Click one of the above categories to read more in depth!
Here is a summary for most of what the average user will encounter:
♦ Vido that you own may be used for personal stories and worldbuilding.
♦ You may redesign a Vido at any time, as long as it still resembles the original and the traits do not total to more than the Vido's current ES.
♦ Registered Vido can be traded or resold for their current value, but "scalping" or repeatedly upselling for profit is considered rude!
♦ The recipient of a Vido must be verified and on-site to be traded to.
♦ You must be 18 years or older to participate in the site.
♦ The information Vidosphere collects includes cookies for some site functions, your email, and any information you put into the site yourself.
Rules & TOS
Last modified 6/17/2024
Vidosphere.net (we, us, our, the project) is a character design archive and community hub for a collection of designs known as Vido. By participating in Vidosphere.net or purchasing a registered Vido design, you agree to the terms outlined in this page. Repeated or severe breakage of the TOS will result in a ban or blacklist (see Bans & Blacklisting.) We reserve the right to make changes to these terms which will reflect in the "Last modified" date at the top.
To participate in Vidosphere you must be 18 years or older.
No exceptions!
The Vidosphere TOS is divided into the following sections:
Registered Vido are archived on Vidosphere’s Masterlist. A user is considered an owner of a registered Vido by Vidosphere once the Vido’s Masterlist entry is listed under their name.
As an owner, you may:
Develop personal stories, art, and lore for your Vido. Canon lore from Vidosphere may be integrated into these stories, but it is optional!
Use the Vido’s design in personal, non-commercial artistic projects such as personal comics, crafts, and costumes.
Participate in onsite events and quests with your Vido.
Redesign the Vido to a reasonable degree, following the Redesign Guide. (Link TBA)
Trade or Resell the Vido to other users (See Sales, Trading, & Market Etiquette)
Reupload the design to other websites such as Toyhou.se or a personal blog (Credit MUST be given to the original artist and designer.)
Remove the Vido's design from the species (see Voiding.)
Create “Alternate Universe” versions of the Vido. These must not be traded separately from the Vido’s base design.
You may not:
Use Vido to promote hateful or discriminatory messages, or political propoganda.
Claim the original design as your own (as in say that you were the one who made it)
Repost the Vido’s art without giving credit
Make adopts of the design's species, or sell "alternate universe" versions of the design seperately from the base Vido.
Make duplicates or "offspring" of the Vido
Use the Vido's base for other designs (without permission)
Make commercial profit from the Vido (ex. selling T-shirt prints of it or using it as a mascot for a company)
Design a Vido to heavily copy or reproduce other characters, personal or copyrighted. “Skinned” designs will be rejected from the masterlist.
♦ Unregistered Vido ♦
Unregistered Vido are personal vido characters an individual can make for themself that haven’t been added to the site’s Masterlist. While we do not control what an individual does with unregistered Vido, we do enforce the following rules within Vidosphere’s communities:
Please do not create unregistered Vido specifically to sell for profit! To discourage this, any posts selling or offering unregistered Vido for trade will be removed from community market areas. Users found heavily abusing the project for personal gain may be blacklisted from the community.
Unregistered Vido cannot be used for events or interactive site elements and will not be drawn for official “care packages.”
Unregistered Vido can be later registered on the site using a Relic, though must follow trait and ES rules.
♦ Sales, Trading, & Market Etiquette ♦
New, pre-made Vido may be obtained through sales from approved designers (guest artists.) Users may also trade their Vido amongst eachother.
To send a Vido to another user, use the Trade Hub. Trading a Vido will reset any progress on collections & professions (not implemented yet)! The Vido will not leave your ownership til they approve the trade request.
◘ Sales & Resales:
Buyers must be 18 years or older to purchase a Vido. Registered Vido will always have a masterlist entry already on-site, be wary of scams! Vidosphere is not responsible for fraudulent sales, always doublecheck the current owner.
Vido may be resold for what they were purchased for or the Species Base Price, which will be listed in the Vido Sales page in the Market. Users may also add on the cost of any purchased commissions.
◘ Trading:
Vido may be traded for other Vido, goods, vouchers, or creative services such as art.
The recipient of a Vido must have an account on vidosphere.net.
If an artist cannot or refuses to complete their half of a trade, the trade is considered incomplete. If there is proof of no communication for over 6 months with an incomplete trade, the Vido may be returned to the original owner if already transferred to the artist.
If an artist is in the middle of, willing and capable of completing their half an agreed-upon trade, the other party may not cancel if progress is already made. Backing out after agreeing to an art trade that is already in progress without mutual agreement on the cancellation will give the user that cancelled a strike if requested by the artist, and possibly a ban if this behavior is repeated. Vido will not be forcibly transferred away from the original owner.
In order to avoid the above scenarios, it’s recommended to transfer the Vido over once the art trade has reached an agreed-upon midway point (for example, once the lines are done) and pick offers from users that have a good amount of completed examples. Vidosphere is not responsible for ensuring that the results of creative services are satisfactory to the other party.
Be clear and corteous when offering and accepting trades! For example, "I will offer a colored fullbody with shading" clearly outlines what you will be doing to complete the trade, while "I will offer a fullbody" can leave room for misinterpretation.
Take time to think things over! It's okay to ask for time to decide on an offer before being sure you're happy with it -- waiting til you're sure instead of impulsively trading minimizes the chances of regret!
◘ Market Etiquette:
The following section is not as strictly enforced as the rest of the TOS, but repeated misconduct or abuse of the market may cause a staff member to reach out or even give a strike to the user.
Rapidly and repeatedly upselling or trading Vido for a “higher value” is often known as Scalping or Foddering. This is nuanced and we cannot enforce every instance of this, but abusing Vidosphere for profit is discouraged.
Users found repeatedly asking for “multiples” for a single Vido or large increases in sale price shortly after obtaining the Vido offered may have their posts removed from the market.
Users that have multiple records of immediately trading after buying from adoptable batches may be skipped over in favor of those that do not have a Vido yet or keep theirs for more reasonable periods of time.
Users suspected of using Vidosphere to get around other species’ rules will have their posts removed from the market.
Being clear in what you’re looking for is encouraged. Vague “entertaining offers” posts are allowed, but please do not use the market simply for entertainment!
♦ User Conduct & Content ♦
Users are expected to behave in a respectful manner, including any custom content they post on Vidosphere. Users that are found posting bigotry, inflammatory, discriminatory, overly explicit or shock-value content may have said content deleted and a strike given. Vidosphere is not a host for or supporter of illegal harmful activities such as pedophilia, bestiality, rape, etc. Repeated disturbances will result in a ban.
Users can add their own content via areas such as profile bios and Vido art. See our User Content & Submissions tab to read more on allowed content in Vidosphere.
Vidosphere reserves the right to modify or remove any content deemed harmful.
♦ Our content is provided as-is for personal use to users 18 or over that have properly been granted access to it. ♦ Content that a User owns (such as Vido or other characters under their account) may also be used non-commercially elsewhere by the user. Vido are subject to specific rules within the service (see General Rules tab.) ♦ Users may not reproduce or copy our services and content without given permission. ♦ Users may not attempt to modify or break the services for personal gain or otherwise. Attempts to access restricted areas or locked content will result in a ban. ♦ Users may not use any of our communication systems to harass or harm others on the platform. Users may report any form of harassment at our Reception area. ♦ We retain the right to refuse, remove or alter content that is illegal, harmful, harassment, or discrimatory. We have the right to store, process, alter, reproduce and display content that you submit to us-- this is so that we may trim images and display them on the masterlist or your profile.
♦ Voiding ♦
If you no longer wish for your Vido to be part of the species, you may Void your Vido -- this will transfer it to the Voided account for archival purposes. Once voided, you may treat the Vido as a one-off (a design that isn't part of the species) but it can no longer be brought back into the species. If you are the original artist of the Vido you are voiding or of one that has already been voided, you may request to have your art removed from the masterlist as well. If you are the artist of its current redesign, you may request to have the design reverted to the original before voiding. To void a Vido, contact admin in Reception.
♦ Modifications & Interruptions ♦
♦ Vidosphere, including this TOS, is provided as-is and will continue to have multiple changes and adjustments. Vidosphere's service may be interrupted or halted at any time.
♦ The latest date the TOS has been modified is displayed at the top of this document.
♦ We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. Although we perform regular routine backups of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption of such data.
♦ Bans & Blacklisting ♦
Accounts that have severely broken the rules outlined in this TOS may be banned or blacklisted from the Vidosphere service. Banned users cannot participate in events, claim bundles, receive new Vido or items, or purchase adopts. Banned users may also be blacklisted from services provided by notecardPasta at their discretion.
♦ Contact ♦
For questions, comments, and concerns, or to request termination of your account, you can contact admin in the Reception area of the site.
User Content & Submissions
Last modified 6/17/2024
Users may upload their own content in a variety of spots on the site, including profile bios, explorer bios, Vido images and prompt submissions.
The rules below apply to any content uploaded to the site by users. Case-by-case rules such as file format and art requirements will be detailed in their respective areas onsite.
General Content Rules:
While Vidosphere contains content warnings for depictions of drawn gore and horror, users should be considerate of others when adding content to public-facing areas of the site.
What is allowed on-site:
♦ Cartoony or otherwise non-photorealistic gore
♦ Spooky horror themes and undead or ghostly characters
♦ Surreal and dreamlike imagery, dream logs and diaries
♦ Art commissioned from others for use in bios, given credit
♦ Links to personal websites/galleries, petsites, or social media
What is NOT allowed on-site:
♦ Intense photorealistic or real-life gore
♦ Sexual abuse or glorification of real-life criminals, self-harm, or tragedies
♦ Misrepresentation or fetishization of mental illnesses
♦ Explicit sexual art or writing
♦ Religious or Political propoganda or calls to recruitment
♦ Automatically Generated art and writing such as from chatgpt or openai
♦ Selfies or other identifying pictures of users
♦ Negatively singling out specific users, drama-stirring, "wishlists" of already-homed Vido
♦ Links to illegal content, porn, or shock websites
Submission Rules:
Prompt submissions should follow the general content rules above, as well as the guidelines below. Some prompts may have more specific rules, which will be detailed on the prompt itself.
Formats generally allowed:
♦ Still images, gifs, animations, videos
♦ Prose, poetry, fake articles such as newspapers and diaries, song lyrics
Privacy Policy
Last edited 11/2/2023
This privacy notice for Vidosphere ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share your information when you use our website.
Topics:
What data do we collect?
How do we collect your data?
How will we use your data?
How do we store your data?
Marketing
What are your data protection rights?
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
How to manage your cookies
Privacy policies of other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
How to contact us
How to contact the appropriate authorities
What data do we collect?
We collect the following information that you provide to us:
Email Address
Usernames
Passwords
How do we collect your data?
You directly provide Vidosphere with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.
Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
Vidosphere does not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are 18 years or older. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at the reception area.
Vidosphere may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:
Profile Bios
Message Boards and Submissions
How will we use your data?
Vidosphere collects your data so that we can:
Utilize email to recover passwords or confirm account identities.
Display the website according to user preferences (themes, toggles, etc)
Send important administrative information to you.
Marketing
Vidosphere does not participate in direct marketing.
What are your data protection rights?
Vidosphere would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Vidosphere for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Vidosphere correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Vidosphere erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Vidosphere restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Vidosphere's processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Vidosphere transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us in the reception area.
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
Vidosphere uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
Keeping you signed in
Saving preferences for site themes and toggles
Saving page data for confirmation popups and messages
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
Functionality – Vidosphere uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences.
Storage -- Vidosphere may store small stats for easter eggs and notices.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, parts of the site will not function such as dark/light modes and confirmation boxes as a result.
Privacy policies of other websites
The Vidosphere website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
Changes to our privacy policy
Vidosphere keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. The last time it was updated is located at the top of this page.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about Vidosphere’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us via the reception page.
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