Terms of Use

1. About Lumen Weekly and These Terms

Lumen Weekly is a reflective writing platform designed to encourage introspection, thoughtful expression, personal growth, and meaningful connection through ideas.

The platform allows users to write and publish reflections, read the writing of others, participate in discussions, and use other features that may be introduced as Lumen Weekly evolves.

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Lumen Weekly.

By creating an account or using Lumen Weekly, you agree to these Terms and to our Community Guidelines. If you do not agree, you should not use the platform.

2. Early Access and Product Evolution

Lumen Weekly may be offered as an early access, beta, or MVP-stage product.

Some features may still be evolving, changing, limited, experimental, or unavailable.

We reserve the right to add, modify, pause, restrict, or remove features as the platform develops. We will make reasonable efforts to provide a reliable experience, but we do not guarantee that all features will always remain available or unchanged.

3. Eligibility

You may use Lumen Weekly only if you are legally able to enter into these Terms.

Lumen Weekly is not intended for children under the age of 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will delete the account and related data.

4. Your Account and Pseudonym

To use Lumen Weekly, you need to create an account.

You are responsible for providing accurate information where required, keeping your account secure, and for activity that takes place through your account.

Lumen Weekly supports pseudonymous participation. You do not need to use your real name publicly, and your email address is not publicly displayed by Lumen Weekly.

Your pseudonym must comply with the Community Guidelines and Lumen Weekly values.

Pseudonymity does not exempt you from responsibility for your conduct or content. You must not use it to harass others, impersonate another person, manipulate the community, evade moderation, or bypass account or platform restrictions.

5. Your Content

For the purposes of these Terms, “Content” includes reflections, drafts, published texts, highlights, discussion posts, and other material that you submit, save, publish, share, or otherwise make available through Lumen Weekly.

You are responsible for your Content and for ensuring that you have the right to submit or publish it.

6. Authorship, Moral Rights, and Economic Rights

You remain the author of your reflections, texts, highlights, and other content, and you retain any moral rights that cannot be transferred under applicable law.

By uploading, submitting, saving, publishing, translating, displaying, sharing, or otherwise making content available on or through Lumen Weekly, you irrevocably assign and transfer to Lumen Weekly, without remuneration, all transferable economic rights in such content to the extent necessary or useful for the operation, protection, moderation, development, improvement, promotion, and provision of Lumen Weekly and its related services, including platform-supported sharing features, limited public previews, technical processing, storage, backup, translation, display versions, moderation, safety review, and community protection.

These rights include, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the right to reproduce, store, host, process, publish, display, distribute, communicate to the public, make available to the public, translate, adapt for technical or display purposes, create previews, excerpts, highlights, translated versions, and other display versions of the content, and otherwise use the content in connection with Lumen Weekly and its related services.

For published reflections, this includes making the reflection available to logged-in Lumen Weekly users within the platform, and making limited parts of the content, such as the selected highlight, theme, author pseudonym, context, preview, and call to action, available outside the platform through Lumen Weekly-supported sharing features or links.

This does not give other users ownership of your writing. Other users may read and interact with your published reflections only within the intended Lumen Weekly experience and may share them only through Lumen Weekly-supported sharing features where available.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to upload, submit, publish, or otherwise make available any content you provide, and that your content does not violate any third-party rights.

7. Respect for Other Authors' Writing

Other authors retain authorship of their reflections and writing.

You may read, engage with, and be inspired by published Content within the intended Lumen Weekly experience.

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, publicly screenshot, present as your own, use commercially, or otherwise misuse another author's writing outside the platform.

Where Lumen Weekly provides supported sharing features, you may use those features to share limited previews or links.

8. Community Guidelines and Moderation

By using Lumen Weekly, you agree to follow our Community Guidelines.

You must not use the platform to harm or harass others, violate applicable law, infringe third-party rights, manipulate or abuse the community, evade moderation, interfere with platform safeguards, or undermine the reflective and respectful nature of Lumen Weekly.

Lumen Weekly may review, moderate, approve, reject, hold for review, hide, remove, withdraw, or limit the visibility of Content where we believe it violates these Terms, the Community Guidelines, applicable law, or the purpose and integrity of the platform.

Where supported by current platform functionality, authors may be given the opportunity to revise and resubmit Content that has been rejected or removed.

Repeated violations, attempts to bypass moderation, or patterns of misuse may result in participation limits, publishing limits, feature restrictions, account restrictions, suspension, or termination.

We may also apply rate limits, submission limits, or other protective measures where reasonably necessary to preserve platform quality, reduce abuse, or protect the community.

Users may be able to report Content that appears inappropriate, harmful, abusive, or inconsistent with the Community Guidelines. Reporting does not guarantee that the Content will be removed.

Lumen Weekly may use human review, automated tools, AI-assisted tools, or a combination of these to support moderation, safety, translation, abuse prevention, and quality review.

9. Translation and Display Versions

Lumen Weekly may support multiple languages and may provide translated or display versions of user Content.

Translations may be generated automatically or with the assistance of third-party or AI-based tools and may not always be complete or accurate. We are not liable for inaccurate translations.

The original text remains the user's authored work. Translated or display versions are provided to support multilingual use of the platform and improve accessibility.

10. Personal Growth, Not Professional Advice

Lumen Weekly is intended for reflection, writing, inspiration, learning, and personal development.

Content on Lumen Weekly is not medical, psychological, psychiatric, legal, financial, spiritual, or other professional advice.

If you are dealing with a serious personal, emotional, medical, legal, or financial issue, you should seek help from an appropriately qualified professional.

11. Privacy

Your use of Lumen Weekly is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use it, how long we keep it, and what rights you may have.

12. Intellectual Property of Lumen Weekly

The Lumen Weekly name, design, branding, interface, themes, prompts, visual identity, and platform materials are owned by Lumen Weekly or licensed to us.

You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, or use Lumen Weekly's brand, design, or platform materials without our permission, except where permitted by applicable law.

13. Platform Availability and Changes

We will make reasonable efforts to keep Lumen Weekly available and reliable, but we cannot guarantee that the platform will always be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or available.

We may update, suspend, modify, or discontinue parts of the platform as the product evolves.

We may also update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, such as by posting an updated version on the platform or sending an email notification.

Your continued use of Lumen Weekly after updated Terms become effective means that you accept them. If you do not agree with the updated Terms, you may stop using the platform.

14. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using Lumen Weekly at any time.

We may restrict, suspend, deactivate, terminate, or ban your account if you violate these Terms or the Community Guidelines, misuse the platform, harm other users, attempt to bypass moderation or restrictions, or act against the purpose and integrity of Lumen Weekly.

Serious violations may result in immediate suspension or termination.

Where technically and legally possible, you may be able to export or delete your data, subject to reasonable limitations.

15. Limitation of Liability

Lumen Weekly shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages or costs arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the platform, or the use of the platform by other users.

Furthermore, Lumen Weekly shall not be liable for losses, damages, claims, liabilities, costs, or expenses suffered by any third party as a result of your use of the platform, your Content, or your conduct on the platform.

The platform is provided “as is” and “as available.”

We do not guarantee that using Lumen Weekly will produce any specific personal, emotional, social, creative, professional, or wellbeing outcome.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is not permitted by applicable law.

16. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Serbia.

If a dispute arises, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can try to resolve it informally.

17. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at: support@lumenweekly.com