# Sojorn — Terms of Service

**Effective Date:** February 12, 2026
**Last Updated:** February 17, 2026
**Operator:** MPLS LLC

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## 1. The Agreement

By accessing Sojorn ("the Service"), you acknowledge that you are entering a space dedicated to respect, safety, and progressive action. These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a binding agreement between you and MPLS LLC ("we," "us," "our"). We prioritize the safety of our community above all else.

## 2. Zero Tolerance Policy

We do not tolerate intolerance. Hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and fascist ideologies are strictly prohibited. Violations will result in immediate and permanent account suspension.

## 3. No Misinformation

We reject the spread of verifiable falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and coordinated disinformation campaigns. Posting content designed to deceive or manipulate will result in account termination.

## 4. Content Ownership and Sanctuary

This section replaces the broad content licenses found in conventional social media Terms of Service. We believe your work belongs to you — always.

### 4.1 Ownership

**You retain 100% copyright and all intellectual property rights to every piece of content you create on Sojorn.** We claim no ownership over your words, images, audio, video, or any other creative work.

### 4.2 Limited Technical License

By posting content, you grant MPLS LLC a **non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license solely for the technical purpose of hosting, displaying, and transmitting your content** to the audience you designate within Sojorn. This license exists only so that our servers can store and deliver your content as the software requires.

### 4.3 Immediate Revocation

This technical license **expires immediately and irrevocably upon deletion** of the content by you. When you delete a post, comment, image, or any other content, we will remove it from our active systems and storage buckets. We do not retain shadow copies, hidden archives, or "soft-deleted" records of your content.

### 4.4 Anti-Extraction Covenant

MPLS LLC **will never**:

- Use your content to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.
- Sell, license, or provide your content to third-party data brokers, advertisers, or analytics firms.
- Mine your content for advertising profiles or behavioral targeting.
- Index your content on public search engines without your explicit opt-in.

### 4.5 Right to Livelihood

If MPLS LLC ever wishes to use your content for promotional purposes outside the Sojorn application interface — including but not limited to marketing materials, press releases, social media promotion, or investor presentations — we must:

1. **Contact you directly** with a clear written description of the intended use.
2. **Offer financial compensation** for that use.
3. **Receive your explicit, written opt-in consent** before any such use.

No blanket consent is granted by agreeing to these Terms. Each promotional use requires a separate agreement.

## 5. Your Right to Vanish

You have the absolute right to delete your account and all associated data at any time. When you leave, you leave. We perform hard deletes — your profile, posts, comments, media files, and metadata are permanently removed from our systems.

## 6. End-to-End Encryption

Private messages and encrypted capsule content are protected by end-to-end encryption (E2EE) using keys generated on your device. MPLS LLC has no ability to decrypt, read, or access this content. We cannot comply with requests to produce content we cannot read.

## 7. AI Moderation Transparency

We use artificial intelligence to assist with content moderation (detecting hate speech, violence, spam, and other policy violations). This AI moderation:

- Operates only on content you post publicly or within groups.
- Does not analyze private encrypted messages (we cannot).
- Is subject to human review — AI flags are reviewed by human moderators before permanent action is taken.
- Provides a full audit trail visible to administrators for accountability.

You may appeal any AI moderation decision through our in-app appeal process.

## 8. Community Safety Beacons

Sojorn includes a community safety feature ("Beacons") that allows users to report real-world safety incidents with location data. By using this feature, you consent to sharing approximate location data with other Sojorn users in your vicinity. Location data is not stored permanently and is not sold to third parties.

## 9. Age Requirement

You must be at least 16 years of age to use Sojorn. We collect birth month and year during registration solely to enforce this requirement.

## 10. Liability

MPLS LLC provides this Service "as is." We are not liable for interactions that occur between users, though we commit to active moderation to maintain community safety. We are not liable for the accuracy of community safety Beacons posted by users.

## 11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, United States.

## 12. Changes to These Terms

We will notify registered users via email and in-app notification of any material changes to these Terms at least 30 days before they take effect.

## 13. Open Source Licensing

Sojorn's source code is published under the [GNU Affero General Public License v3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html) (AGPL-3.0). This means:

- The complete source code for Sojorn is publicly available.
- Anyone may inspect, modify, and redistribute the code under the terms of the AGPL-3.0.
- Any modified version of Sojorn that is made available over a network must also make its complete source code available under the same license.
- This license ensures that all improvements to Sojorn — including those running on third-party servers — remain open and available to the community.

Our source code repository is hosted at [gitlab.com/patrickbritton3/sojorn](https://gitlab.com/patrickbritton3/sojorn).

## 14. Contact

For questions about these Terms: [legal@mp.ls](mailto:legal@mp.ls)

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*MPLS LLC — Groundskeepers, not owners.*
