These Terms govern your use of Ask a Jury. By using the service, you agree to these Terms and the Community Guidelines.

1. Eligibility

You must be legally able to agree to these Terms. We may restrict access where required by law or for safety reasons.

2. Your account

You are responsible for activity on your account. Do not impersonate another person, evade a suspension, or create accounts for manipulation or harassment.

3. Your content

You retain ownership of content you submit. You give Ask a Jury permission to host, process, moderate, display, and summarize that content as needed to operate and improve the service.

4. Privacy and pseudonymity

Do not submit identifying information about other people. Pseudonymity is a product feature, but no online service can promise perfect anonymity or security.

5. Not a court, not professional advice

Ask a Jury is for entertainment and community perspective only. It is not a court of law, does not provide legal advice, and verdicts are not legally binding. Jury responses are opinions from other users. They are not medical, mental-health, legal, financial, emergency, or other professional advice. Do not rely on the service as a substitute for qualified professional help.

6. Rules of conduct

These are the Community Guidelines, reproduced here so the Terms and the Guidelines page always say the same thing. Breaking them is a breach of these Terms.

• Go after the situation, not the person. Swearing is fine. No name-calling, threats, or wishing harm on anyone.
• Keep real identities out of it. No real names, contact details, workplaces, schools, or social handles.
• No slurs or hate. No slurs or attacks based on who someone is.
• No diagnosis by jury. Share your read, not a clinical verdict.
• No spam or vote manipulation. No ads, scams, copy-paste posting, or gaming the jury.
• Serious safety issues are handled immediately. Credible threats and content involving minors are removed on sight.

7. Moderation and enforcement

Ask a Jury may use automated systems and human review to block, remove, limit, or review content and accounts. We may suspend or terminate access for violations, abuse, safety risks, or misuse of the service.

Almost everything that breaks a rule is simply not posted, with an explanation of what to change. Nothing goes on your record and you can try again straight away. That includes quoting somebody else’s abuse: you will be asked to describe what they said rather than repeat it, and it never counts against you.

Where a strike is recorded, it escalates:

1. Warning. The content is blocked and you get a warning.
2. 24-hour cooldown. The content is blocked and you cannot post, vote, or respond for 24 hours.
3. Suspension. The account is suspended and loses access to the site.

Slurs, credible threats, telling someone to kill themselves, doxxing, and sexual content involving minors skip the ladder and can suspend an account on the first offence.

8. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from your account page. Deleting removes your username, avatar, and email address and disables your login. Cases and juror takes you contributed remain on the service without your identity attached, because they form part of other users’ completed verdicts.

9. Availability

The service may change, experience outages, or be discontinued. Features, XP rules, jury size, and moderation systems may evolve.

10. User judgment

Ask a Jury does not control what other users believe or how they act. Use your own judgment when considering jury perspectives and when deciding what to do next.

11. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes may be communicated through the product or other reasonable means.