VELVET

TERMS OF SERVICE

Effective Date: September 27, 2026

Last Updated: September 27, 2026

Welcome to Velvet.

Velvet is a Discord-based social, relationship, roleplay, safety, moderation, and community-management application designed to give users tools for profiles, dynamics, consent, communication, verification, tickets, tasks, roleplay interactions, and other community features.

By using Velvet, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms").

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use Velvet.

1. Eligibility

1.1 Minimum Age

Velvet is intended for adults aged 18 or older.

You must be at least 18 years old to use Velvet.

You may not use Velvet if you are under 18, regardless of the age requirements of a particular Discord server or community.

If Velvet or its operators reasonably believe that an account is being used by someone under 18, access may be suspended or terminated.

1.2 Accurate Information

You are responsible for providing accurate information where Velvet requests information necessary to operate a feature.

You must not impersonate another person, misrepresent your identity, or use another person's Discord account.

2. Discord

Velvet operates through Discord and depends upon Discord's infrastructure.

Your use of Velvet is also subject to Discord's applicable terms, policies, and community guidelines.

Velvet is an independent service and is not operated, sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Discord unless explicitly stated otherwise.

If Discord suspends, restricts, or terminates your account, Velvet may no longer be able to provide its services to you.

3. User Responsibility

You are responsible for your use of Velvet.

You are responsible for:

• Your Discord account
• Your profile information
• Your interactions with other users
• Your use of Velvet's relationship and dynamic features
• Your use of roleplay features
• Your consent decisions
• Your uploaded or submitted information
• Your actions within communities using Velvet
• Following the rules of individual Discord servers

Velvet provides tools.

Velvet does not make decisions for you.

You remain responsible for deciding who you interact with, what you consent to, what information you share, and what boundaries you establish.

4. Consent and Personal Boundaries

Velvet may provide features relating to:

• Consent
• Safewords
• Limits
• Dynamics
• Power exchange
• Roleplay
• Tasks
• Permissions
• Restrictions
• Verification
• Other adult relationship or community interactions

These features are intended to help users communicate and manage their own boundaries.

They do not replace communication between people.

4.1 Consent Is Required

Consent must be:

• Freely given
• Informed
• Specific
• Mutual
• Reversible

Consent may be withdrawn at any time.

A user may pause or end a dynamic regardless of previous agreements.

4.2 Safewords

Where Velvet provides safeword functionality, a safeword is a safety mechanism selected by the user.

Users must respect another person's stated safeword.

A safeword must never be intentionally ignored, overridden, mocked, or used as a means of pressuring someone to continue an interaction.

4.3 Velvet Does Not Determine Consent

A Velvet status, role, permission, profile setting, or dynamic status does not constitute proof of consent to a particular activity.

Users must communicate directly with one another.

5. Dynamics

Velvet may allow users to establish voluntary interpersonal "dynamics."

A dynamic is an agreement between users and does not create a legal relationship, contractual relationship, ownership relationship, or obligation outside Velvet.

Either participant may:

• Pause the dynamic
• End the dynamic
• Withdraw consent
• Disable permissions
• Use available emergency or safety functions

Velvet cannot guarantee that another participant will comply with an agreement.

6. Adult and NSFW Content

Some communities using Velvet may enable adult or NSFW features.

Such features are restricted to adults.

Users must not use Velvet to facilitate, distribute, request, or exchange illegal sexual content or material involving minors.

The following are strictly prohibited:

• Sexual content involving minors
• Sexual exploitation
• Child sexual abuse material
• Grooming
• Sexual coercion
• Non-consensual sexual activity
• Sexual threats
• Sexual extortion
• Distribution of intimate material without permission
• Sexual content involving a person who cannot legally consent

Violations may result in immediate suspension or termination and may be reported to appropriate authorities where required or appropriate.

7. Prohibited Conduct

You may not use Velvet to:

Safety and abuse

• Threaten or harass others
• Stalk another user
• Blackmail or extort another person
• Engage in coercive behavior
• Circumvent another person's boundaries
• Encourage self-harm
• Encourage violence
• Facilitate abuse

Privacy

• Dox another person
• Publish private personal information without authorization
• Attempt to obtain another person's passwords, tokens, or credentials
• Distribute private photographs or intimate material without consent
• Use Velvet to facilitate surveillance or unauthorized monitoring

Platform abuse

• Spam
• Flood channels
• Abuse commands
• Attempt to circumvent rate limits
• Exploit bugs intentionally
• Reverse engineer Velvet for unauthorized purposes
• Attempt to compromise Velvet or its infrastructure
• Attempt to obtain unauthorized access to another user's information

Impersonation and fraud

• Impersonate Velvet, its staff, Discord, or another user
• Fraudulently represent yourself as a moderator, administrator, developer, or representative
• Use Velvet to facilitate scams or fraudulent transactions

8. Verification

Velvet may provide verification features including identity verification, cross-verification, voice verification, or community-specific verification.

Verification requirements may vary by server.

8.1 Verification Does Not Guarantee Safety

A verification status does not guarantee that a person is trustworthy, safe, honest, or suitable for interaction.

Verification only indicates that the applicable verification process was completed according to that community's requirements.

8.2 Identity Documents

Where identity verification is required, users should only provide information through the verification process designated by the applicable community.

Velvet should not be treated as an identity-storage service.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise in the applicable privacy documentation, Velvet does not intend to retain copies of identity documents or their contents as part of ordinary verification status records.

9. Privacy

Velvet may process information necessary to provide its features.

Depending on the features used, this may include:

• Discord user ID
• Discord server ID
• User settings
• Profile information
• Dynamic status
• Consent-related settings
• Safeword-related security data
• Ticket status
• Verification status
• Role configuration
• Task information
• AFK status
• Other information required for Velvet functionality

Velvet should collect only information reasonably necessary for the feature being provided.

Users should never submit sensitive personal information unless it is specifically required by a Velvet feature or the applicable server's verification process.

9.1 Safewords and Sensitive Information

Where Velvet uses security measures such as hashing to protect sensitive values, the underlying value should not be stored in ordinary readable form.

Velvet administrators should not be able to retrieve a user's private safeword merely by viewing ordinary database records.

9.2 Server Administrators

A Discord server using Velvet may configure its own roles, channels, verification procedures, moderation policies, and other settings.

Server administrators are responsible for their own community policies and how they use Velvet's administrative tools.

10. User Content

You retain ownership of content you create and submit.

By using Velvet, you grant Velvet only the permissions reasonably necessary to process and display that content as required to provide the applicable feature.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to provide any content you submit.

You must not use Velvet to distribute content that violates applicable law, Discord policies, these Terms, or another person's rights.

11. Server Administration

Velvet may be installed in Discord servers by authorized server administrators.

Server administrators may configure features including:

• Ticket categories
• Verification roles
• NSFW access roles
• Moderation settings
• Staff permissions
• Community-specific configuration

Server administrators are responsible for configuring Velvet appropriately.

Velvet is not responsible for a server administrator's decisions, moderation policies, role configuration, or treatment of community members.

12. Tickets and Moderation

Velvet may provide ticketing systems for:

• General support
• Moderation
• Reports
• Verification
• Community access
• Other server-specific purposes

Tickets may be visible to designated moderators or staff members depending on the server configuration.

Users should understand that information submitted through a server's ticket system may be accessible to authorized staff of that server.

Do not submit passwords, Discord tokens, financial credentials, or unnecessary highly sensitive information through tickets.

13. Automated Features

Velvet may perform automated actions including:

• Assigning roles
• Removing roles
• Sending notifications
• Creating channels
• Recording feature status
• Responding to mentions
• Managing AFK status
• Sending task notifications
• Managing dynamic permissions

Automated features may occasionally malfunction.

Users and server administrators should not rely on Velvet as the sole mechanism for personal safety, consent enforcement, emergency response, or moderation.

14. Safety Features Are Not Emergency Services

Velvet is not an emergency service.

Velvet cannot:

• Guarantee someone's safety
• Prevent abuse
• Verify someone's intentions
• Guarantee another user's identity
• Contact emergency services on your behalf unless a separately documented feature explicitly provides that capability
• Replace law enforcement, medical professionals, crisis services, or trusted human support

If you are in immediate danger, contact the appropriate emergency service or trusted person in your location.

15. Intellectual Property

Velvet, including its name, branding, software, visual designs, interface, documentation, original artwork, and underlying technology, may be protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

You may not copy, redistribute, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit Velvet's proprietary components without authorization.

Community-generated content remains the property of its respective creators unless otherwise agreed.

16. Availability

Velvet is provided on an evolving basis.

Features may be:

• Added
• Changed
• Removed
• Temporarily disabled
• Replaced
• Reworked

We do not guarantee that Velvet will always be available or that every feature will operate without interruption.

Maintenance, Discord outages, hosting failures, bugs, security incidents, or other circumstances may temporarily affect functionality.

17. Account and Access Termination

Velvet access may be suspended or terminated if a user:

• Violates these Terms
• Violates applicable law
• Abuses Velvet
• Attempts to compromise Velvet
• Uses Velvet to harm others
• Circumvents safety or moderation systems
• Violates Discord's applicable policies

Server administrators may also remove Velvet from their server or restrict users from accessing particular Velvet features.

Where appropriate, Velvet may take immediate action to protect users, communities, or the service.

18. No Warranty

Velvet is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Velvet does not guarantee that:

• The service will always be available
• Features will always function correctly
• Information will always be accurate
• Another user will behave honestly
• Verification will guarantee someone's identity or safety
• A dynamic participant will honor an agreement
• Moderation will prevent every violation
• Automated systems will detect every violation

19. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Velvet and its operators will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use the service.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude liability that cannot legally be excluded.

20. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to be responsible for claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and expenses arising from your unlawful use of Velvet, violation of these Terms, or infringement of another person's rights.

21. Changes to These Terms

These Terms may be updated as Velvet develops.

When material changes are made, Velvet may provide notice through an appropriate channel, website, Discord announcement, or other reasonable method.

Your continued use of Velvet after the updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

22. Community Rules

Individual Discord servers may establish additional rules governing the use of Velvet.

Those rules may be stricter than these Terms.

For example, a server may establish additional requirements concerning:

• Verification
• NSFW access
• Age requirements
• Roles
• Staff permissions
• Tickets
• Conduct
• Community participation
• Specific content

Server-specific rules remain the responsibility of the applicable server administrators.

23. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of:

Discord

without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Any dispute-resolution provisions should be reviewed and finalized by qualified legal counsel before publication.

24. Contact

For questions regarding Velvet, its functionality, security, or these Terms:

Velvet Support:
TBD

25. Acceptance

By using Velvet, you acknowledge that:

• You are at least 18 years old.
• You have read and understood these Terms.
• You agree to use Velvet lawfully.
• You understand that Velvet provides tools and does not replace personal judgment.
• You understand that consent may be withdrawn at any time.
• You are responsible for your own interactions and conduct.
• You understand that server-specific rules may also apply.

Welcome to Velvet.

Your profile. Your boundaries. Your control.