegal content or unlawful activity; (c) copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, publicity, or other rights violations; (d) violence, credible threats, graphic gore, or content intended to incite physical harm; (e) harassment, bullying, abuse, stalking, or hateful conduct targeting individuals or groups; (f) non-consensual intimate imagery, doxxing, or disclosure of private, confidential, or sensitive information without authorization; (g) pornographic content, except that certain non-pornographic mature content may be restricted or age-gated under our Safety Standards; (h) spam, scams, fraud, phishing, malware, or harmful code; (i) impersonation or deceptive conduct that is likely to mislead others about identity, affiliation, endorsement, or authority; or (j) synthetic, manipulated, or AI-generated media used to deceive, exploit, impersonate, or otherwise violate these Terms or our Safety Standards.
You also may not: (A) create multiple accounts or identities for deceptive, evasive, or disruptive purposes; (B) reserve usernames for resale, misuse, or to block legitimate use, or buy, sell, transfer, or trade accounts, Divine-issued usernames, likes, reposts, follows, or similar engagement signals; (C) engage in bulk, automated, or coordinated posting, commenting, messaging, tagging, or monetization schemes that encourage objectionable behavior unless expressly authorized by Divine; (D) scrape, crawl, probe, scan, reverse engineer, bypass, or otherwise interfere with the Service or any non-public system, API, or security control; (E) circumvent rate limits, moderation tools, access controls, or safety systems; (F) overload, degrade, or disrupt the Service, Divine-controlled infrastructure, or connected systems; or (G) use the Service in violation of applicable law.
Divine has a zero-tolerance policy for CSAM and other illegal child sexual exploitation. We may remove or block content from Divine-controlled infrastructure, suspend or terminate access, preserve evidence, report matters to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline or other appropriate authorities where required or appropriate, and cooperate with law enforcement.
Divine may use automated tools, hash-matching, third-party detection systems, human review, and other moderation measures to identify and limit objectionable content. These systems are not perfect and may not identify all prohibited or synthetic content before it appears.
Users may report content or accounts through the tools made available in the Service. Divine may also support Nostr-compatible reporting mechanisms, including NIP-56 or similar standards. Reports may be visible to other users or clients depending on how the relevant protocol or client implements them.
We aim to review reports of objectionable content promptly and generally within 24 hours, although response times may vary based on volume, severity, and available information. For suspected CSAM or other urgent illegal content, we may act immediately when appropriate.
Divine also provides user controls such as blocking, muting, hidden-content settings, age-gating, and community moderation lists, including lists that may follow NIP-51 or similar standards. These controls apply within Divine-operated interfaces as implemented by Divine. Because Nostr is decentralized, blocking, muting, or removing content in Divine does not guarantee that the same content or account will be hidden, removed, or inaccessible through other clients, relays, archives, or hosts.
Divine complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content made available through Divine-controlled infrastructure infringes your copyright, you may send a notice to our DMCA contact at contact@divine.video .
Upon receipt of a facially valid notice, Divine may remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material on Divine-controlled infrastructure and may take additional action against repeat infringers. Where appropriate, Divine will make reasonable efforts to notify the user who posted the content and provide information about the claim and the process for submitting a counter-notification. Users may submit counter-notifications as permitted by law.
Divine can remove or disable content only on systems it owns or controls. If the underlying material is stored on an independent relay, third-party host, or archive, requests to remove the source material must be directed to that operator.
Your core identity on Divine is your Nostr keypair, which you control and may use with compatible Nostr clients and services.
Divine may also display a human-readable username or handle for use within Divine-operated services, such as username.divine.video. Divine-issued usernames are service identifiers only. They are not personal property, are not part of your Nostr key-based identity, and may be changed, revoked, reclaimed, or reassigned by Divine for safety, technical, operational, legal, or anti-abuse reasons.
If you associate your Nostr identity with an external identifier or verification method that you control, such as a domain-based NIP-05 identifier, that external identifier remains subject to the rules and ownership of the underlying system or domain.
Any linked-account, legacy-identity, badge, or other verification feature is optional, may rely on third parties, may fail, change, become unavailable, or be revoked at any time, and does not create ownership or other property rights in any Divine-issued username, handle, badge, or account placement.
Your rights in your Nostr keys and user content are not affected by changes to any Divine-issued username.
Divine does not and cannot act as your agent, legal representative, or fiduciary in enforcing your rights against third parties, and you are solely responsible for asserting and protecting your own rights.
As described in Section 15, Divine cannot guarantee removal of your content from third-party relays or media hosts not controlled by Divine.
You acknowledge that the Service may display URLs or references to externally hosted content, and you are solely responsible for ensuring that such content is lawful, safe, and accurately described in your Nostr events. For more information, see Section 18.
Except for user content and third-party content, Divine and its licensors own the Service and its associated intellectual property (“Divine Marks”).
The Service may include open-source components that are licensed under separate open-source licenses. Your rights in those components are governed by the applicable open-source licenses, not by these Terms.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Divine grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the hosted Service. This license does not grant you any right to use the Divine Marks except as necessary to use the Service, and it does not extend to independent deployments, forks, relays, or self-hosted instances operated by third parties.
Divine may remove content, restrict features, suspend or terminate access, investigate violations, cooperate with law enforcement, and take other actions reasonably necessary to protect users, comply with law, enforce these Terms, or maintain the integrity of the Service.
Divine may implement rate limits, throttling, queueing, circuit breakers, access restrictions, geographic limitations, or other protective measures to maintain stability, security, and performance.
The Service may be unavailable, degraded, or delayed due to maintenance, scaling constraints, traffic surges, network conditions, relay outages, third-party host failures, or other factors. Divine does not guarantee uninterrupted availability, storage, delivery, or performance.
Divine has no obligation to host, store, retain, or preserve any user content or any storage location referenced through the Service. Divine may display, cache, or cease displaying or caching content, at its discretion, subject to applicable law and its policies.
You may stop using the Service at any time. You may also request deletion of content or account data stored on Divine-controlled infrastructure, subject to applicable law, safety requirements, backup retention, dispute preservation, and technical limitations.
Divine may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service at any time for violations of these Terms, safety or legal concerns, technical risk, or other reasonable operational needs.
Because the Service interacts with decentralized systems, termination or deletion by Divine may remove access or visibility within Divine-controlled infrastructure without removing content from independent relays, external hosts, archives, caches, backups, search results, or third-party clients.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 5, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 22.
Divine operates on or interacts with the decentralized Nostr protocol. As a result: (a) the Service may connect to multiple relays, storage layers, or servers across the internet; (b) content you publish may be copied, indexed, cached, mirrored, or archived by independent relays, clients, hosts, or third parties; (c) content removed from Divine-controlled interfaces may remain available elsewhere; (d) other Nostr clients may apply different moderation or display rules; and (e) once content is published, complete removal may be difficult or impossible.
If you want different moderation or storage rules, you may be able to use or operate your own compatible relays, media servers, or other infrastructure. Divine does not control how independent operators handle content.
We may use information related to activity on Divine, including public Nostr events and related metadata, to create datasets for research, analysis, product improvement, safety, transparency, academic, and public-interest purposes. These datasets may be shared with researchers, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, public-interest organizations, and other third parties.
Before sharing, we apply reasonable technical, organizational, and contractual measures designed to reduce the likelihood that any individual can be identified. This may include removing, hashing, or transforming identifiers, aggregating data, limiting fields, limiting date ranges, excluding sensitive or high-risk content where appropriate, and limiting the scope of what is included.
Because Divine is built on open protocols, some content and activity may already be publicly available across independent Nostr relays and third-party systems. Any datasets we create may be derived from this activity, but our creation or sharing of a dataset does not control or limit the availability of the original data on the network or through third-party systems.
We do not represent that de-identification, anonymization, or aggregation is perfect or irreversible. Given the nature of decentralized systems and publicly accessible data, there is always some risk of re-identification, particularly when information is combined with other datasets.
By accessing or using any datasets we share, recipients agree not to attempt to re-identify individuals or combine the data with other sources for the purpose of re-identification, and not to use the datasets to target, contact, profile, harass, discriminate against, or otherwise harm any individual. Once shared, we cannot guarantee that datasets will be deleted, returned, or controlled by third parties, although we may require contractual restrictions where we determine they are appropriate.
Where reasonably feasible, we may offer users the ability to opt out of inclusion in Divine-curated datasets derived from Divine-controlled infrastructure. This does not affect the availability of content or activity on the Nostr network itself or through independent relays, clients, archives, or other third-party systems.
The Service may display, preview, retrieve, cache, or link to content stored on third-party servers, storage networks, relays, archives, or websites. Divine does not own or control those systems and is not responsible for their availability, security, legality, accuracy, retention, or compliance with law.
Accessing externally hosted content may expose you to risks, including malware, scams, phishing, offensive material, or broken links. You assume the risks associated with interacting with third-party content and services.
Divine may stop displaying or linking to any external content at any time, but Divine cannot require a third-party operator to delete or modify content it controls.
The Service may include features or tools labeled beta, preview, early access, experimental, or similar. Those features are provided “as is,” may contain bugs or errors, may be changed or discontinued at any time, and may be subject to additional terms or limitations.
User content is the responsibility of the user who created, uploaded, or referenced it. The fact that content appears through the Service does not mean that Divine endorses, verifies, or approves it.
Divine may moderate content, but Divine has no general obligation to monitor all content, proactively detect every violation, or enforce these Terms in every instance. Subject to applicable law, Divine disclaims liability arising from user-generated content and from content stored or served by third parties.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Divine and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, service providers, and affiliates from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to: (a) your user content; (b) your use of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right.
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, Divine disclaims all warranties, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
Divine does not guarantee the authenticity, legality, accuracy, safety, or availability of any user content, Nostr event, relay, or externally hosted file.
Divine makes reasonable efforts to prevent the display of AI-generated or synthetic media on the Service; however, some AI-generated content may bypass our detection systems. Divine does not guarantee that all AI-generated content will be identified or blocked before it is served to users. Divine will take reasonable steps to promptly remove such content when it is reported through the app. Divine does not guarantee that content can be removed, corrected, or made unavailable across decentralized networks or third-party systems.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Divine will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of or inability to use the Service, including data loss, failures of relays or third-party hosts, or any inability to remove decentralized content, even if Divine has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Before filing a legal claim relating to the Service or these Terms, you agree to first contact Divine in writing and give us at least 30 days to try to resolve the dispute informally.
If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, either party may pursue any remedy available under applicable law in a court of competent jurisdiction. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, each party may bring claims only in its individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative action.
We may modify these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated version and revise the “Last Updated” date above. Unless a different effective date is stated, changes will become effective 30 days after posting. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of updated Terms constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Safety Standards, constitute the entire agreement between you and Divine regarding the Service and supersede prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject.
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
For questions about these Terms, contact us through our Support Page or at contact@divine.video .