Terms of Service

By accessing the Rule34 website ("Site") you accept the following Terms of Service. From that point onwards, Rule34 will treat your use of the Site as acceptance of the Terms.

  • The Site reserves the right to change these terms at any time.
  • If you are a minor, then you will not use the Site.
  • The Site is presented to you AS IS, without any warranty, express or implied. You will not hold the Site or its staff members liable for damages caused by the use of the site.
  • The Site reserves the right to delete or modify your account, or any content you have posted to the site.
  • You will upload content that is of high quality.
  • You understand that there may be content on the Site that does not appeal to you or you feel is morally wrong.
  • You accept that the Site is not liable for any content that you may stumble upon.
  • You are using this site only for personal use.
  • You will not use any automated process to retrieve or index any portion of the site or site contents, with the exception of public search engines or by using our API without hammering.
  • The operators of the site are not entirely held to these terms.
Prohibited Content

In addition, you may not use the Site to upload any of the following:

  • Child pornography: Any photograph or drawing or movie that depicts children in a sexual manner. This includes nudity, explicit sex, implied sex, or sexually persuasive positions.
  • Bestiality: Any photograph or photorealistic drawing or movie that depicts humans having sex (either explicit or implied) with other non-human animals.
  • Watermarked: Any image where a person who is not the original copyright owner has placed a watermark on the image.
  • Poorly compressed: Any image where compression artifacts are easily visible.
  • Doujinshi/Manga: Do not upload these. Comic strips are fine (4koma). Light novels are considered doujinshi as of now.
  • Grotesque: Any depiction of extreme mutilation, extreme bodily distension, feces.
  • Paysites: This should be plainly obvious, but apparently it needs to be listed here.
  • Real porn: We're a hentai site, go to realbooru if you want that. This rule also includes photo realistic AI and Deepfakes
API Terms

The following terms apply to the API

  • When using rule34.xxx API or if you serve content from our CDN then you will not display any advertisements or run paywalls. This applies to all bots, apps and websites.

Privacy Policy

The Site will not disclose the IP address or email address of any user except to the staff.

The Site is allowed to make public everything else, including but not limited to: uploaded posts, favorited posts, comments, forum posts, and any edits made to the site.

What information we hold about you

The type of data that we collect and process includes:

  • Your username.
  • Your email address.
  • Your IP address.

How your personal information is used

We may use your personal information in the following ways:

  • For the purposes of making you a registered member of our site, in order for you to contribute content to this site.
  • We may use your email address only for password recovery's
  • Your IP address is recorded when you perform certain actions on our site. Your IP address is never publicly visible.

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you in the course of your interaction with our site. This information may include technical information about the browser or type of device you're using. This information will be used purely for the purposes of analytics and tracking the number of visitors to our site.

Keeping your data secure

We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable measures and procedures to safeguard and secure the information that we collect.

Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files which are set by us on your computer which allow us to provide certain functionality on our site, such as being able to log in, or remembering certain preferences.

We have a detailed cookie policy and more information about the cookies that we set on this page.

Rights

You have a right to access the personal data we hold about you or obtain a copy of it. To do so please email us at [email protected] or contact us on discord.

You also have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. Please contact us if you would like us to remove your personal data.

Acceptance of this policy

Continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept the policy then please do not use this site. When registering we will further request your explicit acceptance of the privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

We may make changes to this policy at any time. You may be asked to review and re-accept the information in this policy if it changes in the future.