Terms of Use — Luseed

The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Intercode inc., a company based in Quebec, Canada (“Intercode”, “we”, “us”). Intercode operates Luseed: the apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, the web app at luseed.org/app, and luseed.org.

By using Luseed, you agree to these terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Luseed.

Who can use Luseed

You must be at least 16 years old to use Luseed. If you are under the age of majority where you live, make sure a parent or guardian agrees to you using Luseed under these terms.

You can’t use Luseed if we have suspended your account, or where the law doesn’t allow you to.

Your account

You don’t need an account. The journal and every tool work without one. An account is only for syncing between devices and for the shared spaces.
Use an email address you control, and keep your sign-in secure. You are responsible for what happens through your account. Tell us at info@intercode.ca if you think someone else has used it.
Don’t create accounts to get around a suspension, the sharing limits or the moderation rules.
Your display name follows the community rules. It can’t contain links or email addresses, or impersonate anyone. Names such as “admin”, “moderator”, “support”, “staff”, “official” and “Luseed” are reserved.

Your content

You own what you write. Your entries, dream signs, recordings and everything else you create in Luseed remain yours.
Private stays private. If you sign in, we store and copy your private content only to sync it between your devices and keep it safe, as the Privacy Policy describes. We don’t publish it, show it to other users, or use it for anything else.
What you choose to share. When you turn on Share Publicly for a dream, or add a name or description to the shared dream sign catalog, you give Intercode a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, display and distribute it to other Luseed users within Luseed, and to adapt its layout to show it, for as long as it is shared. You can stop sharing a dream at any time, by turning off Share Publicly or deleting it, and we then stop showing it.
Names in the shared dream sign catalog carry no author, and other people link their own signs to them, so they stay in the catalog after you stop using Luseed, even if you delete your account.
You are responsible for what you share. Only share what you have the right to share.
Keep a copy. Without an account, your journal exists only on your device. Losing or resetting the device, or clearing the browser’s data for the web app, loses it. Use Settings › Export Data regularly.

Community rules

Zero tolerance. Luseed’s shared spaces, the shared dreams feed and the shared dream sign catalog, exist so dreamers can learn from each other. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive users there. Content that breaks these rules is removed, and accounts that break them are suspended.

Dreams can be strange, dark, violent or sexual. That is a normal part of dreaming, and your private journal is yours to fill as you like. When you share a dream, write it for a general audience aged 16 and over, and never use a dream as cover for any of the following.

Not allowed in anything you share, including display names

Harassment and threats: bullying, intimidating, threatening or targeting anyone, including other users.
Hate: attacking or demeaning people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or similar characteristics.
Sexual content involving minors, of any kind. This is never allowed anywhere in Luseed. We remove it, close the account and report it to the authorities.
Sexually explicit content in shared dreams. Your private journal is yours, and it can be as explicit as your dreams are. Shared dreams cannot: sexual themes may come up in them, but keep them non-explicit. Explicit or pornographic descriptions are removed from the shared spaces.
Gratuitous gore and violent extremism: graphic violence written to shock, and anything that praises or promotes violence, terrorism or violent extremism.
Encouraging self-harm, suicide or eating disorders. Sharing a dream about these is not the same as encouraging them. If you are struggling, see Not medical advice.
Other people’s personal information: anything that identifies a private person or lets them be contacted, such as a full name with other details, where they live or work, or their phone number, without their consent. Use first names or descriptions for real people in your dreams.
Spam and advertising: promotion, sales, scams, chain messages, or posting the same content again and again.
Links and contact details: web addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and social media or messaging handles (such as @names). Luseed refuses these automatically; a dream never needs one.
Impersonation of another person, another user, or Luseed or Intercode staff.
Illegal content, or content that promotes illegal activity or infringes someone else’s rights, such as their copyright or privacy.

Moderation, reports and blocking

Before anything is shared

To share publicly, your email address must be verified, your account must be at least 24 hours old, and you must have written at least three entries.
Each new author’s first shared dream is reviewed by a person before it appears.
Every shared dream and every name added to the dream sign catalog is checked automatically. Anything with a link, an email address, a phone number or a messaging handle is refused, and anything that looks like spam or a duplicate is held for a person to review. The app tells you why.

Report and block

Report any shared dream or shared dream sign from its menu, and pick a reason: spam or advertising, harassment or hate, sexual content, violence or threats, self-harm, or something else. The person you report is not told who reported them.
Block the author of a shared dream with Block author. You won’t see each other’s shared dreams. You can unblock under Account › Blocked Accounts.
You can also write to info@intercode.ca about any content or user.

What we do

We review reports and aim to act on them within 24 hours. Content reported by several people is hidden automatically until we have looked at it.
Content that breaks these terms is removed from the shared spaces.
Depending on how serious it is, breaking these terms can mean losing the ability to share, or suspension of your account, without notice. A suspended account can’t sign in or sync, and everything it shared is taken down. Its journal on your device is not affected.
Serious violations, such as sexual content involving minors or credible threats, lead to immediate suspension and may be reported to the police.
If you think we got it wrong, write to us and a person will look again.

We can’t read everything before it appears, and we are not responsible for what other users share. But we act on what we find and on what is reported.

Using Luseed fairly

Please don’t:

try to get around moderation, the sharing requirements, rate limits or a suspension;
copy the shared feed or the API with automated tools, or collect information about other users;
overload or disrupt the service, try to access accounts or data that aren’t yours, or probe Luseed for weaknesses other than through responsible disclosure;
use Luseed for anything unlawful.

Not medical advice

Luseed is a tool for keeping a dream journal and practising lucid dreaming. It is not a medical device. Nothing in it, including the Library, the techniques it describes (such as reality checks, MILD and WBTB, “wake back to bed”), night cues, sleep timing and statistics, is medical, psychological or sleep advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Some techniques mean waking up in the night or changing your sleep. Go gently, and stop if they disturb your sleep, make you anxious, or affect how you feel during the day.
Night cues play sounds or speech while you sleep. Keep the volume comfortable, and stop using them if they disturb your sleep or anyone else’s.
If you have a sleep disorder, frequent or distressing nightmares, distressing sleep paralysis, a mental health condition, or any condition affected by sleep, talk to a doctor or another qualified professional before trying techniques that change your sleep.
Don’t rely on reminders or night cues for anything important. Your device can delay or silence notifications.

If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency services now. In Canada, you can call or text 9-8-8 at any time.

Other services

Some features use services that aren’t ours: signing in with Apple or Google (through Firebase Authentication), a Whisper server you set up for transcription (such as OpenAI or Groq, or your own computer), apps you send recordings to from the share sheet, and model downloads from Hugging Face and GitHub. They are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, and you are responsible for following them, including any account or fees a service requires. We are not responsible for those services.

The app stores and your licence

Intercode gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Luseed for your own non-commercial purposes, under these terms. Luseed’s name, logo, design and content, including the Library, belong to Intercode or its licensors. If parts of Luseed’s source code are published under an open-source licence, that licence governs your use of that code.
Apple. If you got Luseed from Apple’s App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the Standard EULA) governs your licence to the app, and these terms apply alongside it. If the two conflict about that licence, the Standard EULA wins. These terms are between you and Intercode, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for Luseed or its content, and has no obligation to support or maintain it.
Google Play. If you got Luseed from Google Play, Google Play’s terms also apply to that download.

A free service, as it is

Luseed is free and has no ads. We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering Luseed. If we plan to shut down syncing, we will try to give you reasonable notice so you can export your journal.
We work to keep Luseed reliable, but we provide it “as is” and “as available”. Syncing can fail and data can be lost, so keep your own exports. To the extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these terms.
If you are a consumer, you keep the legal warranties the law gives you that cannot be excluded, including those under Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, Intercode is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, for the loss of data you had not exported or synced, for content other users share, or for services that aren’t ours.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for bodily or moral injury caused to you, for damage caused intentionally or through gross fault, or any other liability that the law does not allow to be limited or excluded, including under the Civil Code of Québec and the Consumer Protection Act. If you are a consumer, you keep every right that the law where you live gives you.

Ending your use

You can stop using Luseed at any time. To delete your account and everything on our server, see Delete your account.
We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, in particular the community rules, if the law requires it, or if it is needed to protect other users or the service. Where it is appropriate and allowed, we will tell you why.
Your journal on your device stays with you either way.
The sections on your content, liability and governing law continue to apply after your use ends, as far as they are relevant.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as Luseed changes. We will post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you don’t agree with it, you can stop using Luseed and delete your account. If you keep using Luseed after the change takes effect, the new terms apply.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Disputes go to the courts of Quebec, in the judicial district where Intercode inc. has its head office. This does not take away your right, as a consumer, to bring a claim before the courts where you live, or any protection that the mandatory law of the place where you live gives you.

Contact

Intercode inc., Quebec, Canada
info@intercode.ca
luseed.org/support