House Rules

Urnovl is a home for readers and writers. These rules keep it safe, creative and fair. They apply to everything on Urnovl: stories, chapters, covers, inks, posts, comments, reviews, Bravo messages, profiles, pages, shelves, store products and competitions.

Each rule below matches a reason you can choose when you report something. The House Rules are part of our Terms of Service.

Do not bully, threaten, stalk, shame or intimidate anyone. Do not flood a person with messages or comments, and do not encourage others to target someone. Criticise the work, never the person.

Do not attack or demean people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or any similar trait. Stories can explore dark themes and show characters with hateful views, but they must not promote hate.

Urnovl is for everyone aged 15 and over, and we do not have an adult section. Do not post pornography, explicit sexual scenes or nudity, in text or images. Romance and relationships are welcome when written without explicit detail.

Any sexual content involving minors is strictly forbidden. We remove it, ban the account and report it to the authorities.

Stories may include conflict, crime and war. Do not post gratuitous gore, and never content that glorifies or encourages violence, terrorism, self-harm or suicide, or gives instructions for them. If you write about self-harm or suicide, do it with care.

Fiction is fiction. But do not present false information as fact in a way that could harm people, for example about health, safety or elections.

Do not trick people out of money or personal data. No fake giveaways, phishing links or payment requests outside Urnovl.

You may use a pen name. You may not pretend to be another real person, author, brand, page or member of the Urnovl team.

Do not fake success. This includes:

• creating extra accounts, or asking others, to read, vote, like, follow or review your work;
• using bots or scripts to create reads or activity;
• trading reviews, or reviewing a story you have not read or that is your own;
• cheating in competitions, for example by entering with several accounts.

Fake reads do not count for partner earnings, and can end a partnership.

Your title, summary, cover, genres, tags and language must honestly show what your story is about.

Post only stories, covers, images and audio that you created, or that you have the right to use. Do not copy someone else's work, even with credit, unless its licence allows it. Fan fiction is welcome, but do not copy text from the original work.

For each story you choose a licence (All Rights Reserved or a Creative Commons licence). Respect the licences other writers chose. If your work was copied, follow section 9 of the Terms of Service.

Urnovl is for human creativity. If you use AI tools:

• say honestly whether your cover is handcrafted, AI-assisted or AI-generated;
• follow the AI rules of any competition you enter; some do not allow AI at all;
• do not post low-effort, mass-produced AI text ("AI slop"). We may remove it.

• Do not post the same story, chapter or comment again and again, or content with no meaning.
• Do not post generic "read my story" comments on other people's work.
• Do not advertise products or services that have nothing to do with the conversation.

Sharing your own work in the right places is fine. Pages and your own profile are good places for it.

• Comments: be constructive. Authors can delete comments on their own chapters.
• Reviews: you can review a story only after reading it, once per story, and never your own. Mark spoilers. Authors cannot delete reviews, but they can reply to them or report them.
• Bravo messages: a Bravo sent from a chapter appears as a public comment. Keep it kind.

• Page owners are responsible for their page, its members and its content.
• Stores: describe products honestly and ship what you sell.
• Competition hosts: publish clear rules, judge fairly, and deliver every prize you promised.
• Entrants: follow the competition rules, including word limits and AI rules.

Do not post anyone's personal information, such as a home address, phone number, private photos or private messages, without their consent. Remember that your own profile details are public. Share only what you are happy for everyone to see.

Do not use Urnovl for anything illegal, such as selling illegal goods, piracy, fraud, or content that breaks the law of the European Union or of Greece.

If you see something that breaks these rules, use the Report option in the item's menu and choose a reason: AI slop, spam, harassment, hate speech, sexual content, violence, copyright, misinformation, scam, unfair play, impersonation, or other.

• Reports are anonymous: the author is not told who reported them.
• We review every report and tell you when we have decided.
• You can report each item once.

You can also write to support@urnovl.co. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

Depending on how serious and how repeated the problem is, we may:

1. remove the content, or remove an entry from a competition;
2. limit features, such as earning money, selling or hosting competitions;
3. suspend the account or page;
4. ban the account or page permanently.

Serious cases, such as content that sexualises minors, threats of violence or fraud, lead to an immediate ban.

We tell you what we did and why. If you think we made a mistake, write to support@urnovl.co and someone who was not involved in the first decision will review it.

• Stories: delete a story at any time from its menu on your profile. This is permanent.
• Chapters: delete the last chapter of a story from the story overview.
• Comments, inks and posts: delete them from their menu.
• Your account: go to the Settings tab of your profile and select Delete account. See the Privacy Policy for what happens next.