Acceptable Use Policy

Niche of One is a place to publish your work and sell it on your own terms. This page is the short list of what you can't do here, decided in daylight before anyone broke a rule. It applies to every member, every space, every post, and everything sold through the platform. By publishing or selling here, you agree to it.

What you can't publish or sell

• Illegal content. Anything unlawful under United States federal law or the law where you operate. No elaboration needed and none coming.
• Stolen work. Publishing someone else's writing, art, or product as your own, or paywalling material you don't hold the rights to. See the DMCA policy for takedowns.
• Scams and fraud. Selling work you don't deliver, promising what a post doesn't contain, fake reviews, or misrepresenting who you are or what you're selling.
• Sexual content involving minors, in any form, real or generated. Reported to the authorities, no warning, no appeal.
• Spam and abuse. Grinding against the posting and sending caps, buying or faking subscribers, or using a space to distribute unsolicited bulk mail. The caps (five posts a day, two sends a day, double opt-in) are the floor, not a target.
• Malware, phishing, and security abuse. Distributing malicious files, harvesting credentials, or probing the platform's security. Authorized security reports are welcome at contact@nicheof.one; unauthorized attacks are not.
• Targeted harassment and credible threats of violence. Disagreement, criticism, and hard opinions are fine. Threatening a real person or coordinating harassment is not.
• Evading fees or access controls. Working around the payment rail, the unlock, or another member's paywall.

What never closes a storefront

Weird is fine. Controversial is fine. Unpopular, niche, heretical, out of season: fine. This is the underground, and strange is the point. Nobody loses a storefront here for an opinion, a genre, a subject that makes people flinch, or a pile of one-star reviews. If the work is legal, it's yours, and it does what the paywall says it does, you stay open.

How the rules are enforced

No algorithm flags you and no automated strike counter ticks in the dark. If a storefront crosses a line, a human reads the work first. Then, in order:

• You get told which rule and why, in plain words. No form letter pointing at "our policies."
• Your storefront goes dark, but your data doesn't burn with it. You get a full export of everything: posts, subscribers, all of it.
• If you never sold a post, the account is deleted outright at 60 days: posts, uploads, subscriber list, gone off the platform's systems. Sooner if you ask.
• If you did sell, the sold posts stay, and the uploads and the subscriber list behind them stay with the posts. Your name, bio, links, and email are wiped off the account at 60 days. The rest stays because of the next line.
• Your buyers keep access to everything they bought from you. Your exit is never their loss.
• One thing is not on a timer. If any of the work is under a legal preservation duty, nothing is deleted until a person lifts the hold, and asking for it sooner will not move it. That clock belongs to the law, not to the platform.

Serious or repeated violations, and anything illegal, can mean immediate removal without the notice window. Everything else, including how your money and your work are handled if a storefront closes, is covered in Acts of God. Questions or reports go to contact@nicheof.one.