Terms of Civic Service

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction) to participate in TownSphere™.

TownSphere™ discusses real-world news events, societal debates, and economic controversies meant for mature adult participants. We do not knowingly permit access to minors or collect data from individuals under 18. If you are under 18 years old, please do not use our services or submit opinions.

To keep polling numbers authentic and prevent automated bot networks or duplicate vote stuffing from distorting public sentiment, TownSphere™ enforces a simple One Device, One Civic Voice rule:

• One Vote Record Per Device: Each physical hardware device is allocated a single pseudonymous voter identity derived via cryptographic hashing (HMAC-SHA256).
• Change Your Mind Anytime: You are welcome to evolve your viewpoint as events unfold. Voting again on an active debate updates your existing ballot rather than creating duplicate tally counts.
• Honest Participation: Using automated voting scripts, bot farms, scraping tools, or fake proxy networks is prohibited and will result in rate-limiting or device blocking.

When participating in TownSphere™ or submitting feedback, you agree not to:

• Submit abusive, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or threatening feedback or messages.
• Attempt to attack, overload, or disrupt platform servers, edge workers, or databases.
• Attempt to bypass security controls or reverse-engineer backend APIs to falsify voting statistics.

News articles and discussion topics on TownSphere™ are curated from credible, publicly verifiable journalistic sources. All headlines, quotations, and excerpts remain the intellectual property of their original publishers, referenced under fair-use commentary doctrines for non-commercial informational and civic insight purposes.

Informational Insights Only: Poll statistics, charts, and demographic breakdowns represent purely the subjective collective sentiment of participating anonymous users. They do not represent official positions or endorsements of TownSphere, and they do not constitute financial, legal, medical, or professional advice.

While TownSphere™ is currently maintained as an independent personal project, we reserve the right to introduce commercial advertising, sponsored civic topics, affiliate links, or third-party ad networks (such as Google AdSense or AdMob) in future releases to support operational server and API costs.

Any future commercial placements will always adhere to our privacy-first principles: advertisers will never receive individual voting records, and sponsored polls will always be transparently labeled.

TownSphere™ and its custom user interface, visual branding, sentiment visualization design, and code are intellectual property created by the project author. You are welcome to browse, share public poll links, and participate for personal, non-commercial civic purposes.

Mobile push notifications are delivered via Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for breaking civic polls and platform updates. You can enable or disable notifications at any time directly through your device settings or the in-app Settings tab.

Provided "As Is": TownSphere™ is provided as an experimental, independent personal project on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind. We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted, or error-free service.

Limitation of Liability: To the fullest extent permitted by law, the creator and maintainers of TownSphere™ shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from your use of the platform, service downtime, or decisions made based on public opinion data.

We believe in resolving any concern, feedback, or misunderstanding collaboratively and in good faith. If you have any issue, disagreement, or inquiry regarding TownSphere™, please reach out to us directly first at townsphere.org@gmail.com. We will work diligently and reasonably with you to find a practical, fair solution.

We may periodically update these Terms to reflect new features, improvements, or technical adjustments. Continued use of TownSphere™ after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.

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